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Hortensis

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11. Lol. Sounds like Newt Gingrich might have gotten to him.

Reply to angrychair (Original post)

Tue Mar 13, 2018, 08:58 PM

Mar 2018

Newt and I both liked science fiction when young, but his mind got stuck at Robert Heinlein level, those old ideas regurgitated 40 years later intact, without ever developing beyond, yup!, Starship Troopers.

Think I'll download and read that. It's been half a lifetime.

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Lol. Sounds like Newt Gingrich might have gotten to him. Hortensis Mar 2018 #11

Couldnt resist angrychair Mar 2018 #12

Well, thanks! Just downloaded, and off to Hortensis Mar 2018 #13

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