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Gay reference?

posted 19 years ago by writelasse
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I have seen Convoy a lot of times, and saw it again last night. I love this movie and every time i finde more and more details, that i hadn´t noticed before. This time i wondered if maybe "the three rigs on the hill" were a gay reference. I really don´t know why, maybe its their names? "Big Nasty", "Sneaky Snake" and "Bald Eagle"? And the one of them is wearing a leather cap. And above all they are being "proud of being the back door" for the convoy.

What do you say, or is it too far fetched?

[–] Ken1_311 19 years ago

Yeah, it is too far fetched!

[–] convoy34 19 years ago

I absolutely cannot believe anyone could possibly think/believe or connect anything "gay" having to do with Convoy. It's obvious you do not understand cb lingo.

- Three big rigs on the hill: Full Size 18 wheelers waiting on an on/off ramp or side road.
- Big Nasty, Sneaky Snake and Bald Eagle are cb handles. Most bad ass redneck truck drivers use those type of names.
- Back door means: Last truck in line.

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[–] curahee08 18 years ago

What does Big Nasty, Sneaky Snake and Bald Eagle have to do with CB Lingo, I am an OTR trucker for a living and dont understand what you mean by that. These names are funny especially after suggesting that they were used in a gay context. Sneaky Snake especially is one I would condsider as gay especially being that it's one of the trucks that slipped into the back door. I see no harm with this comment it is funny. Also I am not trying to offend any gays out there, I know how sensitive people are now days and I don't want to offend anyone; I enjoy my bank account to much to get sued over a comment.

[–] econobiker 19 years ago

Don't know about the part you mention but when the guy TV reporter is in the pickup truck interviewing the truckers from their moving trucks one of the truckers in question says something to the effect "Want to come for a ride in my rig pretty boy?" and laughs maniacially while the reporter is left with a shocked look on his face as the pickup truck drifts away from the semi.

[–] convoy34 19 years ago

The quote was:
"No I'm just here to kick ass and along for the ride"
"You sure are a pretty red headed little boy. Wanna ride in my truck. We oughta have supper. hahaha."

It was more a sarcastic redneck statement than a gay reference. His character plays a bad ass trucker.

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[–] Koosh_King01 10 years ago

...and a bad ass trucker can't be gay?

I mean, really, how many times will you look under Jabba's manboobs?

[–] krypton_son 8 years ago

...and a bad ass trucker can't be gay?

I wouldn't see how.

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[–] Koosh_King01 8 years ago

Is that, yes they can be gay and badass, or no they can't? XD

I mean, really, how many times will you look under Jabba's manboobs?

[–] y2g1975 18 years ago

Anybody who thinks Convoy is filled with gay references must be gay themselves. To me, it's just trucker lingo.

[–] Koosh_King01 10 years ago

It's certainly amusing seeing people spot nonexistent gay undertones in a movie.

But it's even more hilarious seeing the (apparently very sensitive) people scrambling to dismiss or disprove suggestions of any homosexual references in their macho truck movie.

I mean, really, how many times will you look under Jabba's manboobs?

[–] convoy34 18 years ago

I learned recently Rubber Duck actually means "Rubber Duckie" a long or tall flexible cb radio antenna. So it was taken into as a cb handle.

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[–] deltron73 18 years ago

oh come onnnnn..of course you could think that about the three rigs on the hill...i've been infactuated with this film since i was a kid and even then i felt something odd and innuendo like.his point is very valid.

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[–] disco_vietnam 17 years ago

I don't think it was an intentional reference in this particular movie. This movie was made so long ago and I think a lot of times we tend to watch things with a modern mind. A lot of the original CB lingo has been adopted into different communities, including the gay community, so I think that's what we think of when we see things like this. Language has evolved so much in what? 30 years? Now, if that was in a movie made recently, I'd be convinced otherwise, but I really don't think that's the case here. I don't know how old you are, but I was born in 1980, a couple of years after this movie was made, so I know see things like that in older movies and I have to stop and tell myself that the vernacular isn't the same now as it was in the 70s so things probably meant something completely different than they would now.

That was a really good observation on your part though.

[–] writelasse 17 years ago

Well, i was born in 1973 and saw the film some time in the 80´s for the first time. But i always found there was something odd about those three truckers. By the way, i am not gay myself, nor do i have something against gay people. Maybe it is just a little joke by Sam Peckinpah?

[–] stevenfallonnyc 17 years ago

I can see where they may have put in that stuff as a joke lol. Even during the final credits, there's a CB transmission about "putting on our fish costumes and passing out the vaseline."

[–] sights0d 17 years ago

That comment was a repeat of something from earlier in the movie... when they're on that road which is full of blowing dust (so bad that they can't see) and they're complaining about their axles.

Only in America do they call their king by his last name.

[–] jeffscsr 16 years ago

he says the fish costume thing in the movie...when they do the dust trick
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[–] carnetremul 16 years ago

'Tho I also think this may not be a gay reference, don't forget that the great Bloody Sam liked these kinda jokes in his movies ...

Even the original idea for some characters in "The Wild Bunch" (which is more butch than "Convoy") is that they could be gay or that that could imply .

Never the less it could be interpreted as a joke or a reference, and that makes it funny :) .

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