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Here is a collection of notes to various really, really obscure references and puns and other stuff in the essays that, if either of us had a life, I wouldn't be writing and you wouldn't be reading. -Enjoy! RHB |
| | Count the syllables in the title, note the cynganneth and then go check Nabakov's book :-) | | | | November 2005---New Scientist has either stolen my word or convergently evolved it in it's Feedback column "Words for inverted actions ...our piece about emordnilap words - words that form a new word when spelt backwards, such as 'swap' and 'paws' (1 October)" | | | 1 The Thing
"... That's The Thing!" "I bring you a warning. Every one of you listening to my voice. Tell the world. Tell this to everybody wherever they are: Watch the skies. Everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies." Charles Lederer (1910-1976), U.S. screenwriter, and Christian Nyby.
Said by Scotty (Douglas Spencer), The Thing from Another World, at the end of the movie (1951). The on-screen title of the movie is The Thing from Another World, although it is always referred to merely as The Thing.
It has also been referred to as The Thing (from Another World).
It's based on the story Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, Jr. | | | | 1 "... adjust your heartstrings before leaving" Back in the old days in the old country, when I was growing up, I remember how the public lavatories had signs near their exits that read "PLEASE ADJUST YOUR DRESS BEFORE LEAVING". Whether this resulted in the extremely low incidence of cases of indecent exposure experienced at the time, or instead was inspired by their very high incidence I don't know. And of course 'DRESS' was meant in its widest sense (as in 'formal dress') rather than as an indication of widespread cross-dressing, but I always harboured a sneaking suspicion that in the 'Ladies' bemused women were staring at "PLEASE ADJUST YOUR TROUSERS BEFORE LEAVING", while back at the Council Offices some poor dyslexic employee was being hauled over the coals. 
My phrase is, of course, a reference to that. | | | For the truth behind "Da Columbus Code" see 'Go-Lum-bus ' and 'Column Bust Day ' from my History of Rochester .
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It gets much worse...
with Diachronic Ethnodeficiency | | | Eventually they did come up with a solution, sort of.
They changed the manual: Below are a pair of before and after images from the pre-solution manual and its brilliant successor
Before the solution
The solution
Before
After Of course there is still the slight problem that the replacements don't really fit. But Hey! This is Apple man!! Their service is legendary. | | | 1 Poor Ben
"Rochester’s Ben Franklin High School..." Which for some reason over the intervening years has been re-named the Dr. Freddie Krueger* High School … _____________________ * Sorry that should of course be the Dr. Freddie Thomas High School! | | |
1 "... not a complete Ozymandian desert" Shelley's poem has  (Usr Maat Ra Setep-en Ra Ra-messu Meri Amon---Rameses II) suggesting that he is so powerful that the mighty should look on his works and despair, but ironically it ends:
... round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
The whole sonnet is here. For a different take on this sonnet see Graveyard Shift. 2   .jpg)
"... Kurosawa's Shichi Nin No Samurai" The Seven Samurai, one of the great movies of all time Shichi Nin No Samurai should only be avoided if you wish to die unfulfilled. 3  
"... or Eisensein's Aleksandr Nevskiy" This is the other great Movie, and should only be avoided if you wish to die unfulfilled and ignorant of just how unimportant special effects are.
Aleksandr Nevskiy has great Prokofiev music too (See this essay for more Pro and Con Kofiev).
4 Dogma
"... a movie called 'Dogma'." If you really must, you can see notes on Kevin Smith's Dogma here.
| | | 1 Dionysius
"... poor old Dionysius Exiguus" Here is a Catholic Encyclopaedia Article on Dionysius. | |
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