http://www.governor.wa.gov/contact/form.asp
Thank you for contacting Governor Christine Gregoire. The Governor values your views and opinions. We want to assure you that the Governor's Office reads these messages and, when appropriate, refers them to relevant agencies, staff, or the Governor herself. Because of the volume of e-mail we receive daily, however, we are unable to respond to every message. Thank you again for contacting the Governor.
October 22, 2007
To: Governor Gregoire
From: Kerry W. Burgess (official United States federal undercover identity, an identity completely compromised by forces hostile to the United States of America)
Governor,
I have communicated most of these same details and more to the Office of the Inspector General, Department of Justice, and I wanted to also inform you of my observations.
I currently maintain an official United States federal undercover identity and I began that assignment on 12/7/1998 to investigate Microsoft Corporation sponsored terrorism. My deployment start date is recorded as 3/15/1998 and 3/16/1998 and I have been 100% deployed since then without even being able to visit with my family. I have not yet been granted permission to resume my true identity. And there is predictability to the terrorists attacks I have survived to this point.
From 6/7/1976 to 3/24/1995 ("Major Payne") is: 6864 days
From 7/16/1963 to 5/1/1982 (USNA82) is: 6864 days
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110443/
Major Payne (1995)
Release Date: 24 March 1995 (USA)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Payne
Major Payne
The film starts with Major Payne (Damon Wayans), a hardened killing machine of a Marine, in a drug raid in South America. Payne successfully infiltrates their base of operations, and neutralizes their project. After the mission, he is called into the general's office, and finds out that he was not promoted to a Lieutenant Colonel. "You get two chances to advance, then we gotta show you the hatch". Payne received an honorable discharge on the grounds of "wars of the world are no longer fought on the battlefield", and that his military skill was no longer needed.
After he leaves the military, Payne finds life as a civilian unbearable, and reaches his breaking point, in a scene parodying the opening scene in Apocalypse Now. To help adjust, Payne applies for a job as a Police officer. During the test to see how applicants handled domestic violence diputes, Payne overreacts and repeatedly slaps the man who hit his wife in the scenario, eventually knocking him out. Payne is put into jail on charges that are most likely assault. His former general visits him and informs Payne that he has secured a job for him that will get him back in the military.
Payne arrives at Madison Preparatory School in Virginia. He first meets Tiger (Orlando Brown), who bumps into him when he was running away from school counselor/nurse Emily Walburn (Karyn Parsons), who was trying to give him a shot. The principal informs him that his job is to train the green boys, a disorderly group of delinquents and outcasts, who have placed last in the Virginia Military Games eight years running. When Payne sees his company, he immediately tells them that under his direction they will win the games at all costs. He makes the cadets do pushups, situps, and squat thrusts for their disobedience, and later shaves their heads and makes them do their morning jog around the campus in sundress
Much of the comedy comes from Payne's harsh and sometimes sadistic punishment of the boys, the boys' numerous attempts to get rid of him, and the reluctant bonds he forms with each of the boys as they work toward winning the games. Payne consistently tries to see the boys merely as units in his troop but slowly comes to be a father figure for the boys -- in particularly six-year-old Tiger -- and grows to love Emily, the mother of the troop, who is his polar opposite in their views on childcare. Payne is eventually asked to come back to the Marines to fight in Bosnia, and his conflicting feelings about his old life and new life are the catalyst for the film's finale.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110443/quotes
Memorable quotes for
Major Payne (1995)
Emily: [She and Tiger enter Major Payne's office] Apparently he had a little accident.
Major Payne: Apparently he pissed all over the front of his pants.
Emily: Well maybe that's because he's six.
Major Payne: Because he's six? Woman, when I was six years old I had a full time job.
Major Benson Winifred Payne: [Payne has just been informed that the USMC has run out of battles for him to fight, AND has passed him over for promotion to Lieutenant Colonel]
General, are you telling me that nowhere in the military is there any longer a job for trained human weapons of destruction such as myself?
Gen. Decker: Most blood is now shed in the halls of Congress, Payne. Guys like us are becoming dinosaurs.
Major Benson Winifred Payne: General, surely there must be SOMEBODY left who needs some killing, or some killing done for them.
Gen. Decker: Sorry, Major. There's nobody left. You've killed them all.
Emily: [as Payne is hazing the cadets by making them run around the Madison campus in drag] Major, WHAT are the boys doing in those DRESSES?
Major Benson Winifred Payne: Oh, they're just puttin' on a fashion show.
Emily: Do you really think THIS is the best way to gain the respect and admiration of these young men?
Major Benson Winifred Payne: They may not like me, but they WILL respect me.
Emily: Let me be more direct: they HATE you.
Major Benson Winifred Payne: Good. It'll draw 'em close together, make 'em a team.
Emily: That's a very cynical plan!
Major Benson Winifred Payne: Yeah, well at least it won't backfire. Besides, they started it.
From 11/2/1975 to 12/4/1987 (Orlando Brown) is: 4415 days
'4415'
From 3/4/1959 to 7/16/1963 is 4 years, 4 months, 1 week, 5 days
'4415'
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0114371/
Orlando Brown (I)
Date of Birth: 4 December 1987
Major Payne (1995) .... Cadet Kevin 'Tiger' Dunne
From 7/16/1963 to 12/12/1970 (Jennifer Connelly) is 88 months, 26 days
8826 = 4413 + 4413
'4413'
From 3/3/1959 to 7/16/1963 is 4 years, 4 months, 13 days
'4413'
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000124/
Jennifer Connelly
Date of Birth: 12 December 1970
The Rocketeer (1991) .... Jenny Blake
Dark City (1998) .... Emma Murdoch/Anna
A Beautiful Mind (2001) .... Alicia Nash
Hulk (2003) .... Betty Ross
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britney
Brittany is a female given name. It means from Britain. This refers to the region in France of the same name.
The name has several different spellings. Some of these include Britany, Britteny, Britney, Brittney, Brittni, Brittnie, Britnie, etc.
From 7/2/1976 to 6/9/2006 is: 1 week, 359 months
'1-3-59'
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13228977/
Britney Spears’ ‘manny’ is Navy man
Perry Taylor is ‘more of a bodyguard,’ says his mother
Updated: 3:53 p.m. PT June 9, 2006
EASTON, Md. - At the U.S. Naval Academy, Perry Taylor was addressed as “midshipman.” Now, though, he’s known as Perry Poppins.
The 28-year-old Easton native has popped up in supermarket tabloids as the male nanny — or “manny” — for Britney Spears, who has a 9-month-old son, Sean Preston, and is pregnant.
“Actually, he’s more of a bodyguard,” says Taylor’s mother, Caroline Moncure-Taylor, a Washington real estate agent. Moncure-Taylor told The (Baltimore) Sun that Taylor has worked for the 24-year-old pop singer for less than a month.
From 4/12/1981 (STS-1 launch) to 12/2/1981 (Britney Spears) is: 33 weeks, 3 days
'333'
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005453/
Britney Spears
Date of Birth: 2 December 1981
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-1
The first Space Shuttle mission, STS-1, was launched April 12, 1981, and returned April 14. Space Shuttle Columbia orbited the earth 36 times in this 54.5-hour mission. It was the first US manned space flight since the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in July 15, 1975.
From 4/14/1981 (STS-1 landing) to 12/1/1984 is: 3 years, 33 weeks
'333'
http://www.navysite.de/ffg/FFG50.HTM
USS Taylor (FFG 50)
USS TAYLOR is one of the many OLIVER HAZARD PERRY class frigates.
Commissioned: December 1, 1984
From 12/7/1998 to 5/1/2002 (Wednesday) is 3 years, 4 months, 3 weeks, 3 days
'34-33'
From 5/1/2002 (Wednesday) to 5/3/2002 ("Spider-Man")(Friday) is: 2 days
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145487/
Spider-Man (2002)
Release Date: 3 May 2002 (USA)
Tobey Maguire ... Spider-Man / Peter Parker
'4/30/1982: U.S. Naval Academy'
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000379/
Kirsten Dunst
Date of Birth: 30 April 1982
Spider-Man (2002) .... Mary Jane Watson
Small Soldiers (1998) .... Christy Fimple
"Saturday Night Live" .... George Bush's Granddaughter / ... (2 episodes, 1988-1990)
From 4/15/1986 to 11/12/1988 ("Saturday Night Live") is: 134 weeks, 4 days
'1344'
From 3/3/1959 to 7/16/1963 is 13 days, 4 months, 4 weeks
'1344'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0694540/
"Saturday Night Live"
Demi Moore/Johnny Clegg & Savuka (1988)
Original Air Date: 12 November 1988 (Season 14, Episode 5)
Kirsten Dunst ... George Bush's Granddaughter (uncredited)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981 – 1989)
From 12/25/1968 (Apollo 8 at Moon) to 6/27/1975 (Tobey Maguire) is: 2375 days
From 3/3/1959 to 9/2/1965 (Princeton University) is: 2375 days
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001497/
Tobey Maguire
Date of Birth: 27 June 1975
Spider-Man (2002) .... Spider-Man/Peter Parker
From 4/30/1982 (USNA82) to 9/18/1992 ("Captain Ron")(Friday) is: 3794 days
From 3/3/1959 to 7/21/1969 (Apollo 11 lunar EVA) is: 3793 days
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103924/
Captain Ron (1992)
Release Date: 18 September 1992 (USA)
Tagline: Martin just wanted a nice, quiet family vacation. Instead, he got...
Kurt Russell ... Captain Ron
From 4/30/1982 (USNA82) to 7/11/1991 ("Blood Feud") is: 3359 days
'33-59'
http://www.tv.com/the-simpsons/blood-feud/episode/1320/summary.html?tag=ep_list;title;21
Blood Feud
Episode Number: 35
Season Num: 2
First Aired: Thursday July 11, 1991
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/7F22.html
Blood Feud
Marge: Homer, you don't do things like that to be rewarded. You do them because a fellow human being needs a helping hand.
Homer: Marge, you're my wife, I love you very much, but [condescendingly] you're living in a world of make-believe! With flowers and bells and leprechauns and magic frogs with funny little hats.
Bart: Yeah, Mom, we got hosed.
-- When Bart saves Mr. Burns' life with his donated blood, ``Blood Feud''
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/frogman
frogman
a swimmer specially equipped with air tanks, wet suit, diving mask, etc., for underwater demolition, salvage, military operations, scientific exploration, etc.
A swimmer provided with breathing apparatus and other equipment to execute underwater maneuvers, especially military maneuvers.
an underwater swimmer who uses breathing apparatus and flippers
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/SEAL
SEAL
a member of a Naval Special Warfare unit who is trained for unconventional warfare; "SEAL is an acronym for Sea Air and Land"
From 12/18/1976 (Koyuki) to 4/30/1982 (USNA82) is: 1959 days
'1959'
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0468746/
Koyuki (I)
Date of Birth: 18 December 1976
The Last Samurai (2003) .... Taka
From 4/30/1982 (USNA82) to 9/16/1988 (USS Brooke) is: 333 weeks
'333'
http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/FFG1.htm
BROOKE (FFG 1)
GUIDED MISSILE FRIGATE
Commission Date: 03/12/1966
Decommission Date: 09/16/1988
From 4/30/1982 (USNA82) to 12/17/1985 (HMS Edinburgh) is: 3 years, 33 weeks
'333'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Edinburgh_%28D97%29
HMS Edinburgh (D97) is a Type 42 (Batch 3) destroyer of the Royal Navy. Edinburgh was built by Cammell Laird of Birkenhead. She was launched on the on 14 April 1983 and commissioned on the 17 December 1985.
From 3/4/1959 to 7/16/1979 is: 7439 days
From 7/16/1979 to 11/27/1999 (HMS Vengeance) is: 7439 days
From 7/16/1963 to 4/30/1982 (USNA82) is: 6863 days
From 4/30/1982 (USNA82) to 2/12/2001 (HMS Vengeance) is: 6863 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Vengeance_%28S31%29
Launched: 9 September 1998
Commissioned: 27 November 1999
In service: 12 February 2001
HMS Vengeance (S31) is the fourth and final Vanguard class submarine of the Royal Navy. Vengeance carries the Trident ballistic missile, the UK's nuclear deterrent.
From 5/1/1982 (USNA82) to 12/28/1982 (USS New Jersey) is: 3 days, 34 weeks
'334'
http://www.navysite.de/bb/bb62.htm
USS New Jersey (BB 62)
Fourth [and final] commissioning: December 28, 1982
Fourth [and final] decommissioning: February 8, 1991
From 5/1/1982 (USNA82) to 5/18/1991 (USS ANNAPOLIS launched) is: 3304 days
'334'
http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/SSN760.htm
USS ANNAPOLIS (SSN 760)
SUBMARINE (NUCLEAR-POWERED)
Launch Date: 05/18/1991
From 5/1/1982 (USNA82) to 3/30/1996 is: 13 years, 334 days
'1-33-34'
http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/DDG65.htm
USS BENFOLD (DDG 65)
GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER
Commission Date: 03/30/1996
The date 9/3/1965 was 34 years, 33 weeks, after 1/15/1931. This detail probably represents why Benfold was selected as the namesake for hull DDG-65 instead of another hull number.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Clyde_Benfold
Edward Clyde Benfold (January 15, 1931 - September 5, 1952) was a United States Navy sailor who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Korean War. He was killed in action, aged 21, while serving with the 1st Marine Division, as a Hospitalman Third Class.
The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Benfold (DDG-65) was named after Hospitalman Third Class Edward C. Benfold.
From 9/2/1965 (Princeton University) to 4/8/1968 (USS New Jersey) is: 4 days, 135 weeks
'4135'
From 3/3/1959 to 7/16/1963 is 4 years, 135 days
'4135'
http://www.navysite.de/bb/bb62.htm
USS New Jersey (BB 62)
Third commissioning: April 8, 1968
Third decommissioning: November 17, 1969
From 4/12/1967 (USS Ray) to 3/16/1993 (USS Ray de-comm.) is: 9470 days
9470 / 2 = 4735
From 7/16/1963 to 7/2/1976 is: 4735 days
From 3/3/1959 to 9/2/1965 (Princeton) is: 6 years, 5 months, 30 days
'653' (hull number)
http://www.navysite.de/ssn/ssn653.htm
USS Ray (SSN 653)
USS RAY was the eleventh STURGEON - class fast attack submarine
Commissioned: April 12, 1967
Decommissioned: March 16, 1993
http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/SSN653.htm
RAY (SSN 653)
SUBMARINE (NUCLEAR-POWERED)
Commission Date: 04/12/1967
Decommission Date: 03/16/1993
From 6/7/1976 to 12/8/1982 ("48 Hrs.") is: 2375 days
From 3/3/1959 to 9/2/1965 (Princeton University) is: 2375 days
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083511/
48 Hrs. (1982)
Release Date: 8 December 1982 (USA)
Nick Nolte ... Jack Cates
From 9/2/1965 (Princeton University) to 5/14/1969 (Cate Blanchett) is 44 months, 12 days
'4412'
From 3/4/1959 to 7/16/1963 is 4 years, 4 months, 12 days
'4412'
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000949/
Cate Blanchett
Date of Birth: 14 May 1969
Elizabeth (1998) .... Elizabeth I
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) .... Queen Elizabeth I
From 3/4/1959 to 2/11/1989 (USS Princeton) is: 1 week, 359 months
'1-3-59'
http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/CG59.htm
USS PRINCETON (CG 59)
GUIDED MISSILE CRUISER
Commission Date: 02/11/1989
From 11/28/1952 (S. Epatha Merkerson) to 4/14/1986 is: 33 years, 4 months, 17 days
30 * 0.59 = 17.7 days
From 11/28/1952 (S. Epatha Merkerson) to 4/14/1986 is: 33 years, 4.59 months
'334-59'
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0580924/
S. Epatha Merkerson
Date of Birth: 28 November 1952
Navy Seals (1990) .... Jolena
From 3/3/1959 to 6/30/1993 ("The Firm") is 34 years, 3 months, 3 weeks, 6 days
'34-33'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106918/
The Firm (1993)
Release Date: 30 June 1993 (USA)
Tom Cruise ... Mitch McDeere
From 1/26/1949 (David Strathairn) to 4/14/1986 is: 13592 days
From 1/26/1949 (David Strathairn) to 4/15/1986 is: 13593 days
'1-3-59'
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000657/
David Strathairn
Date of Birth: 26 January 1949
The Firm (1993) .... Ray McDeere
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106918/quotes
Memorable quotes for
The Firm (1993)
Mitch McDeere: Anything I can do for you?
Ray McDeere: Sure. Get me outta here.
Mitch McDeere: Where to?
Ray McDeere: Anywhere I can see a whole lotta sky. I get through the days, I even eat the food. It's amazing how much you miss the sky.
Ray McDeere: How'd you land a job like that with a brother in the slammer?
[Mitch says nothing]
Ray McDeere: I get it. Don't worry, I'd probably have done the same thing.
Mitch McDeere: You're always there for me, Ray...
Ray McDeere: I'd have done the same thing. You think I want to tell the guys around here that I got a brother at Harvard?
From 5/17/1987 (USS Stark) to 4/14/1988 (USS Samuel B.Roberts) is: 333 days
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=35729&st=&st1=
Radio Address to the Nation on the Trade Bill and the Persian Gulf Conflict
April 23rd, 1988
My fellow Americans:
There's a memorable bit of dialog between Claude Rains and Humphrey Bogart in the movie "Casablanca." Rains, playing the Vichy French police inspector, asked Bogart why he came to Casablanca; and Bogart says it was for "the waters." "But this is the desert," replies Rains, "there are no waters here." And Bogart, unflappable as ever, responds, "I was misinformed."
Now, I'd like to turn for a moment to events this past week in the Persian Gulf. The actions that our forces took in the Gulf were a measured response to Iran's resumption of mine-laying and continued aggression against nonbelligerents. We have completed these self-defense actions and consider this incident closed.
I am extremely proud of the courage and resourcefulness of our military personnel in the Persian Gulf. Their performance under very difficult circumstances has been superb. We're also very pleased with the role that the European allies are playing in a cooperative effort to counter the Iranian mining threat and to help protect freedom of navigation. Such cooperative efforts, supported by our Gulf Arab friends, offer the best means of deterring Iran and enhancing Gulf security. Working together, we can also put new life into the U.N. Security Council's efforts to end the increasingly bloody, inhumane Iran-Iraq war and remove the root cause of tensions in the Gulf. Our role in this war is neutral, and we do not seek to confront Iran. However, its leaders must understand that continued military and terrorist attacks against nonbelligerents and refusal to negotiate an end to the war will be very costly to Iran and its people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_It_Again_Sam
"Play it again, Sam" is also a (mis)quote from the movie Casablanca, though in fact none of the characters ever say that exact line. The quote is "Play it once, Sam."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_%28film%29
Casablanca is an Oscar-winning 1942 romance film set in the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca. The film was directed by Michael Curtiz and stars Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine and Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund. It focuses on Rick's conflict between, in the words of one character, love and virtue: he must choose between his love for Ilsa and doing the right thing, helping her and her Resistance leader husband escape from Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis.
From 5/15/1978 (Caroline Dhavernas) to 4/14/1988 is: 3622 days
From 4/14/1988 to 3/15/1998 (Deployed) is: 3622 days
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0223518/
Caroline Dhavernas
Date of Birth: 15 May 1978
Breach (2007) .... Juliana O'Neill
From 7/4/1924 (Eva Marie Saint) to 3/4/1959 is: 12661 days
From 7/16/1963 to 3/15/1998 (Deployed) is: 12661 days
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001693/
Eva Marie Saint
Date of Birth: 4 July 1924
Superman Returns (2006) .... Martha Kent
From 3/15/1998 (Deployed) to 9/1/2006 ("Lassie") is: 441 weeks, 5 days
'4415'
from 3/4/1959 to 7/16/1963 is 4 years, 4 months, 1 week, 5 days
'4415'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0431213/
Lassie (2005)
Release Date: 1 September 2006 (USA)
Tagline: More Than A Hero. A Legend.
Plot Outline: A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.
From 3/15/1998 (Deployed) to 11/30/2001 ("Ghosts of Mars") is 44 months, 15 days
'4415'
From 3/4/1959 to 7/16/1963 is 4 years, 4 months, 1 week, 5 days
'4415'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0228333/releaseinfo
Release dates for
Ghosts of Mars (2001)
UK 30 November 2001
From 3/15/1998 (Deployed) to 11/1/2002 (UK "28 Days Later") is 33 weeks, 4 years
'33-34'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289043/releaseinfo
Release dates for
28 Days Later... (2002)
UK 1 November 2002
From 9/2/1965 (Princeton University) to 5/25/1976 (Cillian Murphy) is: 3918 days
3918 = 1959 + 1959
'1959'
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0614165/
Cillian Murphy
Date of Birth: 25 May 1976
28 Days Later... (2002) .... Jim
From 3/15/1998 (Deployed) to 1/12/2001 ("Antitrust") is 33 months, 4 weeks
'334'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/
Antitrust (2001)
Release Date: 12 January 2001 (USA)
Plot Outline: A computer programmer's dream job at a hot Portland-based firm turns nightmarish when he discovers his boss has a secret and ruthless means of dispatching anti-trust problems.
Ryan Phillippe ... Milo Hoffman
From 3/16/1998 (Deployed) to 8/6/2004 ("Tiger Cruise") is: 333 weeks, 4 days
'33-34'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397113/
Tiger Cruise (2004) (TV)
Release Date: 6 August 2004 (USA)
Tagline: Maddie wanted a father. What she found was a hero.
Plot Outline: In the wake of the World Trade Center attacks, a naval carrier with civilians on board is ordered in combat mode.
Hayden Panettiere ... Maddie Dolan
Bill Pullman ... Cmdr. Gary Dolan
Barbara Niven ... Kate Dolan
From 2/26/1953 (Barbara Niven) to 7/16/1963 is: 3792 days
From 3/3/1959 to 7/20/1969 (Apollo 11 lunar landing) is: 3792 days
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0018271/
Barbara Niven
Date of Birth: 26 February 1953
Tiger Cruise (2004) (TV) .... Kate Dolan
From 3/3/1959 to 11/26/2000 ("War Is the H-Word") is: 15244 days
15244 * 0.593 = 9039 days
From 7/16/1963 to 4/14/1988 is: 9039 days
'59-3: 1959 March 3'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0584463/
"Futurama"
War Is the H-Word (2000)
Original Air Date: 26 November 2000 (Season 3, Episode 2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_the_H-Word
"War is the H-Word" is episode seventeen in season two of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on November 26, 2000.
The troops are deployed to Spheron I and discover that the enemy is a race of sentient spherical creatures. Fry is told to hold back an assault while his fellow soldiers recharge their weapons by turning a crank that plays Pop Goes the Weasel. When the enemy charges, Fry blows a hole in the ground with his weapon and hides in it while his squad is decimated. Bender opens his chest plate and throws himself on a bomb, absorbing the explosion. After the battle, Brannigan sentences Fry to become Kif’s assistant while Bender, now a hero, is treated at a field hospital.
I can still "remember" seeing this movie when it premiered. I thought it was going to be about the USS Arizona from Pearl Harbor, as in something about salvaging the battleship. That notion is reinforced by the initials of the star character Nicholas Cage portrays, in that HI is the postal abbreviation for Hawaii.
From 4/14/1986 to 3/13/1987 ("Raising Arizona") is: 333 days
'333'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093822/
Raising Arizona (1987)
Release Date: 13 March 1987 (USA)
Plot Outline: When a childless couple of an ex-con and an ex-cop decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintupelets, their lives get more complicated than they anticipated.
Nicolas Cage ... H.I. McDunnough
http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/BB39.htm
ARIZONA (BB 39)
BATTLESHIP
Remarks: ARIZONA WAS BLOWN UP AND SANK BY DIRECT BOMB HITS FROM JAPANESE AIRCRAFT DURING
THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR NAVAL SHIPYARD, PEARL, HI ON 12/7/1941. SHE WAS PLAC
ED " IN ORDINARY" (OUT OF COMMISSION, LAID UP) ON 12/29/1941 AND STRICKEN ON 12/
1/1942. ON 5/30/1962, THE NATIONAL PARKS SERVICE ACQUIRED CUSTODY OF THE SHIP F
OR PUBLIC DISPLAYING, HOWEVER, THE US NAVY RETAINS TITLE.
From 4/14/1986 to 11/25/1986 is: 225 days
From 11/25/1986 to 7/8/1987 (Wednesday) is: 225 days
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093822/releaseinfo
Release dates for
Raising Arizona (1987)
UK 10 July 1987
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093822/quotes
Memorable quotes for
Raising Arizona (1987)
Parole Board chairman: They've got a name for people like you H.I. That name is called "recidivism."
Parole Board member: Repeat offender!
Parole Board chairman: Not a pretty name, is it H.I.?
H.I.: No, sir. That's one bonehead name, but that ain't me any more.
Parole Board chairman: You're not just telling us what we want to hear?
H.I.: No, sir, no way.
Parole Board member: 'Cause we just want to hear the truth.
H.I.: Well, then I guess I am telling you what you want to hear.
Parole Board chairman: Boy, didn't we just tell you not to do that?
H.I.: Yes, sir.
Parole Board chairman: Okay, then.
