on being cliff sawyer

SivartAlappes · Post by **SivartAlappes** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:29 pm

I just found your reference amusing since I've been watching a bunch of episodes of "Sliders" lately.

marlasinger · Post by **marlasinger** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:39 pm

dude, cliff sawyer was CANADIAN. I think now you'll have to marry me and join the canadian cult if you want to really be like cliff

Opladybug · Post by **Opladybug** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:40 pm

Thats what the reference was! I didn't recognize which is a shame because I used to watch Sliders everyday!

SivartAlappes · Post by **SivartAlappes** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:46 pm

Opladybug wrote:Thats what the reference was! I didn't recognize which is a shame because I used to watch Sliders everyday!

Well, not quite... Sliders was actually based on the tale referenced by Spence.

Hannahbee · Post by **Hannahbee** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:04 pm

Sliders rules.

OverShadowed · Post by **OverShadowed** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:28 pm

I love that show! I used to watch it all the time until the SciFi channel stop showing it. XD

Esteed · Post by **Esteed** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:32 am

Dude, Sliders was awesome. Right up until they started losing the original cast, at least.

chershaytoute · Post by **chershaytoute** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:22 am

Spencer, I gotta ask... Are you a science fiction geek...or are you a science fiction GEEK? <rueful grin>

I guess what I'm asking... My first thought wasn't Sliders, at all - but then again, I'm older than dirt. As you'll see in another thread, my first thought was "Well of the Worlds" by Kuttner and Moore (written in 1952). Kuttner's the same guy that wrote "Mimsy were the Borogoves," which just came out as the movie "The Last Mimsy" - the guy was super talented!

Uh...were you talking show or story?

anythingbutaone · Post by **anythingbutaone** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:35 am

chershaytoute wrote:Spencer, I gotta ask... Are you a science fiction geek...or are you a science fiction GEEK? <rueful grin>

I guess what I'm asking... My first thought wasn't Sliders, at all - but then again, I'm older than dirt. As you'll see in another thread, my first thought was "Well of the Worlds" by Kuttner and Moore (written in 1952). Kuttner's the same guy that wrote "Mimsy were the Borogoves," which just came out as the movie "The Last Mimsy" - the guy was super talented!

Uh...were you talking show or story?

Not that i want to rain on you parade but "Mimsy were the Borogroves" was a classic line from Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll in "Alice through the looking Glass and what she found there" 1872. Which outdates your Kuttner by some 80 years. Its a favourite of mine

Ignore this post, i misunderstood the quote, from the 1943 book, "Mimsy were the Borogroves"

chershaytoute · Post by **chershaytoute** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 12:07 pm

I'll do no such thing - "Jabberwocky" was the very first poem I ever memorized...and I even did it for the fun of it! 'Twas brillig and the slithy toves...

See, Spencer, you've nuthin' to worry 'bout around here! We're all a bunch of reasonably harmless lunatics... <chortle>

thoughtssopoetic · Post by **thoughtssopoetic** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:28 pm

chershaytoute wrote: See, Spencer, you've nuthin' to worry 'bout around here! We're all a bunch of reasonably harmless lunatics... <chortle>

i'll second that.

also, science fiction geeks are the best geeks ever.

I thought of the book also, so yo aren't the only one