BS: The Duel

Subject: BS: The Duel
From: GUEST,earthling
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 02:56 PM

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~blagger/the_duel.html   

No idea if this will work out ok? Maybe you've seen it before? But if not enjoy it.

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: Don Firth
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 03:04 PM

What can I say but, "YEEEEEEEEEEHAAAW!!!"

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: Peace
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 03:09 PM

OK! Real OK!

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 03:20 PM

AWWWRIGHTTTTT!!! LOVE the Southland! Go get 'em, Stonewall!!!

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: Amos
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 03:21 PM

Boss Hawg Meets Deliverance

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: GUEST,earthling
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 03:49 PM

Thanks Amos.that's what I couldn't do.

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: Raedwulf
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 03:50 PM

Yeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaa! Roast the pigs, shoot the squirrel (& not just because he's playing a banjo), & pass me a Daisy!

ROFLMAO. Excellent.

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 03:52 PM

Well, I liked the musicians.

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 04:12 PM

???? Did Spaw pass over too??? Looks like they've already reincarnated! :~)

OK, so shoot me, it's stress relief, OK?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 04:21 PM

There was certainly some bricolage going on in the development of that little film!

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 04:24 PM

And here I thought this was gonna be about the Speilburg movie...

heh

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: Amos
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 04:33 PM

Well, SRS, I owe ya one for that wonderful rare word!! I must have missed it when I read Levi-Strauss in translation. Anyway:

bricolage (French, 'doing odd jobs'). A characteristic (according to C. Levi-Strauss) of the early human mind, in contrast to modern scientific thinking. But bricolage is entirely rational (i.e. not pre-rational) in its own way. He introduced the term in The Savage Mind. A bricoleur is one who improvises and and uses any means or materials which happen to be lying around in order to tackle a task: 'The bricoleur is adept at executing a great number of diverse tasks; but unlike the engineer, he does not subordinate each of them to the availability of raw materials and tools, conceptualized and procured specifically for this project; his instrumental universe is closed, and the rule of his game is to make do with the means at hand.' In the making of myth, bricolage is the use of whatever happens to be 'lying around,' so that myth is both rational and improvisatory.
www.bloomington.in.us/~okolicko/definitions.html

A

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 04:37 PM

Darn - that word describes most of the people I know! Me included - I just thought we were too cheap to go spend the money if we had the material and could make it work -

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: Chief Chaos
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 04:55 PM

We got plenty of them there types in the military what don't bother to see if there's a tool in the locker for the job at hand. Using screwdrivers as hammers and hammers as screwdrivers.

Some folks call that ingenuity, adapt and overcome they say.

I say that using you rifle for a tent post and your tent post for a weapon is a bad idea.

If ya ain't got then go ahead. But check first, I'd rather have you defusing a bomb with the propper tools.

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: freda underhill
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 05:17 PM

this is as funny as jOhn from Hulls site!
LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: jacqui.c
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 05:38 PM

What a wonderful piece - it brightened up a difficult day, and with one of my favourite pieces of music. What's wrong with the banjo anyway - I reckon it sounds fine.

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 05:50 PM

You scored a perfect 10 in pegging it, Amos! I did indeed get the word from Levi-Strauss. (Claude, the French anthropologist, not a jeans maker).

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: Deckman
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 06:04 PM

Anybody wanna' cigarette? Bob

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: Amos
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 06:04 PM

Well, I hate to turn down admiration from a loverly lass and all, but the pegging was found off the shelf at the web site cited. You may not have sighted the site cited, of course, but that's where the work was found!


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Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 06:26 PM

Amos,

I'm not familiar with that particular guy's definition pages, though he has some very interesting stuff--I got the word the old fashioned way, I read it in a book. :)

If you visit this volume of this scholarly journal (Studies in American Indian Literature) you'll see that I contributed an essay. Use your browser's search function and look for "bricoleur" or "bricolage" and you'll find them in that essay. And the Levi-Strauss citation. (reading this is a great way to nod off if you can't get to sleep some evening.)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 06:30 PM

Shucks, reminds me of when I lived in Kaintucky!

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: Bobert
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 07:09 PM

Well gol danged!

Watchya all carrying on 'bout, huh? Like what's do danged funny? Oh, you don't like the th4e new orange paint job on the General Lee, 'er what...

Hey, I don't get it but I like Hugger Orange, even if it is a GM color.

And you keep this in mind, will ya: The South will rise again!

Couzin Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: GUEST,dinnerlady
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 08:19 PM

Hey Earthling, loved it! Didn't get it tho'...what's with the ku klux hens? but hey..does Burt suit a canoe or what?????!!!

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: Amos
Date: 24 Mar 04 - 08:56 PM

Man, SRS, I am downright impressed at the literary heights of yon journal and your part therein! Very beautiful essay on an obviously powerful book.


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Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: LadyJean
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 12:40 AM

I don't have speakers on my computer, and it's still funny.

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 01:12 AM

[blush. . .]

The Burt Reynolds bit is a reference to Dickey's Deliverance, and I got the Dukes of Hazard stuff, but I can only figure the chickens are a pun--the Cool Clucks Clan perhaps?

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 01:15 AM

That pun works even better if chickens ever Coo. Duh.

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: fat B****rd
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 03:23 AM

Soooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeeee !! I've had this for quite a while and fend off questions from my grandchildren about the pigs.

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: mooman
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 03:34 AM

Excellent!

Bears a stylistic similarity to the work of

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: mooman
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 03:36 AM

Excellent!

Bears a stylistic similarity to the work of Joel Veitch whose site has been the subject of previous Mudcat threads.

Peace

moo

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: Hrothgar
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 05:04 AM

So, if I understand this correctly, bricolage is making stew?

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: JennyO
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 08:00 AM

Loved it! That's brightened up my day!

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 09:59 AM

Bricolage is to, as a craftsman, construct something from the available materials, sometimes reengineering those materials to make them work in this particular project. You could say, perhaps, that the image of Burt Reynolds, while it acts as a reference to the film Deliverance, is not from that era--it looks like a much older Burt. The artiste engineered that canoist from disparate materials he had handy to create the reference to the film (and the music used in the film--it was the music that clued us into why Burt would be there at all).

My aim in using that word was not to begin a postmodern deconstruction of the movie, but to nod an acknowledgement to his resourcefulness in finding so many bits to stick together.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: The Duel
From: Amos
Date: 25 Mar 04 - 10:11 AM

I smell a thesis, SRS!! "Post Modern Deconstructionism in Advanced-Technology Bricolage: Burt and They". Ya think?? Get you a PhD, gal!! Yeehaw!


A