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- From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Unbe Awakens
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.222831.5109@e2big.mko.dec.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 22:28:31 GMT
- References: <1992Dec8.144647.13299@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> <104386@bu.edu> <1golthINN2cl@gap.caltech.edu> <105417@bu.edu>
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- In article <105417@bu.edu>, mjmh@crsa.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes) writes:
- |> In article <1golthINN2cl@gap.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
- |> >In article <104386@bu.edu>, mjmh@crsa.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes) writes:
- |>
- |> =="The name '/*' actually came out of a conversation with one of
- |> ==my 'oldest and bestest' friends. He and I were discussing sf, and
- |> ==I think we had just seen 'THX 1178' (or whatever that movie's title
- |> ==is - help!),
- |>
- |> >THX1138, I think.
- |>
- |> /* jumps up -
- |>
- |> "Eureka!!"
- |>
- |> "Yes, that was it! Thanks, StM!!"
- |>
- |> A purple frown appears. "Its been so long since I saw it...
- |> is it worth trying to rent? I remember the conversations it sparked,
- |> but little of the actual movie! Aside from a few visual images, that is..."
- |>
- |> :)
-
- Starknight sticks his head in through an X-window. "I knew the name of the
- movie, but didn't reply (too busy with RL)... It's one of my favorite films
- of all time, the best thing that George Lucas has done (IMHO). The basic plot
- centers around the hero, THX1138 (yes, that's his name) and his problems
- coping with his society (which claims to be Utopia, but is actually an Orwell-
- ian totalitarianism, ala 1984 - pretty dystopic, if you ask me). Eventually,
- he gets thrown in prison... Oh, hell, just go rent it. It's a good movie,
- and much better than Star Wars, I think."
-
- "Thirsty work, this. Mike, build me a strawberry daiquiri, please."
-
- ---------------
- Starknight, aka Sean Roberts
- Science-fiction fanatic and voracious reader
-