Anyone notice, or is it me...?

"This is a fine thread. FOR ME TO POOP ON."
- Triumph The Insult Dog

Didn't notice that on the cab. It might just be something they put on the side since they didnt wanna put a real cab company's name on it.

Well no, because the cab did say "yellow cab" on the door, which is a real company

Isn't scat some form of cocaine? Or some other drug substance?

Yup, just looked it up, slang for heroin. Nasty, nasty, heroin. Don't know how that relates to the movie or it being on the side of the cab, seeing as how I can't recall much if any drug use in Fight Club. I dunno....

Maybe Fincher has serious heroin addiction??
You never know...

I love you Conan.....

*wipes away tear*

*sucks next tear into mouth*

I was always under the impression that this was Fincher being funny and disgusting, since SCAT is short for "scatalogy," which is the fetish which involves people being turned on or aroused by shit. Whether it be shitting on a lover's chest, or in their mouth.

You'll notice that the taxi that Michael Douglas gets trapped in in "The Game" also has this word on it.

So I'd bet Fincher is being disgusting here.... rather then showing us how much he knows about heroin.

I could be wrong though.

yeeeah like that church of scatology all those stars are in. hahahahahah

pan, which of course is why Nicole divorced Tom and wanted to do the Survivor movie. She didn't like being pooped on.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Dennis [/i]
[B]I was always under the impression that this was Fincher being funny and disgusting, since SCAT is short for "scatalogy," which is the fetish which involves people being turned on or aroused by shit. Whether it be shitting on a lover's chest, or in their mouth.

I could be wrong though. [/B][/QUOTE]

Actually, the shortened form of the word ("Scat") may be used in the fetish world, but the word "scatology" has nothing to do with fetish. Scatology is a legit "ology." Scatology is the scientific study of excrement. Yes, that's right, we are all aware that many things are known about shit, but we never think that there is actually a branch of science devouted to finding these things out.

he did frame the shot pretty obviously.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by willtupper [/i]
[B]"This is a fine thread. FOR ME TO POOP ON."
- Triumph The Insult Dog [/B][/QUOTE]

HAHAHA! I love that fuckin dog, and why'd he leave the show?

Funny. I have never ever heard a junkie (I've known many; let's leave it at that.) refer to it as 'scat'. I've heard it called 'shit', but more often 'shit' is a reference to meth. This varies regionally as well. Maybe it's usage is archaic?

I tend to believe that Fincher is referencing feces.

It's a new phrase to me too, I've heard scag.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by willtupper [/i]
[B]"This is a fine thread. FOR ME TO POOP ON."
- Triumph The Insult Dog [/B][/QUOTE]

excellent! i use that line all the time... for some reason my boss hates it when i say "This is a really nice TPS report... FOR ME TO POOP ON!"

Whoever laughed at "For me to poop on" is stupid. Go die.

It's cat, not scat. Cat is a kind of "home-made" drug, including ingridients such as battery acid, that is snorted, like coke.

"Shit" is a reference to any kind of drug.

I never heard the word Scat used in relation to any real drugs, but it was the name of the homemade drug Josh Hartnett sells in the movie The Faculty.

As it is possible that Fincher has a strange facination with fecal matter, I am leaning towards the heroin. You see, maybe he was saying that the reality in the movie was much like a trip on heroin. Or maybe he was saying that about the reality of The Game, and the cab was left over, so he used it again. For expences. I don't know.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by pan [/i]
[B]It's a new phrase to me too, I've heard scag. [/B][/QUOTE]

Yeah... 'Scag' is a good name - a classic. They just don't name drugs like they used to.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by XChuck [/i]
[B]You see, maybe he was saying that the reality in the movie was much like a trip on heroin. [/B][/QUOTE]
Clearly, you've never done heroin.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by decalogue [/i]
[B]Clearly, you've never done heroin. [/B][/QUOTE]

Very, very true. And I hope never to do it.

Bill Hicks refers to the word 'scat' or 'skat' as an alternative to the word 'pussy'.

Also, a friend from college and i were in a rap possed called 'Skat Akshen'.

scat=poop

triumph didn't leave. he's just not on all that often.

maybe they're afraid of getting sued.

get your mind out of the gutter people, scat is also a form of jazz singing, it's a pretty vague reference...

yeah but which term came first? maybe that form of jazz singing is so named because it is, to use a technical term, "just farting around."

if it's so amazing this "scat" on the side of the cab, it's a wonder noone has posted a still of it yet...
besides, when you begin to pick at details such as that, you lose an appreciation for the whole...

hear, hear.

Oh, come on now, let there be no litany against teasing with the
elements of a book or film. No amount of this type of exercise has
ever caused me to loose appreciation for the work of art as a
whole. Unless maybe I pulled a thread that caused the whole
thing to unravel, which clearly wouldn't be the case here, with this
incidental detail. And usually if a book or movie has major loose
threads, you know that it sucks before you analyze exactly why.

On the other hand, trypt, I like that you pointed out that 'scat' is
a form of jazz singing. That's one of the first things I thought of.
Remember 'Scatman Cruthers' anybody? It's fast improvisational
jazz singing with simple syllables, Be-ba-lee-bop-de-bop! and
sometimes sounds more like an instrument than a voice, at least
with singers who can go really high in their range with it, where
it sounds almost like a trumpet. Not that I think that's why we
find it here.

Oh, and while "scatology" may be the bonafide science of poop,
a "scatological" reference in literature, or "scatological literature,"
as a derisive genre designation, indicates any literature excessively
preoccupied with the baser things and lacking redeeming value.

Also, there's 'scat' like 'get out of here, cat!' Guess it's up for
grabs.

maby scat is like the cab's code inside "yellow cab" company.
Here, every cab has the code painted on the sides

I live in Delaware (refer to my 'I live where fight club is set' thread), and yes- the cabs here do have '[i]SCAT[/i]' written on the sides of them.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Dennis [/i]
[B]So I'd bet Fincher is being disgusting here.... rather then showing us how much he knows about heroin.

[/B][/QUOTE]

Odd, but yeah. Fincher wasn't trying to do anything underhanded, they were just being authentic.

and upon further research, it stands for "Senior Citizen Affordable Taxi"

I think I found out what it really means......
South Coast Area Transit Bus Service, Serving Western Ventura ...
About SCAT Icon, About SCAT. Fare Information Icon, ... Services for People with Disabilities
Icon, Services for Persons. with Disabilities. SCAT Schedules Icon, ...
Description: Public transit service for the City of Oxnard.

Or maybe not...

...and here I was going to take your word for it, Bugsy.

what the fuck are you individuals talking about?
what Insult Dog?

plus, did you notice that there apparently is a starbuck reference in almost every frame of fight club.

that's some good scat, hombre. can i get a kilo?

[QUOTE=td]I live in Delaware (refer to my 'I live where fight club is set' thread), and yes- the cabs here do have '[i]SCAT[/i]' written on the sides of them.

Odd, but yeah. Fincher wasn't trying to do anything underhanded, they were just being authentic.[/QUOTE]

everyone in thsi thread has been shown up.

Time to leave people.