Icon Meme

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I love looking at people's icons, but I don't always *get* them - I often wonder stuff like, "Who's that guy?" or "Where's that quote from?" but I tend not to ask, for various reasons. So come on, here are my icons. Pick one (or more!) you're curious about, and I'll try to explain it. Or at least explain what I like about it.

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Because it's you, and I can never refuse a fellow pedant, I shall tell you about both.

For George/Arthur, I shall give you a suitably Lennonesque answer:

The Beatles were once famous for their sparkling wit, and while Little Johnny Leper was fambulous fangs to his Safairy with Whide Hunter into the jumble, the mighty jumble, the other Beatles With An A were equally if not exactly as funny. *breathes in*

OK, given that I can't keep up the Lennonspeak for long, the Beatles used to get asked about their hairstyles a lot, because this was so long ago that people thought it was long. If only they knew what was waiting for them in the 70s...

Anyway, in A Hard Day's Night there is a press conference where the boys are basically thrown to a roomful of journalists. The camera follows each as they try in vain to snag a drink or snack and as they're asked all manner of questions.

Some of the best:

Q: How did you find America?
John: Turned left at Greenland.

Q: Are you a mod or a rocker?
Ringo: No, I'm a mocker.

Q: How often do you see your father?
Paul: Ah, we're just good friends.

Q: What do you call that haircut?
George: Arthur.

And there you have it.

As for 'Luminous' this comes from a chat with Nancy in which I was listening to The War of The Worlds which features Richard Burton and Philip Lynott. In the first piece, 'The Eve Of War', The Narrator (Teh Burton) describes a "huge mass of luminous gas". I had just been telling Nancy how I'd listen to Dick Burton read the Yellow Pages when this hit me- Richard Burton manages to string the humble word 'luminous' into about fifteen gloriously beautiful syllables. It was so fabulous we went on and on about it and I said "OMG, I MUST ICONISE!". I found a pic of a much younger Burton in Greek/Roman armour from one movie or another (my guess is the Robe, if only because he looks younger than when he played Antony to Elizabeth's Cleopatra). And there it was born. And he too, is luminous.

Totally and fabulously longwinded am I.

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I think I love you.

Your icon stories rock. Even if I did this meme, my answers would be short and boring and most of my icons are self-explanatory anyway. But yours totally rock.

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*smirks*

I try. And I bet you have cool stories too *hugs*