Most nonviolent crime is a crime of opportunity. Anything happening in the ghetto is just some teenage hooligan jiggling car doors as he passes to see if any are unlocked. Then they ransack the car as fast as they can and leave with anything that looks like it might be sellable on ebay. There’s no thought behind it, they’re impulsive and unscrupulous, that’s all.
After the word hooligan, you can click for a footnote, which reads, "'Teenage Hooligans' could be here, he thought." I immediately understood what that meant -- it's what stick-in-the-muds would call a "racist dog whistle" -- but didn't recognize it as something I'd seen in exactly that form before.
Then I checked /x/, where I found that the latest Roy Jay thread is titled "/royjay/ weirdos could be here he thought edition."
Just as a reminder, although Roy Jay is a very au courant theme on /x/ right now -- the first Roy Jay /x/ post was the past April 5 -- I discovered him not by looking at new threads but by searching the entire archive, going back to 2013, for the string "blue prince" and getting only one result, which was a Roy Jay thread.
Running into the "X could be here, he thought" format twice in quick succession like that, I of course looked it up. Know Your Meme has it as "Dapper Man Pumping Gas While Smoking Cigarette / X Could Be Here, I Hate X," and as expected it originated as a racist copypasta on 4chan. It was prompted by the challenge to write a short story about this image:
It appears that in this image's entire history as a meme, everyone has studiously ignored the fact that this gas station offers E85, regular, and milk. What kind of car runs on milk?
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William,
Because everything is numbers/gematria
, especially in sync events, the numbers 224 and 299
( price for the milk ) got my attention.
Recall my many comments about the
master number 22. In most all movies the number
22 is in there somewhere.
If not visually
then mentioned in the dialogue.
Of course in the number 224, there is also a 4, the doorway.
22 x 4=88
Also in almost every movie is the master
number 11. Of course 11+11=22.
Check out another absolutely intriguing Twilight Zone
episode clip : the Obsolete Man
( one of my absolute favorite Twilight
Zones!! )
The Obsolete Man's plot is about the final destruction
of humanity by eliminating those who think different
and those who read or are the curator of books.
Rod Serling was truly ahead of his time.
Kinda cool that he lived in Yellow Springs Ohio for a short time.
Serling was in the Air Force, based at Wright Patt.
Of course the master number 99 is interesting as well
as the number 9 is about endings AND new beginnings.
Much like the tail of the ouroboros.
Recall that the Beatles song The End is iN the trilogy
of Golden Slumbers/ Carry that Weight/ The End
Of course there is also the creepy Revolution 9 song
on the White Album.
In the photo note that the number 9 appears at the end
of all of the numbers.
Twenty-two ( Twilight Zone )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHpKHzNGUJM
clip from Twenty-two ( Twilight Zone )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uqeF_2qLCw
Mile 22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLw2sfQrhcQ
Taylor Swift - 22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgFeZr5ptV8&list=RDAgFeZr5ptV8&start_radio=1
The Obsolete Man ( listen for the mention of number 11 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3quruHpcuo&t=53s
One After 909 ( Beatles )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8UeWjynWvE&list=RDt8UeWjynWvE&start_radio=1
And skim milk at that. Not even the good stuff.
I looked up Hooligan, and it turns out one hypothesis is that it was named after a man named Patrick (Patrick Hooligan), who stole some stuff.
Since the two "X could be here ...." phrases set Hooligan and Weirdos as equivalent (the X's), I then looked up Weird. The first definition on Etymonline is "the power to control fate", and then we get this:
"Force that sets events in motion or determines their course; what is destined to befall one;" from Old English wyrd "fate, chance, fortune; destiny; the Fates."
It was interesting to see that tie between Weird and Fortune.
This is going to be unfair and heavily biased, since I am already thinking or hypothesizing in these terms (so should be appropriately discounted), but the mention of fate brought Pharazon to mind, and I thought I remembered him saying something about fate in Daymon's book, though I couldn't remember the phrase. I looked it up, and it was actually one I've used in the comments here before:
"...So he named himself, Willful, Chosen, Fated: Three in One, King of Air, Earth, and Wave."
I say unfair because there are plenty of other characters who have either referred to fate or even adopted fate as their name (Turin Turambar, for example), so this more just outlines my thought process within context.
Skim milk calls to mind the old Thomas B. Bucket story.
In my teens I was a diehard fan of the hilariously unfunny old comic strip Happy Hooligan, and my sailboat, the SS Lobster Already, took its name from the strip.
(German characters in HH add “yet” or “already” to the end of every utterance, and there’s a panel where a German punches one of the Hooligan brothers in the face while exclaiming “Lobster already!”)
Another HH character is Woozy Bill, who is always escaping from the insane asylum and trying to catch anarchists.
William,
I forgot to add that in the first link Twenty-Two ( repost
below) in Rod Serling's
commentary, listen for the word : spooked.
A word in the sync stream as of late.
Also in the Obsolete Man clip ( re-link below )
I thought it interesting that both Mr. Wordsworth
and the Chancellor emphasizes the word
books to booksssss.
The reason why I thought the emphasizes on
bookssss interesting
is because it somewhat supports my perspective
that we gain knowledge and puzzle pieces
for a vast spectrum
of ideologies i.e. many booksssss
( the good, the bad and the ugly )
and not just from one source, teacher or chancellor.
The Obsolete Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3quruHpcuo&t=53s
Twenty-two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHpKHzNGUJM
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