"The angle of the dangle......"

I know I shouldn't continue this debate, but......

"The angle of the dangle is inversely proportional to the heat of the ????"

Is it "meat" or "beat"?

I think it's "beat", and here's why:

I think we can all agree that Beavis and Butt-head are both obsessed by the concept of masturbation. Given that, "beat" makes more sense coming out of Beavis' mouth.

"...heat of the meat" would refer to a general level of sexual excitement, but only the "...heat of the beat" refers specifically, and unequivocally to masturbation.

Therefore, I can only conclude that Beavis said: "The angle of the dangle is inversely proportional to the heat of the beat"

I've watched that scene over and over on tape, and it sure sounds like "beat" to me, though I can't say for certain.....but, regardless of what it sounds like, given the argument above, I think "beat" makes more sense.

I also think I've spent WAY too much time on this.....flame away! ;)

• jeff

Jeff Heilner ([email]) wrote:

It's beat.

[...reason deleted...]

I have an Amiga IFF 8SVX sample of Beavis saying the whole thing and you can clearly hear "beat" in it. The "b" sound is very clear.

["It's beat, it's beat, it's beat" deleted]

Ok, ok, uncle, ^X ZZ quit q qu, I give!!!

(I feel like b&b after their run-ins with Thor :)

I just couldn't conceive of an alternative to "meat" I guess.

Jeff Heilner ([email]) wrote:

Wouldn't it make more sense if it was 'directly proportional'?

Kevin

In article [email] writes:

That depends entirely on where the 'angle' is measured from.

Kevin A. Mocklin ([email]) wrote:

No. Think about it.

-Scott

For what it's worth (probably not much) my _vote_ goes to "meat". This _formula_ has been around for many, many years, at least to the late 60's when I was a kid (I guess if I'm posting here I'm probably still a kid) and Judge seems to draw on these "classic" quotes once in a while. I've never heard the word "beat" put into the formula until the topic came up here.

Craig.

I personally vote for 'beat', 'cause that's the way I've always heard it, and I've seen that episode enough to have the song 'Cigarette Dangles' stuck in my head....

In fact, the way I interpreted it was that the 'heat of the beat' refered to how good the song was...

[email] (Jeff Heilner) writes:

I played my tape of the episode through my Sound Blaster card, and recorded it with the highest quality available (44.1 KHz), and then attempted to strip out the background music using what little sound processing tools I have. The result was nothing better than my VCR could achieve. It always sounded like "beat" to me.

Perhaps someone with some better audio handling equipment will strip out the song in the background as much as possible and let us know what Beavis really said. If someone does do this, please put the binary of it somewhere for all to hear...

This whole argument is silly. Just look at Beavis' lower jaw. Does anyone really think that with a face like that, Beavis could possibly pronounce "B" or "M" correctly?

No way. The only difference between "beat" and "meat" is the plosiveness or lack thereof of the initial [b] or [m] phoneme. I stand by my theory that Beavis is incapable of articulating such a phonetic distinction, thus the correct answer can never be known!

I recommend we commission a team of world-renown linguists to research this matter. We may THEN reach some conclusion.

The "Lip Reading Expert" I talked to could not call it one way or another. He said it could be "beat", "meat", "peanut", "evil", ......

Well, I am not a world renown linguist but I have spent about 7 years of my life studying linguistics.

The phoneme [b] differs from the phoneme [m] not only by its plosiveness but also in that the phoneme [m] is a nasal and [b] is not.

Just my $0.02.

Dan

PS These are my thoughts and have no relationship whatsoever with the thoughts of WRI.