Wizard of Oz Nitpick

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Blue's thread got me all mathematcially minded, and I recalled a mistake I heard for the first time in "The Wizard of Oz".

I was watching the end the other night, and for the first time really listened to what the Scarecrow said when he got his diploma from the Wizard. He furrowed his brow, pointed a finger to his braind and said, basically, "The sum of the squre roots of any two sides of an Isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side", which, I was astonished to realize, is not true. The Scarecrow's brain is faulty. The Wizard fucked up. Does this mean the now "Courageous" Lion is actually still a big pussy?

(I think the screenwriters were trying to write the Pythogorean Theorum, that the sum of the squares of two sides of a Right triangle equal the square of the Hypotenuse, or A squared plus B squared equals C squared.)

And I don't think those were real flying monkeys either.

 

[YoungGun69]

Blue's thread got me all mathematcially minded, and I recalled a mistake I heard for the first time in "The Wizard of Oz".

I was watching the end the other night, and for the first time really listened to what the Scarecrow said when he got his diploma from the Wizard. He furrowed his brow, pointed a finger to his braind and said, basically, "The sum of the squre roots of any two sides of an Isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side", which, I was astonished to realize, is not true. The Scarecrow's brain is faulty. The Wizard fucked up. Does this mean the now "Courageous" Lion is actually still a big pussy?

(I think the screenwriters were trying to write the Pythogorean Theorum, that the sum of the squares of two sides of a Right triangle equal the square of the Hypotenuse, or A squared plus B squared equals C squared.)

And I don't think those were real flying monkeys either.

I think the diploma was in governmental mathematics.

 

[miles]

Back off. Dude

Scarecrows are a protected class and covered by EEOC.

Racist.

 

[YoungGun69]

Re: Back off. Dude

Scarecrows are a protected class and covered by EEOC.

Racist.

Im not racist.
I hate everyone

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

How about a little fire, Scarecrow lover? You keep those freaks of nature away from me.

 

[YoungGun69]

Dorothy should have hooke up with the tinman.
he was allways hard anyway.

 

[TN_Vixen]

What?

and you're going to let him get away with calling a scared lion a "Big Pussy?"

 

[Mischka]

First, the Wizard did not fuck up because he did not bestow brains unto the Scarecrow. The Scarecrow discovered he had them all along. And in the historical text (aka The Wizard of Oz, as transcribed by L. Frank Baum), the Scarecrow utters no such mathematical silliness. Simply a Hollywood rendition.

Second, of course there are flying monkeys. How else could Dorothy return to Emerald City so quickly after returning the Golden Cap to Glinda?

 

[YoungGun69]

Re: What?

and you're going to let him get away with calling a scared lion a "Big Pussy?"

Technically he was

 

[miles]

YoungGun69

Hard, but unfortunately, rusty.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

First, the Wizard did not fuck up because he did not bestow brains unto the Scarecrow. The Scarecrow discovered he had them all along. And in the historical text (aka The Wizard of Oz, as transcribed by L. Frank Baum), the Scarecrow utters no such mathematical silliness.

And I thought I was nit-picky. You must be one of them MenO'Straw lovers. Death to the Pole Sitters! Rat bastards.

 

[YoungGun69]

Maybey dorothy did the right thing leaving OZ. they are all a bunch of mess ups anyways.



All though Glenda was a hottie.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

It was "Glinda" and she was like 80. What the fuck is wrong with you? Me, I was into the Lullabye League. Yeah, baby. Gimme some of that Munchkin Poontang.

 

[Mischka]

Maybey dorothy did the right thing leaving OZ.

She wasn't gone for long. She quickly took off her rose-colored glasses, realized Kansas was drab, and packed up the family farm, complete with Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, and headed back to Oz. And as there is no death in Oz, they still reside there today.

And the Scarecrow is the only Man O'Straw, DCL, so calm down. You get lost in a corn field as a child or something? Such displaced hostility.

 

[Mischka]

It was "Glinda" and she was like 80.

That's it. You made me take out The Book. I quote:

"..the Witch Glinda sat upon a throne of rubies. She was both beautiful and young in their eyes. Her hair was a rich red in color and fell in flowing ringlets over her shoulders. Her dress was pure white; but her eyes were blue, and they looked kindly upon the little girl."

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

What's with the book? In the book the slippers were silver. So what? Who's talking about the book? The chick in the movie was old.

And don't get me started on "The Scarecrow Incident" or I'll wish you into the cornfield.

 

[Mischka]

Fine, the movie. I grant you Glinda wasn't a spring chicken in the movie, but she wasn't 80. She was in her early 50s, and I might add, she looked great:

http://www.findagrave.com/images/b/burkebilliebio.jpg

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Well, I suppose I wouldn't throw her out of bed for eating apples thown at us by crabby trees along the yellow brick road, but that pointy stick and bubble have to go.

 

[TN_Vixen]

Mischka is kicking DCL's ass.

go girl.

 

[Mischka]

Ooh, I forgot to add that Annette Bening is playing Glinda in the centennial celebration of the story. That elicit a warmer response?

 

[KillerMuffin]

I thought the Wizard of Oz was the guy with the meth lab in Topeka that they can't ever seem to catch.

 

[Bob Peale]

Monkeys fly fine.

It's the pigs that have problems.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Mischka is kicking DCL's ass. go girl.

Huh? There's ass kicking going on? What in the wide, wide world of sports are you talking about? Stop watching WWF and Begone, before somebody drops a house on you.

Ooh, I forgot to add that Annette Bening is playing Glinda in the centennial celebration of the story. That elicit a warmer response?

Annete Benning. Hmmm. Yes. Very warm.

 

[Purple Haze]

So much for the syruppy ending, how long before that old bitch "Miss Gulch" comes back for the dog again, huh? THAT's been plagueing me for years.

We're they gearing up for a sequel by any chance?