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Hans Gruber Dent Tour 2008

  • 09-10-2008 12:46pm
    #1
    Raiser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,929 ✭✭✭


    I am pleased to announce that bookings are know being taken for the Hans Gruber Dent Tour 2008

    This December marks the 20th anniversary of Hans Gruber's fatal plunge to the sidewalk alongside Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles. Now you could be one of the few lucky people to travel to see the "Hans Gruber Dent" a blood-curdling and sinister depression in the asphalt created when Hans dropped like a sack of rotten eggs from a dark December sky that night.

    - Please post here to register your interest as we are trying to nail down a final figure to determine our numbers.

    Itinerary:

    Dec. 20th 2008 - 11.30am Fly EI133 Dublin-Boston & B6489 Boston-LA - Arrival 21.26

    11.00pm Hilton LA, Refreshments - Audio Visual Presentation - Hans Gruber a man misunderstood? {Dr. Sheila Kaufmann}

    Dec. 21st - 9.00am Breakfast before coach transfer to Nakatomi Plaza.

    9.45am NB *** Safety Briefing *** NB {Compulsory attendance}

    10.25 - Finding actual location of the Hans Gruber Dent {Local Historian Clifford Zycowski.}

    10.45 - Photo opportunities - Audio Visual Presentation - The Great Depression - the Hans Hole Story {Alfred M. Noble Phd.}

    11.30 Guided Tour - John McClane Lane {With photo Opportunities}

    Dec. 22nd 08.50am Depart LA - Boston B6204 & Boston - Dublin EI108 Arrives 08.45am

    Approximate Costings [per person travelling] [inc. travel insurance] [inc literature] - €4,500


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  • #2
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Raiser wrote: »
    I am pleased to announce that bookings are know being taken for the Hans Gruber Dent Tour 2008

    This December marks the 20th anniversary of Hans Gruber's fatal plunge to the sidewalk alongside Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles. Now you could be one of the few lucky people to travel to see the "Hans Gruber Dent" a blood-curdling and sinister depression in the asphalt created when Hans dropped like a sack of rotten eggs from a dark December sky that night.

    - Please post here to register your interest as we are trying to nail down a final figure to determine our numbers.

    Itinerary:

    Dec. 20th 2008 - 11.30am Fly EI133 Dublin-Boston & B6489 Boston-LA - Arrival 21.26

    11.00pm Hilton LA, Refreshments - Audio Visual Presentation - Hans Gruber a man misunderstood? {Dr. Sheila Kaufmann}

    Dec. 21st - 9.00am Breakfast before coach transfer to Nakatomi Plaza.

    9.45am NB *** Safety Briefing *** NB {Compulsory attendance}

    10.25 - Finding actual location of the Hans Gruber Dent {Local Historian Clifford Zycowski.}

    10.45 - Photo opportunities - Audio Visual Presentation - The Great Depression - the Hans Hole Story {Alfred M. Noble Phd.}

    11.30 Guided Tour - John McClane Lane {With photo Opportunities}

    Dec. 22nd 08.50am Depart LA - Boston B6204 & Boston - Dublin EI108 Arrives 08.45am

    Approximate Costings [per person travelling] [inc. travel insurance] [inc literature] - €4,500



    I don't know about you guys but I didn't laugh one bit.....


  • #3
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    Who's Hans Gruber? :confused:


  • #4
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    square_igloo wrote: »
    Who's Hans Gruber? :confused:

    Have a little fecking respect man, seriously.


  • #5
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    Karl Hungus wrote: »
    Have a little fecking respect man, seriously.
    Oh that Hans Gruber.....

    Sorry, I've never watched Die Hard! :o


  • #6
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    square_igloo wrote: »
    Sorry, I've never watched Die Hard! :o

    Oh dear... you poor deprived child... :(


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  • #7
    thelordofcheese
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,368 ✭✭✭thelordofcheese


    square_igloo wrote: »
    Oh that Hans Gruber.....

    Sorry, I've never watched Die Hard! :o

    Get out.


  • #8
    Burial
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 817 ✭✭✭Burial


    Last one to Boston is a rotten egg!!!


  • #9
    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    square_igloo wrote: »
    Sorry, I've never watched Die Hard! :o

    Did CuLT not mention just the other day, that this was a bannable offence?


  • #10
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Poor Hans. He fell off that rooftop and straight into my heart... :(


  • #11
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    thelordofcheese wrote: »
    Get out.
    Beruthiel wrote:
    Did CuLT not mention just the other day, that this was a bannable offence?

    I'm sorry! :(

    *hangs head in shame and leaves thread in disgrace*


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  • #12
    skelliser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭skelliser


    Happy Trails Hans!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmcZO-u-iao&feature=related


  • #13
    Frisbee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,571 ✭✭✭✭Frisbee


    Great Die Hard Song...


  • #14
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Remind me again, was Harvey Dent this guy's son or nephew?


  • #15
    Burial
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 817 ✭✭✭Burial


    Son. He was humiliated by his fathers actions so he wanted to restore the family pride. Quite ironic how they both died falling off a building...


  • #16
    tech77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭tech77


    I know Hans Gruber, John McClane and Die Hard, but i'm fcuked if i know what this thread is about. :)


  • #17
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,229 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Yippy kai ai motorfooker.


  • #18
    IRISH RAIL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,097 ✭✭✭IRISH RAIL


    give me the detonators or I kill your wife


  • #19
    Fanny Cradock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,245 ✭✭✭✭Fanny Cradock


    Negotiable bearer bonds, eh?


  • #20
    Raiser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,929 ✭✭✭Raiser


    Hans Gruber wrote:
    I'm going to count to three, there will not be a four. Give me the code.....

    Hans down winner...... :o

    P.S. They've renamed Nakatomi, fcuking beaurocrats - *google search: fox plaza wiki los angeles

    * Posted a link originally but there was odd borkage occurring.....


  • #21
    tony1kenobi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭tony1kenobi


    I want to go on this tour.


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  • #22
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,754 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    square_igloo wrote: »
    Who's Hans Gruber? :confused:

    I read about him in Time Magazine.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #23
    Caliden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,982 ✭✭✭Caliden


    circle jerk ahoy

    jolly good show chaps


  • #24
    skelliser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭skelliser


    We are forgetting the legend that is ELLIS:

    Hey babe, i negotiate million dollar deals for breakfast, i think i can handle this eurotrash.
    hey! HEY! sprechan ze "talk" eh?

    HANS! BOOOOOBY! IM YOUR WHITE KNIGHT!
    I CAN GIV'HIM TO YA!


  • #25
    skelliser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭skelliser


    Just found this from the wiki:

    According to commentary from the movie's DVD release, Alan Rickman's surprise when Gruber is dropped from the building is genuine: the director chose to release Rickman a full second before he expected it in order to get genuine surprise, a move which angered Rickman. The text commentary track also reveals that the shooting script did not originally feature the meeting between McClane and Gruber pretending to be a hostage; it was only written in when it was discovered that Rickman could do an American accent.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Hard

    cool!


  • #26
    Burial
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 817 ✭✭✭Burial


    You've just ruined Die Hard for me.


  • #27
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    skelliser wrote: »
    JIt was only written in when it was discovered that Rickman could do an American accent.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Hard

    cool!

    Actor can do accent - who'd have imagined such a thing?

    Hey, does anyone recall a scene in one of the first Die-Hards where two Germans are speaking and they come up with what sounds like the following:

    "Manogga manook"
    "Angry child!"

    Just thought I'd ask. Been puzzling me for about 15 years.


  • #28
    Burial
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 817 ✭✭✭Burial


    To the google machine!


  • #29
    Zangetsu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Zangetsu


    Gay thread....


  • #30
    Burial
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 817 ✭✭✭Burial


    Blasphemy!


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