I Hate Search Engines!
wcmartell
elements of the concept is that the characters ignore a problem until
it gets so bad that folks are dying. I thought it would be fun to name
characters after famous people in history who ignored problems - who
fiddled while Rome burned or thought hitting that iceberg was just a
small problem. But no matter how I word my search, and no matter what
search engine I use, all I get is a bunch of polical *crap* about how
so-and-so is ignoring the problems of our country (insert name of
country). Hey, somewhere there is a list of famous idiots (and I even
tried using that phrase), but no search engine will let me find it.
I think there is so much CRAP on the internet that you can't find any
real info. Yes, I tried Bing! and it was the worst of all of them.
Sorry, just had to vent. I think I'm going to name all of my
characters George.
- Bill
Remysun
> So, I'm starting a new script (assignment) and one of the main
> elements of the concept is that the characters ignore a problem until
> it gets so bad that folks are dying. I thought it would be fun to name
> characters after famous people in history who ignored problems - who
> fiddled while Rome burned or thought hitting that iceberg was just a
> small problem.
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, The Cherry Orchard, there's a very
aristocratic theme already running here.
Schlockhack
expression, he ignored the handwriting on the wall? It comes from the
Book of Daniel (as you probably know, since you went to Sunday
School):
The writing on the wall" (or sometimes "handwriting on the wall"), an
idiom, is a portent of doom or misfortune. It originates in the
Biblical book of Daniel�where supernatural writing foretells the
demise of the Babylonian Empire. The phrase is widely used in language
and literature.
Schlockhack
There you go, Bill, name one of your female characters Cherry
Orchard. Are any of your characters one of Tiger Woods's girlfriends?
wcmartell
> >> �The Cherry Orchard
>
> There you go, Bill, name one of your female characters Cherry
> Orchard. �Are any of your characters one of Tiger Woods's girlfriends?
"Writing on the wall" was one of the phrases I tried, and got pages
and pages of political crap. When I added "history" I got the same
exact political crap. Problem is - everyone thinks someone is ignoring
the handwriting on the wall, or Cassandra's warning , or any of the
dozens of other things I tried. Just too much crap out there to wade
through!
- Bill (oddly, just got a lapdance from Cherry Orchard)
Martin B
> elements of the concept is that the characters ignore a problem until
> it gets so bad that folks are dying. I thought it would be fun to name
> characters after famous people in history who ignored problems - who
> fiddled while Rome burned or thought hitting that iceberg was just a
> small problem.
The problem is, the ones who become famous are the ones who noticed the
problem and did something about it and saved the day. History is about
winners, not about losers.
Another phrase to google is "ignore warnings."
But think about all those people in Pompeii who ignored eruption
warnings -- they're all dead so we don't know their names. Likewise the
guys that stood on the beach filming the tsunami, or stayed in New
Orleans, or, well, all of us burning fossil fuel and making CO2, but
let's not go there...
--
Martin B
Avoid normal situations.
[..]
No need to be sorry at all. You've touched on a larger point that needed to
be made: plain ol' paper books and the libraries that house them are still
valuable. Invaluable, in fact.
--
alt.flame Special Forces
"The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. That is not always
easy to achieve." -- Dean Acheson