[IWE] "pop!" goes the chest
Wade Bowmer
iwe@warhead.org.uk
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:09:18 +1100
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Jay Burns IV <jb4@burnsgroup.com> wrote:
> Folks-
>
> The facehugger part I got....I just don't know what John Hurt has to do
> with it. I don't remember John Hurt in any of the Alien movies. (Maybe that
> has something to do with hte state I was in when I saw them, but I
> digress...
>
If you were too young when you saw the first Alien(s) movie, or just plain
haven't seen it, then John Hurt played the hapless guy who got hit by the
facehugger. He parodied his own role in the end Space Balls (in the diner)
where he had the highly memorable line "Oh, no. Not again."
I have to say the original movie was a wonderful example of minimalism.
There was *one* Alien. And it was _more_ than handful for the humans.
Wade.
> jb4
>
> Peter Whysall wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Rand Careaga <rcareaga@mac.com> <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.
>
>
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<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Jay Burns IV <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jb4@burnsgroup.com">jb4@burnsgroup.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<font face="Comic Sans MS">Folks-<br>
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The facehugger part I got....I just don't know what John Hurt has to do
with it. I don't remember John Hurt in any of the Alien movies. (Maybe
that has something to do with hte state I was in when I saw them, but I
digress...<br>
</font></div></blockquote><div></div><div>If you were too young when you saw the first Alien(s) movie, or just plain haven't seen it, then John Hurt played the hapless guy who got hit by the facehugger. He parodied his own role in the end Space Balls (in the diner) where he had the highly memorable line "Oh, no. Not again."</div>
<div></div><div>I have to say the original movie was a wonderful example of minimalism. There was *one* Alien. And it was _more_ than handful for the humans. </div><div></div><div>Wade.</div><div></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div bgcolor="#c0c0c0" text="#000066"><font face="Comic Sans MS">jb4<br>
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Peter Whysall wrote:
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<pre>On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Rand Careaga <a href="mailto:rcareaga@mac.com" target="_blank"><rcareaga@mac.com></a> wrote:
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<pre>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.
</pre> </blockquote>
<pre>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.
</pre> </blockquote>
<pre>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.
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