Subj : Re: Yo, Ross! (and other movie lovers) To : alt.tv.farscape From : Jim Larson Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 22:51:44 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote: > Jim Larson wrote in > news:Xns96E09257B731A3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: > >> weirdwolf wrote: >> >>> Jim Larson wrote in >>> news:Xns96E08F41932E03v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: >>> >>>> Tyler Trafford wrote: >>>> >>>>> John I wrote: >>>>>> Chaya wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I think they'll get a whole new market with this trailer: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> http://littlink.com/96131 >>>>>> >>>>>> Speaking of movies. all of the lieberals who went to the advanced >>>>>> screening of Serenity say that IT RAWKS!!!!!! >>>>> >>>>> http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/mirrormask/theaters/ >>>> >>>> More like pansymask. >>>> >>>> (Has anyone read Anansi Boys?) >>>> >>> >>> I've got the audiobook to listen to but it's waiting until I've >>> finished listening to Churchill's history of the second world war. >>> Now there is a series that I would recomend to anybody, they may be >>> out of date but by god the man could write well. >> >> No finer fiction about WWII? >> >> (Haven't read it myself. I had a history prof. who rambled on at some >> length about how incredibly self-serving and uh...selective...about >> the facts it was.) > > "history will be kind to me,for I intend to write it." > After Thatchers book,(which I am still trying to read," it is positively > even handed. It is no doubt more of a memoir than a scholarly detatched > book and in the preface he as good as says so. However it is the very > addition of the asides about various people and situations at which he > was present that makes the book so enjoyable. As Claire is here she is > also subjected to it and despite having no interest in the subject is > rather enjoying it as well. Maybe your prof had his views coloured by the > fact that despite having the greatist of respect for out American allies, > Churchill points out their faults, such as the isolationist policies and > loan repayments forced from the allies and Germans after the first world > war that caused the conditions that made Germany so politically unstable. Nonsense. Everyone knows that America's contribution to the war effort was timely, essential, and perfect in every way. Not unlike her commanders to a man. Why, I've heard tell that when Fleet Admiral King (he of "Convoys? What are convoys?" fame) passed gas, the air smelled of rosewood for days after. > >> P.S. Turns out I have a minor infection of the lymph nodes or some >> damned thing and have been re-introduced to my old friend Amoxicillin. >> Not that you would care, you heartless English bastard. And to think >> of all the years I've wasted slaving over a hot internet for you. >> Mother was right all along! *sob* >> > > "Get in the kitchen bitch and make me some pie!" You don't know how hard > it is to get a decent pumpkin pie over here. Free clue: Don't put congealed eel or pigs bladders in it. > Claire started taking amoxicillin today for a kidney infection. Woohoo! We're antiobotic-buddies. (Hope she's o.k.) -- Jim .