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Hooray for the correct denomination of “Tin Woodsman” and not Tin Man. Reference accuracy win.
Poppies! Poppies!
Poppeeeeeeezzzzzz…..
Wow. For once, the first comment is a giant WIN! Congratulations to megalodon for awesomeness!
Shouldn’t it read Tin Woodsperson?
Spammer is back. My you choke and die on your mouse.
Thank you for not taking advantage of my suckage, And I love the image…kinda what I actually had in mind. *sees BT not looking and gives charro a thank you smooch..and a slips in a friendly pat on the tail*
I actually saw a female Tin Woods — ah, person costume around Halloween time. Not the way I’d ever pictured the character, believe me!
In B4 rabid antimilitary crybabies.
I put the Auntie Em in Anti Military.
Kid looks more like Atreyu, anyway.
I thought the people’s clothes from the emerald city were only green under the illusion of the emerald city.
Well that’s because they’re all drunk on Absinthe.
Wait! There’s absinthe?! Why didn’t I get any?
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder…
In that cassis important that you stay away more often
Sounds a bit whisky to me. She likes me to liquor.
She’s a rum one alright. Snaps at the slightest mistake!
And boy, can she wine. I’d lager to just chill out sometimes.
It’s becoming everclear that she’s a real brut!
I’d like to get in cider.
Are we distill talking about mead?
That would beer correct assumption.
*hugs bitter wino* I’m so glad someone knows this! Yes, they were all required to wear green tinted glasses. They were told it was to protect their eyes from the glare but really it was to maintain the illusion.
Ditto. And there’s cake for anyone who knows what color the “ruby’ slippers really were….
OOOOH OOOOH PICK ME PICK ME!!!!!
SILVER!!!! THEY WERE SILVER!!!!!!
Very good. *hands out cake* But only for froo…this is not one of those participation gets you cake classes.
Do I get cake if I can tell you why they’re ruby and not silver?
I know that one too
*eats cake and basks in self-satisfaction*
Well, fine! But do you know what color the Emerald city really is? Huh?
Okay, if this is good enough, you can also have cake.
I’m just happy I remembered that Dorothy was wearing shoes, period.
It’s been a while since I read the book, and I’ll admit that it was a children’s lit version. I need to go back and read the real thing.
Hmm? Aren’t the lit versions just annotated? My “Alice” is the annotated edition (explains all the political jokes Carroll was making).
Well the slippers were changed to ruby when they made the movie because they wanted to show off the new color technology and silver can be done in black and white as well as in color.
The Emerald city was based off of the Hotel Del Coronado where Baum enjoyed staying, in fact the whole of Coronado is loosely Oz. The yellow brick road is Orange Avenue (the main road in Coronado). I think the apple throwing trees were all cut down though when people wanted to build houses
The version I had broke down the language into a form that was easier for a beginning reader to understand. No big words, things like that. At the time I was given these books I was reading past a college level, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t read them to shreds anyway
Hmmmm, and does anyone know how many books were in the Oz series (and I only mean ones written by L. Frank Baum himself)?
Froo, that’s very sad. I believe there should be a special circle in hell for people who abridge classics because they think kids aren’t up to reading them.
DU gets cake. With ice cream for all the extra details.
I agree with you to a point, mabsba. I’ve met some kids who would only be exposed to that type of literature through the abridged version, since they had been pre-programmed to believe they couldn’t handle “older” books. Also, the video generation that has the attention span of a Ritalin deprived gnat would probably benefit from something easier to focus on.
That being said, I completely agree with you
*noms her cake and ice cream 16 books I think Jane, it was a long series. I recently saw a version of Shakespeare where they had the original text on one page and paraphrased text on the opposite page. I din’t know whether to laugh, cry, or kill someone. It’s bad enough abridging classics, but to paraphrase the whole thing!?
14 and I used one of those books when I had to read Twelfth Night in college. It was my junior year and I was saving my brain power for when we delved into Paradise Lost.
Really? I loved Shakespeare. But my English degree is a writing degree, not a lit degree, so I didn’t have to read very much of it. *looks around furtively* But I have still read most of them.
A good alternative for kids who don’t want to try anything challenging is the classic comics — they have ‘graphic novels’ of classics using the original language. My son bought the one for MacBeth (Junior English class).
The original Shakespeare is cool. Especially if you have a teacher who points out that there are LOTS of dirty jokes in the plays…but he isn’t going to point out any of them! He did point out the other ones though.
I miss ‘Iago’, he was a great teacher. I used to visit him every summer until he passed away. *sighs*
Yeah, you need a teacher who’s gonna point out the dirty bits. Shakespeare was a very dirty dirty man after all.
I found a book with all of the naughty references in it after college, and gave it to Iago. I’ll bet he had fun cross-referencing to see if he agreed with the book!
Well I was an Elementary Ed major. I had already taken all my lit classes and then found out that when I had to make the transfer to a satellite school they required this course and I was already neck deep in child psych and educational theory and not in the mood. I did end up liking most of Paradise Lost, however, especially the bits with Lucifer in them. I had some sympathy is what I’m saying.
Please, I wasn’t judging or anything like that. I am just always amazed that anyone would pick anything over the original.
God, I am an English geek.
I hate Shakespeare.
*is beaten to death*
*sets down her club* We’re sorry Rando, it was for your own good.
It’s okay. My son doesn’t like Shakespeare, and I still love him. *gives Rando cake*
You know, I always think “Randy” instead of “Rando.” Is this intentional? (Aiming for the English meaning of the word, I mean?)
I have a soft spot for Lucifer too, Jane.
A great way to get to know Shakespeare is to go to live performances or even watch a movie version, or several movie versions. There’s a scene in The Libertine with Johnny Depp in which an actress rehearses for Ophelia (Samantha Morton is awesome). Gives me chills.
{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq5-wZ8Yj5U&feature=PlayList&p=C8A1F5696FDAB3ED&index=21}
It was a hell of a lot cheaper than building an entire city out of emeralds.
They should have gone for cubic zirconias.
In the original book the Wizard required everyone in the city to wear green colored glasses, fooling them into thinking everything in the entire city was really green. In later Oz books the city was said to have a primarily green color scheme and was encrusted with emeralds all around; but over time that changed so that the city itself really was tinted green.
Wait wait wait. Which do you mean: the ones who are truly anti-military, the ones who are opposed to the current war, or the ones who are just sick of military LOLs? Please be more specific, kthxbai.
The first. They pop up every so often and act all butthurt if anyone implies that any military (or police) are anything but a bunch of savage bloodthirsty fast zombies.
Those folks are in dire need of a good stabbing.
The ones opposed to the current war (In Afghanistan) aren’t so much anti-military as they are anti-thinking-things-through. (Being opposed to the Iraq war is… optional. I won’t argue with that one.)
The third group, I’m for, as long as the LOLs they are against are actually unfunny.
Why is he saying “that way” but not pointing? That’s bugging me.
He’s sending the direction telepathically.
Check out them pixels
Does anyone besides me think it’s weird that “The Wizard of Oz” — a kid’s book — had poppies in it?
And if there are any other English geeks out there (the subject not the nationality), are the Lotus plants in the Odyssey also poppies? I was helping a student with a paper on it yesterday, and, of course, the conversation NATURALLY went there.
Baum was a big fan of the opiates and they were generally more accepted back then than they are today.
I’d never thought about the lotus plants, I don’t know that they have any properties that would cause a person to fall asleep so it would make sense that it was actually poppies that just got renamed to a more locally known flower.
It was written in 1901 after all. A time when Laudanum was a common cure-all.
Now it’s hand sanitizer that’s the cure-all.
(referencing a MLIA where a little girl was sent home from school after getting buzzed from licking hand sanitizer off her hand. She said it tasted good and made her head feel fuzzy)
I think I may have to try that next time I’m at work. Sounds much more fun than getting high off of oxyclean in the Ruby Room. (Note to self: Never use half a bottle of oxyclean in a poorly ventilated room again. Not a fun high.)
Or paint with the windows open and a fan running. That headache isn’t from the upper body exercise!
OXY CLEAN WILL CLEAN THE SINUSES RIGHT OUT OF YOUR FACE!!!!11!!!
- the late Billy Mays
If the hand sanitizer is alcohol based, I can understand the buzz, but it’s a dangerous buzz!
The girl was about 5, and she wasn’t getting much off her hands
Geez. I had forgotten it was that old. Very good point. This is making me want to go read the books again.
Baum was pretty good at putting little asides into his books that adults could appreciate, so a rereading might be fun for all of us. The writers who took up the “Royal Historian of Oz” mantel after he passed were more straight-up kid’s books authors, and sometimes a bit too cutesy for my taste.
Homer was probably referring to the egyptian blue lotus which is a mild sedative/psychoactive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphaea_caerulea
Mabsa, when was the last time you watched Pinocchio? I had forgotten about the part where Jimminy Cricket tells him that he’s a “jackass” and he turns into one. I about flipped my wig, because if I caught my kids or step kids saying that word I’d pound em! LOL
LOL. I had forgotten that. But I was actually thinking of the book (really an English geek).
The plants we call lotus now are named after the ones from Greek mythology, but don’t have the soporific effect the Lotus in the Odyssey has. Working with teenagers — gotta love how their minds focus on the drugs.
Oh yeah! Also a bit of an English geek here. Could have minored, but chose a different lit course than the one which would have been required!
Had you ever noticed that the English majors never seem to end up as math or science geeks?!?
Um. *looks around again* My other two degrees ARE in math. So, I guess not really would be my answer.
I actually knew at least six people who were either double degreeing (probably not a word) or double majoring in math and English.
Cool! I was mistaken for an ENG major in college, but can’t say that I ever mistook an ENG major for a science major. So there IS hope for cross discipline communication!
I was an English major for a few semesters, but the lure of having money after graduating drove me to Poultry Science
I tended toward Lit more than the structure part of English. The only Lit class I got less than an A in was an American Lit class that I only went to half the time. The professor and I reached a deal. By policy she was supposed to fail me for not coming to class enough, but since my grades were through the roof, she compromised and gave me a C. I loved that class.
Math, on the other hand, can kiss my ass. Anything with numbers causes my brain to shut down.
See, you should have just skipped to graduate school. Very few numbers involved.
Poultry science? So that’s how you know more about chickens than I do!
That, and I’m a geek
Anything with numbers causes my brain to shut down too. That’s why I’m a mathematician.
Okay, every time you put ENG, I think of engineers, which makes me ROFL because scientists and mathematicians are always making fun of engineers. Hee hee hee.
Isn’t the most common phrase quoted by English majors, post graduation -
“Do you want just the sandwich, or the combo meal?”
Can’t say, since I’m only in touch with 2. One is a prof, and the other works for a health insurance company.
Isn’t that Link from legend of Zelda?
Be more specific the one taling ot the soldier
talking or* damn this keyboard
The little kid! Look at what he’s wearing! All he needs is an annoying fairy following him around telling him to use z-targeting!
On behalf of fairies everywhere, I’m offended by your description of “annoying” and demand that you take it back, apologize, and make restitution for all of the fairy abuse over the last several centuries.
I’m sorry! I didn’t mean it, it was just the one fairy! You can’t hold me responsible for the centuries of fairy abuse and enslavement!
Tell you what. Follow me into this boggy patch of land and we’ll call it even.
*evil tinkly laughter*
Oh well, alright, I suppose that seems fair.
Froo? Froo? Where’d you go!? I can’t figure out which way to go to get out of here!
*tinkly laughter from the left*
*tinkly laughter from the right*
*froo sipping tea in her little faerie mound while watching DU stumble around*
*sits down in the middle of the bog and sulks* Next time I need to get through a bog I’m just asking that weird Gollum creature. I bet he wouldn’t get me lost like this.
*sends out the Muppets to change the directional arrows to get out of the bog*
*blinks and watches the muppets* But can I trust them? Are they changing the arrows to the right direction or the wrong direction? They are muppets after all. I’ve got it! *chases after muppets and ignores the signs*
Not even worth it until you send out David Bowie in tight pants.
We’ve got David Bowie? I thought he was still making a movie with Max in outer space.
If this is the faerie princess in action, what happens when bad faerie comes around? I think, hmmm… *slinks out of the bog using her compass*
Hey! Where did you get that compass? That’s cheating! Can I borrow that when you’re done with it?
Shh! Quiet!
*reaches the edge of the bog, and tosses the compass underhand, back to DU*
Thanks! *sneaks out of the bog using the compass while Froo is distracted with telling Rando/Mario that he’s in the wrong castle*
froo!!! For the love of God! I know about the z-targeting! And stop telling me how to kill the skulltulas!!!!!
Sorry Mario, but our princess is in another castle.
Don’t worry Rando, I know how to warp to the last level!
What the hell is this thing? A warp whistle? I don’t know how to play a goddamned warp whistle? I’m going to go hang out with that chick from Metroid.
And with him being a dumbass american soldier, he’d probably believe them.
Actually I believe the soldier is Israeli, you can tell by the um, green of the uniform and the type of gun.
Actually he is an Australian soldier. Also the ‘gun’ he has is a Steyr Aug used by the Austrians, Irish, and Australians (also a few others..)
Actually, sentences beginning with “actually” are the best thing ever!
(And ACTUALLY, he’s Belgian.)
No the BOY is Belgian the SOLDIER is Israeli!1!elebenty11!1!!
The dog is socialist!
Exactly, and the Cat is a Nazi
Those damned cats always are. :/
Godwin!
Come here, boy, and me and this broomhandle will show you what it really MEANS to be butthurt.
amazing story bro =)
Hes an Australian soldier on patrol in the green zone in Afghanistan
Well okay, but why is he looking for a scarecrow, tin woodsman, lion and a little girl with a dog? Also, what is link doing in Afghanistan? Shouldn’t he be in Hyrule?
While I thoroughly enjoyed the conversations on alchohol, English Majors (yay, me too!) and old books, I thought I’d point out the SIGNIFICANCE of the poppies since it’s not up there already.
One of the major problems faced by those involved with the conflict in Afghanistan, is while the land USED to be the best in the world (remember the Fertile Crescent from ancient history? It’s there), due to Millenia of mildly salinated irrigation water, pretty much the ONLY thing you can grow there anymore is poppies. Hard to create a western-style goody-two-shoes democracy when the main export is opiates….
Anyway, just thought I’d throw that out there!
The Fertile Crescent runs from Iraq through to the Nile Delta in Egypt.
It’s nowhere near Afghanistan.