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I also got an A+ for my 20th Century French Philosophy essay that extensively referenced Alan Moore's "Watchmen". Now "Watchmen" - there's literature.
I'm intrigued - how do you work The Watchmen into French Philosophy?
And somehow this exchange from Clueless came to mind during this thread:
Heather: It's just like Hamlet said, "To thine own self be true."
Cher: Hamlet didn't say that.
Heather: I think I remember Hamlet accurately.
Cher: Well, I remember Mel Gibson accurately, and he didn't say that. That Polonius guy did. -
Homer Simpson: Okay, epiphany, epiphany... oh I know! Bananas are an excellent source of potassium!
[gets slapped]
Homer Simpson: Ow! Uh, America will never embrace soccer.
[gets slapped]
Homer Simpson: More than two shakes and it's playing with yourself? -
Now I have The Seige of Troy McClure in my mind.
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Nothing quite like quoting Homer in an essay at Uni, Homer Simpson that is. Pure joy.
Very, very sadly, the Simpsons did not exist when I was actually studying Homer... or perhaps it's just as well, classics tutors are probably well over Homer Simpson quotations in essays on the Iliad.
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Anything less than an A+ for that would have been an insult.
Consider me very insulted then. But hey, a pass is a pass, especially when I had sat up all night reading 3 of the 5 shakespearian plays that were going to be examined...
Good grief. What's next, Titus Andronicus in terms of the Mad Butcher?
Well the question was "Marx called "Timon of Athens" a searing indictment of capitalism. Discuss".
Luckily Groucho's quip fit the play perfectly.
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Nothing quite like quoting Homer in an essay at Uni, Homer Simpson that is. Pure joy.
And I quoted Groucho in an exam (2nd stage english lit) that wanted Timon of Athens described in terms of Marx. "Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo".
Passed too, somehow.
Andrew there were never threats of violence at my school. Canning might have been outlawed but tennis balls were always handy - not Dunedin either.
This was more the (what's the female equivalent of "avuncular?") friendly warning from the well meaning teacher sort of thing. Although she wasn't to be messed with.
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I've seen Mission Impossible credibly described in terms of the Oedipus myth (Cruise scores Jim Phelps' (his father surrogate) wife).
You could possibly do justice to the Matrix films if you related it to advertising sunglasses...
And I spurned the Grapes of Wrath & wrote about The Saint in Miami in a 5th form exam (mock). I got an A & threats of violence should I try a stunt like that in the real one. I finished the Grapes of Wrath.
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Questions asked of me/my mother/other foreign friends while living in Texas and/or Louisiana:
'So, y'all have Christmas in July?'
It was no better in the UK in the 60s & 70s. Spending a year back there after 4 years in NZ I was asked mostly
"Is it hot?" I ended up getting sick of describing temperate climes not unlike parts of britain & just saying "Yes"
"What's Australia like?" I'd never been there at that point, the disbelief from a class full of people who'd never taken so much as a day trip to Calais was palpable. "A thousand miles from NZ? No way"
They nicknamed me "Abo", and invited me to critically analyse and explain "Waltzing Matilda" in English class. No one believed I'd never seen a "coolibah tree".
Oh, and on first learning we were moving to NZ, my great grandfayther warned my mum that she was used to electricity, and upon hearing we were to live in Lower Hutt, we were asked who would be living in the Upper Hut and were they far away.
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There are a few Redhead Maori out there as well, not sure if that's the Celts influence or what.
Yes, yes it is.
All your foreshore & seabeds are belong to us.
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United Future should be something like... who's a kind of crossover, mildly Christian, shittily average band?
Creed.
James Blunt/Mayer/Morrison