From: mleeper@optonline.net   
      
   On Sunday, June 5, 2022 at 1:10:22 PM UTC-4, Mack A. Damia wrote:   
   > On Sun, 5 Jun 2022 08:21:32 -0700 (PDT), Mark Leeper   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > >June 25 is the fortieth anniversary of the release of JOHN   
   > >CARPENTER'S THE THING (not to be confused with THE THING FROM   
   > >ANOTHER WORLd (1951) or THE THING (2011)). Given that it is forty   
   > >years old, and based on a story that is about seventy-five years   
   > >old, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS! Briefly, this is a logic puzzle mixed   
   > >with an alien invasion story.   
   > You reminded me that the monster in "The Thing From Another World" was   
   > played by James Arness, Marshall Matt Dillon of "Gunsmoke" fame.   
      
   He also was an FBI agent in THEM!.   
      
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