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aprilstarchild) wrote2005-06-28 09:39 pm
aprilstarchild) wrote2005-06-28 09:39 pm
Post of substance? Pssht.
Yay! Fun meme!
List 5 reasons why you are a dork. And make them good reasons. Justify them. Explain them. Be loud and proud about how big of a dork you are!
1. When I was in junior/senior year, I was a huge Beatlemaniac. As Dave Barry once said, "There is a fine line between hobby and mental illness." If you think my LOTR and HP fandoms are interesting, they're not half as obsessive as my Beatles fannishness was. Good GODS. Some college kid had put gobs of scans of pictures of them online, and at the same time I was addicted to an HTML-based chat room (which, in retrospect, was basically a rolling guestbook). We were allowed to post pictures, both next to our name and in the text of our messages. I had half the URLs of the pictures memorized, both in thumbnail and full-sized versions. I had the dialogue to A Hard Day's Night, Help!, and Yellow Submarine, pretty much memorized--I can still do the intro train scene of A Hard Day's Night.
Who's he?
That's my grandfather.
That's not your grandfather.
He is, you know.
But I've seen your grandfather, he lives in your house.
This is my other one.
How's that?
Well, everyone's entitled to two aren't they, and this is my other one.
.....
He's a nice old man isn't he?
He's very clean.
Oh, don't get me started, I'll start reciting random bits of all of'em ("It won't work you know. I'm allergic to penicillin and all them other wonder drugs." Just---don't ask.)
I bought the VHS 8-tape anthology on layaway with babysitting money and watched the whole thing (ten hours) in one sitting, not even stopping to rewind. Oy vey.
2!! ARRR! I'm a bonnie pirate on select weekends of the year. And come to think of it, very few of us pull that "arrr" crap, except jokingly.
3. I've read historical nonfiction for fun. About Puritans, no less. And it wasn't the kind meant to be entertaining, either.
4. Surely, knitting and spinning are slightly dorky, although less so all the time these days.
5. I asked Tyson, and his answer was, "If you didn't have to sleep or work you'd never leave your LiveJournal." So, so true. It's sad.
List 5 reasons why you are a dork. And make them good reasons. Justify them. Explain them. Be loud and proud about how big of a dork you are!
1. When I was in junior/senior year, I was a huge Beatlemaniac. As Dave Barry once said, "There is a fine line between hobby and mental illness." If you think my LOTR and HP fandoms are interesting, they're not half as obsessive as my Beatles fannishness was. Good GODS. Some college kid had put gobs of scans of pictures of them online, and at the same time I was addicted to an HTML-based chat room (which, in retrospect, was basically a rolling guestbook). We were allowed to post pictures, both next to our name and in the text of our messages. I had half the URLs of the pictures memorized, both in thumbnail and full-sized versions. I had the dialogue to A Hard Day's Night, Help!, and Yellow Submarine, pretty much memorized--I can still do the intro train scene of A Hard Day's Night.
Who's he?
That's my grandfather.
That's not your grandfather.
He is, you know.
But I've seen your grandfather, he lives in your house.
This is my other one.
How's that?
Well, everyone's entitled to two aren't they, and this is my other one.
.....
He's a nice old man isn't he?
He's very clean.
Oh, don't get me started, I'll start reciting random bits of all of'em ("It won't work you know. I'm allergic to penicillin and all them other wonder drugs." Just---don't ask.)
I bought the VHS 8-tape anthology on layaway with babysitting money and watched the whole thing (ten hours) in one sitting, not even stopping to rewind. Oy vey.
2!! ARRR! I'm a bonnie pirate on select weekends of the year. And come to think of it, very few of us pull that "arrr" crap, except jokingly.
3. I've read historical nonfiction for fun. About Puritans, no less. And it wasn't the kind meant to be entertaining, either.
4. Surely, knitting and spinning are slightly dorky, although less so all the time these days.
5. I asked Tyson, and his answer was, "If you didn't have to sleep or work you'd never leave your LiveJournal." So, so true. It's sad.
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"Let me peruse it."
*shocking noises*
"What do you think?"
"I think it burnt me finger."
I could never make up my mind if I liked George or John better. But dangit, Paul was soooo cute!!
I had a cardboard thingie for when the anthology was out, and I used to tie scarves etc around their heads in various amusing ways, which really seemed to spook my mom. But it was sooo much fun to put a pink bow on Paul's head and make Ringo look like a pirate! Dang, I wish I had taken pictures.
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i have a very fine theory about the mauraders from hp being based on the beatles, what say you? look, i will lazily cut and paste from my lj ages ago:
Oh my fuckin god. The Marauders are totally The Beatles. Holy fuck. Holy fuck. Is this like common knowledge??? Think White Album era. So many fucking songs about animals leads to the obvious animagus connection. It all comes together perfectly. This is what I would call INTERTEXTUALITY.
John Lennon is James Potter. Even the letters of their last names are parallel. Glasses. Assassinated.
George Harrison is Remus Lupin. Canine incisors and progressively rattier-looking but still smoking-hot and bookish.
Paul McCartney is Sirius, I guess. Mischievous and innocent before being sent to prison (ok, this one is less obvious). Lennon/Potter’s main songwriting partner/best man at wedding.
And Ringo / Wormtail are the outsiders trying to fit in?
heh heh...
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Hm. Mauraders vs. Beatles. JKR is British. *giggle*
Did you ever see the photos of the hobbit actors crossing Abbey Rd? They'd even worn the same clothes and posed the same way. I think my head exploded. As did a lot of other peoples'. "OMG! Fandom crossover!" One person I noticed, did a very good job of photoshopping the four of them onto the Let It Be cover. I almost dang fainted.
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Gawd, I'm trying to remember the scene in A Hard Day's Night where they make fun of poor Ringo's nose.
Now, don't mock the afflicted.
Aw, I was just having a little fun.
But it's not his fault he's got a hideous gray hooser. And that poor little head tremblin' under the weight of it.
OMG, I'm so cracking up. Even though I know I have some of that bit wrong.
I used to be the Queen of Beatles Trivia.
When I got the cardboard thingie, the person at the store wanted me to tell him who the fifth beatle was. I said, "which one?!?" and he said, "any." I started listing: Stu Sutcliffe, Pete Best, George Martin, Brian Epstein, WHICH ONE!?! He laughed and let me have the display.