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'Airplane!', 'Empire Strikes Back' To Join Library of Congress
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| December 28, 2010
| LEE FERRAN
Posted on 12/28/2010 8:20:15 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
It's official. When, in hundreds of years, the future of humanity scours the U.S. Library of Congress for clues as to how primitively we lived back in the early 21st century, the jive-talking granny in "Airplane!" could very well be integral to the study.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: films; freeperlore; humor; libraryofcongress; movies
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To: ConservativeStatement
I hope they will laugh as much as I did.
To: Revolting cat!
1. AIRPLANE! (1980)
2. ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976)
3. THE BARGAIN (1914)
4. CRY OF JAZZ (1959)
5. ELECTRONIC LABYRINTH: THX 1138 4EB (1967)
6. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980)
7. THE EXORCIST (1973)
8. THE FRONT PAGE (1931)
9. GREY GARDENS (1976)
10. I AM JOAQUIN (1969)
11. IT’S A GIFT (1934)
12. LET THERE BE LIGHT (1946)
13. LONESOME (1928)
14. MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (1937)
15. MALCOLM X (1992)
16. MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER (1971)
17. NEWARK ATHLETE (1891)
18. OUR LADY OF THE SPHERE (1969)
19. THE PINK PANTHER (1964)
20. PRESERVATION OF THE SIGN LANGUAGE (1913)
21. SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (1977)
22. STUDY OF A RIVER (1996)
23. TARANTELLA (1940)
24. A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN (1945)
25. A TRIP DOWN MARKET STREET (1906)
Whatever.
Still waiting for them to add Bela Lugosi Meets A Brooklyn Gorilla.
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posted on
12/28/2010 8:24:07 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable. -Albert Brooks)
To: ConservativeStatement
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posted on
12/28/2010 8:28:09 AM PST
by
LRS
("This is silly! It can't be! It can't be!!" "Oh yes it is! I said you wouldn't know the joint.")
To: LRS
It’s a big tylenol-looking thing that flies but that’s not important right now.
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To: LRS
Airplane!? What is it? Its a big flying bus with passengers, but that's not important right now. Tell the captain I must speak to him.
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posted on
12/28/2010 8:31:02 AM PST
by
DCBryan1
(FORGET the lawyers...first kill the "journalists". (Die Ritter der Kokosnuss))
To: ConservativeStatement
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posted on
12/28/2010 8:31:12 AM PST
by
GOPsterinMA
(RomneyCare is Mitt`s Chappaquiddick)
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To: DCBryan1
Surely you can’t be serious!
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posted on
12/28/2010 8:31:59 AM PST
by
LRS
("This is silly! It can't be! It can't be!!" "Oh yes it is! I said you wouldn't know the joint.")
To: Larry Lucido
Do you like gladiator movies?................
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12/28/2010 8:32:28 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing to something right.)
To: wolf24
The Library of Congress? Surely you can’t be serious?
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posted on
12/28/2010 8:32:49 AM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: LRS
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posted on
12/28/2010 8:32:55 AM PST
by
LRS
("This is silly! It can't be! It can't be!!" "Oh yes it is! I said you wouldn't know the joint.")
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To: Larry Lucido
Johnny : Oh its a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the window and wheels. It looks like a big tylenol.
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posted on
12/28/2010 8:34:25 AM PST
by
DCBryan1
(FORGET the lawyers...first kill the "journalists". (Die Ritter der Kokosnuss))
To: DCBryan1; wolf24; Red Badger
Ted Striker: Mayday! Mayday!
Steve McCroskey: What the heck is that?
Johnny: Why, that’s the Russian New Year. We can have a parade and serve hot hors d’oeuvres...
To: LRS
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12/28/2010 8:36:43 AM PST
by
PennsylvaniaMom
('We are coming out of our trance, we are coming out of our nightmare...' <3Michele Bachmann)
To: All
You all gave me the giggles!
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posted on
12/28/2010 8:37:29 AM PST
by
LRS
("This is silly! It can't be! It can't be!!" "Oh yes it is! I said you wouldn't know the joint.")
To: LRS
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12/28/2010 8:38:21 AM PST
by
PennsylvaniaMom
('We are coming out of our trance, we are coming out of our nightmare...' <3Michele Bachmann)
To: wolf24
It was genius to pick four actors well-known for their serious roles to play comedy: Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges and Robert Stack
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