A little while ago, I was minding my own business, futzing on the computer when Laszlo pops in from the other room.
"That guy you like from 'Law & Order' is playing the bad guy in the Buck Rogers' episode that's on right now," Laszlo says.
"Which guy?"
"The one who died."
"Jerry Orbach? On Buck Rogers?"
"Yeah, him. You've got to see this red shiny costume he's in."
I laugh and follow Laszlo back into the other room just to get a quick peek at that. The scene, though, has changed to a scene that has just the robot and Buck in it, talking.
"Oh, god, I vaguely remember that robot," I said. "Is that a floodlight embedded in his stomach?"
"His name is Tweekie."
"The robot?"
"Yes."
I chuckle. "This was so written in the '80s, wasn't it?"
Laszlo nods. As the Tweekie/Buck scene seems to be going on endlessly here, Laszlo starts to get a little irked. "Come on! Go back to Jerry Orbach in the red shiny outfit!" he yells at the TV.
"Is his red shiny thing worse than that red velour thing Buck Rogers has got on right now?"
Laszlo affirms that it is. Then, he says, "He's playing the evil music producer of a band that is sending music waves out that are making all the teenagers in the universe violent."
"Oh, my god. A juvenile delinquent theme yet!" I say, cracking up. "Do the kids on this one all start go-go dancing and riding flying motorcycles like in that old 'Lost in Space' episode?"
Just then, a new character enters in the scene -- a blonde tart in what looks like a futuristic twist on a green felt Robin Hood outfit -- if you can picture that.
"That's the music producer's lackey," Laszlo explains.
The robot makes a pass at her as he exits the scene.
"I can't take this anymore. Just get me a couple of screen captures of Jerry Orbach when he's finally back on," I say. But just as I am about to flee, the scene shifts into one with the evil music producer.
Oh. Yeah. Red and very shiny. Worth the wait.
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See for yourself. Click on the thumbnails below to see some screen captures.
A wonderfully funny little guide from the BBC site on Handy Latin Phrases.
These are not traditional Latin sayings, but Latin translations of modern catchphrases and such. The page breaks down the categories as such:
Useful Sayings
Bumper Stickers and Vanity Plates
Advanced Quotations
Names and Titles
An example under Useful Sayings:
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
Which is: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Under Names and Titles:
Zona crepusculi -- purported to be Latin for "The Twilight Zone."
Hehe.
