Post #3967646

2026-07-20 19:27 UTC

Last night on #monsterdon for #Solarbabies someone kindly linked an interview with Brooks about. But my system doesn't render it properly, it is just one big wall of text, without line breaks or paragraph marks. I've been trying to get OpenOffice to insert them in the copied text, but the regular expression method in the help files doesn't work for me. Any suggestions on a quick and easy way to make it readable?* * Please refrain from "Get a Mac!" type answers. https://www.slashfilm.com/544524/mel-brooks-interview/

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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net 2026-07-20 19:36

@cptbutton@dice.camp Wow, this is actually screwed up at the HTML level! It's presenting it exactly as it's formatted, which is to say, fucked! I suspect they changed platforms at some point and some conversion failed. #monsterdon

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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-20 21:16

@cptbutton@dice.camp Alright, they've got four million left to shoot a lovely sci-fi movie, with good characters and with very little (I thought) post-production...so I said fine. Fine. They start shooting and it starts raining. It never rained in Spain before. The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plains? No, they don't. They fall only in that place in Spain that they picked for their location. gawd almighty

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@cptbutton@dice.camp 2026-07-20 23:50

Another way to see the unborked version is the Wayback Machine at The Internet Archive: #Monsterdon #Solarbabies https://web.archive.org/web/20210901212014/https://www.slashfilm.com/544524/mel-brooks-interview/

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