"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the war room."

"Mandrake in the name of her majesty and the continental congress get over here and feed me this belt boy!"

"Well boys, I reckon this is it. Nuclear warfare, toe to toe with the Rooskies."


They just don't make 'em like old Slim anymore.

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"Stay on the bomb run, boys. I'm going to get them doors open if it hair lips everybody on Bear Creek."

www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0055.html

Got my alphabet channels mixed up.  Damn you Ted Turner!

Survival Kit contents check. In them you will find: one 45 caliber automatic, two boxes of ammunition, four days concentrated emergency rations, one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills, one miniature combination Rooshan phrase book and Bible, one hundred dollars in rubles, one hundred dollars in gold, nine packs of chewing gum, one issue of prophylactics, three lipsticks, three pair of nylon stockings -- shoot, a fellah could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff....

Hey, I just bought the DVD of "Dr Strangelove" ($14.95 at Wallyworld) a couple of weeks ago and the extra-features on it are worth the cost alone.

The making of DSL section runs like 45 min's long and and has all sorts of interesting info in it.  When they built the mock-up of Major Kong's B-52 the Airforce wouldn't help with the interior so they used every un-classified source they could find.  When a couple of AF officers asked to see the mock-up during filming they threw a shit-fit over how accurate they'de gotten it lol

Another thing I learned watching the "making of DSL" was that Peter Sellers was originally cast as Maj' Kong too (Four roles in the movie).  He fell out of the mock-up while it was suspended 15ft in the air and broke his leg so they flew Slim Pickens in from the US at the last minute.....good choice

       
     POE
       

Well, now you've done it.  I'm going to have to break out my copy and watch it.

Quoted: Weird, I've got Escape from New York on here.  Not that I'm complaing though, Snake is pretty cool.  He's no Slim Pickens, mind you.

That's on AMC here, Dr.Strangelove is on TMC.

"Well I first became aware of it during the physical act of love, a profound sense of emptiness and fatigue followed. Luckily, I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence. I can assure you Mandrake it has not happened since. Women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence."

Quoted: Weird, I've got Escape from New York on here.  Not that I'm complaing though, Snake is pretty cool.  He's no Slim Pickens, mind you.

Your on AMC!

Yeah yeah yeah, I edited it.  I still hate Ted Turner though.

Quoted: Survival Kit contents check. In them you will find: one 45 caliber automatic, two boxes of ammunition, four days concentrated emergency rations, one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills, one miniature combination Rooshan phrase book and Bible, one hundred dollars in rubles, one hundred dollars in gold, nine packs of chewing gum, one issue of prophylactics, three lipsticks, three pair of nylon stockings -- shoot, a fellah could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff....

Watch Slims lips when he says "Vegas".  The movie's original release date was 11-22-63

Pickens actually says DALLAS but they held the release for 3 weeks and went back and dubbed Vegas in instead.

Check.

Thanks, now the rest of my afternoon is shot.

Cut to: int. Airborne B-52

Navigator:

Navigator to Captain, approaching target. Distance, one zero miles. Switch from green grid to target orange.

Kong:

Roger. Ready for final bomb run check. Take over, Ace.

Copilot:

Roger.

DSO:

DSO ready.

Bombardier:

Bombardier ready, sir.

Kong:

Bomb fusing master safety on, electronics, barometrics, time and impact.

Bombardier:

Bomb fusing master safeties on, electronic, barometric, time and impact.

Kong:

Fused for ground burst, delay factor yellow three.

Bombardier:

Fused for ground burst, delay factor yellow three.

Kong:

Bomb fusing circuits one through four, test.

Bombardier:

Bomb fusing circuits one through four, test. Lights on.

Kong:

Bomb arming test lights on, one through four.

Bombardier:

Bomb arming test lights on, one through four.

Kong:

Engage primary trigger switch override.

Bombardier:

Primary trigger switch override, engaged.

Kong:

Track indicators to maximum deflection.

Bombardier:

Track indicators to maximum deflection.

Kong:

Detonator set to zero altitude.

Bombardier:

Detonator set to zero altitude.

Kong:

Release first safety.

Airman:

First safety released.

Bombardier:

First safety.

Kong:

Release second safeties.

Airman:

Second safety released.

Bombardier:

Second safety.

Kong:

Check bomb door circuits one through four.

Bombardier:

Ah... bomb door circuits, negative function. Lights red.

Kong:

Switch in backup circuits.

Bombardier:

Roger. Backup circuits switched in, still negative function.

Kong:

Engage emergency power.

Bombardier:

Roger. Emergency power on. Still negative function.

Kong:

Operate manual override!

Bombardier:

Roger. Ah... still negative function. The teleflex drive cable must be sheared away.

Kong:

Fire the explosive bolts!

Bombardier:

Roger. Um... still negative, sir. The operating circuits are dead, sir.

Kong:

Stay on the bomb run, Ace. I'm going down below to see what I can do.

Copilot:

Roger.

Kong:

to DSO and Bombardier Stay on the bomb run boys. I'm goin' to get them doors open if it hare lips everybody on Bear Creek. proceeds through hatch to bomb bay

Kong studies a sparking tangle of wires above a suspended bomb, and then climbs atop the it, fanning the sparks with his stetson

Navigator:

Target orange grid reference, checks. Target distance, eight miles.

Copilot:

Roger, eight miles. Telemetric guidance computer into orange grid.

Bombardier:

Telemetric guidance computer into orange grid.

Navigator:

Target distance, seven miles. Correct track indicator, minus seven.

Copilot:

Roger. Seven miles. Set GPI acceleration factor.

Bombardier:

GPI diversion factor set.

Navigator:

Target distance, six miles.

Copilot:

Roger. Six miles. False ident transponder active.

Bombardier:

False ident transponder active.

Navigator:

Target distance, five miles.

Copilot:

Five miles. Bundling alignment factor zero mode.

Bombardier:

Bundling alignment factor to zero mode.

Navigator:

Target distance, four miles.

Copilot:

Roger. Four miles. Auto CDC into manual teleflex link.

Bombardier:

Auto CDC is to manual teleflex link.

Navigator:

Target distance, three miles.

Copilot:

Roger. Three miles.

Navigator:

Target in sight. Where in hell is Major Kong?

Kong busily works to splice two wires together. He finishes and then attaches an alligator clip to a patch panel above his head. The bomb doors open. He grabs his stetson to keep it from blowing away in the sudden slipstream.

Kong:

Aaaaaa hooooo! Aaaaaaaa hooooo! the bomb is dropped, and Kong along with it

Bombardier:

Hey, what about Major Kong?

Kong:

Aaaaaa hoooo! Waaaaa hooooo! Kong rides the bomb in its falling arc waving his hat over his head, celebrating his success in ecstatic rodeo style. On reaching the ground, the bomb detonates.

<--------------------------  That's my boy!

Quoted: Hey, what about Major Kong? Kong: Aaaaaa hoooo! Waaaaa hooooo! Kong rides the bomb in its falling arc waving his hat over his head, celebrating his success in ecstatic rodeo style. On reaching the ground, the bomb detonates.

On reaching the ground, the bomb detonates.

"Fused airburst at 10.......check, 12 thousand feet."

Kong:

Detonator set to zero altitude.

Bombardier:

Detonator set to zero altitude.