Funny you should say that... - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Estelyn Telcontar · 03-05-2005, 12:46 PM

Can you imagine how it would have seemed if Tolkien had kept the name he originally chose for Frodo - Bingo?!

Everyone time I'd hear that, I'd be imagining a retirement colony in Florida, hearing that winning number...

**The Saucepan Man** · 03-06-2005, 07:01 AM

After having drawn attention to himself by singing a rhyme on the table and then disappearing without trace, Bingo crept to a corner of the Prancing Pony and removed the Ring, only to be confornted by the mysterious hooded Hobbit. Removing his hood, the Hobbit, whose name was Trotter, took a puff on a large cigar and a sipped from a mug of ale curiously adorned with a miniature umbrella. Fixing Bingo with a condescending look, Trotter declared:

"Bingo, you plonker ...!"

Elennar Starfire · 03-06-2005, 12:21 PM

Oh, Nimmy! *dies*

Lalwendë · 03-06-2005, 12:54 PM

From Book 4 Chapter 1 (currently the one being discussed in CbC):

Quote:

We can't get down; and if we did get down, we'd find all that green land a nasty bog, I'll warrant. Phew! Can you smell it?" He sniffed at the wind.

Yes, toilet humour even in the books, which I see was grabbed upon in the film script (something like "Phew, smells like there's a nasty bog 'round here"). I remember that bit, the whole cinema started sniggering like school boys.

Elennar Starfire · 03-06-2005, 01:08 PM

I'm afraid I don't understand how "a nasty bog" is toilet humour. I thought that "bog" was just another word for "swamp".

~'Leny, feeling ignorant once again

Lalwendë · 03-06-2005, 01:25 PM

Uh-oh, it's another cross cultural linguistic thing! Bog is slang for 'toilet' over here in the UK, so you can imagine what a smelly one might imply! (sorry if anyone was eating, by the way...)

Elennar Starfire · 03-06-2005, 01:28 PM

Ah. I see.

The "Bog of Eternal Stench" makes so much more sense now...

03-05-2005, 12:46 PM	#1
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Can you imagine how it would have seemed if Tolkien had kept the name he originally chose for Frodo - Bingo?! Everyone time I'd hear that, I'd be imagining a retirement colony in Florida, hearing that winning number... __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

03-06-2005, 07:01 AM	#2
The Saucepan Man Corpus Cacophonous Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A green and pleasant land Posts: 8,390	Only Tooks and Ponies After having drawn attention to himself by singing a rhyme on the table and then disappearing without trace, Bingo crept to a corner of the Prancing Pony and removed the Ring, only to be confornted by the mysterious hooded Hobbit. Removing his hood, the Hobbit, whose name was Trotter, took a puff on a large cigar and a sipped from a mug of ale curiously adorned with a miniature umbrella. Fixing Bingo with a condescending look, Trotter declared: "Bingo, you plonker ...!" __________________ Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!

03-06-2005, 12:21 PM	#3
Elennar Starfire Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2003 Location: Nowhere...now here Posts: 952	Oh, Nimmy! dies __________________ Don't let me die!

03-06-2005, 01:08 PM	#5
Elennar Starfire Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2003 Location: Nowhere...now here Posts: 952	I'm afraid I don't understand how "a nasty bog" is toilet humour. I thought that "bog" was just another word for "swamp". ~'Leny, feeling ignorant once again __________________ Don't let me die!

03-06-2005, 01:25 PM	#6
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	Uh-oh, it's another cross cultural linguistic thing! Bog is slang for 'toilet' over here in the UK, so you can imagine what a smelly one might imply! (sorry if anyone was eating, by the way...) __________________ Gordon's alive!

03-06-2005, 01:28 PM	#7
Elennar Starfire Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2003 Location: Nowhere...now here Posts: 952	Ah. I see. The "Bog of Eternal Stench" makes so much more sense now... __________________ Don't let me die!

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