Culinary, Political Commentary, Popular Culture

Is Obama A Replicant?

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Maybe this explains a lot. I was watching Blade Runner last night, and in a scene I’d forgotten in detail, Rachael fails Deckard’s empathy test by her non-reaction to these words: “eating raw oyster and boiled dog.” Hey, it’s just what’s for dinner.

Of course, it assumes that there is some kind of universal antipathy to eating dog, when it’s clearly a cultural thing, so it wasn’t really a fair test of whether or not she was human. And of course, I don’t think that Obama could stand up to Harrison Ford in a fight for more than a couple seconds, even now.

21 thoughts on “Is Obama A Replicant?”

  1. “I don’t think that Obama could stand up to Harrison Ford in a fight for more than a couple seconds, even now.”

    Hell, I don’t think Bambi could stand up to me in a fight.

    Not that I’d want to risk getting his cooties by touching him….

  3. Sorry to get all serious on you, but that’s one of the concepts that translated poorly from the book: animals are so rare that the concept of harming them in any way, let alone eating them, would provoke revulsion in humans. Personally, I think that Blade Runner is the better for shedding most of those parts of Phil Dick’s novel (also for throwing away most of the Mercerism stuff).

  4. And speaking of Blade Runner in general and Sean Young’s character in specific: what a damn shame that Blade Runner and No Way Out turned out to be the highlights of Sean Young’s career; she’s really good in both movies, as well as spectacularly beautiful. What might have been…

      1. Sean Young’s career went off track sometime during the 90’s because she has some kind of nervous breakdown.

        1. Interesting that you said has instead of had because she is still clearly going through some sort of episode.

        2. Actually, she had some drama with James Woods and it went public, so studios were reluctant to touch her. She moved to Sedona Arizona for a long while instead of fighting the Hollywood machine.

          Entertainment Weekly interview

          She still works in minor roles (appearances on Reno 911, etc) but will never break back in to the A-List crowd. Perhaps what adds to her reputation as unstable is that she tries to break back in, instead of going off quietly to where ever former actresses go.

          1. She could “re-invent” herself in indie flicks… Are indie flicks still indie, or have they also gone mainstream?

  6. The thing you are missing is that its not just “boiled dog”, its “raw oyster”. The assumption is that cultures that are fine with eating boiled dog find raw oyster to be objectionable, so one or the other is gonna trigger a yuck factor in anybody but a complete omnivore.

  8. I like oysters and dog meat. The former steamed or stewed or fried. The latter gets ‘stewed’ somehow with lots of garlic and chiles.

    White rice on the side.

    1. Never tried dog. From what I heard it is not too dissimilar from lamb (sometimes even sold as lamb to unsuspecting customers). If it does taste like lamb it is difficult to cook properly without tasting terrible. If it was well cooked I would eat it. I have eaten horse and ostrich meat so it would just be one more kind of meat to try. I would get a lot more squeamish with the oysters. Too many stories of people getting food poisoned by shellfish, they look like snot, and I hate the smell. I have tried eating them a couple of times but never could get past the smell or how they look.

      1. Buffalo is the pinnacle of meat. I was in Greece one Easter and the host treated me as guest of honor, which meant lamb. It was very embarrassing for all. I can’t eat lamb. I made the mistake of trying. Eggs dyed red I didn’t have a problem with.

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