I mean it’s like 8000 years in the future.
Idaho is a name made up to sound like an indigenous phrase meaning “gem of the mountains”. it doesn’t, of course, but people thought it did.
if we’re extremely lucky, human cultures will give names like Duncan Idaho and not like Pepsi Bennigans.
Holy crap - Idaho is probably from a word meaning enemy.
1861 as a place name, originally applied by U.S. Congress to a proposed territorial division centered in what is now eastern Colorado; said at the time to mean “Gem of the Mountains” but probably rather from Kiowa-Apache (Athabaskan) idaahe “enemy,” a name applied by them to the Comanches. Modern Idaho was organized 1861 as a county in Washington Territory; in 1863 became a territory in its own right and it was admitted as a state in 1890.
and he’s played by Jason Mimosa
The coolest part of Dune is how they hate computers.
In my mind Duncan wore jeans and a John Deere shirt
I first heard about Dune from a friend of mine in the mid early 1980s. He told me the plot and it seemed sort of cool yet sort of goofy. I was sort of curious about it and I thought about going to a bookstore to read a few pages and maybe buy it. But weeks passed and I didn’t do that and I soon forgot all about it.
A few years later I went to a movie theater to see the David Lynch adaptation. I hardly remember a damn thing about it. I only remember a few things strongly. The actor who played Harkonnen did a great job as an evil and creepy freak. He almost managed to distract me from how unintentionally comic Harkonnen’s flying around was. Sting’s costume reminded me of a diaper. When a character said the words “Duncan Idaho” I almost said out loud the words I was telling myself in my head - “Are you fucking kidding me?”
The FBI is furiously googling “Sting’s costume reminded me of a diaper.”
Thank god the net wasn’t a thing when I was young. I probably would have posted using my real name and I certainly have posted cringe hourly.
