Re: More Mushrooms !
From Andrew Carpenter <new...@gloucestershire.freeserve.co.uk>
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· 8 Nov 1999 00:00 · View full thread
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Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen <REM...@CeeJay.findhere.com> wrote in message news:80583o$fac$5...@news.inet.tele.dk... > > *NOW* is a point in time that is already gone. > > What... now ? > oops too late When I read that it reminded me of a scene in the film "SpaceBalls.." < Dark Helmet and Colonel Sandurz are watching a tape of SpaceBalls, The Movie, by a new technology called Instant Video, which enables the film to be released even before it's finished. They begin to play the tape but begin too early, so they fast forward the tape. > Transcript follows.. The movie stops at the exact same thing that is actually happening now. HELMET looks at the camera, then he turns back to the monitor. SANDURZ looks at the camera when HELMET looks back at the monitor, then he looks back at the monitor. HELMET looks at the camera when SANDURZ looks back at the monitor. When HELMET turns back, he waves his hand. He turns back to the camera. HELMET What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie? SANDURZ Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now. HELMET What happened to then? SANDURZ We passed then? HELMET When? SANDURZ Just now. We're at now, now. HELMET Go back to then. SANDURZ When? HELMET Now. SANDURZ Now? HELMET Now. SANDURZ I can't. HELMET Why? SANDURZ We missed it. HELMET When? SANDURZ Just now. HELMET When will then be now? SANDURZ Soon. HELMET How soon? < ... > -- Andrew Carpenter Computing Technician Cirencester College and...@cirencester.ac.uk ICQ : 20885021
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