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To: TrappedInLiberalHell
The car that gets gently bumped in Top Secret! is a Ford Pinto -- a cheapo compact from the '70s infamous for exploding in rear-end collisions.

"Ist dein Tochter achtzehn, bitte?" Top Secret! is one of my all-time favorite flicks. It's worty watching just to hear the excruciating "East German National Anthem"...

We Love You Neek,

B-chan

394 posted on 09/12/2002 1:16:27 PM PDT by B-Chan
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To: B-Chan; All
CONFIRMATION OF NEUTRON EMISSIONS.

Earlier someone was talking about the neutron emissions. Here's an excerpt from a news story

A U.S. government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told NBC News that the NEST scientists said the initial readings indicated the presence of both gamma and neutron emissions, which can be an indicator of an improvised nuclear device.

Link : MSNBC News

396 posted on 09/12/2002 1:20:01 PM PDT by Centurion2000
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To: B-Chan
Auferstanden aus Ruinen, und der Zukunft zugewandt, lass uns dir zum Guten dienen, Deutschland, einig Vaterland!

Don't you like the glorious lyrics of Johannes Becher, poet laureate of the German Democratic Republic?

Ah, that brings back memories. My job with the Air Force in Berlin required me to hear the strains of that anthem more or less every day, as I recall.

Becher, by the way, figures rather prominently in the biography of Harry Graf Kessler that I happen to be reading at the moment, The Red Count. Kessler, it seems, was a great fan of Becher's early verse at the time of the First World War. Even if Kessler helped to inspire one of the most glorious operas, Der Rosenkavalier, his taste was not always reliable.

424 posted on 09/12/2002 2:48:24 PM PDT by aristeides
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