That really pisses me off. The paper cranes are for something else entirely. I really don't like the usage in a fannish way.
Huh? What are they for?
It's simple. I slap 'em around a bit, torture 'em, make their lives hell...Sure, the nice guys'll run away,but every now and then you'll find a prince like Spike who gets off on it.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Heroes 1: We Could Be Heroes
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Polter-Cow - Dec 10, 2007 2:37:21 pm PST #3444 of 5028
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Kristen - Dec 10, 2007 2:41:12 pm PST #3445 of 5028
What are they for?
Prison Break writers.
hee
Polter-Cow - Dec 10, 2007 2:43:23 pm PST #3446 of 5028
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh right! I may have read about that.
So was the author of the article confused?
Or are you putting me on?
Kristen - Dec 10, 2007 2:44:32 pm PST #3447 of 5028
I'm totally making a joke. About the Prison Break part.
I think I forgot the 1000 cranes thing actually happened on Heroes. Who was the character? Was it Hiro?
Polter-Cow - Dec 10, 2007 2:47:30 pm PST #3448 of 5028
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yeah, Hiro did it for Charlie.
Vonnie K - Dec 10, 2007 3:05:33 pm PST #3449 of 5028
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Huh? What are they for?
I imagine Liese is referring to the story of Sadako and the thousand origami cranes. She was a teenager in Japan who developed leukemia from the radiation poisoning after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. She started folding paper cranes because of the old Japanese saying about thousand cranes = granting of a wish, and she desperately wanted to get well. She died before she completed the thousand and her friends did the rest. [link]
Laura - Dec 10, 2007 3:15:31 pm PST #3450 of 5028
Our wings are not tired.
I was unfamiliar with the story of Sadako Sasaki. (not that I was intending to send origami to the Heroes bigwigs or anything) I will now look at paper cranes in a new light.
Una - Dec 10, 2007 4:19:36 pm PST #3451 of 5028
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
The short kids' book by Eleanor Coerr about Sadako is excellent. I remember reading it in elementary school and being moved.
meara - Dec 10, 2007 4:52:26 pm PST #3452 of 5028
Yeah, I remember reading the book in elementary school, too. It was a whole "introduce kids to the atomic bomb" fun.
But....WTF are the people sending them to the writers hoping for? Hiro goes back in time again and gets the girl??
Miracleman - Dec 11, 2007 5:41:21 am PST #3453 of 5028
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
It was a whole "introduce kids to the atomic bomb" fun.
My favorite was "Danny Dunn: Nuclear Terrorist"