View Full Version : Blinky. Ohhhhh BLINKY!!!!
gonefishin
02-21-2005, 12:36 PM
Did you see the new simpsons last night? I had no idea you were that big!!!
Timmain42
02-21-2005, 1:45 PM
ROFL I thought of Blinky too when that fish came on... the Missus came in from the kitchen to ask "Who the h**l is 'Blinky?'"
gonefishin
02-21-2005, 1:59 PM
I get a kind of elitist feeling from my friends here at AC
Timmain42
02-21-2005, 2:45 PM
How's that?
gonefishin
02-21-2005, 4:19 PM
cuz you can say "blinky" and I can say "blinky", and no one has any clue but us. Your wife didn't know what you were talking about, but i did....
Timmain42
02-21-2005, 4:31 PM
At our house, we refer to that as a "CLR," or common language reference. It's the kind of concept that has infiltrated our society and led to MovieSpeak and GuySpeak.
Fer instance, if we were watching two people discover something nasty about each other, I might say "Luke, I am you father!" You would know exactly what I meant, without having to get into the details of what I am talking about.
It's sad, and it only works if the other people around you have read/seen/experienced the same material, but when it works... it's AWESOME! I have a whole group of HeinlienSpeakers and ScifiSpeakers I deal with, and we almost always start off conversations with a reference to something we've all read.
Harlock
02-21-2005, 5:10 PM
At our house, we refer to that as a "CLR," or common language reference. It's the kind of concept that has infiltrated our society and led to MovieSpeak and GuySpeak.
Fer instance, if we were watching two people discover something nasty about each other, I might say "Luke, I am you father!" You would know exactly what I meant, without having to get into the details of what I am talking about.
It's sad, and it only works if the other people around you have read/seen/experienced the same material, but when it works... it's AWESOME! I have a whole group of HeinlienSpeakers and ScifiSpeakers I deal with, and we almost always start off conversations with a reference to something we've all read.I grok that.
Maj0rFiSh
02-21-2005, 5:19 PM
"Blinky. Ohhhhh BLINKY!!!!"
I wondered what this thread was going to be about at first.... :o
gonefishin
02-21-2005, 6:24 PM
Major, did you get it? On the simpsons last night they showed blinky. Not the AC member but the 3 eyed fish in blinky's avitar (from the simpsons). There was a........um....growth on said fish that I'm assuming was caused by Mr. Burns' carless dumping of "Radioactive" waste.
Maj0rFiSh
02-21-2005, 6:31 PM
Rofl, is it a new series?
gonefishin
02-21-2005, 8:21 PM
yes the "epic 16th" as they're calling it. I can't believe I was only 7 when it started. I've seen some re-runs from the early season and I think.... I bet I didn't even catch that joke when I was 7 or 8 or whatever. Lotsa subliminal humor.
I grok that.What the stondat is that?