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[rogruth]

The Mairzedoats song dates back at least to the 1940s.

[rogruth]

I watched every episode of Twin Peaks. Thought it was fascinating. Didn't understand much of it. Remember even less.
Watched all of Lost also. Didn't find it fascinating. Watched trying to figure where it was going. They finally decided Bobby would come out of the shower.

Twin Peaks didn't need explanation. It was mystical. Lost had scientific stuff, fictional, that needed explaining.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I watched every episode of Twin Peaks. Thought it was fascinating. Didn't understand much of it. Remember even less.

Twin Peaks didn't need explanation. It was mystical.

Just when I thought I might have a handle on understanding Twin Peaks, I found out that I didn't.

[webenda]

I watched every episode of Twin Peaks. Thought it was fascinating. Didn't understand much of it. Remember even less.

Twin Peaks didn't need explanation. It was mystical.

Just when I thought I might have a handle on understanding Twin Peaks, I found out that I didn't.

Demonstrating the brilliance of the writers. We couldn't wait for the next episode, hoping it would provide some explanation leading to understanding. It never did. They just kept throwing one incredible event after another at us.

Dreams don't always make sense. See Genesis 41:15.

The Man from Another Place first appears in the series' third episode, in a dream experienced by Cooper. Although a spirit, he appears to Cooper as a dwarf in a red suit and dress shirt. In the dream, The Man gives Cooper a series of esoteric clues, which ultimately prove helpful in determining the identity of Laura Palmer's killer, The Man's fellow Black Lodge spirit, BOB. One of these clues is a strange 1940s-style jazz dance, a sequence that makes repeated appearances throughout the course of the series. The series never made clear The Man's reasons for wanting to help Cooper, or his true identity.

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[Rufus T. Firefly]

The series never made clear The Man's reasons for wanting to help Cooper, or his true identity.

Exactly. The show was sprinkled throughout with unresolved and/or unexplained details....

I'll have to consult the log - it knows many things, like that the owls are not what they seem....

But we do know where to get, excuse me, a damn fine cup of coffee and a slice of cherry pie.

[rogruth]

It was much FUN.

[webenda]

You know, I'm like wondering who thinks up things like this:

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Oh, yes yes yes, indeed! Like totally. You know, like, "Who were the first people to decide to eat:

+those coffee beans that get used after being shat out an animal's pooter. Who were the first folks to say, "Hey, looka there amng those turds! That looks edible and ready for making a brew!"

+ Snails (desquised as fancy shmancy "escargot"). Who saw one of them slithering across a surface and said, "I'm pickin that up and shoving it right in my mouth so I can eat it raw, babaaaaaay!"

+Octopi (I'm serious, Yuk! [even tho my wife loves 'em] , all slithery and slippery.

+ Locusts. ('nuff said.)

+ sheep and bovine testicles. (I cannot even imagine the first scenario.)

+Porcine sphincter; bung. (I don't want to imagine the first moment somebody reached for that "delicacy".)

+pasta stained purple with Squid/octopus ink (!!!!) Whothehell got those two together? How do you do that on one sunny afternoon in Greece or Italy waiting for lunch to appear???Eh? Huh?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

You know, I'm like wondering who thinks up things like this:

Stand-up philosophers ask those kinds of questions,

[rogruth]

You know, I'm like wondering who thinks up things like this:

Stand-up philosophers ask those kinds of questions,

"You mean" " like" George Carlin?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

You know, I'm like wondering who thinks up things like this:

Stand-up philosophers ask those kinds of questions,

"You mean" " like" George Carlin?

Or Stephen Wright, Mitch Hedberg, etc.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Does Joseph Campbell fit in there?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Does Joseph Campbell fit in there?

Yes and no; not quite the same breed........

[webenda]

Oh, yes yes yes, indeed! Like totally. You know, like, "Who were the first people to decide to eat:
+ Locusts. ('nuff said.)
?

I don't know who first ate locusts, but there are references to it in the Bible.

Leviticus 11:22 King James Bible
22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

Now John himself wore clothing. made of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
Matthew 3:4 - Wikipedia

Huh, the Wikipedia bible?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Good perspective to add, Wayne. Interesting, pertinent perspective .