A friend of mine recently distributed a home-baked collection of tunez with the title: "The Gipper & The Grocer's Daughter: a tribute to Ron and Maggie." It includes a poster in the style of Gone With the Wind, only with Reagan hoisting up Thatcher against the backdrop of a mushroom cloud. "The Film to end all films....the most EXPLOSIVE story ever...She promised to follow him to the end of the earth. He promised to organise it!"
I know Reagan is bed-ridden with Alzheimer's, and Thatch has been in poor health. Are they really at death's door? This tribute compilation notes: "Any day now, The Gipper and/or The Grocer's Daughter will slip the surly bonds of earth and touch the face of God."
Certainly will shed no tears for either of 'em. Just glad they didn't destroy the Earth on their watch. Did not expect to ever feel nostalgia for the cold war, but in some respects that was a truly kinder gentler time.
I know Reagan is bed-ridden with Alzheimer's, and Thatch has been in poor health. Are they really at death's door? This tribute compilation notes: "Any day now, The Gipper and/or The Grocer's Daughter will slip the surly bonds of earth and touch the face of God."
Certainly will shed no tears for either of 'em. Just glad they didn't destroy the Earth on their watch. Did not expect to ever feel nostalgia for the cold war, but in some respects that was a truly kinder gentler time.
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Re: Death watch/still kicking
Fri, January 2, 2004 - 6:34 PMYes I think it was kinder. Vietnam a fading memory. The Falklands a walk in the park and cruise missiles deployed in Europe - but by gosh, no war in Iraq.
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Re: Death watch
Tue, February 17, 2004 - 12:36 AMMaybe Regan was successfully assasinated and it is his replicant who is bedridden?
Damn CIA genetisists... can't get anything right.
That explains the alzheimers though. Thatcher was probably a clone too.
Hell I'm probably a clone.
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Re: Death watch
Tue, February 17, 2004 - 12:47 AMHow many minutes till midnight?
My subscription to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists lapsed a number of years ago, around the time I stopped wearing a watch and began living in the moment.
The editors kept a clock counting down to midnight as an index of the danger of Mutual Assured Destruction (Nixon's MAD doctrine). -
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Re: Death watch
Tue, February 17, 2004 - 10:37 AMWho cares...
The sun is going to blow up one day. Thousands of asteroids are on collision courses with earth. Unfathomable belts of cosmic radiation lie in the path of our Heliosphere.
Now we have the beginnings of nanotech and genetic eingineering.
Why do nuclear bombs still get all the attention?
Doom comes in so many wonderful, natural ways. Reguardless of what does it, we're looking at one hell of a light show folks!
It's a good thing the universe is so damn big. We can all move to another less messed up planet when the smoke clears, or just get washed back into the unconcious ocean of souls that fuels the galactic mechanism.
Reguardless.. life goes on!
Look what those bastards did to Mars! And they're here doing it again. So why can't I go somewhere else and farm sheep? To each their own, right?
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