Janice, the grooviest Muppet

corenominal · 2012-09-04 08:50:02

Janice is a groovy chick and that's fer sure! When compared to say, I don't know, Jessie from Toy Story, I know who I'd ask out on a date (if I wasn't married to bobobex).

I find Janice to be an interesting character. For starters, not only does she play in a band, but she seems to have had more men inside her than woman. A fact that I find very puzzling, as I doubt I would have realised without watching this video. Also, on a personal note, our daughter's (Emma's) first Linux machine had the hostname of 'janice', mainly because of Emma's striking resemblance to said Muppet (not that I would ever call our daughter a Muppet!)

Anyhow, if you are new to CrunchBang, and/or you are wondering what all this has to do with anything, please read this annoucement from the Debian Release Team: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-a … 00004.html

pvsage · 2012-09-04 09:12:21

So...did you know that Debian 7 would be Wheezy before you named #! 10 "Statler", or was the Squeeze/Statler and Wheezy/Waldorf congruence just a happy coincidence? I had a feeling that, regardless of the official name for Debian 7, the #! release based on it would have been named Waldorf.

Janice really is groovy - and she plays a lefty Lester! (I understand Gibson stopped making left-handed guitars a few years ago...but that has nothing to do with this thread.) The "fer sure" bit was more Valley than hippie though, very Moon Unit. To me, Richard Hunt's Janice sounded a lot like Kermit...something in the inflections.

she seems to have had more men inside her than woman

So not touching that.

Sidebar: What would possess parents to name their child "Dick Hunt"? They had to realize what that would sound like.

Sidebar2: Is Emma a member of the forums?

corenominal · 2012-09-04 09:30:51

Answer to question 1: no, it was a happy accident. That said, I am not sure I would have chosen Waldorf if it had not of fallen than way.

she seems to have had more men inside her than woman
So not touching that.

My bad, sorry. I did think it might be a little risqué. No offence meant

Sidebar: What would possess parents to name their child "Dick Hunt"? They had to realize what that would sound like.

*chuckles* so not touching that.

Sidebar2: Is Emma a member of the forums?

No, and for the record, she does not use Linux any more either, much to my disappointment. We got away with it when she was younger, but when she started attending secondary school, she wanted to use what all the "cool" kids were using. I tried to point out how wrong she was in her thinking, but I failed. Maybe one day, she will see the light. I live in hope

pvsage · 2012-09-04 09:42:49

corenominal wrote:

Answer to question 1: no, it was a happy accident. That said, I am not sure I would have chosen Waldorf if it had not of fallen than way.

I believe tropers call this a "nod of God".

she wanted to use what all the "cool" kids were using.

Oh, so she's using a Mac.

mariannemarlow · 2012-09-04 09:50:20

corenominal wrote:

she seems to have had more men inside her than woman
So not touching that.
My bad, sorry. I did think it might be a little risqué. No offence meant

risqué is always funny. It made me chuckle.

lcafiero · 2012-09-04 16:06:11

So . . . um . . . I'm wrong about the intentional parallels between the Debian and CrunchBang naming conventions then? I'll have to fix that slide on the stock #! presentation (you have a copy, corenominal), though the coincidence, to be honest, is a little too good to be true. In addition, I think the Muppet-with-the-same-letter naming convention would complement the Debian naming convention (not to mention being a high compliment to Debian in the process).

Jessie is in Toy Story 2, seemingly a female counterpart to Woody (and, if memory serves, Woody, Jessie and Jessie's horse make up a toy set).

corenominal · 2012-09-04 16:18:02

lcafiero wrote:

So . . . um . . . I'm wrong about the intentional parallels between the Debian and CrunchBang naming conventions then?

No, not wrong at all. It has always been intentional to pick a Muppet character that starts with the same letter as the Toy Story character used by Debian. However, at the time of picking Statler, I had no idea that Wheezy would follow Squeeze as it had not been announced. Hence Waldorf being a happy accident. Hope that makes sense.

hhh · 2012-09-04 16:41:45

Are there no Toy Story toys that start with the letter "A" (the Aliens are actually called Little Green Men)? We will never see a #! "Animal"?

Truly tragic.

mariannemarlow · 2012-09-04 16:43:22

^ a shame indeed. I have an "Animal" t-shirt. He's my favourite Muppet.

corenominal · 2012-09-04 16:43:23

hhh wrote:

Are there no Toy Story toys that start with the letter "A" (the Aliens are actually called Little Green Men)? We will never see a #! "Animal"?
Truly tragic.

I have a top secret plan for Animal

hhh · 2012-09-04 16:47:40

@core, LOL! Fan-freaking-tastic.

vic · 2012-09-04 17:55:39

corenominal wrote:

I have a top secret plan for Animal

Now we are salivating with expectation

hhh · 2012-09-04 18:03:45

It's Top Secret! He could tell you but then he'd have to kill you. With cookies.

mariannemarlow · 2012-09-04 18:04:30

^ no, the cookie monster is sesame street

hhh · 2012-09-04 18:32:21

mariannemarlow wrote:

sesame street

Seriously? You're distinguishing between Sesame Street Muppets and Muppet Show Muppets? Anyway, it was more of a reference to the Introductions thread than to Cookie Monster.

"Cookie Monster never waste cookie on mere bludgeoning... om nom nom nom."

mariannemarlow · 2012-09-04 18:35:05

hhh wrote:

mariannemarlow wrote:
sesame street
Seriously? You're distinguishing between Sesame Street Muppets and Muppet Show Muppets? Anyway, it was more of a reference to the Introductions thread than to Cookie Monster.
"Cookie Monster never waste cookie on mere bludgeoning... om nom nom nom."

I am

and I know!

Nom.
EDIT: You have turned into the count!

Didn't he do a scene with the cookie monster where he was trying to count the cookies and CM was eating them?

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hhh · 2012-09-04 19:00:53

I have, honoring Jerry Nelson (see my sig link).

They did, it's here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7hTkzEwFZ0

Dave W. · 2012-09-04 20:10:44

...This topic has me so confused.

...I find it a little disturbing that Janice has a man voice...

One time at work, things were going really bad, and some one told me that I reminded them of Beaker...sigh.

omns · 2012-09-04 20:16:06

Marvin Suggs says... nice one

pvsage · 2012-09-04 20:27:14

Dave W. wrote:

...I find it a little disturbing that Janice has a man voice...

Might be a bad time to tell you about Bart Simpson then...and Rocky the Flying Squirrel...

I actually found it a bit more disturbing to read Corenominal "working blue" about Janice, then in the next breath type about a similarity between Janice and his daughter. Though, given her current age (secondary school), that thought's probably foremost in Papanominal's mind...even more so than anything CrunchBang.

Dave W. · 2012-09-04 20:49:08

pvsage wrote:

Might be a bad time to tell you about Bart Simpson then...and Rocky the Flying Squirrel...

Yeah, I know about them...

I just wonder what "Ray Davies and The Boys" think about Janice. "Lola, L-o-l-a, Lola"

lcafiero · 2012-09-05 23:42:09

Dave W. wrote:

One time at work, things were going really bad, and some one told me that I reminded them of Beaker...sigh.

I hope you said, "Thank you." Beaker's my favorite. This is my favorite video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phyg_uIPQII

rstrcogburn · 2012-09-06 00:42:53

@corenominal

This explains so much. It always eluded me why the cb 9.04 lsb release profile was "Janice". Smooth man. We should have seen the muppet army coming !!

Dave W. · 2012-09-06 00:43:33

Thanks Icafiero. If I could only be that cool.

In reality I'm more like this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnblmZdTbYs

vic · 2012-09-25 10:00:42

^In that case...me #!ing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1KSaUEu_T4

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