"We choose to go to the moon in this decade, and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
All I think about when I hear that quote is how badly JFK pronounced decade. He made it sound like decayed. Although, isn't there a tradition about not being able to speak English with US Presidents...?;-)
Oh, and just to complete this troll... the Russians won the Space Race. Space shots. Pfft. Definition: going really, really high in a washing machine and splashing down somewhere wet. OK, ok, the USA won the Moon Race... maybe. Or was Capricorn One based on a true story?
Ridley Scott started being a spin-doctor for Uncle Sam when he realised he couldn't cut it as a real unicorn fetishist... *cough* I mean director. Black Hawk Down is nothing but a propaganda flick.
N.B. Legend is an underrated movie. Evil and sexy like a good fairy tale should be.;-)
...because as we all know, the first alien brought back to earth from outer space will be a naked hottie with a thirst for human blood. while the security guards are busy ogling her supernaturally luscious boobies, she'll walk straight out the front door and commence her rampage of death and destruction.
I always thought that plastic explosive's big selling point was that it used an electrical trigger. You can drop it, throw it, mould it in to any shape you want and it won't go off... not until you run an electric charge through it. I even thought you could shoot it and it wouldn't explode. Or is it the combination of fire *and* pressure that sets it off in this case?
Well, I lifted the quotes from The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa who cites his source as Salvation for Sale by Gerard Thomas Straub. Sorry, but that's as far as I can trace that one back as I don't have a copy of Straub's book.
Sheesh. This is the thanks I get for trying to say that your country wasn't founded by puritans? Sure, a lot of them jumped off those those Mayflower, Pinto, Donna, Prancer, Blixen boats. But I'd like to think that the gentlemen I previously quoted had more to do with *founding* your country.
"The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine." George Washington
"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." Thomas Jefferson
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My mind is my own church." Thomas Paine
"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redemming feature." Thomas Jefferson
"The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma." Abraham Lincoln
But I'd class both these instances as exceptions rather than the rule. I know of a store here in Sydney that was renting US Region DVDs that hadn't yet been released at the cinema in Australia. It was making a tidy profit too... until the local distributors shut it down.
I *wish* Australia was a republic. It's a constitutional monarchy. A Governor General is appointed by the Queen and has the power to sack the democratically elected Prime Minister at any time. Nice, eh?
But, like the US (I'm guessing), the two major parties are now so similar that voting hardly seems worth the effort. They both do nothing but pander to opinion polls and right wing radio personalities who manage to tie every problem facing Australia back to single mothers on welfare and those "hordes" of asylum seekers.
I don't know what we could do about this NSW internet censorship/criminalisation thing, since both major parties will be supporting it. =P
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"We choose to go to the moon in this decade, and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
All I think about when I hear that quote is how badly JFK pronounced decade. He made it sound like decayed. Although, isn't there a tradition about not being able to speak English with US Presidents...? ;-)
Oh, and just to complete this troll... the Russians won the Space Race. Space shots. Pfft. Definition: going really, really high in a washing machine and splashing down somewhere wet. OK, ok, the USA won the Moon Race... maybe. Or was Capricorn One based on a true story?
Bloat by any other name... ;)
BigMacs?
:wq
Instead of restricting users' email privileges, how about stopping IT administrators from installing M$ Outlook?
Ridley Scott started being a spin-doctor for Uncle Sam when he realised he couldn't cut it as a real unicorn fetishist... *cough* I mean director. Black Hawk Down is nothing but a propaganda flick.
;-)
N.B. Legend is an underrated movie. Evil and sexy like a good fairy tale should be.
moor ruoy ydit... moor rouy ydit...
we may as well give up now.
I always thought that plastic explosive's big selling point was that it used an electrical trigger. You can drop it, throw it, mould it in to any shape you want and it won't go off... not until you run an electric charge through it. I even thought you could shoot it and it wouldn't explode. Or is it the combination of fire *and* pressure that sets it off in this case?
Just curious.
You are soooo wrong. It was nothing like Escape from New York. But it was, like, totally, like, y'know like a cross between Blue Lagoon and Mad Max 2.
=P
Sheesh. This is the thanks I get for trying to say that your country wasn't founded by puritans? Sure, a lot of them jumped off those those Mayflower, Pinto, Donna, Prancer, Blixen boats. But I'd like to think that the gentlemen I previously quoted had more to do with *founding* your country.
Ah, troll threads... ya gotta luv 'em.
"The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine." George Washington
"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." Thomas Jefferson
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My mind is my own church." Thomas Paine
"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redemming feature." Thomas Jefferson
"The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma." Abraham Lincoln
Both good shows and point well taken.
But I'd class both these instances as exceptions rather than the rule. I know of a store here in Sydney that was renting US Region DVDs that hadn't yet been released at the cinema in Australia. It was making a tidy profit too... until the local distributors shut it down.
I wonder how long DVD region encoding would've lasted if it was the USofA that had to wait months for titles to be released (if at all)?
I want my Hollywood revisionist history epics now, dammit!!!!
I *wish* Australia was a republic. It's a constitutional monarchy. A Governor General is appointed by the Queen and has the power to sack the democratically elected Prime Minister at any time. Nice, eh?
But, like the US (I'm guessing), the two major parties are now so similar that voting hardly seems worth the effort. They both do nothing but pander to opinion polls and right wing radio personalities who manage to tie every problem facing Australia back to single mothers on welfare and those "hordes" of asylum seekers.
I don't know what we could do about this NSW internet censorship/criminalisation thing, since both major parties will be supporting it. =P