[Ads-l] QOTY 1958

Mark Mandel mark.a.mandel at GMAIL.COM
Wed Jul 11 18:47:43 UTC 2018


(Hand to forehead) Gro-o-oan! But, yeah, back then. Yuch.

Mark, who remembers, though barely

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018, 12:54 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 1958 Charles Beaumont & Ben Hecht _Queen of Outer Space_ (film):
>
> "The ray that destroyed the space station and knocked us off our course may
> have originated right here." "Oh, come off it! How could a bunch of women
> invent a gizmo like that?"
>
>
> JL
>
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>
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