Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money

Tony Nance wrote:

On 1/18/25 4:13 PM, William Hyde wrote:

Scott Dorsey wrote:

William Hyde  <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:

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As you have not read that article, I feel safe in telling you that the
article makes a big deal of the fact that the movie did not portray
Napoleon as a three-armed Martian who conquered Jupiter.

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This said, I would like to say that I would be VERY willing to spend my
money to see a movie in which Napoleon was a three-armed martian who
conquered Jupiter.  Especially if Nelson is a distributed software-based
virtual intelligence.

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With only one arm, just to keep it historically accurate, of course.
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 Dang - if there's a Waterloo riff in here, I'm not finding it.

Scott chose the sea war rather than the land war.  No win in the sea war, no chance in the land war.
If we choose the other path, the story that Blucher felt he was pregnant with an elephant could provide the basis for an SF character.
And Wellington's burning violin could be a good image for an Iain Banks kind of writer.
William Hyde