Re: [Pan-users] Trying to use 'new' Pan

[Ed Fletcher]

On 18/04/2013 12:52 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 04/17/2013 04:47 AM, Maurice Batey wrote:
> >    Many thanks, Duncan, for your always informative attempts to
> > clarify the
> > situation, but I'm afraid even that URL still leaves me completely in the
> > dark w.r.t. 'Shirley' - despite having lived in the USA 1986-1987!
>
> Part of the impact in the movie had to do with the phrasing, "But
> Doctor, surely you can do something about it."
>
> "No I can't, and don't call me Shirley."
>
> The way it was said, it was actually reasonable to think that the
> sentence started off, "But Doctor Shirley..."

This is a surprisingly long discussion for a bunch of internet-enabled 
geeks.  :)

Here is a youtube clip of one of times (maybe the first time) the joke 
is used in the movie.  Only 17 seconds.  For more, search youtube for 
'airplane shirley'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A5t5_O8hdA

This movie is, btw, one of my favourite comedies.

Ed
--
Ed Fletcher

"Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty
sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."
- Christopher Morley