Fully sick
Apr. 20th, 2009 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyWhen I was little, I used to sit down in front of the TV every night at five-thirty to watch Star Blazers. I loved it. As much as I loved Astroboy and more than Robotech, but not as much as I loved Battle of the Planets. What a nerdy child I was.
The thing that puzzled me about Star Blazers was the name of the ship's captain. The characters seemed to have names that vaguely suggested their personalities or jobs, like Derek Wildstar the headstrong fighter pilot. It seemed odd to young me that the otherwise honourable captain should be called Captain Abattoir.
Recently I've been treating myself to watching the DVDs of these shows. I watched Battle of the Planets a few months ago. It was ridiculous but I enjoyed it. I even changed my journal title and friends page to reference it. This weekend I watched Star Blazers and, oh, it doesn't hold up well. The theme song is hilarious, but once it finished I was bored. But I did finally realise that the man's name was Captain Avatar, so that was a bonus.
Back at work today, Brian was telling me about the careers expo he attended last week. We eventually chose decks of cards as our giveaway merchandise for this year and they went like hot cakes, according to Brian (although why hot cakes would go faster than cold ones remains a mystery to me). Brian himself picked up a dog tag from one of our competitors. It had 'medicine is fully sick!' engraved into it, which he thought was an odd thing to say. I had to explain the joke (such as it was) to him.
And it occurs to me now I've written it that I probably have to explain it here too. Is 'fully sick' (meaning great, awesome, cool, etc) only an Australian term?
The thing that puzzled me about Star Blazers was the name of the ship's captain. The characters seemed to have names that vaguely suggested their personalities or jobs, like Derek Wildstar the headstrong fighter pilot. It seemed odd to young me that the otherwise honourable captain should be called Captain Abattoir.
Recently I've been treating myself to watching the DVDs of these shows. I watched Battle of the Planets a few months ago. It was ridiculous but I enjoyed it. I even changed my journal title and friends page to reference it. This weekend I watched Star Blazers and, oh, it doesn't hold up well. The theme song is hilarious, but once it finished I was bored. But I did finally realise that the man's name was Captain Avatar, so that was a bonus.
Back at work today, Brian was telling me about the careers expo he attended last week. We eventually chose decks of cards as our giveaway merchandise for this year and they went like hot cakes, according to Brian (although why hot cakes would go faster than cold ones remains a mystery to me). Brian himself picked up a dog tag from one of our competitors. It had 'medicine is fully sick!' engraved into it, which he thought was an odd thing to say. I had to explain the joke (such as it was) to him.
And it occurs to me now I've written it that I probably have to explain it here too. Is 'fully sick' (meaning great, awesome, cool, etc) only an Australian term?