Subj : Commodore/Amiga at the Fresno State Univ
To   : Rug Rat
From : Ray Quinn
Date : Fri Feb 20 2026 11:05 am


Hello Rug!

19 Feb 26 17:43, you wrote to me:

 RR> On Thu 19-Feb-2026  9:05a, Ray Quinn@1:214/23.0 said to Rug Rat:

 RQ>>  RR> "Frenso.!?  Nobody goes to Fresno anymore!"

 RQ>> I live (and work) roughly 35 miles southeast of Fresno in Visalia
 RQ>> and go to or through Fresno regularly. I may not be somebody, but
 RQ>> I am certainly not nobody. ;~)

 RR> I was quoting a line from the movie Airplane II the sequal.

 RR> Controller discussing his family vacation, "And then we went to
 RR> Bakersfield and then we ended up in Fresno."

 RR> Johny overhearing, "Fresno? No one goes to Fresno anymore."

Ah, yes. The Airplane movies. I've seen them many times. Many inuendos throughout them.

 RR> You reminded me a the line, and one of my former coworkers who would
 RR> always quote lines from either Spaceballs or the Airplane movies.   I
 RR> thought it appropriate since both Airplane! and Airplane! II were
 RR> released in the 80s.

Spaceballs was another good one as is the Police Academy movie series.

"DON'T MOVE, DIRTBAG!" Cadet Laverne Hooks

I'm not sure which Police Academy movie it is, but one of the funniest scenes is when Commandant Eric Lassard excuses himself during a meeting with the mayor and procedes to use the men's room with his wireless microphone amplifying his noises throughout the meeting room.


Ray


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