I haven't seen it . . . yet; but, I'll put it in my Netflix queue. What are you doing here with all those 50 ft. curls on the islands?!? Don't body surf 50 footers? :-)
Terry On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Rick Monteverde <[email protected]> wrote: > Terry: > >>>I sure you remember the ending to this one: > >>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Dog > > One of my favorites. > > I heard from the media back in around 1980 that J. Falwell was a really bad > guy. No internet back then. He had a rally at the state capitol here and I > lived nearby, so I went down to watch him. Do you remember from the movie > the "Michaels" - androids with smiles stuck on their faces? Falwell had > several Michaels, and there was a scene almost out of the movie when Falwell > called someone out of the crowd he had previously met to come up onto the > stage, a slightly built Filipino man. The Michaels apparently didn't get the > memo, and as he climbed up the stairs to the stage one of them picked the > poor little guy up in the air and looked he was about to give him some sort > of "farm accident" (pop his head like a zit) with Falwell struggling from > behind to get the Michael's attention and release his victim. Through the > whole thing the sanctimonious smile on the Michael's face never changed! In > the movie the Dear Leader asked his security guy or engineer to see about > getting those smiles fixed, and so it seems he never did. Although the > incident was funny and amazing at the time, I believe that movie was made > some years before Falwell arose to notoriety but the similarities between > Falwell and the crazy religious dictator with his killer robots were > horrifying. I left the rally that day with the same feeling in my stomach I > got swimming in dark water near a harbor entrance and seeing a fin cutting > water towards me that was so big at first I mistook it for a submarine > conning tower. Glad it all worked out: the giant shark just wanted the fish > guts washed off deck by a returning sampan, and Falwell has since diminished > to nothing. And ... wait for it...at least the shark had good taste!* > > R. > > (*Spoiler alert: paraphrasing the last line from the movie) > >
