Strangelove Open Thread

5 Comments

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   glitterscale on September 23, 2006 at 8:10 pm

   and talked to one of my yuppie daughter’s yuppie friends and I was ranting as usual.  I first ranted about his assertion that volunteerism will take care of everything, really sure it will, of course it will, of course your volunteerism will never get out of the suburbs so the inner city will never feel your love!  rant rant rage.  Then I talked about torture.  “Oh”, he says, “there is no torture.”  I was gaping at him about this time: “what do you mean there is no torture – they have killed people torturing them!”  “Oh no” he says, “that was all just a set up!”  OMFG.  Talk about your koolaid drinker.

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   Arminius on September 23, 2006 at 10:59 pm

   And I’m telling you, once again, as a scholar of Russian, of popular culture, and so forth, that the name is pronounced:

   STRANGLE-OFF.

   Everybody gets it wrong. Heh.

   Indeed.

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   keepinon on September 24, 2006 at 8:45 am

   A cold war classic that once again has a timely significance and sends shivers down my old achy spine!

   Strangelove/Strangel ove….let’s call the whole thing off!

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   refinish69 on September 24, 2006 at 10:51 am

   another new video I produced called Protest Letter

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PBkbUHR3Ro

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   anarchronarchist on September 25, 2006 at 4:32 pm

   Can someone please make a clip of the brief TV interview about terrorism in the very beginning of Terry Gilliam’s Classic Brazil and post it to YouTube? Pretty please?

   A sample:

   INTERVIEWER: Do you think that the government is winning the battle against terrorists?

   HELPMANN: Oh yes. Our morale is much higher than theirs, we’re fielding all their strokes, running a lot of them out, and pretty consistently knocking them for six. I’d say they’re nearly out of the game.

   INTERVIEWER: But the bombing campaign is now in its thirteenth year.

   HELPMANN: Beginner’s luck.