ImGumbyDamnIt t1_jabjqch wrote on February 28, 2023 at 6:14 AM

Reply to Didn't fear and rescued by M178music

I was waiting for the shake dry at the end r/gifsthatendtoosoon

ImGumbyDamnIt t1_iydcgm7 wrote on November 30, 2022 at 3:47 PM

Reply to comment by LiteratureAway4342 in If you look closely you can see Whoville in the valley | OC | Mt Baker WA | 1284x1605 by michaelfoosh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoville

ImGumbyDamnIt t1_iuc4lwf wrote on October 30, 2022 at 5:02 AM

Reply to comment by Fleaslayer in Songs that tip the hat to earlier songs by ShortBusRide

Fair enough. "Jack be nimble, jack be quick, jack Flash sat on a candle stick" is a reference to the Stones song "Jumping Jack Flash" and "fire's the devil's only friend" is to "Sympathy for the Devil". "Helter Skelter in a summer swelter", Beatles, "Helter Skelter". "Eight miles high and falling fast" is for The Byrds song "Eight Miles High".

ImGumbyDamnIt t1_iuc2dnk wrote on October 30, 2022 at 4:38 AM

Reply to comment by Fleaslayer in Songs that tip the hat to earlier songs by ShortBusRide

The song is full of throwbacks:

"Did you write the book of love?" - Who Wrote the Book OF Love, Monotones 1954

"The jester sang of the King and Queen, in a coat he borrowed from James Dean" - Bob Dylan had a coat from James Dean. The King and Queen were Elvis and Aretha.

"with the jester on the sidelines in a cast" - Dylan had a near fatal motorcycle accident, and he withdrew from the music scene for several years.

The lines about Lennon and the quartet in the park are probably about the Beatles, just like moss growing fat on a Rolling Stone is about the Rolling Stones. The Stones show up later in the Jack Flash and Fire is the Devil's Only Friend lyrics. The girl who sang the blues was Joplin.

ImGumbyDamnIt t1_iu7tfi9 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 5:41 AM

Reply to comment by 1yellowbanana in TIL that Richard Feynman, one of the greatest theoretical physicists ever, was rejected admission to Columbia University because of his Jewish ancestry and instead went to MIT. by icbm67

I see what you did there.

ImGumbyDamnIt t1_it7vzye wrote on October 21, 2022 at 3:59 PM

Reply to comment by Scary-Promise3251 in Why are black people inexistant in the fantasy/sci-fi genre by hater_first

Yup, Hiro Protagonist.

ImGumbyDamnIt t1_it7hmko wrote on October 21, 2022 at 2:22 PM

Reply to comment by hater_first in Why are black people inexistant in the fantasy/sci-fi genre by hater_first

Would cyberpunk count as sci-fi? Raven, the main baddie in Snow Crash, is Aleut. That book is pretty much multiethnic all the way around