A while back, V. & I were watching the tail-end of Die Hard (3): With a Vengence, when out of the blue Samuel L. Jackson’s character called Bruce’s character “a melon-farming cracker”. A little bit later, he called somebody else a melon-farmer. At first we were confused, then it dawned us that melon-farmer in all its four syllable glory was standing in for another MF expletive. It stuck. It was melon-farming this and melon-farming that. The inevitable happened, and I uttered the term at work. My office mate perked up immediately from his umpteenth pep rally email from some unknown JAMF Veep of something or other, and soon he was using it, too. Well, imagine my surprise the other day, when he sent me this melon-farming link. How could I have not known that melon-farming was a by-product of Alex Cox redubbing the sublime Repo Man for TV consumption?
Posted by jim at June 6, 2004 09:51 AM