From WIIIAI:
Personally, after reading this and looking at the picture, I'm thinking of Lancelot Link.From a NYT article on Bush admin plans to militarize space:
The Air Force believes “we must establish and maintain space superiority,” Gen. Lance Lord, who leads the Air Force Space Command, told Congress recently. “Simply put, it’s the American way of fighting.” ... “Space superiority is not our birthright, but it is our destiny.”
Really, I’d be making fun of those quotes now if only I could get over there being a General Lance Lord (shorter version: General Lord) in charge of an Air Force Space Command.
Alliterative and phallic at the same time, what were his parents thinking, and in charge of rockets, oh it has to be a bad joke from a 1940s radio serial.[...]
And one of these programs is called Rods from God. And one involves bouncing lasers off giant mirrors hanging from satellites, or really high-up blimps.
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I found a picture of him, too large a file to clutter up this page with, but Lance Lord is actually a middle-aged bald guy with glasses and a more than passing resemblance to Jesse Helms.
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OK, I want everyone to stand up (extra points if you climb up on your desk) and intone in your deepest radio-announcer voice, “Space superiority is not our birthright, but it is our destiny!”
Now do it as William Shatner.
Now Elmer Fudd...
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