>> ^bareboards2:

The one where the grumpy misanthrope never has time enough to read. His wife keeps bugged him? He is in a vault when the nuclear holocaust happens. He gathers books around him, sits down to read and promptly breaks his glasses. Episode ended with him howling into the sky.
Burgess Meredith with coke bottom glasses.


Was a great episode... although not in the 80s series, but the original.

oh man... I remember that one. It freaked the hell out of me everytime!

I remember several other episodes i liked:



There's the one set in the future, and there's this kid who's going to be tested by the government, and he's all excited. In the end it turns out in this society, people with an IQ too high are executed to maintain society equal.

And there's also that one about the girl who gets transformed into a manequin.

And the one about this couple (i think) who get stuck in a sort of parallel time dimension where everything is put into place by blue men or something of the kind.

and there's also the classic about the box with the red button and if you press it, someone in the world dies and you get 1 million dollars (there's a recent movie made about this)

I also remember the one where a girl in the pilgrims' time and a boy in the 80's suffer from a fever and end up being able to communicate with one another

>> ^Drax:

I used to love the 80's Twilight Zone episodes as a kid. There's a lot of classics.
For a genuinly creepy one look up "Grandma". Written by Stephen King. I believe the director was someone well known too.

A little peace and quiet... nicely played into my 80's imminent apocalypse terror: http://youtu.be/bjFdix6BRZk



>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I remember an 80s Twilight Zone episode where there was a necklace that would allow you to stop and start time, and it ended with the main character stopping time a few seconds before a nuclear attack. Freaky.

Yeah the title is very Philip k dick too..>> ^Kreegath:

Honestly, it's more "Total Recall" than "The Matrix".

Wow! Thanks, furry man. Furry person.

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*quality

I remember seeing this when I was 9 or 10, like good sci-fi it lodges in your brain and lurks there!

Hey! Thanks!!!!!

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Well it's 1985... they only had Windows 1.0 back then!

Still swiftboating and muddying the waters? Still not talking about Murray Rothbard's role in this all?





Well lets look at some actual facts:
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In early 2008, this article revealed that "a half-dozen longtime libertarian activists—including some still close to Paul" had identified Rockwell as the "chief ghostwriter" of the Ron Paul newsletters published from "roughly 1989 to 1994."

Financial records from 1985 and 2001 show that Rockwell, Paul's congressional chief of staff from 1978 to 1982, was a vice president of Ron Paul & Associates, the corporation that published the Ron Paul Political Report and the Ron Paul Survival Report. The company was dissolved in 2001. During the period when the most incendiary items appeared—roughly 1989 to 1994—Rockwell and the prominent libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard championed an open strategy of exploiting racial and class resentment to build a coalition with populist "paleoconservatives," producing a flurry of articles and manifestos whose racially charged talking points and vocabulary mirrored the controversial Paul newsletters recently unearthed by The New Republic. To this day Rockwell remains a friend and advisor to Paul—accompanying him to major media appearances; promoting his candidacy on the LewRockwell.com blog; publishing his books; and peddling an array of the avuncular Texas congressman's recent writings and audio recordings.

Rockwell has denied responsibility for the newsletters' contents to The New Republic's Jamie Kirchick. Rockwell twice declined to discuss the matter with reason, maintaining this week that he had "nothing to say." He has characterized discussion of the newsletters as "hysterical smears aimed at political enemies" of The New Republic. Paul himself called the controversy "old news" and "ancient history" when we reached him last week, and he has not responded to further request for comment.

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You don't think Murray Rothbard, is worth looking at?

"Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences." - Murray Rothbard
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he also wrote film reviews under a pen name (anonymously) .. so he was no stranger to trying to protect himself while expressing what he truly thought..

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/ir/Ch5.html
http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/2010/07/murray-rothbard-lew-rockwell-and.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/still-states-greatest-enemy.html

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In 1993, Rothbard wrote about Malcolm X and discussed the possibility of a separate state for blacks, but concluded that it would "require massive "foreign aid" from the U.S.A.". He also described black nationalism as "a phony nationalism" that was "beginning to look like a drive for an aggravated form of coerced parasitism over the white population."

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard218.html

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I am seriously disappointed that people here can connect the dots to Dr. Paul yet Rothbard is clearly innocent.

He just happened to die in 1995... and we've heard nothing about newsletter content as inflammatory as when he was involved, since.

Get real people. It wasn't Ron Paul. The secret is in the grave at this point.

Brideshead Visited Again
On the Street
1985

@longde

People e.g. engineering the Paypal backend contribute more to society than people e.g. doing simple tasks that would be easy to automate. California doesn't automate some areas like agriculture that the most efficient countries in Europe and Asia automate because we have so much more uneducable labor than those countries have.

More students going to college relative to 1985 doesn't mean more useful workers in society, it means more students studying dumb, easy areas of study. Silicon Valley always has a shortage of talented 21st century workers, regardless of the incredible compensation we offer.

*quality

"The bitch is hungry, she needs to tell, so give her inches and feed her well". Quality declaration for the inclusion of the song with the most sexist line EVER fromn an established metal group (Scorpions - "Rock You Like A Huricane"). I feel the need to point out one thing though, the original poster got the year of The Cult's "She Sells Sanctuary" wrong.....it was 4 years earlier (1985) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Sells_Sanctuary

1985 was a pretty bad one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadwater_Farm_riot

Depending on what part of the year this was, at least a couple of the messages could have been early incarnations of songs from his 1985 album "Dare to be Stupid," which has "I Want a New Duck" as well as "Girls Just Want to Have Lunch"

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Walter Williams 1985 documentary "Good Intentions" is here: