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Re: Books to Movies

2009-11-21T20:07:57Z

On 2009-11-21 12:01:21 -0800, "Mike Schilling"
<mscottschill...@hotmail.com> said:
"I Can See for Miles" is in the movie, at least.
It may be that the American promoters think "Won't Get Fooled Again" is
a better-known song more likely to rope in attention. I wonder if they
changed the title of the movie to PIRATE RADIO because PIRATES OF THE

Re: Books to Movies

2009-11-21T20:01:21Z

Me too, but ...
(Geek Alert! You have been warned.)
The TV ads play "Won't Get Fooled Again." Why not use,.say, I Can
See for Miles, which was from the album devoted to pirate radio?

Re: Books to Movies

2009-11-21T19:56:30Z

I have teenagers. I don't get out to the movies as much as I used to,
because they don't need me to take them anymore. Actually, the last
film I went to was Taking Woodstock. I had planned to drop my son and
his friends off, but it turned out to be one of the few theaters that
enforce R ratings.

Re: Where do you go to hear about new books?

2009-11-21T19:54:21Z

On 2009-11-21 11:49:25 -0800, "Mike Schilling"
<mscottschill...@hotmail.com> said:
I manfully resisted that gag...
kdb

Re: The Prisoner (spoilers)

2009-11-21T19:52:53Z

Enough that they respected his unwillingness to play a swinger..
All of which showed drigs as an evil thing that force of will could
overcome.

Re: Where do you go to hear about new books?

2009-11-21T19:49:25Z

Flint, you make think you're an SF writer, but you ain't Schmitz.

Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid

2009-11-21T19:49:09Z

No, it wasn't (to slow you down, that is):
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Re: Two YASID - A menace from Earth, and truth serum coffee

2009-11-21T19:49:07Z

Is that "Big Ancestor" by Floyd L. Wallace?
[link]

Concentrated nostalgia

2009-11-21T19:36:03Z

I think I started off looking to see what of Simak's had made
it to project gutenberg but what caught my eye was this:
[link]
Starman's Quest, an early Robert Silverberg novel.

Re: Two YASID - A menace from Earth, and truth serum coffee

2009-11-21T19:20:11Z

On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:11:55 +0000, "Marcus L. Rowland"
There is also a story of human explorers exploring the galaxy who
discover everywhere the remains of an ancient civilization of
creatures that were very large. They became extinct because
their artifacts became contaminated by dangerous vermin. It

Re: Two YASID - A menace from Earth, and truth serum coffee

2009-11-21T19:16:46Z

And "punchline": it's less than halfway through the story that we hear
the alien commander tell the human captive that the purpose of the
experiment is to test an ancient legend of unspeakably dangerous
humans.

Re: The Simplest Methods Which Break The Will: 31 Methods Of Torture Used By Stalin's Atheist Executioners

2009-11-21T19:02:59Z

Never mind that, does this idiot believe we approve of Stalin and have
to be persuaded that he was evil? What does Stalin have to do with
anything? It's not like he killed and tortured in the name of
atheism... He did it in the name of communism. And to be honest, even
communism isn't to blame, Stalin was a paranoid sociopath.

Re: The Books That Founded D&D

2009-11-21T18:51:34Z

On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:47:50 +0200, Juho Julkunen
D&D in play is a lot more like Leiber and Burroughs and than it is
like Tolkien.

Re: The Simplest Methods Which Break The Will: 31 Methods Of Torture Used By Stalin's Atheist Executioners

2009-11-21T18:38:52Z

On 21 Nov, 13:06, Sound of Trumpet <soundoftrum...@dcemail.com> copied
and pasted:
(T Guy):
Hmmm... haven't I seen this on _Law and Order:SUV_, among others?
T Guy

Re: The Simplest Methods Which Break The Will: 31 Methods Of Torture Used By Stalin's Atheist Executioners

2009-11-21T18:29:27Z

Desperate for a change of subject, are "we?"
TCross