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Page 1 of 2 1 2 > Topic Options #115804 - 11/13/03 07:56 AM Speaking of the OED, AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York what ever happened to the film version of Winchester's The Professor and the Madman? It was supposed to be released in 2001; I haven't heard a thing since, and googling has proved unsatisfactory. Anyone know anything? Top #115805 - 11/13/03 08:41 AM Re: Speaking of the OED, shanks old hand Registered: 03/16/00 Posts: 1004 Loc: London, UK And someone wants to film a man turning his penis into an elongated misshaped thing through compulsive masturbation, whilst fantasising about etymologies? I can see that this will be the new Titanic. Top #115806 - 11/13/03 08:45 AM Re: Speaking of the OED! AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York Nah, shanks. That bit would only be referred to occasionally, as comic relief. Top #115807 - 11/14/03 08:25 AM Re: Speaking of the OED! Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11613 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky My memory () of the book tells me he cut it off. So therefore, wouldn't he be comic sans? Top #115808 - 11/14/03 08:48 AM Re: Speaking of the OED! Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7210 Loc: Vermont and who's the straight man? _________________________ formerly known as etaoin... Top #115809 - 11/20/03 08:27 AM Re: Speaking of the OED! Capfka Pooh-Bah Registered: 06/28/02 Posts: 1624 Loc: Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Well, not him, obviously! Top #115810 - 11/20/03 11:08 AM Damn! AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York I want a straight [sic] answer tsuwm, you who have an inside track to said dictionary, help me out here. Top #115811 - 11/20/03 11:29 AM Re: Damn! tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10538 Loc: this too shall pass okay, okay -- I'll send a query to Jesse. in the meantime, here's a chat with Winchester wherein he mentions the movie rights. http://snurl.com/32yp Top #115812 - 11/20/03 11:35 AM Re: Damn! Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13803 I love this line from the Chat: The two crucial sources were the previously secret files at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum in England, and St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington D.C. Plus a lot of U.S. Army records, Civil War records, and the amazing archives at Oxford University Press (which preserve such things as the tail of a mouse found among the dictionary slips -- and filed under the letter T, not M, a matter that offended some linguistic pedants). (Italics mine) Top #115813 - 11/20/03 11:39 AM movie futures, or moron the movie tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10538 Loc: this too shall pass submitted w/o further comment: http://www.hsbr.net/servlet/readGenome?stock=PROFM Top #115814 - 11/20/03 12:14 PM Re: movie futures, or moron the movie Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13803 They's plenty 2001 references to it. It seems to have since fallen off the face of cyberspace. Top #115815 - 11/20/03 03:44 PM my people will call your people.. tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10538 Loc: this too shall pass Jesse's response: > "What ever happened to the film version of Winchester's The Professor > and the Madman? It was supposed to be released in 2001." > > Do you know anything? No; it's "on hold", or whatever the movie term is. Don't know when or if it will be coming out. Best, Jesse [N.Am. editor, OED] Top #115816 - 11/20/03 03:49 PM Re: my people will call your people.. sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/20/03 Posts: 3230 Loc: Te Ika a Maui And that's what I like about this place - the quality of the name-dropping. :) _________________________ noho ora mai http://maxqnzs.com/References.html Top #115817 - 11/21/03 07:08 AM Re: my people will call your people.. Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13803 the quality of the name-dropping Not to mention reporting that one has asked Jesse Sheidlower if he knows anything. Top #115818 - 11/21/03 07:49 AM Re: my people will call your people.. Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11613 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky Not to mention reporting that one has asked Jesse Sheidlower if he knows anything. Snort! [fanning self e] You can read more about who he is here: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/lexicography020627.html Top #115819 - 11/21/03 10:29 AM Quality AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York And that's what I like about this place - the quality of the name-dropping. :) *LMAO*, Max! And thanks, tsuwm. If Jesse (ahem) doesn't know "anything", who do? Top Page 1 of 2 1 2 > Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. 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