pop-cult palimpsests!

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i. one time sistrah becky wz given a boxing nun doll as a wacky xmas present by a chum, and some time later she wz idly pulling it to pieces and under the habit it wz actually MARGARET THATCHER!

ii. i had a very small henry's cat hot water bottle and you could feel the nubbliness of a picture in the rubber of the bottle, and one day i took the cover off to wash it and the rubber picture underneath the cover wz NOTHING TO DO WITH HENRY'S CAT!!

(i cdn't interpret it at all - it wz the hot water rosetta stone!!)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

now post yours!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

This is brilliant but I can't think of anything, sorry.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

On Canal Street in New York I once bought one of those little koala bears that you can clip onto your lapels, but the koala head had been replaced by a plastic Richard Nixon head. Michael Dukakis koala was also available. The lady selling them seemed not to know that anything was unusual about them.

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i like how in "Running With the Night" Lionel puts the accent on the word "the," it's like you can tell it used to have other words

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 14 December 2003 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

in "King Creole," Elvis plays a role originally meant for James Dean, in a story that was to have been about a boxer caught in the web of a greedy fight promoter. Dean crashes car, becomes immortal, and Hollywood hastily rewrites the script for Elvis, changing the boxer character to a New Orleans club singer. it's a wonderful movie. Walter Matthau plays the scary promoter, and it was directed by the same d00d who directed Casablanca!! the sets are great because it was all on-location in New Orleans. and Elvis actually acts really well, he's all into it and stuff. anyway, there's at least one line where somebody says to Elvis "yeah well, ya FIGHT pretty good, but what about [yadayada)?"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 14 December 2003 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/meat_box.jpg

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

in spite of its brevity, this is one of my favourite threads ever.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

I used to know somebody who bought up all the Silver Surfer and Invisible Girl action figures he could find, because they were the easiest to resculpt and repaint into other characters.

That yellowish thing (liver?) makes me want to yack.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

When the film Conan the Barbarian was in production, Mattel bought the rights for a toy line based on the character. When the folks at Mattel realized the film wasn't exactly kids' stuff, the toy designs were altered a bit and they became the basis for... He-Man and the Masters of the Universe!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

I thought this thread was going to be about Umberto Eco's new book!

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

i expect it will be the inspiration for his NEXT book!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 27 June 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

tracer where the hell did you find that thing!?

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 27 June 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

Hot Topic foo

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Monday, 27 June 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

http://www.puttery.com/collectibles/albums/beatles/yesterdaytodaysml.jpg

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Monday, 27 June 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

Holy crap, Tracer.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

every thread should come with that picture

― c/n (Cozen), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

tracer's obv

I can't stop gawking and laughing

― c/n (Cozen), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

I had that Margaret Thatcher boxing nun too.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

it is sinisterly omnipresent

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 27 June 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

For some reason, the title of this thread reminded me of the post on the Womens Fashion thread where someone said that he thought a woman in a total 80s outfit was in fancy dress when she thought she was in the latest fashion.

But possibly not.

― MIS Information (kate), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

no, that's a good one.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

big word, palimpsests.

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

some of these examples are so good that i was reluctant to suggest some more obvious examples but the re-dubbed saturday morning TV version of The Flashing Blade must count here as well as Woody Allen's

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

ahem

Woody Allen's What's Up, Tiger Lily?.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

for one fabulus moment i thought you were referring to a woody allen version of the flashing blade!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

i was hoping the world cup would prompt the local barber to put that little statuette of a fat, jolly england fan in his window again, the one that was obviously Santa in an earlier life...

― koogs, Friday, 23 July 2010 07:05 (fifteen years ago)

fishbulb = homer

want wursthoffer 40telig so bad

lcd "daft punk" = foghat "slow ride"

― a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Friday, 23 July 2010 07:14 (fifteen years ago)

how is the latter an example of a palimpsest? the original still exists.

― sarahel, Friday, 23 July 2010 07:15 (fifteen years ago)

the latter/latter (lcd) reveals traces of the latter/former (the hat}. like you can scrape the former away with a knife and still find traces of what wz written. undrstnd that this is not what OP was getting at but you know.

― a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Friday, 23 July 2010 07:58 (fifteen years ago)

my mind was blown the first time I absent-mindedly tore apart a cheap pen and found a Chinese newspaper underneath.

― Merdeyeux, Friday, 23 July 2010 08:16 (fifteen years ago)

(not entirely sure that pens (or newspapers) constitute pop culture, though.)

― Merdeyeux, Friday, 23 July 2010 08:16 (fifteen years ago)

seven years pass...

this is important!

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/69/5e/74/695e74058f15c6e7beb4253b8c45a056--chocolate-santa-chocolate-bunny.jpg

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 23 December 2017 15:36 (eight years ago)

Awesome, I bow down! Lots of musical examples, like I wasn't surprised to find (especially after singing it at football games and hearing Hendrix Woodstock version-vision) that "The Star-Spangled Banner" is to the tune of an olde English drinking song, "To Anacreon In Heaven."

― dow, Saturday, 23 December 2017 16:48 (eight years ago)

santa claus here is obviously a palimpsest of fudgie the whale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKm43lTXEcg

― bob lefse (rushomancy), Sunday, 24 December 2017 00:08 (eight years ago)

Also: Fudgie The Whale-->Stone The Crows, or vice-versa; either way, now it can be told!

― dow, Sunday, 24 December 2017 01:16 (eight years ago)

I'm not sure if this counts but kinda related at least?

― cwkiii, Sunday, 24 December 2017 01:54 (eight years ago)

eleven months pass...

I came here to post that (Greek orthodox santa?) chocolate rabbit that i posted last year :/

― brokenshire (jed_), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:46 (seven years ago)

five years pass...

new twist on an old favourite

Shocking revelation by my son C—!

So-called Chocolate “Santa Claus”, when you remove the wrapping, is actually Ireland’s St Patrick in disguise!!! #StPatrick #SantaClaus pic.twitter.com/c8f0YKAB8n
— Aidan O’Sullivan (@AidanOSulliva15) December 26, 2023

― koogs, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 15:43 (two years ago)

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