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[–] NotAGamer@lemmy.org 71 points 2 months ago

I didn't know such a stupid line existed because I didn't watch such a stupid movie.

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Little known fact: the author of The Iliad and the voice actor of Poochie the Dog are the same person!

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 31 points 2 months ago

Holy shit, Dan Castellaneta wrote The Iliad!?

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 53 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

Someone in the props department snuck in a joke.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago

The description says "psychological thriller", but the cinematography is giving me "Netflix romcom".

[–] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 2 months ago

To my darling Candy.

All characters portrayed within this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

Homer.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've heard that it's really not worth that much unless Homer signed his last name too which apparently was pretty rare.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’m more curious as to what his middle initial J. stands for.. d’oh!

[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 31 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This might beat the scene in The Passion of the Christ where Jesus invents the dining table with chairs.

[–] ZeroGravitas@lemm.ee 43 points 2 months ago

Reminds me of that great classic:

  • Table for 26?

  • But... You're with 13 people.

  • Yes, but we like to sit on the same side of the table.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Technically, he doesn't invent them. He's just riding the trend.

Also, probably the best scene in that movie.

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[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He most likely wasn't a carpenter at all, the Greek just says 'builder'. Probably a stone mason

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 5 points 2 months ago

so you are saying Jesus was a stoner?

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

That explains the awful table.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago
[–] Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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)

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Actual Right End: that's not what you'd refer to as a first edition of The Illiad, unless you're an idiot

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (7 children)

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

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Alexander Pope.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Do not steal

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

buy bible, sign out myself, eBay, profit

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[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Actual bell curve: a eugenics source book also the basis for Idiocracy so you decide I guess.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

She obviously meant the first edition Penguin classics paperback.

[–] bnrnrtbgd@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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..."

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

This is an AI style blunder.

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Glasses make you more clever. This is why I wear a higher prescription than I actually need.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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?

[–] LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al 16 points 2 months ago

I just googled this is actually in the film. The mind boggles

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 16 points 2 months ago

Wow, and here I thought the writer of that book, Homer Simpson, didn't exist!!

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago

Wow, a Methuselah rookie card!

[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

She keeps that copy near the toilet so that she has a light read on hand for those post-Taco Bell sweat inducing shits.

[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have a signed copy of the Bible.

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 15 points 2 months ago

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".)

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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!!!").

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 months ago

That's nothin', can't beat my signed first draft of the Mahabharata, before it was ever even sent to an editor!

[–] whereisk@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 7 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Jesus actually wrote a book! I got it, he signed it. His cursive is really becoming

[–] atlien51@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

What’s that about ?

Well this could make for a great "your mama" joke.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

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?

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