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Nineteen Eighty-Four published 60 yrs ago today!
Monday, June 8, 2009 8:50 AM
CREVANREAVER
Monday, June 8, 2009 9:12 AM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Monday, June 8, 2009 9:30 AM
OUT2THEBLACK
Quote:Originally posted by CrevanReaver: It's now prophetic as Oceania seems to be in the making in the United States under the latest socialist regime.
Monday, June 8, 2009 10:07 AM
HERO
Quote:Originally posted by CrevanReaver: On June 8, 1949, George Orwell's now iconic Nineteen Eighty-Four was first published. It's now prophetic as Oceania seems to be in the making in the United States under the latest socialist regime.
Monday, June 8, 2009 7:12 PM
GINOBIFFARONI
Quote:Originally posted by Hero: Quote:Originally posted by CrevanReaver: On June 8, 1949, George Orwell's now iconic Nineteen Eighty-Four was first published. It's now prophetic as Oceania seems to be in the making in the United States under the latest socialist regime. So 2009 is the 60th anniversery of a book published in 1949 about 1984. The sequel (1985) was better. H "Hero. I have come to respect you"- Chrisisall, 2009.
Monday, June 8, 2009 7:14 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: It's fortunate and unfortunate that this novel was published. Fortunate because it warned us in advance that not only that what was written was possible, but it was already happening. Unfortunate, because it made a perfect blueprint for how it might happen. The same could be said for Terminator 2: Judgement Day, but it doesn't look like we're heeding those warnings either. The mistake is to think that we're just now becoming Oceania under the "latest" socialist regime. If you read your history books, Bush Jr was much more left of center on a whole lot of issues than JFK was. And it goes back a whole lot further than that on both sides. Here's hoping when they reach he inevitable conclusion of this, we look more like "Brave New World" than "Nineteen Eighty Four". "A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack] or season three of Babylon 5, mind you that would be hopeful " They don't hate America, they hate Americans " Homer Simpson Lets party like its 1939
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 2:03 AM
Quote:Originally posted by GinoBiffaroni: Quote:Originally posted by Hero: Quote:Originally posted by CrevanReaver: On June 8, 1949, George Orwell's now iconic Nineteen Eighty-Four was first published. It's now prophetic as Oceania seems to be in the making in the United States under the latest socialist regime. So 2009 is the 60th anniversery of a book published in 1949 about 1984. The sequel (1985) was better. H "Hero. I have come to respect you"- Chrisisall, 2009. Not really a sequel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_(Anthony_Burgess_novel)
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 5:12 AM
JONGSSTRAW
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 5:41 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Jongsstraw: What'd ya think of the movie with John Hurt and Richard Burton?
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 6:41 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Hero: Quote:Originally posted by Jongsstraw: What'd ya think of the movie with John Hurt and Richard Burton? "Slow moving and hard to follow. Not nearly as good as it should have been. Just go read the book instead." Or...if you can't read, just watch CNN or say something negative about Obama in school. H
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 7:08 AM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Quote:Originally posted by Jongsstraw: Slow moving, yes, but I thought is was well done. Dark, grimy, seedy.....you want to take a shower after you watch it.( kinda like a Democrat Primary debate)...
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 7:15 AM
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 7:43 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Jongsstraw: What's yer problem with men trying to have gay sex? Is that now a bad thing for you Liberals? Thought you were already balls deep in support of that cultural issue.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 7:56 AM
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 10:37 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Jongsstraw: But of course you have no problems with hypocrite extraordinnaire & disgraced Democrat Elliot Spitzer, right? Champion of morality and rightousness, just another Democrat who can't keep it in his pants. I've always supported gay rights, so sorry to take that issue away from your arsenal of assininess.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 12:31 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Public bathroom sex is just so gauche... Why not just snort some coke off the toilet tank while you're at it?
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