[Ads-l] locomotives as female

[Joel Berson]

Thanks, Garson, that's it. I looked at only a few sites, which didn't happen to mention the train/tunnel.
Joel


      From: ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM>
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Monty Python constructed a comedy sketch that included a film clip of
a train entering a tunnel and several other clumsy metaphorical
scenes. The sketch was in the 1971 film "And Now for Something
Completely Different".

Monty Python - Romantic interlude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXTxjQy4KOw

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Now_For_Something_Completely_Different

[Begin excerpt]
Romantic Interlude: A man (Jones) and girlfriend (Cleveland) begin
making love, and several suggestive images are shown (an industrial
chimney collapse shown in reverse, a train entering a tunnel, a
torpedo being fired, etc.), but the images are actually only films
being played by the man, on a projector propped on the bed. The woman
testily asks whether he is actually going to do something or just show
films all night. The man replies with "Just one more, dear", and
proceeds to show the next and final sketch.
[End excerpt]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Joel Berson <berson at att.net> wrote:
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> "North by Northwest", 1959.
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> I think some well-known spoof movie spoofing other movies has a "train ente=
> ring a tunnel" scene, together with several other metaphors.=C2=A0 It's so =
> well known that, as Yogi might say, everyone, including me, has forgotten i=
> ts name.
> But are those the only two?
> Joel
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> Could you give the titles of some of those movies, Larry?
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> I've often wondered just how true that claim was.
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> BTW, engineer George Alley, in "The Wreck on the C&O Road"=C2=A0 (ca1895)=
> =C2=A0 says,
> "I want to die with the engine I love,/ One hundred and forty-three."
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> JL
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> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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>> Right, you just have to make sure it's not a locomotif.
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>> (Of course the younger generations haven't been raised on all those old =
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>> movies in which love scenes pan to shots of trains entering tunnels.)=3D2=
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>> LH
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>> > On Apr 17, 2015, at 11:19 AM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM> =3D
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>> > My nephew, who is a great train buff, the other day referred to a
>> > locomotive as "her."=C2=A0 I asked about the gender, and he said it's
>> > conventional to refer to locomotives as feminine.
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>> > New one for me.
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