Tries out for Samuel Beckett Play, is cast as Godot
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25 Jokes Only Book Nerds Will Understand. Yes, it's a listsicle. But it's a good listsicle.
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can someone please explain the lime one? and the ice one?
i'm just a scientist
edit: oh, it's amy in little women (sez google). but i still don't get it.
posted by andrewcooke at 5:51 PM on August 3, 2015
i'm just a scientist
edit: oh, it's amy in little women (sez google). but i still don't get it.
posted by andrewcooke at 5:51 PM on August 3, 2015
Argh, this listicle got me all excited thinking the pictures for sad children archive was back up. D:
andrewcooke: I believe the ice one (#18) refers to when, in an attempt to defuse the lynch mob after the man her father is defending in court, Scout brings up the mob leader's legal troubles (in To Kill a Mockingbird).
posted by Quilford at 5:57 PM on August 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
andrewcooke: I believe the ice one (#18) refers to when, in an attempt to defuse the lynch mob after the man her father is defending in court, Scout brings up the mob leader's legal troubles (in To Kill a Mockingbird).
posted by Quilford at 5:57 PM on August 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
A listsicle is like a popsicle, but instead of paying for it you just toss a teensy light-gray attribution vaguely in the ice-cream truck's direction after you've eaten. Later, when the truck stops coming around because the entire frozen-dessert industry has collapsed, you shrug and say their jingle should've been better optimized for viral sharing
posted by RogerB at 5:58 PM on August 3, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by RogerB at 5:58 PM on August 3, 2015 [4 favorites]
In Little Women, there's a passage that relates the tale of how Amy March brings two dozen pickled limes to school as a treat for her friends. One of her classmates (who has been told she won't be getting any limes due to having previously made fun of Amy for her "limeless state") rats her out to the teacher, who has forbidden his students to keep limes in their desks. The teacher then forces Amy to throw the limes out the window and strikes her palm twice with a ruler as well. Amy quits going to that school because of it.
posted by orange swan at 6:00 PM on August 3, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by orange swan at 6:00 PM on August 3, 2015 [2 favorites]
The Murakami one?
Yeah... pretty much. Yeah.
posted by SansPoint at 6:00 PM on August 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
Yeah... pretty much. Yeah.
posted by SansPoint at 6:00 PM on August 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
I like Murakami anyway.
posted by SansPoint at 6:00 PM on August 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by SansPoint at 6:00 PM on August 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
Great, now I want pasta, and to whistle.
posted by the uncomplicated soups of my childhood at 6:03 PM on August 3, 2015
posted by the uncomplicated soups of my childhood at 6:03 PM on August 3, 2015
"Well That Escalated Quickly" made me LOL
posted by DigDoug at 6:03 PM on August 3, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by DigDoug at 6:03 PM on August 3, 2015 [2 favorites]
Explanations:
1. Great Gatsby was a book about the guy they're talking about
2. These things are in Murakami novels
3. It's a song, a popular song on the radio
4. Oedipus fucks his mom; later he blinds himself and it's way gross
5. Ishmael is a character in the novel and he tells you to call him that name
6. Godot is a no-show (or, in French: "Noshot")
7. This stuff is in the book Ulysses
8. David Foster Wallace writes a lot, and sometimes uses graphs
9. The boys in this book get really crazy at each other
10. Post-structuralism is a thing
11. These are subjects Hemingway wrote about
12. These are sentiments expressed in these authors' books
13. It's from Gone With The Wind; he does this stuff
14. the bug is from The Metamorphosis, by Kafka
15. Lime
16. It's a poem about eating plums; that's why she's writing about eating plums
17. she uses dashes, when she is writing
18. To Kill A Mockingbird kid does this
19. that happens to people in HP Lovecraft books
20. this stuff is from Crime And Punishment, he kills a lady
21. The Iliad, the Paris/Helen thing is from that
22. It's a Clockwork Orange, a reference to the book A Clockwork Orange
23. Bartleby says this in the book
24. Jamie Joyce was a weird-ass horndog
25. It's a poem by poe; the words poem and poe sound alike, which is funny
posted by Greg Nog at 6:07 PM on August 3, 2015 [6 favorites]
1. Great Gatsby was a book about the guy they're talking about
2. These things are in Murakami novels
3. It's a song, a popular song on the radio
4. Oedipus fucks his mom; later he blinds himself and it's way gross
5. Ishmael is a character in the novel and he tells you to call him that name
6. Godot is a no-show (or, in French: "Noshot")
7. This stuff is in the book Ulysses
8. David Foster Wallace writes a lot, and sometimes uses graphs
9. The boys in this book get really crazy at each other
10. Post-structuralism is a thing
11. These are subjects Hemingway wrote about
12. These are sentiments expressed in these authors' books
13. It's from Gone With The Wind; he does this stuff
14. the bug is from The Metamorphosis, by Kafka
15. Lime
16. It's a poem about eating plums; that's why she's writing about eating plums
17. she uses dashes, when she is writing
18. To Kill A Mockingbird kid does this
19. that happens to people in HP Lovecraft books
20. this stuff is from Crime And Punishment, he kills a lady
21. The Iliad, the Paris/Helen thing is from that
22. It's a Clockwork Orange, a reference to the book A Clockwork Orange
23. Bartleby says this in the book
24. Jamie Joyce was a weird-ass horndog
25. It's a poem by poe; the words poem and poe sound alike, which is funny
posted by Greg Nog at 6:07 PM on August 3, 2015 [6 favorites]
So anyway, Hark A Vagrant and Tom Gauld are pretty great, also some other stuff.
posted by Artw at 6:08 PM on August 3, 2015
posted by Artw at 6:08 PM on August 3, 2015
The breakdown of Murakami novels omits wells. People spend a lot of time sitting at the bottom of wells in his novels.
posted by misterbee at 6:13 PM on August 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by misterbee at 6:13 PM on August 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
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