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tealinI have been sadly remiss in reading Get Fuzzy ... I just stumbled across this:
http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/getfuzzy-20050116.html
NPR humour! In a comic strip!!
Some people have to wait till 5 for All Things Considered? That ... is sad.
2:31 pm
To the southwest - multi-armed Zanzibanian short women, and their exploding wigs of death!
7:07 pm – A Tangled Web
Prologue: I first watched Muppet Treasure Island when I was about sixteen or so, and subsequently watched it many, many times. Because of this movie, I cannot picture Long John Silver as anyone but Tim Curry, and for a very long time I was unable to picture Tim Curry as anyone but Long John. Even now, it's only his voice that can be separated from the one-legged pirate cook in my mind, not his actual appearance.
Mr. Curry has more recently infiltrared my brain as the inimitable narrator of the Lemony Snicket books on tape. He is fantastic. He is awesome. But that's not what this is about. This is about the voice he uses for Captain Widdershins on The Grim Grotto. Understandably, he uses a Scottish accent for him, but this had the side effect of making him sound uncannily like Billy Connolly's excellent Uncle Monty from the movie.
Today, while doing dishes, I watched Muppet Treasure Island for the first time in a long time, and realized that it's not Billy Connolly's Uncle Monty that Widdershins sounds like ... it's Mr. Connolly's Billy Bones. Billy Bones, who warns the young protagonist(s) to beware Long John Silver, who IS Tim Curry. And so we close the extremely trivial and subjective circle.
I stand my ground: Tim Curry should have played Olaf.
http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/getfuzzy-20050116.html
NPR humour! In a comic strip!!
Some people have to wait till 5 for All Things Considered? That ... is sad.
2:31 pm
To the southwest - multi-armed Zanzibanian short women, and their exploding wigs of death!
7:07 pm – A Tangled Web
Prologue: I first watched Muppet Treasure Island when I was about sixteen or so, and subsequently watched it many, many times. Because of this movie, I cannot picture Long John Silver as anyone but Tim Curry, and for a very long time I was unable to picture Tim Curry as anyone but Long John. Even now, it's only his voice that can be separated from the one-legged pirate cook in my mind, not his actual appearance.
Mr. Curry has more recently infiltrared my brain as the inimitable narrator of the Lemony Snicket books on tape. He is fantastic. He is awesome. But that's not what this is about. This is about the voice he uses for Captain Widdershins on The Grim Grotto. Understandably, he uses a Scottish accent for him, but this had the side effect of making him sound uncannily like Billy Connolly's excellent Uncle Monty from the movie.
Today, while doing dishes, I watched Muppet Treasure Island for the first time in a long time, and realized that it's not Billy Connolly's Uncle Monty that Widdershins sounds like ... it's Mr. Connolly's Billy Bones. Billy Bones, who warns the young protagonist(s) to beware Long John Silver, who IS Tim Curry. And so we close the extremely trivial and subjective circle.
I stand my ground: Tim Curry should have played Olaf.
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Date: 2005-02-01 07:36 am (UTC)Zonker? Is that what the kids are calling him now? I'm assuming this is the person who's famous for talking to trees, and generally being mad, and also being named George?
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Date: 2005-02-01 03:14 pm (UTC)Zonker? Are you ignorant of the great sunkissed one?
http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/thecast/zonker.html