Subject: Re: GUM From: shephard@newsserver.sfu.ca (Gordon Shephard) Date: 1991-05-07, 06:59 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In <64011@bbn.BBN.COM> mhefferm@bbn.com (Matt Hefferman) writes: > >In regard to the business about "The gum you like...", I think the typical > >a.tv.tp over-analysis has obscured the true meaning. If we check the closed- > >captioning I'm sure we'll find the correct quote to be "The Gumm you like...", > >referring of course to Frances Gumm (aka Judy Garland). You see, the clue is > >actually a portent of an another Wizard of Oz allusion (we've seen two already). > >My prediction: Major Briggs, upon recovering from his truth-serum-induced funk, > >dispatches Windom Earle with a handy bucket of water. > >Then again, maybe not. Incredible. Independently, and without any connection to this particular chain of thought, I too zeroed in on the Oz allusion. The Water-in-the-Jail-Cell MUST have directed with this in mind. -- | Gordon Harry Shephard | Distributed Computing Support Group | | Academic Computing Services | Phone: (604)291-3930 (604)464-4991 | | Simon Fraser University | USERGHS@SFU.BITNET | | Burnaby, BC, Canada. V5A 1S6 | Shephard@Whistler.sfu.ca |