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I sometimes fear we will never return to the glory days of Hollywood that were the mid to late ninteen eighties.
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"Wouldn't that be rather a whale with prejudices against humans?"
Well, if we're going to be strict about it, I guess that either way it should be "speciesist", or something. Just like we have racists, not "bliackists" or "whiteists" or some such. But, when someone's making up a fake "-ism", I think they usually use the term for what the person hates, not what the person likes.
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quote:Originally posted by Lee: . . . er, whale-ologist?
Cetacean Biologist is the term used in the movie. Cetologist sounds a little too abbreviated to me, in theory it could be associated with any species who's name begins with "Cet-". I can only assume that there are a few of these.
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Yes, thank you Jeffrey. I'd already been contacted by at least one person - I believe he's from a tribe of Masai in a remote part of the Serengeti - who didn't get the reference. . .
It's from the movie Sneakers. "Setec Astronomy" is an anagram of "Too Many Secrets," and is used to represent the ultimate codebreaking chip; the heroes work this out using a Scrabble board.
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