Aims, insent!
Strong like an Amazon.
Tara ,'Storyteller'
Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants
This thread is for comedy TV, including network and cable shows. [NAFDA]
smonster - Dec 31, 2010 6:32:44 am PST #3518 of 8624
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
SailAweigh - Dec 31, 2010 7:21:26 am PST #3519 of 8624
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Huh, somehow I thought that term didn't originate until the 1940s or thereabouts. Maybe from watching old B&W detective flicks? Who knows, but thanks for the cool link, Jesse!
megan walker - Dec 31, 2010 7:26:25 am PST #3520 of 8624
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
That is one of the best Seinfeld's ever!
George: I'm gonna slip him a mickey
Jerry: In his drink? Are you out of your mind? Who are you, Peter Lorre?
Jerry: Where did you even get a mickey? I can't believe I'm saying mickey!
George: I have a source.
Jerry: You've got a mickey source.
DavidS - Dec 31, 2010 7:54:47 am PST #3521 of 8624
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
In Eugene O'Neill's one-act play from 1917 The Long Voyage Home one of the characters is slipped a mickey. In fact, that is how most sailors were Shanghaied out of San Francisco.
They'd slip 'em some knock-out drops (I don't know what was common then), and then they'd roll the guy up in a rug, and cart him up the hill from the bars on the Barbary Coast. He'd wake up at sea and have no choice but to work until they made landfall, and even then he'd probably be bound to the ship because he wouldn't have enough money to buy passage to where he wanted to go.
sumi - Dec 31, 2010 11:09:09 am PST #3522 of 8624
Art Crawl!!!
The Mickey Finn entry at wikipedia says chloral hydrate was what people used.
sj - Jan 03, 2011 3:16:07 pm PST #3523 of 8624
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Alexis Denisof on HIMYM,
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Jan 06, 2011 10:15:16 am PST #3524 of 8624
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Just got round to watching this week's HIMYM. The countdown (with big numbers in various fun places) to the ending was interesting. Was it something to do with never knowing how much time you've got left? There were a lot of other references to time and clocks too.
sj - Jan 06, 2011 10:58:18 am PST #3525 of 8624
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Seska, the creator of HIMYM talks about it here: link . It is somewhat spoilery for future things in the season.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Jan 06, 2011 11:26:15 am PST #3526 of 8624
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Ooh, thanks for the link.
JZ - Jan 06, 2011 12:19:40 pm PST #3527 of 8624
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh, I LOVED Drowning By Numbers, and now I love the HIMYM folks for namechecking it.