Explain the brain

[drwex]

OK, enough people went "Dude, WTF" at the last entry I have to explain:

Rossum, as a couple of commenters hinted, is the first R in R.U.R., the famous play by Karel Čapek that introduced the word "robot" into the larger vocabulary. R.U.R. stands for Rossum's Universal Robots, and the word is derived from the Czech word for servant.

With that in mind, you need to be old enough to have had Styx inflicted on you, or just happen to use the Google searchbar. If you type "Domo Arigato" into that search bar the first suggestion is "Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto". The album on which that appeared was actually one of their last, dated 1982 or 1983. If you were listening to pop music then (I can see people disclaiming it now) the phrase was hard to avoid. Or if you were a monster/sci-fi/horror fan you might have known about it because Stan Winston did the Mr Roboto design.

Comments

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

With that in mind, you need to be old enough to have had Styx inflicted on you, or just happen to use the Google searchbar.

Those who have paid more attention to the Barenaked Ladies than Styx will also get that reference, even if they don't know where it comes from. :-)

Re: Piling On

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

And the second initial in "R.U.R." stands for "universal", which is why I slipped that into your last post.

And oh yeah, the Styx reference was most recently hammered in a VW commercial.