Author Topic: The Room of the Mandarin Hand - WHY? (Read 1757 times)

The Mandarin Hand · « **on:** December 09, 2006, 09:55:28 PM »

Quote from: ""AIM""

[02:51] Renegade Pancake: why is it the MANDARIN hand
[02:51] Renegade Pancake: is it a monkey hand?
[02:52] PhantomBPR: ha ha
[02:52] Renegade Pancake: no, seriously
[02:52] Renegade Pancake: wtf is with the name
[02:52] PhantomBPR: I can't say I ever paid too much attention to it
[02:53] PhantomBPR: it couldn't possibly have anything to do with oranges right?
[02:53] PhantomBPR: that would be TOO obvious right?
[02:53] Renegade Pancake: cant be.
[02:53] Renegade Pancake: i think its a monkey.
[02:53] PhantomBPR: I'll have to look into it
[02:53] PhantomBPR: never really thought about it before
[02:53] Renegade Pancake: i mean
[02:54] Renegade Pancake: Shrine of the Silver MONKEY
[02:54] Renegade Pancake: Mandarin IS a kind of monkey
[02:54] PhantomBPR: it's not that out there
[02:54] PhantomBPR: it is possible

Discuss.

kamehemeha · « **Reply #1 on:** December 10, 2006, 01:10:08 AM »

Mandarin is a kind of duck, not a kind of monkey. It is also a kind of orange, and the most widely spoken language in the world... I was in the Geography Bee...

The Purple Parrot · « **Reply #2 on:** December 10, 2006, 06:26:44 AM »

I always thought it had something to do with Chinese culture or something...

nicklegends · « **Reply #3 on:** December 10, 2006, 08:06:40 AM »

Hm... Well, of course, there's the Mandarin Chinese language, as well as a Chinese Bureaucrat. Wikipedia also suggests that "In the West, the term "Mandarin" is associated with the concept of the scholar-official, who immersed himself in poetry, literature, and Confucian learning in addition to performing civil service duties." ...which sounds like the closest thing...

TBombMadeEZ · « **Reply #4 on:** December 10, 2006, 02:56:24 PM »

I thought it had to do with a giant hand around a mandarin orange.

The Purple Parrot · « **Reply #5 on:** December 10, 2006, 04:35:45 PM »

... The hand isn't holding an orange... It's holding a globe.

TBombMadeEZ · « **Reply #6 on:** December 10, 2006, 07:14:29 PM »

Just a suggestion.

What else would a round thing held up by a hand be?

nicklegends · « **Reply #7 on:** December 10, 2006, 08:14:42 PM »

I've always referred to it as an "orb" or a "globe." Those are the only two things I think it could possibly be.

The Purple Parrot · « **Reply #8 on:** December 11, 2006, 05:01:28 AM »

... they call is a globe on the show, don't they!??!

"Push the fingers around the globe..."

tss1011 · « **Reply #9 on:** December 11, 2006, 05:52:22 AM »

Quote from: ""The Purple Parrot""

... they call is a globe on the show, don't they!??!

"Push the fingers around the globe..."

No. All Olmec ever said was, "You could go up into the Room of the Mandarin Hand, or into the Jester's Court."

nicklegends · « **Reply #10 on:** December 11, 2006, 06:51:53 AM »

What did Kirk say? I know anything he says can't be pinned for reliability, but it might reveal something...

The Purple Parrot · « **Reply #11 on:** December 11, 2006, 10:12:36 AM »

Quote from: ""tss1011""

Quote from: ""The Purple Parrot""
... they call is a globe on the show, don't they!??!

"Push the fingers around the globe..."

No. All Olmec ever said was, "You could go up into the Room of the Mandarin Hand, or into the Jester's Court."

Oh.... i guess i just imagined that.

ElJarhead · « **Reply #12 on:** December 11, 2006, 10:24:28 AM »

I remember Kirk saying "push the fingers up against the globe" in the Levitating Dog Leash of Nostradomus.

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