Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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Happy Mother's Day from the Cold War...



Happy Mothers Day! And remember, dissent is patriotic. Mama knows best!



Learn more about Ronilyn McDonald, daughter of the late physicist James McDonald, at the EFR online archive and her 1967 University of Arizona honors thesis, "Psychological Aspects of Unidentified Flying Objects".


A mother sent President Truman $10 and asked that it be used to pay for a birthday cake for her son in the Navy. Truman sent the request to the sailor's CO, who then had his cooks bake a big cake. Remember: Your mom will go to the top of the (food) chain of command for you.




May 12th 1943: The Bridge on the River Kwai, that will connect Bangkok and Rangoon must be completed by this date according to the POW camp commandant, Colonel Saito.




May 12, 1995: CRIMSON TIDE was released. The Navy declined to assist in the production because of 'problems with the script', so the director got the shots he needed by hiring boats and helicopters to chase down USS Alabama (SSBN-731) when the sub was spotted leaving Pearl Harbor. When the Captain of the Alabama requested that the helicopter cease filming, they submerged, which is what director Tony Scott was hoping for anyway. I'm sure Hollywood got approval from Navy brass to release the footage. I was there that day at Pearl Harbor monitoring air traffic from Ford Island.

"Set condition 1 SQ for strategic missile launch." Lt. Commander "Hunter" (Denzel Washington) managed to save humanity.




"In science-fiction films, the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady." — Roger Corman


When Day the World Ended (1955) was originally released theatrically in the UK in 1956, the BBFC made cuts to secure a 'X' rating. All cuts were waived in 1991 when the film was granted a 'PG' certificate for home video.



More Corman...Mama knows best!



The Intruder (1962). It's perhaps Corman's best film, which is saying a lot given his immense talent. Probably one of Shatner's best performances, too.


Obvious content warning applies. It's an anti-segregation film made in the early 60s, and it reflects the ugliness of that period.



Kirk Douglas and Robert Walker Jr. in THE HOOK (1963). Robert Walker Jr. and Michael Douglas in the STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO episode (S3.E21) where Keller goes undercover at a mental hospital (Feb 20, 1975, but pre-CUCKOO'S NEST premiere).


So happy I escaped that dreadful mansion of horrors.


May 11, 1962: the destroyer USS Agerholm fired an anti-submarine rocket (ASROC) equipped with a nuclear depth charge during the Operation Dominic Swordfish weapons test. This was the last U.S. use of a nuclear depth charge due to the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.


I got to launch one of these (dummy warhead) at a nuclear attack sub. The sub captain said it was a direct hit, we heard the clang, clang.

At minute 3:00 of the video you see sailors on Balao-class submarine USS Razorback (SS-394) testing the submerged effects. Imagine the mission briefing for that one.