When Sharktopus fell in love, it was a mild spring day. The Crocosquid's teeth were shiny and it's slimy limbs both belligerent and numerous. Perhaps a middle-aged sharktopus had no business with a young crocosquid. Perhaps a sharktopus could not love anyone. But it could love mayhem and chewing. And when it envisioned a pod of crocosharkuidtopi descending upon Vancouver, it aroused every last one of his sacs.
September 2038: Icelandic terror group claims responsibility for attempted sabotage of North Atlantic climate maintenance network; Demands 10 degree increase in Reykjavik winter temperature. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control has no plans to convene a special renegotiation session.
So... the country expanded from east of the Appalachians to the Pacific Ocean in the 80 years before this act, yet this act was the foundation of American imperialism?
It's a neat story, but you're overselling it. (btw, was it 1856 or 1865?)
@Belladonna77: Part of me says 'yes, absolutely, the more the better'. The other part of me worries about doing the Battle of Yonkers, the Flight from Mumbai (or whatever Indian city it was where millions were trying to flee by ship and swimming for it), and the march to the coast on a TV budget.
Reminds me of a show, I think on Animal Planet, can't remember the exact name, but it was nothing but pitting reptiles, mammals, insects, etc. against one another in athletic events after making them human-sized. Of course, it had the flea jumping 30,000 feet or something like that and the spider doing the 100-yard dash in .6 seconds. All I could think of was that the show was an hour-long monument to scaling errors.
OK, I understand the point that Yoda using a light saber undermines the notion of 'size matters not' with respect to the force, being a Jedi, etc.
But come on, it was a legitimate 'Fuck Yeah!' moment. I'm giving Lucas a pass for that.
I'm waiting for a version of FDR's life where he was crippled while fighting off a zombie-virus infection, the WPA was a massive zombie-killing operation* and the lend-lease act involved getting Britain the equipment necessary to defeat Hitler's remote-controlled zombie hordes.
*the TVA built all those dams in order to wipe out zombie nests. Ineffective at first, but electrify a lake full of zombies...
@Infernorhythm: Would it be a good thing or a bad thing if a vampire in red face paint and tribal tattoos wielding some sort of bladed quarterstaff showed up?
@phoghat: really? Your objection to Bruce Campbell playing a version of Lincoln that kills many many vampires is the height difference? You're ok with tweaking history to insert a vampire war but not ok with Bruce Campbell wearing lifts? Really.
Interesting that they stick Firefly in the same column as the BSG stuff.
Although, for numbering purposes, the miscellaneous items really should be between the 'Star Wars' and 'Alien' columns :)
I did one and two. I still remember getting a little Delorean Hot Wheels car from the BttF gift stand. Not sure where it went to. And from what I remember, Kongfrontation had serious reliability issues.