Things that went over your head...

[Frank]

Old hat for many of you I am sure but where is Goaty (and any other forumlings) visible in Dredd?

JOE SOAP's ugly mug can be seen on a billboard at the side of the skedway, Command Forces is part of the on-screen ticker during the news footage of disorder at the start of the film, Radiator is the radiator to which Kay is cuffed, and that bit of squiggly graffiti you can't quite make out says sauchie. Nobody is sure where Goaty was mentioned, and it's never been discussed here.

[Theblazeuk]

Radiator is the radiator to which Kay is cuffed

Surely...

[radiator]

I only realised embarrassingly recently that Kevin Rahm (Mad Men's Ted Chaough) is actually not just a very (very) well-preserved James Spader.

I mean, it's not just me who think that they look uncannily similar is it? (*Googles* apparently not, phew).

[Frank]

Given the shiny suits of the period, he reminded me of Commander Straker from UFO:

[A.Cow]

Was just re-reading Portrait of a Mutant, which features the Kreelers' symbol prominently -- vertical box with an X through.  However, I realised that I don't actually know what the vertical box is supposed to represent.  Presumably mutation but how?



No thermometers?
No hotdogs?
No Nintendo Wiis?

Please could someone put me out of my misery?

[NapalmKev]

Was just re-reading Portrait of a Mutant, which features the Kreelers' symbol prominently -- vertical box with an X through.  However, I realised that I don't actually know what the vertical box is supposed to represent.  Presumably mutation but how?



No thermometers?
No hotdogs?
No Nintendo Wiis?

Please could someone put me out of my misery?

I think it's supposed to represent a strand of Mutant DNA.

Cheers

[Dash Decent]

It's a mutant letterbox.

[Hawkmumbler]

A lot of people in Yorkshire have vertical letterboxes. That explains where all Britain's mutants are then.

[Lobo Baggins]

Was just re-reading Portrait of a Mutant, which features the Kreelers' symbol prominently -- vertical box with an X through.  However, I realised that I don't actually know what the vertical box is supposed to represent.  Presumably mutation but how?



No thermometers?
No hotdogs?
No Nintendo Wiis?

Please could someone put me out of my misery?

Looks a bit like the Norse rune Iar, 'serpent'.

[Lobo Baggins]

Looks a bit like the Norse rune Iar, 'serpent'.

...which is used to represent the dragon Nidhogg, which is also the term used for someone with no honour, the other word for which (Nīþ) became the Old English word nithe, which in modern English is...

Hate.

There you go... either Strontium Dog is much, much deeper than we thought or it's an absolutely massive but nevertheless utterly brilliant coincidence!

[Jacqusie]

At 40 years young, I only just got Adam Ant this year...

*sigh*

[ThryllSeekyr]

Looks a bit like the Norse rune Iar, 'serpent'.

...which is used to represent the dragon Nidhogg, which is also the term used for someone with no honour, the other word for which (Nīþ) became the Old English word nithe, which in modern English is...

Hate.

Have you played the game, you can get it on Steam.

[Lobo Baggins]

Here's one that's still going over my head. Not because of a double-meaning, but because it's only ever been printed and not said out loud. Did the Sovs have Strato-'vees' or Strato-'fives'?

Necroposting somewhat...

I always assumed that the name was a reference to the guitars the Fender Stratocaster and the Gibson Flying V so it's always been 'Strato Vee' for me..

[Dash Decent]

Was just re-reading Portrait of a Mutant, which features the Kreelers' symbol prominently -- vertical box with an X through.  However, I realised that I don't actually know what the vertical box is supposed to represent.  Presumably mutation but how?

Perhaps it's Cyclops from the X-men's visor (= mutant) crossed out (= no mutants) and turned sideways (= please don't sue us, Marvel).

[Fungus]

Here's one that's still going over my head. Not because of a double-meaning, but because it's only ever been printed and not said out loud. Did the Sovs have Strato-'vees' or Strato-'fives'?

Necroposting somewhat...

I always assumed that the name was a reference to the guitars the Fender Stratocaster and the Gibson Flying V so it's always been 'Strato Vee' for me..

Always been "Vee" for me, but hard one to prove without TB Grover on-hand. What slightly punctures this theory is that SATURN V was definitely "5".