On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:12:30AM -0800, Chris Olson - SunPS wrote: > > #"Because it's dull, you twit; it'll hurt more." > > > > <blank look> Obviously a gap in my education. Explenn, plizz? > > I believe it's a reference to the Robin Hood movie > with the no-accent 'Hood... (why is his name escaping me > at the moment? Costner, I believe. Guess I've tried to cast it out of my > head...:) Though I am unable to evaluate it with anything approaching objectivity (I saw it when it first came out, and I was ~10 years old, so of course I devoured it and thought it was great), I seem to remember general opinion being that it was just an action movie and didn't have any really redeeming aspects, except maybe Alan Rickman's performance. (You know, the Prince of Thieves one.) > > Except that, in the movie, it's a spoon not a duck. I'm going to cut your heart out with a spoon! (said by the Sheriff, played by Rickman, to the back of the fleeing 'hood) Why a spoon, cousin; why not an axe, or a sword? (sheriff's cousin) 'Cause it's dull, you twit... Anon, Kat