"losers" with "no life" on Saturday night - Page 8

Urbane Guerrilla · 08-14-2006, 02:14 AM

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Originally Posted by MaggieL

Or "Wolverenes!"

Wolverene (tm) -- a patent solvent for cleaning sticky wolverines off your windshield. New from Bugsplat Junction!

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Actually, the politicians *are* a solution....but they're a solution to the problem of "somebody has to run this thing", and that solution does generate more problems of its own.

Severeid's Law in action, and particularly true of things political.

MaggieL · 08-15-2006, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by MaggieL

Is the liberal cause well-served by such defensive, mindless hyperbole every time Clinton is mentioned? "Yeah, Clinton, but Everybody Knows Bush is Satan Incarnate" is not a very convincing argument unless you're already a cult member.

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/08/14/132207.php

MaggieL · 08-15-2006, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Wolverene (tm) -- a patent solvent for cleaning sticky wolverines off your windshield.

You're thinking of Wolverclean.

Pardon the typo. I meant "Wolverines!"

Urbane Guerrilla · 08-18-2006, 02:17 AM

I know you did.

I liked Red Dawn too. Not least because I grew up in country that looked like that -- and one of the opening shots early in the flick looks a lot like an exterior shot of the city library in Fort Collins, Colorado.

But don't take RD as a training film on small-unit tactics. They, uh, kinda skimped that part.

Urbane Guerrilla · 08-18-2006, 02:14 PM

Okay, if I don't get this out of my system it'll back me up...

"Wolf-Oil Walter says, 'Dress your hair with new Wolverene(tm)!'"

(It's the punker's secret to that "they tied me to a chair to give me this haircut" look. Large highly trained weasels are standing by to ... fix your hair...)

MaggieL · 08-20-2006, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

But don't take RD as a training film on small-unit tactics.

Hey, it's a Patrick Swayze movie, it has nothing to do with the real world. Besides, would you expect high school students to be tactically hip?

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Originally Posted by Red Dawn

Col. Andy Tanner: [using a crude diorama, the Wolverines prepare for an assault on the Calumet Drive-In, which is now a Russo-Cuban "Re-education Camp"] All right. Four planes. Cuban bunker, Russian bunker. munitions dump, troop tents. Four machine gun bunkers. Back here by the drive-in screen are your political prisoners. We'll cause a diversion over here... cut holes in the wire here, fire on all these machine gun positions. The B-Group comes across this area in a flanking maneuver... and when you reach this bunker, you lay down grazing fire on this defilade. I think that's pretty simple. Anybody got any questions so far?
Aardvark: What's a "flank?"
Toni: What's a "defilade?"
Robert: What's "grazing fire?"
Col. Andy Tanner: [out loud, to himself] I need a drink.

Urbane Guerrilla · 08-23-2006, 09:43 PM

I didn't have the impression any of the characters were employing good tactics, cover, et cetera.

Tonchi · 08-26-2006, 05:32 PM

I actually met somebody who thought Red Dawn was the ultimate role model for how patriot-survivalists should be. I never could explain to her that the last place Cuban Communists would show up to invade this country would be in Colorado or Wyoming in the winter. Logic does not seem to be a strong point amongst fans of this film.

08-26-2006, 05:45 PM

Can't walk on my own very far tonight, so I am a big loser.
I liked Red Dawn, but I live in FL.

Urbane Guerrilla · 08-29-2006, 01:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Tonchi

I actually met somebody who thought Red Dawn was the ultimate role model for how patriot-survivalists should be. I never could explain to her that the last place Cuban Communists would show up to invade this country would be in Colorado or Wyoming in the winter.

Well, that would be how they'd've wanted us to think, and they'd achieve tactical surprise thereby. And the Commies weren't just Cubans: they had a regular Comintern in there: numerous Russians, speaking real Russian, one Afghan commie who at least understood Russian when the Cuban officer shouted it at him: "Ty govoril, tovarishch?!", and I don't recall what-all else.

Tonchi · 08-29-2006, 01:12 AM

If they operated on that kind of logic, no wonder those countries ran out of money for invasions before we did

xoxoxoBruce · 08-29-2006, 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Can't walk on my own very far tonight, so I am a big loser.
I liked Red Dawn, but I live in FL.

That doesn't make you a loser, anymore than it does Steven Hawking.
It just steers you to different activities....your head still works well.

zippyt · 08-30-2006, 12:00 AM

red dawn scared the SHIT out of me !!!
I was in the USMC at the time , and the possibilitys just WORKED my head !!!!

Never mind that the tactics and location where WAY off !!!
It STILL messed with me !!!!!!!

xoxoxoBruce · 08-30-2006, 03:58 AM

Ruby Ridge and Waco should bring back reality.

Urbane Guerrilla · 08-31-2006, 10:01 PM

Tactical surprise, and come to think of it, an epidemic of head colds among the Cuban paratroops. !Ja-chuuu!

08-18-2006, 02:17 AM	#109
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	I know you did. I liked Red Dawn too. Not least because I grew up in country that looked like that -- and one of the opening shots early in the flick looks a lot like an exterior shot of the city library in Fort Collins, Colorado. But don't take RD as a training film on small-unit tactics. They, uh, kinda skimped that part. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

08-18-2006, 02:14 PM	#110
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Okay, if I don't get this out of my system it'll back me up... "Wolf-Oil Walter says, 'Dress your hair with new Wolverene(tm)!'" (It's the punker's secret to that "they tied me to a chair to give me this haircut" look. Large highly trained weasels are standing by to ... fix your hair...) __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

08-23-2006, 09:43 PM	#112
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	I didn't have the impression any of the characters were employing good tactics, cover, et cetera. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

08-26-2006, 05:32 PM	#113
Tonchi Victim of gravity Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Hiding in plain sight Posts: 1,412	I actually met somebody who thought Red Dawn was the ultimate role model for how patriot-survivalists should be. I never could explain to her that the last place Cuban Communists would show up to invade this country would be in Colorado or Wyoming in the winter. Logic does not seem to be a strong point amongst fans of this film. __________________ Everything you've ever heard about Fresno is true.

08-29-2006, 01:12 AM	#116
Tonchi Victim of gravity Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Hiding in plain sight Posts: 1,412	If they operated on that kind of logic, no wonder those countries ran out of money for invasions before we did __________________ Everything you've ever heard about Fresno is true.

08-26-2006, 05:45 PM	#114
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	Can't walk on my own very far tonight, so I am a big loser. I liked Red Dawn, but I live in FL.

08-30-2006, 12:00 AM	#118
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	red dawn scared the SHIT out of me !!! I was in the USMC at the time , and the possibilitys just WORKED my head !!!! Never mind that the tactics and location where WAY off !!! It STILL messed with me !!!!!!! __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner Last edited by zippyt; 08-30-2006 at 12:04 AM.

08-30-2006, 03:58 AM	#119
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Ruby Ridge and Waco should bring back reality. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-31-2006, 10:01 PM	#120
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Tactical surprise, and come to think of it, an epidemic of head colds among the Cuban paratroops. !Ja-chuuu! __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

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