What does POPCORN meant to you?

[foreigncorrespondent]

Yes this is a silly thread, but after the heated discussion that has been happening in GD, I thought it time for some silliness. :)

So tell me, what does POPCORN mean to you?

[Samuraimad]

1. digging husks out

of my gums for like 2 days!!!
But damn it, i love popcorn....

[madmax]

2. Fiber

:evilgrin:

[HEyHEY]

3. No, sorry it's just too silly

;-)

[cprise]

4. A funny little Moog song

http://www.geocities.com/player2000gi/midi_collection/POPCORN.MID

[TXlib]

15. Dammit, now it's stuck in my head!

:grr: :mad:

[Pert_UK]

5. Excellent Ben Elton play/novel satirising Hollwood violence+society...

It's hilarious - I read the book and saw it as a play. Very funny and very accurate.

P.

[Lady Freedom]

6. I don't think you want to know!

:evilgrin:

[DS1]

7. It means a few things

It can mean one of the following:

A) It's nuked popcorn which is OK
B) It's nuked no-butter popcorn which is better
C) It's movie popcorn with butter, which I will not touch until the top half of the bag is eaten
D) It's movie popcorn without butter, in which case I'll eat it all given the chance
E) It's nuked popcorn in the workplace that isn't mine therefore I hate it
F) It's burnt nukable popcorn in the workplace which makes me want to eviscerate the nuker Hannibal Lector style.
G) It's popcorn that someone besides myself is eating

[Coffee Coyote]

8. Ask ZombyWoof

The DU inventor of popcorn. I am sure he is lurking somewhere.

[ReadTomPaine]

9. Popcorn means those little hulls getting stuck between my teeth.

<EOM>

[AlienGirl]

10. It used to mean "I'm so broke,

I'm eating popcorn for all my meals again."

Took me years to re-associate popcorn with fun!

Tucker

[TreasonousBastard]

11. Butter

[GCP]

12. It's sitting in the movie theater surrounded by the munching sound

of a thousand demented chipmunks.

What is it about Americans and eating during a movie? It drives me mad.

[TXlib]

16. We're uncultured swine; didn't you know?

[Lost4words]

13. scrambeled eggs cooked well done.

is sometimes called popcorn by kitchen staff!

[nuxvomica]

14. To Popcorn

O, Popcorn, what gentle steps you make
Upon the tongue, with texture stiff and airy
The pleasures of sweet butter take
And give to me
What buttery or dairy
Or saltmine can, by itself, give hints of nearly happiness eternal
As what I've found within your precious kernal?

[foreigncorrespondent]

17. These are all wonderful replies...

...but what I had in mind, was something a little different.

Everyone around here knows I am an Aussie and this was just a little secret experiment so I could see how you guys would answer.

What is it about POPCORN that is purely an American thing, that almost no Aussies would really know? Of course, myself being the exception to the rule. ;)

[SiouxJ]

19. The smell

it drags you in. It's comforting, inviting and there's nothing else on earth like it. I have a roommate that won't eat it (says it sticks in his teeth) but he often asks me to make it just to get the smell in the house. Imagine walking into a movie theatre and not smelling that smell! It just wouldn't be the same. It's half the reason I go to the movies in the first place. :-)

I btw, am a pocorn junkie. I even have my own professional (movie theatre type) machine. (I picked it up for peanuts ;-) )

I suppose there are worse vices to have :-)

[catzies]

21. The Popcorn Paradox

When microwaving popcorn, when it's cooked right it's the best smell in the world.

When it's burned, it's the worst smell in the world.

[bif]

18. It's watching "Mystery" on Thursday nights

with a big ol' bowl of fresh, stove-popped popcorn and a couple of beers. But the PBS station in our area doesn't air "Mystery" anymore so that 15 year tradition has sadly ended. And that's why I no longer contribute to PBS.

[sam sarrha]

20. It scares me to think about what other vegetable might EXPLODES!!!

should there be warning labels on vegetables with what protective measures are necessary to safely cook them ??? my great aunt tacy had a watermellon explode, it covered the entire kitchen with seeds and fermented red juice.:nuke:

[nini]

22. I love popcorn!!

we had it for an evening snack almost every night as kids! Cheap snack back then. We fought over who got the popcorn pot when my mom moved out of the childhood home.

Butter and salt! yep.. yummmmmm

[GregW]

23. It's the number to call to get the time in CA

Don't believe me?

Call 1-408-POP-CORN

(OK, OK ... any 1-408-767-XXXX number will get the time, but I always learned to dial POPCORN)

[foreigncorrespondent]

27. That is the answer I was looking for.

For those who don't know. The ladies voice for the weather, time, voice mail was Jane Barbe. She passed away a couple of days ago, and this thread was my little memorial to her.

PHONE RECORDING VOICE DIES

July 28, 2003 -- Jane Barbe, whose voice was familiar to millions of
telephone users across the country who ever dialed a wrong number or
had to "Please listen to the following options" in a voice-mail
system, died July 18 in Roswell, Ga., of complications from cancer.
She was 74.

Barbe was the queen of telephone recordings, whose voice was heard an
estimated 40 million times a day in the 1980s and early 1990s on
everything from automated time and weather messages to hotel wake-up
calls.

http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/1679.htm

[trof]

24. Saturday movies

at the neighborhood "5-Points Theater".
You could begin to smell the popcorn a block away.
Standing in line for the 11:00 opening.
10 cents to get in, a nickel for a Coke and another for a bag of popcorn.
Double feature cowboy shoot-em-up.
See them both all the way through at least twice.

Roy Rogers & Gabby Hayes, Gene Autrey & Frog Millhouse, Red Ryder & Little Beaver (and omigod, if you owned a genuine Daisey Red Ryder B-B gun you were KING!), Rex Allen, Hopalong Cassidy, The Durango Kid, Lash LaRue (He used a BULLWHIP to foil the badguys. Cool.).

And the serials...Superman...Rocketman...Flash Gordon. The original "cliffhangers".
sigh

[CO Liberal]

25. The Damn Ceilings In My House

They're supposed to absorb sound, but all they do is gather dust.

[trof]

26. Well, that too.

Repainting is a bitch.

[Karenina]

28. It means

I'm stuffing my face with it now, and when I'm finished I'll go floss.