10-06-2011, 07:12 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Originally Posted by chadrog
Pigs fly great, I know. The "Dude" was dumb, I know that too, but the kids loved it. A BIG rocket going up, and a big rocket coming down with a stupid little chute. Was fun. Just because the "purists" think it sucked doesn't mean everyone thought it sucked. Because it's not an AMRAAM or a Bull-pup, or some other perfect-to-scale missile shuttle surface-to-air something or other that didn't fit the old mans dichotomy, it was stupid. what's it all about? Answer that, and dumb things like the "dude" make more sense.
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Agreed. The "Dude hatred" reminds me of a one-panel comic that I once saw in an issue of "Reader's Digest." At an art museum during a school field trip, a teacher said to her class: "Just because the painting doesn't happen to appeal to Marvin doesn't necessarily mean that it stinks." I never cared for The Dude, but it appealed to kids, and if it enticed some of them to become model rocketeers, then it fulfilled its purpose.
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