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Started by ming, 09 January, 2012, 11:00:01 AM

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Tiplodocus

Just been watching HOUSE as it's great to

a) a Whodunnit but the disease is the killer and
b) see Hugh Laurie killing every line he gets

when I realised that his best friend Doctor (that he keeps interrupting and dragging out for a chat) is named Watson.

And anouther name for House is Home.

Home and Watson.

Holmes and Watson.

And I guess the junior doctors are his Baker STreet Irrascibles or whatever they were called - running off and doing errands for him.
Be excellent to each other. And party on!

Arkwright99

Quote from: Tiplodocus on 06 November, 2015, 01:28:14 PM
when I realised that his best friend Doctor (that he keeps interrupting and dragging out for a chat) is named Watson.
His friend's name is Wilson, but House's address is 221 Baker Street (and he's an addict) so you're essentially correct.  :)
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TordelBack

Yup, House is fairly explicitly a version of Holmes. Great series, amazing central performance. Accidentally flicking between House and Blackadder III or IV can lead to mental collapse.

Tjm86

This week's Droid life ....

Sorry, this one got me.  I just know I'm going to be going with the forehead slap when it finally clicks but at the moment 'I got nuthin!'

Dandontdare

instead of a 3riller, it's a 3-roller.

Okay, it's not one of the best.

Echidna

That's... pretty tenous. I don't feel so bad about not getting it now!

Here's one: I haven't read Dinosty yet, but whenever I see the name I read it as Dino-sty, like pig sty. I only recently realised it's Dino-stee, like Dynasty...

Tiplodocus

Quote from: Tordelback on 06 November, 2015, 02:26:32 PM
Yup, House is fairly explicitly a version of Holmes. Great series, amazing central performance. Accidentally flicking between House and Blackadder III or IV can lead to mental collapse.

Yeah, it was the explicit nature of it that hadn't twigged with me before - just about any 'tec with a tic show is riffing of Holmes but this glaringly obvious "It's exactly the bloody same except with diseases" had somehow passed me by.

Apocryphal or not but I have it in my head that
a) Laurie never told the producers he wasn't american and
b) when he had a novel published, he submitted it under a psuedonym so he couldn't be accused of riding the coat tails of his celebrity. 
If true, "What a guy!"
Be excellent to each other. And party on!

Jim_Campbell

Quote from: Tiplodocus on 09 November, 2015, 12:25:26 PM
Yeah, it was the explicit nature of it that hadn't twigged with me before - just about any 'tec with a tic show is riffing of Holmes but this glaringly obvious "It's exactly the bloody same except with diseases" had somehow passed me by.

I was particularly amused by Laurie's surprise that he was the lead character — he said that the show was untitled when he was sent a script to read and thought it was clearly about the kindly Dr Wilson and that House was his asshole side-kick.

Cheers!

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Tjm86

Quote from: Dandontdare on 08 November, 2015, 09:01:45 PM
instead of a 3riller, it's a 3-roller.

Okay, it's not one of the best.

Said it would be a head slapper!  I'm with Echidna on that one ....

ming

This may have been covered in another thread dealing with 2000AD-related linguistics, but hey.

Listening (with great enjoyment) to a bunch of Thrill-Casts lately, I heard Ma.. er, Tharg refer to SQUAXX and he pronounced it SK-WAX.  To me this has always, always been SK-WOX and it has shaken me to my core to hear TMO refer to it otherwise.  Is there some kind of support group to help me through this?

I, Cosh

Quote from: ming on 18 November, 2015, 01:13:56 PM
Listening (with great enjoyment) to a bunch of Thrill-Casts lately, I heard Ma.. er, Tharg refer to SQUAXX and he pronounced it SK-WAX.  To me this has always, always been SK-WOX and it has shaken me to my core to hear TMO refer to it otherwise.  Is there some kind of support group to help me through this?
You are right and Tharg is wrong. Simple as that.
We never really die.

TordelBack

I know it's buried in this thread somewhere already,  but this week's Bad Company reminded me of one I missed to years: The Diary of Danny Franks...

Cyber-Matt

Quote from: The Cosh on 18 November, 2015, 01:32:41 PM
Quote from: ming on 18 November, 2015, 01:13:56 PM
Listening (with great enjoyment) to a bunch of Thrill-Casts lately, I heard Ma.. er, Tharg refer to SQUAXX and he pronounced it SK-WAX.  To me this has always, always been SK-WOX and it has shaken me to my core to hear TMO refer to it otherwise.  Is there some kind of support group to help me through this?
You are right and Tharg is wrong. Simple as that.

So presumably you pronounce Tharg's home planet as KWOX-ANN?

I, Cosh

Quote from: Cyber-Matt on 18 November, 2015, 06:04:24 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 18 November, 2015, 01:32:41 PM
Quote from: ming on 18 November, 2015, 01:13:56 PM
Listening (with great enjoyment) to a bunch of Thrill-Casts lately, I heard Ma.. er, Tharg refer to SQUAXX and he pronounced it SK-WAX.  To me this has always, always been SK-WOX and it has shaken me to my core to hear TMO refer to it otherwise.  Is there some kind of support group to help me through this?
You are right and Tharg is wrong. Simple as that.
So presumably you pronounce Tharg's home planet as KWOX-ANN?
Ha! I genuinely do. Wouldn't have occurred to me there could be another way.
We never really die.

ming

Quote from: The Cosh on 18 November, 2015, 06:10:13 PM
Quote from: Cyber-Matt on 18 November, 2015, 06:04:24 PM
Quote from: The Cosh on 18 November, 2015, 01:32:41 PM
Quote from: ming on 18 November, 2015, 01:13:56 PM
Listening (with great enjoyment) to a bunch of Thrill-Casts lately, I heard Ma.. er, Tharg refer to SQUAXX and he pronounced it SK-WAX.  To me this has always, always been SK-WOX and it has shaken me to my core to hear TMO refer to it otherwise.  Is there some kind of support group to help me through this?
You are right and Tharg is wrong. Simple as that.
So presumably you pronounce Tharg's home planet as KWOX-ANN?
Ha! I genuinely do. Wouldn't have occurred to me there could be another way.

Me too. Since 1970-whatever-it-was.  I can't change now.