Word: beeps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Much of the film's fun comes from the collision of epic and everyday quirkiness, somewhat reminiscent of when Harrison Ford is momentarily thwarted in saving the United States from corruption by the "out-of-paper" beep from the printer: when the spacecraft have been hovering over the cities for a while, Los Angeleans are given the warning only Los Angeleans would need: not to fire their weapons into the air at the spaceships. When Captain Hiller finally faces off with one of the horrid space aliens, he does what anyone really, really mad would do: he slugs...
...want to rebuild too extensively for fear of losing it all again. So, for now, I guess that I won't be re-installing the bartending program, or Tetris, or even Excel. I have not even changed my sound back to the familiar "quack" from the default "simple beep." I am just too emotional right now to get too attached again...
...Bosnia, including cues for edible plants such as dandelion, licorice root and nettle. His most important asset was a 28-oz. PRC-112, a survival radio, barely larger than a Walkman, that can operate for as long as seven hours on a single battery and can broadcast a locating beep, Morse code or voice...
...transform in to respect and comraderie between two passing motorcycle riders. As McPartlend put it, "Rather than trying to outdo each other, we've communed." Maniatis added, "It's a brotherly thing." The sign of acknowledgment between bikers, according to Milan, is "a quick right handed wave, nod or beep." There is not, in the experience of these particular bike boys, a universal brotherhood of motorcycle men. One species of bikers stands against the rest: the Harley Davidson riders. Harley riders, Maniatis explains, "don't even acknowledge that you're of the same breed...
...Room of One's Own, The Jerusalem Bible, Son of Dune, Dante's Inferno, and a Magazine called "Shark Week." A sign on the scary-looking detector at the door reads, "This is not a metal detector or anything scary like that. It's a bookguard system that will beep if people run off with our books. We got it so that we can greatly expand our library and at some point in the near future sell books.--Colin...