And they turn white.
Nobody ever asked me to sign up to be a Democrat.
But then, I’m originally from Chicago, so my political affiliation was pretty much a given.
Sheckley has to be one of the most abused writers out there, when it comes to ripping off his work and badly adapting the rest. Just once I’d like to see someone do a halfway decent adaptation of his work. Freejack, nominally base on Immortality Inc./Immortality Delivered, isn’t one of them.
Besides the heavy influence of Dimension of Miracles on “Hitchhiker’s Guide”, there’s also
Total Recall – the original Verhoeven version. It exhausts the Philip D. Dick material from his short story “We can Remember it for you Wholesale” in the first 2-30 minutes. An awful lot of the rest, I maintain, is from Sheckley’s The Status Civilization – People on another planet who have had memory wipes start a “Coventry” society. There are deformed mutants who have psychic powers, and can reputedly tell you about your past life. There are people constantly pursuing the hero and trying to kill him, and at the end he learns that the person who turned him in for a bra
The Running Man – Stephen King’s story of a man in a futuristic game show who’s being pursued by killers out to get him sure looks as if it owes a lot to Sheckley’s The Prize of Peril, about a futuristic game show in which the contestants are faced with potentially lethal challenges. It was made into a TV movie in Germany before KIng published anything. When Sheckley first read KIng’s book he went into a panic, and had to call Harlan Ellison to see if he thought he was being ripped off.
Watchbird – when the filmed this 1950s piece as an episode of the series Masters of Science Fiction they couldn’t simply film it straight. It would’ve been a great piece about drones (which had matured as a technology) and the nature of privacy. But they completely changed it.
There are other cases, too, but that’s enough for now. Sheckley got weirder in his old age, but he was a master of the darkly satirical short story, often with a twist ending, which seemed to be a staple of the 1950s pulps.
We don’t even have to state a party preference in my state because we have a top-two open primary. I’m not sure what “signing up to be a Democrat” would even entail besides getting a bunch of text messages and emails asking for money.
Hey, bras for women with three boobs must be hard to come by. A good one is worth turning someone in for.
Well, one benefit is that you get to vote multiple times in each election.
These people are so uncool, they can’t even recognize Post Malone!
They’re also fucking racist and ignorant and ugly, from the inside out.
Postie!
Pre- or post-mortem?
Asked and answered.
Weird. It cut off the end of my sentence.
I was saying that the person who turned him in was himself, pretty much the way Quaid voluntarily gets “reprogrammed”.
As Frank Zappa once said, “Dumb all over, a little ugly on the side.”
Yes, the Chicago motto, “Vote Early, Vote Often”.
Well, after my wife died I noticed that she was still on the voter list the next year.
And I wonder how many times I voted in Chicago after I moved away.
Chicago resident: My father was a lifelong republican, until he died, now he votes a straight Democrat ticket.
In early 20th century Boston, the ditty sung was: “Vote often, vote early, for James Michael Curley.”
Does George Santos news fall under “stupid” or “evil”? I’m just happy to see them fighting among themselves.
(After scrolling down the article to the photo of Santos and Gaetz sitting next to each other at SotUA) Can there be a more stereotypical pair of frat-boys? Where are their red Solo cups?
The “Getting Expelled Officially Revokes Guaranteed Entry” rule, or GEORGE rule, would prevent former House members who have been expelled from Congress from keeping their privileges, including the right to enter the House floor when the body is in session.
Snerk.
The Democratic Party: We can help you lose hundreds of pounds of ugly frat with the stroke of a pen
I question fraternities too. I think a little apartment would be best.
You’re a MAGA fellow and presumably want to attract Trump fans and support for your run for Congress (since that’s apparently a requirement to win as a Republican).
Do you:
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Suck up to him and kiss his ring?
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Insult his son (who IMHO feel should be off limits) and say Trump can’t win and that he has made mistakes on policy?
Give it a week, and they’ll be talking about how the Democrats were the ones bad-mouthing Barron.