He was also a nudist. Truman walked in on him stark naked once and Churchill just said "You can see that the British Prime Minister has nothing to hide from the American President."
Give a man a fire, and you keep him warm for a day. SET a man on fire, and you will keep him warm for the rest of his life...
Good stuff. And people think that sort of peculiarity is new, or something.
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To give the story some context, Churchill had just got out of his bath in the White House, as Roosevelt (not Truman) came in to discuss something with him. The quip was in response to FDRs frantic reversing.
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Rochey wrote:Does the President of the US not knock?
Nah, they just send bombers and carrier strike groups.
There is only one way of avoiding the war – that is the overthrow of this society. However, as we are too weak for this task, the war is inevitable. -L. Trotsky, 1939
They shot establishing shots of Starfleet Headquarters for STIX at my alma mater! California State University Northridge. I went to that library all the time 8) Does this make me a graduate of Starfleet Academy???
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It's a cool, stately California-style building (is that an oxymoron?), but not what I would think of as "Trek." I wonder if this new film is going the way of Batman - less comic-book, more realism? I did read they're doing away with technobabble.
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Well it could also be a bad thing. If the movie is crap we cant blame
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Nothing it will never come. Death before defeat. I don’t bend or break. I end, if I meet a foe capable of it. Victory is in forcing the opponent to back down. I do not. There is no defeat.
If a movie's bad I don't blame the technobabble in it exclusively. There's a whole host of other reasons why a movie sucks.
If they're getting rid of the technobabble then that's definitely a good start.
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Well, getting rid of it completely may take away from it being Trek. Part of Star Trek is the new technologies, and technobable can enhance a story.
That said, with the amount of changes they seem to have already made, removing the technobabble most likely will not change my opinion of the movie.
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stitch626 wrote:Well, getting rid of it completely may take away from it being Trek. Part of Star Trek is the new technologies, and technobable can enhance a story.
Done properly, sure. The problem is that recent Trek has a track record of treating technobabble as incomprehensible gibberish, liberally sprinkled with the words "frequency", "phase" and "quantum", and thinking it improves the episode. It doesn't - it simply uses up screentime while adding no further information whatsoever. Therefore dispensing with said gibberish, and using plain English instead can only be a good thing.
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