My ode to There_is_no_Bob

[bunny]

This probably belongs in media studies, but it concerns the life and times of the message boards so I'll post here.

I'm almost finished my first all the way through watching of twin peaks and from the very first appearance of "Bob" I couldn't help but think back to there_is_no_Bob and his amazing waggley eyebrowed avatar. I haven't laughed so much in a very long time.

It has enriched my viewing experience and made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. It also added a very happy in joke experience to the viewing of the show (along with the black lodge stuff, which makes me think that Wyndom Earle is seeking out Squirrel Nutkin.)

I love this show... and this community has made me love it more.

Also a bit of trivia. The actor playing bob was just some set dec guy who's image got caught on camera in the reflection of something in the first episode. It got Lynch thinking and he cast the fellow for the part. Great stuff, especially for me given that I'm trying to warm my way into the set decorator department.

[bunny]

Heh. Early on in watching the series I mentioned this to my boyfriend. He thought it was hilarious given the user name "there is no bob". Throughout the series he has quoted that term, as in "but, there is no bob!" and it makes me giggle.

[there_is_no_bob]

And the name has nothing at all to do with the show. Never watched it.

And that wasn't an ode! Bad things happen when I don't get an ode I was promised! Bad things!



...like me being awake at 5:30. fuck.

[Trainz]

This probably belongs in media studies, but it concerns the life and times of the message boards so I'll post here.

I'm almost finished my first all the way through watching of twin peaks and from the very first appearance of "Bob" I couldn't help but think back to there_is_no_Bob and his amazing waggley eyebrowed avatar.

I made that avatar!

Which makes me think, I saved a shitload of avy's from way back when... I should make a thread.

[bunny]

And the name has nothing at all to do with the show. Never watched it.

And that wasn't an ode! Bad things happen when I don't get an ode I was promised! Bad things!



...like me being awake at 5:30. fuck.

'kay, fine. It was really more an ode to your avatar.

Twin Peaks still rules.

[there_is_no_bob]

'kay, fine. It was really more an ode to your avatar.

Twin Peaks still rules.

Still not an ode! Dammit, I blame you for my cold!

The fact that I had the cold before you posted is irrelevant! Irrelevant, I say!

[Cat of Ulthar]

I say she needs a spanking.

[bunny]

I say she needs a spanking.

Yeah, but that's usually the case.

Okiee then, define an ode (and provide and example please) and I will do my darndest.

Who knows, maybe it'll even cure your cold.

and get well soon.

[there_is_no_bob]

Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode)

Google (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=en&hs=38B&q=define%3Aode&btnG=Search)
I'll accept either "The ode is a poem honoring a person, a place or a thing. Rhyme scheme is entirely subject to the poet’s wishes. (http://www.poetry.com/techniques/glossary.asp?letter=O)" or "ordinary differential equation (en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ODE)"

Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thou express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fring'd legend haunt about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:
Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave
Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
Bold lover, never, never canst thou kiss,
Though winning near the goal - yet, do not grieve;
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed
Your leaves, nor ever bid the spring adieu;
And, happy melodist, unwearied,
For ever piping songs for ever new;
More happy love! more happy, happy love!
For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd,
For ever panting, and for ever young;
All breathing human passion far above,
That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd,
A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.

Who are these coming to the sacrifice?
To what green altar, O mysterious priest,
Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies,
And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?
What little town by river or sea shore,
Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,
Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?
And, little town, thy streets for evermore
Will silent be; and not a soul to tell
Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.

O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede
Of marble men and maidens overwrought,
With forest branches and the trodden weed;
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u119/there_is_no_bob/NumberedEquation9.gif (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/OrdinaryDifferentialEquation.html)

[Name Lips]

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/lit_term.html
Ode: usually a lyric poem of moderate length, with a serious subject, an elevated style, and an elaborate stanza pattern.There are various kinds of odes, which we don't have to worry about in an introductiory course like this. The ode often praises people, the arts of music and poetry, natural scenes, or abstract concepts. The Romantic poets used the ode to explore both personal or general problems; they often started with a meditation on something in nature, as did Keats in "Ode to a Nightingale" or Shelley in"Ode to the West Wind." Click here for a fuller discussion of the ode.

http://www.bartleby.com/101/610.html
http://www.bartleby.com/101/625.html
http://www.bartleby.com/101/624.html