Friday, November 23, 2007

Unintended Movie Double Entendres

In the WWII movie Midway, this scene:

An airplane, over the pacific. Shot of two pilots. Pilot looks over towards co-pilot, says in disgust: "Jeez, Johnny, how many of those can you eat?"

A third airman lifts his head between the two pilots where he was kneeling and looks at the questioning pilot sheepishly.

It's the subtle subplots that makes these old movies so interesting (it's not Charlton Heston's acting, that's for sure).

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I continue to be flummoxed by the purported time your posts occur. This one is at 2:56pm while I know you are west of here (DC) in an earlier time zone. It is currently 11:34 am here in DC, so your post won't happen for three more hours. Clicking on the time shows "~14:56:00Z" which makes me suspect something about Zulu as used in military parlance and which I don't understand. So, out of curiosity, why are your posts posted "in advance?"

Anonymous said...

Greenwich time (or Zulu Time, from the military voice code for "Z," which is the letter assigned to that time zone) is often the standard for blogging platforms--which must of necessity work in time zones all across the world. All of my stats on TypePad, for instance, are given in reference to the "Zulu" "day," even though for my blog I've set the posting and comment times to default to the time zone (Zone minus 6, or U.S. Central) in which I'm actually blogging most of the time. It's possible that Scott hasn't customized that part of his template.

Scott said...

I have purposely set my blog time setting to Greenwich time. I have my reasons.

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