music_collector

Thanks for the reminder Pep.

I wasn't aware of that. I only knew the Dan Ackroyd/Tom Hanks movie.

Carpe Mortem

I love a good monologue (although I guess technically this is a dialogue):

Wake: Yer fond of me lobster aint’ ye? I seen it -- yer fond of me lobster! Say it! Say it. Say it!

Winslow: I don’t have to say nothin’.

Wake: Damn ye! Let Neptune strike ye dead Winslow! HAAARK!

Hark Triton, hark! Bellow, bid our father the Sea King rise from the depths full foul in his fury! Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs til’ ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more -- only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slitherin’ tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell be-finned arm, his coral-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet, bursting ye -- a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted bloody film now and nothing for the harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the Dread Emperor himself -- forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any god or devil, forgotten even to the sea, for any stuff for part of Winslow, even any scantling of your soul is Winslow no more, but is now itself the sea!

Winslow: Alright, have it your way. I like your cookin’.

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music_collector

Shooter McGavin - I eat pieces of **** like you for breakfast.

Happy Gilmore - You eat pieces of **** for breakfast?

Plankton

"You'd rather jack off a mountain lion with a fist full of cockle burrs than mess with that guy cause he's slicker n two eels ****in in a bucket a snot, so you might as well toss the silver down the well and move in with the chickens."

- Probably Somebody Somewhere at Some Point

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Lisnaholic

"Next week on Moments of Wonder I'll be asking, "Why do we cry, when it's the onions that are getting hurt?" - Philomena Cunk

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"Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953

ribbons

^ Haha, that's funny, Lisna. I've never heard of Philomena, but looked her up and think I'd like to see Cunk on Earth sometime.

ribbons

"We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums, and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and sufficing objects of nature, the sun, and moon, the animals, the water, and stones, which should be their toys. So the poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low and plain, that the common influences should delight him. His cheerfulness should be the gift of the sunlight; the air should suffice for his inspiration, and he should be tipsy with water."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lisnaholic

^ That's a great quote, ribbons: so well-written with its simple images. I'm not too sure that it has ever been possible to get children interested in stones and sky rather than dolls and drums, but I like his idea of the poet's life, "set on a key so low and plain" and being "tipsy with water".

More recent artists who have sung about a similar approach:-

Paul Simon: “You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? / Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.”
Nick Drake: "You can take the road that takes you to the stars now /I can take a road that'll see me through."
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Yes Philomena Cunk can be quite funny, but she has a rather limited range with her humour. When she does interviews, it's quite amusing to see how genuine experts respond. Here's a few on the topic of music:-

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"Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953

ribbons

Thanks, Lisna! Those lyrics by Paul Simon and Nick Drake are well chosen and in perfect harmony with Waldo’s thoughts. While reading that quote from Emerson’s The Poet, its reference to children and the string about “withdrawing their eyes from the plain face” brought to mind this Gertrude Stein quote from her memoir Picasso:

“A child sees the face of its mother, it sees in it a completely different way than other people see it, I am not speaking of the spirit of the mother but of the features and the whole face, the child sees it from very near, it is a large face for the eyes of a small one, it is certain the child for a little while only sees a part of the face of its mother, it knows one feature and not another, one side and not the other, and in his way Picasso knows faces as a child knows them and the head and the body. He was then commencing to try to express this consciousness and the struggle was appalling because, with the exception of some African sculpture, no one had ever tried to express things seen not as one knows them but as they are when one sees them without remembering having looked at them.”

Thanks for posting that – and yes, the experts’ reactions to her in-character deadpan delivery is what makes it funny! “That’s no laughing matter, we’re talking about people’s lives here.”