Ok I looked it up but I still don't get it?

[crispini]

Just hanging out watching the rerun and on the story where the environmentalists planted wildflowers to stop the housing development, KO said, "Next up, they're going to plant tripids. Look it up."

Well, I still don't know if I'm spelling it right-- probably not-- but the spelling I have agrees with the spelling on the closed captioning, and I can't find that word in M-W or google? :shrug:

[gkhouston]

1. triffids

Day of the Triffids. Old sci-fi flick. They were plant-like creatures that (naturally) wanted to kill humans. Don't remember much else, off the top of my head.

[Gogi]

2. Triffids were malignant space weeds that formed pods which grew clones of

the grade z actors in the movie in a vain attempt to take over the world.

[Berry Cool]

3. Watching Keith is so educational

LOL! :rofl:

[gkhouston]

4. hey, this is one of the movies alluded to in the opening song

of Rocky Horror Picture Show. Wouldn't that make them grade x actors? :P

"And I really got hot when I saw Jeanette Scott
fight a triffid that spits poison and kills"

[crispini]

5. Ok, ya'll, thanks for the edumacation.

Learn something every day! :hi:

[Clark2008]

7. LOL! I was thinking of the same line when I read the

first post.

:hi:

[NYCGirl]

6. Also a fairly good movie from the 60s

[Gogi]

8. Realized after I posted that I had confused two movies.

'Day of the Triffids' has a meteorite that blinds everyone and then the space weeds eat'em; the Pod story features a scientist who is growing the space weeds in a greenhouse and, when someone enters said greenhouse, a pod person is generated. Saw the Pod movie when I was seven/eight years old and that's all I remember. That and being much impressed!