Naming Movies August 14, 2006
….I had some brief correspondence this morning from a friend of mine in Arizona, making a joke about a recent movie. I responded with something I’ve thought several times about that movie, but haven’t expressed publicly before now.
….My family will tell you that I have a sort of penchant for renaming movies to more accurately describe their content. For example, _Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home_, properly retitled, becomes _Save the Whales Or We’ll Kill you_.
….For what it’s worth, the movie my friend mentioned, _Brokeback Mountain_ is _not_ about _cowboys_, gay or otherwise, at all. It’s about _sheepmen_ (Ack, tooey!), proving everything that real cowboys have ever said about them.
….Therefore, I propose that we rename the movie, _What Sheepmen Do When Sheep Have Headaches_.
….Do I hear a second?
….”Baaaaaaaaaaaa!!!”
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- Author :Administrator
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Mr. Chairman: I second the nomination, and move for passage by acclamation.
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If this becomes popular, the Scots will love you for redirecting the standard joke: Why do Scots wear kilts?….. Because sheep can hear a zipper a mile away.
> the Scots will love you
….Only platonically, I hope.
….Actually, people like my wife should appreciate my effort, too. She’s from Wyoming, where, proverbially, “Men are men and sheep are nervous.”
HAHAHAHAHA!
Wonderful!
Of course, to Blue Staters, anybody from the West is a cowboy.
“Why do Scots wear kilts?….. Because sheep can hear a zipper a mile away.”
I thought it was so they could sneak up behind them without tripping over their trousers.
Hmmm. I’m part Scottish and I live in Wyoming.
Someone’s going to pay for this.
I saw the movie poster, and thought “ick.” Two silly very cleanly shaven guys in cowboy hats that are just too clean. HOLLYWOOD!
So I went and watched _Snatch_ again. That’s a real Man’s movie!
“Heavy is good. Heavy is reliable. And if it doesn’t work, you can hit ‘em with it!”
“On the side of your gun, it says ‘replica’. On the side of my gun, it says ‘Desert Eagle point five oh’.”
“It was at a -funny- angle.”
“It was right behind you, Tyrone!”
“No thanks, Turkish, I’m sweet enough.”
Curt: I’m thinking “Snatch” is exactly what Bentback Mounting was missing…
I refused to watch that movie for a very simple reason.
No, I’m not a homophobe and I’m a firm believer that what happens in Scotland stays in Scotland.
It’s a love story folks. A sad and tragic tearjerker about love denied and frustrated.
Brokeback mountain is not a gay movie, it’s not a cowboy movie.
It’s an emotionally manipulative three hankie chick flick.
Yuck!
Before the orgy of adulation begins, there was the foreign side of Gerry, lest we forget:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/floyd/floyd50.html
On the bright side, at least he is no longer half alive as was the case over the last 5 decades.
More on “Bumbling” Gerry.
Why did this future president think if was necessary to declare his belief in Oswald’s guilt just before publication of the commission’s report? Was he acting in league with his friends at the CIA and the FBI to give advance support to what he knew would be the report’s lone-killer conclusion? Almost certainly, the answer is “yes.” Especially when you consider the fact that the man most responsible for placing Ford on the commission President Richard Nixon later described the “Oswald did it by himself scenario” as “the greatest hoax that has ever been perpetuated.” Nixon’s assertion contained in a tape of an Oval Office conversation with aide Bob Haldeman was not made public until 2002.
http://www.crimemagazine.com/06/ford-jfk,1111-06.htm
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