[HN Gopher] The accidental invention of the snow globe (2024)
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The accidental invention of the snow globe (2024)
Author : benbreen
Score : 53 points
Date : 2025-01-02 15:19 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| urronglol wrote:
| Hmm. Work safe tip. Don't look up rosebud. Thank the lord for
| wfh.
| RF_Savage wrote:
| I guess you had safe search off?
| 0xffff2 wrote:
| I don't get it. I tried Kagi, Google and Bing web and image
| search with safe search off and I didn't see anything NSFW.
| DonHopkins wrote:
| Do you mean the nickname that William Randolph Hearst gave to
| his mistress Marion Davies' clitoris?
|
| >There's also a more controversial interpretation rooted in
| gossip about Orson Welles and screenwriter Herman J.
| Mankiewicz. Some suggest "Rosebud" was a private joke referring
| to the pet name for a part of William Randolph Hearst's
| mistress Marion Davies' anatomy, making it a subtle jab at the
| powerful media mogul who inspired Kane.
| MrMetric wrote:
| As I recall, the term "rosebud" can refer to an intentional
| anal prolapse. I'm not sure if what porn actresses do is the
| same as the medical definition of an anal prolapse, though.
| DonHopkins wrote:
| I think in the context of Citizen Kane and Orson Welles
| holding a snowglobe, it's referring to Marion Davies's
| clitoris (via the name of the sled, of course), which
| totally pissed off William Randolph Hearst.
|
| >In the opening scene of the 1941 mystery Citizen Kane, the
| eponymous protagonist, played by Orson Welles, clenches a
| snow globe in his hand as he utters his last word:
| "rosebud." The glass-encased spherical diorama of a snowy
| scene was a mere novelty at the time, but the film, in
| part, gave rise to its popularity.
|
| Here's a snarky response from Gore Vidal to a letter from a
| ambulance chasing lawyer to the editor of the New York
| Review, questioning his veracity as the source of the
| rumor:
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| https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1989/08/17/rosebud/
|
| [From Gore Vidal's perspective, the claim that "Rosebud"
| was William Randolph Hearst's private term for Marion
| Davies's clitoris is plausible but unverifiable. Vidal
| acknowledges that he did not receive this information
| directly from Hearst or Davies but suggests that such
| details could easily have emerged within the intimate,
| alcohol-fueled circles of Hearst's entourage, including
| figures like Herman Mankiewicz, who co-wrote Citizen Kane.
| Vidal argues that Hearst's intense fury at the film might
| be partly explained by the personal significance of
| "Rosebud," even if Orson Welles himself was unaware of its
| connotations. While he admits the story is speculative,
| Vidal finds it intriguing and consistent with the gossipy,
| complex dynamics of Hearst's world.]
|
| Here's Orson Welles mentioning "rosebud" on the set of a
| Paul Masson Commercial: ;)
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6P1ifGjvEE
|
| What you REALLY don't want to know is what Orson Welles
| meant by "frozen peas", "in July", "and I'll go down on
| you", "fish fingers", "crumb crisp coating", and "beef
| burgers":
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyko_oQ0da8
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH1PJTY9AVA
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6N8ADDDs0k
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh3BTbb9hCQ
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_Peas
|
| I can't wait to hear what private pet nicknames for body
| parts emerge from the intimate, ketamine-fueled circles of
| Musk's entourage.
| lisper wrote:
| > Here's a snarky response from Gore Vidal
|
| When it comes to snark, Vidal was a true master of the
| craft.
| DonHopkins wrote:
| Indeed, I love how at the end he roasted the lawyer who
| wrote the original letter to the editor that he was
| responding to:
|
| "Meanwhile, all Topkises are kindly requested to return
| to their letterheads until the next ambulance siren
| sounds."
|
| FWIW, "rosebud" is also a cheat code in The Sims that
| gives you $1000 Simoleons!
| nyc111 wrote:
| Why the date in the title? It's just from a few days ago. It's
| not like from 2014 or from years ago.
| droopyEyelids wrote:
| Someone in the future might see it
| lisper wrote:
| On that theory, every story should have a date in the title.
| But that would get tedious.
| optimalsolver wrote:
| That little invention gave us the Tommy Westphall Universe:
|
| https://www.unsupervisednerds.com/reads-full/2021/1/20/the-t...
| salgernon wrote:
| Sir Terry Pratchett's _Reaper Man_ offered that snow globes were
| effectively seeds for dispersing awareness of new cities / malls.
| Loughla wrote:
| That book has one of my favorite quotes, "What can the harvest
| hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?"
|
| I don't know why but that brings me to the verge of tears when
| I read it.
| netsharc wrote:
| Video featuring the museum and the man (the IIIrd), featuring the
| 2 guys from the IT Crowd: https://youtu.be/6wiqF7_keYs
|
| And in more serious format:
| https://www.bbc.com/news/business-25298507
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