Poet's Corner

[Bird of Prey]

Fred,


I'll do what I can. Maybe we can have more fun with this.


Klingon - way too much to cover in one post. Suggest you try the Klingon Language Institute. I believe their latest project is the Bible translated into Klingon. I understand Hamlet went over quite well.


Joe Bob Briggs was (is?) a newspaper columnist that becaime famous for reviwing "B" movies (Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, etc.). He typically commented on the number of dead bodies, number of visible unclothed female breasts, various martial arts fighting styles (all given the generic Fu as the last word, and so forth. Anything excessive was referred to as "gratuitous".
He also was notorious for referring to on screen sex as "making the sign of the triple gilled attack weasel" wherein the beast referenced would often change but be equally as ludicrous as triple gilled attack weasel. For more information than you might care to know...the phase is an adaptation of Shakespeare's "making the sign of the beast with two backs" reference to sexual intercourse.
I always enjoyed his "reviews" and on occasion even enjoyed the movie as well.


Orcs - the invention of J.R.R. Tolkien. The footsoldiers of the Bad Guy's army. They are fully explained in the books and the movie. They are most unplesant creatures and I would perfer you learn about them from the books or the movie. If you wish I can provide a simplified version in another post.


So to translate my previous message...

Zero Breasts = No unclothed female breasts are present in this film.
Gratuitous Orcs = Lots and lots of them running around.
Bow and arrer Fu = people die by being shot with bow and arrow
Sword Fu = people die by the sword

Hope that helped.

Grub - a post that occurs on a significant event(?) on a particular thread of message board. Example post number 1000.
Some users have turned this into a game.
Some of the events are;

Post numbers ending in 99, 00 or 01.
double or triple repeated digits in the post number, 111, 222, 3344 for example.
consecutive numbers in a post 1234 or 5678.
Palindromes 2112, 5335, etc.

For more info on grubs you'd have to ask Bob, JXM, or Chas. They are the resident experts at this game.

Qapla'




The Bird of Prey