So then this guy comes out of nowhere, beats me senseless with a stick, sticks me in a freezer, and steals my watch. And of course the carps are nowhere to be seen...
I read that when P.L. Travers finally gave Walt Disney permission to adapt "Mary Poppins" for the screen, she also gave him permission to call her "P.L." rather than "Mrs. Travers." "Please, call me 'P.L.'" she said.
Sometime later, she visited the States to see how production was coming along. She was appalled at how far Walt had strayed from her vision of Mary Poppins. When he arrived and greeted her with, "Hello, P.L.!", she coldly replied, "Please, call me 'Mrs. Travers.'"
The phrase "Make it so," to my knowledge, is part of Britain's Royal Naval tradition. The occasional tar-heel who also enjoyed ST:TNG was delighted to hear Picard utter that line. Most of the rest of the Trekkers & Trekkies, though, tended to assume it was created for the series.
These would be a thoughtful gift for a ship's cook, though, as well as for one's favorite Trekker with a culinary bent...
Darn! All the best one-liners were taken. (Hadn't thought of Cherry Poptart, though...) Well, now I have an idea of what "jumping the shark" means. The creator of "Archie" might still be alive (although his daughter, sadly, passed away in the early 1980s), but I don't think he's drawn the comic in years. It's become such a franchise that it's drawn by a team of illustrators. One person could not possibly handle the newspaper comic and the various comic books and the little mini-comic books... even though they're about 80% reprints by now...
Anyway, this does seem like a farewell to Archie. The comic was meant to appeal to pre-teens (with its clean, romanticized depiction of high-school life). Because of this, although its audience would grow up and drift away, new fans kept coming in --- this is what kept it going for so many years. Eventually, though, sales declined. There are still "Archie" fans out there, but in smaller numbers. The franchise has been retooled a few times, with disappointing results. One must admit, though, that "Archie" has generally been smartly-managed. It has lasted much longer than most comics, and maintained its key demographic by adhering to a successful formula. My guess is that its creator knows that it's no longer turning a profit, and it's time to bow out gracefully. Let's give our fans, young & old, a conclusion, then wave goodbye.
I think he'll go with Betty. (When did she become one of the Spice Girls?) She's definitely in his league. Veronica's hot, but I think her attraction for him was of the "heiress & the stableboy" type. Stay away from that, Archie; you'll wind up dead. Besides, marrying Veronica would become unneccessarily complicated for a kiddie comic. Why? Because her Daddy is Hiram Lodge --- at one time a common name for various Masonic meeting lodges. Yep, the guy who created the strip is a Freemason, and he stuck all kinds of references to this in there! Moose Miller used to be Moose Mason, and Mr. Lodge was revealed to have the first name of "Hiram" in earlier strips. It may be assumed that he owes much of his financial success to his connections in the Masonic Order. Consequently, his daughter Veronica has her marriage options limited to young men who have joined the Order themselves. So Archie would have to join --- but Mr. Lodge doesn't approve of him, so it might be hard to get a recommendation. Veronica could also insist on marrying a non-Mason, but this would involve her filling out some paperwork, going through a ritual, and basically embarrassing her Daddy in the eyes of his brethren. V's character just ain't that strong. Reggie will join the Order, and she'll marry him. Archie gets Betty. Jughead gets to kiss the horse.
Although I'm really NOT a fan of pop music (or whatever this is classified as, since fans tend to make more distinctions between subgroups than I do), I found this performance VASTLY superior to the original. These kids actually (for the most part) stayed in key! And I could make out more words than "saw my reflection" and "children get older; I'm getting older, too." I still couldn't quite figure out what, if anything, the song is "about," but I've seen lyric sheets for pop songs and have a feeling that most of them tend to omit key information that an outsider would require in order to comprehend.
(I have a very bad memory associated with that song. It was playing for perhaps the 20th time one morning in a retail store where I was assembling office furniture. Just as I was thinking, "Geez, this woman needs to quit smoking and take some voice lessons," a board fell over behind me and shaved the skin off the backs of my ankles. There was blood all over the floor, and I finished the job with wads of paper towels taped to my legs. I still feel tingling down there every time I hear that terrible voice being piped in while standing in line somewhere.)
These kids at least practiced, God bless 'em. And now I know what the name of that godawful song is, and with what... (band? person? "Fleetwood Mac?" I can't tell) it is associated.
Almost makes me ashamed to be both Czech and Rom. I guess my reaction is like that of an African-American watching a re-creation of a minstrel show... even if the performers are actually Afro-American, it's still kinda embarrassing.
However, at least the music was better than I'd expected, it was positive in attitude, and the lady fiddler with the beehive looks pretty hot!
Interesting how the low-achievers did better once they were made part of an "in" group, and vice-versa. As I often say, "People are only as stupid as they want to be." If one believes oneself to be inferior, of course they'll fail. It takes strength of character to ignore social conditioning and reach one's true potential.
The real trick to doing well, though, is not to feel superior to others, but to view all as equals. Hitler & his thugs thought they were superior. But Gandhi cleaned latrines with untouchables, and Einstein once insisted that he not be exempt from handing over his wallet to an armed robber in a diner.
I'm glad to see so many attentive Trekkies & Trekkers (say 5 times fast) contributing!
The Trek universe has never been terribly consistent regarding details, but has generally striven for a positive view of "the future," one in which the characters work to resolve problems. Money was rarely if ever discussed on TOS (aside from alien currencies). In Star Trek II (Wrath of Khan) we do see a janitor vacuuming a corridor at Starfleet Academy. In Star Treks III and VI we also see kitchen staff wiping down tables and preparing food. So "grub work" probably still exists. (The reason for these details is directorial choice. Nicholas Meyer [II & VI] liked to include familiar touches like books, eyeglasses, old-fashioned furniture.) One could argue that humans still need to do all these chores on Star Trek, and therefore money may still be the incentive. However, one could also simply draw a comparison with modern life & technology: The Roomba sure saves one a lot of vacuuming, but has trouble with corners and shag carpeting. Windshield wipers are great, but one still must squeegee the wildshield by hand on occasion. You can subsist on fast food, but nothing beats a home-cooked meal. So we may perhaps assume that in Star Trek, everyone on a starship has a chore list and probably puts in a couple of hours a week picking up a few dust-bunnies the Roomba missed. Also, some people really LOVE to cook.
Besides, gakh is best served live. (And revenge is a dish best served cold.)
Star Trek IV - Not meaning to be less than gentlemanly, Kirk nevertheless sticks the marine biologist with the restaurant bill. "Don't tell me you don't use money in the 23rd Century!" "Well, we don't."
ST:TNG, pilot episode - We see Dr. Crusher buying some linen with some form of credit. My guess is that some form of money does exist, but seems to be unnecessary on Earth, in Starfleet, and possibly on all Federation worlds. This would make sense, but was never elaborated on. (A modern parallel would be the Euro, accepted all over Europe; Poland still uses zloty but did join the EU a few years ago.) Kirk probably also had credit for making purchases on a few participating worlds that still used money. But as any time-traveler quickly finds out, money from the future is not accepted in the past. (Unless it's made of "valuable" minerals. Klaatu's diamonds from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" are an example of this exception.) Kirk could not have paid for his spaghetti & Chianti, because in the 20th Century his account did not exist.
I've often had to explain to people during economic discussions that we often forget that money is really worth what "we" agree it will be worth. (Problems arise when balances change, people get greedy, and everyone starts imagining that money is more solvent than it really is.) A global currency unit might be a bad thing, or a very good thing. It might even be a step toward a money-less economy.
This, however, would require fully-automated trash collecting & recycling. And we'll all need to be taught from birth that one's happiness does NOT require another's misery (the root cause of greed). Otherwise, as HollywoodBob put it, society will get stratified all over again.
Oh - and re: vonSkippy: They do poo in Star Trek. Check out the blueprints for the Enterprise, and you'll see the commode fixtures in the crew quarters' bathrooms. They just never appeared on the show, like the Brady Bunch.
Anyone here see the end of Fellini's "Satyricon"? Om nom nom nom...
@joe-e: From what I've read, it tastes most like pork. Many pig organs can be safely implanted into humans, and we tend to eat the same kinds of food. (The kosher & halal prohibitions against pigs stem from the fact that in a semi-desert region, pigs are unwelcome competition for resources, whereas cattle, sheep, goats & fowl eat foods that humans cannot eat.)
I imagine, unless a manufacturer has gotten into the habit of calling it "babbit," he or she would tend to call it "lead" despite its being an alloy. I often have to educate my students when they learn that lead is toxic and suddenly fly in terror from their pencils. And of course, the fact that the old word "lead" just happened to stick around over half a century after lead was banned from pencils just isn't as much fun to accept as a mistaken belief that pencils are still full of a known toxin. (Or maybe they think that people just discovered lead's toxicity now. I don't know. I learned about the lead/graphite switch when I was in 2nd grade with no confusion, denial or display of terror.)
I think the very base of an organ pipe (where it comes to almost a point) is solid lead for various reasons (weight, balance, forming a good seal, ease of soldering & removal). The lead content in the pipe itself was necessary for tuning. Although the note is determined (as Pythagoras showed us) by the length & diameter of the pipe, some fine-tuning becomes necessary, especially when so many pipes are involved. This is done by cutting three sides of a rectangle near the base of the pipe and peeling it down while someone plays a chord including the note you're tuning. (It peels like a sardine tin; the lead content makes it soft enough for this.) The incision can be made larger or smaller by rolling it down or up.
Can organ pipes be made of something other than lead? Decorative pipes for electric organs can, of course. But as for real organs, I'm not sure. The sound might be affected, tuning might become more difficult, and most organ-makers use very old equipment anyway and don't get enough work to make upgrading feasible.
I keep seeing "bury" instead of "buy."
Sometime later, she visited the States to see how production was coming along. She was appalled at how far Walt had strayed from her vision of Mary Poppins. When he arrived and greeted her with, "Hello, P.L.!", she coldly replied, "Please, call me 'Mrs. Travers.'"
These would be a thoughtful gift for a ship's cook, though, as well as for one's favorite Trekker with a culinary bent...
Anyway, this does seem like a farewell to Archie. The comic was meant to appeal to pre-teens (with its clean, romanticized depiction of high-school life). Because of this, although its audience would grow up and drift away, new fans kept coming in --- this is what kept it going for so many years. Eventually, though, sales declined. There are still "Archie" fans out there, but in smaller numbers. The franchise has been retooled a few times, with disappointing results. One must admit, though, that "Archie" has generally been smartly-managed. It has lasted much longer than most comics, and maintained its key demographic by adhering to a successful formula. My guess is that its creator knows that it's no longer turning a profit, and it's time to bow out gracefully. Let's give our fans, young & old, a conclusion, then wave goodbye.
I think he'll go with Betty. (When did she become one of the Spice Girls?) She's definitely in his league. Veronica's hot, but I think her attraction for him was of the "heiress & the stableboy" type. Stay away from that, Archie; you'll wind up dead. Besides, marrying Veronica would become unneccessarily complicated for a kiddie comic. Why? Because her Daddy is Hiram Lodge --- at one time a common name for various Masonic meeting lodges. Yep, the guy who created the strip is a Freemason, and he stuck all kinds of references to this in there! Moose Miller used to be Moose Mason, and Mr. Lodge was revealed to have the first name of "Hiram" in earlier strips. It may be assumed that he owes much of his financial success to his connections in the Masonic Order. Consequently, his daughter Veronica has her marriage options limited to young men who have joined the Order themselves. So Archie would have to join --- but Mr. Lodge doesn't approve of him, so it might be hard to get a recommendation. Veronica could also insist on marrying a non-Mason, but this would involve her filling out some paperwork, going through a ritual, and basically embarrassing her Daddy in the eyes of his brethren. V's character just ain't that strong. Reggie will join the Order, and she'll marry him. Archie gets Betty. Jughead gets to kiss the horse.
(I have a very bad memory associated with that song. It was playing for perhaps the 20th time one morning in a retail store where I was assembling office furniture. Just as I was thinking, "Geez, this woman needs to quit smoking and take some voice lessons," a board fell over behind me and shaved the skin off the backs of my ankles. There was blood all over the floor, and I finished the job with wads of paper towels taped to my legs. I still feel tingling down there every time I hear that terrible voice being piped in while standing in line somewhere.)
These kids at least practiced, God bless 'em. And now I know what the name of that godawful song is, and with what... (band? person? "Fleetwood Mac?" I can't tell) it is associated.
However, at least the music was better than I'd expected, it was positive in attitude, and the lady fiddler with the beehive looks pretty hot!
The real trick to doing well, though, is not to feel superior to others, but to view all as equals. Hitler & his thugs thought they were superior. But Gandhi cleaned latrines with untouchables, and Einstein once insisted that he not be exempt from handing over his wallet to an armed robber in a diner.
The Trek universe has never been terribly consistent regarding details, but has generally striven for a positive view of "the future," one in which the characters work to resolve problems. Money was rarely if ever discussed on TOS (aside from alien currencies). In Star Trek II (Wrath of Khan) we do see a janitor vacuuming a corridor at Starfleet Academy. In Star Treks III and VI we also see kitchen staff wiping down tables and preparing food. So "grub work" probably still exists. (The reason for these details is directorial choice. Nicholas Meyer [II & VI] liked to include familiar touches like books, eyeglasses, old-fashioned furniture.) One could argue that humans still need to do all these chores on Star Trek, and therefore money may still be the incentive. However, one could also simply draw a comparison with modern life & technology: The Roomba sure saves one a lot of vacuuming, but has trouble with corners and shag carpeting. Windshield wipers are great, but one still must squeegee the wildshield by hand on occasion. You can subsist on fast food, but nothing beats a home-cooked meal. So we may perhaps assume that in Star Trek, everyone on a starship has a chore list and probably puts in a couple of hours a week picking up a few dust-bunnies the Roomba missed. Also, some people really LOVE to cook.
Besides, gakh is best served live. (And revenge is a dish best served cold.)
Star Trek IV - Not meaning to be less than gentlemanly, Kirk nevertheless sticks the marine biologist with the restaurant bill. "Don't tell me you don't use money in the 23rd Century!" "Well, we don't."
ST:TNG, pilot episode - We see Dr. Crusher buying some linen with some form of credit. My guess is that some form of money does exist, but seems to be unnecessary on Earth, in Starfleet, and possibly on all Federation worlds. This would make sense, but was never elaborated on. (A modern parallel would be the Euro, accepted all over Europe; Poland still uses zloty but did join the EU a few years ago.) Kirk probably also had credit for making purchases on a few participating worlds that still used money. But as any time-traveler quickly finds out, money from the future is not accepted in the past. (Unless it's made of "valuable" minerals. Klaatu's diamonds from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" are an example of this exception.) Kirk could not have paid for his spaghetti & Chianti, because in the 20th Century his account did not exist.
I've often had to explain to people during economic discussions that we often forget that money is really worth what "we" agree it will be worth. (Problems arise when balances change, people get greedy, and everyone starts imagining that money is more solvent than it really is.) A global currency unit might be a bad thing, or a very good thing. It might even be a step toward a money-less economy.
This, however, would require fully-automated trash collecting & recycling. And we'll all need to be taught from birth that one's happiness does NOT require another's misery (the root cause of greed). Otherwise, as HollywoodBob put it, society will get stratified all over again.
Oh - and re: vonSkippy: They do poo in Star Trek. Check out the blueprints for the Enterprise, and you'll see the commode fixtures in the crew quarters' bathrooms. They just never appeared on the show, like the Brady Bunch.
However... it does remind me of Japanese monster movies where the giant rubber beast survives nuclear bombs...
@joe-e: From what I've read, it tastes most like pork. Many pig organs can be safely implanted into humans, and we tend to eat the same kinds of food. (The kosher & halal prohibitions against pigs stem from the fact that in a semi-desert region, pigs are unwelcome competition for resources, whereas cattle, sheep, goats & fowl eat foods that humans cannot eat.)
I think the very base of an organ pipe (where it comes to almost a point) is solid lead for various reasons (weight, balance, forming a good seal, ease of soldering & removal). The lead content in the pipe itself was necessary for tuning. Although the note is determined (as Pythagoras showed us) by the length & diameter of the pipe, some fine-tuning becomes necessary, especially when so many pipes are involved. This is done by cutting three sides of a rectangle near the base of the pipe and peeling it down while someone plays a chord including the note you're tuning. (It peels like a sardine tin; the lead content makes it soft enough for this.) The incision can be made larger or smaller by rolling it down or up.
Can organ pipes be made of something other than lead? Decorative pipes for electric organs can, of course. But as for real organs, I'm not sure. The sound might be affected, tuning might become more difficult, and most organ-makers use very old equipment anyway and don't get enough work to make upgrading feasible.