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Re: Star Wars <=> Star Trek
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Fri, 14 May 1999 21:39:44 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> I'm not posting this in lugnet.starwars in order to reduce the amount of
> flamage I'll receive. :-,
Almost seems more like a troll.
> The title "The Phantom Menace" has always bugged me -- the wording seems
> pretty silly / trite.
I think the wording is supposed to seem like it's named in the genre of the old
Saturday afternoon serial movie, even if it does sounds like an episode of
Scooby-Doo. And, those words might be accurate. Much science fiction and
fantasy has rather tritely named stories anyway.
> Hmmm... Lesse...
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> Star Trek episode one was "Star Trek: The Motion Picture". Acronym,
> "ST:TMP".
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> Star Wars episode one is "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace". Acronym,
> "SW:TPM".
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> This is way too close to be coincidental. I thought Lucas was supposed to
> burn out *after* these new movies are in the can.
Why, you're right! They both have acronyms. This just *can't* be coincidental.
BTW, I thought the word THE was not supposed to count in acronyms unless a word
was spelled in the process.
-Tom McD.
when replying, note there is already an acronym in spamcake.
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| (...) Why, you're right! Self-Propelled Amorphous Mutating Creation of Adventerous Killer Emus. ;-) James (URL) is it just me, or is a significant percentage of .fun occuring because of Tom's sig lines? Which gives me one of those <shudder> (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) *sigh* I admit it, it's a troll. I'm immensly bored today, and LUGNET ng traffic is pretty low. And a cow-orker absolutely roard when I mentioned the "conspiracy", so I thought I'd pass it along... What'a s bored engineer to do? Write code? (...) (26 years ago, 15-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Star Wars <=> Star Trek
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| I'm not posting this in lugnet.starwars in order to reduce the amount of flamage I'll receive. :-, The title "The Phantom Menace" has always bugged me -- the wording seems pretty silly / trite. Hmmm... Lesse... Star Trek episode one was "Star Trek: (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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