Hehe. There's no telling where a great idea for a diary will come from. Today's credit goes to a troll comment that I found unacceptable.
To which I immediately cited the phrase Mebs! Unacceptable! as any person of the current age would.
We are now aware of the Conehead brothers and sisters who have been living in our midst, adding to our strength and diversity.
They work as driving instructors. They raise SAT scores in our schools.
They maintain households and they buy American.
They participate in neighborhood associations. They pay taxes.
And they boost our economy by driving up demand for a wide range of commodities including poultry, swine, Tang, beer and titanium.
In what other ways have Coneheads enriched our culture?
Conehead Culture Shift
Our society has been transformed in several surges - in 1968, when the Beldaran Exile began with the sinking of the first French vessel Remulak starship- in Lake Michigan, again in the late 1970s when a wave of sighting of coneheaded persons was reported and re-enacted documentary footage was successfully presented as a series of comedic sketches on Saturday Night Live. Finally, in 1993 a cinema adaptation of the the hard-to-find "History of the Beldaran Exile" was presented and has long since gone to DVD and satellite broadcast. Why, you can even find samples on Youtube these days.
We no longer thing of things like food, words, posture, habits, anatomy, even sexuality the same. We are much more comfortable with ambiguity, with mutability, with a sense of community among all thinking beings, never mind little distinctions like skin pigmentation, choice of confession and sexual orientation. The cosmos paints distinctions on a far vaster canvas!
Some, of course, remain in denial. The cosmos is too big and just plain too neat-o to accept. Too impossible to define and to control. So, they continue with their, er, blunted thinking. We pity them. We humor them as needs must. But the future belongs to the open-eyed and the open-minded.
Selected Remulak Words and Phrases
Nothing quite showcases the impact of Conehead/Remulak culture like its influence of language. The following is a selected list of words and phrases. While some are of Terran derivation (ex., "parental unit"), their usage by any culture is now closely associated with the Beldaran Exile which has had a profound impact on Remulak and Earth culture:
Azog Pools (interesting site on Remulak, fames for its ignaray formations. Perhaps a cave?)
Blunt Skulls (Humans)
Borp Mip (The End);
Consumables (Food)
Consuming Mass Quantities (to eat)
Dextrons (unit of distance; 10 would be a long way to walk)
Farlite-crystals (mineralogical or climatolical deposits through which a person might have to walk lots)
Flabrab (Remulak creature, a prolific and indiscriminate one)
Garfok (Remulak farm animal, analogous to the pig, occasionally chased when greased)
Garthok (large, horned predator of the planet Remulak, something with which one narfles/or is narfled to(?))
Gelatin Bowl (some location or instrument on Remulak, merely mentioning it gets both the parental units aroused)
Gellato Spirots (a crop grown and harvested (and smoked) around the time of the Harvest Under the Moons of Mypzor, which coincided with Halloween at least once during the Beldaran Exile)
House of Intake (Restaurant);
Hygienic Chamber (Bathroom);
Jalabala (Jockstrap);
Kremnarthel (Forbidden);
Kremnotts (Hail or I salute you);
Larthron spheres of Mypzor (devices that assign partnerships among the Coneheads)
Light Zerls (Light Years);
Living Chamber (home or apartment);
Maintain Low Tones (remain quiet, or don't raise your voice at me);
Major Orifice (vague; from context – the mouth, but not necessarily only the mouth)
Mebs (This phrase has multiple meaning including Oh, No! Ouch, Damn it; warning, watch out or you anger me);
Mip (noise of shock, outrage, alarm, fear)
Molten Lactate Extract of Hooved Animals (Hot Melted Cheese);
Mypzor (vague; from context – either a region, government or deity of Remulak. Maybe all three. Maybe none.)
Narfle (to fight, go through motions of fighting but in reality be fed to)
Parental Unit (parent)
Plargh (unclear; from context - something you would not want cut off and handed to you. Perhaps one’s tongue? Perhaps something other...)
Pleasure Tone Spewer (stereo system);
Quadron (farm)
Quenchorns (beer mugs fashioned from a garthok's nosehorn)
Sensor Rings (ringed devices with a definite intimate aspect)
Shredded swine flesh (bacon)
Sleep Chamber (bedroom)
Snarglies (unclear; from context - if you are grabbed at the base of them it’s really uncomfortable and you are effectively helpless)
Spousal Unit (partner)
Timekeepers (official status, at least one of them, of Beldar and Prymaat; from context – such persons cannot lose track of time and therefore have one less excuse to be late or forget appointments like, for example, making it home after a driving lesson that runs late)
Vegetable Orb (pumpkin)
Tone-Spewer (musician);
Trisklipps (measurement of about 20 seconds);
Xoxoff (Wild Party);
Zerl (2.17 Earth years-Remulak's orbit time around the Black Hole)
Wrap
As you go through the rest of this week, look around you more closely. Not for the Coneheads in our midst; that's easy. Don't listen for these words we've just perused together; you hear them every day now.
Listen quietly for the sounds of compassion, of a wider perspective, that knowing we are not alone has changed all of us.
Of course, in order to do this you must maintain low tones.
Borp Mip
Sources
Wikipedia
More Wiki
IMDB
TV Acres
SNL Transcripts – Return of the Coneheads
SNL Transcripts – The Coneheads on Earth
SNL Transcripts – The Coneheads at Home
Google search on "site:snltranscripts.jt.org coneheads" for the rest