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I was hoping someone from that time would explain. I'll explain a bit. It started before I started posting here. As I understand it, something happened. Raf meant to post about it (a twi news event, if memory serves.) He posted it with a normal title and a normal initial post. For reasons of internet, somehow the post got eaten, but not 100%. The first word of the title remained, and the first word of the post remained, along with the comma following it. The rest of the post was blank. Naturally, some of the posters had some fun with it, reacting as if it was intentional, and an artistic choice. But the jokes...just...kept...coming...... Months and years later, they were still coming. People wrote song lyrics for THE. People got titles for THE ("Official Shaver of THE", etc.) It was an inside joke that just never stopped. Years later, another thread was posted. The poster immediately reconsidered. They changed the title to "Oops" and the post to something like "Never mind, please delete." We had a few pages of similar jokes, IIRC. I speculated on whether "Oops" would someday rival "THE" and overtake it (my speculation was largely a joke.) That joke ended a LOT sooner. That's all I've got.

I honestly can't tell, sometimes, what impressions people get. I'm sure someone, somewhere, thought me and Raf were the same person. We have never been the same person, and we have no plans to change that at any time. ;) I've occasionally been mistaken for any notable twi personality, and that's always worth a chuckle. If I'd been a decade older and joined a decade sooner, probably, but I joined in time to participate in the biggest exodus. Knowing all of that, the idea of me secretly being oldies, knowing our history, almost made me laugh out loud. I know you didn't mean that (I know that NOW, at the very least), but it was a little like "In World War II, Stalin and Churchill were secretly the same person." NOW you can see why it was at least worth a smirk.

Technically, he WAS in the Bronx at the time, but he was not in twi at that time. I know because I was in twi before him, and I wasn't in twi at the time.

Good Morning Vietnam Robert Wuhl Batman (1989)

Jean Speegle Howard Rance Howard Bryce Dallas Howard

I'd reminded of Patrick Stewart on SNL, captaining the USS Pacific Princess in "LOVE BOAT- the Next Generation."

So... medical story. Kid in medical distress. *wild swing* "Lorenzo's Oil"?????

Based on a true story. One of the doctors who figured in the true story actually appears in this movie as himself. The director is also a medical doctor, though you would never know from the movie series that made him famous (or from the animated movies that he made featuring Robin Williams in two separate roles each). Where was I? Oh, the medical movie... Six different actors played the title character. None are famous now. Four were boys. Transgender did not factor into the plot. The title character was 14 when the movie was released. According to the plot, he should not have lived that long. He died in 2008 at the age of 30. His mother died eight years earlier.

Oldiesman, Thank you. Waysider, I would say you WERE sexually assaulted. It certainly sounds as bad or worse than what happened to the two Penn State abuse survivors I have spoken with. ( I went to that school before TWI.) Twinky, empathy for female survivors is what finally led me to recalled my own assault. I was deprogrammed from TWI, and although out physically, I was still in mentally, and refused to believe anything bad happened to anyone, including myself. But I heard and saw so many accounts that my empathy led me to shudder at what they went through, I finally believed them. Then fellow 8th corps Kristen Skedgell's book brought me to the lip of the cup. And my survivor friend evidently knew I was a survivor from work I was doing for her group, of which she is currently president. She posted things she knows about male survivor issues, and my memory fell into place after 38 years, every detail. Which is not as long as the 69 years it took me to recall my child abuse. My first therapist told me early on never to underestimate the effect of my assault on myself. My survivor friend suffered through child abuse multiple times, while she was doing tv no less. I started my recovery way late (no pun meant) but it is going well with therapy, a support group, and continued contact with my survivor friend. I have also gained a couple more friends who are teaching me how though my assault was not my fault, I DO have to do things to help my own healing. Even at 75.

That is correct, and that first quote is one of the all time great break up lines in any movie

ok, my turn: This movie featured Raf's ex as an extra. Just kidding. I'll come up with something

"Hi! I'm your Cruise Director, Julie McCoy!" George

I had to get that out of my system before I could even focus on the next round. It was bugging me.

That's it. J.J. was obsesses with Kool-Aid, and Walker's catch phrase followed him in- "Dy-no-mite!" Michael was studying to be a lawyer, and was in the "Lawyers of Tomorrow" program or something. This did nothing to help when something happened and he was arrested. (I forget why.) The desk sergeant introduced a dose of reality to the situation by finding it irrelevant in getting Michael out of a jail cell. (Probably very accurate for desk sergeants.) Your turn!

That Thing You Do (?) George

Correct answer. George

"Are you crazy? A man in a really nice camper wants to put our song on the radio. Gimme a pen. I'm signing. You're signing. We're all signing."

The extra hint didn't help, but I'm just going off Streisand movies (only one of which I recall ever seeing). It's either The Mirror Has Two Faces or Prince of Tides. I have an ex girlfriend who was an extra in one of the classroom scenes in Mirror. It wasn't sad. Prince of Tides. Final answer.

I'm my own grandpa.

I think I was thinking about the sequel. It's possible I added names from the original. You're up. George

Good Times (?) George

When this movie came out, everyone told me "It really makes you think." That is the LAST thing I want in a movie, so I haven't seen it. Action? Yes. Comedy? Yes. Sex? Yes. But "thinking"? No. This is Chrissy Metz's (whoever THAT is) fifth saddest movie of all time. For her role in this film, the star became the one and only Best Actress Oscar winner to produce and direct a Best Picture nominated film. (Taken from IMDb, this statement is awkwardly phrased. The actress won Best Actress for a different film. Though nominated for several, including Best Picture, this movie garnered no Oscars.) One of the main characters is a world class violinist. The actor portraying him did not play violin but watched two professionals perform the piece he would play in the film. Then he "finger-synched" the piece almost perfectly. A week after this movie opened wide in North America on Christmas of 1991, the star phoned a Columbia Pictures executive at 7:00 A.M. New Year's Day demanding that a hedge on Sunset Blvd needed trimming. It wasn't blocking the film title but obscuring her "Directed by" credit on the billboard. Chris O'Donnell, who would soon become a star in Scent of a Woman, won the role of the star's teenage son, Bernard, but Pat Conroy didn't think he was right. Looking through photos of other young actors, he picked one out, telling the star that she should hire him instead. The actor was the star's own son. It's about dealing with suicide. George

Judge Reinhold Fast Times at Ridgemont High Forest Whitaker George

My bad, I didn't pay enough attention. I don't think you're the same person. But then, I was just asking a question.

"Michael's going to be a Lawyer of Tomorrow!" "Oh? Well, welcome to the slammer of today!" "Water? She ain't drinkin' nothin' but the best from now on... Kool-Aid!" "DY- NO- MITE!"