• Re: Wizard of Id: Mutual Destruction

    From The Horny Goat@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Jul 21 01:29:31 2025
    On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 11:02:19 -0400, Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say >> no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.
    --scott

    Mr. President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap.

    I still think it funny that Peter Sellers had initially been slotted
    to ride the bomb down in that famous scene at the end but while
    rehearsing he had fallen off the 'bomb', fallen 15' to the floor and
    had chosen to use a wheelchair for 3 weeks during filming rather than
    crutches.

    Thus when he did that "Mein fuhrer I can valk!" scene just before the
    finale with Vera Lynn, no one but him and Kubrick knew his doctor and
    told him he could put his crutches away until he DID get out of the
    wheelchair. (Apparently he told Kubrick the day before that scene was
    shot and Kubrick told him not to tell anybody to give a better last
    scene for shooting)

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