The Martians Had It Coming To Them

[jberryhill]

Bombing the moon was unprovoked aggression.

But this? This is payback for what they did to us in the 1930's.



The musical version? Who knew?

[longship]

1. Andrew Lloyd Weber will do anything to spew his pablum.

First, the appropriately entitled Les Miserable...

[Fumesucker]

2. It was narrated by Sir Richard Burton..

Not as bad as it could have been, I recorded it off the radio probably thirty years ago..

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. *Sir* Richard Burton died in 1890

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/burton_sir_richard.shtml

The actor didn't make it to a knighthood.

[Fumesucker]

5. Eh, I was working from old memories..

I liked both of them..

Thanks for correcting my error..

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. 1890s, please

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"No-one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that humans affairs were being watched ..."

"The musical version? Who knew?"

It sold 3.6 million copies.

[jberryhill]

6. But they hit us in 1938 during that radio broadcast

I know a nutbar who believes the War of the World's radio broadcast was a media event planned to distract attention from Hitler's annexation of the Sudetenland.