Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id SAA10906 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 9 Aug 2001 18:52:06 +0100 Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 10:50:02 -0700 From: Bill Spight <bspight@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: Fwd: Making (up?) history To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Message-id: <3B72CD4A.F4F30EA7@pacbell.net> Organization: Saybrook Graduate School X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Yahoo;YIP052400} (Win95; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en References: <20010806131901.AAA21986%camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> <3B729003.204986A8@bioinf.man.ac.uk> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Dear Chris,
> We this side of the pond have been irked some recently by that submarine
> film where the US Navy captured an Enigma machine (it was the Brits) -
> dunno if the film will have enough impact to give that idea lasting life
> though (and frankly I'm not sure anyone could've told you it ever
> happened before the associated minor media rucus occurred). I suppose
> entertainment is just entertainment, but it still irritates...
>
Well, we won the Vietnam War in "Platoon". I can't wait till Custer
kicks some serious Redskin ass at Little Big Horn. ;-)
The sub movie was not only irritating, but disappointing for those of us
who saw "Das Boot".
Ciao,
Bill
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