Just thought of another-

Nirvana’s version of David Bowie’s-The Man Who Sold the World

Van Halen did a lot of covers. Maybe their best cover was of The Kinks- You’ve really got me.

Scott

PRC does not now, nor never will have the resources to mount a sucessful invasion of Taiwan. Just at Germany could not mount the resources to cross 20+ miles of the English Channel to invade the UK in WWII, the PRC can not “bridge the 100+ miles of the Strait.

The PRC’s only hope to “conquer” Taiwan is to have the world (and that mostly means the US) capitulate to the PRC’s demand that their “renegade provience” submit.

If the PRC made a hostile move across the Strait, the US and allies would cut off the supply of oil to the PRC and stop them in their tracks.

Scott

Perhaps more effective before the advent of GPS guided A/C and munitions was the massive camoflage nets placed over Southern California airfileds during WWII.

The Lockheed plant and airfield (today’s Bob Hope Airport) in Burbank California was covered by a massive net that was decorated to look like a housing estate from above. My understanding was that A/C took off and landed under the netting.

Nearby the airport is the Warner Brother’s movie studio with many large sound stage that could be msitaken for a factory from above. As part of the war effort, the stages were painted with the name “Lockheed Aircraft.” Needless to say, studio owner Jack Warner was less than enthusiastic about using his studio as a decoy.

At least one of the stages retained the Lockheed sign until about 10 years ago.

Scott

So by extention, the horrors of Japanes expansionsim in the first half of the 20th Century is his fault? And taking that logic one step further, it is the Scots who are responsible as well? Should we demand reparations?

Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series is 20 books worth of great reads. The Russel Crowe movie gets the details right, but misses on the plot.

Scott

Laurel and Hardy are timeless. The outdoor staircase used for the Piano Movers still exisits here in LA.

I would also offer a couple of timeless classics:

Charley Chaplin and Buster Keaton… oh and Harold Lloyd also.

Of the modern guys and gals Richard Prior in his prime.

Scott