References. Or something.

Is it just me, or was that scene with Ian McKellan a parody of the Knights who Say Ni.

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"Yama" wrote in message news:[email]...

You missed the "Trading Places" reference. For shame.

I think it was a My Fair Lady reference as well.

I wasn't sure if that was a "Trading Places" reference, or "My Fair Lady" (or even a combination of both).

Michael

Yama wrote in news:[email]:

I thought it was a reference to the theater superstition that it's bad luck to say the name of The Scottish Play, but maybe it's just me.

Weird Beard wrote:

That play was held at my junior high by a professional Shakespeare troupe. I said "Macbeth" every time I referred to it and no tragedy occurred.

I hadn't known that story. But given that it seems true, likely both The Simpsons and the Monty Python movie are a ference to it, rather than the Python movie being a standalone bit, or that The Simpson's reference it.

I wonder if Rick Miller keeps the superstition with MacHomer? I can't actually say.

Michael

Only a few lines suggested that, but it struck me, too.

"Now I've said it!"

I don't know what it is you don't want me to say because you aren't telling me what it is!

"Michael J. Astrauskas" wrote: