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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jan-2022 04:40:25 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   > Yoyodyne was introduced as a fictional defense contractor in Thomas Pynchon's V. (1963) and featured prominently in his novel The Crying of Lot 49 (1966).
   
   > Numerous references in the Star Trek series, such as control panels and dedication plaques, indicate that parts of Federation starships were manufactured by Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems or YPS.
   
   > Many technical works, such as Cricket Liu's DNS and BIND (O'Reilly), Per Cederqvist's Version Management with CVS, Jesse Vincent's RT Essentials (O'Reilly), and the GNU General Public License version 2 use Yoyodyne as a company name in their examples.
   
   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoyodyne
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jan-2022 04:43:19 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     I was reading en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adve… and I thought hey, that name sounds familiar. Probably from the GPL in my case.
   • Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jan-2022 04:50:05 UTC Sexy Moon

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     @clacke i put it in infosec curriculum that i helped construct for several government agencies :-)
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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jan-2022 04:50:08 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     I saw a thread yesterday on the topic "Say one line that fans of a movie will instantly recognize".
     
     Someone wrote "No matter where you go, there you are" and I had no idea where it was from. I searched for the phrase, no luck. So that was yesterday.
     
     Today I was reading random things and there was a thing about how Meatloaf in 1987 growled back at Prince Andrew for being an entitled dick, and so I ended up on that Meatloaf explainer I just posted.
     
     Somehow that ended up showing me a clip entitled with exactly the phrase I couldn't find the day before, from Banzai Buckaroo.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jan-2022 04:54:11 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     > It stars Peter Weller in the titular role, with Ellen Barkin, John Lithgow, Jeff Goldblum, and Christopher Lloyd. The supporting cast includes Lewis Smith, Rosalind Cash, Clancy Brown
     
     I'd watch it just for that cast! But it seems like a fun, quirky document from 1984 too, which makes it even more interesting. Somehow this film has evaded me.
   • Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jan-2022 04:57:46 UTC Sexy Moon

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     @clacke I find it unwatchable. I wanted to love it, I really did.
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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jan-2022 04:57:53 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @Moon Oh.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jan-2022 06:13:16 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃
     @mdhughes I started watching Life Aquatic that one time a decade ago and got interrupted and never picked it up again. I'll watch Buckaroo first then. =)
   • Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃 (mdhughes@appdot.net)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jan-2022 06:13:17 UTC Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃

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     @clacke Also, after you watch Buckaroo Banzai (and stay for the credits), watch The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, which is at least 25% in-joke references to Buckaroo, and the ending esp.

   • Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃 (mdhughes@appdot.net)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jan-2022 06:13:18 UTC Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃

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     @clacke How have you not seen Buckaroo? It's like half the nerd references that aren't Monty Python or Hitchhiker's Guide!

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jan-2022 06:13:18 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃
     Apparently!
     
     I wasn't even aware of the name Buckaroo Banzai and assumed it was like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure or something. I was very surprised to click the link and find an 80s movie scene.
   • Juha Autero (jautero@climatejustice.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jan-2022 06:13:32 UTC Juha Autero

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     @clacke I found about it from Star Trek Encyclopedia. There are many references to it. For example USS Excelsior from Star Trek IV: The Undiscovered Country has motto:"No matter where you go, there you are". Since I had no other way to see it, I ended up getting it on DVD.

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jan-2022 11:28:05 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     Wow, Clancy Brown is so young!
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jan-2022 12:58:13 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @jautero Now when I think about it again I may actually have searched on youtube and that was the "somehow". I was just so excited to find it and to find all this other linked stuff that I forgot what happened.
   • Juha Autero (jautero@climatejustice.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jan-2022 12:58:14 UTC Juha Autero

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     @clacke YouTube shows you a clip containing a phrase you googled previously. I wonder how that is possible? 🤔

   • Parade du Grotesque 💀 (paradegrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jan-2022 14:57:17 UTC Parade du Grotesque 💀

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     @clacke

     Buckaroo banzai is one of my favorite obscure movie. It's just completely crazy.

   • notklaatu (klaatu@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jan-2022 14:57:17 UTC notklaatu

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     @ParadeGrotesque @clacke I love Buckaroo Banzai. It's a wild and hilarious movie, quirky and weird, just brilliant. I saw the end titles on TV when I was a kid and it took me years to hunt down a copy to see the rest of the movie.

     I worked at a computer manufacturer whose test lab was called Banzai (or maybe it was Buckaroo), and it had a poster of the movie in the lab, just so there was no confusion as to the origin of the name.

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jan-2022 15:27:11 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Parade du Grotesque 💀
     @ParadeGrotesque Yep, that makes you a bit older than me. One of the first things I saw in the cinema was Roger Rabbit.
     
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   • Parade du Grotesque 💀 (paradegrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jan-2022 15:27:12 UTC Parade du Grotesque 💀

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     • notklaatu

     @clacke @klaatu

     And now I feel old, because I saw that movie in a theater, when it came out... ☹️

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jan-2022 15:27:13 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Parade du Grotesque 💀
     Now I've watched it. I don't love it, maybe it hasn't grown on me yet, but I liked it and enjoyed it.
     
     What I really like is that it's written as a glimpse of a universe, with a lot of implicit backstory. Afterwards there would be Buckaroo books and comics and stuff, but the movie came out first! So it's really written like that, the audience has to accept that the whole story is a big in medias res of a bigger story they won't fully be told.
     
     Nobody dares write movies like that, even Marvel and DC with 60 years of comics as backstory will make the first movie of every character their origin story, and they will cut out any side characters or events that cannot be fully explained within the movie as a self-contained unit.
     
     When they skipped that with MCU Spiderman it was a bold move only made possible by several previous incarnations already having provided the origin story for movie-goers.