How to Celebrate Ronald Reagan's Birthday today!
had to share, apologies if this has been posted:
http://www.indecisionforever.com/blog/2013/02/06/how-to-celebrate-ronald-reagans-birthday?xrs=synd_facebook
It's the 102nd birthday of American saint Ronald Reagan, and while few of us can compare to the Great Communicator, there are still plenty of Reaganesque ways to celebrate this special day.
* Locate unsightly fencing in your neighborhood. Attend a meeting of the zoning board and tell them to tear down this wall.
* Find an air traffic controller. Tell him he's fired.
* Inform the air traffic controller you can't really fire him. Hand him a Jelly Belly.
* Play a Bruce Springsteen song at your Reagan birthday party. Tell guests the lyrics are about greedy workers and under-appreciated capitalists. Yeah, sure, "Tunnel of Love" is fine.
* During the party's cocktail hour, recall scenes from your favorite movies as if they were episodes from your own life.
* Makes guests watch The Day the Earth Stood Still. Discuss what would happen if the earth faced an invasion by extraterrestrials.
* Reserve the cake for yourself and two other guests. Tell the rest of the party that some pieces will trickle down.
* Tell Congress to pass an immigration reform bill.
* Prank the Kremlin. Tell them the bombing begins in 15 minutes.
* Sell your gun collection to Iran. Send the money you earned to the South American paramilitary group of your choice.
riqster
(13,986 posts)It has no memory, and a semi-colon.
sebastianj333
(99 posts)LOL
Yavapai
(825 posts)Because that was a good one for sure!
goclark
(30,404 posts)I was living in CA at the time -- I just remember a photo in the news paper of a lady sitting on someone's fence, "howling" ( for want of a better word" howling at the Moon.
Everyone that I knew at the time said, "Reagan let all of the Mental Patients out..."
It may not have been Reagan that was responsible but for sure, lots of people said it was his fault.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)outside of Dixon, Illinois. Good times!
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Ian Iam
(386 posts)It's now Feb. 7th! I'm too late!
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)Uh-oh. I have to register a complaint. The Day the Earth Stood Still is my favorite movie. It is on any list of the greatest movies ever made. I'm talking about the real one, not the fake that came out a few years back. The message of the real TDTESS is entirely the opposite of what Reagan stood for. For those of you who have never seen this great, great film, here's the link.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
I first saw this when NBC ran it on NBC Saturday Night at the Movies. I have seen the DVD several times. I urge people to view it.
The person who played Bobby has a website. I see he hasn't updated it in ten years. It used to be that he would answer email. It has been some time since I wrote him, though, so I can't say for sure about now.
Billy Gray
TDTESS at Amazon
A hallmark of the science fiction genre as well as a wry commentary on the political climate of the 1950s, The Day the Earth Stood Still is a sci-fi movie less concerned with special effects than with a social parable. A spacecraft lands in Washington, D.C., carrying a humanoid messenger from another world (Michael Rennie) imparting a warning to the people of Earth to cease their violent behavior. But panic ensues as the messenger lands and is shot by a nervous soldier. His large robot companion destroys the Capitol as the messenger escapes the confines of the hospital. He moves in with a family as a boarder and blends into society to observe the full range of the human experience. Director Robert Wise (West Side Story) not only provides one of the most recognizable icons of the science fiction world in his depiction of the massive robot loyal to his master, but he avoids the obvious camp elements of the story to create a quiet and observant story highlighting both the good and the bad in human nature. --Robert Lane
Dismalindistress
(14 posts)I may celebrate by doing what I did when RR was president drive down the highway screaming at the radio the whole time.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)Tell a Social Security recipient he's part of a plot to turn the US into a Marxist paradise.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)kenny blankenship
(15,689 posts)Ooops not even the Gipper went in for that.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Maybe I'll find my Bruce Springsteen CDs and play "My Hometown."
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Home alone again!
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Controller #3: Get me Steve McCroskey!
Controller #2: Are you kidding? Ever since Reagan fired the air traffic controllers, he's been completely senile!
Controller #3: Yeah, but what about McCroskey?
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)I'd replace The Day The Earth Stood Still with "Red Dawn" and "Discuss what would happen if the United States faced an invasion by The Evil Empire(tm)."
Atman
(31,464 posts)iamelisabethparker
(14 posts)Thank you for posting this, sebastianj333 ... it's awesomely hilarious and I wish I had seen it earlier! -- Elisabeth