The only film I want to see this holiday season
would be one in which every character is trying to get their hands on a
valuable artifact called the Archimedes Palimpsest. (The actual Archimedes Palimpsest resides
in a museum in Baltimore, and is owned by
a Florida billionaire.)
Wikipedia defines a palimpsest as “a manuscript page
from a scroll or book from which the text has been scraped or washed off and
which can be used again.”
Every time a character mentions the artifact, they
struggle to remember its name, kind of like Steve Martin’s character in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels desperately
trying from jail to remember the name of Michael Caine’s character, Lawrence
Jamieson.
Each character gets the name wrong, and among the
mistaken attempts are the following.
§ The Scarlett Pimpernell
§ The Hasselbeck Blunderbuss
§ The Abscessed Pimpleface
§ The Kayak Palindrome
§ The Benedict Cumberbatch
§ The Instamatic Politician
§ The Arbuckle Bottle Scandal
The Kardashiaan Pamplonabutt
§ The Jack Palance Quest
§ The Archemiley Papyrus
Happy holidays and merry moviegoing.
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