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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 08:59:16 -0500
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On 1/18/25 4:13 PM, William Hyde wrote:
> 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.
> 

Dang - if there's a Waterloo riff in here, I'm not finding it.
- Tony