A quick question for the overseas

[ximeria]

Just a quick one, seeing as I'm trying to catch up on a backlog of proportions at the moment.

I've got a question from a co-worker I kind of need some American input for.

If you were to see the line:

'There's no place like home'

on for example a poster or anywhere, really. What does it make you think about/remind you of?

Comments

[miriam-heddy.livejournal.com]

The Wizard of Oz and Dorothy, of course.

[ximeria.livejournal.com]

Heheh, thank you kindly - and of course it's Oz. Thanks for helping me prove it LOL

[flobberchops.livejournal.com]

Wizard of OZ, Judy Garland, ruby slippers, yellow brick road, small hairy dog called Toto.

Irretrievably linked to the phrase "There's no place like home".

[ximeria.livejournal.com]

Heh, absolutely. Thank you for proving exactly that ^_^

[swtalmnd]

Yep, Wizard of Oz and Dorothy clicking together her red heels, trying to get back to Kansas.

[ximeria.livejournal.com]

Heh, thought as much *hugs you*

[drkcherry.livejournal.com]

The Wizard of Oz, poor little deluded Dorothy.

[ximeria.livejournal.com]

Hehehe, it seems I'm way more in tune with the English language and pop-culture than my dear collegues around here LOL -- Thank you for proving that somethings just can't be translated and understood everywhere.

[hyperfocused.livejournal.com]

The 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz. I suspect that's what most Americans would say, as it's shown perenially on tv around the holidays.

[ximeria.livejournal.com]

I thought as much. I figured I could get some enlightenment by asking around ^_^ -- thank you for the help

[scriggle.livejournal.com]

Ditto to what everyone else has said. Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz.

[ximeria.livejournal.com]

Heh, thank you kindly

[stormymouse.livejournal.com]

i'm not american but definitely THE WIZARD OF OZ!

[ximeria.livejournal.com]

Heh, you just proved that even us non-americans can get that one *g* -- thank you

[stormymouse.livejournal.com]

glad to have been of assistance!

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

Well, first I think of Dorothy. Ruby slippers. Click your heels together three times. You know, The Wizard of Oz.

But then, of course, as any fangirl would, I think of Stargate SG-1 and Jack O'Neill. *points at icon*

[ximeria.livejournal.com]

*laughs*
well, it still works, you know, since SG1 had a pretty fair share of Oz references LOL

[katejaneway.livejournal.com]

The Wizard of Oz, the movie.

[ximeria.livejournal.com]

Heh, thank you kindly

[epeeblade]

Let me chime in and say the Wizard of Oz. And Jack O'Neill ;)

[ximeria.livejournal.com]

Heh, after posting the question I DID wonder if anyone would be going 'Jack O'Neill!'

[audaxfemina.livejournal.com]

Let me let you in on a little secret. I never watched the Wizard of Oz as a kid. Seriously. Which is kind of ironic, as one of my distant relatives was the Cowardly Lion, but I digress.

It's rather ingrained in our society now... that unless you *didn't* watch it ever, and didn't talk to people about the plot of the story, then that phrase = Wiz of Oz.

First words that popped into my head, as I look around my messy new apartment after the fire at my old place? "Damn straight there's no place like home." Right before I called my mom to bitch about how I'm never going to be unpacked. :)

[ximeria.livejournal.com]

Heh, that's how it is when you move -- makes it all the worse when it's not a voluntary move. Stuff to unpack -- and even if you work hard at it, there's always a box or two that won't get upacked for ages LOL

[audaxfemina.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I need less stuff or more hunky beautiful men to help me carry it.

Or maybe I need both.

[makaikitty.livejournal.com]

Makes me think "Wizard of Oz" and ruby slippers ^-^

[ximeria.livejournal.com]

^_^
Thank you kindly

[alicettlg.livejournal.com]

We're off to see the Wizard, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
You'll find he is a whiz of a Wiz! If ever a Wiz! there was.
If ever oh ever a Wiz! there was The Wizard of Oz is one becoz,
Becoz, becoz, becoz, becoz, becoz.
Becoz of the wonderful things he does!

Every year when I was a kid back when there were only three TV channels here in America, during the fall, they would show Oz, Sound of Music and the Cinderella with Lesley Ann Warren and Walter Pidgeon and Celeste Holm and I'd curl up on the couch and watch every time.

[ximeria.livejournal.com]

Heh, I thought it might be something like that. Some things you just never let go of, especially cozy childhood memories.

[alicettlg.livejournal.com]

So what do people in the UK think of when they hear that phrase?

[ximeria.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I think I'll open the question to everyone later tonight. I don't know about the UK, though I did ask nicci_mac who agreed that it reminded her of the Wizard of Oz.

I think, had the ad, where I took the line from, been in English, it would have triggered a lot more replies of 'Oz' from those of us discussing it, but since it had been translated into Danish, it took me a moment to twist my brain around and make the connection. There are days where the English and the Danish parts of my brain work in perfect symbiosis, and then there are days where they... lack a connection XD

[ana-grrl.livejournal.com]

The Wizard of Oz. And red shoes.

[ximeria.livejournal.com]

Heh, thank you kindly

dorothy. heels.

[mercedessaint.livejournal.com]

it makes me instantly think of dorothy, those red sparkle shoes that should have been two inches higher, and blue and white gingham...

Re: dorothy. heels.

[ximeria.livejournal.com]

*laughs*
Thank you for the input and I agree on the shoes XD