Well... 
we shall work out another arrangement if necessary...
Posted on 08/19/2007 6:06:46 AM PDT by tpaine
Actually, that one was WC Fields.
Okay, I'll have that 8th and 10th and possibly 12th beer if you insist...
However, with you being a self-proclaimed ex-lawyer ailurophile, I shall accept your suggestion with some lemon juice and a grain of salt...
However, if you were a sorry, low down, sorry, no count thespian, I'll have to object mightily!
};^D)
BTW don't ever mention Ellison in the same sentence as John W. Campbell to me again! I don't want to upchuck beer I've already drank!
This is my own favorite. It's also great movie material and still quite timely.
Not worth a farthing! Between the rainy weather, worse in Texas in many a year Algore's crapola aside, and old cuz and my schedules being off kilter, we didn't catch but six danged crappie this whole summer!
And he even bought a new boat!
But gays getting married need not have any effect on your own relationships - unless you want it to.
Free markets are not just about money, but about moral codes and every other aspect of civilization. Edmund Burke himself understood that moral codes are not handed to us by God, but evolve from generations of human trial and error. If gay marriage proves to be one of those errors, the trial itself will have made humanity stronger.
Please, PLEASE Mr. Bender...you wouldn’t kill a MOTHER, wouldja?
I do hope you enjoy the books. If nothing else, they are a fun romp. “Steel Beach” may be hard to find but “The Golden Globe” should still be easily available.
Have fun.
Regards,
Groucho Marx?
Well... we shall work out another arrangement if necessary...
Ah, very nice! Good to see that Annapolis fondly remembers one of its graduates in this way.
Great find, thanks again.
Regards,
PS: I met RAH once when I was younger, not long before he died...he liked my red hair and made me blush. It was one of the highlights of my young adulthood.
Goodkind is a West point grad, and suffers from ADD.
Hell of a writer.
Bummer. Nothin’ to do on that new boat but drown worms and drink beer :-(
I was not interested in reading until my brother gave me a copy of “Red Planet” when I was around 10 - I still consider it one of my all-time favorites. I didn’t care much for Heinlein’s other juveniles, except for “Rolling Stones”. Also liked “The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress” - I still think it would make a great movie.
Heinlein bump.
Damn! Turn my back for a lousy 13hrs. and you start bad mouthing me.
He’s pretty good at both those. Can’t fish to save his life.
Of course ...it is interesting to note that last night (Saturday) - NBC televised a 1 hour show - Masters of Science Fiction - where the episode was “Jerry was a Man”, based on a Heinlein story of the same name.
The start matched reasonably close ...except in the story, Jerry was a genetically modified chimpanzee that talked, while on the show, Jerry is an artificial humanoid construct. Big difference. The “trial” and ending were also mucked up.
It is a shame that the show couldn’t keep closer to the real story. But maybe there will be an opportunity for a few more Heinlein short stories to be made into movies.
Mike
“I won’t belong to any organization that would have me as a member.”
That quote is often attributed to Grouch Marx. W C Fields would never give a sucker an even break.
Where I grew up, that sounds like the very definition of Heaven!
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...and I’ll brook no dispute as to whether I actually ever ‘grew up’
Agree. Those are very much an homage to "Moon is a Harsh Mistress". His "Red Thunder" and "Red Lightning" are also reminiscent, but more like RAH's juveniles in feel.
Ohh. You're gonna like Varley's "The Golden Globe". Elwood P. Dowd is a major character. Sort of.
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