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no vampires

I thought I was the Duke of Earl when I made it with the red-haired girl in the Chevrolet.

Lower. [actually, it depends on how you count. He kills no one at all directly. Legally he could be held responsible for one, maybe three, and that's assuming everyone he injured, survived]. You're up.

It is not

Extremist: Check your am****er e-mail address. I approved your registration, so you don't need to do anything at this point other than log in with the password you chose. If you have trouble with THAT, check back in here.

Mercury and Venus

Prototypical nerd. Glasses. Pocket protector. Squeaky voice. The works. "Central casting? Yeah, send the nerd over." That guy.

Some things are better said than argued. Let the reader decide. Well argued, friends. Feel free to continue. Raf

Can only be one person. Damned if I know his name, though.

ok, what was the occasion? It wasn't the Super Bowl. What were the other guesses? The singer is mostly known as a comic actor. He is not known as an X-man. X-man's performances were of different songs in different years [though it was the same occasion]. At one point they did a duet satirizing the fact they held the sane job in different years.

please elaborate

Merlin Macbeth Sir Simon of Canterville

Ah. Ryan was not nominated. Tatum won.

An oddly specific law you just KNOW was crafted by someone who was on the receiving end of a "get off my husband or I will cut these off" threat.

There are two? On Golden Pond is correct.

That's why I said Eminem is incorrect. You ok, bro?

ok, so Josephus was a first century historian who wrote about Palestine. He verifies the existence of some characters mentioned in the Bible. Both Herods, John the Baptist, Pilate and some others. He does not verify Jesus [one reference is an obvious forgery and the other does not match the Jesus of the Bible]. He does not verify the slaughter of the innocents or Pilate's bizarre custom of releasing condemned men on the whims of a crowd. This article [from no less a disinterested source than Bible.org -- that was sarcasm] does not address any point I raised.

Josephus also verifies the existence of John the Baptist and his execution on the orders of the next Herod [not the same as the one discussed earlier]. Again, not in dispute. Josephus says nothing about Jesus being related to John, about John baptizing Jesus, or about John calling Jesus the Next Big Thing. But silence on a topic is not contradiction. Continuing...

Ok, so Josephus can tell us Herod was a terrible person. Not disputed. The kind of person who could order the slaughter of the innocents as recorded in Matthew? Absolutely. But does Josephus record the slaughter of the innocents? No, he does not. And neither does anyone else. Only "Matthew," whose ID we do not have. So the best we can say here is that Josephus presents Herod as a character who could have done the things attributed to him in the Bible. Not that he DID them, mind you. Continuing...

What does Josephus say that's relevant to what I said? Let's explore.

Not at all!

Yeah all those teenage tax collectors

Yeah, that had to be like day one or two. I embraced "atheist" very quickly.

Amy Irving played Carrie's friend. Amy Irving's mother played Amy Irving's mother. Amy Irving was Steven Spielberg's first wife. Brian De Palma introduced them. Amy Irving tried out for the role of Proncess Leia. Piper Laurie played Carrie's mother. Nancy Allen playedc the mean girl whovtormented Carrie at school. Both actresses thpught their characters were so over the top evil that this had to be some kind of dark comedy. William Katt, Carrie's prom date, had tried out for Luke Skywalker. He later went on to play the Greatest Smerican Hero. Hence the "lost instructions" hint. And Stephen King really did get just $2,500 for the movie rights. I hear he's done ok since then.

Uh, yeah.