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Subject:	Re: Name That Movie (Was: Misperceptions of America)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date:	Fri, 3 Sep 1999 15:41:05 GMT
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James, Wow, I thought that was an obscure line. Yes, I know, I saw the movie first before reading the book, and it is very much off, but I still enjoyed it tremendously! > Starship Troopers, one of the most liberal "let's see how huge we can make the > gap between book and movie" movies out there. Liberal? Politically or the off-the-book? I thought it was a great political advocate of rightism. :) > And on the same theme: (this one's a touch obscure) > > "You must move your house to the lee of the stone"(1) Yes, I have no clue what that one is! The Hobbitt? -- Scott E. Sanburn CADD Operator, CADD Systems Administrator Affiliated Engineers, Inc. Ann Arbor, MI Work Page: http://www.aeieng.com/ Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/~legoguy712/index.html Lego Page: http://www.geocities.com/~legoguy712/legoindex.html “The more people I meet, the more I like my Lego collection.”

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		Re: Name That Movie (Was: Misperceptions of America)
(...) the (...) Liberal as in "a very liberal interpretation" You'll get lots of different opinions of what the book's theme is, some of them quite different (mostly, I've noticed, dependant on whether the reviewer likes Heinlein or not), but I have (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

		Re: Name That Movie (Was: Misperceptions of America)
(...) Really? I thought it was dreck. The book is a well written and thoughtful examination of what it would be like to organize a society around the principle that only those that have made a contribution to society (in the form of defense or (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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		Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
(...) Ok, I can see where you were coming from. (...) can (...) Elephant (...) the (...) While I do not deny that he perjured, my point is that the majority of Americans view that perjury as a non-perjury, and certainly not impeachable. And the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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