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   Sentinel to All   
   Re: About the recent deck-a-rep thread   
   22 Mar 08 21:24:03   
   
   From: darth.vader@empire.gov   
      
   "SanFrancisco2019"  schreef in bericht   
   news:zndFj.23426$Ej5.1499@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net...   
   > "Sentinel"  wrote in message   
   > news:64itt6F284jqkU1@mid.individual.net...   
   >>   
   >> Are you quite sure you "got" the "humane" message of this movie? Doesn't   
   >> if seem strange you have to distance yourself from its director to really   
   >> feel you are comfortable with it?   
   >>   
   >> Once more, Blade Runner is the movie it is BECAUSE of Ridley Scott.   
   >> Without him does anyone think we would even be here discussing some   
   >> 26-year-old movie?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >    I don't wish to be insulting, but you must have a yard of guts to   
   > question whether I, or any other regular, trusted poster to this group,   
   > "gets" what Blade Runner is, at it's core, all about.  This quibble over   
   > the actual genetic structure of the film's hero is an entertaining little   
   > distracter task, nothing more.  I read the posts and occasionally chime in   
   > on this issue because I, mostly, like how folks represent themselves here,   
   > and it keeps me in this loop.   
   >   
   >    Very rarely, however, someone, usually a kook, looney teenager or   
   > telemarketing type, will post something here that really turns me off.   
   > Well, what you wrote in your first paragraph above REALLY turned me off.   
   > I have no idea what that's worth to you, or to the group.  Perhaps this is   
   > an oversensitivity problem on my end.   
      
   BTW... telemarketing type?   
      
   Now THAT I resent! ;-)   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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