misc.

[malignd at aol.com]

Hard to believe otherwise, although I think I recall him -- Or Kubrick -- saying that it was not.

which I am sure was intentional on Arthur C. Clark's part.



-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: leevyne at aol.com
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, 13 May 2009 1:19 pm
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Yea... I remember learning that from one of you precocious kids.......


Good point.


 


Take That, you French filmwatchers....................






Only one problem. We precocious kids figured out that if you took the letters of the alphabet immediately following those in H-A-L, you came up w/ IBM, which I am sure was intentional on Arthur C. Clark's part.





This reminds me, in the dubbed French release of 2001 : L'Odyssée de
l'espace, HAL 9000 is renamed CARL, and speaks with the voice of
Jean-Louis Trintignant ...












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