 Lichtenstein tests THE BOMB!!!
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Serious stuff folks, that Lichtenstein always has been a hotbed of radical ideology! Radical Lichtensteiners
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Blowing gravel off rural roads
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Few years back, read a book about a similarly funny little country declaring war called, "The Mouse that Roared".
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Now THAT'S funny, Greg! Quote:
Few years back, read a book about a similarly funny little country declaring war called, "The Mouse that Roared".
SteveB
Good reference, Steve! 
Also a 1959 british film comedy that made an international star of Peter Sellers, which is also very funny.
For those who've never seen it, in that movie the small Lichtenstein-esque country, The Duchy of Grand Fenwick, being financially broke declares war on the U.S., with the idea that it wants to lose the war so that afterward America will send massive postwar aid to their little country. And ah....and ah....well, I better stop here, 'cuz THIS could turn very ugly, VERY QUICKLY around here in a New York Minute if I go any further with this film's synopsis, and somebody decides to "go all geo-political on us" around here, huh?!  
(just let me add that "T.M.T.R" would make a great double-bill with one of Mr.Sellers' other greatest hits..."Dr.Strangelove")
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Wow Dwight! I'm also a huge Peter Sellers fan. Talk about a comic range. Remember him in so many roles and he was too funny in the TWA commercials, also. SteveB 
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Yep! The man was a troubled genius, alright!
I've heard somewhere that he was also set to play the part of the B-52 captain in "Dr.Strangelove", but he broke his leg or something halfway through the filming, so we ended up watching Slim Pickens do a great job of it instead.
(when Picken's goes through his survival packet checklist there in the cockpit, I "lose it" everytime, Dude...in my opinion that's a funnier scene than the classic sight of him riding The Bomb down on "those Ruskies"!)
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Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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That Onion stuff always makes me laugh.
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Funny in a small way!
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That was hilarious.... I have passed that on to a few friends.. 
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