Since this is confusing without context, let me give you the set-up first.

The English Lit class is discussing Romeo and Juliet.

Under discussion is the question by Juliet, “Wherefore are thou Romeo?”

The Professor asks the class why Juliet has said this.

One of the students doesn’t hear what the professor said.

So he turns to his neighbor and asks her:

“Did the professor just say, Why did Juliet say, Wherefore art thou Romeo? ? ? <—- Punctuate THAT! 

I overhear part of this, and ask the student—

Did Fred just say Did the professor just say Why did Juliet say Wherefore art thou?  <——And THAT!  Hhahahha! 
Or did I mishear him?

“Did the professor just say, ‘Why did Juliet say, “Wherefore art thou Romeo?” ’ ”? 

“Did Fred just say, ‘Did the professor just say, “Why did Juliet say, Wherefore art thou Romeo?” ’ Or did I mishear him?”

saparris - 15 August 2009 08:15 PM

“Did the professor just say, ‘Why did Juliet say, “Wherefore art thou Romeo?” ’ ”? 

“Did Fred just say, ‘Did the professor just say, “Why did Juliet say, Wherefore art thou Romeo?” ’ Or did I mishear him?”

(sulking)  I wanted it to go off like fireworks at the end.

”?”??”“?!☀☀?☆!★%!☆**#!  <—like that

I wanted it to go off like fireworks at the end.

Quotes within quotes are too complicated to result in fireworks, but too many can make your head explode.

saparris - 16 August 2009 08:13 AM

I wanted it to go off like fireworks at the end.

Quotes within quotes are too complicated to result in fireworks, but too many can make your head explode.

YouTube has that GREAT clip from Scanners of that guy’s head exploding.  Hahahaaha!  It’s GREAT!!

I’ll post it if there’s a lot of popular appeal.  I think it’s the best head-exploding scene ever—
and I am not forgetting the zombie head explosion in Dawn of the Dead!

Scanners is a Cronenberg film—complete with all its tragic Canadian flaws, but nevertheless, that scene is GREAT!

I vote to pass on the head explosion, preferring the metaphorical kind.

saparris - 16 August 2009 10:46 AM

I vote to pass on the head explosion, preferring the metaphorical kind.

(shrug) De gustibus non est disputandum, I guess.

But I’ll never understand some people.

I’m telling you, saparris—this scene is GREAT!

Definitely not a time-waster.

POW!

Big chunks of head all over the place ... everything . . .  All you want in your top-quality head-blowing-up scene.

cosmicmeeting - 16 August 2009 02:21 PM

saparris - 16 August 2009 10:46 AM

I vote to pass on the head explosion, preferring the metaphorical kind.

As you so wisely latined, all gustibi are not compatible, but that’s what makes the mundo go around.

My comment was one vote only. If you feel compelled, post the link to your scene. It might turn some heads.

LOL!

No, that’s not necessary.

I like getting grossed out in horror movies, but I don’t need to make everyone else like it too.

(sadly) What I wrote was supposed to be funny.  : (

I thought is was funny and well written. Very conversational. I could almost see you making a head-exploding gesture as I read it.

I’ll give it at least 4 kazoos on the 5-kazoo scale.

saparris - 16 August 2009 05:19 PM

I thought is was funny and well written. Very conversational. I could almost see you making a head-exploding gesture as I read it.

I’ll give it at least 4 kazoos on the 5-kazoo scale.

SMOOCH!

I’m serious. You have a beautiful way with words. I imagine that birds stop singing just to listen.

When I write, canaries die.

p.s. Remember this compliment when you read my opinion on the semicolon.

cosmicmeeting - 16 August 2009 03:46 PM

LOL!

No, that’s not necessary.

I like getting grossed out in horror movies, but I don’t need to make everyone else like it too.

(sadly) What I wrote was supposed to be funny.  : (

I watched a woman shoot her head off once, not a nice memory.
Also was first on the scene when a boy, aged 15 shot the top of his head off in his car. Attending the funeral was less than entertaining.

LukeJavan8 - 18 August 2009 09:59 PM

cosmicmeeting - 16 August 2009 03:46 PM

LOL!

No, that’s not necessary.

I like getting grossed out in horror movies, but I don’t need to make everyone else like it too.

(sadly) What I wrote was supposed to be funny.  : (

I watched a woman shoot her head off once, not a nice memory.
Also was first on the scene when a boy, aged 15 shot the top of his head off in his car. Attending the funeral was less than entertaining.

Good thing there’s a big difference between movies and reality—or between any art form and reality, I guess.

Who’d like to personally experience the events in Hamlet?
Who would let that stop them from enjoying the play?

I won’t go to a movie where a kid shoots himself in the head, and I know that ahead of time.  Don’t take delight in reality-based horror.  I’ve seen enough in real life to last more than a lifetime.

Well, neither Scanners nor Dawn of the Dead has much to do with reality.

But even so, it is often argued that the cathartic effect of art redeems its violent subject matter.

I have speculated that identifying with movie tough guys, big-screen rogue heroes, and even straight-up movie bad guys discharges antisocial impulses safely.
That which cannot be had in reality can be gratified in fantasy.

However, I concede your point that too much exposure to real-life horror can easily create a distaste for its fictional depictions.

I imagine that people like me (or actually—people like “teenage boys”) are the target market.
For me, it is just so much goofy fun to see how grossed-out they can get me.
For teenage boys, throbbing with androgens but living under petticoat rule, viewing movie violence may give them a number of benefits and satisfactions.

What do you think of the claim that movie violence provides some of the functions of violence in fairy tales?  Some of those stories are GHASTLY—
and just right for little kids newly swamped by their recognition of their helplessness at the hands of adults - not all of whom can be presumed to have the best of intentions.