Captain America, dead?
Yeah, right!
I love how the mainstream media tunes in on stunts like this. I was just listening to Nightline tease this in the background when I clicked on boston.com and this was on the front page.
Name one big hero that has been killed and stayed dead… they even brought back Bucky for crying out loud. Wonder if he was the sniper that did the job…
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JFCC
Fri :: 09 :: Mar :: 2007 :: 09.34 am
Linguo…dead?
Ed
Fri :: 09 :: Mar :: 2007 :: 07.58 pm
@JFCC – I think I speak for all of humanity when I say… What???
JFCC
Sat :: 10 :: Mar :: 2007 :: 11.01 am
Ed, if anyone would get that reference, I would have hoped it would be you.
“Linguo…IS…dead.”
And I was primarily making a reference to the phrasing of the post’s title.
Ed
Sat :: 10 :: Mar :: 2007 :: 11.28 am
I know there is a Linguo robot on The Simpsons but I never tied it to Cap America. I thought you were answering Sean’s question and giving us some obscure superhero that stayed dead and buried. Announcing Linguo: The Cunning Linguist.
Sean
Sat :: 10 :: Mar :: 2007 :: 01.39 pm
Still not getting it…
JFCC
Mon :: 12 :: Mar :: 2007 :: 03.33 pm
*sigh* I wish I’d never written in the first place.
In the Simpsons episode “Trilogy of Error”, Lisa creates a robot that corrects bad grammar. Homer says “Me love beer,” and the robot says, “*I* love beer.”
So at the end of the episode, Linguo gets blown up, and Homer picks up the robot’s disembodied head and says, “Linguo…dead?” And the robot says, “Linguo…IS…dead,” then dies.
I was merely making a reference to the way you phrased the title of the post. May God have mercy upon my soul.
Ed
Mon :: 12 :: Mar :: 2007 :: 04.36 pm
Alas, I was hoping this had something to do with a Cunning Linguist.
Ed
Mon :: 12 :: Mar :: 2007 :: 04.47 pm
SAVE CAP!!!
Am I too late???
Sean
Tue :: 13 :: Mar :: 2007 :: 01.00 am
@JFCC: Yes, our Google searches on Linguo revealed the episode of the Simpsons, but we still didn’t get it.
Not that I need to defend myself — I did point out I care not for strictly following rules of grammar here — but I was going for a Captain America [pause] Dead? way to read that. I figured a comma would do just as well as ellipsis, but I certainly was going for an IS. Keep your fancy words and grammar to BBn thank you very much sir! 😉
JFCC
Tue :: 13 :: Mar :: 2007 :: 06.21 pm
Sigh…I wasn’t even making a comment on your grammar. “XXX, dead?” is a legitimate grammatical construction, which is why I actually don’t think the Linguo gag quite works in the episode.
All I was trying to do was reference a Simpsons episode. Why??! Why did I ever do it?!
Ed
Tue :: 13 :: Mar :: 2007 :: 08.16 pm
This is the problem with Blogging. Sometimes it’s hard to read a message and see the author’s smile. I’ve just been busting your chops in a good-natured means. Please don’t take it personally. Once you confirmed it was a Simpsons reference, I remembered the episode and actually got one of those great little nostalgia chuckles.
…now let me get back to killing you with beer.
Sean
Tue :: 13 :: Mar :: 2007 :: 09.09 pm
It was just funny because both Ed and I scratched our heads on the reference, but the Google/Wiki combo revealed it and then we both went, “oh… yeah, we were supposed to get the Simpsons from it,” and then we decided to bust on you anyway. 🙂