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In case you live under a rock, today is “Future Day”, the day which Marty McFly travels to in Back To The Future 2. I decided a few months ago that it’d be fun to take the day off and watch all three films!
I forgot just how great these are, so I decided to write down some of my favourite quotes as I went. The thing is, the film isn’t that quoteable – a lot of the humour and cleverness only works in context, but I’ve written down the few gems that too work on their own:
BTTF
“There’s that word again! Heavy! Why are things so heavy in the future, is there a problem with the Earth’s gravitational pull?”
“Why don’t you make like a tree, and get outta here?”
“I’m George, George McFly, I’m your density!”
“I guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it”
“Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need roads!”
BTTF part II
“The justice system works swiftly in the future now that they’ve abolished all lawyers”
“You mean you have to use your hands? That’s like a baby’s toy!”
“I foresee two possibilities. 1: coming face to face with herself 30 years older would put her into shock and she’d simply pass out. Or 2: the encounter could create a time paradox, the result of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum and destroy the entire universe! Granted, that’s a worst-case scenario. The destruction might in fact be very localised, limited to merely our own galaxy.”
“Boy oh boy mum, you sure can hydrate a pizza”
“That’s about as funny as a screen door on a battleship”
“I know you just sent me back to the future, but I’m back. I’m back from the future.”
BTTF part III
“Marty, you’re not thinking fourth dimensionally!”
“See you in the future”
“You mean the past”
“Exactly”
“I wish I’d never invented that infernal time machine”
“Your future hasn’t been written yet, no one’s has. Your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one.”
And for all three films….
“Great Scott!”
Of course, the real joy in watching it today was seeing all the things they predicted we’d have by now: highways in the sky, thumbprint taxi payment, fax machines on the path, and so much more – the BBC have a great article on this.
Tom from the band McFly who were named after the main character of these films, also pointed this out last night:
Universal have also released a message from the Doc himself
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You probably think I’m off my rocker, but I have real preference of some pasta shapes over others! Here are some I love – to contrast, there’s one I can’t stand at the bottom!
Spaghetti
A staple I feel, but it’s a good one because once cooked and on the plate it’s pretty dense, none of these air gaps, and it’s just a classic! Also, I never had it growing up as Mum thought it was too tricky and messy to eat, so I make up for it now!
Waitrose Fusilli
Quite particularly Waitrose, I know that sounds revoltingly snobby, but it’s quite different to normal fusilli, just look! way more twisted!
Fusilli Bucati
This was a recent discovery, it’s like someone’s taken spaghetti, twisted it in spirals, and set it! Kinda like a cross between the previous two!
Lumache or Pipe Rigate
Tesco stopped selling this recently, and I was sad! Then I found it at Sainsburys called something else, so who knows which is the proper name!
Spirali
Up until last time I went, this is what Pizza Express used in their Pollo Pesto, then again I recently found it in Sainsburys 🙂
NOT A FAVOURITE
Farfalle
We used to have this on Saturdays when I was younger with tinned ham and a jar of pasta sauce. The problem is, if you don’t cook it really really well, the middle stays a tad raw and can be a bit too solid!
So far three out of my four “big ideas” have been about driving related matters, and this post will make it four out of five!
This time it’s a plan to deal with those annoying people on the roads that beep their horns, purely because they’re impatient. This week I was trying to turn right off of a main road, onto a side road, on a relatively blind corner, so had to look very carefully before I moved. Just as I was about to go, the guy behind me beeped his horn as if that might make me hurry up
…and then it came to me:
Every time someone in the immediate vicinity beeps their horn, all drivers should stop for a full five seconds – not long enough to cause major problems, but definitely long enough to annoy someone impatient – before continuing with their journey.
The highway code says:
The horn. Use only while your vehicle is moving and you need to warn other road users of your presence. Never sound your horn aggressively. You MUST NOT use your horn
- while stationary on the road
- when driving in a built-up area between the hours of 11.30 pm and 7.00 am
except when another road user poses a danger.
Technically, the fact that a horn has been beeped means that someone is letting us know they are around, so you could argue that stopping to look and see who is alerting us to their presence is the correct thing to do anyway.
If they do it when stationary then that’s a direct violation, but as the person “in their way”, we can take longer to assess our surroundings to make sure our decision to pull away is a safe one.
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