![]() ![]() The Brothers Grimm is a 2005 adventure fantasy film directed by Terry Gilliam. They are national culture heroes.)Īnd the movie, which has Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, and the slightest of connections to history. (There are plenty of other Grimm-oriented German stamps. The next time you watch Snow White, remember that Grimm’s Fairy Tales may be what made the Grimm name famous in popular culture, but Jacob Grimm was also one of the giants of early linguistics. A quirky note on the former, from Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips site, by Mignon Fogarty on 11/19/14: Meanwhile, the actual Grimms and the movie Grimms are still open for reaperish play. (On the tv show, see my 11/12/15 posting “Movies and tv: Grimm”.) And many references to Grimm Reapers are to these beings. To be fair, the tv show does have main characters called Grimms, guardians devoted to keeping the balance between humanity and mythological creatures and others called Reapers, bounty hunters devoted to killing Grimms - so that the Reapers are in fact Grímm rèapers, reapers of Grimms. I thought that it would be so cool to replace the pokemon cards with the reaper kings. We received our Bicycle Alchemy 1977 deck and the kings are all grimm reapers. One cite from many:Īnyway, Robert and I collect card decks and really like the gothic and grungy decks. What I found instead was a large eggcornish confounding of grim and Grimm: a fair number of people think that the GR is in fact called the Grimm Reaper, after the Grimm brothers’ often grisly tales. It would be easy to fold the GR into any of these contexts. Or combining allusions to the GR and to either the actual Grimm brothers, the title characters of the film The Brothers Grimm, or the tv show Grimm. My first idea was to look for perfect puns: Grimm Reaper, combining allusions to the figure of the Grim Reaper and to the folk tales collected by the Brothers Grimm: Thumbling (Tom Thumb), The Robber Bridegroom, The Bremen Town Musicians, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Cinderella, Snow White, Rumpelstiltskin, The Goose Girl, etc. Puns on the grim of Grim Reaper. Going past Grime Reaper. Yes, the appropriate technical term for this tool is squeegee. Noun squeegee: a scraping implement with a rubber-edged blade set on a handle, typically used for cleaning windows. … ORIGIN mid 19th century: from archaic squeege ‘to press’, strengthened form of squeeze. (#2) A particularly handsome squeegee for window washing The figure of the Grim Reaper - the bringer of death - as a window-washer, removing - destroying - the grime on the windows of a high-rise building, with the blade of his scythe replaced by a window-washer’s squeegee. (#1) (If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon - Dan Piraro says there are 2 in this strip - see this Page.) ![]() Just one day after a particularly fine Rhymes With Orange cartoon combining the Desert Island cartoon meme and the Grim Reaper meme - in my 6/27 posting “The Desert Island Reaper” - came a Wayno/Piraro Bizarro with a groaner Grim Reaper pun: ![]()
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