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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 3:53:59 AM

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Bye, there is a turn in my inbox, just before leaving for the movie tithe.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 4:03:11 AM

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Without Remorse is the one I wanna see made into a movie.

Sum of all fears was a great book but a blah movie. Too politically correct. Without remorse would be good if they didn't screw with the story line.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 4:17:49 AM

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Just so long as it's no Willem DeFoe playing Mr. Clark...that was my biggest gripe with Clear and Present Danger.

I liked Willem in Platoon, but he certainly doesn't seem like the John Clark I read about.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 4:20:18 AM

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 4:44:44 AM

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Sum of all fears was a great book but a blah movie. Too politically correct.

Yep - while both the book & movie had a nuclear bomb involved, there wasn't much other similiarity. And the villians changed dramatically - towards political correctness (like you said).

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Without remorse would be good if they didn't screw with the story line.

Certainly true, but it's 99% sure Holllwood would screw with the story line. Two of my all-time favorite Sci-Fi books - Starship Troopers and Battlefield Earth had horrible movie adaptations.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 6:01:09 AM

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Without Remorse is the one I wanna see made into a movie.

I forgot about that one. Great book. I don't think I've eaten crabs since reading it.

Just so long as it's no Willem DeFoe playing Mr. Clark...that was my biggest gripe with Clear and Present Danger.

Agree on the book. His best IMO. I didn't mind Defoe as Clark. Harrison Ford or Tommy Lee Jones would be better at the role though, at least for me.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 6:13:45 AM

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Without Remorse is the one I wanna see made into a movie.

I forgot about that one. Great book. I don't think I've eaten crabs since reading it.

Just so long as it's no Willem DeFoe playing Mr. Clark...that was my biggest gripe with Clear and Present Danger.

Agree on the book. His best IMO. I didn't mind Defoe as Clark. Harrison Ford or Tommy Lee Jones would be better at the role though, at least for me.

I could see Tommy Lee Jones or Mel Gibson...Mel's getting fruity in his old age though.

Who would play young clark though?

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 6:55:17 AM

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Depends on who plays old Clark.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 11:46:22 AM

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 12:03:09 PM

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Morning tithe

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 12:29:41 PM

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Tithe...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 1:23:22 PM

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 3:36:05 PM

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Glory to the Thread........

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 4:51:48 PM

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Glory to the Thread........

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 5:26:05 PM

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I just downloaded the open-source version of the old DOS game Star Control II. My Thread, I spent many a happy night back in the winter of 1994-95 on that game...

Should probably have spent it on other things, but beggars can't be choosers...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 5:46:09 PM

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Glory to the Thread........

Brother penguin is wise in all things.

Not everything......like domination of the Pacific

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 7:05:13 PM

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Glory to the Thread........

Brother penguin is wise in all things.

Not everything......like domination of the Pacific

So you think......but soon my late war wonder weapons will come on line.......powered by the ever expanding might of the Japanese economy........I'll be able to manufacture and enless array of tech. superior planes/tanks/ships.........and then we'll see who's laughing.......BWAHAHAHAHA...(self-deluding laughter)BWAHAHAHA....and my staff say I'm mad...BWAHAHAHA....I'll have to have them exicuted for a start............

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 7:20:24 PM

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If you want a hand let me know. I could spare an A-Bomb or 2 for the executions

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 7:34:47 PM

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My staff forgot to proof-read the above post.......heads will roll..........

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 8:00:25 PM

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I like Faber's management style.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 8:44:23 PM

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daily tithe...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 9:15:30 PM

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Without Remorse is the one I wanna see made into a movie.

Sum of all fears was a great book but a blah movie. Too politically correct. Without remorse would be good if they didn't screw with the story line.

Which they would. And Sum of All Fears (the movie) sucked and blew on sooooo many levels...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 10:06:13 PM

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I like Faber's management style.

It's terribly hard on the carpet though, all those blood stains. Never work in a place with linolium floors or plastic drop clothes, that's my motto.

Edit: make that drop cloths. I'm not sure i want to know what plastic drop clothes are.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 10:08:40 PM

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*Saturday afternoon at the office tithe. BLECH!

At least I got a hike in this morning.

Now I see that our IT guy got the new software download on the server, but he forgot to change the link on the download page from beta to 1.0.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/16/2006 11:10:07 PM

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i saw a documentary on the Fletcher Class DDs on the History Channel, and they went into the Battle Off Samar and the sacrifice the DDs (and DE) made protecting the CVEs.

What surprised me is that after the battle, the USN "High Command" ordered ships in the area not to pick up the survivors as "there might have been subs in the area". Considering they hadn't even thought to put up antisub patrols in the area until after 9:00 a.m. (which was what discovered the IJN TF minutes before they opened fire), i am scratching my head over this one...

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/17/2006 12:06:54 AM

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Good evening all.

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/17/2006 12:09:12 AM

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I just got my second turn of the day to Terminus

If he is still up. we may get 3 turns in today.

February is not going to be kind to the allies

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/17/2006 12:22:59 AM

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Is anybody else getting repeated pop-ups to install chinese character packs?

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/17/2006 12:31:47 AM

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Not me

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RE: The Thread!!! - 12/17/2006 12:34:56 AM

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I have a fairly good pop-up blocker. "Turns around, knocks on wood desk"

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