cujo006's Rebuttal to JP Holding Re: Jephthah

[moreta]

You guys are still messing with Inspector Clouseau?

Please don't insult the dear Inspector (CHIEF Inspector!) like that. He may have been clueless but he had dignity.






(Big fan here. )

[lilpixieofterror]

Please don't insult the dear Inspector (CHIEF Inspector!) like that. He may have been clueless but he had dignity.

(Big fan here. )

I was watching The Pink Panther the day I posted that, so it was on my mind.

[moreta]

Peter Sellars, I hope. Steve Martin was ok, but I lean toward the original in just about everything.

[lilpixieofterror]

Peter Sellars, I hope. Steve Martin was ok, but I lean toward the original in just about everything.

It was the Steve Martin version, but I've seen the Peter Sellars version and he is quite good too. I just find SarahB's bumbling buffoonery and attempts to sound serious while doing it to be rather amusing and reminds me a bit of our dear chief inspector. Plus, he is a fictional character that is designed to make us laugh, when you have many of the same characteristics of an obvious caricature, you know there is a problem.

[moreta]

You're right, of course, about the bumbling, but I feel like there's a deliberate viciousness in SarahB. Where our Inspector Clouseau is clueless about just about everything, I get a sense of malice aforethought in her comments. Although I'm beginning to wonder if someone should put a penny on her head, I think her needle's stuck.

[lilpixieofterror]

You're right, of course, about the bumbling, but I feel like there's a deliberate viciousness in SarahB. Where our Inspector Clouseau is clueless about just about everything, I get a sense of malice aforethought in her comments. Although I'm beginning to wonder if someone should put a penny on her head, I think her needle's stuck.

Yeah, that much is true. At least Inspector Clouseau wasn't vicious, but I know that Peter Sellars said he had a rather large ego and remembered that whenever he played the part.

[moreta]

That does it. I'm going to have to pop some popcorn and have myself a Clouseau fest. Maybe even a Peter Sellars fest.

[lilpixieofterror]

That does it. I'm going to have to pop some popcorn and have myself a Clouseau fest. Maybe even a Peter Sellars fest.

My mother in law is a big fan, perhaps when I get home maybe I could do that myself (I'm also a huge fan of parodies and humorous films).

[One Bad Pig]

Although I'm beginning to wonder if someone should put a penny on her head, I think her needle's stuck.

A whole lotta people aren't going to understand this reference these days.

[Manwë Súlimo]

A whole lotta people aren't going to understand this reference these days.

Its what you do to your iPod when it freezes, right?

[Chrawnus]

Its what you do to your iPod when it freezes, right?

What were you doing with an iPod in the first place?

[moreta]

Well, I have one so I can take pictures and video of my grandson and easily send them to my daughter and grand daughter. They have an ipod too. The facetime app is pretty cool too since they live in PA.

[moreta]

A whole lotta people aren't going to understand this reference these days.

I know. Kinda like rolling the car window down. Although there is a subculture of people that go for vinyl. Mostly in the big cities I think.

[Adrift]

I know. Kinda like rolling the car window down. Although there is a subculture of people that go for vinyl. Mostly in the big cities I think.

Big cities are where you find the vinyl, but a lot of collectors are out in the middle of nowhere. If you ask me, the vinyl collecting subculture is a holdover from the punk scene that never really abandoned the medium. I worked in an old hippy vinyl record shop in the early 90s, but he sold mostly stuff from the 60s and 70s, and made more money on record shows than in the shop, but friends of mine in punk bands around the same time were pressing new (usually colored) vinyl all the time, and you could always get your hands on it at local punk shows. It was cheap to make a 7" and it looked cool.

Somehow the punk rock vinyl holdover worked itself into the mainstream world, and by the mid-90s, when I started working at a big time corporate record shop that sold mostly tapes and cds, they were selling the occasional vinyl record album as a collectors edition for whatever hip band was pushing it. Fast-forward 20 years (jeez, has it been that long?) and the combination of vintage nostalgia, the punk holdover, and the idea of getting a material item from your favorite band in your hands (as opposed to a digital download) is whats really pushing the market, and its growing too.

Man, that was completely off topic, but its a topic I like so...

Here's a smattering of some of the color vinyl I own taken with a crummy camera a while back.



The one that looks black is actually dark red

[lilpixieofterror]

I know. Kinda like rolling the car window down. Although there is a subculture of people that go for vinyl. Mostly in the big cities I think.

I admit that I didn't get the reference at first either, until you guys mentioned the record thing and I do remember my dad doing that to a record player we had now I think about it.