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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 16:13:15 -0500
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Scott Dorsey wrote:
> William Hyde  <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> As you have not read that article, I feel safe in telling you that the
>> article makes a big deal of the fact that the movie did not portray
>> Napoleon as a three-armed Martian who conquered Jupiter.
> 
> This said, I would like to say that I would be VERY willing to spend my
> money to see a movie in which Napoleon was a three-armed martian who
> conquered Jupiter.  Especially if Nelson is a distributed software-based
> virtual intelligence.

With only one arm, just to keep it historically accurate, of course.

William Hyde