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I post Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling. You reply "The Silence of the Lambs."
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ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Vic Vega
book lady
(390 posts)Vincent Vega
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)cliffordu
(30,994 posts)book lady
(390 posts)cliffordu
(30,994 posts)harmonicon
(12,008 posts)Here I thought I was going to be all clever and post Roger Mexico, but apparently that's WAY too obvious.
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)tied biologically to V2 rocket strikes around London......
You'd have to read the book, though, to get my drift.
My favorite characters are Pirate Prentice and Pig Bodine, for entirely different reasons..
Particularly like Pig - as he sets up a Runcible spoon fight on the desk of a battleship (Or destroyer IIRC....)....
Ah, yes, that fucking Pynchon.
They should make a 5 movies chronicling Gravity's rainbow.....Like Lord of the Rings but with sex, physics and real war....
Do you know that Gravity's Rainbow was reviewed in Scientific American???
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)I have read the book, but it was a fair few years ago. Yes, Slothrop. Roger Mexico was my favourite character though. Since then I've been meaning to read all of Pynchon's books, but I haven't had a lot of time for pleasure reading, nor the mind-set for things that involved. Still after having read the large novels, apart from V., I kinda gave up halfway through The Crying of Lot 49. It suddenly seemed "of a style" and didn't interest me so much anymore. I digress...
I don't know that Gravity's Rainbow could be made into movies... never mind the NC-17 rating, at best. I did hear some chatter about Inherent Vice being adapted, but even that's a stretch.
I didn't know that Gravity's Rainbow had been reviewed by Scientific American, but I'd like to know what they thought of it. I imagine he gets a lot of the details right - he was a mathematician who served in the armed forces. Still, I know that he flubs some history - whether on purpose or not, I don't know. He puts ukuleles in all of his books, having them exist at times when they did not (none at all during Mason and Dixon's time, and not for more than 100 years, and there certainly weren't ukulele orchestras at the Chicago world's fair, the instrument having just been invented, with the baritone ukulele not being invented until the 1960's... sadly, this is a topic that I do know about).
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)I had no idea that thee Ukelele was that recent an invention.....
If I recall correctly, Scientific American had a lot of fun with
the formula towards the end of the book that ends with "=Log Cabin"
I was obsessed with the novel for a couple of years....
I probably read it 7 or 8 times, and parts of it dozens of times.
And yes, Pynchon has always stretched reality for his purpose, sometimes
for great thematic juxtapositions Re: Slothrop's being lost and completely
out of his element as are the fictional Schwartzcommando
(African commando rocket troops) wandering through postwar Germany with whole V2 rockets in tow....
I like his throwaway set pieces complete with musical numbers like the opening sequence where everyone billeted with Pirate
Prentice sing a musical number about bananas....
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)I always make up little tunes when I get to the songs. A friend of mine set all of the songs to Gravity's Rainbow decades ago, but he's forgotten what happened to the arrangements and doesn't remember them. I really like the idea, but I think it also may be like having an image of a character in your head to find that someone else's conception of them is different.
My favourite is the fictitious late Haydn string quartet which involves the use of kazoos and flapping of lips in imitation of a village idiot.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)geardaddy
(24,924 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Do the Bluto!
geardaddy
(24,924 posts)Brickbat
(19,339 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)geardaddy
(24,924 posts)WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)book lady
(390 posts)WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)aka "Slippery Jim"
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Scout
(8,624 posts)WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)I managed an SF/comic shop for five years.
geardaddy
(24,924 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)1990-95.
geardaddy
(24,924 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)a couple years after I left. Purple building - it was about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on an angel food cake. There's no store anymore, Greg has taken everything on line.
geardaddy
(24,924 posts)I live right by the Comic Book College (which just recently moved one door to the north).
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)They were my go-to comic shop for fifteen years.
geardaddy
(24,924 posts)In that pediatricians/dental building on 31st and Hennepin.
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)PassingFair
(22,434 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The Jake Gyllenhall character
blueamy66
(6,795 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)There must be dozens of characters just called 'The Kid'...
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)One of the odder SF novels of the 70's.
RZM
(8,556 posts)A big fan of Coors, if I remember correctly
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)was there a character called the Kid in The Stand?
It is from a really weird "high literature" type of SF novel from 1975.
Here is the first line of the novel.
to wound the autumnal city. So howled out for the world to give him a name. The in-dark answered with the wind.
RZM
(8,556 posts)And his part wasn't restored until King release the unabridged version in the 80s or 90s.
I've got nothing, even with the clue
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)charlie and algernon
(13,447 posts)Staph
(6,245 posts)Josh Lyman's assistant / girl Friday / girlfriend.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)racaulk
(11,550 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)racaulk
(11,550 posts)One of my favorite movies.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)From Bluto Blutarsky to Hannibal Lecter to Ellen Ripley.
Here's a few of mine you may not have heard of..
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=265x6073
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)I'll have to check the others out.
Staph
(6,245 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Ptah
(32,983 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)TheCentepedeShoes
(3,522 posts)played by Jerry Lewis
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)With a song by Kathleen Turner Overdrive.
LeftPeopleFinishFirst
(14,746 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Up In Smoke
That's where my troubles go
GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)He's Speedy Gonzalez's cousin.
Faygo Kid
(21,477 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)LeftPeopleFinishFirst
(14,746 posts)Ruby Gillis.
Faygo Kid
(21,477 posts)Loved it, and I admit to never reading the book - but that was as good TV as it gets. My daughter turned 9 that year. So special to watch it with her.
LeftPeopleFinishFirst
(14,746 posts)I loved the movie (which came out a couple years before I was born) but I was a big reader as a little kid. I know a lot of American kids who didn't read the books and just knew the story through the movie, but my best friend's parents were Canadian so they were all about it and we shared the books. She even got to go to Prince Edward Island one summer! I was so jealous.
RZM
(8,556 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)MerryBlooms
(11,728 posts)Broken_Hero
(59,305 posts)Shrek
(3,970 posts)WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)Broken_Hero
(59,305 posts)1. Non
2. Goblin
3. Zaknafein
4. Roland Deschain
5. John Clark
6. Zor-el
7. Norrin Radd
8. Tim Drake
9. Donald Blake
10. Arch Stanton
RZM
(8,556 posts)Last edited Sat May 12, 2012, 12:24 AM - Edit history (1)
Isn't that Drizz't Do'urden's father? From the first book of the 'Dark Elf Trilogy.' It's been so long I can't remember the name. Maybe 'Homeland?'
BTW that's the second drow elf reference in the Lounge in the last few days.
Broken_Hero
(59,305 posts)Last edited Fri May 11, 2012, 08:30 PM - Edit history (1)
and yes he was in Homeland, book I of the Dark Elf Trilogy.
eta:to change 2, into 3
Broken_Hero
(59,305 posts)so here are a few hints for number 2, Croaker, and One-Eye.
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)Last edited Fri May 11, 2012, 11:52 PM - Edit history (1)
Assuming that's not a typo, it's probably another one of Superman's relatives...
Tim Drake was Robin #3
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Donald Blake = Thor's earthly alter ego.
Broken_Hero
(59,305 posts)petronius
(26,580 posts)I 'know' #10 as well, I just can't dredge it up... (Must. Not. Google!)
Broken_Hero
(59,305 posts)of Stephen Kings The Dark Tower series...
For number 10#, think...Blondie....
sarge43
(28,939 posts)Staph
(6,245 posts)by C. S. Forester. And a wonderful movie starring the delicious Gregory Peck, and a television series (or is it a series of mini-series?) starring the equally yummy Ioan Gruffudd.
sarge43
(28,939 posts)baldguy
(36,649 posts)Staph
(6,245 posts)Woodrow Wilson Smith, aka Corporal Ted Bronson, aka Lazarus Long, the Senior. He first showed up in as a character in Robert Heinlein's Methuselah's Children, and later in a bunch of Heinlein's other books. He's one of my favorite characters, created by one of my favorite authors!
I love his quotes:
- "Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."
- "Never try to teach a pig to sing- it wastes your time and annoys the pig."
- "Rub her feet."
IcyPeas
(21,747 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)IcyPeas
(21,747 posts)one_voice
(20,043 posts)Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)"Omar comin!"
one_voice
(20,043 posts)Love that show. He was my favorite character...well top 2.
Baitball Blogger
(46,576 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,576 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)mrmpa
(4,033 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)not a Polka-Dotted Horse.
Just a person.
IcyPeas
(21,747 posts)I can't for the life of me remember the name of it - he keeps saying it over and over.... what is the name of that? this is going to kill me all day. goes over rooftops. damnnnnnnnnnnn
something "man"
the author is escaping me too. he has a name similar to another author. shit... shit. shit.....
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)nt
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IcyPeas This message was self-deleted by its author.
IcyPeas
(21,747 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)One of the timeless classics.
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)1) Lawrence Fassett
2) Yyrkoon
3) Kerk Pyrrus
4) Runs-red-Talking
5) Junior Bruce
6) Travis W Redfish
7) Renensco Blue
8) Otto Maddox
9) Jimmy Bender
10) Jessica 6
Now we'll see who the real nerds are...
mrmpa
(4,033 posts)WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)mrmpa
(4,033 posts)WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)Not the same Junior Bruce at any rate...
petronius
(26,580 posts)WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)LeftishBrit
(41,192 posts)nytemare
(10,888 posts)nuxvomica
(12,364 posts)Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet respectively. I saw the movie when I was a kid but those names stuck with me.
oregonjen
(3,316 posts)John Denver and George Burns
RZM
(8,556 posts)This is a toughie, but I'm sure some DUers know it.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Dunstan Ramsay
Mason Verger
Adam Swann
Clue: THey're not from the same book. Bonus points if you can identify who played MW and MV in the films made of the books.
ETA - This is one of the best Lounge threads ever. Thanks, Bertha!!
IcyPeas
(21,747 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Don't know if John Irving recycled any of these names. All from different books.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)Dont recall who played Mason Verger
beknighted
(46 posts)6000eliot
(5,643 posts)beknighted
(46 posts)Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)In which, if I remember correctly, a one-dollar wager is made.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Ha, I knew it you old....
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)That's my fav line of dialogue when Chief Bromden (aka Chief Pushing Broom) lets Nicholson know that he isn't dumb or mute but really knows what's going on.
white_wolf
(6,238 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)beac
(9,992 posts)CBHagman
(16,968 posts)...though I thought it was Handcock.
beac
(9,992 posts)"...this is what comes of empire building" and listing names from memory.
Hula Popper
(374 posts)Dirty Warren
IcyPeas
(21,747 posts)sakabatou
(42,083 posts)sakabatou
(42,083 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,216 posts)white_wolf
(6,238 posts)CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)by Neal Stephenson
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Can't remember the particular album, and ain't gonna Google it.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)IcyPeas
(21,747 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)petronius
(26,580 posts)Good books, I just started reading them...
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)The name Porfiry Rostnikov may be a bit of word fun. Porfiry Petrovich is the police inspector in Crime and Punichment who catches Raskolnikov.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)mikeargo
(675 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)petronius
(26,580 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)book lady
(390 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)That's one you know or you don't because I doubt google would help much.
Response to cthulu2016 (Reply #191)
cthulu2016 This message was self-deleted by its author.
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)I watched Three's Company pretty religiously as a kid. (The fact that my parents disapproved was a big part of it) It seems to me that Googling one's answers wouldn't really be in the spirit of this games though...
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)it would render the game absurd, as you say.
Just that that combination of words probably brings up a zillion things other than three's company
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)From The Ashes
(2,626 posts)Havelock Vetinari.
Staph
(6,245 posts)Havelock Vetinari is the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, Moist von Lipwig is a conman who is appointed the Postmaster by Vetinari (and later is put in charge of the city's financial system), and Adorabelle Deerheart is Moist's girlfriend.
mikeargo
(675 posts)petronius
(26,580 posts)Oops, my bad, I misspelled "A Confederacy of Dunces"...
beknighted
(46 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)Mendocino
(7,431 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)She is Spock's mother.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)book lady
(390 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)petronius
(26,580 posts)The Stars my Destination.
Mendocino
(7,431 posts)?
mac56
(17,561 posts)mac56
(17,561 posts)CBHagman
(16,968 posts)...Guys and Dolls.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)Didn't he eventually marry her?
BarbaRosa
(2,684 posts)Duke Lotto Agamemnides
Lady Jazzica
Baron Vladimir Hardchargin
Shaddap IV
BarbaRosa
(2,684 posts)National Lampoon's DOON, yup the parody.
Tikki
(14,539 posts)Tikki
sakabatou
(42,083 posts)Tikki
(14,539 posts)Tikki
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)CBHagman
(16,968 posts)Shelley "the Machine" Levene.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)era veteran
(4,069 posts)Funny and sad. The whole story of this novel would be a novel.
John Kennedy Toole
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)beknighted
(46 posts)Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Thurgood -- Thurgood Marshall, First Black Supreme Court Justice
Orenthal -- Orenthal James Simpson, no explanation needed
Stubbs -- Levi Stubbs, deceased member of the Four Tops.
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)Shrek
(3,970 posts)One of the Hitchhiker's books, at any rate.
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)Yes
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)Last edited Mon May 14, 2012, 02:28 PM - Edit history (1)
Come on. Somebody on DU knows this one.
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)crunch60
(1,412 posts)Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)crunch60
(1,412 posts)Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)When you're good to Mama
Mama's good to you
I have this on CD, but damn, I can't believe I don't have the movie. We shall have to remedy that.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)And The Tachikomas .
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)YES! GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX!
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)I'll have to take a look at those videos when I have some time
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)CBHagman
(16,968 posts)Juliet Mills and Richard Long played the title characters.
Why does my brain retain such details?
Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)Last edited Mon May 14, 2012, 09:55 PM - Edit history (1)
Edited: I think the character's name was spelled O'Dair, not O'Dare. It's been a while since I read the book. (hint)
sakabatou
(42,083 posts)Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)sakabatou
(42,083 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)sakabatou
(42,083 posts)BlueIris
(29,135 posts)Come on, you Constant Readers. You know who Mrs. Todd is.
book lady
(390 posts)BlueIris
(29,135 posts)She was the famed heroine of "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut."
IcyPeas
(21,747 posts)CBHagman
(16,968 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Recovered Repug
(1,518 posts)sakabatou
(42,083 posts)Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)book lady
(390 posts)geardaddy
(24,924 posts)book lady
(390 posts)geardaddy
(24,924 posts)RedCloud
(9,230 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)geardaddy
(24,924 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)Flaxbee
(13,661 posts)Harriet Vane
Anna Pigeon
Horace Rumpole
Miss Marple
Kinsey Milhone
Patricia Anne and Mary Alice
IcyPeas
(21,747 posts)both have been on pbs masterpiece series. I don't know the other ones.
gkhouston
(21,642 posts)Strong Poison, Have His Carcase, Gaudy Night, and Busman's Honeymoon.
Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)RedCloud
(9,230 posts)This is a real toughie. I am going to put it it a novel I have yet to write. So at least give me the title.
beknighted
(46 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I'm outta heerrreeee
Classic stuff, I miss THE STATE.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,781 posts)WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)Woody Woodpecker
(562 posts)rbnyc
(17,045 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)should be pretty easy.
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)should be fairly easy, too.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)specifically, I believe, The Two Towers. He was the leader of the Woodmen, who guided the Rohirrim through a forest shortcut to the gates of Minas Tirith.
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)he is in The Return of the King. I thought it might give a few people trouble because he was not in the movie version.
IcyPeas
(21,747 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,781 posts)IcyPeas
(21,747 posts)Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)Number one on my favorite books list.
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)So I'm going to re-post a few that somebody somewhere ought to know...
Obviously no one's going to get Runs-red-Talking...
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)He's jealous of his cousin who's sleeping with his sister
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)He's not really 21
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)She likes Egyptian jewlery
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)Last edited Sat May 19, 2012, 05:27 PM - Edit history (1)
Works with Grace Pander
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)Why is his life so much tougher than everyone else's?
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)Warren DeMontague should know this one
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)HifiGuy should know this one
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)Woody Woodpecker
(562 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,781 posts)Woody Woodpecker
(562 posts)Woody Woodpecker
(562 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Come on, who are my people?
beknighted
(46 posts)The Kids In The Hall
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)gkhouston
(21,642 posts)gkhouston
(21,642 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,309 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,309 posts)lookingfortruth
(263 posts)Ken Washio
Jo Asakura
Jun
Jinpei
Ryū Nakanishi
LeftOfSelf-Centered
(776 posts)Not from the comic book. He appears in three books along with Elvis Presley and Barry the Time Sprout (one of the books also features Lazlo Woodbine).
LeftOfSelf-Centered
(776 posts)WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)Ethel the Frog looks at British Gangland