Let's hear it for the ingenius reverse-swimming style dancer in the pilot!
He's one of those tiny details in Twin Peaks that makes it truly a work of art, here here!!
There was a fiish..iinn the percolatrr!
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Let's hear it for the ingenius reverse-swimming style dancer in the pilot!
He's one of those tiny details in Twin Peaks that makes it truly a work of art, here here!!
There was a fiish..iinn the percolatrr!
Oh my!
I didn't know who you were talking about at first, but are you referring to that kid in the hallway at TP High School?! That is hilarious - if anything, it helps make it known from the beginning that this show is full of strange yet amusing quirks, even though the overall nature of the plot is quite dark.
There's also some interesting dancing in FWWM when Bobby is going back into the school after talking to Laura - most, if not all, of the kids in the background are dancing their way around the school grounds.
Do you think the eccentric dancing might tie into or relate to the dancing of the LMFAP in the Lodge?
could be david's just having a laugh.
When I watched Twin Peaks for the first time, for a little while I thought he was going to have some part to play in the events of the series, as a character or Lynchian abstraction. But apparently not.
There was a fiish..iinn the percolatrr!
Let's hear it for the ingenius reverse-swimming style dancer in the pilot!
He's one of those tiny details in Twin Peaks that makes it truly a work of art, here here!!
Er, would you like some lemonade? I also have some saltines and some apple butter. Or would you like to wash your hands?
Did you mean "spazzy" (as in spastic)? I like "spassy", sounds like a melding of spazzy & sassy!!! But isn't it just a white boy version of robot/ moonwalk type steps? Spazzy would be jerky & disjointed...
The art of spassing is to simply give in to your inner-retard and do retarded stuff.
There was a fiish..iinn the percolatrr!
Just Googling it, you'd think it was the plural of "spa."
Yet a quick pop over to Urban Dictionary reveals this spelling as a cultural difference:
2. spas
Short for spastic or spasticated person. Mostly used in the UK. Alternatives include: Spastic, Spaz, Spazpuss, Spaztard and Spastard
And the Wikipedia entry for "Spastic" says
"The word spastic is used differently depending on location which has led to some controversy and misunderstanding. Derived via Latin from the Greek spastikos ("drawing in" or "tugging"). The word originally referred to the sudden muscle contractions characteristic of the medical condition spasticity, which underlies spastic diplegia and many other forms of cerebral palsy. But the word in common speech can also be used in a pejorative context. The level of severity depends on whether one understands it as it is used in the United States or the United Kingdom [1]. In the UK it is considered an offensive way to refer to the disabled[2], while in the US it is more closely associated with hyperactivity or clumsiness and carries few offensive connotations. "
In the UK- "spastics" were cerebral palsy sufferers, then the word became used then as a derogatory insult "derived from a common misconception that those with any physical disability resulting in spasticity would necessarily also have a mental or developmental disability."
Spaz as we know it here simply means clumsy and is inoffensive: it means "over excitement, excessive energy, or hyperactivity."
The entry said that an episode of Friends, one of the most blandly unoffensive shows to ever air on TV, was rated as offensive in England because someone was called a "laundry spaz."
And thus concludes our multicultural lesson for today :P
Spaz is a better spelling, as spas seems like the plural of spa. And spastic rhymes with plastic, an s, not a z sound. I'm looking for more efficient experience, linguistically speaking...
How do you think Brits pronounce "plastic?" Same difference. They would have to fake a Yank accent to pronounce "spaz" our way.
How do you think Brits pronounce "plastic?" Same difference. They would have to fake a Yank accent to pronounce "spaz" our way.
Actually, in my experience, we do pronounce it 'spaz' or 'spazzy'. I've also never seen it spelled the way the Wiz spells it. That said, it's kind of frowned on as a word, which is why The Spastics' Society changed their name to Scope, which led to a brief craze for saying to people "Oh, you're such a scope".
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