"Alex"... "Xander"... funny
Magus
what jobs they perform but the names are, Thomas Wanker and Nerf Herder
(Nerf Herder, if memory serves, was an insult in Star Wars made by Carrie
Fisher's character). I wonder if they're even real people? Funny names
though.
"Volin" <Vo...@kalta.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Heather" <heathp...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > Even better, for all those in other countries, tell us a story, or
> > something that you caught that was like "whoa!" that is a dirty word"
> > I remember "Hush" when Spike was tied up in Xanders "Alex" basement,
> > that he did like a backwords peace sign or something, I heard that was
> > the UK equivalent of the US' flipping the bird, or middle finger.
> >
>
> The "two fingered salute" isn't really a UK equivalent of "flipping the
> bird", most people I know use both. If memory serves me correct the two
> fingered salute was first used after the Battle of Agincourt by English
> archers to French knights to show that they still had their draw fingers -
> apparently if captured the fingers were removed to prevent them from using
a
> bow (something that most of the knights would have been aware of as they
> came off rather badly :-)
>
> When you consider the Tolerate/Hate relationship between the English and
the
> French it shows the depth of feeling behind it :-)
> Not sure if it is historically correct, but it makes for a cool story :-)
>
>
Desiree Davis
> In the credits 2 names appear on screen at once. I've never really
> noticed what jobs they perform but the names are, Thomas Wanker and
> Nerf Herder (Nerf Herder, if memory serves, was an insult in Star
> Wars made by Carrie Fisher's character). I wonder if they're even
> real people? Funny names though.
Nerf Herder is the name of the band that performers the opening title
music.
Thomas Wanker has several music oriented credits to his uh... credit.
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Wanker,+Thomas
Désirée - there's something to be said for name change laws
Cernunnos
"Magus" <m9...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> In the credits 2 names appear on screen at once. I've never really noticed
> what jobs they perform but the names are, Thomas Wanker and Nerf Herder
> (Nerf Herder, if memory serves, was an insult in Star Wars made by Carrie
> Fisher's character). I wonder if they're even real people? Funny names
> though.
its the name of the band that does the buffy theme song.
the wanker bit is a real guy too iirc.
David Brewer
>
> In the credits 2 names appear on screen at once. I've never really noticed
> what jobs they perform but the names are, Thomas Wanker and Nerf Herder
> (Nerf Herder, if memory serves, was an insult in Star Wars made by Carrie
> Fisher's character). I wonder if they're even real people? Funny names
> though.
There's also a Brian Wankum. How we laughed, eh?
Nerf Herder are a Californian punk band, they do the theme music
and they also do a song ("Vivian") that plays in the Bronze in the
second season 4 Faith episode. Sometimes they are described as
"nerdcore".
--
David Brewer
"The mentally disturbed do not employ the Theory of Scientific
Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of
facts." - P.K.Dick (from VALIS)
Don Sample
wrote:
> In the credits 2 names appear on screen at once. I've never really noticed
> what jobs they perform but the names are, Thomas Wanker and Nerf Herder
> (Nerf Herder, if memory serves, was an insult in Star Wars made by Carrie
> Fisher's character). I wonder if they're even real people? Funny names
> though.
Nerf Herder is the name of the band that composed, and plays the Buffy
theme for the opening and closing credits. (And they took their name
from Star Wars.)
Thomas Wanker is the composer/director for the musical score for each
episode (starting with season 5, except for a couple of episodes where
Joss brought back Chris Beck, who did seasons 1 - 4.)
--
Don Sample, dsa...@synapse.net
Visit the Buffy Body Count at http://www.synapse.net/~dsample/BBC
Quando omni flunkus moritati
David Chapman
> Magus wrote:
>>
>> In the credits 2 names appear on screen at once. I've never really
>> noticed what jobs they perform but the names are, Thomas Wanker and
>> Nerf Herder (Nerf Herder, if memory serves, was an insult in Star
>> Wars made by Carrie Fisher's character). I wonder if they're even
>> real people? Funny names though.
>
> There's also a Brian Wankum. How we laughed, eh?
Not as much as we laughed at the guy in the Aberdeen
phonebook called Fuckner. Or at Stefan Kuntz, back
in the day. These wacky Germans, eh?
--
I guess a Cleric Mercenary would be like a cross between a Jehovah's
Witness and a Hell's Angel... Someone who wakes you up at 6:30 a.m. on
a Saturday morning and then tells you to go f*** yourself.
David Brewer
>
> The seas boiled, the skies fell, and David Brewer said:
>
> > Magus wrote:
> >>
> >> In the credits 2 names appear on screen at once. I've never really
> >> noticed what jobs they perform but the names are, Thomas Wanker and
> >> Nerf Herder (Nerf Herder, if memory serves, was an insult in Star
> >> Wars made by Carrie Fisher's character). I wonder if they're even
> >> real people? Funny names though.
> >
> > There's also a Brian Wankum. How we laughed, eh?
>
> Not as much as we laughed at the guy in the Aberdeen
> phonebook called Fuckner. Or at Stefan Kuntz, back
> in the day. These wacky Germans, eh?
They are both wacky *and* zany. Very efficient.
Mark Evans
> Magus wrote:
>>
>> In the credits 2 names appear on screen at once. I've never really noticed
>> what jobs they perform but the names are, Thomas Wanker and Nerf Herder
>> (Nerf Herder, if memory serves, was an insult in Star Wars made by Carrie
>> Fisher's character). I wonder if they're even real people? Funny names
>> though.
> There's also a Brian Wankum. How we laughed, eh?
Only funny this side of the Atlantic, though if
it's an East European name the W is probably
pronounced as a V.
Mark Evans
> The seas boiled, the skies fell, and David Brewer said:
>> Magus wrote:
>>>
>>> In the credits 2 names appear on screen at once. I've never really
>>> noticed what jobs they perform but the names are, Thomas Wanker and
>>> Nerf Herder (Nerf Herder, if memory serves, was an insult in Star
>>> Wars made by Carrie Fisher's character). I wonder if they're even
>>> real people? Funny names though.
>>
>> There's also a Brian Wankum. How we laughed, eh?
> Not as much as we laughed at the guy in the Aberdeen
> phonebook called Fuckner. Or at Stefan Kuntz, back
> in the day. These wacky Germans, eh?
There is also "Mike Hunt", but doubt they'd use
this on the Bart Simpson phones Moe's Tavern type
joke.
Prodigy
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They DID do it. Mike Rutch. Still the same joke without being offensive.