If all else fails, read the instructions. They’re in the Koran.

Mohammad was not alone in his lice ridden cave. But as the old joke goes, you’re never alone with delusions. Whatever Moe was afflicted with in his fevered little criminal mind, it sure has spread. One mans mental illness projected over 13 centuries. Sadly the other reptiles found Mohammad way too cold blooded and well, a freaky bastard who just wouldn’t shut up and eat his flies and bugs. Legend has it that he devoured the lizards too, just as he said he would and just as a minority of the easy going gecko’s suspected all along.

It wasn’t meant to be a game!” Rollerball [1975]

In the original Rollerball film, a load of old rubbish from my teenage movie going years, there’s a computer that holds all the world’s knowledge. Must’ve been the size of Arizona. Oh that’s right…it was the future. Yeah sure. It looked just like 1975, only neater. Apparently this computer had lost, and rather ironically I feel, the entire 13th century!

Yes, that century. If only we could. New York Times:

Norman Jewison’s lumbering 1975 ‘Rollerball’, a well-intentioned [why?] though heavy-handed assault on capitalism and sanctioned blood lust. [That's the movie, not Islamism.]

“…a movie that wasn’t successful financially or artistically in the first place, then ”Rollerball” fits the bill. The current version, however, like its predecessor, fails as entertainment…the sober-minded original was as graceful as a tap-dancing rhino, but it is just as boring and as obvious”. [Gee, maybe they do mean Islam?]

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