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AOLGuy · 06-07-2003, 11:14 AM

Comedian Patton Oswalt does a good bit on ironic foreshadowing:

Like you're watching a movie about the Beatles, and in one scene an 8 year old Paul McCartney walks by a music store, looks up at a bass guitar and gazes briefly. And you go "oh, that's cool because he grows up to be..."

Patton says if his own life were a movie, he hopes it might be the moment he was in 3rd grade and drawing a picture of a rhino with a huge cock to make his friends laugh. Of course, he hopes the moment that made it ironic would be when his teacher grabbed it and said "what do you think are? some kind of comedian?"

But the thing about ironic foreshadowing is that you never know when it is happening, and can't possibly put it together until later in life.

So he hopes the thing that made it all ironic isn't that he was drawing the picture, and later in life he will fall into a rhino pit at the zoo and be sodomized by a well-endowed rhino.

It got me to thinking, any moments that, looking back, foreshadowed your own entry into this business?

06-07-2003, 11:14 AM
AOLGuy Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Nebraska Posts: 1,261	Ironic foreshadowing before entering this biz? Comedian Patton Oswalt does a good bit on ironic foreshadowing: Like you're watching a movie about the Beatles, and in one scene an 8 year old Paul McCartney walks by a music store, looks up at a bass guitar and gazes briefly. And you go "oh, that's cool because he grows up to be..." Patton says if his own life were a movie, he hopes it might be the moment he was in 3rd grade and drawing a picture of a rhino with a huge cock to make his friends laugh. Of course, he hopes the moment that made it ironic would be when his teacher grabbed it and said "what do you think are? some kind of comedian?" But the thing about ironic foreshadowing is that you never know when it is happening, and can't possibly put it together until later in life. So he hopes the thing that made it all ironic isn't that he was drawing the picture, and later in life he will fall into a rhino pit at the zoo and be sodomized by a well-endowed rhino. It got me to thinking, any moments that, looking back, foreshadowed your own entry into this business?