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# room 101?
'Nineteen Eighty-Four' reference?

sorry, i just read that book and wrote an essay on it.
(Jackie Treehorn, Sun 8 Jun 2003, 12:59, archived)
# or
a matrix reference?
(I helped save b3ta! Terry Oblong There's nobody here but us chickens on, Sun 8 Jun 2003, 13:00, archived)
# I remember
reading 1984 and thinking "I must remember to read this again in 1984..." and then realising in 1985 that I hadn't
(I helped save b3ta! Jadeviper was still alive on, Sun 8 Jun 2003, 13:01, archived)
# heh
i wasn't even existent in 1984
(Jackie Treehorn, Sun 8 Jun 2003, 13:03, archived)
# although
i was in '85
(Jackie Treehorn, Sun 8 Jun 2003, 13:04, archived)
# stop
making me feel old! : P
(I helped save b3ta! Jadeviper was still alive on, Sun 8 Jun 2003, 13:04, archived)
# geez it mustn't be very hard
:P
(Jackie Treehorn, Sun 8 Jun 2003, 13:07, archived)
# I'm only
27! and only just 27 too... 27 and 6 days in fact.
(I helped save b3ta! Jadeviper was still alive on, Sun 8 Jun 2003, 13:08, archived)
# I remember seeing
the John Hurt film version when it cam out on video. You got to see Julia's naughty bits in it.

Life was so much harder for pubescents before the Interweb
(I helped save b3ta! matsimpsk, Sun 8 Jun 2003, 13:10, archived)
# I haven't seen the film
but I do remember lots of seat-shifting when we had to watch Walkabout in standard grade English - yet another film where Jenny Agutter gets her kit off
(I helped save b3ta! Jadeviper was still alive on, Sun 8 Jun 2003, 13:14, archived)
# unfair!
the most we got to see was nastasja kinski getting a boob out to fake breastfeeding... some bronte story turned into a fillum, I think it was.
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Sun 8 Jun 2003, 13:19, archived)
# George Orwells book "nineteen eighty-four"
was wrote in 1949. Theres a nice fact for you to impress your mates with.
(Squid Bunty, Sun 8 Jun 2003, 13:10, archived)
# I thought it was...
1948? And he just switched the last two digits around?
(I helped save b3ta! matsimpsk, Sun 8 Jun 2003, 13:12, archived)
# yeah
it was 1948
(I helped save b3ta! Jadeviper was still alive on, Sun 8 Jun 2003, 13:13, archived)
# George Orwell used
to live near Bu(n/m)gay

FACT!
(I helped save b3ta! matsimpsk, Sun 8 Jun 2003, 13:15, archived)