Posted on 07/06/2002 6:38:40 AM PDT by Pharmboy
His army needed food, and the locals were loath to accept Napoleonic script, so canning is invented, which led to... vacuum...thermos...liquid fuel for rockets.
Connections, I think, was the name of the show.
Jeez, come to think of it, even that classic Stallone movie
(okay, okay, cult classic, and Sly was behind Caradine, who was behind the director/producer, who was behind the cars...),
Death Race 2000, blamed the French for something or another.
By the hair under its wings.
Nam Vet
The only programs that I've watched on PBS in the last 10 years ... and that was only so that I could tape it without the advertisements that A&E had on their versions of it.
Now I'll never have to watch PBS again.
I always liked that show. It always fascinated me that the greatest discoveries are usually found by inventors who are trying to invent something of mediocre value, and then stumble on the great discoveries.
Jeez, come to think of it, even that classic Stallone movie (okay, okay, cult classic, and Sly was behind Caradine, who was behind the director/producer, who was behind the cars...), Death Race 2000, blamed the French for something or another.
Was it a good movie? (I only listen to movie recommendations from conservatives....:^)...)
Not really. But adolescent funny. I think I was 17 or so when I saw it. Saw something about cars in movies on
an old vcr tape I recorded over that brought it up in my mind. Tongue-in-cheek. Score points in a coast to
coast race by running people over.
Motto of the Clinton guide to success.
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