• "Don't Look Up" on Netflix

    From Lynn McGuire@lynnmcguire5@gmail.com to rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.movies.current-films,rec.arts.sf.movies on Sun Dec 26 18:38:24 2021
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    I just watched the new movie "Don't Look Up" on Netflix. With Meryl
    Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, etc. The
    movie is the theater of the absurd. Two astronomers find out that a
    comet is going to hit the Earth in seven month and people spend the
    entire seven months arguing about whether the comet is real or not.
    Just the opposite of the "Deep Impact" movie".
    https://www.netflix.com/title/81252357

    Warning: the ending is NC-17 (full frontal nudity).

    Lynn
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  • From danny burstein@dannyb@panix.com to rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.movies.current-films,rec.arts.sf.movies on Mon Dec 27 00:45:55 2021
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    In <sqb1u1$cb$1@dont-email.me> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

    I just watched the new movie "Don't Look Up" on Netflix. With Meryl
    Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, etc. The
    movie is the theater of the absurd. Two astronomers find out that a
    comet is going to hit the Earth in seven month and people spend the
    entire seven months arguing about whether the comet is real or not.
    Just the opposite of the "Deep Impact" movie".
    https://www.netflix.com/title/81252357

    Warning: the ending is NC-17 (full frontal nudity).

    Is that supposed to be a warning or a sales point?
    --
    _____________________________________________________
    Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
    dannyb@panix.com
    [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
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  • From Ninapenda Jibini@taustinca@gmail.com to rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.movies.current-films,rec.arts.sf.movies on Mon Dec 27 00:52:13 2021
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    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote in
    news:sqb1u1$cb$1@dont-email.me:

    I just watched the new movie "Don't Look Up" on Netflix. With
    Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill,
    etc. The movie is the theater of the absurd. Two astronomers
    find out that a comet is going to hit the Earth in seven month
    and people spend the entire seven months arguing about whether
    the comet is real or not. Just the opposite of the "Deep Impact"
    movie".
    https://www.netflix.com/title/81252357

    Warning: the ending is NC-17 (full frontal nudity).

    Nudity only gets you an R rating, even full frontal nudity. (And that
    is, in fact, that rating the MPAA gave it, according to IMDB.)
    --
    Terry Austin

    Proof that Alan Baker is a liar and a fool, and even stupider than
    Lynn:
    https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration


    "Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
    -- David Bilek

    Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.
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  • From Lynn McGuire@lynnmcguire5@gmail.com to rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.movies.current-films,rec.arts.sf.movies on Sun Dec 26 19:20:49 2021
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    On 12/26/2021 6:45 PM, danny burstein wrote:
    In <sqb1u1$cb$1@dont-email.me> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

    I just watched the new movie "Don't Look Up" on Netflix. With Meryl
    Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, etc. The
    movie is the theater of the absurd. Two astronomers find out that a
    comet is going to hit the Earth in seven month and people spend the
    entire seven months arguing about whether the comet is real or not.
    Just the opposite of the "Deep Impact" movie".
    https://www.netflix.com/title/81252357

    Warning: the ending is NC-17 (full frontal nudity).

    Is that supposed to be a warning or a sales point?

    Warning: it is a bunch of 60+ year olds including Meryl Streep (probably
    her body double).

    Lynn
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  • From Lynn McGuire@lynnmcguire5@gmail.com to rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.movies.current-films,rec.arts.sf.movies on Sun Dec 26 19:21:53 2021
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    On 12/26/2021 6:52 PM, Ninapenda Jibini wrote:
    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote in news:sqb1u1$cb$1@dont-email.me:

    I just watched the new movie "Don't Look Up" on Netflix. With
    Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill,
    etc. The movie is the theater of the absurd. Two astronomers
    find out that a comet is going to hit the Earth in seven month
    and people spend the entire seven months arguing about whether
    the comet is real or not. Just the opposite of the "Deep Impact"
    movie".
    https://www.netflix.com/title/81252357

    Warning: the ending is NC-17 (full frontal nudity).

    Nudity only gets you an R rating, even full frontal nudity. (And that
    is, in fact, that rating the MPAA gave it, according to IMDB.)

    Really ? I thought that full frontal was a NC-17.

    Lynn

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  • From djheydt@djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) to rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.movies.current-films,rec.arts.sf.movies on Mon Dec 27 01:39:18 2021
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.sf.movies

    In article <sqb2c3$p8h$1@reader1.panix.com>,
    danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
    In <sqb1u1$cb$1@dont-email.me> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

    I just watched the new movie "Don't Look Up" on Netflix. With Meryl >>Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, etc. The
    movie is the theater of the absurd. Two astronomers find out that a
    comet is going to hit the Earth in seven month and people spend the
    entire seven months arguing about whether the comet is real or not.
    Just the opposite of the "Deep Impact" movie".
    https://www.netflix.com/title/81252357

    Warning: the ending is NC-17 (full frontal nudity).

    Is that supposed to be a warning or a sales point?

    For me, it's a warning; thanks, Lynn.

    (Not to mention that it sounds like a stupid plot.)
    --
    Dorothy J. Heydt
    Vallejo, California
    djheydt at gmail dot com
    Www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/
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  • From djheydt@djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) to rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.movies.current-films,rec.arts.sf.movies on Mon Dec 27 01:41:28 2021
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    In article <sqb4di$c2v$1@dont-email.me>,
    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 12/26/2021 6:45 PM, danny burstein wrote:
    In <sqb1u1$cb$1@dont-email.me> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes: >>
    I just watched the new movie "Don't Look Up" on Netflix. With Meryl
    Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, etc. The
    movie is the theater of the absurd. Two astronomers find out that a
    comet is going to hit the Earth in seven month and people spend the
    entire seven months arguing about whether the comet is real or not.
    Just the opposite of the "Deep Impact" movie".
    https://www.netflix.com/title/81252357

    Warning: the ending is NC-17 (full frontal nudity).

    Is that supposed to be a warning or a sales point?

    Warning: it is a bunch of 60+ year olds including Meryl Streep (probably
    her body double).

    /google

    DiCaprio's only 47. And still looks like a five-month fetus,
    even when wearing a beard.
    --
    Dorothy J. Heydt
    Vallejo, California
    djheydt at gmail dot com
    Www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/
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  • From Ninapenda Jibini@taustinca@gmail.com to rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.movies.current-films,rec.arts.sf.movies on Mon Dec 27 02:54:02 2021
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    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote in
    news:sqb4fi$c2v$2@dont-email.me:

    On 12/26/2021 6:52 PM, Ninapenda Jibini wrote:
    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote in
    news:sqb1u1$cb$1@dont-email.me:

    I just watched the new movie "Don't Look Up" on Netflix. With
    Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah
    Hill, etc. The movie is the theater of the absurd. Two
    astronomers find out that a comet is going to hit the Earth in
    seven month and people spend the entire seven months arguing
    about whether the comet is real or not. Just the opposite of
    the "Deep Impact" movie".
    https://www.netflix.com/title/81252357

    Warning: the ending is NC-17 (full frontal nudity).

    Nudity only gets you an R rating, even full frontal nudity.
    (And that is, in fact, that rating the MPAA gave it, according
    to IMDB.)

    Really ? I thought that full frontal was a NC-17.

    Not by itself, and in fact, not required for NC-17. It is enitrely
    possible to get an NC-17 rating with no nudity at all. Mostly, it's
    about a sexual *context*, but some forms of extreme violence will
    get that rating, too.

    From the MPAA's "CLASSIFICATION AND RATING RULES" booklet:

    "An NC-17 rated motion picture is one that, in the view of the
    Rating Board, most parents would consider patently too adult for
    their children 17 and under. No children will be admitted. NC-17
    does not mean "obscene" or "pornographic" in the common or legal
    meaning of those words, and should not be construed as a negative
    judgment in any sense. The rating simply signals that the content
    is appropriate only for an adult audience. An NC-17 rating can be
    based on violence, sex, aberrational behavior, drug abuse or any
    other element that most parents would consider too strong and
    therefore off-limits for viewing by their children,"

    (And, of course, the politics of Hollywood. The same film submitted
    by a big studio might get an R, but submitted as an indie might be
    NC-17. It's been done.)
    --
    Terry Austin

    Proof that Alan Baker is a liar and a fool, and even stupider than
    Lynn:
    https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration


    "Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
    -- David Bilek

    Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.
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  • From Ninapenda Jibini@taustinca@gmail.com to rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.movies.current-films,rec.arts.sf.movies on Mon Dec 27 02:55:18 2021
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    djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in
    news:r4r39I.1BME@kithrup.com:

    In article <sqb2c3$p8h$1@reader1.panix.com>,
    danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
    In <sqb1u1$cb$1@dont-email.me> Lynn McGuire
    <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

    I just watched the new movie "Don't Look Up" on Netflix. With
    Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill,
    etc. The movie is the theater of the absurd. Two astronomers
    find out that a comet is going to hit the Earth in seven month
    and people spend the entire seven months arguing about whether
    the comet is real or not. Just the opposite of the "Deep
    Impact" movie".
    https://www.netflix.com/title/81252357

    Warning: the ending is NC-17 (full frontal nudity).

    Is that supposed to be a warning or a sales point?

    For me, it's a warning; thanks, Lynn.

    (Not to mention that it sounds like a stupid plot.)

    It sounds like it's Hollywood's idea of social commentary on the
    pandemic, anti-vaccine idiocy, and climate change in general.

    Like all things Hollywood does, it's done poorly, and stupidly.
    --
    Terry Austin

    Proof that Alan Baker is a liar and a fool, and even stupider than
    Lynn:
    https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration


    "Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
    -- David Bilek

    Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From J. Clarke@jclarke.873638@gmail.com to rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.movies.current-films,rec.arts.sf.movies on Mon Dec 27 04:32:15 2021
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    On Sun, 26 Dec 2021 18:38:24 -0600, Lynn McGuire
    <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    I just watched the new movie "Don't Look Up" on Netflix. With Meryl
    Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, etc. The
    movie is the theater of the absurd. Two astronomers find out that a
    comet is going to hit the Earth in seven month and people spend the
    entire seven months arguing about whether the comet is real or not.
    Just the opposite of the "Deep Impact" movie".
    https://www.netflix.com/title/81252357

    Warning: the ending is NC-17 (full frontal nudity).

    On balance I enjoyed it. Lot of political charicatures. But I can
    see it going down that way.
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  • From eichlertwothedigitnotspelled@eichlertwothedigitnotspelled@comcast.net (Bice) to rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.movies.current-films,rec.arts.sf.movies on Mon Dec 27 16:18:11 2021
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.sf.movies

    On Mon, 27 Dec 2021 01:39:18 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J
    Heydt) wrote:

    In <sqb1u1$cb$1@dont-email.me> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes: >>
    Two astronomers find out that a
    comet is going to hit the Earth in seven month and people spend the >>>entire seven months arguing about whether the comet is real or not.

    (Not to mention that it sounds like a stupid plot.)

    My daughter and I watched the movie Christmas night.

    It's not so much about the comet as it is a commentary on how people
    would rather believe social media, lying politicians and billionaire businessmen who support their pre-conceived notions than listen to
    scientists telling them that there's a great danger they need to do
    something about.

    I liked the movie. Good dark comedy, kind of reminded me of something
    Stanley Kubrick might make if he was still around.

    -- Bob

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  • From Lynn McGuire@lynnmcguire5@gmail.com to rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.movies.current-films,rec.arts.sf.movies on Mon Dec 27 14:17:42 2021
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    On 12/26/2021 8:55 PM, Ninapenda Jibini wrote:
    djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in
    news:r4r39I.1BME@kithrup.com:

    In article <sqb2c3$p8h$1@reader1.panix.com>,
    danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
    In <sqb1u1$cb$1@dont-email.me> Lynn McGuire
    <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

    I just watched the new movie "Don't Look Up" on Netflix. With
    Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill,
    etc. The movie is the theater of the absurd. Two astronomers
    find out that a comet is going to hit the Earth in seven month
    and people spend the entire seven months arguing about whether
    the comet is real or not. Just the opposite of the "Deep
    Impact" movie".
    https://www.netflix.com/title/81252357

    Warning: the ending is NC-17 (full frontal nudity).

    Is that supposed to be a warning or a sales point?

    For me, it's a warning; thanks, Lynn.

    (Not to mention that it sounds like a stupid plot.)

    It sounds like it's Hollywood's idea of social commentary on the
    pandemic, anti-vaccine idiocy, and climate change in general.

    Like all things Hollywood does, it's done poorly, and stupidly.

    It is a farce. Who would walk out into a new planet naked and unarmed ?

    Lynn
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  • From Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha@taustinca@gmail.com to rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.movies.current-films,rec.arts.sf.movies on Mon Dec 27 14:15:43 2021
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.sf.movies

    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote in
    news:sqd714$15p$2@dont-email.me:

    On 12/26/2021 8:55 PM, Ninapenda Jibini wrote:
    djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in
    news:r4r39I.1BME@kithrup.com:

    In article <sqb2c3$p8h$1@reader1.panix.com>,
    danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
    In <sqb1u1$cb$1@dont-email.me> Lynn McGuire
    <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

    I just watched the new movie "Don't Look Up" on Netflix.
    With Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio,
    Jonah Hill, etc. The movie is the theater of the absurd.
    Two astronomers find out that a comet is going to hit the
    Earth in seven month and people spend the entire seven
    months arguing about whether the comet is real or not. Just
    the opposite of the "Deep Impact" movie".
    https://www.netflix.com/title/81252357

    Warning: the ending is NC-17 (full frontal nudity).

    Is that supposed to be a warning or a sales point?

    For me, it's a warning; thanks, Lynn.

    (Not to mention that it sounds like a stupid plot.)

    It sounds like it's Hollywood's idea of social commentary on
    the pandemic, anti-vaccine idiocy, and climate change in
    general.

    Like all things Hollywood does, it's done poorly, and stupidly.

    It is a farce. Who would walk out into a new planet naked and
    unarmed ?

    Why would they hesitate to do so? The Script Writers are With Them,
    and there's no more powerful force known to man.

    As I said, stupidly.
    --
    Terry Austin

    Proof that Alan Baker is a liar and a fool, and even stupider than
    Lynn:
    https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration
    (May 2019 total for people arrested for entering the United States
    illegally is over 132,000 for just the southwest border.)

    Vacation photos from Iceland:
    https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/QaXQkB

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  • From J. Clarke@jclarke.873638@gmail.com to rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.movies.current-films,rec.arts.sf.movies on Mon Dec 27 17:58:40 2021
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    On Mon, 27 Dec 2021 14:17:42 -0600, Lynn McGuire
    <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 12/26/2021 8:55 PM, Ninapenda Jibini wrote:
    djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in
    news:r4r39I.1BME@kithrup.com:

    In article <sqb2c3$p8h$1@reader1.panix.com>,
    danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
    In <sqb1u1$cb$1@dont-email.me> Lynn McGuire
    <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:

    I just watched the new movie "Don't Look Up" on Netflix. With
    Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill,
    etc. The movie is the theater of the absurd. Two astronomers
    find out that a comet is going to hit the Earth in seven month
    and people spend the entire seven months arguing about whether
    the comet is real or not. Just the opposite of the "Deep
    Impact" movie".
    https://www.netflix.com/title/81252357

    Warning: the ending is NC-17 (full frontal nudity).

    Is that supposed to be a warning or a sales point?

    For me, it's a warning; thanks, Lynn.

    (Not to mention that it sounds like a stupid plot.)

    It sounds like it's Hollywood's idea of social commentary on the
    pandemic, anti-vaccine idiocy, and climate change in general.

    Like all things Hollywood does, it's done poorly, and stupidly.

    It is a farce. Who would walk out into a new planet naked and unarmed ?

    Professional do-gooders?

    Lynn
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  • From The Starmaker@starmaker@ix.netcom.com to rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.movies.current-films,rec.arts.sf.movies on Wed Dec 29 11:57:54 2021
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    Lynn McGuire wrote:

    I just watched the new movie "Don't Look Up" on Netflix. With Meryl
    Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, etc. The
    movie is the theater of the absurd. Two astronomers find out that a
    comet is going to hit the Earth in seven month and people spend the
    entire seven months arguing about whether the comet is real or not.
    Just the opposite of the "Deep Impact" movie".
    https://www.netflix.com/title/81252357

    Warning: the ending is NC-17 (full frontal nudity).

    Lynn

    You mean...don't look down.
    --
    The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
    to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
    and challenge
    the unchallengeable.
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  • From Lynn McGuire@lynnmcguire5@gmail.com to rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.movies.current-films,rec.arts.sf.movies on Wed Dec 29 14:55:54 2021
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.sf.movies

    On 12/26/2021 6:38 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    I just watched the new movie "Don't Look Up" on Netflix.-a With Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, etc.-a The
    movie is the theater of the absurd.-a Two astronomers find out that a
    comet is going to hit the Earth in seven month and people spend the
    entire seven months arguing about whether the comet is real or not. Just
    the opposite of the "Deep Impact" movie".
    -a-a https://www.netflix.com/title/81252357

    Warning: the ending is NC-17 (full frontal nudity).

    Lynn

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10352813/Meryls-nude-scene-Leonardo-did-NOT-want-see.html

    Lynn
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  • From om@om@iki.fi (Otto J. Makela) to rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.movies.current-films,rec.arts.sf.movies on Mon Jan 3 13:03:04 2022
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    Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

    The movie is the theater of the absurd. Two astronomers find out that
    a comet is going to hit the Earth in seven month and people spend the
    entire seven months arguing about whether the comet is real or not.

    Considering how the COVID-19 situation is currently going,
    this unfortunately seems like a very realistic approach.

    Followup-to: rec.arts.movies.current-films,rec.arts.sf.movies
    --
    /* * * Otto J. Makela <om@iki.fi> * * * * * * * * * */
    /* Phone: +358 40 765 5772, ICBM: N 60 10' E 24 55' */
    /* Mail: Mechelininkatu 26 B 27, FI-00100 Helsinki */
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  • From Ignatios Souvatzis@u502sou@bnhb484.de to rec.arts.sf.movies on Sat Jul 9 17:01:04 2022
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    J Clarke wrote:
    On Mon, 27 Dec 2021 14:17:42 -0600, Lynn McGuire
    <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:


    It is a farce. Who would walk out into a new planet naked and unarmed ?

    Professional do-gooders?

    Mrs. Long, afair. Mr. Long suggested she'd add a firearm to her outfit,
    as non-humans might not react to her vision as she intended.

    -is
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