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Way . . . Way Out - Thinking Outside the Plot

 
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Bud Brewster
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 13, 2022 2:27 pm    Post subject: Way . . . Way Out - Thinking Outside the Plot Reply with quote

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Thinking Outside the "Plot"!
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~ A Question for the Members: In the closing scenes of this Jerry Lewis comedy, Miss Connie Stevens informs her legal husband, Mr. Lewis, that she wants him to legitimize the lie she'd just told told a government official.

The lie was that she was pregnant. Wink






So, if Connie and Jerry have a bouncing baby boy-or-girl nine months later (a baby who bounces six-times higher than babies on Earth), what would be the legal status of this little lunar offspring? Confused

Would he-or-she be American because is its parents . . . or the first citizen of the Moon? Shocked

~ My Theory: The answer, folks, is right here.


First lunar babies will be born on the moon ‘within decades’
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 15, 2022 1:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd much rather we did not see any kind of sequel at all to this wretched movie.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 28, 2022 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The United States is a signatory nation to the Outer Space Treaty of 1967. Article II of that document states:

"Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means."

So a child born to American citizens on the moon would have U.S. citizenship by default. Unless the lunar dwellers decide to declare the moon an independent sovereign state!


Pow wrote:
I'd much rather we did not see any kind of sequel at all to this wretched movie.

Yes, I've seen Way, Way Out and it's far from Jerry Lewis at his best. What am I saying? Jerry Lewis had no "best."
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 29, 2022 2:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

scotpens wrote:
So a child born to American citizens on the moon would have U.S. citizenship by default. Unless the lunar dwellers decide to declare the moon an independent sovereign state!

Perhaps the child would have "dual citizenship", since it would be American by virtue of its parents, but also "lunarian" by virtue of the fact that it was the born in no nation on Earth.

scotpens wrote:
Yes, I've seen Way, Way Out and it's far from Jerry Lewis at his best. What am I saying? Jerry Lewis had no "best."

Let's just say this movie is one of Lewis' "better" ones — faint praise indeed, although Pow would dispute even that!. At the other end of the spectrum is The Nutty Professor, one of his worst — a statement which Pow would also strongly dispute! Very Happy)
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