20 Replies to “The new, less “pedantic” protein wisdom: post number 2”

1. Challeron says:

   January 10, 2006 at 5:11 pm

   Noir: It’s a black thing.

2. mojo says:

   January 10, 2006 at 5:13 pm

   Don’t see many “gunsels” and their “molls” anymore, either. And damn few “hard-boiled detectives”.

   Too bad.

   But at least we still get the occasional crane shot.

3. Beck says:

   January 10, 2006 at 5:23 pm

   Beck presents: Great quotes from 40’s noir.  Today we have Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep: “I’m a dick.”

4. tee bee says:

   January 10, 2006 at 5:26 pm

   My husband’s dad, a phone company exec, was named Leon. From time to time, people who met him in person after working with him on the phone would say things like, “I thought you were black,” or “You don’t meet too many white guys named Leon.” Ah, the 70s.

5. Sean Gleeson says:

   January 10, 2006 at 6:39 pm

   Leon Redbone is white. I think.

6. McGehee says:

   January 10, 2006 at 7:23 pm

   So was Leon Trotsky.

   Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

7. Sticky B says:

   January 10, 2006 at 7:52 pm

   I know lots of mexicans named DeLeon.

8. wishbone says:

   January 10, 2006 at 7:55 pm

   Not many women going by “Pussy” anymore either.

   Junior high boys everywhere are DEPRIVED by this great injustice.

   Not to mention those of us who Jeff referred to as “brilliant” in another post.  Although I think he was speaking about someone other than me.  For obvious 8th gradish reasons.

9. gail says:

   January 10, 2006 at 7:57 pm

   Now you’re getting all ESOTERIC. I like it when you talk about breakfast cereal.

10. Jay says:

    January 10, 2006 at 8:20 pm

    Maybe it’s time we stopped surrendering to the inevitable.  Maybe it’s time we took a stand!

    Those of you with kids – rename them to Leon.  Especially the girls.

    It’s time to stand up for Leons!

    sw: drinking.  Was I?

11. RS says:

    January 10, 2006 at 8:48 pm

    How about this guy?

    Okay, I know it’s Léon, but c’mon – it’s Jean Reno!

12. Karl Maher says:

    January 10, 2006 at 9:34 pm

    The terrier next door is named Leon. He’s white but he pees on the fence. You just can’t have anything nice, you know?

13. Earthling in a time of Pomeranians says:

    January 10, 2006 at 9:45 pm

    Leon Redbone is white. I think.

    Yep.  Puts on a kinda laid-back, low-key but cool show, too.

14. MayBee says:

    January 10, 2006 at 10:02 pm

    I know two kids named Leo, which is eerily similar.

15. lee says:

    January 10, 2006 at 11:00 pm

    My Grandfathers name was Leon, My middle name is too, after him. But, I can’t be bothered with all those syllables, so I post as lee.
    
    Oh, and I’m a 44 YO white guy.

16. Boner of Zion says:

    January 10, 2006 at 11:25 pm

    I have an uncle Leon whose beard is bigger and blacker than Warren Sapp’s torso. And his voice booms like an oil tanker dragging across a reef. Scary, scary man.

    Oh, almost forgot—in Earthquake (1974), he played the part of Plate Tectonics.

    BECAUSE HOLLYWOOD IS OURS!

17. Mr. Toad says:

    January 11, 2006 at 1:49 am

    “So you reach down and flip the tortoise over on its back, Leon….”

    One of my favorite films noir. And this guy was white.

18. Joan of Argghh! says:

    January 11, 2006 at 2:02 am

    Favorite quote from Noir (I think..):
    
    “I’ve met some hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you, you’re 15 minutes.”
    
    Turing word, “stood”, as in, “She stood there in the doorway, with a question in her eyes and a cigarette in her hand.”

19. CraigC says:

    January 11, 2006 at 2:38 am

    Film noir is so…..dark.

20. marcus says:

    January 11, 2006 at 4:40 am

    I like to order a bacon cheeseburger pizza, sans sauce, then add mayonnaise to each slice.  Yummy!

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