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Re: The Legend of the Octopus
« Reply #15 on: March 11, 2007, 10:37:03 am »
Milan is hell of cute.

Weird words for a hockey thread.
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Re: The Legend of the Octopus
« Reply #16 on: March 11, 2007, 02:31:48 pm »
My brother and I always call Milan Hejduk "Heydude". Try it next time you watch the Avs - it's fun!

Also, I do not want to get into why I do not like Forsberg. Many of my favorite people here at work like Forsberg, and it inevitably causes friction when we discuss it. It falls under the politics and religion rule now. See, I can learn from my experiences.
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Re: The Legend of the Octopus
« Reply #17 on: March 11, 2007, 09:01:52 pm »
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My brother and I always call Milan Hejduk "Heydude".

Yippie-kai-ai-yay.

Yippie-kai-ai-WHAT?
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Re: The Legend of the Octopus
« Reply #18 on: March 11, 2007, 11:18:49 pm »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on March 11, 2007, 09:01:52 pm
Yippie-kai-ai-yay.

Yippie-kai-ai-WHAT?

I don't know what this means. Is it from a film? Is it Die Hard?
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Re: The Legend of the Octopus
« Reply #19 on: March 11, 2007, 11:25:17 pm »
Quote from: Nabubrush drinks (a lot) on March 11, 2007, 11:18:49 pm
I don't know what this means. Is it from a film? Is it Die Hard?

It is, I believe, from the Nickelodeon sitcom Hey Dude, which was sort of the less-funny little brother of Salute Your Shorts but still has a place in the psyche of Post-Adolescents Of A Certain Age.
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Re: The Legend of the Octopus
« Reply #20 on: March 11, 2007, 11:33:33 pm »
AN ENTIRE GENERATION OBSESSED WITH SEMI-IRONICALLY REFERENCING CHILDREN'S TELEVISION SHOWS
LEGENDS OF THE HIDDEN TEMPLE! HAHAHA!
SALUTE YOUR SHORTS!
HEY DUDE HAHAHA THAT SHOW WAS SO AWESOME SERIOUSLY!

*pops a cap in his own motherfuck*ng dome*
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Re: The Legend of the Octopus
« Reply #21 on: March 11, 2007, 11:40:17 pm »
Can someone explain how it fits here? And can someone keep the crazy man away from me?
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Re: The Legend of the Octopus
« Reply #22 on: March 11, 2007, 11:52:16 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on March 11, 2007, 11:33:33 pm
AN ENTIRE GENERATION OBSESSED WITH SEMI-IRONICALLY REFERENCING CHILDREN'S TELEVISION SHOWS
LEGENDS OF THE HIDDEN TEMPLE! HAHAHA!
SALUTE YOUR SHORTS!
HEY DUDE HAHAHA THAT SHOW WAS SO AWESOME SERIOUSLY!

*pops a cap in his own motherfuck*ng dome*

Who ever said anything about irony? Every mention of those I've ever heard in conversation was sincere, often reverent, and I'll take it over nostalgia for terrible cartoons of the '80's any time. (C'mon, guys, can we just admit Transformers sucked and move on?)
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Re: The Legend of the Octopus
« Reply #23 on: March 11, 2007, 11:55:22 pm »
Quote from: V-Adore on March 11, 2007, 11:52:16 pm
(C'mon, guys, can we just admit Transformers sucked and move on?)

I've never, ever, ever tried to dispute that being the case! Never got that...
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Re: The Legend of the Octopus
« Reply #24 on: March 12, 2007, 12:01:41 am »
Yeah, I'm with Vee on this one.

I am not ironically referencing "Hey Dude". I am sincerely referencing "Hey Dude".

It wasn't Mamet but... for a show targeted at twelve-year-olds, it was pretty decent. I also had as much of a crush as you can have on the tomboyish brunette as you can have on a person that you know doesn't exist.

(This goes for every attractive tomboy on every show ever.)

And "Salute Your Shorts" was... better than pretty decent, for what it was.

I have pretty much given up on the sort of irony where you are pretending to not like something that you liked when you were younger and are now ashamed of that fact. I'm past that particular bit of self-loathing.

ALF, I love unironically. It was just so weird, it was so of its time and yet not at all, that its still interesting. Maybe in a slightly different way now but I still completely love ALF.

I am still pretty young in the scheme of things but I am too old for the irony of shame.

Now, I definitely still love watching things that are bad and appreciating how bad they are... but it isn't about rejecting things I'm ashamed of liking once upon a time. It is now full-on, just, I am shocked at how unintentionally bad a movie like "The Guardian" is.

Things that are bad "on purpose" I've pretty much always hated. I am Anti-Camp. But I'm sure I've ranted that rant here before and shall spare you.

EDIT: Transformers was pretty terrible in execution as a cartoon, definitely. The thing is... the toys themselves were legitimately cool, at least early on in the run. The idea of a toy car that turns into a toy ***** is pretty unassailably rad. This is why people try and convince themselves that the cartoon was not terrible.
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Re: The Legend of the Octopus
« Reply #25 on: March 12, 2007, 12:04:51 am »
And that has to do with Milan Hejduk how, exactly?
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Re: The Legend of the Octopus
« Reply #26 on: March 12, 2007, 12:12:27 am »
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And that has to do with Milan Hejduk how, exactly?

It was pointed out that "Hejduk" sounds sort of like "Hey Dude".

"Hey Dude" was a show for early teenagers about a dude ranch that is a minor cultural touchstone for suburban white Americans in roughly their middle twenties.

The quote is two lines from its theme song.

The whole thing was laid out pretty well, I thought.
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Re: The Legend of the Octopus
« Reply #27 on: March 12, 2007, 01:35:34 am »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on March 12, 2007, 12:12:27 am
It was pointed out that "Hejduk" sounds sort of like "Hey Dude".

"Hey Dude" was a show for early teenagers about a dude ranch that is a minor cultural touchstone for suburban white Americans in roughly their middle twenties.

The quote is two lines from its theme song.

The whole thing was laid out pretty well, I thought.

But where are the onomatoctopeiae?
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Re: The Legend of the Octopus
« Reply #28 on: March 12, 2007, 01:41:05 am »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on March 12, 2007, 12:12:27 am
It was pointed out that "Hejduk" sounds sort of like "Hey Dude".

"Hey Dude" was a show for early teenagers about a dude ranch that is a minor cultural touchstone for suburban white Americans in roughly their middle twenties.

The quote is two lines from its theme song.

The whole thing was laid out pretty well, I thought.

"Hey Dude . . . and Hey Dude . . . nope, still not seeing a connection."

Jesus, I feel like Homer Simpson. What the fuck is wrong with me today?
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Re: The Legend of the Octopus
« Reply #29 on: March 12, 2007, 01:43:33 am »
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But where are the onomatoctopeiae?

The octopriuses are metaphorical at this point.
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