[IWE] "pop!" goes the chest

[Peter Whysall]

> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Rand Careaga <rcareaga@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> If indeed you haven't seen the movie (can there be more than a hundred
>> adults in North America who have not?), you must first rent it before
>> I'd
>> dream of elaborating.
>
> You would be amazed at how many of us have no wish to waste needless
> dollars and hours of our life on learning useless references to
> popular culture.  You have no idea how much of a git you look like to
> us in insisting that we do so.
>
> If you indeed have a point and it will take less than 3 hours to make
> in writing, I strongly suggest you make it.  Else I will take a look
> at the demands of being a working parent with 2 small children,
> consider your request that I waste multiple hours watching a movie I
> have no interest in to understand your casual reference, and I will
> laugh hysterically at you.

I dunno what's funnier; Rand's incomprehension that you have managed to
reach your mid-30s without seeing "Alien", or your response to it.

Seriously. Not getting an "Alien" reference is like not knowing who Homer
Simpson is: not inconceivable, but highly unlikely for a reasonably
well-educated and read English-speaking male born in the latter years of
the C20th.

Even if you haven't seen the film, it's exhaustively and endlessly
referenced, parodied, quoted from in books, films and television.

Anyway. Sarah Palin looks like a facehugger.

There you go.