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Posted on M00o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfr on Thursday, March 24, 2005

Maybe it's just me

Am I the only one who, every time he hears the name of Dr. Hammesfahr (the over-hyped quack who claims to be a Nobel nominee able to cure Terri Schiavo) thinks immediately of Dr. Hfuhruhurr?

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Posted by PZ Myers on 03/24 at 05:56 PM
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  1. No comments, yet? I guess it must just be you. I'll have to check out that film. Is it as funny as The Jerk?
    #: Posted by Ryan  on  03/24  at  06:21 PM
  2. Oooo! Oooo! My favourite movie quote is from The Man with Two Brains:

    Into the mud, Scum-Queen!!!!


    (Second favourite - "Fancy a quickie before I put on my beard?". Third favourite - "I just taken an elephant-sized dump". A small prize* for anyone who can correctly identify the two movies. Clue - they're by the same director.)

    *A night out for two with PZ Meyerz. Second prize, two nights out.
    #: Posted by  on  03/24  at  06:25 PM
  3. Oh, pointy bird, oh pointy pointy;
    anoint my head, anointy 'nointy.

    (Get that cat out of here!)
    #: Posted by Chris Clarke  on  03/24  at  06:36 PM
  4. Andy,

    I know the second one, but it's the only film by that director that I've seen. Isn't it a trick question, though? His films are in French; the characters never actually speak those lines.
    #: Posted by Ryan  on  03/24  at  06:45 PM
  5. It was my immediate thought. I guess it's a cohort thing for Boomers...
    #: Posted by John Wilkins  on  03/24  at  07:00 PM
  6. What are they saying?

    Oh, they're just saying "murmur murmur".
    #: Posted by Rory Parle  on  03/24  at  07:13 PM
  7. OMG, Hammesfahr just wants Schiavo's body for his brain in a jar!
    #: Posted by  on  03/24  at  07:34 PM
  8. Maybe he loves her brain.
    #: Posted by PZ Myers  on  03/24  at  07:51 PM
  9. I missed that he claims to be a Nobel nominee. This guy just gets better and better...
    #: Posted by  on  03/24  at  10:26 PM
  10. PZ, I hereby nominate you for the Nobel Peace Prize for Biology!
    #: Posted by  on  03/24  at  10:39 PM
  11. If I remember correctly, the Nobel Committee itself never reveals the names of nominees, so the only way someone gets to be publicly-known as a "Nobel nominee" is for the nominator (or the person) to release that information. Whoever does it, it's sheerly for self-serving reasons -- in which case, there's room for doubt that it's even true.

    Ryan, re: the humor of The Man With Two Brains. It was pretty funny, IMHO. It's also one of those movies that you find yourself quoting years later, like the bad-but-weirdly-unforgettable Johnny Dangerously. <You bastiges!>
    #: Posted by Hank Fox  on  03/25  at  01:54 AM
  12. PLease, there is a Nobel Peace prize, awarded in Oslo (capital of Norway) and then there are Nobel prizes in medicine, literature etc., awarded in Stockholm ( the capital of Sweden). THERE IS NO NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IN MEDICINE OR LITERATURE or anything else. Just the Nobel Peace Prize, in peace, nothing else.
    It´s hard enough living in Sweden as an expat american as it is.
    #: Posted by  on  03/25  at  02:33 AM
  13. Impress friends and colleagues. Wow the hot chicks and the Right Wing press. Be the first on your block to possess a Nobel Prize in (fill in the blank) Nomination (suitable for framing). Send $5.00 (plus $3.00 S/H) to…
    #: Posted by  on  03/25  at  05:57 AM
  14. I've always wanted a Nobel Prize for Partying Down, personally.
    #: Posted by Ben  on  03/25  at  06:47 AM
  15. I heard the physician's congressman or senator wrote a letter "nominating" him for a Nobel Prize. The fact that not just anyone can officially nominate people for a Nobel Prize is never mentioned.

    Ryan - The films aren't in French.
    #: Posted by  on  03/25  at  11:12 AM
  16. Andy,

    Did I say French? I meant to say that I don't know what I'm talking about. Isn't one of the films titled Talk to Her?
    #: Posted by Ryan  on  03/25  at  12:43 PM
  17. Brain in a jar? You mean something like this?
    #: Posted by dancinfool  on  03/25  at  01:32 PM
  18. When Terry Schiavo dies (or, more correctly, finally completes the process of dying) expect to see editorial cartoons that show her standing in front of the pearly gates and St. Peter saying, "What kept you?"
    #: Posted by  on  03/25  at  01:34 PM
  19. Ryan,

    Yep, the second one is from "Talk to Her". If you can't get the first one, you still win the night out with Dr. Meyerz, but fooling around will not be permitted.
    #: Posted by  on  03/25  at  01:43 PM