Dangerous Experiment (Search for Love)
Time to do something I've been thinking about for a while. Last year - last year! - there was a meme going around discussing five fictional characters and heliopausa gave me the letter N.
1. Nova
In the early 80s, 5pm was my favourite time of any weekday. That was the time the ABC programmers had kindly set aside for programs especially for me: The Goodies, Battle of the Planets, Star Blazers. Nova was the main female character in Star Blazers. She did something with computers, and was maybe also a nurse? I don't know. It was a bit vague. Whatever her occupation, she is surely the inspiration for Uma Thurman's costume in Kill Bill.
2. Nemo
Three things about clownfish:
1. Clownfish have a single female queen in a school of males. Much like bees.
2. Clownfish are hermaphrodites. When the female dies, the dominant male changes sex and becomes the next queen.
3. Damaged eggs are eaten by the other clownfish.
So next time you watch Finding Nemo. think about how if it was a documentary, once Nemo's mother died at the start, Nemo's father would have turned into a female and eaten Nemo's damaged egg. Film over.
3. Nancy Drew
As the only girl child in my generation of the family, I inherited quite a library. From my mother, British pony books from the 1950s; her slightly younger cousins turned their sights to the US, specifically the Trixie Belden mysteries. They were big into Trixie Belden, my cousins. And so was I after I read them. There was nothing in those books that did not appeal to me: Trixie and her friends wore matching jackets with their mystery-solving gang's logo cross-stitched on the back; one of Trixie's friends was a former hood from New York who had previous been in a street gang called the Cow Hands; the frequent commission of crimes that could be solved with high school science (two blue-eyed millionaires can't have a long-lost brown-eyed son!). Among the Trixie Beldens was one lone Nancy Drew book, The Secret of Shadow Ranch, and I remember nothing about it, other than Nancy goes to Arizona and buys some turquoise jewellery. That's it. Nancy made no impression on me whatsoever. You should all read Trixie Belden instead.
4. Neville Longbottom
The Neville Longbottom in my head while I was reading the Harry Potter books looked like a boy I went to primary school with, who was similarly good-natured and uncoordinated. And then the films came out and the kid they cast as Neville looked disconcertingly like Nicholas. He was a nice kid, Nicholas.
(He did not grow up to look like grown-up Neville.)
5. Nicholas Nickleby
I haven't read this book and I don't intend to. Two Ns, though.
Do feel free to ask for a letter if you've been hankering to do this for the last six months.
Weekly knitting update: It's coming on.
1. Nova
In the early 80s, 5pm was my favourite time of any weekday. That was the time the ABC programmers had kindly set aside for programs especially for me: The Goodies, Battle of the Planets, Star Blazers. Nova was the main female character in Star Blazers. She did something with computers, and was maybe also a nurse? I don't know. It was a bit vague. Whatever her occupation, she is surely the inspiration for Uma Thurman's costume in Kill Bill.
2. Nemo
Three things about clownfish:
1. Clownfish have a single female queen in a school of males. Much like bees.
2. Clownfish are hermaphrodites. When the female dies, the dominant male changes sex and becomes the next queen.
3. Damaged eggs are eaten by the other clownfish.
So next time you watch Finding Nemo. think about how if it was a documentary, once Nemo's mother died at the start, Nemo's father would have turned into a female and eaten Nemo's damaged egg. Film over.
3. Nancy Drew
As the only girl child in my generation of the family, I inherited quite a library. From my mother, British pony books from the 1950s; her slightly younger cousins turned their sights to the US, specifically the Trixie Belden mysteries. They were big into Trixie Belden, my cousins. And so was I after I read them. There was nothing in those books that did not appeal to me: Trixie and her friends wore matching jackets with their mystery-solving gang's logo cross-stitched on the back; one of Trixie's friends was a former hood from New York who had previous been in a street gang called the Cow Hands; the frequent commission of crimes that could be solved with high school science (two blue-eyed millionaires can't have a long-lost brown-eyed son!). Among the Trixie Beldens was one lone Nancy Drew book, The Secret of Shadow Ranch, and I remember nothing about it, other than Nancy goes to Arizona and buys some turquoise jewellery. That's it. Nancy made no impression on me whatsoever. You should all read Trixie Belden instead.
4. Neville Longbottom
The Neville Longbottom in my head while I was reading the Harry Potter books looked like a boy I went to primary school with, who was similarly good-natured and uncoordinated. And then the films came out and the kid they cast as Neville looked disconcertingly like Nicholas. He was a nice kid, Nicholas.
(He did not grow up to look like grown-up Neville.)
5. Nicholas Nickleby
I haven't read this book and I don't intend to. Two Ns, though.
Do feel free to ask for a letter if you've been hankering to do this for the last six months.
Weekly knitting update: It's coming on.