This may be old news to some. I had read of this at least 5 years ago but recently came across a site (linked above) devoted to it. I am almost proud to say that I have never done it or even thought about it but I want to throw it out to the readers, as we have a (ahem) “mix” of readers here at The Pinetar Rag and someone may know something. Has anyone done this? Results? Just random coincidences? It sounds like someone had a lot of time on their hands and it shouldn’t be a big deal but it just continues to have legs so I wonder. This website even offers presynched DVD’s (Copyright, anyone?) of Wizard set to Dark Side (if anyone has one, can you burn one for me?)
I once bought a 4 movie boxed set on ebay for the original, silent, Wizard of Oz. I never knew the original story was a long series (of books, I think) and so I picked them up for like 5 bucks. They were beyond bad. Unwatchable and didn’t even really make sense actually.
My favorite Wizard of Oz myths are that Buddy Ebsen got the part for the Tin Man but was allergic to the silver makeup. And I shudder to think of what that stuff was. Hey, in 1939, they’d have coated you in asbestos to get a shot, I’m pretty sure it was a good break for Buddy.
These and other myths, especially the ones that people embarrassingly forward out in mass emails, are all explained, verified and or debunked beautifully on the website snopes dot com, which is linked in the blogroll at right top. If you haven’t been to this site, you probably should hit it, especially if you’re an email forwarder of the “Microsoft will send you money for forwarding this to ten friends” variety.
The college myths are amazing too. I had personally heard several in my college days. The engineers didn’t figure the weight of the books and the library was sinking was heard all over University of Delaware (Snopes didn’t tackle the other UD library legend which was that the 3rd floor was a place George Michael would have frequented) .
I also recall hearing that the head janitor in our dorm complex was the head monkey in The Wizard of Oz and then was amazed to read that in the snopes college legend section. Yea, I bought that one and probably repeated it myself. Shame on me. –fog
Never heard of this synch stuff. do know a few rumuors around Oz.
The Buddy Epson one I just saw on some show, but it was framed it not as an allergy but as “poisoning” and a serious longer term lung problem.
The other one I’ve heard a couple times and actually “researched” a bit, is that the whole Oz story is a political allegory with each of the characters representing a popular political character of the day and the Oz refers to Ounces - as in the gold vs. silver standard political issue.
In the final analysis - if you can call it that - I think this was just rumour. Frank Baum denied it himself, saying something like he just wanted to write a different sort of imaginary story for kids.
The whole synch thing just sounds a bit too much like the whole “you mean the universe is really just a cell on a big giants fingernail…that’s cool” concept.
John.
Comment by JRV — February 1, 2007 @ 4:55 pm
One of my favorite papers I had to write in school, was on McKinley and the election of 1896 where the Dems were on about Free Silver and the Repubs were the gold guys. William Jennings Bryan was the loser and he lost 3 national elections for US Pres as the Democratic nominee. That some kind of record, or what? He went on to the Scopes, Monkey trial I think…did he beat Clarence Darrow in that one? –fog ps, Rich is not going to Everest this year-cancelled the trip
Comment by mcgonnigle — February 1, 2007 @ 5:02 pm
I went to that site, the only thing they don’t tell you is how many joints to smoke before you visualize the synchronization. I know some guys from High school who would be all over this.
Comment by Greg B — February 1, 2007 @ 9:50 pm
Yea, I’m thinking that it’s college kids originally with the tunes on and they’re all watching the movie that everyone knows by heart and then someone says, “doood, did you see that?”, and really, I think that just about ANY movie and ANY music would work. I recall watching a tape of Game 7 of the 1986 World Series synched up to the Grateful Dead’s Terrapin Station and right when Keith Hernandez gets the base hit off of Bruce Hurst to knock in 2 runs, something happens…but I forget. Labbats Blue is required for that one. –fog
Comment by mcgonnigle — February 1, 2007 @ 9:58 pm