Over? Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

Yes... it seems it was.

Worst day in politics since I don't know when.

I feel like someone wandering around in a cornfield after surviving a plane crash... except maybe without the surviving part.

[alsame]

1. Since 12/12/00, when Jr was installed. nt

[dgibby]

26. It's all part of the continuum,

starting with Prescott Bush's attempt to overthrow FDR. Poppy, Baby enablers, now Supreme Court completes the Coup.

To paraphrase Craig Ferguson, It's a bad day for America.

[Generator]

60. Wrong when the CIA coup killed Kennedy

That was the defining moment of our Democracy. Obama would never-if he really were a progressive-and I'm not sure he is -do anything to upset the military-cia apple cart complex. He probably values his life and power too much.

[dflprincess]

94. That's the date I pick

for the beginning of the end of the Republic.

[elehhhhna]

126. ding ding you win! boy did they get trigger happy for awhile after that,

too, huh?

[Uncle Joe]

78. I agree, that's the date of the current continuum. n/t

[bluethruandthru]

2. I find myself fantasizing about living in another country.

One that's sane!

[Arugula Latte]

13. Me too.

That dream diminished for me in Nov. '08. Today it is back with a vengeance.

[Hannah Bell]

71. you can run, but you can't hide. the forces are global, not local.

there's no safe haven.

[Hekate]

125. When you find one, PM me so I can get out of here before the stampede...

;-)

Yeah, Mr. H and I fantasize about it too, but the fact is, I'm not going anywhere.

Hekate

[Libertas1776]

3. The Germans?

:shrug:

[ElmoBlatz]

4. this comes up EVERY time

Yes, the Germans.

[Donnachaidh]

5. uhh -- Animal House line

Bluto (John Belushi)

:rofl:

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

6. It's a line from a movie

In Animal House John Belushi gives a nonsensical inspirational speech that works, despite having that erroneous line in it.

[Libertas1776]

19. I know...

and my follow up is actually a quote from Otter to which the character Boon says something like "forget about it, he (Bluto) is on a roll." God, I love that movie.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

29. Nice Willie Gillis sig picture, BTW

[Libertas1776]

32. Sharp eye. You're the first to recognize what it is...

Thanks.
:hi:

[Froward69]

50. inspirational...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q47bpOCTcaY&feature=related

[Libertas1776]

59. Christ!

Seven years of college down the drain:rofl:

[Raster]

115. You. Are. On. A. Roll!

:toast:

[TicketyBoo]

101. I'm glad you explained.

I haven't seen Animal House in many years, so I assumed it was just one more wacky conspiracy theory.

They're so popular around here, it seems.

[deutsey]

8. Line from "Animal House" n/t

[bigjohn16]

10. Animal House

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8lT1o0sDwI

[Ecumenist]

18. I've NEVER seen this movie and never wanted to.. Not my cup of tea.

[bigjohn16]

22. ok. nt

[Rebubula]

23. Well...

...thanks for stopping by and telling us that you are above such immature pasttimes as watching incredibly funny and stupid movies.


Sheesh....I bet that you are a blast at parties.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

25. I don't care for parties... too much excitement.

[Rebubula]

42. cool...

...was not replying to you...

Have a nice day...

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

44. It was a joke

[myrna minx]

57. This sub-thread is awesome.

:rofl:

On edit - this *whole* thread is fantastic.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

90. thanks... maybe

[myrna minx]

96. In this brave new DU world, any innocuous thread has the potential to be flamed

and it makes me cackle. A hilarious toss away line from a classic movie perplexingly fanned flame wars and this thread did not disappoint. I love how meta we've become where no one knows where humor begins and ends.

[Blue_Tires]

108. +1... this isn't even the first time its happened in a thread started

with a pop culture funny movie quote...the circle keeps spinning so fast I can't even keep up anymore...

I need a brower app that gives me hourly updates on whether irony is dead or alive...

[Regret My New Name]

109. LOL...

[dflprincess]

95. I find toga parties especially taxing

and now that I'm older I'd prefer not to expose my upper arms.

:evilgrin:

[Bluebear]

120. --

[Ecumenist]

74. I like comedy, I just don't like ALL comedic movies.

I never said nor implied that I was above watching good movies. I just never liked the vast majority of SNL or the actors on it. Eddie Murphy, Tracy Morgan, Gilda Radner, and a few other, I LOVED. Just not Belushi. Good grief, Just because I haven't watched it doesn't make me droll. Different strokes for different folks..

[xxqqqzme]

53. OK then.

'Turn it up to 11!

[WolverineDG]

64. Well, all I've got to say to you is

Fat, drunk, & stupid is no way to go through life, son.

dg

[Froward69]

75. Works for me :)

"you did not puke in front of Dean Wormer... You puked ON Dean Wormer"... :rofl: :spray:

[Arkana]

93. Yes, hmmm, I know EXACTLY how you feel, my friend.

I like to relax with a good glass of cognac in my private parlor during the evenings and read Proust.

I most certainly would NEVER be caught doing such base things as...watching a MOVIE. How PLEBEIAN.

[TicketyBoo]

102. You might be surprised.

Sure beats The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which had me turning it off about 10 minutes in. (Sure glad I didn't waste my money going to the movie for that one!)

Animal House is a classic.

[Javaman]

Shhh, she's on a roll. nt

[hlthe2b]

27. Ohh, darlin... are you THAT young?

Get thee to Blockbuster and rent Animal House.... STAT! ;)

[Libertas1776]

36. See post # 19

Don't worry, I've seen Animal House umpteen times. Heck, I've asked for Babs at Universal Studios. No luck, though.

[slackmaster]

34. Don't stop him

He's on a roll.

[SidDithers]

49. Forget it. He's rolling...nt

Sid

[hootinholler]

58. Let him go, He's on a roll. n/t

[WolverineDG]

63. wow, that was quick

Do yourself a favor & put "Animal House" in your Netflix queue at #1.

dg

[tekisui]

7. Any hope I had left is vaporizing.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

9. This is from that really old movie, isn't it?

:shrug:

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

11. Ouch! Yes, circa 1977 (so now I'm really old on top of everything else!)

[bigjohn16]

15. Animal House

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8lT1o0sDwI

[TicketyBoo]

103. "Really old movie"?

No, a really old movie is silent.

A pretty old movie is in black and white.

Oh, to be young enough to think that Animal House is a really old movie!

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

112. Yes, it's from Charlie Chaplin's 1925 classic THE GOLD RUSH

His prediction about Pearl Harbor was a little off

[Ecumenist]

12. UMMM ? The Germans didn' bomb Pearl Harbor....The Japanese did...

And of course not, it wasn't over. I don't know about everyone esle but I'm in this for the long haul.

[Arugula Latte]

21. It's a joke. From a movie -- "Animal House."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8lT1o0sDwI&feature=related

D-Day (Bruce McGill): War's over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.
Bluto (John Belushi): Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter (Tim Matheson): Germans?
Boon (Peter Riegert): Forget it, he's rolling.
Bluto: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough... the tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go! What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer -
Otter: Dead! Bluto's right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.
Bluto: We're just the guys to do it.
D-Day: Let's do it.
Bluto: LET'S DO IT!!

[nimvg]

30. You Gotta Love...

...how the orchestra gets stuck. Great stuff.

[Ian David]

14. Thank you Denver, City by The Bay! n/t

[Ecumenist]

16. LOL!!

[ShortnFiery]

17. Equating College Greeks and Dean Wormer to Multi-National Corporations ...

well, I just can't see "the humor" in such an *Animal House* analogy.

Yet, I have enough spark to merely quip, "Eat ME!" :evilgrin:

[gkhouston]

45. Yeah, it's an insult to the Greeks. At least they paid for their own keggers. n/t

[ShortnFiery]

47. Absolutely!

:silly:

Now to urgent BUSINESS: Your Pledge Name is "Soused" and the OP's is "Stoner." :party: :smoke: :toast:

[JimWis]

20. It has been a depressing week. Like watching things go to hell

and can't do anything to control it. Sigh.

[Arugula Latte]

33. Amazing how quickly it all turned to shit, huh?

[DefenseLawyer]

24. The time has come for someone to put his foot down

and that foot... is me.

[peace frog]

31. Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

:)

[DefenseLawyer]

54. Well, you can do what you want to us...

but we're not going to sit here and listen to you bad-mouth the United States of America!

[peace frog]

62. They took the bar!

The whole fucking bar!

[Blue_Tires]

104. GENTLEMEN!!

<<<<<<<<<<<< Marches out of the room while humming "The Star-spangled Banner"

[peace frog]

124. They confiscated everything, even the stuff we didn't steal!

.

[FreakinDJ]

28. LOL - the Germans

:rofl:

[RaleighNCDUer]

35. I keep waiting for someone to tap me on the shoulder and tell me to

'Walk toward the light'.

[Robyn66]

37. I don't know whether to feel sad because I immediately knew where that quote was

from, which means I am OLD or sad because others just don't appreciate Animal House like I did as a kid!

[TicketyBoo]

105. OLD?

Not iffen you was a KID when Animal House came out.

[Blue_Tires]

106. there was a great analysis in the Chronicle of Higher Education

awhile back on the 30th anniversary of the movie, why it is still loved so much, and its relevance to today's students

[gauguin57]

38. If only Mass. had elected Senator Blutarsky instead.

[TicketyBoo]

110. If only

he were alive to serve alongside Al Franken.

We'd really have something going, wouldn't we?

[proteus_lives]

39. It's over when we're dead.

Until then, keep swinging.

[JDPriestly]

40. Correction. The Germans did not bomb Pearl Harbor. The Japanese did.

[B3Nut]

41. You need to rent Animal House.

It's a joke from that movie.

[hfojvt]

46. nah, Utube saves lots of time and money

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q47bpOCTcaY

[SidDithers]

51. Successful troll is successful...nt

Sid

[Cali_Democrat]

55. It's from a movie. n/t

[hfojvt]

43. Nonsense.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKhEw7nD9C4


It's just a flesh wound.

[hayu_lol]

48. Something else out of that movie that might prove effective...

might do some of our reps and senators some good if we found a way to put a dead 'ass,' wheels up, in each of their offices to show our appreciation for NO JOB LEFT BEHIND.

For those too strait-laced to see such trash as 'Animal House,' this would be time to catch up. In spots, one of the funniest movies ever. In other spots, it was dead on arrival.

[hfojvt]

52. we got our wires crossed

I went to a different movie.

[TicketyBoo]

111. Oh. if we're turning to Python for inspiration,

we'd just as well go to my favorite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ

[Raster]

117. Oh my gosh. A Python conspiracy. How wacky.

[Political Heretic]

56. Never saw Animal House, but I did read the thread before I mocked your headline. :)

[JDPriestly]

61. The incorrect information still has to be set straight.

I have met many young people who are seriously confused about this issue. Movie or not, the historical truth must be stated over and over even when we don't like that truth. A funny scene in a movie can become accepted as the true story. Literature has power.

[taterguy]

66. What makes you so sure it wasn't the Germans? Did they recover any Japanese bodies?

Sure the planes had Japanese markings but how difficult would it be to fake those?

[JDPriestly]

86. I believe that we defeated the Japanese. This information would have

been very easy to get from survivors of the Japanese military command.

We actually broke the Japanese codes after the war started you know.

Go study history. How young are you?

[taterguy]

89. Old enough to know better than to fall for the official story

You probably think those destroyers really were attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin.

[JDPriestly]

97. I know all about Johnson and the Gulf of Tonkin.

The Germans kept excellent records. Had they bombed Pearl Harbor before we officially entered the war, they would have bombed our mainland during the war. Stop joking around. You will confuse people who don't know better.

[taterguy]

100. Study some history. It was the Japanese that bombed our mainland

They launched sea planes from submarines and started a few forest fires on the West Coast.

[JDPriestly]

113. Then we agree. The Japanese bombed us in the Pacific.

The Germans had, as I understand it U-boats on our Atlantic side and may have succeeded in some sabotage. The Germans never bombed our country. I was born during WWII and am quite familiar with the history. Members of my family served and told their stories (those that they were allowed to tell).

[taterguy]

118. Your post concedes that some stories from World War II can't be told

What if one of those stories is about the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor?

And the Germans had plenty of U-boats in the Atlantic. They used to make beer runs at the General Store in Hatteras Village.

[JDPriestly]

121. You are ridiculous. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

Had the Germans been able to bomb Pearl Harbor, they would have bombed the west coast of the U.S. Most of the WWII secrets are now known. We cracked some codes and kept the fact secret until some time in the 1970s. Many, many people were involved in cracking those codes, e.g. Enigma. None of them breathed a word.

[taterguy]

122. You claim the Japanse bombed Pear Harbor and yet they didn't bomb the West Coast

Except for the aforementioned token raids from submarine-launched sea planes.

You're contradicting yourself dude.

And the code-breaking wasn't the only secret of World War II.

How long did it take to reveal the US role in the sinking of the Bismark? I still don't think that has been fully detailed.

Who's to say there aren't more unrevealed secrets?

[TicketyBoo]

107. Somehow, I just

knew that we'd get around to another conspiracy theory here.

[nadinbrzezinski]

65. It was the JAPANESE that bombed Pearl Harbor

on December 7th, 1941.

Just a CRITICAL correction

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

68. And the 60 replies above yours didn't inform you of anything?

[nadinbrzezinski]

72. You can post that 20K times. You will still be corrected

I have little patience for mis-informaiton, even if that is a line in a movie.

We have a pretty ignorant population, some folks will take it as gospel, since well shit, it was posted in the interwebs

[ShortnFiery]

79. We can settle this ...

Guess what I am now? :evilgrin:

.

.

.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnVKkJFYkhg&feature=related

[tabasco]

87. Jesus Fucking Christ - - - it's a joke.

I bet you're a gas at parties.

[L0oniX]

67. DOH! ...go back to school and learn some basic history.

"Germans bombed Pearl Harbor" I would laugh but it's too sad.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

69. Go back to any one of 60+ replies above yours and learn some basic film history

:hi:

[L0oniX]

73. Which intelligent, fountain of information and scholarly movie would that be?

You watch the Porkies movies too? I hope you've at least moved away from watching cartoons by now.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

76. pompous, ignorant, arrogant and petty is no way to go through life

[lumberjack_jeff]

82. +1 lol

[HughMoran]

88. agreed

holy smoke!

[Raster]

116. SNAP!!!

Damned fine reply. Damn fine!

[cliffordu]

70. You and me both, bruddahs

[Obamanaut]

77. It would appear, based on the number of posters who offered a correction,

that they did so before reading all the attempts preceding theirs.

A clear violation of the 'look before leaping' rule. Or 'read before typing'

[WolverineDG]

92. Or "know your pop culture references" nt

[old mark]

80. I thought it was the Irish.....nt

[lumberjack_jeff]

81. Senator Blutarsky for President.

"Flounder, you can't spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes! You fucked up - you trusted us! Hey, make the best of it! Maybe we can help."

"my advice is to start drinking heavily"

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

84. Wow, that's a good second-term slogan. "You fucked up - you trusted us! Hey, make the best of it!"

[m_anders]

83. It seems some people on here are too young to remember John Belushi...

[groundloop]

85. TOGA ! ! ! ! ! !

Damn, I can't believe how many people admit to never watching Animal House. It makes me wanna' SHOUT.

Hell, I LIVED that movie (Which is one big reason I tell my kids they're not joining a fraternity).

[FailureToCommunicate]

91. "Daddy, what's a fraternity?" Negative waves, man,negative waves...

(Shout out to Donald Sutherland)

[Frank Booth]

98. I'm pretty sure the Koreans bombed Pearl Harbor.

Thereby leading to the Korean War, which spilled into the Vietnam War.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

99. Correct. Funny how many folks don't know that.

[DaveofCali]

114. Oh great, its laughable how many know-it-alls did not get the quote...

..and themselves look pretty archaic. Cmon, the internet is full of jokes and popular quotes. Get with the times.

[Bluebear]

119. "Get with the times" you say? What time, 1978? :)

[DailyGrind51]

123. I was just thinking of Beluschi's "Animal House" speech myself!

It is difficult getting the Party's agenda passed when the Speaker of the House is stronger than both the Senate Majority Leader and the President.