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A Fish Called Wanda
1988 · Film · 109 min
Directed by Charles Crichton
While a diamond advocate attempts to steal a collection of diamonds, troubles arise when he realises he’s not the only one after the collection.
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I recently watched A Fish Called Wanda because some old folks said it is a great movie. It is not. It is shit.
>In it, Mr Barnes said that he apologised for his "repeatedly false and untrue statements... made to maliciously defame Sea View. These reviews were written out of anger and malice".
It reminds me of the memorable apologies uttered by John Cleese in a "A fish called Wanda":
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095159/quotes/qt0320188
With any luck, and if others like me read it, it will be upvoted. It is certainly interesting - amusing and shocking by equal measure.
It put me in mind of a line from the film A Fish Called Wanda:
> Aristotle was not Belgian! The central message of Buddhism is not "Every man for himself!" And the London Underground is not a political movement! Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked 'em up.
My first memory of Jewishness in America was my local synagogue being burned down, with swastikas spray painted on the sidewalk out front.
Were those Nazis that committed those acts, or wannabes? I think that is parent's point. How many of those "Nazis" can name a single plank of the Nazi platform? (And I'm sure that more than one can do just that, but not even a majority.) In other words, are they Nazis or more like the character Otto in the movie A Fish Called Wanda?
Otto West: Apes don't read philosophy. Wanda: Yes they do, Otto. They just don't understand it. Now let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not "Every man for himself." And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up.
But at the end of the day, IMO, it's all just semantics. Some people irrationally hate Jews, some have a distaste for blacks. Whether or not they fit a particular label or not is a distraction from the fact that there are violently hateful people out there, and there weren't Jews they'd find someone else to hate that isn't like them.
The first text a browsing reader is liable to see purports to be a salacious sample from the book, but the episode never happens in the main text, nor does anything else of that tone: the book has no explicit sexual content.
To quote Otto from A Fish Called Wanda, "Disappointed!"
If its going to be consumed by the public - yes.
One of my earlier database apps for an in-office app ran on FoxBase, guess what people called it? It had the fox logo and such. Good or bad other programs were assumed to be "FoxBase" too because of the ID screen and lack of a definitive name, was kinda hard presenting it without a unique name.
The revised database system using PHP, I gave it a name: WANDA (currently stands for - Web Accessible Nimble Database Architecture) A whole lot better then its development name, "the Web Database" I think having a name helped differentiate it from other programs, also picking one that is short, fun, easy to remember also helps for word of mouth adoption. The different applications within WANDA have more mundane names like WANDA Mail List, or WANDA Librarian, but with WANDA being so short it works.
I don't know about weird names, you can get too out there and people wont be able to recognize or spell it much less remember what its called ("Cuil", "Xara Extreme", "Quark Express", really?)
I think proper names are a good start if nothing else comes to mind, especially if they relate to the application's purpose, or at least are easy to remember.
Mainly what I did was decide I wanted the name to be a female name that was an acronym for something (female being friendlier and more efficient sounding), so I listed out relevant words and started testing acronym ideas. WANDA was the first that struck - (the movie A Fish Called Wanda did have some influence there, gotta go with the loosely related Monty Python reference...)
I've never been able to relate to Lebowski for some reason. Loved many of the other Coen bros films, though. Using Matt's criteria for movie greatness, I can name several other movies off the top of my head that are much more quotable than Lebowski: Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Blues Brothers, Airplaine, Holy Grail, Fish Called Wanda, Napoleon Dynamite, Pulp Fiction.
...I must be significantly older than Matt, I guess.