More stones to un-turn

[Joel S. Berson]

At 8/6/2007 11:30 AM, Scot LaFaive wrote:
>"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."

I can understand unturning a stone that when
turned over had revealed a scandal, crime,
etc.  But what in the Simpsons about astronomy,
robots, and physics fits that interpretation?  (I have not seen the movie.)

Joel

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