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Weird fact
Feb. 6th, 2003 12:45 amYou learn the strangest things in the weirdest places.
I'm now reading, for fun, a book on the discovery of the quark (The Hunting of the Quark by Michael Riordan). It's quite good, but this has almost nothing to do with the weird thing I've just learned.
This is a small excerpt from the book:
"Their affairs took a big stride forward in 1971, when the huge bubble chamber named Gargamelle finally came into service. Its name was borrowed from the novel Gargantua, written in 1534 by Rabelais. Gargamelle was the mother of the giant Gargantua, having given birth to him through her ear."
Now that's pretty weird all by itself, but will someone please correct me if Gargamelle (spelling probably varied) was not the arch-villain from the Smurfs?!!
If so, cartoons are a lot more obscure than I've ever given them credit for.
I'm now reading, for fun, a book on the discovery of the quark (The Hunting of the Quark by Michael Riordan). It's quite good, but this has almost nothing to do with the weird thing I've just learned.
This is a small excerpt from the book:
"Their affairs took a big stride forward in 1971, when the huge bubble chamber named Gargamelle finally came into service. Its name was borrowed from the novel Gargantua, written in 1534 by Rabelais. Gargamelle was the mother of the giant Gargantua, having given birth to him through her ear."
Now that's pretty weird all by itself, but will someone please correct me if Gargamelle (spelling probably varied) was not the arch-villain from the Smurfs?!!
If so, cartoons are a lot more obscure than I've ever given them credit for.
