Comments | kevinduran: What is a Brownie Hound?

kevinduran

What is a Brownie Hound?

Aug 07, 2009 20:27

Not that I needed John Hughes to die in order to watch any of his films (most of which I love... the teen ones, anyway), I watched The Breakfast Club today. I've seen it countless times, yet there are things about it that puzzle me ( Read more... )

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sparkytwmonkey August 8 2009, 06:32:04 UTC

I don't remember "Brownie Hound" in the movie...when and in what context was it used?

kevinduran August 8 2009, 13:41:35 UTC

It's toward the beginning of the movie when Vernon is talking to them. I think it's after the first time he gets really mad, and after he leaves- Judd Nelson says "That man is a Brownie Hound."

sibertater August 9 2009, 04:41:48 UTC

Like in brownie points? Maybe he's always hounding the brownie point?

kevinduran August 9 2009, 14:15:55 UTC

Watch the movie- that would not make any sense.

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kevinduran August 8 2009, 13:43:25 UTC

I think you might be the first person I've ever known to eat that! :-) I have a friend who used to work in a deli and she told me no one ever ordered that, and several other things, too. (One of them was some kind of "gel meat" that has suspended chunks of various meats in a gelatin. BARF.)

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kevinduran August 8 2009, 14:53:18 UTC

For years, my mom went to the grocery every Friday when she got off work and she'd get a pound of "Peppered Beef" (which I think was Pastrami- but they didn't call it that in the country), and a pound of Corned Beef. Occasionally she'd change it up and get ham (which I don't really like too much). I haven't had either peppered or corned beef since I turned 16 and the grocery store chore was handed off to me. I always got different stuff- but usually turkey, which I still love and buy all the time.

I think when my sister and I were really little, we'd eat bologna- I haven't had that for decades, either.

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bearistab67 August 8 2009, 18:25:42 UTC

I always thought Brownie Hound was similar to a Brown Noser? Meaning an ass kisser perhaps?
I read somewhere that John Hughes had originally planned Breakfast Club to be over 2 hours long! Where is that director's cut!

kevinduran August 8 2009, 18:42:47 UTC

I kind of thought the same thing about "brownie hound", but that explanation doesn't work in the context of the scene. Vernon wasn't kissing anyone's ass, or brown nosing anyone ( ... )

sibertater August 9 2009, 04:42:39 UTC

SEE! I'm so right.

sibertater August 9 2009, 04:41:17 UTC

I thought Vernon was the assistant principal? Mess with him and you get the horns.

kevinduran August 9 2009, 14:14:02 UTC

They never say what he is.

sibertater August 9 2009, 15:06:43 UTC

You would know. I've probably seen the movie 10 times in my life. You probably watched it that many times last week. :)

But funny. It's not on a name plate somewhere? Credits? I could swear he was the Assistant Principal.