Maybe we're at war with Norway?

[andrewducker]

Apparently it's a tradition at one of the antarctic research stations that they watch The Thing on the day the last plane leaves.

Now that's a showing I'd love to be at...

Comments

[sterlingspider.livejournal.com]

My question is, which version?
Oddly enough, one of my brother's friends has done several stints as sysadmin at McMurdo so it wouldn't be that hard to get the answer.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Judging by the quote, Carpenter's.

[sterlingspider.livejournal.com]

Or I could actually, yanno, read the link

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Yes, this is the tradition at Amundsen-Scott. The film is the Carpenter version (since the 1951 version is set in the Arctic, not the Antarctic).

[iainjcoleman.livejournal.com]

It is (or at least was) traditional on the British Halley Research Station to provide "The Thing" as entertainment for the newbie on night watch.