Comments on: LOL-November 23

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:26:14 +0000

Bill, Also, she might have started the book earlier in the day and she hasn’t been able to put it down.

By: Molly J

Molly J — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:15:02 +0000

I roared at the Pearls Before Swine. Genius!

By: Elyrest

Elyrest — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:40:38 +0000

CIDU Bill - Some people like to be scared - that’s why horror movies and Stephan King have been so popular. Janis is “safe” reading something scary because Arlo is there to protect her. Her reading choice might reflect banishing her boogie monsters before she sleeps.

By: CIDU Bill

CIDU Bill — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:12:41 +0000

One thing I was wondering about: If the book is so scary that Janis was afraid to walk to the bathroom by herself, is that really something she should be reading before going to sleep?

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:54:55 +0000

My brother or sister had a Road Runner comic book, and, in that comic, the Road Runner’s real name is Beep Beep.

I really can’t imagine Bugs being stupid enough to accept an invitation to dinner at the Coyote’s; there’s almost as many cartoons with While E trying to capture Bugs, as Road Runner. That was my first thought seeing Bugs sitting down to dinner with the coyote, before I read the text.

And Elmer Fudd should be sitting where Yosemite Sam is; Sam never tried to eat Bugs, although he did try to serve him to a king.

By: Elyrest

Elyrest — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:20:12 +0000

I agree with mkilby and turquoise cow that the sound was always meep/mieep rather than beep. When I have imitated the road-runner I always said “meep meep”. If someone said “beep beep” to me I’d think they were a car. I did understand the cartoon though - too many Warner Bros. characters and that sh*t-eating grin on the coyote’s face made it obvious (to me).

By: mkilby

mkilby — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:35:17 +0000

@ Jeff - That’s what I meant when I mentioned the “canonical” spelling. The Warner animation department always used “beep” whenever the sound was transliterated, but that does not change the fact that the clip as captured (and as remembered by the principle figures involved) always sounds as “mieep mieep”.

By: Jeff S.

Jeff S. — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:26:23 +0000

Here is an old Viewmaster slide. At least here the Road Runner says Beep Beep — http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2078/2125100158_c61e4a28b3.jpg

And according to the song, he ‘goes’ Beep Beep too…

If you’re on the highway and Road Runner goes beep beep.
Just step aside or might end up in a heap.
Road Runner, Road Runner runs on the road all day.
Even the coyote can’t make him change his ways.

Road Runner, the coyote’s after you.
Road Runner, if he catches you you’re through.
Road Runner, the coyote’s after you.
Road Runner, if he catches you you’re through.

That coyote is really a crazy clown,
When will he learn he can never mow him down?
Poor little Road Runner never bothers anyone,
Just runnin’ down the road’s his idea of having fun.

By: Dave in Boston

Dave in Boston — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:40:30 +0000

oh! of course.

By: mkilby

mkilby — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:17:36 +0000

@ Turquoise Cow (8) - I’ll have to check my DVD boxed sets of Warner Bros. cartoons for the exact disk, but I know that somewhere in the commentary there was a clip of someone (Chuck Jones?) explaining that they captured the characteristic sound from one of the other studio employees (NOT Mel Blanc!). It was specifically mentioned that the sound was more like “meep meep” than “beep beep”, but I’m not sure whether a spelling was given.