Re: GG: fillum

[Bradley P Lehman <bpl@umich.edu>]

On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Bradley P Lehman wrote:

> And would GG have liked Starbucks JavaChip ice cream?  Had he lived
> longer, imagine GG in a relaxed evening at home, sprawled in a [low]
> La-Z-Boy recliner watching the late late late movie (or better yet,
> Mystery Science Theater 3000) on TV and chowing down a whole box of
> JavaChip.  With Poland water and Arrowroots too, of course.  And doing
> additional commentary on the movie in his Klopweisser and Slutz voices, on
> the phone to somebody else who is ostensibly also watching the movie. 
> Meanwhile, five CD's of Petula on shuffle play in the background, and a
> radio playing CBC news.  And a 24-hour dedicated Internet connection
> running on an old 386 in the next room, so he can check the traffic of his
> 200 favorite listservs during every commercial.  Oh, the humanity. 

Apologies for these possibly too-oblique and too-US-centric references,
though that's not to say that GG wouldn't have indulged in them anyway: 

Starbucks JavaChip: an especially creamy coffee-flavored premium ice cream
with chocolate chips, made by the Dreyer's/Edy's company and tied into the
chain of Starbucks coffee shops

Mystery Science Theater 3000: a popular cable TV program in which a man
and several robots are forced to watch bad old fillums, so they sit there
making funny comments and adding lines to the dialogue

Anybody here happen to know where the familiar phrase "Oh, the humanity" 
originated?  Cinema?  Earlier?

Bradley Lehman ~ Harrisonburg VA, USA ~ 38.45716N+78.94565W
bpl@umich.edu ~ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl/