From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu
"Frank J. Lhota" writes:
>When British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited the White House, he
>brought his U.S. counterpart two particularly fine gifts: a desk carved
>from the historic anti-slave ship, HMS Resolute, and a first edition of
>the seven-volume biography of Churchill by Sir Martin Gilbert.
>In return, the new U.S. President gave Brown a DVD set of 25 classic
>American Films. I have two questions about this gift:
>1. Did Obama remember to make sure that the DVD's were region 2?
>2. Were any of the 25 films in the set shown on MST3K? I wonder what
>impact "Catalina Caper" or "Hobgoblins" would have on international
>relations.
I'd hope the Prime Minister could at least break the region
coding on his DVD player. I managed it on mine in Singapore, even
though finding the code for it required going to some of the skeeviest
web sites not actually serving up inaccurately-punctuated song lyrics.
I think they're issued sonic screwdrivers or something over there.
_Catalina Caper_ I think would mostly inspire resolution that
underwater scenes make movies draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag.
The story had this nice little beat going and then they'd do some diving
and even the weird underwater band hallucination couldn't keep it going.
_Hobgoblins_ might get war-crimes trials initiated.
Now, _The Beginning Of The End_ should finally get Britain to
give up its policy of irradiating grasshoppers to send after the Irish.
And _Ring of Terror_ would inspire both nations to not watch it.
_Overdrawn at the Memory Bank_ would probably require backing up the
Royal Memory Bank of Scotland.
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Joseph Nebus
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