[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Nippelspanner

It's Bruce!!

I know but I was afraid the young and uninitiated wouldn't know who I was talking about.

However, beautiful story, Fräulein!

It was so awesome. We still laugh about it to this day. Even though she'd told me she'd never seen ANY of the movie, it still just didn't occur to me that anyone who'd been alive and conscious for the preceding 30 years would not be at least *aware* of such a famous movie moment.

I remember pausing the movie, looking down at her on the floor, and saying... "Now... you did KNOW there was a shark in this movie, right? It couldn't have been that much of a surprise!"

But from what I've been told, a lot of people had the same reaction to that scene in the theaters when they saw it for the first time way back when it was just released.

I love this movie to death.
When I was 4, maybe 5, I watched it the first time - 'accidentally'. My brother was collecting movies back then and had them all. He always scared me with this movie, talking about it etc... He showed me the VHS tape, which had a small black sticker on one side. I couln'd read at that time, so he thought I would never find the tape.

I was a few years older than that when it came out in theaters but my sister, who was already married by then, refused to take me to see it because she said it was too scary. (This is the same sister who used to drag me out of bed at midnight on the weekends to watch old horror movies on tv. Go figure). So she GAVE ME THE BOOK TO READ instead.

This was pretty normal for her back then. The Exorcist? NO YOU CANNOT GO SEE THE EXORCIST... oh fine, here, just read the book. The Omen? Of course I'm not taking you to see that. Wait, though, I've got the book here somewhere...

A former girlfriend of mine managed to set an end to this trauma by buying me the movie poster for my room. It cured me, Bruce and me are friends today and I watch the movie every once in a while, ha.

I have one of those Billy Bass singing fish type plaques on the wall in my office, except instead of the usual fish it's a great white shark and it says JAWS in big letters across the top. When it comes on the shark wiggles his fins like he's swimming and the "dun-dun dun-dun" theme from the movie plays.

Then that stops abruptly and the music changes and the shark turns his head to look at you and starts singing "Mack the Knife." Funny thing, I have it because that same friend and I were out shopping in some outlet and stumbled on a huge pile of these things on clearance, I mean a stack of boxes taller than we were and about ten feet around. We just stood there and stared at it until she said, "I think you have to buy one of those." "Yep," I said, and so I did.

Even funnier was that at first I didn't know that in addition to having a 'play' button it also has a motion sensor which was set to 'on' by default. So I put batteries in it and hung it in my office and turned off the lights and went home and came in the next morning to find a little note from the cleaning crew on my desk, letting me know that it had come on and scared the crap out of them when they walked in the night before.