watership down

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:52 pm

shyal_malkes wrote:I do not understant what it is that people just seem to have against tentacles. I mean when I think of tenticles I think of a squid or an octomus or a sea annenome or one of those things that attacked Frodo in The Lord of the Rings.

I honestly don't get it.

Probably better off.

RDB · Post by **RDB** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 8:03 pm

t.s.a.o wrote:is this a good place to ask what this movie or series is about? the only good review I've heard of it is that it's creepy....

A synopsis with screenshots starts at http://www.thankustars.co.uk/gallery/film1.html
My favorite scenes are at http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~bauerle/wtrshpd2.htm

Ron

Squeaky Bunny · Post by **Squeaky Bunny** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:11 am

Madmoonie wrote:
shyal_malkes wrote:I do not understant what it is that people just seem to have against tentacles. I mean when I think of tenticles I think of a squid or an octomus or a sea annenome or one of those things that attacked Frodo in The Lord of the Rings.

I honestly don't get it.
Probably better off.

They are delicious if cooked right.

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:21 am

RHJunior wrote:"Tentacle hentai."

sure Ralph make me go and look up another word why don't ya.

*grumble brumble*

and is that chinese, japanese or anime-ese

LoneWolf23k · Post by **LoneWolf23k** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:42 am

shyal_malkes wrote:
RHJunior wrote:"Tentacle hentai."
sure Ralph make me go and look up another word why don't ya.

*grumble brumble*

and is that chinese, japanese or anime-ese

It comes from Japanese Anime. Due to Japanese censorship laws, it's against the law for artists to portray a man's.. "thingie" entering a woman's.. "whatchamacallit". But apparantly, there's a loophole in the law that clever artists have exploited: using naughty tentacles instead of the more "standard apparatus"..

And yes, I'm well aware that my knowledge of this is going to give me some weird looks from the people here.

So, getting back on the original topic, my first exposure to Watership Down was.. ...An Animated TV series aimed at general audiances. In the process of this, they turned quite a few of the original bucks into does, and took out the more extreme bits of violence that I'm aware of (You can find out more about it here: http://www.tv.com/watership-down/show/6229/summary.html)

Squeaky Bunny · Post by **Squeaky Bunny** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:51 am

shyal_malkes wrote:
RHJunior wrote:"Tentacle hentai."
sure Ralph make me go and look up another word why don't ya.

*grumble brumble*

and is that chinese, japanese or anime-ese

Oh yes. Think naughty and you have ecchi, think really naughty and you have hentai.

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:57 am

I once tried designing a video game based on watership down, it was one of those 'age of empires' style games and it extended so far into fiction and fantacy that if you advanced enough you could eventually start building burrows and runs in the sky and clouds!

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:12 am

I love "Watershp Down" have been reading it for many years. I was excited when I heard of a follow up book, it stank. So just ignore it and stick with the classic.

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:20 am

isn't that typical of a lot of sequels though, the first one's good but the sequesl's just a means of extending the story more for the sake of money then for the story.

he Sol, I got a bunch of old games for my psx the other day, lessee here, beat ocelot, beak 'the psycho' beat raven (once), beat wolf (twice), beat snake(once) now I forget where I left off but I like that game, every time I die the guys over the codec have to listen to the badgerbadgerbadger song again (inside joke you have to play the game and have listened to the song)

The JAM · Post by **The JAM** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:08 am

So what is a water-ship and why is it down?

Lee M · Post by **Lee M** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:21 pm

A down is a chalk hill. Yes, I expect it would be more logical to call it an up, but real life isn't logical.

Tbolt · Post by **Tbolt** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:20 pm

Actually, if the chalk in the hill is white, it might be the same color as down feathers, therefore the connection.

Please forgive me if I missed a joke and stated the obvious, I sometimes have an annoying tendancy of doing that...

Wanderwolf · Post by **Wanderwolf** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:53 am

Tbolt wrote:Actually, if the chalk in the hill is white, it might be the same color as down feathers, therefore the connection.

Please forgive me if I missed a joke and stated the obvious, I sometimes have an annoying tendancy of doing that...

No, no, you're fine. The derivation's a bit off, though. "Down" comes from the Old English "dun", which derives from the Celtic "dun", meaning "hill or fortress", after the Old Irish "dun", meaning "hill or hill fort". It forms the second half of London, for instance, and is the source of the word "dune". It's believed to come from the proto-Indo-European base, "dheue-", meaning "to close, finish, come full circle".

Down feathers, on the other paw, have down from the Old Norse "dunn", which is believed to derive from the proto-Indo-European base of "*dheu-", meaning "to fly about (like dust), whirl, shake".

Sorry, I love research.

Yours truly,

The wordy,

Wanderer

Tbolt · Post by **Tbolt** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:34 am

Hee, hee, nice word analysis, that makes far more sense than what I proposed! =^^=

The JAM · Post by **The JAM** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 8:57 am

Wouldn't "watership" be redundant, unless at the time of making that word there were also airships and landships?

Ann Vole · Post by **Ann Vole** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:13 am

The JAM wrote:Wouldn't "watership" be redundant, unless at the time of making that word there were also airships and landships?

some rotting old raft left on the side of a river does not have the romance of "watership". I think having them seaking a place called "Watership Down" was part prophicy to get them to cross the river. Rabbits like those chalk hills to dig in too (see a post above on the definition of "down"

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:37 am

I don't think the rabbits knew where they were going until after they crossed that first river. personally I think it was hamed "Watership" because that's what the author wanted it to be named,

and twice the rabbits in question use nautical craft to escape their enemies.

Sariah · Post by **Sariah** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:20 am

The JAM wrote:Wouldn't "watership" be redundant, unless at the time of making that word there were also airships and landships?

Or luftships?

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:22 am

Sariah wrote:[Or luftships?

Hairyshoe · Post by **Hairyshoe** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:57 am

Watership Down is apparently a real place, in the English county of Hampshire. It's next to some town called Kingsclere, but since Lord Lloyd-Webber (yes, that Lloyd-Webber) owns much of it, nothing's been built on it. Still no idea why it's called "watership," though.

...I like research too.

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