[defrost]

> the day the world declared in one voice:

Yeah . . . big news in the Congo as I recall, endlessly lauded in East and West Papua, nobody could shut up about it in Patagonia, a cause célèbre in the Chatham Isles.

The next day, everybody forgot about the 8 year civil uprising in the British colonies that kind of paled against the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and all the other biffos of that time that went on longer and killed more people.

[kibibu]

It's a quote from the movie Independence Day, about an alien invasion. There was no President Thomas Whitmore.

[defrost]

~ " You can't be anal rententive if you don't have an anus "

It's a quote from the movie Dogma.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903005