1 posted on
03/18/2020 6:03:22 PM PDT by
knarf
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To: knarf
The original ZOT.
(not at you knarf) :)
3 posted on
03/18/2020 6:07:16 PM PDT by
Redcitizen
(Nobody needs a 10 round magazine. You need a 30 round magazine.)
To: knarf
4 posted on
03/18/2020 6:07:46 PM PDT by
sasquatch
To: knarf
Media as usual. Crazy. But it didn’t bring down the entire US economy.
5 posted on
03/18/2020 6:09:32 PM PDT by
livius
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It’s cool to have that link. Thanks.
I read the book in the bathtub, on Hallowe’en, sometime in the late 1960s :-)
(The only reading I’ve ever done in the bathtub.)
6 posted on
03/18/2020 6:13:23 PM PDT by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: knarf
I can think of a few freepers who would have bought that martians had landed in NJ.
To: knarf
When the current hysteria started, this story was my first thought.
9 posted on
03/18/2020 6:15:16 PM PDT by
real saxophonist
(Norovirus survivor; Hey Coronavirus - Bring it!)
To: knarf
10 posted on
03/18/2020 6:18:25 PM PDT by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS)
To: knarf
Heh, Orson Wells said clearly at the start of the broadcast that it was “fake news”.
The MSM in modern times somehow neglects to state the same before their broadcasts.
To: knarf
Believe it or not, we studied this event in high school.
15 posted on
03/18/2020 6:21:06 PM PDT by
Chgogal
(Wuhan Virus Chinese Virus Kung Fu Virus - Wuhan Chinese Kung Fu Wuhan Chinese Kung Fu)
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17 posted on
03/18/2020 6:27:50 PM PDT by
Gay State Conservative
(The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
To: knarf
1938:
Martians! Ahhhhhhhh!
2018:
Climate change! Ahhhhhhh!
To: knarf
26 posted on
03/18/2020 6:57:26 PM PDT by
Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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Without going to the link I will assume the original War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, Orson Wells’ broadcast.
An earlier panic was 1910, when Haley’s Comet was supposed to wipe out all life on Earth. Some people actually committed suicide rather than be gassed.
Nothing happened.
To: knarf
VERY few people fell for it. Only those who tuned it late or otherwise missed the disclaimers. Almost no one out west. My parents lived through it and remembered it very well.
To: knarf
My father told me last year that he, his parents and brother were listening to the broadcast on the radio and freaked out.
Granddad told them all, “get your coats we’re going to church!”
34 posted on
03/18/2020 7:21:01 PM PDT by
Rebelbase
("The people anxiously hope for just two things: bread and circuses" and now the circuses are gone.)
To: knarf
I had that on cassette in the ‘80s.
I have it in iTunes audiobook format today.
It never gets old.
35 posted on
03/18/2020 7:21:50 PM PDT by
RandallFlagg
(Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: knarf
Norman Lloyd, still alive at 105.
Here's hoping he can survive the pandemic.
He wasn't in War of the Worlds, but Kenny "Foghorn Leghorn" was.
I googled "Last Surviving Mercury Player," because I couldn't remember Norman Lloyd's name and whether he was still alive, and got "Upon his death in December 2016, John Glenn was the last surviving Mercury Seven astronaut."
Time is really catching up.
40 posted on
03/19/2020 4:26:31 AM PDT by
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