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   Netrunner to All   
   Re: [OT] Monopoly   
   14 Nov 08 05:56:52   
   
   From: e-mail.me@from.BRmovie.com   
      
   Standing in the dark, rainy shadows of a city alleyway, I spied the   
   Replicant SanFrancisco2019 covertly transmitting a message to renegade   
   friends in alt.fan.blade-runner.  Tracking...   
      
   >"Netrunner"  wrote in message   
   >news:pahoh49u1o6khpe9d4lrcc8sikmvn7pn3h@4ax.com...   
   >>   
   >> So what do you peeps think about a movie based on the board game   
   >> Monopoly?  What on Earth could the plot be?  The Ridley is supposedly   
   >> producing this.   
   >>   
   >   
   >I see it as a sequel to "Wall Street", where a bunch of cocky, over-educated   
   >doofuses badly manipulate pieces of real estate and piles of cash as if they   
   >were worthless toys, thus bringing down the mighty financial markets of a   
   >once proud and respected superpower.   
      
   Can we say "sub-prime mortgages"?  Followed by "foreclosures"?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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