I just love thinking about the scene where Crowley and Aziraphale hit Anathema from Anathema’s point of view. A bickering gay couple (one who’s wearing sunglasses at night) hits her and her bicycle with a car from the 1920s in the middle of the night. The bicycle and her are perfectly fine. The gay couple offer to drive her home, Bicycle Race by Queen is playing. One second her bike has new gears, the next it doesn’t. They drop her off. One calls the bike a “velocipede.” She was so confused by it all she forgot her super special book, poor thing.
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen you come up with some really good ones that
specifically involve the word “walnut”, but I went a few pages through
your blog doing ctrl f to try and find them but the only one I could
find was “fucking walnut”. While that is delightful, it’s slightly less
creative than I remembered/was hoping for. Help? (2/2)
HmmmMMmmmm lets see now. Putting the word “absolute” in front of just about any food is going to be a classic. As is the word “total”.
“You absolute walnut”
“You total cabbage.”
other fun insults you can use without being too mean could include “don’t mind him he’s just woken up. It’ll take another while before his brain arrives.”
“You really are an absolute pillock sometimes.” (A politer way of calling someone a “dick”, originates in the 16th century when it was definitely not considered polite.)
“Watch you don’t trip over those apron stings“ works well if the other brother is younger and implies they are too young to be out adventuring with them and should still be at home with their mam.
“you could start a fight in an empty house”
“don’t worry, he excels at bullshit.”
“you have the emotional depth and maturity of a tea spoon”
“you’re as stealthy as a one man marching band falling down the stairs”
“you’re about as much use as a chocolate tea kettle you are”
“you, a hero? well desperate times call for desperate measures…”
I’m sure there’s others I could think of, but I think I’ll throw it open to the floor 😀
Back in those days, I think I was the only one of all of us who had specific controls and patterns for specific tasks, and it was VERY important to me to keep those things consistent.
These days, most of the screens you see actors interact with are semi-interactive. Usually, they run a flash animation that will change when you click a key, tap the screen, or click the mouse. Some of the more complicated touchscreen ones have hotspots that do different things. So for an actor working with those screens today, the order of operations is very important, because they affect what happens on the screen. For us, it was backlit plexiglass with the occasional blinking light.
But you know what’s cool? The LCARS interface that you see all over the Enterprise D from 30 years ago *clearly* influenced the screens you see on all your favorite science fiction shows, and I love that.
