WHY DOES REMBRANDT CALL QUINN "CUE BALL"
Percy Hui
probably because Quinn's name begins with Q. Hence the name, "Q-Ball"
The "Ball" part probably got attached on.
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Wilbur07
also, since Quinn is white and a cue-ball is white . . .
Mark Constantino
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In <32e23b17...@nntp.ix.netcom.com> 1...@2.COM writes:
Because that's what the scrip writers wrote for him to say. What did you
think it was?
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p65...@morgan.ucs.mun.ca
This is my first time posting to one of these. I hope I get it right.
Think of it as Q-ball, not cue ball. Q for Quinn!
Jeff & Ann Smith
Actually, according to the closed captioning the spelling is "Q-Ball".
So, Q-Ball is just another nickname, like Remmy or Professor. Does Wade
have a nickname (other than Miss Wells)?
1...@2.COM wrote in article <32e23b17...@nntp.ix.netcom.com>...
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Joseph Thompson
On Mon, 20 Jan 1997 p65...@morgan.ucs.mun.ca wrote:
> This is my first time posting to one of these. I hope I get it right.
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> Think of it as Q-ball, not cue ball. Q for Quinn!
That's absolutely right, AFAIK. There's a flub in the pilot which
has Rembrandt call him Q-ball before he finds out his name, so the other
reasons were speculated. I think it's done correctly in the book.
Coot
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Wilbur07
Yes, Q for Quinn and cue-ball for the white round thing in billiards.
It's a pun because Quinn's name starts with Q and a cue ball is white.
Mark Constantino
Myao
It's "Q-Ball", as in Q for "Quinn" I am amazed by the amount of people who
don't understand that.
Why does he need a reason to make up an affectionate nickname for his
friend?
Steve C
>Think of it as Q-ball, not cue ball. Q for Quinn!
nickname for an intellectual as a reference to another
affectionate term: egg-head. Thus the correlation
between two round white objects. But Q for Quinn is
the most accurate answer.
SteveC
Lynn
In article <01bc06e6$c436c620$ca412399@jeffann>,
Was it ever actually explained? For some reason, I always thought it had
to do with Quinn being really bright. Since they didn't replay the pilot ep
like they said they were going to, does anyone remember?; did the nickname
start in the first show?
Lynn
Seth Argabright
If I remember correctly, Rembrandt started it from the very beginning--it
was probably meant to be condescending since Quinn had just ruined his
Cadillac, or maybe it was just Rembrandt "lingo" or something like that.
Anyway, it stuck. Most likely origin: "Quinn" starts with a "Q."
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Wilbur07 <wilb...@aol.com> wrote in article
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> p65...@morgan.ucs.mun.ca wrote:
> >Think of it as Q-ball, not cue ball. Q for Quinn!
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> Yes, Q for Quinn and cue-ball for the white round thing in billiards.
> It's a pun because Quinn's name starts with Q and a cue ball is white.
I don't think the white part had anything to do with it (I take it you're
referring to the fact that Quinn and the cue ball are both white). Just
Q-Ball for his initial.
SuperVet2x
First, His name is Q Ball, not Cue ball:)
any way, that is like a term for a brainy person, and Quinn is very
smart:)
-SuperVet2x
Rob McConeghy
In article <19970123204...@ladder01.news.aol.com> super...@aol.com (SuperVet2x) writes:
>From: super...@aol.com (SuperVet2x)
>Subject: Re: WHY DOES REMBRANDT CALL QUINN "CUE BALL"
>Date: 23 Jan 1997 20:48:43 GMT
>-SuperVet2x
how do you know it is spelled "Q Ball" ?
Have you (or someone else) seen an actual shooting script?
just curious.
Percy Hui
that's a different answer. you might have some logic behind it , (I)Q
Ball, but I think it's just because his name is _Q_uinn.
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Percy Hui
probably from the closed captioning
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Rob McConeghy <rob...@azstarnet.com> wrote in article
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> In article <19970123204...@ladder01.news.aol.com>
super...@aol.com (SuperVet2x) writes:
> >From: super...@aol.com (SuperVet2x)
> >Subject: Re: WHY DOES REMBRANDT CALL QUINN "CUE BALL"
> >Date: 23 Jan 1997 20:48:43 GMT
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> >First, His name is Q Ball, not Cue ball:)
> >any way, that is like a term for a brainy person, and Quinn is very
> >smart:)
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> >-SuperVet2x
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Aenobarbe
I think the connection goes like this:
A very smart person is sometimes called an "egghead". So the mental
image is of someone with no hair. Picture a completely bald guy and
his head will resemble a... cue ball.
I think that's right, but who knows what goes on in the heads of the
Sliders scriptwriters....
Words from the Monastery
In article <19970121065...@ladder01.news.aol.com>, Wilbur07 stated so
eloquently...
>Yes, Q for Quinn and cue-ball for the white round thing in billiards.
>It's a pun because Quinn's name starts with Q and a cue ball is white.
Plus, I don't think it began as a term of endearment ... Rembrandt was rather
pissed with Quinn once he found out what had happened to him and now he's just
making the best of the situation ...
Rob McConeghy
In article <01bc0a15$f710de00$d2c0cecd@mr.-computer> "Percy Hui" <pe...@cyberdude.com> writes:
>From: "Percy Hui" <pe...@cyberdude.com>
>Subject: Re: WHY DOES REMBRANDT CALL QUINN "CUE BALL"
>probably from the closed captioning
possibly, but since that is done by a completely different company and they
take massive liberties with the dialog anyway, I wouldn't put much faith in
anything see in the CCs
Monkeyboy
I've only heard the nickname Cueball to refer to a bald person. Quinn
isn't bald. I myself wonder, then, why Rembrandt calls Quinn Cueball.
Any ideas?
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allondro
Easy. Remmy calls Quinn 'Qball', not Cueball, because Quinn starts with a
'Q'.
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Percy Hui
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didn't we settle this last month? it's just the same message recycled over
and over again.
SLIDER MAN
Rembrandt calls Quinn "Q-ball" as a play on the (billiards) word "cue
ball" -- the Q is for Quinn... obviously?
zikzak23
slid...@aol.com (SLIDER MAN) wrote:
>Rembrandt calls Quinn "Q-ball" as a play on the (billiards) word "cue
>ball" -- the Q is for Quinn... obviously?
That seems to be the consensus, but I have to admit it's a pretty
bizarre nickname. I'd like to see the show's explanation for how they
came up with it.
Terry L. Smith
zikzak23 (zikz...@pipeline.com) wrote:
: slid...@aol.com (SLIDER MAN) wrote:
Yep, I'd like to know the "official" reason, too. It does
seem to be a sort of "pun," though, if a slightly weird one...
In Pool, or "Pocket Billiards," the cue-ball is the *white* one -
and it is the ball that the player "shoots" into the setup of
balls at the beginning of a game. Something that distrupts a
static, already "existing" situation... rather the way Quinn
(and the others) do when they "slide" into a new world. :)
Those things combined with the "Q" from Quinn might seem an
amusing pun to Rembrandt.
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>In article <19970123204...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
>SuperVet2x <super...@aol.com> wrote:
>>First, His name is Q Ball, not Cue ball:)
>>any way, that is like a term for a brainy person
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>being used for a brainy person?
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BEcause Q is short for Quinn
Slider wanabe
It could be because Quinn is an "Egghead", and eggs and cue balls look
simmiler.
Brad Ferguson
> It could be because Quinn is an "Egghead", and eggs and cue balls look
> simmiler.
He calls him Q-ball, not Cue Ball. Q for Quinn. Just a nickname.
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thir...@fred.net (Brad Ferguson) writes:
>In article <330798...@flash.net>, cli...@flash.net wrote:
>> It could be because Quinn is an "Egghead", and eggs and cue balls look
>> simmiler.
>He calls him Q-ball, not Cue Ball. Q for Quinn. Just a nickname.
No, no, no. It's Cue Ball - because Quinn is an expert at Billiards.
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Will A. Phillips
Um... I always thought he was called Q Ball because his name is
Quinn... Q... get it? Q Ball? The Q Virus? (Sorry, I just love
that episode)
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And it could be because his name is Quinn (Q-Ball).
Lockjaw
Sorry folks , wrong again . I remember one show where Quin asked Remmy
why he called him " Q Ball " . Remmy said it was because he was
staying behind him { Quin } all the time . Like in the game of pool ,
stay behind the Q ball . Get it ?
How does that go..... I slide , I have slide , I slideed ?
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