That Day will come as a trap on all the world

[professor]

Cthu, I'll swap you one Cumo for the Bills.
(just don't tell anyone, I want to go up in the Rapture alive)
I often wanted to make a bumper sticker- "Go Bills, and take the Sabres with you".
Bad, TRULY Bad idea.

[Cyberman]

I guess I was wrong about the Two Ronnies?

'Fraid so.

Last clue:

One of the two writers went on to create Victor Meldrew and Jonathan Creek.

[The Valkyrie]

I guess I was wrong about the Two Ronnies?

'Fraid so.

Last clue:

One of the two writers went on to create Victor Meldrew and Jonathan Creek.

Without Googling it I don't know.

[Exian]

I mean, I might as well guess at Monty Python.

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http://fox8.com/2014/09/24/four-large-fi...are-event/

:o He's baaaaack!

[Cyberman]

Ok, well since we're all going to be killing each other for cans of beans within twenty-four hours, I'll reveal the answer.

The line was from a 1982 dark comedy miniseries called "Whoops Apocalypse", later turned into a moderately successful film starring Peter Cook and Loretta Swit.

It had a fairly typical sitcom plot:

Unpopular US President and former movie star Johnny Cyclops, aided by his ultra-right-wing adviser the Deacon, arrange for the fake assassination of the deposed Shah of Iran as a prelude to smuggling him into Britain. They plan to arm him with a newly developed nuclear weapon, the Johnny Cyclops Bomb, so he can reclaim his throne. (Cyclops objects to his name being used on a WMD and insists it be changed to Quark Bomb. Thereafter, it's referred to in news reports as "The Quark Bomb - formerly known as The Johnny Cyclops Bomb, after the President of the same name"). However, they can't simply hand it over to a foreign power, so they steal one from a depot and give it to a terrorist named Lacrobat to transport it for them. Lacrobat, not being told who he's working for, promptly disappears with the bomb.

Meanwhile, the Shah and his permanently and religiously blindfolded manservant Abdab are held on a cross-Channel ferry, which immediately falls foul of a national seamans' strike and stopped mid-Channel indefinitely. From then on he repeatedly fails in his attempts to escape the ferry. Even a raid by the SAS to capture him fails, during which they machine gun one of their own to death.

In Britain, the sitting Tory Government loses the election and the newly elected Labour PM, Kevin Pork, takes office and immediately bans the Shah from entering the country. His Foreign and Home Secretaries are alarmed when Pork reveals his secret identity as Superman and they realise they have to keep the press from finding out that a lunatic has become Prime Minister by a landslide. During a visit to Moscow, the Foreign Secretary learns that the decrepit Soviet Premier, Dubienkin, with a habit of dying and being replaced by an identical clone, has obtained secret recordings of Pork and his Secretaries discussing the Shah still being alive. In order to avoid a scandal, Britain ends up joining the Warsaw Pact.

Meanwhile, KGB Commisar Solzhenitsyn (no relation) is holding two American tourists, Jonathan and Martha Hopper, on the charge of being CIA agents. Eventuially they are revealed to actually be CIA agents and escape, only to be crushed to death by two marines in a helicopter sent to rescue them.

At this point, things get complicated. Cyclops is shot during a live TV broadcast by the best marksman in the CIA, in a desperate attempt to boost his flagging popularity which is ten points below Charles Manson. Unfortunately, the ambulance speeding him to hospital kills his vastly more popular political opponent and the public turn against him even more. Lacrobat loses the Quark Bomb, disguised as a large coffin and recovered by US troops who mistake it for the casket of a General who was recently blown up in his bed by terrorists (two 18-year-old Marines were also killed). He learns that the General is to be cremated and tracks down the crematorium where the bomb explodes, wiping out the entire US army who were only recently sent there on a peacekeeping exercise. With the world on full alert, the Shah is secretly smuggled aboard the space shuttle and launched into orbit to keep him out of the way. He and Abdab cause a fire which de-orbits the shuttle. With Soviet missiles on the way in retaliation, Cyclops now has to convince the Russians that the object hurtling towards Moscow is not a missile.

There's tons I've left out involving a message sent using the Shah's parrot and a lie detector implanted into Cyclops' brain by the Russians, but those are the bones of it. Some of my favourite lines come from Ed Bishop's news anchorman, Jay Garrick (no relation to the Flash):

"A woman who, twenty years ago, secured a lock of Frank Sinatra's hair has today sold it back to him for an undisclosed sum."

"The missing Quark Bomb has at last been traced. It was seen going off approximately twenty minutes ago, in the middle of what used to be Israel."

[Exian]

Baaahaha British humor (humour?) gets me.

[Little lunch]

I've got hundreds of red backs all over my yard. Never met someone that was bitten by one. I've seen two eastern browns this year and a taipan near the river when I visited my reli's up north. It only chased us a couple of meters. I've met a guy who was bitten by a brown years ago. Couple a days in hospital, that's it. After that it was a good joke calling him Jusssssstin.
It's really not as dangerous as you hear.
Crocodiles and great whites are a little scary I guess. :-)

[Mystical]

*yawns

I'm too tired to stay up for the apocalypse. Call me old :|

Professor, I fully intend upon putting your thread in the infamous Hall of Shame, tomorrow. Be warned, but by all means please hang around in future so we can demonstrate why the biblical god is not real, the tooth fairy is really your mum, and the boogie man is NOT hiding in your closet.

(He's under your bed)

Goodnight, sweet heathens and confused Christian dude

[The Valkyrie]

I'm too tired to stay up for the apocalypse. Call me old :|

Professor, I fully intend upon putting your thread in the infamous Hall of Shame, tomorrow. Be warned, but by all means please hang around in future so we can demonstrate why the biblical god is not real, the tooth fairy is really your mum, and the boogie man is NOT hiding in your closet.

( He's under your bed. ) ^_^

Goodnight, sweet heathens, and.. Confused Christian dude

Sweet dreams.

We'll ALL be here when you wake up.

[JesusHChrist]

It's about 8:50pm on the Left Coast of the US and almost midnight on the East Coast.

Just 10 minutes until the event.

Now, I kinda like prof myself, but nonetheless, we gotta call them as we see them.

If the rupture occurs, Beccs owes me a free plane ride to NZ, first class and an open bar.

I will reciprocate by buying her a Ferrari or other exotic of her choice. (I imagine they'll be going for a song post-rupture. Heheheheheheh! Sweet!)

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And now it is time! 9pm Pacific!

Nothing....

I'm going to help my GF in the kitchen and then watch some TV.

It's a Brave New World!