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Oh, Ha Ha Ha :lol: I had a feeling my post would bring about Bush bashing.

Cop it sweet, Mr Hooah. :thumbsup:

 

I sure will :D

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"Victory was for those willing to fight and die. Intellectuals could theorize until they sucked their thumbs right off their hands, but in the real world, power still flowed from the barrel of a gun.....you could send in your bleeding-heart do-gooders, you could hold hands and pray and sing hootenanny songs and invoke the great gods CNN and BBC, but the only way to finally open the roads to the big-eyed babies was to show up with more guns."

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A friend told me once that this was very implausible: Earth bacteria wouldn't recognise Martians as 'edible' (too alien) and would just ignore them.

 

Yeah I know much of the story doesn't make sense in scientific terms, for example, the gravity on Earth is more than twice as strong than on Mars. Martians would be crushed.

 

 

I also read that there will be another movie released in the next year or two which is essentially the Jeff Wayne album brought to screen.  I don't remember where I read it, though.  Has anyone else heard of this?

 

Anymore information you could dig up on this would be very much appreciated :shifty:

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Anymore information you could dig up on this would be very much appreciated :shifty:

Well, I remembered where I originally read it. Doesn't seem to much else on the internet about it, though.

 

http://www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk/war%20of...ayne%202006.htm

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I think that's pretty unlikely, considering it isn't mentioned in the IMDb. All they have is: Speilberg's. (They genereally list all upcoming films, especially if its in preproduction ... :shifty: (also $48 million is not a lot of money for a modern film; a "transporter" scenes in ST costs about 50k per person).

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Feel free to make your own parody. I very quickly realised that I know far too few words of the street lexicon to complete it.  :">

 

I suppose it would be easier to do it in 1337 ...  :shifty:

 

Then again, I'll do it later ...

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

 

Nobody would've been believin' back in the day dat our hood was bein' eyed by poindexters smarter than any of us homies, but shot down by a gat just as easy as us; we went around frontin', while they watched us like lab rats, like brothas be watchin' the hos. We be content to sit back and drink a forty, light up some bud, constantly frontin, playin' the game, we were kings of our hood. It be possible the hos do the same thang. None of us be thinkin' 'bout the other planets as rival gangs, or we thought 'bout them as pedestrians, unlikely to call the 5-0 on us. It be hard to get in the head of the homies in the good old days. Most of us brothas figured there be other homies on Mars, panzy b!tches who could be exploited maybe. But so far away, the poindexters be makin' plots against our hood, and wantin' to be startin' an all out gang war.

 

This was a rush job. I once translated The Third Act of Antigone into 'Street' vernacular for an English assignment. That was weird, and even more fun because part of the assignment was we were to act it out.

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That's pretty good! I might try Shakespearean seventeenth century English ... then again, that might just be a little too difficult (transliteration from Shakespeare is one thing, but back again? :wacko:)

 

Anyway, good job ... I guess there is some material to be poached from that "Gangsters in Paradise" rap song that went mainstream a few years ago ...

 

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That's pretty good! I might try Shakespearean seventeenth century English ... then again, that might just be a little too difficult (transliteration from Shakespeare is one thing, but back again? :wacko:)

 

Anyway, good job ... I guess there is some material to be poached from that "Gangsters in Paradise" rap song that went mainstream a few years ago ...

 

>_<

 

 

I have not heard that song, I just tried to talk like the idiots who go to my school.

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Aha! So you admit plagerising your material from Boyz inda Hood (or whomever sang that drivel) !

 

My cunning plan to out you has worked!

 

 

(Interesting the heavy use of the word "poindexter" in your literature; freudian, perhaps? Are we secretly repressing some hostility to the other members of our school, perhaps because they used a particular word a little too often to describe a certain person well know to us ... >_< )

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Aha! So you admit plagerising your material from Boyz inda Hood (or whomever sang that drivel) !

 

My cunning plan to out you has worked!

 

 

(Interesting the heavy use of the word "poindexter" in your literature; freudian, perhaps? Are we secretly repressing some hostility to the other members of our school, perhaps because they used a particular word a little too often to describe a certain person well know to us ...  >_< )

 

 

No, I saw To Sir With Love. I never clicked the link if it did not go to the old one from the sixties, with the black guy, and the white hippy students, in England. I haven't been called poindexter since I was twelve. Poindexter seemed to be the best word from the 'street' vernacular to fit someone vastly intelligent.

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I saw a photo of Willi Bittrich(commander of the 2nd Waffen-SS Panzerdivision) having dinner with another general in the 1960's and he was still wearing his Knight's cross! :D

 

Were they in Bolivia ? :shifty:

 

 

No, I think they were in Munich :D Strange proof of the fact that Nazis were a lot more "a thing of the past" back then than they are now. Nowadays, in Sweden atleast, wearing any from of nazi-related insignia would get you arrested for racist agitation.

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in fact the german goverment issued a replacement medal in 1957 that had removed the Nazi insignia that was in some of then.

 

 

 

That could work for my panzer jacket. :shifty:"

 

 

 

or:

-You nazi, now we beat you up!

 

-But this is a Heer model panzer wrap!

 

-Why're ye wearin that nazi cross then?

 

-Oh, this is a reproduction of the 1957 version of the Knights Cross that was a return to the old WW1 cross that was completely unaffiliated with the NSDAP.

 

*pause*

 

-We thin well beat you up anyway.

 

-Oh, bugger.

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Cool:

 

... West Germany permitted its military veterans to continue to wear the Iron Cross, however German law prohibits the wearing of an Iron Cross with a swastika. In 1957 the German government issued new Iron Crosses to World War II veterans, altered to display an Oak Leaf Cluster, instead of a swastika, in the center of the medal. ...

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But the problem is that people aren't as gullible as they used to be. People are very skeptical about what they hear.

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