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From: maverick@trwatf.UUCP (Mark D. Grover)
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Subject: Re: Buckaroo Banzai references?
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Date: Thu, 9-May-85 09:19:29 EDT
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>    I saw Buckaroo Banzai about a month ago, and noticed that the name of the
> company run by Red Lectroids was Yoyodyne.  Yoyodyne was the name of a  big
> corporation in Thomas Pynchon's _The_Crying_of_Lot_49_.
> 
>    My question is, what other references have people seen in this film?

What was the name of that big book in the background in the Shock Tower?
I vaguely remember (even after four times): "Men of Earth" or some such.

And in the Red's thermal pod: was that a picture of Mussolini or Fred Mertz?
-- 
MDG   "I've been ionized... but I'm all right now." (B. Banzai)

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