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oldmanmickey wrote:Given all she has been through most people would be crying and i suspect you could not drive a needle up their end with a 20 lb sledge hammer.
Ok, really? That needle and sledgehammer thing made no sense to me. Up who's end? Why are we driving needles up people's ends with sledgehammers? I know it's (probably... Hopefully) a figure of speech, but... every fiber of my being just went "huh?"
If you have to think, it's head-tilt kink.
and when you have to explain muscular reactions of sheer terror or gripping emotional response it takes all the snideness out of it. Perhaps further illumination might be available by looking up the colloquialism "tighter than a ducks rear end" and extrapolate to fear reactions.
... unless you go *too* far, and just confuse.. needles being hit by hammers has more connection to opening up a small hole(like a ducks ass) ... the 'terror grip' would need a crowbar to lift...
"head-tilt kink" ?? just looked that up.. read this for WHY Paul etc, do not show more... :/
GlytchMeister wrote:Who's Naomi? Is this a joke people under a certain age don't get, or is it something I should totally know but I wasn't paying enough attention? (the latter happens all the time. I have a strange rate of exposure to culture)
Old soap opera trope, Naomi was a peripheral character who never got any air time in a radio soaper, but got mentioned in every closing asking if anything was going to happen to her character. We're talking 1930s old trope.
Actually, as pointed out in the comment above yours, it's a reference to The Electric Company, which makes it 1970s.
(I think i was the one who dragged the reference , kicking and screaming, in here.)
Actually, Naomi is the receptionist at Mercy Medical ER there in Wapsiville
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