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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 2 1 2 #115804 - 11/13/03 12:56 PM Speaking of the OED,   Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 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? #115805 - 11/13/03 01:41 PM Re: Speaking of the OED,   Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 shanks old hand shanks   old hand Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 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. #115806 - 11/13/03 01:45 PM Re: Speaking of the OED!   Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Nah, shanks. That bit would only be referred to occasionally, as comic relief. #115807 - 11/14/03 01:25 PM Re: Speaking of the OED!   Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Jackie Jackie   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky My memory () of the book tells me he cut it off. So therefore, wouldn't he be comic sans? #115808 - 11/14/03 01:48 PM Re: Speaking of the OED!   Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont and who's the straight man? formerly known as etaoin... #115809 - 11/20/03 01:27 PM Re: Speaking of the OED!   Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Capfka Pooh-Bah Capfka   Pooh-Bah Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Well, not him, obviously! #115810 - 11/20/03 04:08 PM Damn!   Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York I want a straight [sic] answer tsuwm, you who have an inside track to said dictionary, help me out here. #115811 - 11/20/03 04:29 PM Re: Damn!   Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 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 #115812 - 11/20/03 04:35 PM Re: Damn!   Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 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) #115813 - 11/20/03 04:39 PM movie futures, or moron the movie   Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 this too shall pass submitted w/o further comment: http://www.hsbr.net/servlet/readGenome?stock=PROFM #115814 - 11/20/03 05:14 PM Re: movie futures, or moron the movie   Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 They's plenty 2001 references to it. It seems to have since fallen off the face of cyberspace. #115815 - 11/20/03 08:44 PM my people will call your people..   Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 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] #115816 - 11/20/03 08:49 PM Re: my people will call your people..   Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,230 sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel sjmaxq   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,230 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 #115817 - 11/21/03 12:08 PM Re: my people will call your people..   Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 the quality of the name-dropping Not to mention reporting that one has asked Jesse Sheidlower if he knows anything. #115818 - 11/21/03 12:49 PM Re: my people will call your people..   Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Jackie Jackie   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 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 #115819 - 11/21/03 03:29 PM Quality   Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 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? Page 1 of 2 1 2 Moderated by  Jackie  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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