gratitude etc. (was Apollo: One gas environment?)

Hop David wrote:


oh-EEEEE-oh! EEEEEEEEEE-oh!


Oh great, I'd forgotten about the god-damned winged monkeys....ever
notice how many things in "The Wizard Of Oz" resemble things in "The
Lord Of The Rings"? Both have got little people living in a flower
strewn land. One has Winkies; the other has Orcs. Both have talking
trees with bad tempers. One has a good witch and a bad witch; the other
has a good wizard and a bad wizard. Both have evil armies marching out
of haunted castles at night as people watch them from cliffs above the
castles. In one somebody gets a horrible surprise while staring into a
crystal ball; in the other the same happens when somebody stares into a
Palantir. One has winged monkeys, the other has winged Nazgul. One has
The Emerald City, the other has The White City. One has a disembodied
head that speaks while surrounded by blasts of fire, the other has a
disembodied eye that does the same. In one of them a little dog
accompanies the heroine to a far land, in the other one a little
son-of-a-bitch tags along with the heroes....

Pat