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which_chickSometimes, after a very long time, a thing is revealed to me that makes something I knew before EVEN MORE FUN than it was the first time around.
Like, for example, in the Pratchett novel "Soul Music", Imp y Celyn (Welsh for "Bud of the Holly", which is in itself delightful) won an award at a music festival in Llamedos (Sod 'em all backwards) called the eisteddfod. An eisteddfod is a real Welsh thing, a contest for poets and harpists. I did not know about eisteddfods when I read the book (the first time) and it was a small delight when I discovered, some time later, that eisteddfods were A Real Thing and not just a made-up funny-sounding pretend Welsh word.
(If you read enough Pratchett, you eventually get to the point to where if you think it's made-up, you check google first. A lot of the "sounds made-up" stuff is real. I think this is one of the more charming things about Pratchett books.)
Long ago, in history back, I read a webcomic called Megatokyo. Setting aside for a moment whether or not it was a good webcomic, let's accept into the record that I read it. I just did. There was a time and a place for webcomic reading and I was in that time and in that place and perhaps not all of my choices were justifiable. BUT ANYWAY. There was a particular comic, which was this one, the "Speak L33T" one. It was, at the time, kind of charming (and also twenty damn years ago, jesus fuck how did I get this old?) and I have fondly remembered it all this time.
At the time, my lived experience did not include the movie Airplane and therefore I enjoyed Speak L33T entirely unaware that it was a l33tsp34k riff of this scene. At some point between then and now, I managed to watch Airplane and yet still I didn't hook up "Speak Jive" with "Speak L33T". It didn't trigger any neurons in what is apparently my not-very-functional brain.
But today I ran into a link on /r/wallstreetbets of June Cleaver actress Barbara Billingsley talking about her role as "I speak Jive" on Airplane. Finally, the pieces clicked into place. And that was a small delight to my day.
Like, for example, in the Pratchett novel "Soul Music", Imp y Celyn (Welsh for "Bud of the Holly", which is in itself delightful) won an award at a music festival in Llamedos (Sod 'em all backwards) called the eisteddfod. An eisteddfod is a real Welsh thing, a contest for poets and harpists. I did not know about eisteddfods when I read the book (the first time) and it was a small delight when I discovered, some time later, that eisteddfods were A Real Thing and not just a made-up funny-sounding pretend Welsh word.
(If you read enough Pratchett, you eventually get to the point to where if you think it's made-up, you check google first. A lot of the "sounds made-up" stuff is real. I think this is one of the more charming things about Pratchett books.)
Long ago, in history back, I read a webcomic called Megatokyo. Setting aside for a moment whether or not it was a good webcomic, let's accept into the record that I read it. I just did. There was a time and a place for webcomic reading and I was in that time and in that place and perhaps not all of my choices were justifiable. BUT ANYWAY. There was a particular comic, which was this one, the "Speak L33T" one. It was, at the time, kind of charming (and also twenty damn years ago, jesus fuck how did I get this old?) and I have fondly remembered it all this time.
At the time, my lived experience did not include the movie Airplane and therefore I enjoyed Speak L33T entirely unaware that it was a l33tsp34k riff of this scene. At some point between then and now, I managed to watch Airplane and yet still I didn't hook up "Speak Jive" with "Speak L33T". It didn't trigger any neurons in what is apparently my not-very-functional brain.
But today I ran into a link on /r/wallstreetbets of June Cleaver actress Barbara Billingsley talking about her role as "I speak Jive" on Airplane. Finally, the pieces clicked into place. And that was a small delight to my day.
