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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/6/2010 6:11:30 PM

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You wish

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JIHAD! - 5/6/2010 6:12:36 PM

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Sweedish Syncopat!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/6/2010 6:13:24 PM

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/6/2010 6:13:36 PM

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SILENCE!

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JIHAD WOOD! - 5/6/2010 6:15:16 PM

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Infidel! you not steal my line.....or I KILL U!

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RE: THE THREAD! - 5/6/2010 6:15:46 PM

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ORIGINAL: ChickenOfTheSea

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So , Chickenboy, like how many more threads are you going to create from which I'm excluded? I'm not even playing against you and I'm being kept in the dark. And sir, would you be so kind , when you create yet ANOTHER "Steve keep out" thread, please do me the cortesey of putting it in the AAR section (where it belongs) so that several times a day when I look at the War room , yet again I'm kept from seeing THE NUMBER ONE THREAD!!!!!!

(Please insert sarcasm smiley here , whenever they get around to making one).

I've already started an AAR for our nacent game, gaijin. It's called 'liquidating the gaijin'. Just to be clear-you're the gaijin. I'm planning on liquidating you and everyone that looks like you.

Nothing personal.

Plan away, CB, plan away. And what should mine be, pray tell? "Plucking the chicken, choking the chicken,making the Chicken stew,frying the chicken,making a chicken sandwich, how to cook a chicken,deboning a chicken?", and of course the list goes on, and on and on.

Please keep in mind that Col. Sanders is one of my field commanders.

Steve,
Don't forget General Tso.

By the way. are you in Onaha yet?

Thank you! I'm starting to feel like "bubba Chicken". How many ways to "do in" a chicken are there?

Just a refresher, since CB missed it the 1st time. And sorry COS, we should be in the Omaha area sometime between the 24th and 30th of May.

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RE: JIHAD! - 5/6/2010 6:16:22 PM

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Sweedish Syncopat!

I KILL U!

INFIDEL!!!!!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/6/2010 6:17:55 PM

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This is starting to get sick ...

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RE: THE THREAD! - 5/6/2010 6:21:31 PM

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No, *real* football is quite popular here-except its schedule starts in the Fall months. This is the season for *real* baseball and other real sports played with real bats and real balls.

I didn't think you chaps played cricket?

Crickets are bugs here, dude.

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RE: THE THREAD! - 5/6/2010 6:27:11 PM

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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw

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RE: THE THREAD! - 5/6/2010 6:28:05 PM

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I tried watching baseball and hated it.

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RE: THE THREAD! - 5/6/2010 6:29:15 PM

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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw

Don't some of the test matches literally take days to work through?

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RE: THE THREAD! - 5/6/2010 6:29:39 PM

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I liked watching it live, but can't watch it on TV.

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RE: THE THREAD! - 5/6/2010 6:29:53 PM

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I've watched a little cricket. I loved it. It made me laugh heartily.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/6/2010 6:45:58 PM

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This is starting to get sick ...

Starting.... yeah..... right.

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RE: THE THREAD! - 5/6/2010 6:47:15 PM

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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw

Don't some of the test matches literally take days to work through?

5

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RE: THE THREAD! - 5/6/2010 6:47:38 PM

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US football is just now starting to see the results of the 20+ years of youth program development. Among kids in this country, football is by far the most popular sport.

So there is plenty of talent coming up through the ranks. The biggest issue is that great athletes who can play multiple sports do not choose football because the professional payoff is so much lower....or you have to play overseas.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/6/2010 6:48:24 PM

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This is starting to get sick ...

Starting.... yeah..... right.

Ok ... that "might" have been an understatement

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/6/2010 6:49:40 PM

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A Martian sighting!

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RE: THE THREAD! - 5/6/2010 6:56:20 PM

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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw

Don't some of the test matches literally take days to work through?

5

And even then you might not have a winner.

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RE: THE THREAD! - 5/6/2010 6:59:24 PM

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And even then you might not have a winner.

It's a a bit like making a baby, you don't always succeed but it's fun trying.

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RE: THE THREAD! - 5/6/2010 7:05:25 PM

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Hmmm . . . looking up the movie on imdb, I'm shocked, shocked to find out John Milius was involved. That it was basically his baby. This from the guy who worked on Apocalypse Now, Conan, 1941 and Rome. I guess everyone needs a mortgage payment.

On the remake imdb page, apparenty the Cubans are out and the Chinese are in.

Actually heard one of the writers discuss this movie a while back. He said the intent was completely misinterpreted when people took it literally. It was more intended to communicate the effect of being invaded and occupied in a way that American's could understand better. Kind of "put yourself in their shoes and maybe you will undertand better" sort of thing. Therefore the biggest failing of the movie was that it failed to communicate what was intended and came off as a cross between paramoia and propaganda. Rewatching the movie after you know the intent, however, improves it a lot.

I have no idea what the new one will be like, but the history of remakes is pretty awful ... really awful ... ungodly awful.

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RE: THE THREAD! - 5/6/2010 7:13:38 PM

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And even then you might not have a winner.

It's a a bit like making a baby, you don't always succeed but it's fun trying.

Hey, after 5 straight days of *anything* I'm ready for a break...

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RE: THE THREAD! - 5/6/2010 7:24:21 PM

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Chicken salad,chicken stew,chicken & dumplings.........

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RE: THE THREAD! - 5/6/2010 7:36:25 PM

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chicken marengo, chicken fingers,chicken wings......

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RE: THE THREAD! - 5/6/2010 7:36:48 PM

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So , Chickenboy, like how many more threads are you going to create from which I'm excluded? I'm not even playing against you and I'm being kept in the dark. And sir, would you be so kind , when you create yet ANOTHER "Steve keep out" thread, please do me the cortesey of putting it in the AAR section (where it belongs) so that several times a day when I look at the War room , yet again I'm kept from seeing THE NUMBER ONE THREAD!!!!!!

(Please insert sarcasm smiley here , whenever they get around to making one).

Steve,
As your good and faithful spy, Chickenboy's secret plan is

"Buc, buc, buc ... begac!!!"

which I have not yet been able to decode.

< Message edited by ChickenOfTheSea -- 5/6/2010 7:38:44 PM >

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RE: THE THREAD! - 5/6/2010 7:45:51 PM

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Hmmm . . . looking up the movie on imdb, I'm shocked, shocked to find out John Milius was involved. That it was basically his baby. This from the guy who worked on Apocalypse Now, Conan, 1941 and Rome. I guess everyone needs a mortgage payment.

On the remake imdb page, apparenty the Cubans are out and the Chinese are in.

Actually heard one of the writers discuss this movie a while back. He said the intent was completely misinterpreted when people took it literally. It was more intended to communicate the effect of being invaded and occupied in a way that American's could understand better. Kind of "put yourself in their shoes and maybe you will undertand better" sort of thing. Therefore the biggest failing of the movie was that it failed to communicate what was intended and came off as a cross between paramoia and propaganda. Rewatching the movie after you know the intent, however, improves it a lot.

I have no idea what the new one will be like, but the history of remakes is pretty awful ... really awful ... ungodly awful.

Thanks for the info concerning the original movie. Was kinda surprised to find out that there was any intent involved. I can forgive a 'gotta pay my rent' movie (which I thought this was) and enjoy it in an unintentional comedic sort of way but can't forgive a movie which tried to make a statement/comment but failed so miserably at it. Still not sure what the writer was trying to communicate . . . . it sucks to be conquered? aren't you glad you're not one of us? criticism of a certain US foreign policy? If you're going to be an effective writer you have to know your audience. When does a US audience take anything but literally (especially the demographic that the movie was targetting)? I now look at those people involved in a worse light than I did before.

Agreed. I hold little hope for the sequel but for inclusion of gratuitous nudity and violence.

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RE: THE THREAD! - 5/6/2010 7:50:40 PM

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Not that I'm taking sides but it was a chicken salad sandwich

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/6/2010 7:57:09 PM

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ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk

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ORIGINAL: ChickenOfTheSea

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ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk

Hmmm . . . looking up the movie on imdb, I'm shocked, shocked to find out John Milius was involved. That it was basically his baby. This from the guy who worked on Apocalypse Now, Conan, 1941 and Rome. I guess everyone needs a mortgage payment.

On the remake imdb page, apparenty the Cubans are out and the Chinese are in.

Actually heard one of the writers discuss this movie a while back. He said the intent was completely misinterpreted when people took it literally. It was more intended to communicate the effect of being invaded and occupied in a way that American's could understand better. Kind of "put yourself in their shoes and maybe you will undertand better" sort of thing. Therefore the biggest failing of the movie was that it failed to communicate what was intended and came off as a cross between paramoia and propaganda. Rewatching the movie after you know the intent, however, improves it a lot.

I have no idea what the new one will be like, but the history of remakes is pretty awful ... really awful ... ungodly awful.

Thanks for the info concerning the original movie. Was kinda surprised to find out that there was any intent involved. I can forgive a 'gotta pay my rent' movie (which I thought this was) and enjoy it in an unintentional comedic sort of way but can't forgive a movie which tried to make a statement/comment but failed so miserably at it. Still not sure what the writer was trying to communicate . . . . it sucks to be conquered? aren't you glad you're not one of us? criticism of a certain US foreign policy? If you're going to be an effective writer you have to know your audience. When does a US audience take anything but literally (especially the demographic that the movie was targetting)? I now look at those people involved in a worse light than I did before.

Agreed. I hold little hope for the sequel but for inclusion of gratuitous nudity and violence.

Smacks a little of post-facto rationalization. "Nonono, there really WAS a serious point to Red Dawn". And they're not making a sequel, but a remake; and they must all die for it.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 5/6/2010 8:11:43 PM

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

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ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk

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ORIGINAL: ChickenOfTheSea

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ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk

Hmmm . . . looking up the movie on imdb, I'm shocked, shocked to find out John Milius was involved. That it was basically his baby. This from the guy who worked on Apocalypse Now, Conan, 1941 and Rome. I guess everyone needs a mortgage payment.

On the remake imdb page, apparenty the Cubans are out and the Chinese are in.

Actually heard one of the writers discuss this movie a while back. He said the intent was completely misinterpreted when people took it literally. It was more intended to communicate the effect of being invaded and occupied in a way that American's could understand better. Kind of "put yourself in their shoes and maybe you will undertand better" sort of thing. Therefore the biggest failing of the movie was that it failed to communicate what was intended and came off as a cross between paramoia and propaganda. Rewatching the movie after you know the intent, however, improves it a lot.

I have no idea what the new one will be like, but the history of remakes is pretty awful ... really awful ... ungodly awful.

Thanks for the info concerning the original movie. Was kinda surprised to find out that there was any intent involved. I can forgive a 'gotta pay my rent' movie (which I thought this was) and enjoy it in an unintentional comedic sort of way but can't forgive a movie which tried to make a statement/comment but failed so miserably at it. Still not sure what the writer was trying to communicate . . . . it sucks to be conquered? aren't you glad you're not one of us? criticism of a certain US foreign policy? If you're going to be an effective writer you have to know your audience. When does a US audience take anything but literally (especially the demographic that the movie was targetting)? I now look at those people involved in a worse light than I did before.

Agreed. I hold little hope for the sequel but for inclusion of gratuitous nudity and violence.

Smacks a little of post-facto rationalization. "Nonono, there really WAS a serious point to Red Dawn". And they're not making a sequel, but a remake; and they must all die for it.