[TML] Thoughts on wormholes

[Richard Aiken]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Jerry W Barrington
<jerry.barrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> See: Moriarty should have thought more positive!  :P
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> I love that movie.  Need to dig it up sometime.  Beats most modern movies,
> even with their CGI & other SFX...

My other favorite moments (most of them featuring Oddball - aka Donald
Southerland - him being sooo cool!):

SPOILER SPACE - in case anyone here HASN'T seen this classic gem . . .

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(NOTE: All dialogue paraphrased from memory)

Mulligan's alarm clock going off and him semi-waking just long enough
to scream "Fire!  Fire!" into his field phone, before dropping back
into comatose slumber.
<Scene Shift>
Our heros - delayed in transit - careening wildly through the road
intersection as resultant barrage comes down.  Sarge - aka Telly
Savalas: "Mulligan picks NOW to be on-time!  On-time AND on-target!"

The desperate mine-field fight . . . which occurs only as an attempt
to save the two American GIs stranded in the middle of it . . . and
the Germans are all killed, but so are the two GIs.

The General - (the guy who played Archie Bunker, whose real name sadly
escapes me . . .) - leaning over the impressive banquet table in his
swanky requisitioned HQ: "Major, do you mean to tell me someone LOST
my air-ree-uhl fo-tee-grafs?"
<Scene shift>
Oddball and crew smoking and chatting around a battered card table,
one covered in large glossy B&W photos . . .

After the railroad bridge goes down, Oddball walks into a French post
office behind the current German lines and casually asking to use the
phone.  Fixer, on the telephone with Oddball from an American base
camp: "Where the hell am I going to find 300 men to build a bridge?"
then he turns around and sees the divisional band pulling up in their
trucks . . .

Oddball and crew cheerfully shoot up the railroad yard as "All For The
Love Of Sunshine" blasts from their megaphones . . . then trundle away
once the Germans are all dead and the yard is burning, with "I've Been
Working On The Railroad" blaring . . .

Kelly - aka Clint Eastwood - comes across Oddball with his feet up on
a rickety table, regaling others with some sort of tale.
Not-so-distant firing can be heard, as the rest of the "force" takes
the town.
Kelly: "What are you doing?"
Oddball: "Drinking some wine.  Eating some cheese.  Catching some rays."
Kelly: "Where's the tank?"
Oddball, gesturing casually: "Back in the alley.  It's broken.
They're fixing it."
Kelly: "Why aren't you helping them?"
Oddball, shruging: "Hey, man.  I just drive 'em.  I don't know what
makes 'em go."
Kelly stalks off in high dungeon.
Oddball, forgetting him instantly, turns back to his audience: "Woof!
Woof!  That's my other dog impersonation . . ."

Crapgame - aka Don Rickles - getting his leg wound looked at, while
Sarge complains about how it's going to be impossible to take out the
last Tiger tank: "Only a full fanactic freak would still be here."
Crapgame: "I wonder if he knows what he's gaurding?"
Sarge: "What do you mean?"
Crapgame: "Make him an offer!" <wink> "Who knows?  Maybe he's a Republican."

The "showdown:" Sarge, Kelly and Oddball, walking boldly up to the
Tiger tank to open negotiations.  Especially Oddball . . . loosening
his Luger in it's holster . . .  The Tiger's 88mm cannon squeeling
around and down . . .

After the preliminary explanations are out of the way . . .
Kelly: "And all you have to do to claim an equal share of the gold is
turn that turret around and blow in those doors . . ."
<Scene shift>
BOOOOM!

Oddball and crew buying the Tiger - and their way-cool SS jackets/caps
- from the Germans . . .
Moriarity: "This thing leaks oil all over the place!"
Oddball: "Always with the negative waves, Moriarity!  Always with the
negative waves!  This is a mothering BEAUTIFUL tank!"

The Leutenant, after driving the General's Jeep into the "liberated"
town, struggles through the joyious crowd into the shattered bank, to
find only some discarded canvas, empty pallets . . . and a chalked
"Kilroy was here" on the wall!

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein