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Mars Attacked, 65 Years Ago Today
Jodrell writes "Forget solar flares, and the upcoming Halloween festivities - tonight marks the 65th anniversary of the broadcast of Orson Welles' radioplay version on The War Of The Worlds."
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The Martian Government has determined that the people of Earth are harboring biological weapons. Prepare to be liberated.
They could have just checked Snopes
Just thinking about Mars Attacks makes War of the Worlds seem Utopian.
John Bigboote points out:
"It's not my goddamn planet, understand, monkey boy?"
Where are we going?
Planet 10!
When?
Real soon!
Then isn't it about time for some payback?
I am sick of living on a planet so full of peaace lovers.
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the farmer who took his rifle and fired shots at the town water tower, thinking it was a spacecraft.
The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
My grandfather, for one, welcomed our new Martian overlords.
A pilot, in those days, was the only unfettered and entirely independent human being that lived in the earth.-Mark Twain
Well, he is if you think about it. I wonder if at the end of the radio script was the line "By the way, listening audience, 'YHBT. HTH. HAND.'"
Even with good editing and falsified television footage, I still doubt such a thing would fool us.
People believed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, didn't they?
anata sekai o kakumei surush ga nai deshou? Anata no susumu michi wa yoi shite arimasu.