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Madhulk Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

The little newspaper that could...

Lois: What brings the big boss all the way
downtown to the little newspaper that could? Could what?
I thought the Daily Planet was slipping off your priority list.
Tess: Print is dead. There's a lack of newspapers? I'm expecting a
package myself. And you know the mailroom here.
They can get things a bit mixed up.
Lois: My name in print. I guess I haven't been having
many problems. Implying that Tess has many problems or it's
only her package that's missing?
  

Top answer

This TV show has some very good writers, making allusions to all sorts of things. ] This is a reference to The Little Engine That Could , about a train engine that just had to believe in himself in order to be able to do his job. ] I think that Lois is putting down her own newspaper just a little bit, or at least assuming that Tess would do so if she could.

— Philip

  • This TV show has some very good writers, making allusions to all sorts of things.
  • ] This is a reference to The Little Engine That Could , about a train engine that just had to believe in himself in order to be able to do his job.
  • ] I think that Lois is putting down her own newspaper just a little bit, or at least assuming that Tess would do so if she could.
  • 'Print is dead', I think refers to the fact that newspapers are going out of style, in favor of electronic news media.
  • I'm not sure what the third example refers to.
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This TV show has some very good writers, making allusions to all sorts of things. [Thinking of your post about Jack Frost.]

This is a reference to The Little Engine That Could, about a train engine that just had to believe in himself in order to be able to do his job. ["I think I can, I think I can, I think I can" is a phrase from the children's story that is supposed to sound lik
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