Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home: "I’m looking for the world as it was."

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Springfield! Springfield!

Night of the Comet (1984)

Muffy? Stupid dog.

JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 1:35 PM Saturday, January 22, 2011 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2011/01/broadway.html

Broadway

I have been trying to find the building I "remember" going to often in downtown Asheville NC but I cannot seem to find it. I see the map has buildings downtown labeled for the district court and for the US Marshals Service but I don't see that specific building near that location. I "remember" it was a midrise building and seemed to be one of the tallest or the tallest building downtown. I "remember the building was narrow and there was a point where you could stand in a hallway on one of the upper floors and see the mountains that surround downtown Asheville and you could see out the windows of opposite sides of the building while standing in that hallway. The closest building I can find is on a street named French Broad but I don't know. That building isn't as close to downtown as I am thinking is that other building.

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U.S. Marshals (1998)

Quotes

Sam Gerard: US Marshals, are you in here alone? Are you in here alone?

Elderly Man: Yes!

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Google Maps

S Pack Square

Asheville, North Carolina

1984 film "Night of the Comet" DVD video:

Regina: They said you were dead.

Samantha: They were exaggerating totally.

Regina: Hey, that's a great outfit.

Samantha: Thanks. Is that guy in the hallway dead?

JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 1:35 PM Saturday, January 22, 2011 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2011/01/broadway.html

I cannot ever seem to recall the name of that company that was in that building that I would go to when they called me up there from my office in Greenville SC. I went there primarily, as I recall to replace cathode ray tubes in their mainframe computer terminals. One time I was changing a CRT in a terminal and I accidentally let the good CRT fall over and break. That time I was there to replace a functioning CRT with a different color CRT and after I took out the functioning monochrome CRT I accidentally let it fall over and break apart. I still had the replacement CRT so I was at least able to complete the assignment.

I think I found it. It doesn't seem to be a tall as I was thinking though. The location is consistent though. One one side of the building is College and the other is North Pack Square. There is some kind of monument across from the building which seems to form the Pack Square. That monument is vaguely familiar.

And Broadway. That narrow west side of the building is on Broadway street.

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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 04/07/11 9:19 PM
I was trying to recall the name of the company that was based in that building where I "remember" going to work on that computer terminal. I think that was the corporation that runs the Biltmore hotel there somewhere around Asheville NC. I looked on the map and I can clearly see that same building on Broadway Street and College Street has a sign on the top of the building featuring the name Merrill Lynch and I can see their logo of the bull.

it is possible that is a multi-tenant building and whether or not Merrill Lynch occupied that building in 1993 they are occupants now and I do not know when they began operations there.

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Google Maps

185 Marshall Ave

Greenville, South Carolina

http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=night-of-the-comet

Springfield! Springfield!

Night of the Comet (1984)

We're not robots, Doctor. We're not all going to fall over at one time. Some of us will last a little longer. While others of us have more immediate needs. You're smart. You can figure that out. Psychology is not an exact science, but, my God, man, anybody can add two and two.

I'm very sorry about your sister. It's a tragedy. It truly is. And I can understand your hostility. But no matter how upset you are, breaking an expensive piece of equipment won't solve anything. I mean, striking out at inanimate objects is really quite childish. Even you should be able to realize that.

Jerk.

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The American Presidency Project

William J. Clinton

XLII President of the United States: 1993 - 2001

Teleconference Remarks on Family and Medical Leave Legislation

January 29, 1993

Thank you so much for being with us today, and have a wonderful time. And keep those kids making that good noise.

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The American Presidency Project

William J. Clinton

XLII President of the United States: 1993 - 2001

Inaugural Address

January 20, 1993

But when most people are working harder for less; when others cannot work at all; when the cost of health care devastates families and threatens to bankrupt our enterprises, great and small; when the fear of crime robs law-abiding citizens of their freedom; and when millions of poor children cannot even imagine the lives we are calling them to lead, we have not made change our friend.

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Springfield! Springfield!

Night of the Comet (1984)

We're not with these guys.
Really, like, we just met them
an hour ago.

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Night of the Comet (1984)

Quotes

Willy: You wouldn't believe what we want from you. In your worst nightmare you wouldn't believe.

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IMDb

Night of the Comet (1984)

Quotes

Willy: Let's play a game, it's called scary noises.

1984 film "Night of the Comet" DVD video:

Willy: Isn't that a scary noise? Want to hear it again? Gosh! The suspense is killing me! Let's do it again. An E-ticket attraction. Let's do it again. Now wait a minute. I don't think there's really a bullet in here. No. Now, see there, it's loaded. I just needed to be a little more patient. I think this is it, girls. I really do.

From 10/21/1952 ( Patti Davis ) To 7/7/1976 ( Gerald Ford - Remarks of Welcome to Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ) is 8660 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash ) is 8660 days

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1984 film "Night of the Comet" DVD video:

White: I'm not thinking straight. I wrote everything down, but I think I misspelled it. That pad on the table. You need this?

Hector: No, thanks. I have one.

1984 film "Night of the Comet" DVD video:

Hector: Hey, wait a minute. What's all this about... blood?

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The American Presidency Project

Gerald Ford

XXXVIII President of the United States: 1974 - 1977

654 - Remarks of Welcome to Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

July 7, 1976

Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, ladies and gentlemen:

On behalf of the American people, I am delighted to welcome you and your party to the United States and to the White House.

Your first state visit to America in 1957 marked the 350th anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown, the first permanent British colony in this new land. You honor us again by coming to share our Bicentennial observance in the new spirit of optimism and cooperation generated by this great occasion.

During the 169 years between the first settlement of Jamestown and our independence, 13 Colonies prospered, protected by the British Navy, enjoying the advantage of British commerce, and adopting British concepts of representative self-government. In declaring independence in 1776, we looked for guidance to our British heritage of representative government--representative government as well as law. As a sovereign nation we have kept and nurtured the most durable bond of all--the bond of idealism in which our new nation was conceived.

Your Majesty's visit symbolizes our deep and continuing commitment to the common values of an Anglo-American civilization. Your Majesty, for generations our peoples have worked together and fought together side by side. As democracies we continue our quest for peace and justice.

The challenges we now face are different from those that we have confronted together and overcome in the past. At stake is the future of the industrialized democracies which have sustained their destiny in common for more than a generation. At stake is the further extension of the blessings of liberty, to all humanity in the creation of a better world. As new nations and old, each set their political course to achieve these aims. The principles of human dignity and individual rights set forth in the Magna Carta and our own Declaration of Independence remain truly revolutionary landmarks.

Your Majesty, the wounds of our parting in 1776 healed long ago. Americans admire the United Kingdom as one of our truest allies and best friends. There could be no more convincing evidence of that friendship than the splendid British contributions and participation on the occasion of our Bicentennial.

Last month I had the privilege and honor to welcome to the White House Rose Garden the distinguished delegation of the British Parliament, who escorted an historic copy of the Magna Carta to America. The loan of this document for our Bicentennial is a gesture that will bring pleasure and inspiration to all who view it.

Yesterday, in Philadelphia, Your Majesty inaugurated the new Bicentennial bell, a gift from the people of Britain to the people of the United States, inscribed "Let Freedom Ring." It will hang in the Bell Tower in Independence National Historical Park. When I was in Philadelphia on the Fourth of July, I thought what a perfect complement the new bell will be to our own Liberty Bell and the Centennial bell in Independence Hall.

For these gifts and for many others which Britain has honored our historic celebration, the American people are deeply grateful. Above all, we appreciate the personal honor you have so graciously demonstrated by visiting our shores at this special moment in our history.

During your visit you will travel to hallowed American landmarks. You will observe many changes since you were here last. But as you travel throughout our land, I trust that you will find something else in the United States--a new sense of unity, of friendship, of purpose, and tranquillity. Something wonderful happened to America this past weekend. A spirit of unity and togetherness deep within the American soul sprang to the surface in a way that we had almost forgotten. People showed again that they care, that they want to live in peace and harmony with their neighbors, that they want to pull together for the good of the Nation and for the good of mankind.

This weekend we had a marvelous reaffirmation of the American spirit. In the days ahead, we would like very much to share that spirit with you.

During your visit in 1957, President Eisenhower remarked that America's respect for Britain was symbolized in our affection for the royal family. It is in this spirit we welcome Your Majesty's visit as a happy occasion for reaffirming our joint dedication to freedom, to peace, democracy, and the wall-being of our people.

Your Majesty, America bids you, Prince Philip, and your party a most cordial and heartfelt welcome.

Note: The President spoke at 11:54 a.m. on the South Lawn at the White House, where Queen Elizabeth was given a formal welcome with full military honors. The Queen responded as follows:

Mr. President, thank you for your welcome to us. We are very pleased to be with you and the American people in this most important week of your Bicentennial Year.

Our countries have a great deal in common. The early British settlers created here a society that owes much to its origins across the ocean. For nearly 170 years there was a formal constitutional link between us. Your Declaration of Independence broke that link, but it did not for long break our friendship.

John Adams, America's first Ambassador, said to my ancestor, King George III, that it was his desire to help with the restoration of "the old good nature and the old good humor between our peoples." That restoration has long been made, and the links of language, tradition, and personal contact have maintained it.

Yesterday, Prince Philip and I were deeply moved by the welcome we were given in Philadelphia. And now we are looking forward to our time in Washington and to our visits to New York and Boston and to the home of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. We shall have visited the four cities that were at the center of events 200 years ago. We also hope to see something of America' of 1976 and of the young people who will be taking this country forward into its third century.

Mr. President, the British and American people are as close today as two peoples have ever been. We see you as our strong and trusted friend, and we believe that you, in turn, will find us as ready as ever to bear our full share in defending the values in which we both believe.

That is why we are so happy to be here.