caroljane Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 The Showerhead*The Privately-Owned Hydroelectric StationDominatin' DominiqueJuries Gone Wild: No Fool for a Client - the state vs. RoarkDrill, Howie Baby, Drill!*In the original draft of the novel, Roark was named Rotor and was a master plumber.(If you thought the railway tunnel in Atlas was horrific, you should see what Rotor did to that building instead of blowing it up) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 If his name was Rotor, then that would make Dominique a .....ready....a rotor rooter!Even I moaned at that one.Adam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted March 17, 2012 Author Share Posted March 17, 2012 If his name was Rotor, then that would make Dominique a .....ready....a rotor rooter!Even I moaned at that one.AdamGood catch. So did she, apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted March 17, 2012 Author Share Posted March 17, 2012 The secret first draft is in the ARI archives. Of course Peikoff has not read it, but his wife (whichever one sorted out the Estate for him)and Berliner did, and they have been waiting for a good time to tell him about it for 34 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis Hardin Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 In Wallflower at the Orgy, Nora Ephron reportedly suggests that Rand intended the title to be a subliminal sexual metaphor. I'm sure there were plenty of people who saw this ad in the local paper and were decidedly disappointed to discover that the movie was about an upstart architect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted March 18, 2012 Author Share Posted March 18, 2012 In Wallflower at the Orgy, Nora Ephron reportedly suggests that Rand intended the title to be a subliminal sexual metaphor. I'm sure there were plenty of people who saw this ad in the local paper and were decidedly disappointed to discover that the movie was about an upstart architect.Yeah, I heard Rand liked the sound of "The Spigot" better because of the engineering angle, but was dissuaded.And it would have made that poster look funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Here is some goofy stuff Kat and I came up with back in 2006 on the old SoloHQ. It was one of those Chuck Norris joke threads.Books by Ayn Rand O'Norris:Fiction:Chuck Norris, the LivingChuck Norris's Anthem The Norris HeadChuck ShruggedNonfiction:For the Chuck Norris IntellectualThe Virtue of Chuck NorrisnessChuck Norris: The Unknown IdealThe Chuck Norris ManifestoThe New Left Hook: The Anti-Chuck Norris RevolutionIntroduction to Chuck Norris EpistemologyThen Ayn Rand O'Norris died and her intellectual heir put together new compilations of her writings, starting with:Chuck Norris, Who Needs Him?Robert Bidinotto chimed in with "Atlas Chucked." Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selene Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 Phil wasn't funny then either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted March 18, 2012 Author Share Posted March 18, 2012 Here is some goofy stuff Kat and I came up with back in 2006 on the old SoloHQ. It was one of those Chuck Norris joke threads.Books by Ayn Rand O'Norris:Fiction:Chuck Norris, the LivingChuck Norris's Anthem The Norris HeadChuck ShruggedNonfiction:For the Chuck Norris IntellectualThe Virtue of Chuck NorrisnessChuck Norris: The Unknown IdealThe Chuck Norris ManifestoThe New Left Hook: The Anti-Chuck Norris RevolutionIntroduction to Chuck Norris EpistemologyThen Ayn Rand O'Norris died and her intellectual heir put together new compilations of her writings, starting with:Chuck Norris, Who Needs Him?Robert Bidinotto chimed in with "Atlas Chucked." MichaelLove the punchline!"The Strike" was considered too short a title for such a long book as AS, so Rand started brainstorming: "Sisyphus Stayed at the Bottom of the Hill and said he wouldn't Roll No Stinkin' Rock"...no, Atlas..."Atlas got a Bad Itch Between His Shoulder Blades and..."(Muscle Spasm maybe?)...hmmm..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis Hardin Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 In Wallflower at the Orgy, Nora Ephron reportedly suggests that Rand intended the title to be a subliminal sexual metaphor. I'm sure there were plenty of people who saw this ad in the local paper and were decidedly disappointed to discover that the movie was about an upstart architect.Yeah, I heard Rand liked the sound of "The Spigot" better because of the engineering angle, but was dissuaded.And it would have made that poster look funny.Oliver Stone thought about using this for his remake. . . "Tell Them Johnny Wad is Here"(Hard to understand why the project got shelved.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9thdoctor Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 In the Illuminatus books Robert Anton Wilson came up with Telemachus Sneezed, and then there's Murray Rothbard, who came up with The Brow of Zeus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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