Best Sci-Fi Film?

[michaelben]

Best Sci Fi Movie is Terminator in my point of view.

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[W3XWT]

"Phucked Off & Partied"


That’s how I managed to get on “Academic Probation” my second semester at the “Tomb on the Hill”. My third semester, I was on “The Dean’s List of Honor Students”! My first year, almost all the dorms got brand new GE 25” color sets because they were “Virginia products”. My dorm was an “affirmative action afterthought” and we got a worn-out Maggotbox from the 1960’s with a tempermental tuner. (Our dorm was a walled-off portion of a freshman girls dorm (My original room assignment was for the freshman girls dorm!) and we reportedly had the worst GPA of any dorm in MWC history, the worst driving record of any dorm in MWC history, the worst disciplinary record of any dorm in MWC history (When our RA asked the college president how he could be certain our dorm was involved in a Halloween-night escapade at the girls “study” dorm, the president took off his glasses and responded, “Young man, one of the cars seen leaving the scene had an eight-foot tall radio antenna on the trunk”…), and the worst graduation rate of any upper class dorm in MWC history. About a week after we got the set, there was a loud “boom” in the dorm and a guy who was stoned out of his mind knocked on my room door saying “all I did was turn it on”! I first though there was another bong accident! The hallway was filled with smoke and the smell of burned shellac was everywhere. I had to explain to the Resident Advisor (as non-technically as possible) what happened to the set and why. We were without a TV for almost two months! Just before Thanksgiving Break, a new transformer was installed. Because the RA asked me to be there when this happened, I got to find out that the new transformer ran almost double what one of the GE’s cost!

Oh yes, the channel selection at MWC in that era was unique… 12 channels with WTVR-6 trapped-out for campus origination. Otherwise, it was Richmond and D.C. off-airs, minus things like WDCA from D.C. At that time, MWC also had a carrier current AM, WMWC-540. I was asked to “get involved on the technical side” with the thing. But, one evening while on a date with one of the “staff”, we were able to plainly hear it on my car radio down near the U.S. 1 interchange with I-95, well beyond the Part 15 FCC limits. I told her that "there (was) nfw I (was) putting my name on anything associated with the place!”

About five years ago, I took my daughter to MWC as her first college visit. A veritable multitude of TV channels in each dorm room, telephone in each room (we had a payphone booth down the hall and an “on campus” wall phone (both rotary in 1978!) for receiving outside calls as well as calling other dorms, etc. I remember the consternation of my parents who were unable to reach me for like a week, only to finally find that their notes had fallen under the foot of my bed either when I staggered to bed at 2:00 AM or crawled to life at 7:00 for devotions at the Campus Christian Center with the woman who later became my first wife! ), not to mention high-speed internet. One thing that had not changed after all those years: The stench from the dining hall, Seacobeck!

The next two colleges my daughter toured were Cal Lutheran in Thousand Oaks and Concordia Irvine. The aromas from Cal Lutheran’s dining hall were appetizing and Concordia Irvine actually had the courage to invite us to lunch. We were not disappointed…

[Username1]

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