Great! I've always loved Robert Downey Jr. and Mr. Peanut:
But why is the nutcracker named "Richard"?
Background on Mr. Peanut:"Mr. Peanut was created in 1916 after Planters Peanuts held a contest to create a logo and a 14-year-old boy drew a nut with human features." I'd really like to see the original drawing. According to Wikipedia, the boy (Antonio Gentile) just drew a some sort of man-peanut — and "an artist later added spats, a top hat, a monocle, and a cane." So... did the boy's drawing have the gloves? The unfailingly optimistic smile?
November 12, 2010
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Reminds me of blogger spats.
Althouse (the blog) is intersecting more and more with my regular life. Gordon Lightfoot mentions, Cyclocross, and now content from Creativity.com, my industry's douchey "Tiger Beat" fanboy online mag. I saw this yesterday there. Yes, I pay for a subscription.
So odd.
(I kill anyone making fun of my love of Gordon Lightfoot. Just call me Stump Hugelarge.)
Can he make a bigger mess of Mr Peanut than he did of Sherlock Holmes?
They call me MISTER Peanut (1970)
108 min - Crime | Drama | Mystery
"San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Peanut is called in to investigate when a liberal street nutcracker and political candidate is accused of murdering a walnut. Peanut is also battling domestic woes, including a frustrated wife (played by Utricle
Cashew) and a rebellious adolescent son, Goober."
So, are the nuts EATING fellow nuts,or...?
I could see Downey going macabre.
p.s. I have a Gordon Lightfoot CD in my car at all times.
"But why is the nutcracker named "Richard"?.."
Inanimate Object Brought to Life + Non-Fantastical, Common (formal) Name = Funny
Where is the part where Mr. Peanut gets all coked up and passes out naked in the Keebler Elf tree?
Inanimate Object Brought to Life + Non-Fantastical, Common (formal) Name = Funny
I vote for this. My daughter has a knack for doing this - naming our old minivan named Bill, and the can-you-hear-me-now guy, named Steve.
The nutcracker is named 'Richard' because he's really a dick. An aggressive dick, always on the lookout for free eats. Sort of like a Democrat, actually.
TML ... whereabouts do you practice the dark arts of advertising?
Can he make a bigger mess of Mr Peanut than he did of Sherlock Holmes?
I blame the writers for that. Downey's performance was not altogether unfamiliar to Holmes fans. Oh, I also blame whomever cast Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler (she's matching wits with Holmes? Not believable) and the ridiculous save-her-from-the-sawblade mill sequence.
The sequel is rare -- it promises to be better than the original by introducing Moriarty (Jared Harris FTW).
Inanimate Object Brought to Life + Non-Fantastical, Common (formal) Name = Funny
I vote for this. My daughter has a knack for doing this - naming our old minivan named Bill, and the can-you-hear-me-now guy, named Steve.
My car is named Doris.
As soon as I clicked on this post the same commercial came on TV.
Must be a vortex thing.
But why is the nutcracker named "Richard"?
If someone was always cracking your nuts you'd think they were a Dick too.
Mr. Peanut?
This project has got "Oscar" written all over it,...
Squirrel taxidermy.
Irene said, "Squirrel taxidermy."
Only one dead squirrel, as best I could see, Irene.
Shamefully, I admit to watching a peanut with a crack where his ear should have been.
I laugh every time I think "Don't go full retard."
Penny, one dead squirrel is a good start.
It's also a cute, dead squirrel (in a Christmasy kind of way).
"I laugh every time I think "Don't go full retard.""
Laughing with you, Fred4Pres!
If anyone here at Althouse gets on your case about supporting Fred Thompson?
Well, OK then!
At least Althousians didn't have the foresight to appreciate exactly how shallow they had become.
That might hurt. :(
Fred? Have you met Irene?
Haha, Penny. We have met.
Clearly the correct name for the nutcracker would be Peter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nutcracker)
E.M.Davis, a lot of places. Last full-time gig was 4 years at Goodby Silverstein & Partners in SF. We have our own design+technology consultancy now based in Chicago and Chattanooga.
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