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Kevin Murphy (Tom Servo) Checks In
Satellite News ^
| 10/01
| Kevin Murphy
Posted on 10/18/2001 2:17:33 PM PDT by MarkWar
Kevin Murphy sends us [Satellite News] this report on his doings and feelings during the recent terrorist attacks:
During the last week I was on the island of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, watching it all happen via the BBC on the island's single TV channel. It's a deeply troubling feeling, being on the other side of the globe, being told that your country is in trouble but you can't fly back. Of course any discomfort I felt was several hundreds of decimal points less than that felt in New York and DC.
I think you should know that on this island, populated by perhaps a hundred American expats, a very kind Cook Islander hung a United States flag on the main road in Avarua, the tiny harbor town. Within hours the flag was adorned with mounds of flowers, letters and rememberances. A searchlight kept vigil by it through the night.
Crisis has no borders, sadness no race. -kwm
[my emphasis]
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This is the kind of story the
real media might want to carry. Oh, wait, they'd have to admit that not everyone in the world
hates America...
Mark W.
(FYI -- Cook Islands --
a group of islands in the S Pacific belonging to New Zealand. 21,317; 99 sq. mi. (256 sq. km).)
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posted on
10/18/2001 2:17:33 PM PDT
by
MarkWar
To: MarkWar
Thank you!(:^>
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posted on
10/18/2001 2:21:02 PM PDT
by
Bob Evans
To: Bob Evans
Robot Roll-Call!
To: MarkWar
Bring the show back, please!!! God Bless America!
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posted on
10/18/2001 2:27:04 PM PDT
by
Mr.Clark
To: MarkWar
Dan
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posted on
10/18/2001 2:31:39 PM PDT
by
BibChr
To: TomServo
Comments?
Comment #7 Removed by Moderator
To: TomServo
namesake ping!
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posted on
10/18/2001 2:44:14 PM PDT
by
MarkWar
To: Bruce Leroy
I don't think there's been a decent show on TV since Quantum Leap/MST3K. Well, you can watch Enterprise because it stars the guy from Quantum Leap and would be a perfect subject for the MST3K treatment. :)
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posted on
10/18/2001 2:46:42 PM PDT
by
kevkrom
To: MarkWar
Hurrah for Tom Servo! (BTW, the single greatest MST3K episode is "The Starfighters" starring none other than B-1 Bob Dornan.)
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posted on
10/18/2001 2:49:53 PM PDT
by
drew
To: sendtoscott; MarkWar
Well, I'll be.
I am huge!! ;-)
Bless his big ol' heart. A truly funny, heartwarming guy with a great story. (And a helluva 'Servo' singin' voice)
Bump...
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posted on
10/18/2001 2:54:27 PM PDT
by
TomServo
To: MarkWar
BTW, thanks for the ping!!
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posted on
10/18/2001 2:54:59 PM PDT
by
TomServo
To: sendtoscott
Thanks for the ping!!
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posted on
10/18/2001 2:56:59 PM PDT
by
TomServo
To: drew
"BTW, the single greatest MST3K episode is "The Starfighters" starring none other than B-1 Bob Dornan.""They're bombing them back to the Jazz Age!"
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posted on
10/18/2001 3:00:13 PM PDT
by
Fabozz
To: drew
Hurrah for Tom Servo! (BTW, the single greatest MST3K episode is "The Starfighters" starring none other than B-1 Bob Dornan.)No way. Pick any of the 'Hercules' movies or the ones with Lee Van Cleef in them. Or 'Pod People'. 'Daddy-O' was a riot...But Starfighters wasn't that great. 'Manos - Hands Of Fate' was better. Hell, 'Mitchell' was funnier - and it was Joel's last show...
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posted on
10/18/2001 3:04:00 PM PDT
by
TomServo
To: TomServo
Come on. The best one clearly was the Japanese sci-fi flick (the name of which I can't remember) starring the flying turtle with jet propulsion. After those three were through with that one, no one was left standing.
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posted on
10/18/2001 3:09:36 PM PDT
by
Squire
To: Squire
Ahhhh - a Gamera fan, huh? Yeah - those were pretty good. I think I'm gonna have to go back and watch the ones I have taped (all of seasons 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) and gauge 'em again. But I'll say this without equivocation. "Stranded in Space" was the best one ever.
Well, at least for now...;-)
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posted on
10/18/2001 3:19:00 PM PDT
by
TomServo
To: Bruce Leroy
No lie. I'd start watching, straightfaced, and within a few minutes just be wheezing and tearing up and slapping my knee. But my wife just thought it was dumb. I can't remember hardly any of the names -- the giant Gila monster one, where everyone put his knee up; the biker one; the Lee van Cleef ones. "Captain Johnny Long-torso"; "He seems like a nice young man" -- "AT FIRST!"; etc. Those guys were hysterical, and almost always clean.
Dan
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posted on
10/18/2001 3:19:21 PM PDT
by
BibChr
To: TomServo
They all pale in comparison to the holy trinity of MST3K:
Sidehackers
Mister "B" Natural
Catalina Caper
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posted on
10/18/2001 3:22:49 PM PDT
by
IowaHawk
To: IowaHawk
Mister "B" NaturalWait a minute! Are we talkin' movies or the "shorts"....
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posted on
10/18/2001 3:25:02 PM PDT
by
TomServo
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