My mate works does a lot of IT work in the antarctic and he's told me a few stories...
Ok he's an American and i'm sure a lot of the Englsih hate the stereotypical yanks, that my uncle unashambly is. But he's a genius and has gone through a lot and works with a few guys incuding this one bloke.
So yeah he's an American, a typical Kurt Russel type of fella, dry, witty, a bit of a loner. Some would call him an alcoholic, he has a habit to spend many a night sipping spirits to ease away those cold and bleak antarctic nights, lodging away in his own hut away from the nocturnal activities of his colleagues. For years it's been like that. A calendar means nothing out there, unless you've truly seen the darkness and blinding light of the antarctic. Conversations run stale, a monotony is often developed to while away the hours and he keeps doing his job.

His job entails picking up parcels and supplies from drop points via tractor or helicopter from nearby allies in the antarctic. Although these are far and few, their closest neighbour being an Norwegian base many kilometres away.

So imagine his surprise when the Norwegians uninvitedly fired upon their base with automatic weapons from a helicopter. (A dog was also seen running from these lunatics). Bizarrely enough one of the Norwegians kills himself with his own explosives, further confusing the scientists and techies.
Unfortunately the remaining Norwegian open fire on them and managed to injure one of them in the leg. The commander of the American base managed to eliminate the threat of the Norwegian man but no answer was given as to the reason behind the dastardly attack.

His Commander, with advice from the rest of the crew decided to bandage up the mans leg and rest him until he's safe enough to support himself on crutches, in the mean time he sends a few of them to investigate the Norwegian camp. Risking bad weather and heavy winds he (being his own macho self) persuades the Doctor to come with him and find out what happened to the Norwegians.

Through the sleet and clouds he flies, and he's a shit hot helicopter pilot let me remind you, they arrive at the Norwegian base to find it in a sense of bleakness. No lights, no sign of life and a creepy whistling wind almost with a droning undertone of beating sinisterism.


So imagine his suprise when he and the doctor discover the mutilated and grotesquely deformed remains of the Norwegians, along side evidence of digging up a huge space ship type thing, aswell as the half burned 'thing' lying outside smouldering in the snow... It's face grotesque parody of a twin, one half open mouthed and snarling. Strange fur-lined tendrils reached forth from the 'things' unholy abdomen. Fur and flesh abhorently fused amongst chitinous blocks of insect exoskeletolal structure.

They took it back to base. Failing to realise that they had unleashed a deadly alien, shapeshifting parasite upon the occuptants of that lonely American base. Oh and the dog isn't actually a dog. It transforms into a clown.

Fuck i've just got confused with that clown film.

Sorry.
(mr-lizard Hell's teeth man!, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 1:00, 4 replies)

and its long fucking trip
from norway to the antarctic


see: Amundsen
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 1:23, closed)

the nearest base to the americans in The Thing is manned by norwegians
this post was shit though. this sort of stuff can be funny, but the execution here is just poor.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 9:23, closed)

indeed
wasn't even disguised in any way
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 9:46, closed)

Meh
i was drunk and got bored...
(mr-lizard Hell's teeth man!, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 11:25, closed)