Re: (TV) The biggest Television fan?

[Emilie T Hsu <emilie.t.hsu@gmail.com>]

Except "water" would be spelled "wooter" and "cheese" spelled "scheeze"?


> On Dec 4, 2013, at 8:40 PM, "Scott Simpson" <SSimpson@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> Kind of like Americans getting Chinese tattoos and have no idea what they
> mean.
> 
> I saw a cute meme about "if Chinese got American tattoos" and it was like
> Chinese millennials walking around with "water" tattooed on their forearm,
> or "cheese."
> 
> But as some point, Grandpa's going to have to 'splain to Skippy why he has a
> Grateful Dead Skullfuck logo tattooed across his biceps.  "Well, junior, at
> the time we smoked a lot of pot....."
> 
> 
> Scott Simpson
> 212 795 2846
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tv-owner@obbard.com [mailto:tv-owner@obbard.com] On Behalf Of Bob
> Beatty
> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 8:30 PM
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: Re: (TV) The biggest Television fan?
> 
> Right Phil, one would think someone going to all the trouble of having a "M
> arquee Moon" tattoo inscribed on their arm might also have been interested
> enough in the subject to have acquired a slightly better store of knowledge
> about the album & band than that guy apparently possesses.
> 
> However, I
> 'll recount a similar example. I once spoke with a guy who had Jimmy Page's
> symbol tattooed on his arm, the one that reads something like "ZoSo". The
> only thing he said he knew about it, besides that it was Page's, was that h
> e'd been told the symbol was originally Jimi Hendrix's but that upon Jimi's
> death had, in some mysterious way,  been passed on to Jimmy Page as the next
> worthy bearer of the symbol (oo-ee-oo. An obviously fanciful, bogus st ory).
> Actually, the symbol can pretty easily be traced to some of Page's oc
> cultism studies he was involved in, but the guy with the tattoo had no clue
> about that or it's meaning. Oddly, it seems getting a tattoo doesn't neces
> sarily imply the tattooed one knows very much about what their tattoo repre
> sents! 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, December 4, 2013 3:18:53 PM, Phil Ob bard <pobbard@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> That's amazing. But if he's such a bi
> g fan, why does he (twice) write that
> Television broke up (for the first
> time) in 1979?
> 
> Then again, he calls
> the Rhino reissue of MARQUEE MO
> ON "recent" so perhaps dates aren't his thi ng. :)
> 
> --Phil
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, December 4, 2013 2:50 AM, le if joley <leifjoley@hotm ail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> I remember that Danish filmma
> ker Lars von Trier's c
> ompany Zentropa once,
> during a downsizing period,
> had the employees t
> o choose whether they want
> ed to be fired or keep the
> job -- and the c
> ondition for the latter option w
> as that they had to tatt
> oo the compan
> y's logotype on their buttocks. 
> 
> This may be a very good
> way to get
> to know how dedicated people are. Then -
> - how about this? 
> 
> 
> http
> ://andrew-stafford.blogspot.cz/2013/11/guiding-lights.html
> 
> Shou
> ldn'
> t we all be in awe? 
> 
> Leif J, Prague
> 
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