This is post 7 of 7 this afternoon and will bring to a close the principal content offered in this, our February virtual meeting. If you’re just now joining us, scroll back to today’s Post 1 of 7 to enjoy the whole meeting, start to finish.
19) ONCE AGAIN, THE HOLDERNESS FAMILY…
This one channels Foreigner (www.youtube.com/TheHoldernessFamily):
20) ANAGRAMS UNSCRAMBLED!
We’ve unscrambled the anagrams we ran in our opening post earlier this afternoon to reveal, here below, the names of notable science fiction characters, writers, and filmmakers! Check your answers against these:
1) TEBBARI JASSIC = JESSICA RABBIT, the exaggeratedly voluptuous wife of star “toon” Roger Rabbit in the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), she is often assumed to be a bad girl simply because she’s “drawn that way.”
2) GAMOSSA DULAD = DOUGLAS ADAMS, best known for his BBC radio series The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1978-2018) and later, novels (1979-1992), as well as his Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency books (1987-1988). Adams did not live to hear the third and subsequent Hitchhiker’s Guide radio programs, which were based on the other Guide novels in his “trilogy in five parts.” He also wrote for the Monty Python troupe, and for Doctor Who.
3) TYKO STARN = TONY STARK, Marvel Comics’ brilliant scientist, inventor, billionaire industrialist, philanthropist, and playboy, who dons a high-tech armoured suit to become the superhero Iron Man.
4) “TREPPS” TEPPO = “PEPPER” POTTS, who in the comics graduated from the secretarial pool at Stark Industries to become boss Tony Stark’s personal assistant, and eventually CEO of the company. In the MCU, she follows a similar path but here becomes Stark’s wife, as well.
5) THARNU DRET = ARTHUR DENT, hapless protagonist of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
6) SCRIDY LETTO = RIDLEY SCOTT, whose sci-fi credits as a director include the celebrated Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), The Martian (2015), and two episodes of the HBO Max television series Raised by Wolves (2020-), for which he also serves as an executive producer. He was an executive producer, too, for season one of Amazon’s alternate history series The Man in the High Castle (2015-2019), based on Philip K. Dick’s 1962 novel of the same name.
7) Emperor BENARRIS HENORROG = Emperor HARRISON BERGERON, titular protagonist of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s 1961 dystopian short story, who rebels against a society that demands absolute equality amongst its citizens. Each individual is therefore forcibly “handicapped” by the government so that their exceptional physical or mental attributes are diminished to the level of lowest common denominator, rendering them equal to everyone else—a strong, athletic individual is burdened with heavy weights, for example, a beautiful girl must wear a mask, a highly intelligent person, radio earphones constantly broadcasting loud noise that makes it difficult to concentrate, etc. Harrison Bergeron is possessed of numerous exceptional traits and is therefore heavily handicapped. He rebels and storms a television station with the intent of overthrowing the government, casting off his handicaps live on TV, declaring himself emperor, stripping a beautiful young woman present of her handicaps and taking her as his Empress, and ordering everybody watching to throw off their handicaps, too! The Handicapper General arrives, immediately shoots them both dead, and ends the broadcast so that society might return to normal.
8) MONNITH TWISS = WINSTON SMITH, protagonist of George Orwell’s renowned dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty Four (1949), who toils in the Ministry of Truth rewriting historical documents so that they conform with the ever-changing party line of the story’s totalitarian government.
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10) OWIUS UL = LOUIS WU, protagonist of Larry Niven’s Ringworld books, who remains long-lived and in top shape due to the longevity drug “Boosterspice.” In Ringworld (1970), he survives with his companions the crash of their spaceship on a gigantic, artificial, rotating, million mile-wide circular structure, roughly the diameter of Earth’s orbit, encircling a sun-like star. The flat inner surface of this so-called Ringworld is habitable, offering Earth-like conditions but some 3 million times the area of the planet! Adventure ensues.
11) RENYL RAVIN = LARRY NIVEN, author of largely hard-science stories set in his Known Space universe, among them the Ringworld books and his Man-Kzin Wars stories.
12) LOLLU WHODI = HOLLI WOULD, a “doodle” (animated cartoon character) who becomes a “noid” (human), if only briefly, in the film Cool World (1992), directed by Ralph Bakshi and described as an adult Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Kim Basinger played Holli in human form.
21) AN ADDITIONAL PARODY SONG
This pandemic will be over one day; we’ve just got to hold on:
22) THANK YOU!
We hope you have enjoyed your time with us this afternoon, and we ask all of you to check in regularly here at www.MonSFFA.ca for additional content during this continuing pandemic, and for any news as to when the club expects a return to face-to-face meetings. Thank you for your interest and attention, and don’t forget to comment on today’s offerings!
We’d also like to thank Sylvain St-Pierre, Joe Aspler, Keith Braithwaite, and Cathy Palmer-Lister for putting this February 13, 2021 DIY, Virtual MonSFFA Meeting together, with a nod, as well, to our supporting contributors today.
Until next month, when we will gather virtually once more on March 13, please continue to exercise all recommended safety practises, and get your shots as soon as the vaccination is made available to you! Continued patience, discipline, and emotional fortitude is key to seeing us all safely through these final months of the pandemic. Stay strong!
23) FINAL PARODY SONG
We wrap up with Penn and Kim Holderness enthusiastically ready and willing to receive the coming vaccine:
