I didn't know such a stupid line existed because I didn't watch such a stupid movie.
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Little known fact: the author of The Iliad and the voice actor of Poochie the Dog are the same person!
Holy shit, Dan Castellaneta wrote The Iliad!?
If anybody's wondering... (Youtube link)
Also, ooof. Not that this looks to be a fine piece of cinema, but the writer didn't put this into the script, the director did. Apparently it's an 1884 printing of an 1853 edition of a 1720 translation (Pope's), so in no way whatsoever is it first edition of, well, anything. Maybe the worst part of it is that there was absolutely no reason to linger over the title. They never even say the name of the book.
Someone in the props department snuck in a joke.
The description says "psychological thriller", but the cinematography is giving me "Netflix romcom".
To my darling Candy.
All characters portrayed within this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
Homer.
I've heard that it's really not worth that much unless Homer signed his last name too which apparently was pretty rare.
I’m more curious as to what his middle initial J. stands for.. d’oh!
It's Jay, icydk. :-D
This might beat the scene in The Passion of the Christ where Jesus invents the dining table with chairs.
Reminds me of that great classic:
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Table for 26?
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But... You're with 13 people.
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Yes, but we like to sit on the same side of the table.
Technically, he doesn't invent them. He's just riding the trend.
Also, probably the best scene in that movie.
He was a lousy carpenter according to scholars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OclYAJhyNY0
He most likely wasn't a carpenter at all, the Greek just says 'builder'. Probably a stone mason
so you are saying Jesus was a stoner?
That explains the awful table.
Left end of the bell curve: wow signed first edition of the Illiad is so rare
Middle of the bell curve: haha she's stupid because Homer is from ancient Greece
Right end of the bell curve: wow signed first edition of the Illiad is so rare
(The Illiad as a modern translated work can have multiple editions from an author)
Actual Right End: that's not what you'd refer to as a first edition of The Illiad, unless you're an idiot
I can get you a signed edition of the Bible right now as long as you don’t care which company printed it or who signs it
Which Pope?
Alexander Pope.
Original Author
Do not steal
buy bible, sign out myself, eBay, profit
Actual bell curve: a eugenics source book also the basis for Idiocracy so you decide I guess.
She obviously meant the first edition Penguin classics paperback.
What's like the coolest, most impressive literary book you can think of? But it has to be something most idiots will recognize.
I don't know, The Iliad?
Awesome. I need a rare book for this screenplay I'm writing. "First edition, signed copy..."
This is an AI style blunder.
Glasses make you more clever. This is why I wear a higher prescription than I actually need.
It's okay because when your friend decides to give you a makeover so you can be "hot" they just need to take your glasses off after they fix your hair. It's fine really. No issues at all. Why did you have them on in the first place?
I just googled this is actually in the film. The mind boggles
Wow, and here I thought the writer of that book, Homer Simpson, didn't exist!!
Wow, a Methuselah rookie card!
She keeps that copy near the toilet so that she has a light read on hand for those post-Taco Bell sweat inducing shits.
I have a signed copy of the Bible.
To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
(Joke stolen from Red Dwarf series 2, episode 2, "Better Than Life".)
You have to be careful with those. I heard that YHWH has whole sweatshops full of elves copying his signature, and they sell these Bibles to tourists to raise money for yacht parties ("YHWH YCHT PRTY YOLO NSFW IRL!!!").
That's nothin', can't beat my signed first draft of the Mahabharata, before it was ever even sent to an editor!
I’m also in possession of original hand-written letters by Jesus Christ himself, inside the original envelope complete with the “par avion” stamp that my neighbour gifted me.
She meant "the IIL AD", but the Is and Ls were hard to read. It was a book about the year 48 AD, in Rome. It was written by her cousin Ilias, from Illinois.
Jesus actually wrote a book! I got it, he signed it. His cursive is really becoming
What’s that about ?
Well this could make for a great "your mama" joke.
Wait what.. that makes no sense. I haven't seen this movie; was it a satire or like a fourth wall break or some sort of a joke?