GAAHHH. I can't believe they took the story down!!! I bet it's because of that stupid-ass movie coming out. FRACK.

You Park Like An Asshole

Shit, I almost forgot that this is the last week ever of the show with zefrank. It'll be a shame when we lose his unblinking visage, calling his audience sports racers, the if the earth were a sandwich project, the remixes for ray's i'm about to whip somebody's ass song (who knew ray would turn out to be a preacher?!) and, lest we forget, Ride the Fire Eagle Danger Day.

Godspeed, ze.

(Oh yeah, and fingers in food. My god, fingers in food.)

wow... i want this... i want to make this...

Cassandra?

Also another common theme of the "crazy" old man who knows what is going on but no will listen to him because of his radical ideas.

Hey Tay, I was going to read your story, but it appears to have been removed by request of the authors estate...

"I'm still wondering how Holloway was able to make those conjectures on what was happening."

Yeah, haha. That's a symptom of the time the story was written moreso than anything else. Between 1930 and 1960, it was very in vogue in sci-fi to have super-intelligent characters, even if they just held simple jobs. In most of Heinlein's work for example the main character is always incredibly witty and can always think himself out of any problem. It was just the style at the time. I think the popularity of incredibly human characters with very human flaws is a rather recent development (although that style of character has been around for a long time, I don't think it's ever been as popular as it is today). Even Beowulf was a story of intelligence versus strength. He outwitted Grendel (which resulted in Grendel losing his arm)... it's an incredibly old archetype that until about 40 years ago was prevalent (sometimes to the extent of exaggeration) in a lot of literature including science fiction.

Al, you're right:

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From what I can tell the movie isn't going to do the story any semblance of justice.

Did you know that both Total Recall and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind were based on an SF short story? They were both based off the story "We Can Remember it For You Wholesale" by PKD. That story is also one of my favourites.

Superman's not home guys.