More stones to un-turn

[Scot LaFaive]

"Well Halpern believes there is more to come for the Simpsons. More stone to
un-turn in the areas of astronomy, robots, and physics. He even expects
movie sequels."

The question is, is she reading this off a teleprompter? I would imagine so.

Scot


>From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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>Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:12:50 -0400
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>At 9:30 AM -0500 8/6/07, Scot LaFaive wrote:
> >So if there are stones yet to "un-turn," who was the one who had
>originally
> >turned them? And why didn't they get the secrets out while they had the
> >stones up? Very existential, which I'm sure was the speaker's goal when
> >saying it.
> >
> >Scot
>
>Since I don't seem to be able to open the .wmv
>link, can you fill me (and others in the same
>fix) on the neighboring context? .
>
>The handful of google hits on "stones to
>un(-)turn" all seem to be using "unturn"
>redundantly, so the resultant force is identical
>to that of "stones to turn (over)".  Is that
>basically what Brockman is doing?  Or does
>"un-turn" here mean something more like 'cover
>up', or something else?  (If we can
>tell--sometimes with Kent Brockman it isn't easy.)
>
>LH
>
> >
> >>From: Bill Le May <blemay0 at MCHSI.COM>
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> >>The Simpsons, ever a source of linugistic oddities, prompt this
>newsperson
> >>to state that there are "more stones to un-turn in the areas of
>astronomy,
> >>robots, and physics" at approximately 3:20 in this interview.
> >>
> >>http://www.usip.edu:80/smc/media/cn8_simpsons_070801.wmv
> >>
> >>It is a very Kent Brockman-esque statement.
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