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#119138 - 01/08/04 08:30 AM Indie
Jackie Online content
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This is what I was trying to look up in Quinion. I hate to show such ignorance, but what, exactly, does this word signify, and where did it come from?


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#119139 - 01/08/04 08:34 AM Re: Indie
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independent, outside the mainstream.

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#119140 - 01/08/04 08:35 AM Re: Indie
wwh Offline
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Indie - the famous auto races?


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#119141 - 01/08/04 08:38 AM Re: Indie
AnnaStrophic Offline
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I know the term in the context of independent record labels.


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#119142 - 01/08/04 09:35 AM Re: Indie
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I've also heard it referring to independent film producers.


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#119143 - 01/08/04 11:28 AM Re: Indie
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There are some West ones I hear. Think they play cricket.


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#119144 - 01/08/04 12:37 PM Indie
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It's what Sean Connery(father) called Harrison Ford (son) in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"


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#119145 - 01/08/04 02:57 PM Re: Indie
Flatlander Offline
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It's what Sean Connery(father) called Harrison Ford (son) in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"

Actually he resisted calling him Indiana (or Indy) for most of the film -- "We named the DOG Indiana!" He prefered to refer to his son as Junior -- "[pointing to himself] Henry Jones... [pointing to Indiana]...Junior."

[/unhealthy obsession mode]


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#119146 - 01/08/04 03:11 PM Re: Indie
musick Offline
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...for most of the film...

Does this mean he *did at least once?


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#119147 - 01/09/04 08:16 PM Re: Indie
Alex Williams Offline
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To me the word implies independent, especially a small record label or movie production studio, or the products thereof: an indie band, an indie film.


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