Subject: The Onion
That Yes parody of the Bible was from The Onion, which I think is a publication of the University of Wisconsin. I didn't stay at the site long enough to read all the details.
However, I did notice some headlines to other sarcastic stories that are definitely worth checking out at:
http://www.theonion.com/onion3106/index3106.html
After some irrelevant chatter, not unusual for the list, some interesting threads followed.
>We've got time to waste here!
Let's find another way to describe this, shall we?
>>"quiet time" while it all rattles around until finding the lowest quantum
>>state, from which a fountain of Work all gets done in a very short time.
>Oh, so that's the latest euphemism for daydreaming ...
No daydreaming is on a different channel. I don't have time for that right now. It's on the list, though...
>>also can't use Lynx at all. However, you COULD use line-mode FTP from yer
>>VAX, if only you had the secret decoder ring.
>Actually, I have *part* of the ring. I actually have learned (mainly from
>Martin) about FTP. Now *line-mode FTP* is where you'll have to fill me in.
You can update Geocities directories using FTP (any kind - line-mode is just something I know works via a TELNET connection. Any kind that you have that allows you to enter userid and password will work, if you have the rest of the ring handy...
>>I'll tell you how off-list when I get a chance to write it up. But only if
>>you give me a kiss.
>
>I may as well give you one. My wife and kids don't like mine. Too
>slobbery.
I may have to change my fee...
>Hmmm.. let's see. Margaret told me how to do a hug. But, we're not that
>intimate. She hasn't kissed me yet. And I'll be dag-nabbed if I'll kiss
>ISTOHOW before Margaret!
>
>Gilbert the neglected
Kiss for Gilbert: ---> *
Would you kiss IST behind Margaret?
In front of the bad blad's lens
After the nude jello wrestling
Under the cosmic chimes
Inside the phone dome
Holding the lineman's.....
phone?
AIM10
>>
Oh, so that's the latest euphemism for daydreaming ...
>No daydreaming is on a different channel. I don't have time for that right
>now. It's on the list, though...
Speaking of Winsor McKay, I showed "Little Nemo in Slumberland" to 13 kindergartners today. It's always so interesting to listen to them discussing among themselves, as a movie progresses, just what it all means. :-D
I don't really mean to sound stupid (okay, yes, I mean to sound stupid, here), but what the hell is a "Little Nemo in Slumberland"? I bet I could keep up with the 13 kindergartners when I see it for the first time.
Or maybe not.
You can rent it from Blockbusters, but you will enjoy it more if you go to the library first and check out works about/by Winsor McKay. We had "Rarebit Fiend" around our house for years, but "Little Nemo" is really his masterwork, and a lot of it has been preserved from the Sunday Comix ca. (what? 1910?) The Japanese group that did the animation for the movie managed an acceptable compromise between then and now... the artwork is beautiful, the story is true to the McKay original, and Flip's voice is Mickey Rooney. Script concept by Ray Bradbury, I think.
>You can rent it from Blockbusters, but you will enjoy it more if you go
>to the library first and check out works about/by Winsor McKay.
Wouldn't that be cheating?
>We had "Rarebit Fiend" around our house for years,
Well! Nobody never read it aloud it to ME!
If you are really lucky, no one will decide to rectify that by reading it aloud to this list.
;-)
Here's a good URL:
http://www.pandorasbox.com/littlenemo.html
His name is spelled Winsor McCay, not Winsor McKay as I said before.
*SIGH*.... The Film Doctor is IN.
Winsor McKay (regarded largely as the INVENTOR of the modern cartoon) had, in the teens an twenties -o- this century, a well known series of comic strips that were acclaimed both for their extremely well done art and their thoroughly BIZARRE subject matter. Based on the concept of dreaming the two most popular strips were:
Well as time went on and the freakiness of McKays work became a distant memory the company that WISHES to have invented the modern cartoon, decided to do their version of the Nemo stories. Suffice to say that although the production value of the film is indeed very high (as Disney movie's should be) the content isn't quite the same as the original. You should see it though, as its the closest Disney will ever come to LSD.
For points name the McKay critter that became the first animated animal ever.
Cine-Paul
McCay not McKay.
Was not Disney (but who cares still not the same)
Humble-Paul
'Tain't neither Disney. It's Japanese. Or at least all the artists are
Japanese - look at the credits and the round eyes.
