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Related: About this forumThe Doomsday Machine in Dr. Strangelove
With the Iran deal we might have averted this scenario.
A little sunday laughter for you.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)This is one of the funniest/strangest/scariest movie ever made.
Appropriate post for the day.
iandhr
(6,852 posts)... the whole point of the doomsday machine is lost... if you keep it a secret why didn't you tell the world eh?
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)There are so many great lines and ideas in that movie.
Ernest Partridge
(135 posts)Pres. Merkin Muffley: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room!"
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)pam4water
(2,916 posts)Longest clip but get to General Jack D. Ripper around the 4 minute mark.
iandhr
(6,852 posts)"Jack the Ripper"
iandhr
(6,852 posts)Last edited Mon Nov 25, 2013, 09:18 AM - Edit history (1)
"I am not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more then 10 to 20 million killed tops depending on the breaks"
pam4water
(2,916 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)Ernest Partridge
(135 posts)When I taught ethics at the University, I used the coke machine scene to illustrate deontology (Kant) vs. utilitarianism (Mill).
Remember? Lt. Mandrake had the code that would call off the attack and save the world, but no small change to call the Pentagon. So he demanded that Col. Bat Guano (love those names!) shoot open the coke machine to get the coins.
Col. Guano: "I can't do that. That's private property!"
Brilliant!