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"Help, I've fallen over and I can't get up..."
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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 92 11:03:44 -0800
From: Rex Black <rex@devnet.la.locus.com>
Message-Id: <9202121903.AA409693@devnet.la.locus.com>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
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> > broken into ("Help, I've fallen over and I can't get up...").
> Can someone enlighten me on the source of this quote?
This'll surely be but a fly-dropping in the multitude of responses, but
I first encountered this gem on CNN, where an old woman uses the line
in a commercial for some geriatric version of the yuppie-toy walkie-talkie
that neurotic parents can use with their children to monitor their
every burp, fart and wail (as seen in "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle",
the "Fatal Attraction" of nanny movies). Being a warped individual, I found
it hilarious, and the ad became something of a "cult-classic" in the old
Black household, right up there with the Ricola commericals (esp. the
one where the guy does his little "yippe!" after giving the cougher
his lozenge). I would gather the whole extended family around to
savor this piece of commerical art when it came on.
Needless to say, I was amazed when it started showing up on tee-shirts,
in random conversation, and on the net. However, the most remarkable
incident occurred when President Bush referred to the "doom-sayers who
claim the economy has fallen and it can't get up." (Funny how the woman
in the ad resembled Barbara!) As Rodney Anonymous Melloncamp says, "Now
everybody's me!"
> Ob SubG content: the new KLF hit is called "Justified And Ancient"...
Yes, with special guest vocals by Tammy "little woman standing by her
man [--H.C.]" Wynette! The song is about the justified ancients taking
a train to mumu-land. I endured five to six close listenings of Tammy's
wretched voice to capture that pearl of wisdom, so ya better just take
my word on it!
Rex
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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1992 15:27:31 -0500 (EST)
From: Peter Glen Berger <pb1p+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <9202092106.AA15118@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>
In-Reply-To: <9202092106.AA15118@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>
Lang_Zerner@go.com writes:
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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 92 08:29:15 EST
From: Wes Morgan <morgan@engr.uky.edu>
Message-Id: <9202121329.AA04468@d.ecc.engr.uky.edu>
To: @mc.lcs.mit.edu:Subgenius-request@mc.lcs.mit.edu
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>> broken into ("Help, I've fallen over and I can't get up...").
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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>Can someone enlighten me on the source of this quote? I've seen it
>lots of times on the net, someone even posted a .snd-file with someone
>saying it. Enquiring mind wants to know!!
There is a product, sold in the USA, called "LifeCall". This is a little
radio that you wear around your neck; press the button, and you are con-
nected with a dispatcher. Tell your problem to the dispatcher, and they
call the ambulance folks, directing them to your home (all your personal
data is on file).
The commercials are ridiculous; one of them features an older woman, wearing
an obviously feigned expression of pain. She reaches weakly for the button,
presses it, and moans "I've fallen, and I can't get up!". Since then, pundits
and comics have used/misused/abused this line, catapulting it into the common
subconscious.
Best,
Wes Morgan
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Wes Morgan, not speaking for \ !{any major site}!ukma!ukecc!morgan
the University of Kentucky's \ morgan%engr.uky.edu@UKCC
Engineering Computing Center \ morgan@engr.uky.edu
Lint is merely the compiler's means of controlling the programmer's ego.
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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 92 10:45:51 PST
From: Ben Stoltz <Ben.Stoltz@eng.sun.com>
Message-Id: <9202121845.AA21108@denwa.Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject:
Note that a tNt version was composed and can now be found in the
OpenWindows V3 release under $OPENWINHOME/demo/pizzatool. This is
not the original XView version, but the GUI is much cooler.
This version also lacks the pizza optimizer which will find the
optimal base pizza and extra ingredient addition/deletion vs. cost
combination.
Ahhhh.....
Don Hopkins (now hopkins@toad.com?) wrote the tNt version and the manager
who caused all the fuss about using the wrong toolkit has left Sun.
-- The Leftmost Rev. on the bench over there waiting for his pizza, Ben Stoltz
> From: "Michael J. Tuciarone" <tooch@auspex.com>
> To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
> Subject: UUCPizza
>
> > >From: pjs@euclid.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter J. Scott)
> > Subject: What next - pizza over UUCP? [UUCPizza?]
>
> I know this is straying from SubG issues, but...
>
> Several years back, a friend of mine at Sun wrote PizzaTool, a
> window-based Open Look-compliant X client. When run, it presents you
> with a set of dialogs that allow you to select pizza size and toppings,
> and verify price and delivery place and time. Upon clicking "Order" or
> something, it would compose a pizza order, render it to a bitmap, dial
> a modem, and fax it to Tony & Alba's Pizza in Mountain View.
>
> I'd name names, but there was actually quite a scandal: it seems
> PizzaTool was developed using the politically incorrect XView toolkit
> instead of the insanely great TNT X/NeWS PostScript toolkit (Sun: "Yes,
> we support X11, but we don't have to like it.") and there was some
> unpleasantness as management stood in line to cane the author.
>
> Moral: Slack can *very threatening* to the Pinks--be careful out there.
>
> --the Rightmost Right Most Rev. Touch Irony
> of the Chapel of Our Lady of the Ford Small-Block
>
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From: "D. V. Henkel-Wallace" <gumby@cygnus.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 92 11:37:40 EST
Message-Id: <9202121637.AA01621@tweedledumb.cygnus.com>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: "Help, I've fallen over and I can't get up..."
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 92 16:39:07 +0100
From: Christer Lindh <clindh@abalon.se>
> broken into ("Help, I've fallen over and I can't get up...").
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
Can someone enlighten me on the source of this quote?
It's a pun on what Jesus said in the disco:
"I've risen but I can't get down!"
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