Comments on: Frank Chu, Part 2

By: breakerslion

breakerslion — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:38:17 +0000

Frank Chu is beginning to remind me of this guy:

http://www.chucksconnection.com/animal/animal5.gif

And, oh yeah, “Kltpzyxm!”

By: José

José — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:39:43 +0000

When I first saw him in around 1999, he didn’t have the fancy sign he has today. He just had a piece of folded paper about 4×6 inches taped to a tongue depressor, so you really had to get close to read it. At that time I think the sign read “12 galaxies unite to form ultronic rocket society. Impeach Clinton”. The kicker was that the back simply said “Invest in Holland”. I initially assumed he was a performance artist.

By: Jeff Eyges

Jeff Eyges — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:58:16 +0000

Mr. Mxyzptlk

Heh! I like pop culture references. That tops my Jethro Bodine.

By: Parrotlover77

Parrotlover77 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:55:33 +0000

I didn’t know it was an easter egg. I spotted it, laughed with the joke, and didn’t pay it any more attention.

By: Ron Britton

Ron Britton — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:23:09 +0000

Ken:

You found the Easter egg! I was hoping to trip up somebody on that. You can see a real sign in part 1 of this series.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:47:07 +0000

Oh, I see that they ARE from such a site. Should have spotted “BAY OF FUNDIE”, even though I missed the caption. This must be the modern equivalent of getting your own alt.fan.* newsgroup in the USENET days.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:45:02 +0000

The colors and lettering of the signs make them look strangely like those sites where you can generate a picture of a baseball scoreboard, church sign, or Stephen Colbert “On Notice” board with your choice of messages. Not that I think they are a Photoshop job – there’s really nothing you could do to those phrases to make them more insane.

By: ericsan

ericsan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:17:33 +0000

I don’t remember exactly as I haven’t seen the movie in years, but the convicts who are sent back in time are fitted with a transmitter in a tooth to have a means to prevent them from defecting to the past. In order to defeat the transmitter one has to know the frequency at which it operates. Also, they arrive in the past quite confused and once the transmitter activates they become frantic and appear to be completely schizophrenic (voices in their heads, irrational and obsessive behavior…)

I did a quick Google search and found out other people had made the connection, check it out

By: Ron Britton

Ron Britton — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:55:06 +0000

Ericsan:

He does sound a lot like Croix.

How is “What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?” connected with 12 Monkeys? I don’t remember any similarity or connection.

By: ericsan

ericsan — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:25:57 +0000

Howard Stern used to have a regular guest (or WackPacker, as he calls them) named Croix, a woman who sounded almost reasonable until a little prodding would get her started. Then, she would explain how she had lost everything she had because Ronald Reagan "stole her architecture." She claimed that Ronald Reagan and Fidel Castro had plotted to steal her plans for a secret military base at the North Pole. This guy seems to be the same kind of nutter: schizophrenic with paranoid tendencies. These people are very dangerous, remember What's the Frequency, Kenneth? which inspired an REM song and the Terry Gilliam movie "12 Monkeys"?