Random Thoughts Sechs: Eeeeehhhh...

[Synobun]

Rubbing it in our face that Xenforo's search works for you, are ya?!

 

[Gori the Grey]

No, just pushing back a little on Farm Boy's suggestion that "Gobble gobble" is some kind of catch-phrase, whose meaning I've missed, on this site

Anyway, like everything he says, I don't know what it means even after a damn search!

 

[Lexicus]

I will point out that Farm Boy wrote Gooble Gobble, not Gobble Gobble, though this may have been a typo and even if it wasn't I'm unsure of the significance of the difference between Gooble and Gobble.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Ahhhhh . . . . let me go do another search.

 

[Farm Boy]

It was probably "one of us," but the search terms are problematically short.

It might be the presidential age of twitter, but attempts at brevity have a minimum character limit.

There really wasn't anything past poking the period in post #100.

 

[rah]

So easy to mess with..... it's almost sad.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Returns from search:

That turns out to be very illuminating. Now I think Farm Boy was accepting me as "one of us."

Which I would be gratified to believe that I am.

Maybe I should start paying attention to spelling.

And Gobble gobble in return to you, Farm Boy, as I believe I've already said.

 

[Farm Boy]

Affection goble!

 

[Takhisis]

gobble gobble
accept
one of us

THE RAMONES!
Any response other than ‘The Ramones!’ is unacceptable.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Here's Urban Dictionary:

A nonsensical phrase that found it's origin in the film "Freaks" (1932). In the movie it is chanted by geniune deformed people at a wedding ceremony.

I can be used as a chant in an acceptance ceremony, or as a comical phrase to those familiar with it's origins.

Has been used on the television shows "South Park" and "Clerks: the Animated Series".

 

[Takhisis]

*sigh*
From TVTropes:

Catch-Phrase: ONETWOTHREEFOUR!; "HEY! HO! LET'S GO!"; "Gabba Gabba Hey!"
(…)
"Pinhead" was based on the movie Freaks, with the "Gabba Gabba Hey!" chant being an adaptation of the "Gooboo Gabba Gooboo Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us" chant from the film.
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I seriously have to do everything around here.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I did half of your everything.

 

[Takhisis]

Are you trying to imply that I did nothing?

 

[Gori the Grey]

I'm saying you did your everything, but I'd done half of it in the post immediately prior.

Half of everything = halfrything. As long as we're making up words like gooble gobble.

I mean, it's kinda cool to know an arcane way to welcome people into a group, this just seems a little roundabout to me.

I mean, I guess Freaks is like a historically important film, and I guess the Ramones are a group I should have heard, and I guess South Park is a show I should have watched, but this little phrase actually hasn't swum into my ken prior to this recent exchange.

 

[Farm Boy]

You gotta watch the whole film to get the feel for the completeness of the welcome. The ending's a real hoot.

 

[Takhisis]

I guess the Ramones are a group I should have heard,

Yes. They were on The Simpsons, man, back when it was new and good (and they were alive).

 

[Gori the Grey]

Anyway, I know it from you guys, which is where I'd rather know it from.

 

[AdamCrock]

Can You Gooble Goble in public ?

 

[Kyriakos]

Hm, up to now i refrained from looking at the previous edition of Lovecraft's works in Greek. I did today and...
Lol. That text is really terrible.

Which makes me a bit angry too, though, given it seems my certainly better translation isn't as praised as it should be.
I blame normie editors.

 

[Gori the Grey]

given it seems my certainly better translation isn't as praised as it should be

Do you have any way of determining how widely it has been read? Had the Greek-speaking world been dying for a translation of Lovecraft? Seems niche on two levels. And then, some one of those readers would have to bother writing up a review. Dunno. Hope you get some props.