The Deep South Capsule Submission

S02E16 The Deep SouthliveApr 16, 2000the same night9 posts by 8 postersalt.tv.futurama
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Again, no review. Also, after watching the episode, a part of my brain keeps saying "Must watch Digimon. WHEE!!!!" (As long as they keep showing ads for the anime program that's up there with, though not as cool as, Pokemon during Futurama, I'm going to make cracks at it.)

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DYN's

the Atlantic Monthly's cover story is "Short Stories By a Clam"?

Refs.

Scrap Happy Daffy -Revolving Cartoon

The Three Stooges -Dr. Zoidburg's Curly impressions

The Little Mermaid -Umbriel --- Ariel

Colonel Sanders -The mermaid colonel

CNN -SeaNN

The Beverly Hillbillies -"Y'all come back now, you hear?"

Comments

Zoidburg's comment about the pirate ship being poisonous is a crack at a regular confusion. In the world, the official symbol for an object that's poisonous is a skull with some crossbones. Sound like something that people remember, right? Wrong. It turns out that the skulls and crossbones symbol is also a symbol for pirates. Thus, some idiot may mistake some that's poisonous as pirate food. To avoid this confusion, another symbol, the Mr. Yuck face, can be used to warn people that an object is poisonous.

Here's a sample of some of the Atlanta items mentioned in the episode.

Ted Turner: Cable television mongul, America's Cup champion, and major owner of Time Warner stock. Turner started his cable television empire in the 1970's when he made WTBS, an Atlanta-based network into the first cable superstation. He later followed that with such networks as CNN, TNT, and Cartoon Network. He is also the owner of the Atlanta Braves baseball team.

Coca-Cola: One of the most popular sodas in the world, the Coca-Cola Company is headquarted in Atlanta.

Hank Aaron: A baseball player for the Atlanta Braves. He has become a legend in the world of Major League Baseball when, during the 1970's, he broke Babe Ruth's home run record.

Joe Klemm

Umbriel is also the name of a moon of Uranus or (Urectum if you like) Pirate Food..... Am I the only one who thinks mankind could benefit from people who make that mistake?

Mike Zaite ICQ:25758172 "Last week I had a dream that I was a bird with a candy bar head. And all the other birds were trying to eat my candy bar head..."-Stanley Spadowski UHF

Deacon wrote in message news:[email]...

Because most of the Uranian moons are named after characters from Shakespeare, the name 'Bottom' (from A Midsummer Night's Dream) was once considered...

Oh crap I forgot about that. What character was Umbriel? Don't remember that one from any play. But here's a webpage that talks about Umbriel http://planetscapes.com/solar/eng/umbriel.htm

Mike Zaite ICQ:25758172 "Last week I had a dream that I was a bird with a candy bar head. And all the other birds were trying to eat my candy bar head..."-Stanley Spadowski UHF

Actually, I think "moon of Uranus" sounds particularly appropriate. . . .<<

That's why the astronomers renamed that planet, to kill that stupid joke once and for all.

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Andrew Levine wrote:

And they replaced it with "Urectum", creating even stupider jokes.

Cameron Rhyne-Patriot, Gamer, and knower of generally useless information. "Is life so dear or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course

On 16 Apr 2000 23:48:32 GMT, [email] (Joe Klemm) wrote:

Reminds me of the French-Canadian urban legend where some guy sees a package labeled `poison' and eats it thinking that it's `poisson' which is the French word for `fish'.

LarryHaynes Leealt.tv.futurama

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 03:43:36 GMT, [email] (Haynes Lee) wrote:

Is that why French becomes a dead language?

--Larry