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Yep! This is how exciting my life is at the moment.

The movie quotes follow the cartoons.

My Lockdown Life in 10 Movie Quotes

1. ”I love the smell of napalm in the morning”

Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall), Apocalypse Now (1979). He added ‘It smells like victory.’ Sounds relevant.

2. “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”

Rick Blaine, Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca (1942).

3. “I’ll be back”

Arnold Schwarzenegger, which was made famous in the 1984 science fiction film The Terminator, a cyborg assassin.

4. “Go ahead, make my day”

Clint Eastwood as “Dirty” Harry Callahan, Sudden Impact, 1983.

5. “I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!”

The Wicked Witch of the West to Dorothy and her dog Toto in The Wizard of Oz, 1939.

6. ‘Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.’

Teacher John Keating, played by Robin Williams, Dead Poets Society, 1989.

7. ‘Shaken, not stirred’

James Bond played by Sean Connery, Goldfinger,1964.

8. “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.”

Don Corleone played by Marlon Brando, The Godfather, 1972.

9. ‘Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By’

Ilsa Lund played by Ingrid Bergman to the piano player, Casablanca, 1942. Humphrey Bogart played nightclub owner, Rick Blaine.

10. ‘Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don’t shoot their husbands. They just don’t.’

Elle Woods played by Reese Witherspoon, LEGALLY BLONDE,2001

Ed White Gemini 4 1965 NASA

….THE real threat to the survival of universities is not deregulation or funding issues, but the virtual campus with lecturers sitting at ground control and students getting lost in cyber space.

It’s 1969. I’m studying science-engineering at Melbourne University on a campus electrified by radicalised politics. The student union quadrangle has the excitement and clutter of an exotic bizarre awash with Hare Krishnas, rock bands, flute playing hippies,

badge wearing Trotskyites and more.

With 38 contact hours, I was blessed to attend university, despite being the only girl in my course (thus unable to skip too many classes), at a time when campus life was rich and academic standards demanding.

Fast forward 40 plus years, I’m walking across the university campus on my way to the Faculty of Engineering alumni dinner. A few students, talking on mobile phones and wearing shoulder bags, rush past me toward the street. It’s early evening and tumbleweeds could roll through the union building quadrangle. The union looks like any other cafe in Melbourne at that hour. Floors are being swept. Chairs stacked. It’s closing down. I can hear football players shouting as they train on the university oval, but otherwise the student union is dead.