Friday, March 24, 2006

The Dead Blue Bottle

I had one of those Google-whims a few moments ago that inspire a quick search for something that floated across my consciousness. Forrest, BB, and others have given me a bit of a hard time over my critique of the Dead Blue Bottle that was missing in the recent Narnia movie. I wondered if I there might be other fans that had missed it and were beginning a groundswell of support to have it added in the special edition ala Greedo's blaster.

I was not the only person to notice that the bottle was missing from the window sill. In fact several other kindred spirits remarked that they had been looking forward to it. Granted none of them seemed to rant quite as much as I did about the apparently wasted money and time spent on the pointlessly stupid dying fly.

But then I scrolled further down through the results...... In the middle of a discussion group on how to store unsorted screws, bolts, and useless work-bench collections I saw it and laughed.

While writing about a particularly good way of sorting his wing nuts into various sizes of paint cans, one contributor mentioned that his workbench storage solutions also tended to collect dead blue bottle flies.

Another quick Google got me this picture.

I feel so silly to have gotten something so wrong for so long. I still think it would be better if it had looked like this.

8 comments:

T said...

LOL. I wondered what a dead blue bottle was. You have ranted to SO many people about this! I am shocked you didn't just stay quiet after finding out! :) Kudos to you for this blog!

shakedust said...

Woo hoo!!! We got a dead blue bottle post!

That picture is hilarious. I'll need to do a Google search of my own, I guess.

windarkwingod said...

That's hilarious! And very interesting the internet approach that lead you to the photo comparison. Fun to read...

roamingwriter said...

Isn't it amazing the things we can discover that we thought we knew?? I'm always pleased to discover new words or ideas even if I know I've been silly or dumb with them in the past. That really old song....little lambs eat ivy, that I thought was lil la le i. Just silly syllables, no it's actually words.

f o r r e s t said...

I applaud you for bringing us the truth. So the movie got it right! Maybe, you can watch with it new eyes.

You just solved a mystery for all of us.

One problem with the picture of the blue bottle - it doesn't look dead.

Dash said...

I disagee forrest.

I specifically looked for a bottle with a whashed out coloring that almost wasn't blue any more - like it had been set on a garden window for a few hundred years.

The pic I linked to is an example of medievel glass found in Britain. I took me a while to find it - most bottle images had that striking cobalt blue color to them. This (when compared to those) is certainly dead.

windarkwingod said...

ah... dead glass... now we are venturing into the sublime world of the kansas poets... ( of which I would like to affiliate myself, even if I do use my most coolest 5th grade photo) )

f o r r e s t said...

I disagree, too. :)

Glass doesn't get washed out by the sun. So my first problem is that the bottle is not blue enough to look dead. I see a dead blue as a really dark murkey blue and not a bright sea-breazy blue like the bottle you showed.

Second, that bottle you showed looks like a perfume bottle - also something that I did not have in mind for that dead blue bottle image.

And there lies the problem - we interpret it differently. so even if the movie included an actual bottle, (like I said at homer's) you probably would not have been happy with their representation of the bottle.