ARN
An hour.
How people
in Ben's native West Virginia pronounce the word 'hour'.
BLOTCHING
Furlow use
it a lot. Means fucking. You wanna blotch? Blotch you, eemahole!
Get the picture?
Named after
David Kemper's Dalmatian Blotchy, so named because of the noise
he makes during doggie intercourse.
BUCKWHEAT
Term of affection
used by John towards the cuddly Rygel.
Comes from
of one Brian Henson's favourite off-broadway plays, 'The Sandwich
and Me', a thrilling insight into the lives of a baker called
Heronimus Buckwheat. He is short and weasly. And from another
planet. And had a thronesled! Hey! I'm gonna sue!
DRANIT (special guest appearance
from Dakki!)
Something not
very nice...um...apparently you don't want to be called one...um
that's all we know. Some think it means dick, some a small, annoying
animal...it's quite mysterious really.
David Kemper
had a teacher named Mr. Dranit (he was quite mysterious as well...(we
think he was from Europe, or something) who used to take away
his crisps during class and fail him because he didn't form the
letter "B" correctly and so forth.
DRD (Diagnostic
Repair Droid/Darter)
Those little
scooty things yous see shooting about Leviathans.
Jonathon Hardy
suffers from a condition called Diahorrea Related Demonism.
DREN
Most popular
expletive in the UT. Means shit. Yes, that's right.
In 1967, scientists
at Berkeley discovered, purely by accident, during an experiment
into why lemons are so useful in washing up liquids, a substance
that smelt a bit pooey. They named it Dren, after the janitor,
who also smelt a bit pooey. One of those scientists was Dr. Richard
O'Bannon, Rockne's uncle.
EEMA
Arse, or ass
for our American friends.
During shooting
for the premier, Ben and Anth were sitting about, idly chatting
when they spied the finest 'eema' they'd ever seen. It belonged
to a visiting Nigerian girl called Eema. The script boys, being
simple-minded, and adolescent sorts picked up on the slang, and
the new Farscape word was born.
FAHRBOT
Looney. Insane.
Crazy. Stark. David Icke.
When at High
School, Kemper built a robot with which to pleasure himself.
The 'Fully Automatic Hand Replacement' Bot worked fine for a
couple of weeks but exploded with catastrophic consequences soon
after. Kemper still has the scars, and will show you them for
money.
FELIP NECTAR
Booze of choice
in the UT.
Richard Manning,
a recovering alcoholic is still prone to the occasional booze-inspired
hallucination. One of his more popular ones being him turning
into a giant bumble bee called Phillip. It was decided as a sign
of respect for his struggle to name the beverage after this hallucination,
but had to be changed to Felip when it became apparent that Phillip
Nectar is the number one beer of Somalia.
FLAX, THE
Large pirates
net. But not for catching fish. No! Ships.
Rockne O'Bannon
is a keen fisherman. When out hunting for dolphins, he employs
a large net with electrified 30cm long spikes. to capture our
gentle, sea-bound cousins. He always takes his eight year old
nephew Simon with him, and the poor boy has a speech impediment,
so whenever a hapless dolphin is caught in the net, instead of
crying 'look a dolphin!', he cries' flax!'. Yes, it is a rare
speech impediment.
FRELL
Fuck. Yes,
fuck. Like blotch, only more popular.
Frell is swedish
for 'rabbit'?
HECH
Sort of like
Warp. Measure of speed for Farscape.
Brian Henson's
nickname for speed. That would be the powdery drug.
HEZMANA
Hell. Purgatory.
The Great Demise.
Claudia Black
had an auntie Hezmana (she was Macedonian), who was particularly
unpleasant and used to lock the young Claudia under the stairs
when she played her 'warrior-princess' games.
LOOMAS
Boobies!
Eema the Nigerian
girl had a sister who was very blessed in the chest department.
Her name was Loomas. A good day indeed for the script boys.
METRA
A metre? A
kilometre? A furlong?
Brian Henson
drives a Hyundai Metra.
MICROT
A second.
Brian Henson
plans to buy a Hyundai Microt.
PANTAK JAB
A Peacekeeper
punch. Miss Sun likes to stick it on poor Johnny as often as
she can.
Another term
from Kemper's Vietnamese experience. Soldiers who contracted
syphillis during R'n'R were given the Pantak Jab. Kemper remembered
it well.
PIP
Nickname for
Chiana coined by Ben to replace 'slut' in the original script.
The night before
the episode, Gigi, having drunk too many G and T's made a pass
at David Franklin (Braca). Being much like his on screen persona,
David suffered a small seizure. His wife was not best pleased.
She broke into the studios when they were closed and altered
the script. John, sensing the necessity to cool tempers, removed
'slut' and replaced it with Pip, in an obscure reference to the
WWF.
RASLAK
Second most
popular booze in the UT.
In the seventies,
Courage the brewers experimented with a concept of mixing beer
and beef, in an attempt to corner the 'Norfolk' market. They
called it Raslak. Brian Henson has the three remaining bottles
at his palacial Versailles retreat.
SHILQUEN
Lute-like Luxan
musical instrument used mostly during the ceremony of 'Oh shit
mate, I didn't mean to cut off your arm'.
A combination
of the words 'shilling' and 'quentin', though why they were combined,
no-one is completely sure.
SNURCH
Stealing. Thieving.
What Rygel and Chiana do.
When Henson
was a child, his favourite crisps (chips) were Norbert's Snurch.
As his father was extremely stingy, poor Brian never had enough
money to buy them, so he used to steal them instead.
SPARKY
Another term
of affection used by John for Rygel.
A reference
to former Barcelona and Man Utd forward Mark Hughes.
STARBURST
What Leviathans
do when danger beckons, or they fancy getting plain lost.
A reference
to a little known Hollywood ailment, whereby C-list celebrities
explode due to excessive hamburger consumption.
TRALK
A slutty whore
bitch hoe slapper! Oh, tralks, where art thou?
During the
Vietnam War, American soldiers used to refer to the Vietnamese
prostitutes as tralks, in reference to a little-known piece of
ordinance shaped somewhat like a lady's bits. Kemper claims it
is named after the ordinance. No-one believes him, and Ben occasionally
dresses up as a Vietnamese prostitute, running round the studio
shouting 'sucky-fucky! fi dollar!'
UNITY
A Delvian thing,
whereby two persons join on a spiritual level, becoming one.
Virginia Hey
auditioned to be a member of The Spice Girls. She came with an
original song, i.e. Two Become One, which was promptly stolen
by soulless music execs. Suffice to say, Ginny did not get the
gig, but kept the song, and sung it to Kemper one day. He was
so impressed it became part of the show.
WEEKEN
A week. Never!
The producers
decided to let Ben think up a word for week. Four months later
he gave them this.
WINONA
Nickname given
by Johnny to his pulse pistol. How sweet!
Not named after
the devestating beauty that is Winona Ryder, as is widely thought,
but actually Winona Kipper, inventor of the tea towel.
YOTZ
Hmmmm. What
the yotz does that mean?
A milky substance
that is a bi-product of liposuction. Ben has weekly sessions
to remove fatty deposits from his behind.
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