Good sentence.
Posted by Beth (Member # 2192) on :
A little context might be nice.
"Don't nobody go nowhere," said the Queen to the ministers. Then she gestured for the evil robot monkeys to kill them all.
Posted by Netstorm2k (Member # 2279) on :
Beth, I am actually seriously touched that you remember my evil robot monkey bit.
But they were chimpanzees Dangit!
Posted by Beth (Member # 2192) on :
Actually, I didn't, sorry. I've been doing the evil robot monkey thing for years.
Posted by Netstorm2k (Member # 2279) on :
*Recoiling in shame* And I thought I was original.
Posted by Spaceman (Member # 9240) on :
Evil robot monkeys are indiginous to Hatrack.
Posted by Beth (Member # 2192) on :
Perhaps. but my use of them predates my participation in hatrack by several years.
Posted by Netstorm2k (Member # 2279) on :
That's not making me feel any better.
I'm going to bed with a bottle of scotch and a Dostoyevsky novel.
maybe a pizza too.
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Posted by Survivor (Member # 213) on :
We used to do the dread vampire monkey thing. They live under bridges and in tunnels.
Posted by Beth (Member # 2192) on :
vampire monkeys! that's great.
Posted by Elan (Member # 2442) on :
I've always maintained that a hundred monkeys, banging on a hundred typewriters, could easily churn out an issue of "Willamette Week" (local alternative-news rag that tries to pass as serious journalism). Maybe Willamette Week has a staff of really evil vampire robot monkeys. That would explain a lot.
Posted by Beth (Member # 2192) on :
But! Robots can't be vampires. OR zombies. That's just crazy-talk.
Posted by Beth (Member # 2192) on :
oh, and hey, did you see the news report a while ago? Someone tried to explore the "infinite number of monkeys typing" thing so they gave a bunch of monkeys computers.
All they did was bang on them with their fists and throw feces at them. They never did learn to type.
Posted by Smaug (Member # 2807) on :
Well, they would've if someone would've bothered to set them up with Mavis Beacon.
Posted by Smaug (Member # 2807) on :
Oh, and back to the original post. "Don't nobody go no where." is a triple negative, which makes it mean exactly what it sounds like it means. Works in many situations. Although I really like this sentence by former NBA great Karl Malone (on why fellow basketball player Larry Johnson got a huge contract one year): "What have Larry Johnson ever did that Karl Malone have not did?"
One thing about this kind of word choice is that it defines the character who's saying it.
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Posted by Susannaj4 (Member # 3189) on :
It reminds me of Tombstone, where Doc Holliday and Turkey Creek walk in on a Cowboy having sex with two women and Turkey Creek Says "Nobody move!" And Doc says "By all means, move."
Posted by JmariC (Member # 2698) on :
I have recently been on a kick with the phrase "You just don't pay me no nevermind." (which is usually followed by "Go on about your own business" or "I'll be doing my own thing") or "No one never pays me no nevermind anyway."
Posted by Pyre Dynasty (Member # 1947) on :
I prefer the freedom stealing phrase of "Don't listen to me just do whatever you want."
Posted by Smaug (Member # 2807) on :
Sometimes I like to add something to the original phrase. Like so: "Don't nobody go nowhere, no how."
Posted by Netstorm2k (Member # 2279) on :
I'll add context.
"We gonna take a little break now."
Posted by pooka (Member # 1738) on :
"Everybody freeze. Everybody down on the ground."
"Well which is it, Sonny? 'Cause if I'm frozen I can't rightly drop or I'm going to be in motion..."
Posted by Kolona (Member # 1438) on :
Anybody remember the "coastal monkey factory?" Posted by MaryRobinette (Member # 1680) on :
Willamette Week! Ah...how fondly I remember perusing the theater section. A friend of mine sends our care packages wrapped in Willamette Week, so I can catch up with what's happening at home.
Sorry for the off-topic fond memory.
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
This topic don't got no topic no how any how.
Posted by trousercuit (Member # 3235) on :
Netstorm2k:
quote:I'm going to bed with a bottle of scotch and a Dostoyevsky novel.
Don't do that. You'll wind up with a hangover.
Not necessarily from the scotch, of course.
Posted by Susannaj4 (Member # 3189) on :
So we are all agreed?
Posted by SQ (Member # 3455) on :
@Kolona: I remember "'Kaboom!' went the coastal monkey factory. And the see was full of angry monkeys." But I can't for the life of me remember where it's from?
Posted by pooka (Member # 1738) on :
Prohibiting double and triple negatives are regarded by linguists as being the same level of pedantry as the rule on dangling prepositions. So it's fine for dialogue, though it will have the effect of "ain't" and "drinkin'".
"ah'm a-goin' to the flea market to get me a new bathtub. That one in the yard's all full up of motorcylce parts."
Posted by Survivor (Member # 213) on :
The real question is whether the multiple negatives count as reinforcing or negating each other. Of course, if you use an odd number of negatives it doesn't matter, which might be why the triple negative is so popular compared to the double negative.
