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Movie Glasses
My head is in your way? Sorry, here.
 
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Whenever I get to the movies I have the same problem: The person behind me can't see a danged thing because I'm tall, large, and have a boof head.

Movie Glasses are a pair of periscopes mounted sideways on a frame so the wearer can see around the head of the giant in front of them.

Issued to short people as they enter the cinema, these will be as popular as headsets on aircraft.


UnaBubba, Nov 27 2003

UnaBubba, going to the movies. http://www.lesliema.../chico/sombrero.jpg
[Amos Kito, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]

"Boof" http://www.urbandic...efine.php?term=Boof
[calum, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]

Poodles http://www.poodlepl...howcoat/grocoat.htm
Check the ones on the right! [dobtabulous, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]

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       Hardly, [Amos]. I'm just a really inefficient design for movie theatre and airline seats.

UnaBubba, Nov 27 2003
  

       + for use of boof head

skinflaps, Nov 27 2003
  

       Kinda Australian, isn't it?

UnaBubba, Nov 27 2003
  

       I like the idea but I'd like it even more if you offered me a drawing or schematic of the device in use. Not to aid the description (which is perfectly clear as it is) but just for my own amusement. Do you have tall 'boofy' friends? If you all went to the cinema and sat in a row together in front of the small people, would this defeat your device or do you have a cunning plan to get around this?

dobtabulous, Nov 27 2003
  

       I'm not familiar with the term, and from calum's link it appears to refer to intercourse. Do you mean that you have a rather large hair-do, in which case it should be spelled "bouf"?
(+) for the theatre periscopes, though.

lintkeeper2, Nov 27 2003
  

       people should be seated at the cinema by height.

po, Nov 27 2003
  

       [po] - but that's ignoring important factors like vision-impairments, hearing impairments, proximity to friends and of course, body odour!

dobtabulous, Nov 27 2003
  

       I had a pooch called Boof in Oz.

skinflaps, Nov 27 2003
  

       dob, you say that as though it were a *bad* thing.

po, Nov 27 2003
  

       I could really use these. Whenever I go to gigs, the tallest man in the world always turns up and stands in front of me. I should compliment him on his impeccable taste sometime.

-alx, Nov 27 2003
  

       If I get to see the movie through a square structure, I rather rent it and watch it home.

Pericles, Nov 27 2003
  

       In Oz, having a boof head simply means it's large, or ugly, or sometimes it means dense. In my case it means large and probably ugly.

UnaBubba, Nov 27 2003
  

       I've only seen it here used to describe big hair.   

       eg "Mum, look at my boof hair, I can't go to school like this".   

       Boofy is also how my poodle looks after grooming.

Helium, Nov 27 2003
  

       [blissy], there are some, with so much bone around the soft bit, that light cannot pass by without falling victim to local gravity conditions.

UnaBubba, Dec 02 2003
  

       Me not thikk! Me real smart and stuffs...

Captain_Ignorant, Dec 02 2003
  

       I agree with Pericles. Stadium seating is the way to go.

sartep, Dec 03 2003
  

       //Boofy is also how my poodle looks after grooming.//   

       Poofter Dog

thumbwax, Dec 03 2003
  

       All poodles are poofter dogs, aren't they?

UnaBubba, Dec 03 2003
  

       The ones on the right of the picture (see link)?

dobtabulous, Dec 03 2003
  

       "You must be shorter than this 1.8 meter stick to watch this screening. All others and their parties are required to use the tall-person's screen, across the hall."

RayfordSteele, Dec 03 2003
  

       Didn't Addams do a cartoon like this once?

DrCurry, Dec 03 2003
  
      
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