Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[GonePlaid]

...while probably diminishing the horizons of others in the universe.

Yeah, but they're not important. (see Klaatu in "Day the Earth Stood Still") Klaatu verata nikto.

 

[Al Kraft]

Yeah, but they're not important. (see Klaatu in "Day the Earth Stood Still") Klaatu verata nikto.

I love people who can quote the original lines from the original movies, not the remakes! Although I think the second word was actually "barada"...but I may be wrong, and usually am!

 

[GonePlaid]

I love people who can quote the original lines from the original movies, not the remakes! Although I think the second word was actually "barada"...but I may be wrong, and usually am!

I thought it was too-'til I googled it. Patricia Neal did have a slight speech impediment and Michael Rennie(Brit)had an accent, so.........

 

[Jeff Scott]

I hadn't heard Stevie's version of Spain before. Listening to and playing that kind of music will surely keep one young. Thanks for posting that.

Here's a nother, this one with Chick, and it is a hoot.

We face challenges every day in our journey through life. Judge yourself by how well you met those challenges and how you intend to do better. At the end of every day when I reflect on my path, I deem that I have let myself down in some way or another.

Call me, Mr. Pitiful.

Can we start a club?

 

[GonePlaid]

I thought it was too-'til I googled it. Patricia Neal did have a slight speech impediment and Michael Rennie(Brit)had an accent, so.........

"Day" and "Close Encounters" are my two favorite non-Star Trek/Star Wars sci-fi flicks. JMHO.

 

[Al Kraft]

I thought it was too-'til I googled it. Patricia Neal did have a slight speech impediment and Michael Rennie had an accent, so.........

...and who am I to argue with the intellectual cache available instantaneously via Google? Add in my failing memory (which started a off a little substandard anyway) and I'm good with that answer.

 

[GonePlaid]

...and who am I to argue with the intellectual cache available instantaneously via Google? Add in my failing memory (which started a off a little substandard anyway) and I'm good with that answer.

Oh, trust me, I've been saying it "barata" for years. I was surprised when I got the red underline.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

Sorry, @GonePlaid but Wiki disagrees with you...

Edmund H. North, who wrote The Day the Earth Stood Still, also created the alien language used in the film, including the phrase "Klaatu barada nikto". The official spelling of the phrase comes directly from the script, as shown in the above image.

The phrase was never translated in the film and neither Edmund North nor 20th Century Fox ever released an official translation.

Near the end of the film, as Klaatu is pursued by the American military, he urges Helen Benson to memorize the phrase, saying "There's no limit to what he can do. He could destroy the Earth... If anything should happen to me you must go to Gort, you must say these words: Klaatu barada nikto.' Please repeat that."

Shortly after, Klaatu is shot and killed. Knowing that Klaatu has died, Gort vaporizes the polymer cube encasing him and kills the two soldiers standing guard. Helen conveys Klaatu's message. Gort takes her inside the spaceship, and then retrieves Klaatu's lifeless body, which he revives.

In the 2008 remake, the line was added at Keanu Reeves' insistence.[4] Klaatu uses it near the beginning of the film to shut down Gort, and again at the end, highly distorted and barely audible, when he stops the destruction of the Earth.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Beatles influenced.

 

[GwenOnBass]

It would change everything if instead of "klaatu barada nikto", she said "omelette du fromage".

 

[GonePlaid]

It would change everything if instead of "klaatu barada nikto", she said "omelette du fromage".

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Having a relative who used to work at EPCOT, I recommended "Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth".

 

[GwenOnBass]

Having a relative who used to work at EPCOT, I recommended "Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth".

The moronically popular Late, Great Planet Earth of the 70s might be seen as comedy today. What is it with all the people who want the world to end? Ruin your own world, pals, I'm hanging here with what's mine

 

[Al Kraft]

Late, Great Planet Earth of the 70s might be seen as comedy today.

I remember reading that book (by Hal Lindsey and a second author I can't recall) one Saturday evening at college. It was alarming in some ways, but reminded me that almost every generation has thought they were living in the biblical "end times" given a composite of world events. As sobering as that book was for some, reading national security intelligence reports and analysis is worse IME....and yet we're still here, albeit in general not treating people or the planet any kinder!

 

[GwenOnBass]

Dirtball deities aren't nearly as concerning to me as dirtball humans. Of course they never see themselves as dirtball humans.

 

[GonePlaid]

I remember reading that book (by Hal Lindsey and a second author I can't recall) one Saturday evening at college. It was alarming in some ways, but reminded me that almost every generation has thought they were living in the biblical "end times" given a composite of world events. As sobering as that book was for some, reading national security intelligence reports and analysis is worse IME....and yet we're still here, albeit in general not treating people or the planet any kinder!

In 67, while aboard a very large, nuclear powered carrier*, I-as an MU3-had a "final top secret" clearance. Some of the [stuff] I read gave me pause back then. I think I'm just as happy I don't have access to any of that now.

* the only one at the time

 

[StereoPlayer]

This is helping me pass the time these days. Today is a "Hop" test of a prototype of a starship design. Be patient, it takes a while. They are using a single Raptor Rocket engine. The final starship will have 31 raptors! Elon on his way to Mars by making history.

 

[GonePlaid]

Sorry, @GonePlaid but Wiki disagrees with you...

Edmund H. North, who wrote The Day the Earth Stood Still, also created the alien language used in the film, including the phrase "Klaatu barada nikto". The official spelling of the phrase comes directly from the script, as shown in the above image.

The phrase was never translated in the film and neither Edmund North nor 20th Century Fox ever released an official translation.

Near the end of the film, as Klaatu is pursued by the American military, he urges Helen Benson to memorize the phrase, saying "There's no limit to what he can do. He could destroy the Earth... If anything should happen to me you must go to Gort, you must say these words: Klaatu barada nikto.' Please repeat that."

Shortly after, Klaatu is shot and killed. Knowing that Klaatu has died, Gort vaporizes the polymer cube encasing him and kills the two soldiers standing guard. Helen conveys Klaatu's message. Gort takes her inside the spaceship, and then retrieves Klaatu's lifeless body, which he revives.

In the 2008 remake, the line was added at Keanu Reeves' insistence.[4] Klaatu uses it near the beginning of the film to shut down Gort, and again at the end, highly distorted and barely audible, when he stops the destruction of the Earth.

 

[Al Kraft]

In 67, while aboard a very large, nuclear powered carrier*, I-as an MU3-had a "final top secret" clearance. Some of the [stuff] I read gave me pause back then. I think I'm just as happy I don't have access to any of that now.

* the only one at the time

Must have been the Big E, CVN-65 (possibly still referred to as CVAN-65 at that time). That was one heck of a fast ship.

 

[Al Kraft]

Of course they never see themselves as dirtball humans.

In fact, IME usually just the opposite...they tend to somewhat deify themselves and see everyone who is not them as the dirtballs.

 

[GonePlaid]

Must have been the Big E, CVN-65 (possibly still referred to as CVAN-65 at that time). That was one heck of a fast ship.

Yep, CVA(N)-65.