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61 [lbo-talk] Ronnie's very timely death -- rank: 509

>From: Jon Johanning <jjohanning at igc.org> > >For the whole eight long -- looooooong -- years of his reign, I was >constantly mystified by the adulation showered on that sucker by (it >seemed) nearly the entire country. It was as though he had cast a spell >(something out of Lord of the Rings?) on everyone. Even those who disagreed > ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Fri Jun 11 06:11:45 PDT 2004

62 [lbo-talk] Ronnie's very timely death -- rank: 583

... 34 PM, R wrote: > ron was a master at conveying the B movie hollywood ending; he > convinced > americans tired of dealing with grown up problems that things were just > fine ... perfect, and they could all go back to sleep because > the > good hands people were in charge of their destiny. talk about a > retreat > into childhood -- not to mention senility. For the whole eight long -- looooooong -- years of his reign, I was constantly mystified by the adulation ...

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Author:	Jon Johanning
Date:	Thu Jun 10 21:20:34 PDT 2004

63 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbitreferences -- rank: 503

Miles Jackson wrote: > > If I wanted an alien to understand the culture > of our society, it's one of the books I'd make her/it/him > read. The Bible is another one. > Some books cease, for the most part, to have any content of their own ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Thu Jun 10 10:56:23 PDT 2004

64 [lbo-talk] Britain and the EU was re: stereotype -- rank: 925

The way that many people in Britain would like the European Union to work can be best summed up by the word 'parasitic'; they would like the benefits of free trade and free movement, but when the time comes to allow others the same privileges, they ...

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Author:	Simon Huxtable
Date:	Thu Jun 10 03:20:41 PDT 2004

65 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbit references -- rank: 512

Miles Jackson: > Hmm. I consider LOTR one of the most important > works of fiction in the 20th century. It's not just a > goofy dungeons and dragons knockoff; it's really > more of an epic poem. Lord of the Rings is not a Dungeons & Dragons knockoff ...

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Author:	John Lacny
Date:	Wed Jun 9 19:45:12 PDT 2004

66 [lbo-talk] release from mordor, please? -- rank: 583

budge wrote: [could you please lose the orcing html -- thanks] ====== Que? All of my messages - outgoing - are 100 percent, grade A certified plain ... this unholy format between me and thee. ...and later, in the same post, regarding the perfidy of LotR fandom on LBO... it is so cloyingly offensive. it ... is annoying. and it crops up on LBO all out of proportion with any other place in my life so ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Wed Jun 9 16:33:26 PDT 2004

67 [lbo-talk] Re: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbitt References -- rank: 333

... magcomm at ix.netcom.com>: > Dear List: > > Miles wrote: > > > Reading Lord of the Rings is kinda like reading the Bible (I'm serious!). > Even if you're not into it, you need to read it to understand the culture > of our society. > > That our society glorifies white ...

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Author:	cqmv at pdx.edu
Date:	Wed Jun 9 13:14:25 PDT 2004

68 [lbo-talk] Re: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbitt References -- rank: 311

Dear List: Miles wrote: > Reading Lord of the Rings is kinda like reading the Bible (I'm serious!). Even if you're not into it, you need to read it to understand the culture of our society. That our society glorifies white ...

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Author:	BklynMagus
Date:	Wed Jun 9 12:34:59 PDT 2004

69 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbit references -- rank: 484

... 9 Jun 2004, Doug Henwood wrote: > Miles Jackson wrote: > > >Reading Lord of the Rings is kinda like reading the Bible (I'm serious!). > >Even if you're not into it, you need to read it to understand the culture > >of our society. > > I've read The Bible. ...

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Author:	Miles Jackson
Date:	Wed Jun 9 11:28:37 PDT 2004

70 [lbo-talk] release from mordor, please? -- rank: 370

... into Shrek-ese or Finding Nemo-ese? Not everyone on > >the list knows Tolkein code. > > :-) > > OMIGAWD!! Ian! Haven't you read Lord of the Rings??!! he's probably over 17 years old, why would he ... was a child. yes, i remember enough to 'get' most of the tortured references. no, the posts with these refs ...

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Author:	budge
Date:	Wed Jun 9 10:42:26 PDT 2004

71 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbit references -- rank: 419

Miles Jackson wrote: >Reading Lord of the Rings is kinda like reading the Bible (I'm serious!). >Even if you're not into it, you need to read it to understand the culture >of our society. I've read The Bible. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 9 10:21:39 PDT 2004

72 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbit references -- rank: 484

... just likes to use references to things that are part of a particular sub-culture, like gaming, that 90% of the people on the list aren't part of, which is what the metaphors were before. Even if you read LotR, next ...

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Author:	snit snat
Date:	Wed Jun 9 09:47:26 PDT 2004

73 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbit references -- rank: 398

... John Thornton wrote: > > >Capitalists can be bargained with. Ringwraiths cannot. The Kerry campaign > >is the feint drawing out the oil-orcs from their fastness in Barad-dur. > >Anything to keep $auron's eye from a tiny pair of Eurohobbits... > > > >-- DRR > > Are these elf related analogies really understood by the majority of people > on this list?. I haven't really read ...

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Author:	Miles Jackson
Date:	Wed Jun 9 09:35:02 PDT 2004

74 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan -- Killer, Coward, Conman -- rank: 265

... into Shrek-ese or Finding Nemo-ese? Not everyone on >the list knows Tolkein code. :-) OMIGAWD!! Ian! Haven't you read Lord of the Rings??!! _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the MSN Premium and get 2 months FREE* http://join. ...

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Author:	Todd Archer
Date:	Tue Jun 8 18:38:44 PDT 2004

75 [lbo-talk] A 'Progressive Conference' -- rank: 737

... 4:45 PM -0400 24/5/04, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >The Left, on the other hand, would never be capable of accomplish the >same mobilization level simply because the booboisie, the "masses" >prefer right-wing bigotry to anything that the ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Mon May 24 21:43:07 PDT 2004