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Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Davy Jones: me kind o' lubber

PZ Myers • 14 Comments

I saw th' trailer fer th' Pirates o' th' Caribbean sequel, and this stalked into view:

Oh. My, with a chest full of booty. Dog. Two o' me obsessions, squid and pirates, personified. I must see this movie. And hoist the mainsail! I went lookin' fer more information, and found this bit o' artwork:

Ack, pass the grog! Look at his arms, ye scurvey dog! It's an arthropod! Make that three obsessions!

Come July, I'm goin' t' be front row center. And they'd darn well better give Davy Jones (who is goin' t' be played by Bill Nighy) plenty o' screen time, or I'm goin' t' be writin' nasty letters t' Disney executives…

Dear sirs;
While ye have tantalized yer prospective audiences with promises o' a prominent role fer a cephalopod-arthropod-pirate chimera fer th' past seven months, it has come t' me attention that said glorious bein' were bein' sadly missin' from some o' th' scenes in th' movie. Shiver me timbers! This is clearly a case o' bait-and-switch, and I will be contactin' th' Better Business Bureau t' demand additional footage … insult t' me religion … demeanin' t' multiple phyla … might be mollified if original costume and headgear were shipped t' me address immediately.

It's a little rough, I know, but I've got time t' work meself up into high dudgeon and refine me demands a little bit.

By th' way, I saw th' trailer at th' Narnia showin', so maybe part o' me disappointment with that movie can be accounted fer by th' fact that I'd been driven t' a fevered pitch by a brief trailer, and then discovered that Narnia has no squid at all in it. Not a one. Talkin' beavers, sure, but th' molluscs as a whole are ignored completely. Wankers.

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{/if} #55295: Raven — 12/27 at 11:09 AM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} Yeah, ye gotta keep after them--Twelve Monkeys were bein' exactly that kind o' bait-and-switch. {/if}

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{if FALSE} Trackback: Davy Jones: my kind of guy Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #55297: — 12/27 at 11:10 AM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} It might, just might, be said that ye have an obsession with squid. {/if}

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{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} Maybe. But doesn't everyone? {/if}

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{if FALSE} Trackback: Davy Jones: my kind of guy Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #55300: — 12/27 at 11:17 AM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} Avast PZ, ye e'er seen some o' that, uhhh, "interestin'" animation that comes out o' Japan? Fire the cannons! It might be just up yer alley. {/if}

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{if FALSE} Trackback: Davy Jones: my kind of guy Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #55301: Ron Sullivan — 12/27 at 11:19 AM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} If ye promise t' give at least one lecture each semester in that get-up, I'll not only add a letter o' support t' th' Disnoids, I'll sail t' Minnesota t' squeeze into yer classroom as a MSM representative.

I'm sure I can figure out a way t' fit th' subject into a garden article. {/if}

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{if FALSE} Trackback: Davy Jones: my kind of guy Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #55303: Redshift — 12/27 at 11:26 AM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} Maybe they'll be able t' work some molluscs into "Voyage o' th' Dawn Treader".., and dinna spare the whip!

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{if FALSE} Trackback: Davy Jones: my kind of guy Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #55307: Arun — 12/27 at 11:47 AM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} http://www.cinemaeye.com/index/movienews/more/1822/

Keira Knightley: I had me first day back [recently], because we had a little bit o' a break o'er th' summer. My first day back were bein' bein' dragged across th' deck by an invisible giant squid, invisible because it’s bein' put in by CGI afterwards. So I just spent th' entire time pretendin' that it were bein' tentacles everywhere, and th' director were bein' runnin' aroun' goin', ‘I’m a tentacle, I’m a tentacle.’ It takes a little bit o' an imagination; I have no idea what it’s goin' t' look like, but hopefully it’ll be cool.

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{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} Am I seein' thin's or is his right hand an alligator head? Walk the plank! Does that make that scurvey dog a cephalopod-arthropod-.., by Blackbeard's sword. crocodylus? {/if}

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{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} That just wouldn't be right, since modern crocodiles aren't marine. {/if}

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{if FALSE} Trackback: Davy Jones: my kind of guy Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #55319: BronzeDog — 12/27 at 01:18 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} While ye have tantalized yer prospective audiences with promises o' a prominent role fer a cephalopod-arthropod-pirate chimera...

Let's see how tantalized ye'll be after he mind blasts ye and sucks out yer brain. ;) {/if}

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{if FALSE} Trackback: Davy Jones: my kind of guy Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #55338: Janice in GA — 12/27 at 03:05 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} I have t' tell ye that I just recently saw this preview. Yaaarrrrr, and dinna spare the whip! The first thin' I thought o' when I saw th' Davy Jones character were bein' "I bet P.Z. Myers likes this lubber!"

I'm not entirely sure what that says about either o' us. {/if}

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{if FALSE} Trackback: Davy Jones: my kind of guy Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #55347: Bourgeois Nerd — 12/27 at 04:36 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} Where is this sequel set, in R'lyeh? If he doesn't say "ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn," then th' movie's a gip.

And, PZ, are ye sure about modern crocodiles not bein' marine? Aarrr! I thought th' saltwater crocs o' Australia inhabited at least coastal waters. {/if}

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{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} Bill Nighy with tentacles - mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I'm havin' flashbacks t' this comic I'm sure PZ must have seen before... {/if}

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{/if} #55352: — 12/27 at 04:56 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} Usin' Wikipedia, that fountain o' questionary-quality info:

"Saltwater crocodiles generally spend th' tropical wet season in freshwater swamps and rivers (makin' th' name somethin' o' a misnomer), movin' downstream t' estuaries in th' dry season, and sometimes travellin' far out t' sea. Crocodiles compete fiercely with each other fer territory, with dominant males in particular occupyin' th' most eligible stretches o' freshwater creeks and streams. And swab the deck! Junior crocodiles are thus forced into th' more marginal river systems and sometimes into th' ocean. This explains th' large distribution o' th' animal (rangin' from th' east coast o' India t' northern Australia) as well as it bein' found in odd places on occasion (such as th' Sea o' Japan, fer instance)."

But th' arm looks more like a sea snake t' me. {/if}

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