"The angle of the dangle......"
Jeff Heilner
I know I shouldn't continue this debate, but......
"The angle of the dangle is inversely proportional to the heat of the
????"
Is it "meat" or "beat"?
I think it's "beat", and here's why:
I think we can all agree that Beavis and Butt-head are both obsessed by
the concept of masturbation. Given that, "beat" makes more sense coming
out of Beavis' mouth.
"...heat of the meat" would refer to a general level of sexual excitement,
but only the "...heat of the beat" refers specifically, and unequivocally
to masturbation.
Therefore, I can only conclude that Beavis said:
"The angle of the dangle is inversely proportional to the heat of the
beat"
I've watched that scene over and over on tape, and it sure sounds like
"beat" to me, though I can't say for certain.....but, regardless of what
it sounds like, given the argument above, I think "beat" makes more sense.
I also think I've spent WAY too much time on this.....flame away! ;)
- jeff
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Ken Krebs
> I know I shouldn't continue this debate, but......
> "The angle of the dangle is inversely proportional to the heat of the
> ????"
> Is it "meat" or "beat"?
It's beat.
> I think it's "beat", and here's why:
[...reason deleted...]
I have an Amiga IFF 8SVX sample of Beavis saying the whole thing and you can
clearly hear "beat" in it. The "b" sound is very clear.
> Jeff Heilner Motorola - Semiconductor Products Sector
> Software Engineer Network Support and Development
> je...@pisces.sps.mot.com (NeXT) Tempe, Arizona USA
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Kevin A. Mocklin
: I know I shouldn't continue this debate, but......
: "The angle of the dangle is inversely proportional to the heat of the
: ????"
: Is it "meat" or "beat"?
: I think it's "beat", and here's why:
: I think we can all agree that Beavis and Butt-head are both obsessed by
: the concept of masturbation. Given that, "beat" makes more sense coming
: out of Beavis' mouth.
: "...heat of the meat" would refer to a general level of sexual excitement,
: but only the "...heat of the beat" refers specifically, and unequivocally
: to masturbation.
: Therefore, I can only conclude that Beavis said:
: "The angle of the dangle is inversely proportional to the heat of the
: beat"
: I've watched that scene over and over on tape, and it sure sounds like
: "beat" to me, though I can't say for certain.....but, regardless of what
: it sounds like, given the argument above, I think "beat" makes more sense.
: I also think I've spent WAY too much time on this.....flame away! ;)
: - jeff
Wouldn't it make more sense if it was 'directly proportional'?
Kevin
Craig Reinhart
>Is it "meat" or "beat"?
>
For what it's worth (probably not much) my _vote_ goes to "meat".
This _formula_ has been around for many, many years, at least to
the late 60's when I was a kid (I guess if I'm posting here I'm
probably still a kid) and Judge seems to draw on these "classic"
quotes once in a while. I've never heard the word "beat" put into
the formula until the topic came up here.
Craig.
ALAN WAYNE MURRAY
>Jeff Heilner (je...@pisces.sps.mot.com) wrote:
>: [snip snip]
>
>: "The angle of the dangle is inversely proportional to the heat of the
>: ????"
>
>: Is it "meat" or "beat"?
>
>: I think it's "beat", and here's why:
>:
>: - jeff
>
>
>Wouldn't it make more sense if it was 'directly proportional'?
>
>Kevin
That depends entirely on where the 'angle' is measured from.
-awmu...@eos.ncsu.edu
^^^^^^^^^^^^
yes, another one...
Spencer K. Olson
I personally vote for 'beat', 'cause that's the way I've always
heard it, and I've seen that episode enough to have the song
'Cigarette Dangles' stuck in my head....
In fact, the way I interpreted it was that the 'heat of the
beat' refered to how good the song was...
Spencer Olson
ols...@elof.iit.edu
sol...@imsa.edu
Russell Kroll
> I know I shouldn't continue this debate, but......
> I think it's "beat", and here's why:
> Therefore, I can only conclude that Beavis said:
> "The angle of the dangle is inversely proportional to the heat of the
> beat"
>
> I've watched that scene over and over on tape, and it sure sounds like
> "beat" to me, though I can't say for certain.....but, regardless of what
> it sounds like, given the argument above, I think "beat" makes more sense.
>
> I also think I've spent WAY too much time on this.....flame away! ;)
I played my tape of the episode through my Sound Blaster card, and
recorded it with the highest quality available (44.1 KHz), and then
attempted to strip out the background music using what little sound
processing tools I have. The result was nothing better than my VCR could
achieve. It always sounded like "beat" to me.
Perhaps someone with some better audio handling equipment will strip out
the song in the background as much as possible and let us know what
Beavis really said. If someone does do this, please put the binary of it
somewhere for all to hear...
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Jeffrey Gray
>je...@pisces.sps.mot.com (Jeff Heilner) writes:
>
>> I know I shouldn't continue this debate, but......
>> I think it's "beat", and here's why:
>> Therefore, I can only conclude that Beavis said:
>> "The angle of the dangle is inversely proportional to the heat of the
>> beat"
>>
>> I've watched that scene over and over on tape, and it sure sounds like
>> "beat" to me, though I can't say for certain.....but, regardless of what
>> it sounds like, given the argument above, I think "beat" makes more sense.
>>
>> I also think I've spent WAY too much time on this.....flame away! ;)
>
>I played my tape of the episode through my Sound Blaster card, and
>recorded it with the highest quality available (44.1 KHz), and then
>attempted to strip out the background music using what little sound
>processing tools I have. The result was nothing better than my VCR could
>achieve. It always sounded like "beat" to me.
>
>Perhaps someone with some better audio handling equipment will strip out
>the song in the background as much as possible and let us know what
>Beavis really said. If someone does do this, please put the binary of it
>somewhere for all to hear...
>
This whole argument is silly. Just look at Beavis' lower jaw. Does anyone
really think that with a face like that, Beavis could possibly pronounce
"B" or "M" correctly?
No way. The only difference between "beat" and "meat" is the plosiveness
or lack thereof of the initial [b] or [m] phoneme. I stand by my theory
that Beavis is incapable of articulating such a phonetic distinction, thus
the correct answer can never be known!
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Michael Solinas
: No way. The only difference between "beat" and "meat" is the plosiveness
: that Beavis is incapable of articulating such a phonetic distinction, thus
: the correct answer can never be known!
I recommend we commission a team of world-renown linguists to research this
matter. We may THEN reach some conclusion.
The "Lip Reading Expert" I talked to could not call it one way or another.
He said it could be "beat", "meat", "peanut", "evil", ......
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No. Think about it.
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Jason W. Nyberg
Ok, ok, uncle, ^X ZZ quit q qu, I give!!!
(I feel like b&b after their run-ins with Thor :)
I just couldn't conceive of an alternative to "meat" I guess.
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dbr...@elvis.wri.com
Well, I am not a world renown linguist but I have spent about 7 years of my
life studying linguistics.
The phoneme [b] differs from the phoneme [m] not only by its plosiveness
but also in that the phoneme [m] is a nasal and [b] is not.
Just my $0.02.
Dan
PS These are my thoughts and have no relationship whatsoever with the thoughts
of WRI.