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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 17 Sep 2005.
Re: [PIC] Dynamine Glauce_Bates V. - Nymphalidae (Brasil)

Re: [PIC] Dynamine Glauce_Bates V. - Nymphalidae (Brasil)

Homer.Simpson wrote:

>Sharky said
>
>> Melkuth wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>>Even though more than two years have passed I was able
>>>> to reach for my dreams and let these dreams take flight so that
>>>> their colors could shin. 
>> <snip>
>> 
>>>Who are you to utter such profoundness? Thankyou for your
>>>butterfly, ascii and not.
>> 
>> It's the "shinning"...
>> 
>> "Here's Hooooooomer!!"
>
>I thought it was Johnny?   [I'm Homer, I should know]

Yep! it was.  

"Shining" references 
Similarities between "The Shinning" and "The Shining"

    - title of first segment
    - plot: Homer (Jack Torrance), winter caretaker at lonely lodge,
      goes insane
    - blood pouring out of elevator
    - hedge maze (topiary of hedge animals in book)
    - Bart (Danny) can read people's thoughts
    - Willy (Halloran), the benevolent gardener (cook), identifies
      Bart's (Danny's) gift
    - Willy (Halloran) calls it "the shin" ("the shine")
    - Willy (Halloran) tells him to call if he needs Willy
    - Maggie spells "Redrum" with her blocks (Danny keeps hearing the
      word "Redrum" -- "murder" backwards -- and not getting it)
    - a ghost in the bar offers Homer (Jack) a drink
    - Marge (Wendy) reads typewritten stuff by Homer (Jack)
    - "No TV and no beer maker Homer go crazy ("All work and no play
      make Jack a dull boy")
    - Marge (Wendy) leaves Homer (Jack) in walk-in cooler
    - Homer (Jack) is released by ghostly bartender
    - Homer (Jack) chops his way into rooms with an axe
    - "Heeeere's Johnny!"  (famous Jack Nicholson line in movie)
    - radio for help fails
    - police station with Wiggum identical to Forestry Service station
      {bd}
    - Bart (Danny) uses Shin (shine) to call Willy (Halloran)
    - Willy (Halloran) has a picture of a Scottish (black) woman above
      his bed
    - Willy (Halloran) tries to save the day (Halloran doesn't die in
      the book, does die in the movie)
    - Jack freezes in the snow (in the movie)
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F03.html

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Subject: Re: [PIC] Dynamine Glauce_Bates V. - Nymphalidae (Brasil)
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