There are different kinds of future sight. The kind of future sight that just tells you when you’re boned like Oedipus is not the kind you want. I recommend threatening to never play with this dungeon master again unless they give you one of the good kinds.
There are different sorts of careless. There’s leaving classified documents in your car. And then there’s forgetting to refill the cyanide gas dispenser in the boot after the last time something got in there.
Seriously.
In the Wizard of Oz, that is the full name of the Wizard as given in one of the books. It was revealed in the fourth Oz book, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. As this is one of the books written by Baum himself, it can be taken as canon.
There.
More than you EVER wanted to know about the wizard, right? 🙂
True, he did have both names. But in The Emerald City of Oz, when he drank from the Water of Oblivion, he forgot everything — including the name Roquat. The next time we see him, although he has finally recovered from drinking the Water, he is still going by the new name Ruggedo.
Not that this excuses any of the other continuity issues between the books.
Yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh
The trunk is so dark, the lid has been closed,
And we’re confused on how we’ve been hosed.
We went a-looking for shadow-gov man.
We dove in to hide out, and now we’ve been canned.
So, come on, we’ll take a trunk ride!
(Trunk ride!)
Come on and crawl in side by side,
Come on, we’ll take a trunk ride!
It’s cramped and its chilly, is that a spare tire?
We’re in big trouble, position is dire.
Relying too much on poor second sight,
We’re shrouded in darkness that isn’t at night.
So, come on, we’ll take a trunk ride!
(Trunk ride!)
Come on and crawl in side by side,
Come on, we’ll take a trunk ride!
Yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh
Ah, ah, come on, we’ll take a trunk ride
Come on, we’ll take a trunk ride, yeh yeh yeh yeah
(Come on…)
Ah, but sometimes the most powerful people can become careless. They’ve put so many layers of security between themselves and the world that they simply assume they are untouchable. They make little mistakes, and little mistakes open the door to bigger ones.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve left Illuminati secrets in my car trunk and forgotten about them. Then when I find them I have to wash off all that sticky spilled soda and fuzz…eew.
Usually they kill them and *then* get dumped in the trunk.
What? You never saw “Goodfellas”?
Or Sneakers?
There are different kinds of future sight. The kind of future sight that just tells you when you’re boned like Oedipus is not the kind you want. I recommend threatening to never play with this dungeon master again unless they give you one of the good kinds.
Yeah, the most recurrent issue with prophecy is lack of context.
There are different sorts of careless. There’s leaving classified documents in your car. And then there’s forgetting to refill the cyanide gas dispenser in the boot after the last time something got in there.
Worse if you happen to do both.
We’re coming up on 10 years of Skin Horse, and I think there is just a possibility that soon we might finally learn the identity of the Wizard of Oz.
Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs.
Ah, but a name is not the same thing as an identity.
OZ…. PINHEAD? Seriously?
Why do you think he went only by Oz?
It’s CANON! 😀
Dang, has it been that long?
Yeah, the years have gone by waaay too fast.
Couldn’t they get a vehicle with a larger trunk?
Hm… definitely not a Gremlin, then.
Seriously.
In the Wizard of Oz, that is the full name of the Wizard as given in one of the books. It was revealed in the fourth Oz book, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. As this is one of the books written by Baum himself, it can be taken as canon.
There.
More than you EVER wanted to know about the wizard, right? 🙂
But book canon isn’t movie canon, as I’ve found. And just why did the land of kangaroos steal his name and incur his wrath?
Used onscreen in “Oz the Great and Powerful”, FWIW. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1623205/quotes/qt1873564
I would accept Baum as canon, except he tended not to pay attention from one book to another. Didn’t the Nome King have two different names?
Yep. “Ruggedo” and “Roquat the Red” both refer to the same character.
True, he did have both names. But in The Emerald City of Oz, when he drank from the Water of Oblivion, he forgot everything — including the name Roquat. The next time we see him, although he has finally recovered from drinking the Water, he is still going by the new name Ruggedo.
Not that this excuses any of the other continuity issues between the books.
You see, that’s a very apt vision, I’d say.
ALL WORLDS BEGIN IN DARKNESS, AND SO SHALL END. THE HEART IS NO DIFFERENT.
Yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh
The trunk is so dark, the lid has been closed,
And we’re confused on how we’ve been hosed.
We went a-looking for shadow-gov man.
We dove in to hide out, and now we’ve been canned.
So, come on, we’ll take a trunk ride!
(Trunk ride!)
Come on and crawl in side by side,
Come on, we’ll take a trunk ride!
It’s cramped and its chilly, is that a spare tire?
We’re in big trouble, position is dire.
Relying too much on poor second sight,
We’re shrouded in darkness that isn’t at night.
So, come on, we’ll take a trunk ride!
(Trunk ride!)
Come on and crawl in side by side,
Come on, we’ll take a trunk ride!
Yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh
Ah, ah, come on, we’ll take a trunk ride
Come on, we’ll take a trunk ride, yeh yeh yeh yeah
(Come on…)
—from “Free Ride,” Edgar Winter Group.
You do not leave Illuminati secrets in the trunk of your car, unless they’re the sort that disintegrate thieves and meddling kids. (See, “Repo Man”)
Ah, but sometimes the most powerful people can become careless. They’ve put so many layers of security between themselves and the world that they simply assume they are untouchable. They make little mistakes, and little mistakes open the door to bigger ones.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve left Illuminati secrets in my car trunk and forgotten about them. Then when I find them I have to wash off all that sticky spilled soda and fuzz…eew.