bcholmes: I was just a brain in a jar (brain thoughts)
BC Holmes ([personal profile] bcholmes) wrote2006-07-19 05:18 pm

Thought for the Day

We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene

- Kurtz, Apocalypse Now

[identity profile] avt-tor.livejournal.com 2006-07-19 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
My great-uncle signed the first atomic bomb dropped on Japan "To Hirohito, With Love" and then put his name on it. Irony is often more effective than obscenity. :)

[identity profile] latzoni.livejournal.com 2006-07-20 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
That reminds me, we oughta get that movie on DVD -- I haven't seen it since college. [When I watched it under the influence of, erm, nothing untoward at all; and somehow convinced myself that it was a musical...]