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Dirk
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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 Posted - 06/01/2006 : 02:13:56 AM
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Just the other day I used the brilliant phrase, "noisier than two skeletons making love in a tin coffin," which I remember reading in one of Mr. Begg's reviews a while back. While I couldn't think of any other "Kenisms" I use regularly at the moment, I was sure there were more.
Do any of you regularly use terms/expressions/words that you originally picked up after reading a Jabootu review?
Ooh, I just thought of one - I often use Ken's "Lex Luthor glued the peanut butter lid to the jar" illustration of how lame Aquaman is to describe someone's unnecessary bellyaching.
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RVHorror
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
532 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 11:18:20 AM
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I'm not sure these are original with Ken, though he employs them very well indeed. In college, I heard someone describe the sound of a harpsichord as "two skeletons copulating on a tin roof."
I do like his use of the phrase, "An [adjective][noun]? Why, that's the worst kind!"
I steal Ken's jokes all the time, myself. And I've never been caught! |
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Ambrose Bierce
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 06/01/2006 : 11:25:46 AM
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I like his references to savoring someone else's misfortune as if it were "sweet, sweet candy". I've repeated that one myself.
Nature makes mistakes. It's proven every day. |
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Ken HPoJ
Supreme Potentate
USA
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Posted - 06/01/2006 : 1:30:16 PM
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Well, this is a flattering thread.
The tin skeletons thing was dialogue in the movie (ROTOR).
The peanut jar lid thing I came up with, I guess, especially in that context.
The candy is an adaptation of when (if I'm remembering this correctly), Big Bill Smith tells bare-knuckle fighter Clint Eastwood in Every Which Way You Can something like "You're starting to enjoy the pain. You suck on it like candy." Damn, I saw that movie one time, in 1980. Funny what sticks with you.
The "worst kind" thing I think I stole from The Phantom of the Movies.
I read on a message board somewhere that Gene Siskel used Informed Attribute before I did, but I have no memory of that, and no research I've come up with has verified that. I'd say a lot of the Nomenclature things are mine, except where credit is given, as with Roger Ebert's Idiot Movie, or to either Jason or Douglas for something they've come up with.
It was also Jason or Douglas also who first used "embiggened" or a varient here. I love that word and still use it.
PEGGY: I don't see how having a girl on the team would ruin it. Did a woman judge ruin the Supreme Court?
HANK: Yes, and that woman's name was Earl Warren.
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RVHorror
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
532 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 1:35:08 PM
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| I first heard "idiot movie" when it was "idiot plot," and it was Damon Knight who is supposed to have originated it (before Ebert, I'm pretty sure). |
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Tork_110
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
360 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 5:45:46 PM
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I have the Challenge of The Superfriends DVD set and I stole Ken's "YOU MORONS!" gag while describing a future episode to a friend. (I think it had another time travel plot.) It cracks me up that these superheroes are so stupid and passive.
He had a great line in his Lambada reviews. There was an obligatory sex scene in the movie directed by Greydon Clark, and his reaction was, "It's eroticism at it's most Not-icism."
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RVHorror
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
532 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 5:49:05 PM
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One of the photo captions in "The Beast of Yucca Flats" review has always stuck with me. "Jim spots someone. Better shoot him!"
Still makes me laugh. |
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jackspencerjr
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
262 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 6:59:39 PM
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I rather liked: The McGuffin that turns out to be a big fat McNuthin'
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Food
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
342 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 8:20:48 PM
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I've borrowed from Ken once, but it was lengthy.
In Spring 2004, I was taking a humanities class taught by a PC Orthodox professor. The topic of the day was the beat generation, which she wanted us to think the world of. Beaters were big into irony, so she asked the class what irony is. Knowing that she wanted us to flatter the beat generation, I raised my hand first and quoted Ken's "The choice of humor of the inexperienced," then paraphrased Ken's contrast or irony to gallows humor, and concluded with Ken's statement that the experienced "know better than to cop the attitude that none of it matters."
She didn't like the answer, so she said, "Ok well let's get back to the subject of what is irony?" Folks were looking at each other like, We already are, you dork. There was dead silence for several moments, then she did the whole we-can-stay-here-all-night-until-someone-talks routine. The discussion spluttered along, with a 19-year-old here and there making tentative statements that seemed to end with question marks, and the prof kept trying to jump start a solid conversation, but after a while, she gave up and started a new topic altogether. It was great fun from where I sat.
I remember it so well because that professor was my first definite experience with PC bias in academia.
Ken, you rule! But for the life of me, I can't remember which review of yours it was from. |
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 06/01/2006 : 9:36:51 PM
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AFAIK "embiggened" came from The Simpsons- "A noble heart embiggens the smallest man."
It's a perfectly cromly word.
Coming soon-
Eraserhead: The Musical!! |
Edited by - Sardu on 06/01/2006 9:37:15 PM |
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ahab
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 06/01/2006 : 11:21:02 PM
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Sorry to correct you Sardu but its a perfectly cromulent word. we used to have simpsons trivia where i worked.
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
1126 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2006 : 11:29:28 PM
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Oh dang, you're right- I have shamed myself. Bring the pain sticks.
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Originally posted by ahab
Sorry to correct you Sardu but its a perfectly cromulent word. we used to have simpsons trivia where i worked.
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Oh sure everyone wants to save Hitler's brain, but when you put it in a great white shark suddenly you've gone to far!
Coming soon-
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Capt. Nemo
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
630 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 01:01:13 AM
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Ken should copyright this one:
"a bunch of Sartre-Reading Snail-Eating Chain-Smoking Wine-Drinking Café-Sitting Beret-Wearing Long-Bread-Making Maginot-Line-Building War-Losing Nose-Looking-Downing Bastards"
Lord knows I've used that one.
Guess who that is supposed to represent.
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"Ward, the Beaver blew up the 7-11 again."
"I'll have a talk with him Dear" |
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BradH812
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 06/02/2006 : 06:36:02 AM
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Originally posted by Capt. Nemo
Ken should copyright this one:
"a bunch of Sartre-Reading Snail-Eating Chain-Smoking Wine-Drinking Café-Sitting Beret-Wearing Long-Bread-Making Maginot-Line-Building War-Losing Nose-Looking-Downing Bastards"
Lord knows I've used that one.
Guess who that is supposed to represent.
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"Ward, the Beaver blew up the 7-11 again."
"I'll have a talk with him Dear"
Oh, that's obvious. He's talking about the Irish.
Go ahead, throw the rotten fruit. |
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Tork_110
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
360 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 08:16:21 AM
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| Food, I think you're referring to his Candy review. Either that, or his Bluebeard one. They both had intros where one was sort of a continuation of the other. |
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Ken HPoJ
Supreme Potentate
USA
1530 Posts |
Posted - 06/02/2006 : 08:50:49 AM
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Man, I didn't remember that irony stuff at all. (In fact, I thought one of the other guys must have wrote, until I googled it and reread the Candy intro.) You know you've been writing a while when you don't even recognize your own stuff.
PEGGY: I don't see how having a girl on the team would ruin it. Did a woman judge ruin the Supreme Court?
HANK: Yes, and that woman's name was Earl Warren.
--King of the Hill |
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