"Fan Films"

[Dr Mordrid]

Sounds like a new genre.

These are independently produced not-for-profit movies made of familiar topics, such as Star Wars or Star Trek, by fans. Most have original scripts or are based on the paperback series found in book stores.

Guess what? Lucasfilm is supporting these efforts for their Star Wars series. They're even going to provide sound effects for Fan Film producers to use.

Read more about this on Salon.com ;

http://salon.com/tech/feature/2000/1...lms/index.html

Dr. Mordrid

[Brian Ellis]

Doc

You should make a Republican sitcom fan film, based on what has happened and is continuing in Florida.

Maybe we can have a volunteer for a Democrat equivalent, as well, to sell to a competitive channel.



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Brian (the terrible)

[Michel Carleer]

To all US citizens:

In the light of your failure to elect a President of the USA and thus to
govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your
independence, effective today. Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will
resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other
territories. Except Utah, which she does not fancy.

Your new Prime Minister (The rt. hon. Tony Blair, MP for the 97.85% of you
who have until now been unaware that there is a world outside your borders)
will appoint a minister for America without the need for further elections.
Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire will be
circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.

To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules
are introduced with immediate effect:

1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then
look up "aluminium". Check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at
just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. Generally, you should raise
your vocabulary to acceptable levels. Look up "vocabulary". Using the same
twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you
know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. Look up
"interspersed".

2. There is no such thing as "US English". We will let Microsoft know on
your behalf.

3. You should learn to distinguish the English and Australian accents. It
really isn't that hard.

4. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as the
good guys.

5. You should relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The Queen",
but only after fully carrying out task 1. We would not want you to get
confused and give up half way through.

6. You should stop playing American "football". There is only one kind of
football. What you refer to as American "football" is not a very good game.
The 2.15% of you who are aware that there is a world outside your borders
may have noticed that no one else plays "American" football. You will no
longer be allowed to play it, and should instead play proper football.
Initially, it would be best if you played with the girls. It is a difficult
game. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby
(which is similar to American "football", but does not involve stopping for
a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full Kevlar body armour like
nancies). We are hoping to get together at least a US rugby sevens side by
2005.

7. You should declare war on Quebec and France, using nuclear weapons if
they give you any merde. The 98.85% of you who were not aware that there is
a world outside your borders should count yourselves lucky. The Russians
have never been the bad guys. "Merde" is French for "shit".

8. July 4th is no longer a public holiday. November 8th will be a new
national holiday, but only in England. It will be called "Indecisive Day".

9. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and it is for your own
good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean.

10. Please tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us crazy. Thank you for
your cooperation

p.s.: I did not write this, it was mailed to me. I don't know the author, and so unfortunately cannot give him full credit. Michka

[Dr Mordrid]

1. As soon as you guys learn how to say "tomato".

2. Given the differences in #1 how can you say that?

3. Well....as soon as you guys figure out the difference between a Texas and Georgian accent.

4. We did. Bob Hoskins in "Roger Rabbit".

5. Sorry. Ain't gonna happen.

6. We kick it, therefore it's "foot"-ball. As for the armor: have you ever been hit by 350-400 pounds of pissed off defensive tackle doing 30 mph? Though not.

7. a: I'm part Russian, so that plays not here. b: I took both French and Russian in High School. c: Look whose talking about old grudges!!

8. It was actually November 7th. Besides, we have a day for indecisives. It's called Valentines day

9. Not so. My son's 1999 Dakota pickup just survived a drunk running him into a tree. $6000 damage to the truck and the frame wasn't even bent. We get it back in a week. He need a band-aid and some aspirn.

10. Cubans, Mafia and the CIA.

Dr. Mordrid

[KRSESQ]

By getting rid of the useless "i" in "Aluminium," we have converted a five syllable word to a four syllable word without losing the meaning. Likewise, by changing "colour" to "color" and "draught" to "draft", we have actually enhanced the efficiency of the english language and saved millions of gigabytes of text-storage space to boot!

This "God save the Queen" thing...is that the one the Brits sing to the music from "My Country Tis Of Thee"?
I doubt there are many Yanks who could sing it all the way through without bursting into giggles.

Actually Rugby is kind of a cool game. I'd like to see an American Rugby team assembled from the best of the ranks of the NFL or the fledgling XFL. Then we'd see who wins the Stanley Cup!

[This message has been edited by KRSESQ (edited 18 November 2000).]