Random minifig of the day: cty0322

level 11 miner in the pocket (day 1 of commenting clash royale references)

I think I stupidly passed on this when it came out. I can now totally picture a way to incorporate it into my city. D’oh.

I work in the mining industry as a geologist. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone wear a tie on the job, even including management lol

"No, I'm not happy to see you. That's just a ruler in my pocket."

The big grin is he is about to detonate a load of dynamite in the set photo 4204, really serious management stuff.

@TheOtherMike said:
""Mine!" "Mine!" "Mine!""Mine!" "Mine!""

NO! IT IS MINE!!!

Back to back RMotDs that I own. Can’t say he’s super special, but I’ve always liked using the miners helmet as a sink. Don’t really have any miner jokes. Alas.

@Wallace_Brick_Designs said:
"Back to back RMotDs that I own. Can’t say he’s super special, but I’ve always liked using the miners helmet as a sink. Don’t really have any miner jokes. Alas."

Have one of mine.

"That's some impressive facial hair, considering he's still a miner."

Or maybe,

"'Hey Ho, Hey Ho' is a surprisingly cheerful song, despite being sung entirely in miner key."

Or, of course,

"Have one of mine."

@TheOtherMike said:
""Mine!" "Mine!" "Mine!""Mine!" "Mine!""

"Mine, boys
Mine every mountain
And dig, boys
Dig 'til you drop
Grab a pick, boys
Quick, boys
Shove in a shovel,
Uncover those lovel-
-y pebbles that sparkle and shine
It's GOLD
And it's mine
Mine
Mine!"

@Brickalili said:
"I thought from the tie he must be some sort of management, sitting in an office but technically in the mine enough that he needed the helmet."

Everyone in a hard hat zone has to wear a hard hat, even if they aren’t employed there. Helmets might be color-coded so you can tell workers from management from maybe people who aren’t employees.

@Crux: I don’t know about the Dutch dub, but in the original US version, it’s “Hi Ho”, not “Hey Ho”.

We dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig in our mine, the whole day through
To dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig is what we like to do
It ain't no trick to get rich quick
If you dig, dig, dig with a shovel or a pick
In a mine (In a mine)
In a mine (In a mine)
Where a million diamonds (Shine)
We dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig from early morn' 'til night
We dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig up everything in sight
We dig up diamonds by the score
A thousand rubies, sometimes more
Though we don't know what we dig 'em for
We dig, dig, dig-a-dig, dig
Heigh-ho
Heigh-ho
Heigh-ho (Heigh-ho), heigh-ho
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho
It's home from work we go
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, heigh-ho
It's home from work we go
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, heigh-ho, heigh-ho
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, heigh-ho, hum
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho
It's home from work we go
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, heigh-ho
It's home from work we go
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, heigh-ho
It's home from work we go

@ThatBionicleGuy :
@Murdoch17 :

I'm just amused at the fact that you were both able to find two different Disney songs about mining, lol.

@Wallace_Brick_Designs said:
"Back to back RMotDs that I own. Can’t say he’s super special, but I’ve always liked using the miners helmet as a sink. Don’t really have any miner jokes. Alas."

I can't remember for sure but wasn't there a set that used one a the speaker cone on a Victrola?

@TheOtherMike said:
" @Wallace_Brick_Designs said:
"Back to back RMotDs that I own. Can’t say he’s super special, but I’ve always liked using the miners helmet as a sink. Don’t really have any miner jokes. Alas."

I can't remember for sure but wasn't there a set that used one a the speaker cone on a Victrola?"

The Up house did that.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Brickalili said:
"I thought from the tie he must be some sort of management, sitting in an office but technically in the mine enough that he needed the helmet."

Everyone in a hard hat zone has to wear a hard hat, even if they aren’t employed there. Helmets might be color-coded so you can tell workers from management from maybe people who aren’t employees.
"

I am aware, largely due to working in such an environment myself. Hence the comment specifically pointing that out

@PurpleDave said:
" @Crux: I don’t know about the Dutch dub, but in the original US version, it’s “Hi Ho”, not “Hey Ho”."

It's "heigh-ho". They're not shouting hello, they're using an expression dating to the early 1500s expressing resignation or jollity. "Heigh" by itself is an archaic expression of encouragement.

@AllenSmith said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Crux: I don’t know about the Dutch dub, but in the original US version, it’s “Hi Ho”, not “Hey Ho”."

It's "heigh-ho". They're not shouting hello, they're using an expression dating to the early 1500s expressing resignation or jollity. "Heigh" by itself is an archaic expression of encouragement."

Who knew a song about mining could be so deep?

@Crux said:
" @AllenSmith said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Crux : I don’t know about the Dutch dub, but in the original US version, it’s “Hi Ho”, not “Hey Ho”."

It's "heigh-ho". They're not shouting hello, they're using an expression dating to the early 1500s expressing resignation or jollity. "Heigh" by itself is an archaic expression of encouragement."

Who knew a song about mining could be so deep?"

Mere phonemes just scratch the surface. Sometimes you really have to dig into the history of what you are hearing to understand it.

@AllenSmith said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Crux: I don’t know about the Dutch dub, but in the original US version, it’s “Hi Ho”, not “Hey Ho”."

It's "heigh-ho". They're not shouting hello, they're using an expression dating to the early 1500s expressing resignation or jollity. "Heigh" by itself is an archaic expression of encouragement."

“Heigh” looks more like it should be pronounced “Hey”, but the soundtrack confirms that much. But “resignation or jollity”? Aren’t those at opposite ends of the emotional spectrum?

@Brickalili said:
"I thought from the tie he must be some sort of management, sitting in an office but technically in the mine enough that he needed the helmet.
But no, apparently he’s the team’s dynamite guy.
Just takes his job very seriously I guess "

Dress for the job you want, I guess. Who am I to mock this man's dreams of being a front-line demolition executive?

@PurpleDave said:
" @AllenSmith said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Crux: I don’t know about the Dutch dub, but in the original US version, it’s “Hi Ho”, not “Hey Ho”."

It's "heigh-ho". They're not shouting hello, they're using an expression dating to the early 1500s expressing resignation or jollity. "Heigh" by itself is an archaic expression of encouragement."

“Heigh” looks more like it should be pronounced “Hey”, but the soundtrack confirms that much. But “resignation or jollity”? Aren’t those at opposite ends of the emotional spectrum?"

I-before-E usually only applies to the long-e sound, which is why "except sounding as 'a' as in 'neighbor' and 'weigh'" gets added to the "rule." In other words, the pronunciation provides a clue to the spelling, rather than the other way around, and rather the opposite of what spelling is supposed to accomplish.

You will never, ever hear me give a defense of English orthography. It's a train wreck. I do think the extreme simplicity of our alphabet had a lot to do with the curious dominance of the Anglosphere in the history of communication technology. However, that's still no excuse for multiple overlapping consonants when we really needed more vowels, consonant blends that replicate single letters, wildly inconsistent diphthongs, the festering fallout of the Great Vowel Shift, failure to anglicize various loanwords, Latin pretensions retroactively applied to Germanic words, and anything that ever came from French. A simple alphabet needn't preclude deterministic spelling, if rules are put in place.

But English has never been a language to allow itself to be zipped into that kind of straightjacket. That also explains how you can have a word that means opposite emotions based on context. First the definition comes, then it comes to be used ironically, then the irony disappears.

@Murdoch17 said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @Wallace_Brick_Designs said:
"Back to back RMotDs that I own. Can’t say he’s super special, but I’ve always liked using the miners helmet as a sink. Don’t really have any miner jokes. Alas."

I can't remember for sure but wasn't there a set that used one a the speaker cone on a Victrola?"

The Up house did that."

And I have that one! It's just been a while since I looked at the interior.