In the world? It wouldn't really have occurred to me that it would have much play outside the US.
Oh, look at the pretties!
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
brenda m - Jun 25, 2008 6:22:07 pm PDT #4899 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Hil R. - Jun 25, 2008 6:24:51 pm PDT #4900 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Huh. I knew the Pocahontas story, but that was mostly because I spent one summer reading every one of this series of kids biographies at the local library. (It was an odd series. Generally about 90% of the book was about the person's life as a kid, and then a few pages about what they did as adults. Also, every one was exactly 200 pages. If the text itself didn't get to 200, then there would be timelines or lists of places they lived or other stuff like that thrown onto the end to make it to 200.)
I remember at a trivia night a few months ago, many people mixed up Pocahontas and Sacajawea.
Hil R. - Jun 25, 2008 6:26:28 pm PDT #4901 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
In the world? It wouldn't really have occurred to me that it would have much play outside the US.
Yeah. Possibly England too, since major parts of the story took place there. But I wouldn't expect people from many other places to know much about it.
megan walker - Jun 25, 2008 6:26:37 pm PDT #4902 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I think that's on par with the "World" Series, or "X billion people are watching the Oscars around the world right now!"
Kat - Jun 25, 2008 6:33:59 pm PDT #4903 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
How thin is what you have? Too thin to slice through it with an electric knife?
Hmmmm, Amy, I don't know. What we have is probably 2 to 2 1/2 inches thick. I need like 1/2 inch foam or less, I think.
We are taking Noah kayaking tomorrow. This will either be entirely too much stress, great fun, or completely dangerous (or perhaps all three!)
Burrell - Jun 25, 2008 6:41:01 pm PDT #4904 of 10003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I'm sorry about the pain, sarameg.
I threw my back out tonight, now it feels like I have a little knife poking into my left hip. Fun. Can't snuggle my weebles to sleep, in fact I hope the naproxen hits before I go to be or I'm not sure how well I'll sleep myself.
Sean K - Jun 25, 2008 6:45:23 pm PDT #4905 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I remember at a trivia night a few months ago, many people mixed up Pocahontas and Sacajawea.
There's a Simpsons episode that makes exactly this joke (with Lisa playing the part of Sacajawea, and Lenny and Carl playing the parts of Louis and Clark.
§ ita § - Jun 25, 2008 6:55:31 pm PDT #4906 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah "the name Pocohontas is recognised almost all over the world" is a wee bit of overstatement.
Interestingly enough the native Americans in the doc had no trace of an accent that distinguished them from the white people, and while they looked different, they looked different differently than I was expecting, if that makes sense. I was surprised. I've never been sure what's responsibile for the appearance that there's one native American accent, and that it spreads into Canada too.
meara - Jun 25, 2008 7:01:24 pm PDT #4907 of 10003
Maybe you're used to more of the more populous tribes, ita? And/or the ones in the central/southcentral US? The ones on the East Coast aren't populous/seen a lot in popular culture, necessarily. (Not that I have any idea if those were the ones being shown, but I'm hazarding a guess, if it was about Pocahantas....)
Susan W. - Jun 25, 2008 7:42:40 pm PDT #4908 of 10003
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Huh. I knew the Pocahontas story, but that was mostly because I spent one summer reading every one of this series of kids biographies at the local library. (It was an odd series. Generally about 90% of the book was about the person's life as a kid, and then a few pages about what they did as adults. Also, every one was exactly 200 pages. If the text itself didn't get to 200, then there would be timelines or lists of places they lived or other stuff like that thrown onto the end to make it to 200.)
My library had these, too! For some reasons the ones about Robert E. Lee, Sitting Bull, and Tecumseh are the ones that stuck in my head, but I must've read at least a dozen of them.