Dr Michaela Benson of Goldsmiths, University of London, has been studying the impact of Brexit on Britons in south-west France. She has written for Connexion readers about her latest findings, which contradict some of the stereotypes about Britons in France.
You are certainly familiar with the popular depiction of UK citizens living in France as retired people living idyllic lives in the French countryside. You are probably also as equally attuned to the mismatch between these images and the diversity of the British population living in France. Perhaps you live in a city, or a town; perhaps your life does not resemble such tropes.
Since June 2017, I have been running a large research project that explores how Brexit is experienced by UK citizens living across the EU27 [the rest of the European Union]. My own research for the project includes interviewing Britons living in Occitanie, specifically in the Lot and Toulouse, about their attitudes towards and experience of Brexit.
While there is general concern and confusion about what will happen to the existing rights and entitlements that make people's lives in France possible, Brexit is not only an administrative inconvenience and complication; how people understand their changing rights and entitlements in the context of their own lives reveals that how Brexit is experienced is additionally caught up in broader questions of identity and belonging. Variously caught up in questions of what it means to be British in a time of Brexit, it often causes people to talk about their sense of themselves as European and how they understand their lives in France.
Toulouse, the fastest-growing urban area in France, is home to a sizeable British population. What are the characteristics of this population?
They are often integrated into the local labour market, represented, for example, in its world-leading aerospace industry, the university sector, or working as English-language teachers. They might also be employed and self-employed in numerous small businesses and services run by and for English-speakers living in the area. It is also notable that there are many dual national families within this population, where one partner is British, one French.
You might think that the relatively high levels of economic and social integration among this population might insulate them from the impacts of Brexit. But it is clear that this is not the case. Even for those living in Toulouse on extremely comfortable expatriate contracts, disbelief at Brexit and concern about what this might mean for Britain and for their children's futures was evident.
For others, Brexit was deeply implicated in their sense of identity, the emotional impacts captured in Kate's haunting comment "They voted against everything we are". To her mind, her family – her French husband who she had met when they were both working in London, and their three children – were the epitome of European integration.
Family also featured elsewhere: one mother, with adult daughters who had been raised in France since they were infants but who now lived back in the UK expressed her concerns about what the loss of Freedom of Movement through Brexit might mean for their lives. One of her daughters had worked in several European countries, the work seasonal; her employment had been made possible by her flexibility as a European Citizen to go where the work was. What of her future? And further, what about if they wanted to come home to France?
For Emily, a postdoctoral researcher in a specialist laboratory in one of the city's universities, Freedom of Movement had facilitated her relocation to Toulouse. On a three-year contract due to expire in October 2018, she was concerned that the imminent withdrawal of the UK from the EU would impact on how potential employers in the city would judge her right to live and work in France and what this would mean for her continued right to reside in the city.
And then there was Kelly, raised by her British parents in a remote rural area, she was now living in Toulouse with her French boyfriend after completing a Masters degree. She was currently unemployed after a year-long temporary contract had come to an end.
With her naturalisation interview on the horizon, she was keeping all her fingers crossed that she would be in employment by that date, worried that her unemployment would jeopardize her chances of success.
Stereotypes about the British abroad have dogged discussions in the UK about what Brexit means for UK citizens who have made homes and lives in the EU27. They obscure from view the complex implications that Brexit might have for the ways these Britons live their lives.
Toulouse with its sizeable and diverse population of resident Britons, many of whom are economically and socially integrated into the life of the city, is one location where this complexity might be viewed.
Current agreements over citizens' rights assuage only partially concerns about the future rights of UK citizens who are legally settled in France; the resolution to questions about continued Freedom of Movement and what Britons living in France should do to confer their continued rights of residence might further soften the legal and administrative impact of the UK's withdrawal from the EU.
However what is clear is that Brexit goes to the heart of how people think of themselves, their families and their place in the world. And this likely will not be so easily resolved.


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"More people than ever are now using the coast. We want to help coastal users - including locals, beachgoers, boaties and visitors - to be even better prepared," says Victoria Harwood, Northland Civil Defence Emergency Management Officer, Whangarei district.
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When Will Open Borders Zealots Just Admit That They Want To Abolish America?
December 13, 2016 December 14, 2016 Samuel Hooper
Talking about "undocumented immigrants" in the same breath as refugees, permanent residents and citizens has only one purpose – to imbue illegal immigration with a nobility it does not deserve, deliberately undermining the beleaguered nation state. And the time has come for open borders zealots to be honest about what they are trying to do.
Under the guise of discussing the sanctuary city phenomenon, New York magazine has a propagandistic but otherwise pointless article profiling 44 "New Yorkers" of varying and sometimes dubious immigration status, whose sole purpose seems to be to deliberately blur the lines between various types of immigration, thus giving political cover to the illegal kind.
Why 44 immigrants? Presumably this is an allusion to the fact that Barack Obama is the 44th president of the United States, and because he supported the DREAM Act and implemented the DACA policy (even though only four of 44 people profiled in the piece are themselves beneficiaries). Yes, that is the kind of pseudo-analytical, emotional codswallop that we are going to be dealing with here.
The piece begins with suitable pomposity:
That ours is a sanctuary city — arguably, the sanctuary city — shouldn't be surprising. After all, for 130 years we've displayed, in the New York Harbor, the most iconic symbol of welcome in the world. In the weeks after an election season defined in part by an ugly debate over who should be allowed to live here, New York photographed dozens of immigrants and new citizens, ranging in age from 1 month to 91 years, to suggest the breadth of the New York–immigrant experience.
Of course, capturing the full breadth would be impossible — there are 3 million New Yorkers who were born somewhere else, more than a third of the city's population. All of which is a good reminder that even the city's hoariest come-hithers — make it here, make it anywhere, etc. — contain an implicit promise: Our city is open to anyone who's willing to give it a shot. Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses, yes, but also your ambitious, your artsy, your queer, your shunned, your misfits, and anyone else who can't, for some reason, feel at home where they are. Whatever it is you're a refugee from, this city can be your refuge. We may have a fabled reputation for crossed-arm toughness, but in reality, New York is the city whose arms have always been open the widest.
We then delve into the profiles, many of whom are of babies who clearly cannot speak for themselves but who are nonetheless selected because of their emotional resonance (using babies to build emotional support for a political argument is fine when it concerns immigration, apparently, but try to do so in connection with a …different subject, and many on the Left will immediately lose their minds).
Prioska Galicia
From: Mexico
"I remember the sound of helicopters, and running, and the cold breeze, and my mom trying to cover me up," Prioska Galicia says about the night she crossed the border into Arizona in 2004.
She was 6 years old. A recent high-school graduate, Galicia aspires to go to college, but that hope is tempered by the uncertainty of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals under Trump. "We want to work. We want to succeed. Other people don't see it like that. They see it as us wanting to take other people's jobs."
Okay, so here we have what might be a seemingly typical case of an illegal immigrant smuggled into the United States by her family – and a very sympathetic case, at that. Galicia is, I am sure, a model petitioner for citizenship in every way.
But then we see Galicia's case placed alongside examples like this:
Tristan Kelvin Bosc
Age: 1 month
Bosc was born in November to German and French fathers who met in 2005, two years after moving to the United States.
"For us, it was a choice to move here," says Benoit Bosc, one of Tristan's fathers. "You don't want to over-romanticize it, but you know, the land of dreams where things are possible. We hope that it stays this way because for him, that's the future."
Presumably Tristan's German and French fathers both emigrated to America via one of the legal routes open to them. So why even include such people in an article about sanctuary cities, unless for the deliberate reason of muddying the waters that separate those who follow the process and those who circumvent the process? Maybe there is a word slightly less harsh than "propaganda" to explain what the New Yorker is doing here, but if so, I struggle to think of it.
Pepper Tsue
Age: 2
From: South Korea
Tsue and her family moved to New York in 2015. Her mother is Korean and her father is Taiwanese-American.
At home, her mother, Seyun Kim, speaks to her only in Korean. When Pepper started preschool in September, Kim packed a translation sheet for the teacher. It included words and phrases like water, mommy and daddy, and I want a hug. "She'll learn English," says Kim. "But it's important for her to know Korean, too."
What a marvellous case study in good integration – a mother who deliberately refuses to help her own daughter to assimilate into their new country by conversing with her in the dominant language, and who then has the temerity to pack her daughter off to school with a translation sheet for the teacher, so that those already living here can do all of the hard work. Yes, this is exactly the kind of example that we should be promoting.
One doesn't like to think ill of people. But what is one supposed to think of the New Yorker when it cherry-picks cases such as this, and celebrates them precisely because they go against the grain of integration and assimilation? Seriously, what is the excusing factor here? I fail to see it.
Indigo Van Eijck
From: The Netherlands
Indigo Van Eijck is in sixth grade. His family started commuting back and forth from Rotterdam when he was 5 for his father's work in landscape architecture.
"I had to learn a whole new language," he recalls. "You do learn English in the Netherlands, but only very little. You say things like, 'Hi, how are you?' but in a very Dutch accent." The family became legal permanent residents in 2011 but still goes back to the Netherlands for a month every summer. "The people are different here," Indigo says. "Nobody really cares if you go to the store in your pajamas in the morning. At home, most of the strangers you meet on the street are nicer ― probably because the population is so much smaller." He misses his native cuisine when he's here, and he made Indonesian dumplings (which are prevalent in Holland) for Thanksgiving. But the sushi in the Netherlands, he says, "is awful."
So now we have the son of a clearly wealthy landscape architect and a lawful permanent resident. What place do these people have in an article purportedly about sanctuary cities? What do Indigo Van Eijck and his family need to take sanctuary from, precisely?
Fayza Gareb
From: Syria
Fayza Gareb's family fled Syria for Turkey in 2013 when the Assad regime began bombing her family's village near Aleppo.
"I worked as a waitress in Turkey," she says. "The first time I heard a plane's voice over the restaurant, I went under the table because I was scared it would drop bombs like in Syria." Her father longed to make it to the United States but died of cancer before the family was admitted last August. Gareb and her mother, sister, and brother were among the 15,000 Syrian refugees President Obama pledged to accept in 2016.
And now we have refugees thrown into the mix! Refugees who have been lawfully admitted into the United States and who therefore are at no risk of deportation or particular persecution by federal authorities. Why does New York Magazine see fit to include these cases side-by-side with undocumented child migrants from Mexico, lawful permanent resident children of successful landscape architects and natural born citizens?
Then we have that rarest of cases, a South Korean undocumented SJW, banging on about her relative "privilege":
Stephanie Ji Won Park
Stephanie's family came to New York in 1998 when she was five and overstayed their tourist visas.
She first became aware of being undocumented in middle school, at Horace Mann. "I was thinking about the high-school-senior Bahamas trip, and my mom was like, 'Hopefully in a couple of years something will happen,'" she says. "Whenever I introduce myself as undocumented I do a whole spiel where I say I think I'm one of the most privileged undocumented people out there. "Like, 'Oh, I found out because I couldn't go on a senior trip to the Bahamas.'" As she started applying for colleges, the realities of her status became more clear; still she considers herself lucky. "If I were to be deported, I'd be deported back to South Korea. Yeah, that'll be tough, but it's not the same as going back to a country where the chances of being murdered are very high. Maybe it's a state of denial, but I'm just trying to focus my energy on people that are in a worse position."
The heart bleeds. Thank goodness there are sanctuary cities like New York which provide a safe space for South Korean tourist visa abusers and their families to skip the queue, spurn the lawful routes of entry into the United States and avoid being sent back to the terrible, dangerous and backward country of South Korea.
Kathleen Bomani
From: Tanzania
Bomani's Tanzanian parents met while studying at Howard University. Her sister was born here, then her parents moved back home and had her and her brother.
"We spent most of our summers here in the U.S. So then I came for college — at Drexel University in Philadelphia. I studied corporate communications," she says. She came to New York to live permanently in 2009. "In New York, no one asks you where you're from because you have an accent. Everyone's from somewhere. It has a completely different feeling from the rest of the United States. The possibilities of what one can be — there's just something in the air here."
Quite why that atmosphere of possibility cannot be maintained while observing federal immigration law is never quite explained, either by Bomani herself or by New York Magazine, who casually use her life story as part of their insidious propaganda.
"I wish for her the same thing I wish for them, the best of life," Lourdes, 47, says about her granddaughter Kamilla and her children, Ricardo Aca and Montserrat Aca, who are both Dreamers.
Lourdes crossed the border in 2004 and worked as a housekeeper and factory worker before sending for her children. "For me the most important thing is for them to study so that they have a better future, and hopefully stay in this country that we've learned to love. Because, in reality, we consider this country now like our country. There was a moment when I felt exasperated, that perhaps I had made a mistake in having brought them over," says Lourdes. "But looking at it now, I feel like it was worth it. Everything that we went through was worth it."
It is great that Lourdes and her family have "learned to love" America. Of the various kinds of illegal immigration this is the best kind – people who have or are assimilating, and feel gratitude toward their new host country. Perhaps this kind of illegal immigration is even the most typical, as leftist zealots loudly insist. Perhaps. And certainly we should have sympathy for people like Lourdes and her family – though they retain agency and responsibility for their actions, they were also victims of the strong "pull factor" of illegal immigration, the blind eye turned toward illegal immigration by American business and government.
Many such people are already now American in spirit, and there is nothing to be gained by deporting them. But neither is there anything to be gained from placing them on a pedestal and attempting to endow their actions with some kind of undeserved nobility. Immigration laws exist for a reason. And as with all laws, either support them or argue for their repeal, don't equivocate while openly celebrating lawbreakers.
As one reads the New York Magazine piece, one is struck by the fact that the vast, vast majority (40 out of 44) of those profiled are either full citizens, lawful permanent residents or approved refugees, none of whom need the shelter of a so-called sanctuary city to live in the United States without fear of deportation. There is absolutely no good reason for these people to be included at all. But there is one very bad reason.
Because the goal here is not really to celebrate sanctuary cities specifically. Despite the title and preamble to the New York Magazine piece, this is nothing more than a convenient hook, a ruse. The real goal is nothing other than the perpetuation of this omnipresent, simplistic, holding-hands-beneath-a-rainbow leftist vision of a borderless world where more than sharing a common humanity (which of course we do), we also share the automatic right to live wherever we want in the world, regardless of whether we choose to move there legally or illegally.
It is part of an insidious attempt to undermine the idea of borders, of nationality, of the nation state itself, and to smear anybody who objects to this radical and untested vision as being a backward-looking reactionary at best and a dangerous racist at worst.
The only reason one might be motivated to publish an article praising sanctuary cities and then profiling the wealthy children of notable Dutch landscape architects is if one is actively pushing this absolutist open borders agenda, a worldview in which there is zero moral or bureaucratic distinction between somebody who obeys immigration law and somebody who proudly flouts those laws.
And if one takes this position, if one tacitly argues that current illegal immigrants living in America should all be praised and lauded and conferred with immediate citizenship, then surely the same goes for anybody around the world who wants to pick up and move to America tomorrow? And then you have no nation states anymore. And no America.
The people at New York Magazine are not stupid. Many of them are blessed with the ability to spin a fine turn of phrase and argue convincingly for the things in which they believe. So when can we stop fighting this tiresome shadow war and get down to the meat of the matter? When will they come out and honestly admit that they want to abolish America?
Postscript: If "abolish America" sounds harsh, what else should one call a suite of policies and actions which actively seek to reward lawbreaking and encourage vastly more illegal immigration while demanding absolutely nothing in return by way of bureaucratic compliance, respect for the law or intent to assimilate?
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Douglas Carter December 14, 2016 / 11:49 AM
…'Indigo Van Eijck –
"I had to learn a whole new language," he recalls. "You do learn English in the Netherlands, but only very little.'…
This is a strange one. If he's talking about the 'Netherlands' which geographically resides between Belgium and Denmark then it's not a situation I recognise. English is spoken extremely widely in Holland and its practically a parallel first language. That individual nationals might not speak a word of English is not necessarily unheard of, it's still quite rare. In that I would submit that as a fairly typical observation of Holland. If the authors of this quoted piece remain unaware of that, then the illustration they're trying to depict is quite incomplete. Thereby inaccurate.
britishawakening December 14, 2016 / 7:15 PM
Have to admit I found that one a bit hard to swallow. A few years back I did a lot of work with a Dutch construction company. I only met one guy who spoke poor English and probably did not need it as he was a labourer – a pretty good one too.
wien1938 December 14, 2016 / 3:08 AM
There is another aspect to the "NY = Sanctuary City" angle: NY is being promoted as a sanctuary against *the rest of America* (you know, the sexist, racist etc etc *white* people).
It's a utopianist position, which also fits well with abolishing America.

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What is the exact Definition of ethics?
1 What is the exact Definition of ethics?
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ethics, also called moral philosophy, the discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong. The term is also applied to any system or theory of moral values or principles.
What does ethics mean Oxford dictionary?
ethics [uncountable] the branch of philosophy that deals with moral principles See ethic in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
What is ethics Collins dictionary?
the philosophical study of the moral value of human conduct and of the rules and principles that ought to govern it; moral philosophy. See also meta-ethics. 2. ( functioning as plural) a social, religious, or civil code of behaviour considered correct, esp that of a particular group, profession, or individual.
What is the purpose of ethics?
Ethics serve as a guide to moral daily living and helps us judge whether our behavior can be justified. Ethics refers to society's sense of the right way of living our daily lives. It does this by establishing rules, principles, and values on which we can base our conduct.
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At its simplest, ethics is a system of moral principles. They affect how people make decisions and lead their lives. Ethics is concerned with what is good for individuals and society and is also described as moral philosophy.
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Page 1. Definition of Ethics (1) • The discipline of dealing with what is good. and bad, with moral duty and obligation. • A set of moral principles or values.
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ethical Add to list Share. For someone who is honest and follows good moral standards, use the adjective ethical. Ethical comes from the Greek ethos "moral character" and describes a person or behavior as right in the moral sense – truthful, fair, and honest.
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Q: Is it possible to declare an anonymous instance in an union in C++? While working with low-level C++ for bare-metal embedded systems (STM32), I came across a use case for an "anonymous union member" declaration with non trivial (a struct) type. Is such a thing possible ?
I have tried the following kind of code :
struct Specialization_CR1_t
{
        uint32_t a :1 ;
        uint32_t   :31;
};

struct CR1_t
{
    union
    {
        struct
        {
            uint32_t  : 1;
            uint32_t b: 1;
            uint32_t  :30;
        } ;
        // Few tries...
        // Specialization_CR1_t {};
        // Specialization_CR1_t;
        Specialization_CR1_t () ;
        // Fails with "expected unqualified-id before ')'"
    };
};

int main()
{
    //The goal :
    struct CR1_t CR1;
    CR1.a = 1;
    CR1.b = 0;
}

The goal is to avoid having CR1.<thing>.a. Obviously, there is the possibility to directly declare Specialization_CR1_t anonymously in the union, however the ultimate goal is to be able to use a template and tmpl_CR1_t instead of "just" Specialization_CR1_t.
I am aware of the potential memory issues with the stuff displayed here. However, since this is in bare-metal embedded environment, the memory structure is fully known, the bits are packed well and tight and the tool-chain is fixed (no issues with bitfields).
Moreover, since this structure will be directly mapped in memory, I cannot afford the overhead of another variable. The total size of my structure have to be 32 bits and writing into a or b have to change only the correct bit.
Best regards !

A: ISO C11 allows anonymous structs inside other struct/unions.  This is supported as an extension by some C++ compilers, including GNU-compatible (g++, clang++), and by MSVC++.  The GCC manual has some examples.
This is AFAIK not allowed in ISO C++.  If you're using a compiler that doesn't implement this extension, see the middle part of this answer.

I'm pretty sure the anonymous union is a red herring here, and you'd have exactly the same problem trying to declare b as a 32-bit object with 31 bits of padding and 1 value-bit using that anonymous-struct in any other context.
If it was legal inside an anonymous union, it would be legal anywhere.  (But instead it's not, and is legal nowhere in ISO C.  As @Peter points out in comments, the name Instance in struct {<members>} Instance can't be omitted.  And if you make it struct foo {<members>}; you'd just be declaring a type, not an instance.)
You'll probably just have to write a class with operator= and operator bool overloads, which you can do because this is C++.
(Consider retitling the question with what you're actually trying to do: write an anonymous struct with a bitfield member.)
Or if you want help with the wrapper class, take a step back from the X-Y problem where the anonymous-struct approach has apparently hit a dead end (unless there is some compiler-specific support for it) and ask a new question about writing a convenient wrapper that exposes a single bit in a word as an integer type.  With vendor headers, compiler extensions, or plain or C++ operator overloads.
Although given how you're using the union, you can do this to get what you want, at least without templates, right?
struct CR1bits
{
    uint32_t a: 1;
    uint32_t b: 1;
    uint32_t  :30;
};

So maybe you should be asking something about how you can template this to what, have different type names that have some subset of the named bits?  Maybe the C preprocessor can help with that, in a more clunky way that still lets the code using these types look the way you want.

Anonymous structs are C11 standard, or a C++ extension:
GNU C++, and MSVC, both support anonymous structs.  This compiles and works:
union Obj {
   struct {       // extension: anonymous struct
      int x;
      int y;
      int z;
   };
   int elems[3];
};

a->x or a->elems[0] both access the same object (assuming standard struct layout with no padding).
And apparently this is standard ISO C11.

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Imagine Spot
These girls know the routine.
Elliot: J.D., be sensitive. Don't act like you're at a ping pong match between a ninja and Bigfoot...
Dr. Kelso: (gives Elliot an odd look)
Elliot: I know that made no sense, but he's totally there now in his head.
(J.D.'s eyes dart back and forth)
Dr. Kelso: Would you look at that...
The combination of a Dream Sequence and a Gilligan Cut, usually no more than a few seconds long, and commonly bookended by a Fade to White. Alice yells at Bob, "What am I, your maid?!". Cut to Alice cleaning the house in a French Maid Outfit. Cut to Bob's face—he's clearly just imagined the role, and Alice has just slapped him to snap him out of his imagination trance.
May be used to show what would happen If I Were a Rich Man. A more mundane (and stealthy) version is the Daydream Surprise. Very frequent in commercials. If someone else can see, that's Imagine Spotting. Someone who does this a lot is a Mr. Imagination. If Bob's Imagine Spot causes him to lash out in anger at Alice over something that only happened in the Imagine Spot, we've seen an Indulgent Fantasy Segue.
If the Imagine Spot is a something the character is supposedly remembering, it may be a Crazy Memory. If it winds up being less fantastical than you'd expect, it's a Fantasy Twist.
Compare Separate Scene Storytelling.
Examples of Imagine Spot include:
1 Advertising
2 Anime and Manga
4 Fan Works
5 Films -- Animation
6 Films -- Live-Action
8 Live-Action TV
10 Newspaper Comics
11 Theatre
13 Web Animation
A very popular trope with commercials, so much so that it could almost be considered an advertising trope as much as it is a comedy trope, with the idea being to either convey how much one's life would be better with the product/service or how easily obtainable it is. A recent commercial, for example, features an Imagine Spot with a middle-aged managerial type daydreaming about becoming president after he discovered the joys of microwaved gourmet pasta.
That particular commercial is somewhat of a subversion... it turns out that even in his fantasy, he's not the president.
Azumanga Daioh uses several imagine spots throughout the course of the series, many of which involve (unsurprisingly) Osaka.
In Bleach, Chad tries to remember what Ichigo's little sister Karin looks like. We end up with Squick as he sees Ichigo with a black wig, Karin's red hat, and lipstick.
Ouran High School Host Club has "Tamaki's Inner Mind Theatre", usually with Tamaki fantasizing about Haruhi.
Star Driver, from the same writer and director as the Ouran anime, has Wako doing almost exactly the same thing, complete with Ouran-style captions.
Similarly, Minami-ke's Hosaka gets really caught up in his fantasies, usually starring Haruka, to the point of acting them out. Everyone else thinks he's weird and a little sick in the head.
Pokémon's Meowth of Team Rocket has done this about Once an Episode since Hoenn, thinking about what Giovanni would do with the Pokémon of the day. More often than not, the imagery is pretty weird.
By weird, we mean everything from said Boss spontaneously performing a Super-Deformed Gene Kelly dance routine, to said Boss stripping to a Loin Cloth for almost no friggin' reason. It helps that said Boss is The Comically Serious, and the occasions with Meowth's accented voice filling in for what he imagines would be what Giovanni would say help even more.
What makes it even more imaginative is that the three are probably the most pathetic excuses for Team Rocket members ever seen on the show, and that Giovanni despises them with a passion.
Who's an even more Comically Serious than Giovanni? Why, Cyrus, of course. But that only serves to make this scene more hilarious, as the Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure heroes ponder where he could have gone after the Spear Pillar.
There's also Connoiseusse Burgundy, who has one involving Cilan mocking her and her Oshawott in a particularly cruel manner while Pansage just cackles viciously. Considering what Cilan's really like, plus her recent evaluation of Ash's Pokemon in a negative light, it just shows how wacked out she really is.
In Digimon Tamers, Takato has one when he can't find his partner Guilmon, imagining Guilmon being shot to death by police.
Misaki in Wagaya no Oinari-sama. is prone to sudden and overthought fantasy sequences about Noboru, her crush. Usually these fantasy sequences involve Kuugen or Kou, his family's resident Pretty Freeloaders.
In the Ai Yori Aoshi manga, Mayu fantasizes about being an uh-MAZING cook so that Kaoru falls for her unconditionally. In reality, the complete opposite is true.
Later on, we witness Kaoru's imaginings of marriage to Aoi, who is an amazing cook. They tend toward the perverse, sometimes.
Used in a Code Geass sound episode where Shirley is imagining all kinds of insane things that could go wrong if she asks Lelouch out to a concert. It starts with him just saying that he will take his sister to the entire student council admitting their undying love for him, even Arthur. That's almost JD level weirdness.
Also used in the Picture Drama in which Sayoko first meets Suzaku when he comes over for tea with Lelouch and Nunally. She happens to overhear part of a conversation between Suzaku and Lelouch at the end and somehow interprets it to mean they are secretly in love... and her imagination runs away on her a little.
Unavoidable Lucky Star example: Hiyori would often falls into fantasies about portraying her classmates Yutaka and Minami as Schoolgirl Lesbians, but immediate cut short by chastising herself about thinking her friends that way. Said friends are clueless as to what she's freaking out over.
Onsokumaru of Ninin ga Shinobuden does these a lot, usually involving Fan Service images of Kaede and Shinobu, or of himself surrounded by women or doing something awesome.
Used several times in a row in an episode of Revolutionary Girl Utena, when Nanami is trying to embarrass Anthy (and win Miki's affection) by planting weird stuff in her room. She envisions each ploy going off without a hitch, only to have them fail because Anthy is already keeping weird stuff in her room. And Miki finds it cute.
Saitou Hajime of Rurouni Kenshin: Memetic Badass, Inspector Javert, The Comically Serious... and master of the Imagine Spot. He makes the "If Kaoru → Tanuki and Megumi → Fox, then Misao → Weasel" in one and images a broom shooing away a rooster when Chou and Sanosuke get into an argument.
In the anime, after Saitou casually drops the fact that he's married (and the manga has to add a "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer), there's an Imagine Spot of Saitou reclining on the statue of a Bodhisattva.
Often used in Paradise Kiss. In one instance, Yukari pictures a Love Triangle as a Duel to the Death between Tokumori as a samurai and Arashi as a Lupin III pastiche, for the love of Miwako as a schoolgirl in Sailor Fuku. She notes it's only natural Arashi won, after all, he had a gun.
Mahou Sensei Negima has quite a few, as well as a few Imagine Sketches from Haruna (or Nodoka's magic diary). In one notable instance, after Nodoka confesses to him, Negi imagines himself marrying her... without losing the Blank White Eyes he got from the revelation.
In Ichigo Mashimaro (the manga), while Nobue is filling out a job application for one of the "zillions of 7-Elevens" in the area, the other girls contemplate what sorts of jobs they would want to get. The question is posed to Matsuri, and Miu imagines Matsuri in a few different kinds of jobs, coming up with the conclusion that Matsuri is not employable. When they consider the job of handing out promotional tissues, Miu remarks that "Matsuri wasn't able to do it at all just now," and imagines herself in the position, sneaking them into people's pockets and bags even if they refuse, and offering entire boxes at once.
This also happens in the corresponding anime sequence, except with Miu imagining a single job for Matsuri and Ana (Matsuri as a sweet potato woman (like an ice cream woman, but with sweet potatoes) and Ana as a ball girl at a tennis court.) As for tissue pack marketing, Miu and Chika acted it out in real life with the same level of success as Matsuri.
In Macross Frontier, Luca's brain goes to town in not entirely worksafe ways when Sheryl casually declares Alto her slave. Makes you wonder what else goes on in his head, considering Sheryl obviously meant slave in the menial labor-drone sense.
Pretty much every character in Ranma ½ indulges in this regularly. If there are any other people in the room, they usually comment on the scene.
In Nightmare Inspector, Kairi spends a lot of his time fantasizing and daydreaming. We get to see a few of said fantasies, which are... strange, to say the least.
The characters in Eyeshield 21 do this sometimes. Usually they imagine themselves pulling of a spectacular play (in Monta's case, it's always followed with Mamori fussing happily over him).
In the second episode of Paranoia Agent, Yuichi has these more frequently (and they become more indulgent/fantastical) as things continually get worse for him.
Played with and played straight in the second episode of the Ah! My Goddess TV series—when Keiichi mulls over what wish of his Belldandy should grant, he first imagines life as a wealthy man, then Belldandy, who's reading his mind the entire time, says she would gladly "give him more money than he could hope to spend in his lifetime". Then Belldandy says she could also grant the wish of wanting to destroy the entire world, "although [she] would prefer to not do business with that type of client." Cue Keiichi imagining a giant explosion levelling a city, with him off to the side, laughing evilly, in a monocle, a wiry mustache, and what suspiciously looks like a Schutzstaffel uniform.
May Chang in Fullmetal Alchemist (manga and second anime) is prone to daydreaming about the Elrics (first Ed, then upon finding him insufficiently tall, Al) with copious Bishie Sparkle. Already funny, it becomes downright Hilarious in Hindsight when Monica Rial was cast as her English voice actress, leading to many Ouran High School Host Club jokes among fans.
Isaac and Miria of Baccano!! have a joint one (fitting, considering their ditzy duo status) complete with Art Shift when they speculate with horror on Jacuzzi's fate at the hands of the mythical Rail Tracer. Which, by the way, they visualize as a giant green worm with fangs.
Early on in the anime, Naruto fantasises about becoming Hokage and beating Sasuke.
Ayane's High Kick: We get to see one of these from Ayane when Kunimitsu makes a pitch to get her to join his dojo, declaring that she can become a champion. She sees herself in the middle of a ring with a pro-wrestling world title belt and a cheering crowd, unaware that Kunimitsu is actually referring to her becoming a champion kick-boxer.
Used so heavily in Brigadoon Marin and Melan that it's a bit confusing at first. Marin's imagination usually involves violent death.
In Soul Eater Not!, new student Tsugumi imagines herself surrounded by pretty boys at the academy, but she snaps out of her thoughts once she sees Black Star punching a guy in the face. She also imagines the aforementioned pretty boys all clamoring to be her partner, but instead finds herself being fought over by two female classmates.
Plica has several, though some of the other characters also get in on it.
Masamune of Gate 7 get lose in his own Imagine Spot of Catgirl Hana at the middle of a battle.
Happens Once Per Episode in Sword Oratoria while Lefiya is the Focal Character.
Give Me Liberty has a few imagine spots that display the main character as a panther and the villian as a hunter.
One of the few almost totally lighthearted moments in Sin City happens when Dwight McCarthy imagines the recently deceased Jack Rafferty talking to him as a Deadpan Snarker. Emphasis on the dead part.
Dungeon Keeper Ami features a hilarious one from Eline, immediately following her capture by Mercury.
...Thus, logic stated that she had been captured by Keeper Mercury.
Eline dared opened her eyes. Keepers rarely healed their prisoners out of the goodness of their heart, in her experience, which meant that Mercury needed her strong enough to survive whatever tortures she had planned. A quick glance around revealed that she was alone in a barred cell, which was bare except for a bucket in the corner. The dark elf sat up silently, keeping her breathing even in order to avoid drawing attention, and tried to remember what she knew about the Keeper. Mercury's main claim to fame was defeating a horned reaper in single combat, even if Morrigan ranted often about how she had to have cheated. In Eline's head, the indistinct, blue-haired mental picture of the Keeper grew and gained bulging muscles, until it was nearly the equal of the reaper. What else did she know? Mercury had, according to rumours, had her way with the red-skinned beast against his will, which made her a terrifying and suicidal deviant. The red-eyed mental picture in the prisoner's mind gained a demented, lecherous grin. The Keeper's reported exhibitionist tendencies hardly mattered in comparison. Eline pinched the bridge of her nose as the brute in her imagination lost her clothes. Just great. She's basically a female clone of Morrigan.
In Kyon: Big Damn Hero, after Kyon phoned Yuki in chapter 13 he imagines her in her apartment, kneeling by the phone, her cheeks pink-tinged as she daydreamed about him... But he dismissed that thought. This was Yuki, after all. As much as he might wish that...
In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fic Progress, Princess Luna has increasingly bizarre daydreams about the various awkward situations in which she finds herself.
In Turnabout Storm, Phoenix has one of these before the trial starts when he wonders what would Edgeworth do if he was in his shoes (that is, stuck in Equestria), it's crazy hilarious.
"Doctor, I'd like the part of my brain responsible for that image lobotomized please..."
In With Strings Attached, during the New Zork chapter, Beagle John tells Ringo that the government is looking for the first "A-plus Plus" (i.e., someone with more than one magical Ability) and such a man will be milked for his sperm so all the women can be artificially inseminated. Ringo, who easily qualifies, pictures "himself hooked up to a sperm-pumping machine, surrounded by thousands of big-nosed, blue-eyed telekinetic kids."
Calvin has a few in Calvin at Camp. Since it's directly based on Calvin and Hobbes, this is to be expected.
An occasionally used gag in the Japanese-language Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Fan Web Comic A's/StrikerS Nano. As they're employed on characters portrayed as having Unresolved Sexual Tension, the spots tend to be very heavily censored.
Films -- Animation
In Up, Carl just found out that Russell snuck aboard his house before liftoff and is passing over some buildings. Cue him trying to lower the kid down onto one with towels, the kid falling off, the mental image ending, and Carl deciding "Well, that won't work."
Films -- Live-Action
The archetype in film must be Walter Mitty.
In Slumdog Millionaire, when the adult Jamal finds his older brother Salim that pointed a gun at him, raped his Love Interest and disappeared for years with the girl, he runs against Salim and pushes themselves out of the building where they are, killing them both. Turns out that it was just his imagination. This time, when Salim approaches, he punches him in the face so hard that makes Salim fall to the ground.
Actually, that's more of a Daydream Surprise, as we're not entirely aware that he didn't do so until it's cut away.
In Mean Girls, Cady does it in the lunch room by thinking about how her dilemma would be solved in the animal world. In her spot she imagines tackling Regina George and wrestling with her as the other students howl and yell like monkeys.
Subverted when Regina George is hit by a moving bus and dies. Turns out she really did get hit by a moving bus, but only got sent to the hospital.
In Monster-in-Law, Jane Fonda imagines smashing Jennifer Lopez's face into a cake and later Lopez imagines whacking Fonda's with a pan. During both instances they put up a charade of liking each other.
In High Fidelity, Rob Gordon imagines three increasingly violent scenarios to get back at Ian 'Ray' Raymond for stealing his girlfriend when he arrives at Rob's record store: 1. Issuing a cutting insult that causes Ray to leave rather quickly 2. Attempting to attack Ray only to be held back by Dick and Barry, shouting and cursing at him, causing Ray to actually run out the door 3. Attacking Ray WITH Dick and Barry, landing enough punches to lay him out on the floor and make him bleed from the mouth, not only kicking him while he's down but ripping the A/C unit from the wall and bringing it down on his head. In actuality, Rob does and says nothing, only glaring at Ray as he speaks and casually walks out.
Could also be considered an Indulgent Fantasy Segue.
In Apollo 13, after they are too damaged to land on the moon and just getting back to Earth will be hard enough, flight commander Jim Lovell imagines himself touching down, leaving perfect tracks, running his fingers through the moon dust, and gazing at the distant Earth. He'd really wanted to be there.
In Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Harold imagines himself finally working up the nerve to flirt with his attractive neighbor Maria in the elevator. In actuality, he and Maria ride the elevator in awkward silence.
Happens several times in Girl Next Door.
The entirety of Next can fall under this due to its premise.
Amélie from Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain frequently lapses into this. One of the more extreme examples is that, if Nino couldn't assemble a torn-up photograph in time, he'd end up living in Tajikistan with only a goat for company—and Amélie refuses to go out with somebody that would wear a teacosy for a hat.
In Finding Neverland, James Barrie is prone to having these as fantastic overlays on the events that are actually happening, ranging from imagining rain in a theater to placing him and his companions on a pirate ship as they play pirates.
In Pulp Fiction, Jules imagines Bonnie's potential reaction to a coming home and finding "couple of gangster's in her kitchen doin' a bunch of gangster shit."
Used in Shaun of the Dead during a scene in which Shaun and Ed come up with increasingly truncated plans on how to rescue Shaun's mother.
Most of the music numbers in Chicago are fullblooded imagine spots of the heroine, who hopes to become a jazz dancer. There are even a few snapping-out-of-it moments, and the contrast between the reality and her jazz saturated daydreams is often underlined.
In the film Muay Thai Giant, Nathan Jones is trying to come up with ways to make money to repair the small restaurant he wrecked. One of the suggestions is becoming a stripper. The result... must be seen to be believed.
Several of the musical numbers in Anchors Aweigh.
Michael, the narrator of The Republic Of Trees is established as a notorious daydreamer in the first chapter. His visions in the book get quite bizarre ( such as Liberty from Delacroix' "Liberty leading the People" giving him a handjob )
This is probably the central comedic tool of Scrubs, which uses it to great effect. Usually J.D. does this, to the point where other characters Lampshade it increasingly as the series goes on, mentioning how one was really long, messing with him while he is in his head, triggering one on purpose to get him to zone out, and so on. Usually after his fantasy he says something that sounds completely weird if we weren't to be shown the Imagine Spot. And his propensity to do this is apparently infectious, as his friends occasionally indulge in it as well, though far less regularly.
Of course, during episodes where it isn't centered on J.D.'s this trope happens without the cut, so all we see is J.D. staring off into space and saying something weird.
"We're gonna need a lot of gnomes..."
Malcolm in the Middle frequently uses it.
iCarly: In iFind Lewbert's Lost Love Carly and Freddie have a synchronous daydream on how life in the Bushwell will be much better if the irate doorman Lewbert is "a happy man". Carly, Freddie and Lewbert dance around as balloons fall. Sam breaks them out of their over-the-top fantasy.
Ally McBeal and Teachers used it occasionally.
Andy Richter Controls the Universe used it as a central theme, often with voiceover commentary by Andy. Example: "I was thinking about what it would be like if I had wheels for feet. In case you were wondering, here's what it would look like!"
Possibly the funniest thirty seconds in five seasons of Angel involved Angel in episode 1.13, at a party, being asked if he wanted to dance. The ensuing Imagine Spot is brilliance.
Another hilarious imagine spot, in an Angel deleted scene, involved Wesley imagining himself and Fred starring in a ballet. The actress who played Fred was actually trained as a dancer, so Fred was pretty good. Wesley... not so much.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, on the other hand, managed to do the most depressing use of this trope ever when Joyce is rushed to the hospital and saved -- then cut to the paramedics declaring her dead from an aneurysm.
The early-90s HBO series Dream On used a variation on the Imagine Spot as its primary gimmick. But instead of segments featuring the Dream On cast, clips from old movies and TV shows were used for the Imagine Spots of its main character, Martin Tupper.
The Doctor Who episode "Love And Monsters" similarly had the main character flash to clips, including one of Elton John.
Farscape, episode "Scratch 'n Sniff", though some question exists as to whether they were Imagine Spots or flashbacks.
And just about any sequence with Harvey, the Scorpius neuro-clone. Harvey "lives" in Crichton's mind and the two regularly converse. Their conversations usually take place in Imagine Spots - some of them based on Crichton's memories and some of them not.
Common in Father Ted.
To the point where Dougal needed a chart to tell the difference between dreams and reality.
Played straight in nearly every episode of Son of the Beach, but subverted in one in which Notch Johnson was informed that one of his lifeguards once won a preteen breast size contest. Intrigued by what such a contest would be like, the Image Spot begins to take form, when suddenly the scene cuts to pornographer Larry Flynt saying that, while he is all for free speech, some things are just obscene. Afterwards, Notch clarified that he meant what those girls would look like now.
Wendy of The Middleman often drops into Imagine Spot sequences when people ask her questions she needs to answer, or when she has a "Eureka!" moment.
Used frequently in Corner Gas, to the extent that it's been described as "Seinfeld meets Family Guy in rural Canada."
Used a lot in Spaced, usually as pop-culture references or scenes from movies done with a fraction of the budget.
That '70s Show used a lot of these.
Dexter:
All the times his dead foster father Harry shows up to remind him of The Code count, as Dexter converses with him. In the sixth season, when a short arc in which Dexter's dead serial killer brother replaces his father in these Imagine Spots (and temporarily convinces Dexter to go Axe Crazy) is used to foreshadow the reveal that Edward James Olmos' Evil Mentor / Big Bad is really a figment of the real villain's Imagine Spots.
At the end of the Ice Truck Killer arc, where he's walking up to the office Hollywood style—red carpet walkway flanked with adoring fans.
"Hey Dex, way to take out the trash!"
One time he tried to imagine what Deb would do if he told her that he was a serial killer, with four hilarious conclusions. Namely, 1) her choking on a bite of food; 2) her pulling her gun and demanding he get down; 3) her breaking down in hysterical crying; and finally 4) her summarily blowing him away.
Dexter: This isn't going to be easy.
Dexter has just found out that Miguel Prado lied to him. He lets out "MIGUEL!!!" and throws the computer through his office's window, and then he's shown at the computer, and he walks out noticeably angry. It would have been Narm had Michael C. Hall not been as brilliant an actor as he is.
Subverted and/or Lampshaded in an episode of 30 Rock where Liz and Jack are discussing some of Tracy Jordan's more outrageous antics. Instead of cutting away with clips to illustrate them, however, the scene stays on Liz and Jack who have this exchange:
Liz: And I am thinking of some of them right now.
Jack: So am I.
Dead Like Me: George lets Mason take care of her dog. She then wonders if he's taking care of it properly or merely using it for some harebrained scheme. Like, say, attracting women, then sitting in a hot tub with the women and the dog. And then she forgets it never actually happened, so she scolds him for bringing her dog into a hot tub.
Australian TV series 30 Seconds has a slight variation on this; the main character, who works in commercials, sometimes has delusions that he's watching a commercial in real life. These seem to be superimposed over what's actually in front of his eyes rather than actual full Scrubs style daydreams. Also, they tend to have swear words.
The Stargate SG-1 episode "200" is basically built out of this trope, including memorable segments such as "Children of the Gods" done with marionettes, Teal'c as a private investigator, SG-1 cast with teenagers, and a Sam/Jack wedding with a nod to Jack/Daniel.
Used liberally in Mongrels, for example here at the 7-minute mark.
In the Leverage episode "The Scheherezade Job", Nate has a meeting with the woman who is blackmailing them. After telling him what he needs to know about their current mark, she explains that Nate messed up her date and offers to have dinner with him. Cue to Nate imagining a nice, romantic dinner with her, interrupted by one of her Mooks choking him with a garrote, while she is drinking wine. Nate makes up a lame excuse and, once she leaves, feels his neck uncomfortably.
In The Monkees this is Lampshaded and combined with Breaking the Fourth Wall in "Monstrous Monkee Mash" when the episode's villain intrudes on a fantasy scene that Micky and Davy are having. "Hey, what are you doing? This is our fantasy scene!"
Hustle "Conning the Artists". The team are being held prisoner by a katana-wielding Japanese man seeking revenge for one of their cons. Danny, realising that taking on the position of leader means that I Know Karate, gets to his feet and takes him on (including Bring It and Exploding Fishtanks) ending with Stacie throwing herself into his arms, praising his bravery and kissing him. Cut to Danny with puckered lips as he's curtly told to sit down by Katana man.
In Titus, we have Christopher's 'Negative Space', where he reflects upon events in his own mind, which can include flashbacks AND flashforwards. Subverted in 'The Trial' where Christopher insults the judge in the Negative Space, and is apparently heard by those in the courtroom.
This is the central trope of Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger, in which a Sentai team battles imaginary threats.
The music video to "Voices" by Disturbed has the subject imagining doing hostile or even violent things to the people who piss him off, with the voices trying to convince him that this is a good idea.
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The whole point of Calvin and Hobbes.
Debatably.
Often played straight even if we ignore the question of Hobbes' existence. Calvin frequently imagines himself in a multitude of roles, the four big recurring ones being the Flash Gordon Expy Spaceman Spiff, the Hero Sue Stupendous Man, the film noir detective Tracer Bullet, or one of a few species of Carnosaur.
In the musical Allegro, the Greek Chorus interrupts the awkward hoofing of a college dance to introduce a fantastic Dream Ballet which shows how the students feel they are dancing; this eventually ends and the dance continues as before. In a later montage sequence, the voices professors droning on through their lectures fade away as Joe sees Jenny dancing through his imagination; Joe's buddy Charlie gets his own Imagine Spot showing two girls starting to strip as a professor reads John Keats' poem "The Eve of St. Agnes."
Ryo has a few of these in Brass Restoration, to amusing effect.
Kareha in SHUFFLE! has a tendency to go into these whenever thrilled about something possibly romantic. It unnerves the rest of the class, who refer to them as hallucinations. We never get to see what she is actually thinking at these times, perhaps for the best.
Fate/stay night: In the Unlimited Blade Works Scenario, Saber argues about sleeping with Shirou in his room due to his having been Brainwashed by Caster to go to her base the night before. Shirou stops himself from countering with his belief that Caster won't try it again after he imagines Saber berating him for being such a Wide-Eyed Idealist.
In Kanon, there's a rather... unique scene at lunch where Yuuichi is trying to imagine how Sayuri and Mai spend time together. Naturally, with the vastly different behavior and personality between them he finds it hard and eventually comes up with the idea that they're schoolgirl lesbians who then invite him to a threesome. Believe it or not, this is one of the times where Yuuichi refrains from speaking his mind.
At the end of Sawatari Makoto's arc Amano asks what Yuuichi would ask for if he could make a miracle, Yuuichi tells her its obvious and it cuts to his wish; Makoto napping on the hill where she and Yuuichi first met.
Happens in Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai! a couple of times, such as when a joke choice involving Miyako is chosen.
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Red vs. Blue: Recreation has an amusing scene in its first chapter when Sarge has a flashback to the events of Reconstruction. The scene is radically different in that Sarge kills Grif (natch), Simmons turns into a motorcycle and Sarge rides him (no, not like that) out of the base. Grif engages in some Imagine Spotting and calls him out.
Grif: That's not what happened.
Sarge: Of course it is!
Grif: Then how am I still alive?
Sarge: I ask myself that question every day. Moto-Simmons! Run him over.
Dan Shive of El Goonish Shive occasionally delves into this (and cites Scrubs as a good example of how to do it) and his comic occasionally features one, such as this strip.
Done again recently with this strip, which also references Scrubs, but this time without the scene showing. However, it's possible to make a link between the original statement and the after-comment.
Catalina hears Susan's explanation of how she tries to fix her problem (what she did on the previous page) and spaces out.
Used liberally throughout Misfile, one of them even managing to be Missi's Crowning Moment of Awesome.
Everyday Heroes: "To the Mighty-Mobile!"
The Order of the Stick: "To the Ninjamobile!"
The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob: Jean imagines the consequences of unveiling Molly to the scientific community.
What happens when you mix tea and coffee in Questionable Content.
A rather amusing one in Wapsi Square involves seasonally inept Vikings.
Squid Row: Of course a squirt gun will make you a Space Opera hero!
In The Dreadful, Liz fantasizes about a Boom! Headshot! in response to a Hurricane of Puns from Kit and Boozloaf.
Mac Hall: "My spleen!"
Phineas and Ferb has Isabella of all people seemingly quite often breaking off into an Imagine Spot where she imagines Phineas as a centaur. It's just as weird as it sounds.
Specifically, he turns into a centaur and flies away with Isabella after suddenly having given her a dramatic declaration of love. Yeah.
Also one with Ferb, answering the question of how he managed to pick up the wrong blueprints by going into a brief fantasy about his meeting with Vanessa.
Candace had one in "Bowl-R-Ama Drama". Apparently, she believes that busting her brothers will result in her being allowed to use Dad's credit card ("You have our permission to ruin us financially.") and Jeremy proposing to her.
In The Spectacular Spider-Man, when asked to try out for the football team with his friend Harry, Peter has a brief, absurdist fantasy of making touchdowns while in costume as Spider-Man, wearing a football helmet.
Pre-Doc Ock Otto Octavious has one of "taking care" of his abusive employer, Norman Osborn.
The second half of every single episode of Angela Anaconda is an Imagine Spot of Angela dreaming about disgracing her snooty rival Nanette Manoir, in steadily more ludicrous ways.
Stickin' Around is built from this.
In one episode of The Simpsons, Homer envisions what would happen if he used his new gun to rob Apu's store -- somehow, the logical outcome is that he becomes a Southern senator with a giant mansion and Marge dances the Monkey in a bikini.
Homer gets these very, very frequently, and they often devolve into bizarre tangents (such as a fantasy about meeting various junk food spokespersons ending in him accidentally killing a stand-in for Twinkie the Kid.) He also tends to comment on these fantasies in real life, as if the other characters have seen them as well (in the same example, the dream cut back to him chanting "Blood For Cream" in front of a bewildered Lisa.)
In one memorable instance, Homer combined this with the Smart Ball: Lisa suggested forming a brain trust, and Homer started to fantasize...about a group of intelligent people discussing the issue at hand. When the Imagine Spot ends, the rest of the family is staring at Homer, who responds "What? Can't I get one right for once?"
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Mona the Vampire has a lot of this. There's a very clear visual effect to let you know when things are transferring between reality and imagination.
Little Elvis Jones and The Truckstoppers has at least one of these per episode, as Lil' Elvis speculates on who was responsible for his status as a Door Step Baby. (They went all the way up to "UFO" level.)
A Justice League Unlimited episode has an Evilutionary Biologist whose funding has been cut imagining himself taking out a laser gun and wildly shooting at the people responsible.
Doug might hold the record for most time per episode spent in fantasy sequences. Often these would feature lengthy trips to the comic-book universe Doug created around his Gary Stu superhero Quailman, whose outcomes ultimately led to Doug figuring out a solution to the problems in his own life.
By the end of the Disney run, they started abandoning the wrapper story altogether and just making whole episodes that were Quailman cartoons.
If Doug holds the record, Arthur is the contender.
Wrong on both counts. The real record holder is Muppet Babies.
Another mention, Rugrats, which has a large number of fantasy sequence episodes from being pirates to being superheroes.
This is a recurring theme in Birdz.
On Kim Possible, Ron Stoppable has one of these during "Ill Suited" when he figures out wearing Kim's battle-suit will make him awesome at football. Lampshaded seconds later when Monique asks how long he's had that goofy look on his face while imagining his victory.
Leslie McGroarty from The Itsy Bitsy Spider who had an overactive imagination of imagining things, such as Leslie flying through the clouds in the episode, "Sugar-Coated Spider. See here
SpongeBob SquarePants: Several instances of Mrs. Puff doing so, at least one occurrence for several other characters.
In Jimmy Two-Shoes, after Jimmy predictably messes something up for Lucius, Samy worries about what he'll do to them...leading to them imagining a bunch of horrible (and amusing) punishments.
Family Guy employs these with some of their cutaway gags. In one episode, Peter pulls onto the runway staging area of the airport with his new truck. As he watches them fuel the planes, he fantasizes about filling his truck with jet fuel and then flying it through the sky to the theme to Top Gun.
Peter: Well, that's all the convincing I needed to actually do this!
Owen's song "Oh, My Izzy!" in Total Drama World Tour slips into this, since he was really too injured to dance and was thinking about all his times with Izzy during the song, complete with a crayon-drawn Art Shift.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic features this prominently in "The Ticket Master", with each of Twilight's friends imagining what they'd do if they could attend the Grand Galloping Gala: Applejack hopes to set up a stand and drum up business for her family's apple farm, Rainbow Dash wants to show off for the Wonderbolts, Rarity hopes to meet the stallion of her dreams, Fluttershy wants to see the royal gardens, and Pinkie Pie just wants to enjoy the festivities.
In "A Dog and Pony Show", after Rarity gets kidnapped by the Diamond Dogs, the rest of the girls have a spot where they imagine Rarity freaking out over her captivity in a filthy cell, then one with her being threatened by the Diamond Dogs. Later, Spike gets an imagine spot where he's a brave, muscular knight rushing to save Rarity (who is inexplicably dressed like a princess) and getting a Smooch of Victory.
In "A Friend In Deed", Pinkie Pie has one as she runs down her mental checklist of friend-making tasks. Apparently, Pinkie imagines in felt.
Bobby from Bobby's World would often go into one of these after he's misinterpreted something and he imagines what he thinks the thing might be or he imagines what he would do in a situation in a movie or book.
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CASTINE, Maine -- Nicole Petherbridge had no attack errors, nine kills, and hit .391 for the Colby College volleyball team in a 3-1 comeback win over Maine Maritime Academy on Tuesday night.
The Mules improve to 6-14 and have won three of the past four matches. The Mariners, who beat Colby earlier in the season, dropped to 18-12.
* The Mules won by set scores of 21-25, 25-12, 25-22, 25-21.
* Petherbridge (pictured), who had 23 total attacks, also had two service aces.
* Paige Hanssen led all players in kills with 14 and added a team-high 14 digs, two blocks, and two aces. Elizabeth Middlebrook hit .310 with 11 kills and two attack errors. Kate Wincek finished with five kills.
* Molly Manuel had a team-high 19 assists, while Emily Moslener added 14 assists and two aces for Colby. Mae Sefransky had 10 digs for the Mules.
* The Mules close out the season with NESCAC road matches at Trinity College on Friday at 8 p.m. and Amherst College on Saturday at 2 p.m.


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DEC declares Mattituck Creek OK for shellfishing
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BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO | Southold trustee and bayman Jim King harvests oysters and clams in Mattituck Inlet last week.
Local baymen have some more underwater acreage from which to gather clams and oysters this winter.
State Department of Environmental Conservation officials announced last week that from Jan. 15 through April 15, commercial and recreational fishermen can harvest shellfish from about 52 acres of Mattituck Creek. Up to now it's been illegal to harvest or sell shellfish from that area.
The acreage will remain open so long as no more than three inches of rainfall is recorded per day for seven consecutive days, state officials said.
John Bredemeyer, president of the town's Board of Trustees and a member of the shellfish advisory committee, said Mattituck Creek has good-sized hard clams and a very healthy oyster population, "so for both classes we expect to have a good harvest."
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This is an area that was routinely closed to baymen throughout much of the 1980s and 1990s, and its progress didn't come simply by the work of Mother Nature.
Since about 1995, the then newly elected town Trustee Jim King began testing area creeks previously closed by the DEC in hopes of identifying specific sources of pollution. Using the collected data, he and the other Trustees began working with town engineers to mitigate stormwater runoff coming in from nearby roads and homes, since it was the runoff that was found to be affecting the creek's water quality.
"The project we did was on Bayview Avenue on the west side of Mattituck Creek. The town put in multiple dry wells along the side of the road," Mr. King said. "They put a whole drainage system in there."
The added drainage system improved water quality enough for the DEC to start opening the creek on a conditional basis. It has been re-opened a number of times since 2000, DEC officials said.
Mr. King, who is still a Trustee, continues to do sampling while the creek is open, checking its water after rainfall and snowy conditions, he said, adding that a number of people make the testing program possible — from those who transport samples to Stony Brook, to the owner of Braun Seafood in Cutchogue, who continuously donates ice to keep samples cool on their trip west.
Mr. Bredemeyer and the committee have extended Mr. King's efforts, sampling waters in the Cutchogue creek complex, which includes East Creek, Mud Creek and Broadwater Cove. These Peconic Bay creeks have been closed to shellfishing since 2004 due to water quality concerns.
Their hope is to get Mattituck Creek and the other creeks re-certified as regular shellfishing areas for baymen.
"There's a benefit to everybody if we can get some of these creeks reopened," Mr. King said.
For updated information regarding the status of Mattituck Creek after a rainfall, call Southold Town at 765-3912.
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DEC closes Oysterponds boat ramp
The Oysterponds boat ramp in East Marion has been closed since damage to one of the concrete slabs has created a potentially hazardous condition, the DEC said Tuesday.
The damage is suspected to have occurred due to adverse weather in recent weeks, the DEC said. The organization is currently determining the extent of the damage and a potential repair schedule. Barricades will be placed at the ramp entrance until proper repairs can be completed.
Boaters will be asked to use the Mattituck Creek waterway access site as an alternative, the DEC said.
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EXCLUSIVE: African nationals threaten retaliation to SA xenophobic attacks
Xenophobia force women and children into the streets without food, shelter or healthcare
CHINEDU OKORO (Nigeria), ADANE BIKILA (Ethiopia), MARIA MACHARIA (Kenya) and AKANI CHAUKE (South Africa)
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BUREAUS – AFRICAN nationals have proposed radical measures in reaction to the recurring xenophobic violence in South Africa.
In addition to calls to boycotting South African businesses operating in their respective countries, the African nationals proposed economic blockade against South Africa, include barring airspace to South African Airways (SAA) by all 55 African Union (AU) member states and deny passage in all sea waters as well as that governments refuse South African businesses permission to open in other African countries.
There are also calls for the immediate expulsion of South Africa's ambassadors by fellow African nations.
Most African nationals hinted at retaliation.
The uproar follows the latest episode of violence against fellow African nationals living in South Africa by host communities. Xenophobia has reared its ugly head again, this time in the coastal city of Durban, KwaZulu Natal.
Nigerian youth leader, Kelechi Onuachu, lamented that this violence always preceded elections in South Africa. Polls are set for May.
"No elections in South Africa take place without spilling the blood of fellow Africans. Why is it that in our countries we don't burn down South African businesses that have flooded our economies. We have never accused South Africans of robbing locals of their jobs," Onuachu said in the capital Abuja.
Lagos based Ikechukwu Ifeanyi hinted at local youth reacting tit-for-tat.
"We will soon mobilise fellow youths to hit hard on all known South African companies operating in our country," the Nigerian said.
Nigerians have previously been targeted in anti-migrant violence in South Africa, where they are accused of peddling drugs and fraud.
In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ejegayehu Woldegiorg, also advocated for retaliation.
He alleged Ethiopian businesses in South Africa were being looted and people killed as authorities turned a blind eye.
"We will mobilise other youths in East Africa to target South African companies or enterprises until this xenophobic demon in South Africa has been exorcised," Woldegiorg told CAJ News Africa.
Kipyegon-Justice Obiri of Kenya urged the Kenyan government to call South Africa to order.
"This madness must stop or else we take law into our own hands," Obiri threatened.
Mzee Faridi Maganga of Tanzania said: "We wish our liberation icon Mwalimu Julius Nyerere had not supported South Africa's liberation movement African National Congress (ANC), otherwise these people are self-hating."
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'s Franco Ongala said fellow African nations must "retaliate economically" to the xenophobia.
"All industries in South Africa, who manufacture goods being sold to other SADC countries worth billions of dollars must be stopped. South African industries thrive because of finished products sold to other SADC countries, that must end," Ongala said.
Closer to South Africa, citizens from Mozambique and Zimbabwe also expressed outrage.
"Why is it that in our countries, we don't target South African businesses that have taken all sectors of our economy," Mozambican entrepreneur, Eduardo Antonio, said in Maputo.
Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda, chairperson of the African Diaspora Forum (ADF), who is also Zimbabwean said, "We call upon all leaders to lead in blaming and condemning these acts of xenophobia and pledge to be on the fore-fronting in fighting the crime of xenophobia."
Former chairperson of the AU Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, now South African Planning and Evaluation Minister, expressed disappointment at her fellow South Africans attacking foreign nationals.
"These attacks go against everything we stand for as a nation. We reject all kinds of xenophobia. We strongly condemn violent attacks against fellow Africans," she said.
President Cyril Ramaphosa stated, "As South Africans, we owe our freedom to the solidarity and support given to our liberation struggle by people across our continent and around the world."
In 2008, more than 60 foreign nations were killed during the worst xenophobic attacks with more than 300 000 displaced.
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has been on the forefront condemning xenophobia arguing the white monopoly capitalists were not investing in the country.
Malema questioned why South Africans were only targeting blacks without doing the same to whites, Chinese or Indians.
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Two fugitives were recently captured by bounty hunters at an Econo Lodge Inn & Suites in Spokane, Washington. Justin Jordan, 34, of Spokane and Shanda Hansen, 32, of Idaho were taken into custody after a standoff at the hotel resulted in bounty hunters dispersing a tear gas canister into the room. The two fugitives had open warrants for theft charges along with lengthy criminal histories.
Shaun Beveridge, one of the bounty hunters involved in the capture, reported that the pair was found after a tip was received indicating their whereabouts. Jordon and Hansen were in a stolen SUV in the parking lot when the bounty hunters showed up and the couple attempted to run them over, Beveridge disclosed. He said the pair then ran into their motel room and barricaded the door.
The bounty hunters called for police backup at approximately 2 a.m. but officers departed shortly after arrival. Officer Teresa Fuller of the Spokane Police Department explained that they did not have jurisdiction on Hansen's warrant, which was from Kootenai County, so they left. "We don't assist bondsmen because they have their own rules, and a lot of times their rules are a lot more lax than ours," Fuller said.
Beveridge expressed his disappointment over the officer response, adding that fugitive Jordan had called in bomb threats to a local hospital in an attempt to divert law enforcement officers from the scene.
The bounty hunters finally took the situation into their own hands at about 4:30 a.m. by smashing a window and dispersing the tear gas. Police were called once again after the fugitives were apprehended and the pair was taken into custody. Hansen was transferred to Kootenai County and Jordan was taken to Spokane County Jail after receiving treatment at a local hospital. A room search after the stand-off turned up stolen property, knives and guns.