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Surely sendmail reeled when thusly spake Jarmo Lundgren: > > ... here's what to do: >> http://barbra.alexa.com:8080/ramgen/net/movie1/0/pub/movies/realbb/19069.rm > > (requires Real Player and a fast connection) > "Duck and Cover" is a classic, but I'd never seen it before. Wow. I grew up with this shit. When I was in grade school (in the 60's) they had us do "air raid drills", where we had to go out in the hall- way and crouch and cover against the wall. I guess that after the Cuban Missile Crisis, it's understandable they had us do this stuff. We didn't have to suffer thru movies like "Duck and Cover" tho. Families built their own fallout shelters. Altho AFAIK not in my neighborhood... At school we never did practice going down to the air raid shelters. But in the 1980's, when Ronnie Raygun was openly fantasizing about "the rapture" and the lunatics in DC were talking about "winning a nuclear war", the newspapers started investigating what kind of condition the air raid shelters were in. At least in Buffalo, they found tins full of crackers (biscuits) growing green fur, and canned water that was horrible. Yum! A great movie made in the 80's was "Miracle Mile". It gave you some idea of how crazy things would be if the big one went up. And of course there was pop music. Like Nena's "99 Luftballon". And A MILLION PEOPLE gathered in NY's Central Park to protest the Pershing missiles in Germany and other such lunacy. Ronnie really did scare the crap out of a lot of people. Rod Serling's Twilight Zone explored this subject. There's a classic episode where there's an air raid alert and this family retreats into their shelter and locks it up and all the neighbors are going bonkers and pleading, begging them to let them in and you can guess how the story goes. Goddamn it's so excellent that those days are past. But now we have terrorists, so once again the government can scare people. And scared people listen to their leaders. Jawohl ... f -- F. Baube * "J. Edgar Hoover would drool over the tools that now exist fbaube @ * to gather, transmit, store and interpret information, and welho.com, * the technology is only getting more powerful." yahoo.com * -- Scott Harris, L.A. Times, paraphrasing John Barlow +358 41 536 8192
