where do the turtles think the carrots come from?

Post by **deer of the dawn** » Mon Apr 15, 2013 7:36 am

This will be the inspirational movie of the DECADE!! The trailer:

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(Blind Faith's "Can't Find My Way Home" plays.)

*Sun rising over prison walls. In the shadow of the razor wire, a lone man hoes a row, silhouetted against the chain-link.*

VOICE OVER: Sometimes, inside the prison walls...

*cut to Downs, a large and prematurely grizzled man, cutting vegetables in a stainless-steel kitchen; scooping the cuttings into a white plastic pail.*

V.O. ...is the free-est place of all.

*cut to vegetable peelings flying in slow-mo over the razor wire and landing on the verge of a marsh, where turtles are nosing in the grass for food. Then to Downs, whose fingers twine in the chainlink, a look of wonder on his grizzled face...*

V.O. Follow the journey of one man...

(Music changes to hardcore rap)

*Prison montage: inmates working out, getting in each others' faces, playing cards and guitars...*

V.O. ...as he discovers....

(Rap music swells)

*Downs marches proudly down the center aisle of the prison, holding his bucket of carrot-tops, while arms flail and jab through the bars of the cells on either side; zoom in shot-by-shot to his exultant face walking in slow-motion*

V.O. ....that the roots of freedom....

*pan upward over hundreds of turtles gathering around the vegetables covering the shore of the marsh, toward the prison fence behind which hundreds of inmates rush to view the spectacle, guards in towers point and shout into megaphones*

(Silence)

V.O. ...are within himself.

(Orchestral swell)

*Downs lifting his face and fists to the sky-- pan to the blue sky*

V.O. The Turtle King.

*Title*

V.O. Coming this Summer to a theater near you.

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Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Mon Apr 15, 2013 8:47 pm

That was awesome DotD!

Post by **sgt.null** » Tue Apr 16, 2013 5:49 am

Deer - that was awesome!!! I could picture the whole thing as I read it.

I really needed that today, thank-you.

Shadow - inmates not allowed to toss things over the fence. that would be bad. I'm really not supposed to do it either. but I'm a rebel, man, I live by my own rules.

today the gulls got pork roll that needed to thrown away. three turtles braved the annoying critters and got them some yummy swine. and the usual assortment of flying carrots. if I ever work at the trusty camp again - I'm bringing grapes for the turtles.

Jen - my inmates say that on my days off both the gulls and the turtles sit waiting for me. I am the only person who feeds them.

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 2:41 am

Sarge, they will be waiting when you get back and they will be all the more appreciative of the return of the turtle king....

Post by **sgt.null** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 5:28 am

one lone turtle came up to the bank and stared at me through the fence today. it was odd but nice.

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 1:24 am

WOW! Not one single nod to my subtle reference...

"Return of the Turtle King."

Perhaps I should have suggested the whole trilogy...

"The Fellowship of the Carrot"
"The Two Weeks"
"Return of the Turtle King"

I think I have lost my humor edge....

Post by **Savor Dam** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 3:29 am

No, Jenn, it just flew past me. Nice!

Better this approach than the Sargmarillion...

Post by **sgt.null** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 6:36 am

jenn - sorry I missed it.

and you'll be sorry you missed today Jenn. it was turtle mating season today. as the turtles climbed the bank today they decided they were in the mood for love and paired off and went to business.

Post by **Savor Dam** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 3:36 pm

Turtle Suzie and Turtle Sam...

Spoiler

In

Out

In

Out....

Post by **sgt.null** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 9:29 pm

props SD...

the things you read here.

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Fri Apr 19, 2013 3:51 am

Any of the smarmier turtle over the fence saying, "Hey baby, I got your carrot RIGHT HERE..."

Post by **sgt.null** » Fri Apr 19, 2013 3:00 pm

Jenn - I far too modest for that sort of grouping.

soon we will have baby turtles...

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 1:37 am

Soon you will have nests and then you will have hatchings. Are you able to take pics?

Post by **sgt.null** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 2:05 am

Cameraman Jenn wrote:Soon you will have nests and then you will have hatchings. Are you able to take pics?

no.

Post by **Savor Dam** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 3:45 am

As Sarge noted upthread, the facility where he works discourages photography pretty strongly.

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Sat Apr 20, 2013 7:54 pm

That's too bad because baby turtles hatching are an amazingly cool thing to watch.

Post by **sgt.null** » Sun Apr 21, 2013 2:03 am

Cameraman Jenn wrote:That's too bad because baby turtles hatching are an amazingly cool thing to watch.

they have a trek ahead of them. with nutria rats, cranes, herons, possums, raccoons, skunks, humans...

Post by **Aiden Victore** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 3:13 pm

By now I imagine the turtles are thinking: Oh would you look at that, more carrots. Again. Every damn day it's carrots. What does a turtle have to do to get some celery around here?

Post by **sgt.null** » Tue Apr 30, 2013 5:48 pm

well being at South Padre Island this week, I imagine the turtles are wondering where the carrots are.

but I seem to have attracted must of the gulls here.

not seen a pelican yet,

Post by **Vraith** » Tue Apr 30, 2013 6:56 pm

sgt.null wrote: not seen a pelican yet,

Maybe they've already migrated North for the summer?
[heh...that's not a joke...at least some kinds of pelicans do that].

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where do the turtles think the carrots come from?