Unexpected John Williams references from around the internet

[Marian Schedenig 8,193]

(I don't think we have a thread like this already? Feel free to merge this if we do.)

 

Starting off with today's edition of the webcomic xkcd:

 

The Williams reference is in the title tag tooltip (the popup text that appears when you hover over the image):

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Increasing-precision timestamps are the Jaws theme of incident reports.

 

[Datameister 2,043]

Haha that's pretty great. I don't have any examples to contribute, but I do always feel pretty strange when I'm in a group of people and someone else brings up John Williams or starts humming his work.

[eitam 364]

There is also this one from years ago :

 

[Marian Schedenig 8,193]

11 hours ago, Datameister said:

I do always feel pretty strange when I'm in a group of people and someone else brings up John Williams or starts humming his work.

 

I find it difficult to find the right balance between ignoring their comment, casually commenting on it, and full out nerding out over it. Especially when I don't know how much into the whole JW/film music world they are themselves.

[Fabulin 3,513]

 

 

Youtube autocompleted the John Williams track / scene I was going to type, even though I don't recall having ever listened to it on the platform. Maybe the algorithm is trying to shteer shinful youth towardsh shalvation....

 

[mrbellamy 6,287]

19 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said:

(I don't think we have a thread like this already? Feel free to merge this if we do.)

 

There was that one other thread for random musical encounters. Maybe they could be merged into a general one. It is a really fun topic. Close Encounters of the John Williams Kind. 

 

 

I remember Clickhole having fun with him in the past: