Oh, now I remember. Okay, I'm putting AB&HD in my queue. Terry
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote: > I haven't seen it . . . yet; but, I'll put it in my Netflix queue. > > What are you doing here with all those 50 ft. curls on the islands?!? > Don't body surf 50 footers? :-) > > Terry > > > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Rick Monteverde <[email protected]> wrote: >> Terry: >> >>>>I sure you remember the ending to this one: >> >>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Dog >> >> One of my favorites. >> >> I heard from the media back in around 1980 that J. Falwell was a really bad >> guy. No internet back then. He had a rally at the state capitol here and I >> lived nearby, so I went down to watch him. Do you remember from the movie >> the "Michaels" - androids with smiles stuck on their faces? Falwell had >> several Michaels, and there was a scene almost out of the movie when Falwell >> called someone out of the crowd he had previously met to come up onto the >> stage, a slightly built Filipino man. The Michaels apparently didn't get the >> memo, and as he climbed up the stairs to the stage one of them picked the >> poor little guy up in the air and looked he was about to give him some sort >> of "farm accident" (pop his head like a zit) with Falwell struggling from >> behind to get the Michael's attention and release his victim. Through the >> whole thing the sanctimonious smile on the Michael's face never changed! In >> the movie the Dear Leader asked his security guy or engineer to see about >> getting those smiles fixed, and so it seems he never did. Although the >> incident was funny and amazing at the time, I believe that movie was made >> some years before Falwell arose to notoriety but the similarities between >> Falwell and the crazy religious dictator with his killer robots were >> horrifying. I left the rally that day with the same feeling in my stomach I >> got swimming in dark water near a harbor entrance and seeing a fin cutting >> water towards me that was so big at first I mistook it for a submarine >> conning tower. Glad it all worked out: the giant shark just wanted the fish >> guts washed off deck by a returning sampan, and Falwell has since diminished >> to nothing. And ... wait for it...at least the shark had good taste!* >> >> R. >> >> (*Spoiler alert: paraphrasing the last line from the movie) >> >> >
