#the other thing I tagged Benedict on a while ago was also a beautiful blue #I don’t *always* tag Benedict in blue things #but it’s blue *and* a bird so how could I not #(and I was going to reblog this anyway) #bird #pretty things
Simon De Montfort, having been defeated and killed by Royalists, his body mutilated and his extremities distributed among his enemies as trophies, faces the final indignity: T.K. Maxx. Leicester, April 2017.
This will cause an extra parallel-universe cognitive glitch for my American friends, and I am excited for that to happen here
I’m amused to see Elodie’s addition, because yes, that is exactly what happened.
(Me, upon seeing this picture: ”–wait what? What???”
Me, upon scrolling down just enough to see the original caption: “You mean that’s not even what the picture is supposed to be about?”)
But why would they even–
‘The company modified the name to T.K. Maxx to avoid “confusion with the established British retail chain T J Hughes (which is not affiliated with TJX)“‘
Ah, okay.
(…wait, but if it’s not called that in Britain, why is there a bit in a Jasper Fforde book that goes like this:
“You imprisoned her in a clothing store?”
“It’s not really a clothing store; that’s just the cover story. Temporal Jail, Maximum Security. Didn’t you ever wonder why it was called TJ Maxx?”)
Because the rest of that acronym was “Temporal-J Maximum Security.” I always wondered why the “J” didn’t stand for anything!
And of course it would be entirely on-theme for a Thursday Next book to have editions with slightly different text.
>>And of course it would be entirely on-theme for a Thursday Next book to have editions with slightly different text.<<
Yeah, I wondered if maybe that just wasn’t in the original, but I’m not sure how cleanly you could excise the TJ Maxx joke given that a plot conversation takes place there. Was Aornis stuck at the checkout of a different store in the original, possibly one with an impenetrably British joke? (But a reference being impenetrably obscure has never stopped Jasper Fforde before.)
Does anyone have a British copy of First Among Sequels they can check?
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>>I always wondered why the “J” didn’t stand for anything!<<
I did some Googling and at first it looked like you were thinking of a bit in The Woman Who Died A Lot, which I haven’t read yet. I was thinking of First Among Sequels.
But then I went and looked at my copy of First Among Sequels, and that doesn’t specify what the J stands for, either.
I mean, I might have just filled it in from context, but it kind of looks like we have a Berenstain situation on our hands in more ways than one.
Simon De Montfort, having been defeated and killed by Royalists, his body mutilated and his extremities distributed among his enemies as trophies, faces the final indignity: T.K. Maxx. Leicester, April 2017.
This will cause an extra parallel-universe cognitive glitch for my American friends, and I am excited for that to happen here
I’m amused to see Elodie’s addition, because yes, that is exactly what happened.
(Me, upon seeing this picture: ”–wait what? What???”
Me, upon scrolling down just enough to see the original caption: “You mean that’s not even what the picture is supposed to be about?”)
But why would they even–
‘The company modified the name to T.K. Maxx to avoid “confusion with the established British retail chain T J Hughes (which is not affiliated with TJX)”‘
Ah, okay.
(…wait, but if it’s not called that in Britain, why is there a bit in a Jasper Fforde book that goes like this:
“You imprisoned her in a clothing store?”
“It’s not really a clothing store; that’s just the cover story. Temporal Jail, Maximum Security. Didn’t you ever wonder why it was called TJ Maxx?”)
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#reply via reblog #it’s always the little things that get you #juxtaposition #one of the recent replies to this post says #”what in the name of the berenstain universe is tk maxx” #my thoughts exactly #right down to the Berenstain reference
#and he’s dressed like a fucking clown #although to be fair blue mandrill-style face paint *is* a neat idea #and I could definitely see integrating that into my headcanon #Red Panda Adventures #reactionblogging #oh look an original post #(look I don’t know why Steven Burley sounds blond he just does) #(maybe it’s the announcer peppiness?) #((okay let’s go find out how much brilliant plan the Mad Monkey has managed to stuff into 15 minutes))
[I’ve been watching Voyager for a while and I’ve come to a conclusion that they beam everything onboard. “Well, we have no idea what this is! BUT YOLO! Let’s beam that strange dangerously looking thing here and study it!” And then they have problems with it. Though this can been seen in other series too. ]
And when investigating a Mysteriously Deserted Spaceship (which they simply must do in-person, of course), they take off their spacesuit helmets as soon as they’ve determined the atmosphere is breathable, before checking for pathogens or anything.
(Oddly, this mostly doesn’t come back to bite them. But only mostly.)
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#Star Trek #Voyager #but really pretty much any show with spacesuits and Mysteriously Deserted Places
A more detailed look at the Doctor Who episode “The Bells of Saint John” reveals that the opening sequence has given away clues about web sites, sports and music that the visual designer who created the sequence enjoys.
It’s not actually known if lemons were made by humans or if they were just natural hybrids of citrons and sour oranges. Apparently it’s super common for citrons to fertilize basically anything they’re near.
great now we gotta kinkshame the fruit
Everything about this post is going in so many directions at once
lime/lemon fic classifications had a basis in reality
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#well this post was a wild ride #food #nsfw text? #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
Brinens and Things 