Archived comment by tim:
It's all medicine.
Funny the friend I used to do that with was named Dave too.

Archived comment by dave:
Tim, would that medication be a martini?

There was a book I read recently where one of the characters was always doing exactly that at the bar to get his martini.

Archived comment by Saint:
Maybe our passerby knows because he or she is the proud owner of a Tandy.

Archived comment by tim:
It's Never too late for anonymous sarcasm with a dash of superiority thrown in for good measure

Archived comment by Passerby:
"According to what I've been able to find out, if you had an old Tandy system it couldn't process the code in the I Love You virus"

Considering that the "i love you" virus (a Visual Basic virus targeted at Win32 machines) first appeared in May of 2000, and Tandy stopped making computers sometime in the early 90's, that's not surprising. There's also, TMK, no such thing as a "Tandy 400".

Archived comment by Paul:
Touche, Monsieur Pussycat...

*chuckle*

Archived comment by tim:
I suppose I can't blame you for wanting to say that since I'm sure you've heard it a few times
~benign smirk~

Archived comment by Paul:
Oh? Feeling a stir, tim? I think I'd better leave then before something really regrettable happens...

*gryn*

Archived comment by tim:
The ancient viagra chant

Archived comment by Paul:
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."

*an all-too-familiar flash and smoke, and the dead begin to rise*

Archived comment by daen:
exits quietly, leaving tim alone with his dead

Archived comment by tim:
Now this was a beautiful threadkill too...

Archived comment by tim:
"And tim, if you need tranq darts, you need to talk to me."

Reminds me of when we go out to our favorite " spa" and pound our fists on the bar and yell "Nurse...nurse...Where's my medication?"

Archived comment by daen:
steff--
Have you ever tried keeping something locked away from Joe? Not that he had to put any effort into it, other than handing me the completed paperwork. *g*

And tim, if you need tranq darts, you need to talk to me.

Archived comment by tim:
*beams angelically *

Gimme one of those darts...I'm having some kind of...reality meltdown

Archived comment by ParU:
Is so dazzled by steff's smile that he can't see straight

Huh?

(Eloquent ain't I?)

Archived comment by steff:
*beams angelically (and utterly unbelievably) at parU to give joe a chance to get away...

...which he won't take, probably*

what? we didn't see anything! *flutters eyelashes*

psst! daen! i thought you were keeping those locked up??

Archived comment by ParU:
wakes up and wanders around

'OK, who shot me with the tranquilizer dart?'

Archived comment by Saint:
Related to almost nothing: Don't watch the movie Spun. It is one of the most boring movies I've ever seen in my life. The ultra-mellow music doesn't help--when I was using, I would have ripped the radio out of the car if all I could listen to was that sleepy-time crap. However, the advertising actually is kind of amusing, and the website is interesting, so I posted a link. The load-screen of the link is from a video game seen in the movie, and it's probably the best part, but I'm not sure I would call it "work safe."

Archived comment by slugbuggy:
There were some shenannigans in the illegal substances department involving Bob Denver a few years back. Article also does a little deconstruction of Gilligan's Island, to boot.

Archived comment by Social Neanderthal:
I guess it wouldn't be nice to accuse Gilligan of illegal activities, but based on some of the 60's TV shows, I'd have to say SOMEONE was smoking SOMETHING.

Unlike today, when it is the viewer who frequently wishes they were on drugs when watching TV.

Archived comment by tim:
I had a friend, an english lit. major, who was taking summer courses at Harvard.
He'd use episodes of " Batman" to illustrate his points in class.
ie : " Well ,when Hamlet send Ophelia away , it's like when Catwoman tried to seduce Batman.."
Of course the only Reason he did that was so he could tell ME about it.
My world used to be fun.

Archived comment by Joe Napalm:
...He's analyzing Gilligan's Island?

*flat look*

*Offhandly shoots ParU with one of daen's tranq darts and disinterestedly goes back to his drink*

What? He'll thank me, later.

Really.

-Jn-
City of Brass Expatriate

Archived comment by ParU:
Well, of course! You're right SN!

What's always been kind of funny about 'GI' was the amount of 'stuff' they had. If you've ever been on a boat that small, there's not even room for 1/10th that much stuff and heck, 7 people is about 'max' for just moving around and stuff. Plus, of course, a wood boat isn't that hard to fix, given all the other stuff they made.

And who the heck goes on a boat tour with storms brewing anyway?

Archived comment by Social Neanderthal:
But did you have trunks full of clothes and money on board?

OMG, it just occured to me. The Minnow was running drugs!!! They weren't lost, they were hiding out from the DEA!!!

Archived comment by ParU:
Well I think your story was great Taragirl! 1 cool pt for 'courage' under 'fire' so to speak. I would've cracked up had I been there. Great idea!

Archived comment by Taragirl:
Oh, Oh, Oh Gilligan--I have a Gilligan story--took a double decker pontoon boat out on the lake. Heard thunder in the distance and saw this heavy curtain of rain just bearing down on us. Hauled the kids out of the water and hubby started to head ashore to the marina. The boat had two speeds--Slow and Slower. And it was very difficult to steer amidst the heavy rain as you could hardly open your eyes against the huge drops. So What did I do? Started singing: ..the weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed. If not for the courage of the fearless crew the Minnow would be lost. The Minnow would be lost. See? I thought it was hilarious, too. Okay, no more Gilligan comments, promise.

Archived comment by Fhqwhgads:
Yup. According to what I've been able to find out, if you had an old Tandy system it couldn't process the code in the I Love You virus, so it dumped it out on the screen as a string of text that read fhqwhgadshgnsdhjsdbkhsdabkfabkveybvf. So apparently Strong Bad was responding to the I Love You virus- which somehow makes it seem even funnier to me...

Archived comment by Jon:
My god, it's full of stars!

What an epiphany about that Strong Bad email!

Fhqwhgads is from the "I Love You" virus? I guess since I deleted every last one of those stinking emails without opening them, I never saw that part of the message.

Archived comment by Fhqwhgads:
Actually, no. See the namelink for the origins of the name.

Archived comment by tim:
Fhqwhgadshgnsdhjsdbkhsdabkfabk ......is that Polish?

Archived comment by Fhqwhgads:
Gah. My name got cut off last time.

Fhqwhgadshgnsdhjsdbkhsdabkfabkveybvf or just Fhqwhgads for short...

Archived comment by Fhqwhgadshgnsdhjsdbkhsdabkfabk:
Sorry, daen, but you're stuck with it.

Muah-haa-haa-haa-haa...

Archived comment by umrguy:
"Please, say no more."
"I can say no more."

Archived comment by daen:
I was hoping that we weren't speaking about the Gilligan's Island theme any longer...

sigh

Archived comment by umrguy:
Of course, speaking of the Gilligan's Island theme, there was the discovery that it has the same chords (if memory serves) as "Stairway to Heaven", prompting Little Roger & the Goosebumps to do that song ("Stairway to Gilligan's Island" - GI lyrics to StH music) in concert, and even make a recording of it - until Led Zeppelin's lawyers sued over copyright infringement or whatever for the song tune, and leading to the destruction of all the copies of the song they could find.

Although I read that supposedly, this issue has actually been settled lately, and that the song will be re-released (this time with permissions) on some collection in the near future.

Archived comment by ParU:
I was wrong - the movie was 'The Vanishing American' from 1924. Namelink has more Early Catalina History.

Archived comment by ParU:
Matt - the buffalo there were from the movie 'Rain' in, I believe, the 30's or so. (I spent probably 200 weekends there over time, I know Catalina pretty well).

And the Newport Harbor shot is the long shot of the Minnow going out the breakwater. Once you've sailed a few dozen times in and out of there you learn it. In the lower left hand corner of that shot (off screen) is the famous 'The Wedge' were they have large waves that crazy people body surf on (yes I've done it too).

Not sure Yoda where they shot the series, but I'd bet on Universal's back lot. They'd never shoot so much stuff on a public beach.

Archived comment by Yoda:
I heard they filmed Gilligan's Island at the Corona del Mar beach? Anyone else hear that?

Archived comment by Matt:
ParU-- You know that's Newport Harbor and I didn't, and I grew up near there? I'm horrified. Genuinely horrified. And if they made it to Catalina in three hours, more power to them. After all, wasn't it supposed to be three hours total, not just one-way?

And yeah, the bison--not buffalo: different animal--were left on Catalina after a Hollywood western was filmed there in the 50s.

But everyone knew that already.

I had more fun in my tent, rooting out the wild pigs and staring them down in the darkness, with only the reflection of their eyes to confirm they were there, hiding in the bushes and snorting a my friend and me, all 300 pounds (or so) of them.

Archived comment by Paul:
Speaking of songs-

Ever hear a rap song and even though you can clearly hear what they're saying, it makes no sense? Ever wanted to know the meanings?

Well, wonder no more! (namelink has some bad language- after all, they are quoting rappers)

Archived comment by ParU:
But daen - isn't it interesting that we have that song stuck in our heads?

Course, logic wasn't too strong on that show anyway. In 3 hours from Newport Beach (the harbor they're showing from the aerial shot of them leaving the breakwater - hey I know all the So. Cal Harbors) they couldn't have gotten far, say to Catalina or San Clemente Islands. But there were no buffalo on Gilligan's Islands (and there's no Jungle on the Channel Islands, either).

Archived comment by daen:
Paul--

I'm sure there are any number of poems and songs that can be sung to "Gilligan's Island" - but just because you can doesn't mean you should...

It's in a very common meter. Just relax and accept it.

Archived comment by Paul:
I shared this bit of knowledge with the woman who gave me that CD. She stared at me in horror as I sang the first verse, then growled and pretended to bash her head against the post at the corner of the porch.

I pointed out that most of Emily Dickenson's poems would fit it too, but I don't think that helped.

Archived comment by daen:
Paul -
Laugh.
It's easier to explain away than screaming is.
Trust me.

Archived comment by Paul:
The scary thing is that usually I can follow the path of association.

Then again, the other night I was half asleep and a folk song called "Waiting For Isabella" was going through my mind, having listened to that CD earlier in the day. The song is about a ship frozen in the ice of Baffin Bay and the sailors waiting for rescue... anyway, as I was drifting off to sleep my mind fit other words to the melody, and I woke up realizing that the song has the same meter as the theme from "Gilligan's Island". I didn't know whether to laugh or scream.

I still don't.

Archived comment by tim:
The references I get...or can google....it's the path from what was said to where he ends up that just..........mystifies me.
What triggers that association?
Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Psychedelic synapses

Archived comment by daen:
tim--
When in doubt, google.
Odds are that our favourite efreet is quoting someone.

Archived comment by Paul:
See if that helps, Tim.

Archived comment by ParU:
And just to be out of character here...

Happy Bastille Day

Vive La France!