I didn't get the joke "Donner, party of fifty" was how I think it went. If anyone can explain that to me because my friends were dying laughing. Overall I thought it was a good movie.
shareI thought it was a cannibalistic reference.
shareYeah, because the Donners were that group of people who got lost and ended up eating their members who were sick and/or died I think.
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The Donner party was traveling west by wagontrain, when they became snowbound in Nevada. To survive, they resorted to cannibalism when no game was available. The area they were trapped in was named Donner's Pass.
shareI thought he was pronouncing it donor...as in all 50 or so patients need a donor of some sort for their illness
sharewatch "The Shining". Jack Nicholson's characters explains it very well.
or...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_party
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From "The Shining" which is one of the best movies ever.
Wendy Torrance: Hey. Wasn't it around here that the Donner Party got snowbound?share
Jack Torrance: I think that was farther west in the Sierras.
Wendy Torrance: Oh.
Danny Torrance: What was the Donner Party?
Jack Torrance: They were a party of settlers in covered-wagon times. They got snowbound one winter in the mountains. They had to resort to cannibalism in order to stay alive.
Danny Torrance: You mean they ate each other up?
Jack Torrance: They had to, in order to survive.
Wendy Torrance: Jack...
Danny Torrance: Don't worry, Mom. I know all about cannibalism. I saw it on TV.
Jack Torrance: See, it's OK. He saw it on the television.
The Donner party was trapped in the mountains during one of the worst winters on record. A large number of them died of starvation or exposure. Some of the survivors ate the dead in order to survive.
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Actually, new evidence suggests that the legend of the cannibalism is a myth, and that they did resort to eating the dogs and horses, but not humans.
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its pretty much a Californian joke...and one not in very good taste (no pun intended.) a group of settlers were trying to cross the Serria mountains, got lost, and the search parties thought that they found signs of the survivors having cannibalised the dead. the historically determined truth is that it was coyotes, wolves and such that ate the dead.
so Patch was making a joke about the cadavers the students were working on. what makes it weird is that an odd joke for someone from the East, in an Eastern med college, to know that story to make the joke
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I don't think it's so weird, we're in the midwest and I knew about that since I was a kid.
sharewell, it was in the Midwest where the wagon trains were organised, and from here to the west coast are many stop over locations, even wagon trails still visible. we live in St.Marys,Kansas, and the Oregon Trail literally runs through our property, and the St.Marys Academy and College originally a Jesuit mission, and was a stop over and also home for Pottawatomi Indians who had been displaced from their original homes.
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I am from Texas and I knew all about the Donner Party. My wife is from Africa and she knew about them. Not sure why you would jump to a conclusion such as yours.
Also, it is not a proven historical fact that it was animals who ate the dead. That is just a theory. The survivors do recall and even reported the canabalism. do some research on actual accounts from survivors. Many were ashamed and did not want to talk about it.
pretty salty, i agree.
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