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"Now, would you like to learn to shoot?" "I can already." "Oh, I saw. Very American. Fire enough bullets and hope to hit the target." "I may have been overly rude earlier... when I called you a pirate." "And I may have been overly charitable... when I said I wasn't. But I try to live in the now... where the ghosts of old wrongs do not abide."

If we're talking Donovan, only 2 songs ever appear on my radar, ever. I don't think I've ever heard even a 3rd song of his air.

I've been watching "Voyager" for the first time. Now I've seen her playing a Q. I always thought it was interesting that Dr Selar was on the Enterprise-D for its whole mission (AFAIK), but we only SAW her once, in "the Schizoid Man", working on the away mission to Dr Ira Graves. ("You don't remember anything? 'To know him is to love him is to know him?????' ") Officially, there were 3 doctors on duty on the ship, and we never seem to have met the third. (Pulaski did not serve at the same time as Crusher.) We saw Dr. Hill mentioned in "Remember Me", and Dr. Hacopian mentioned in "Genesis", but neither was ever seen. But she was mentioned in dialogue from time to time. That's a reliable method for television- you don't have to pay an actor, just mention the character from time to time, and we know they're still around. We had the same thing in "I Love Lucy" with Mrs. Trumbull. We saw her quite a bit for a few seasons once Little Ricky was born. She first appeared to complain about the noise and that the lease specified 'no children', and by the end of the episode morphed into his babysitter. She appeared in different capacities here and there after that- like when the Hollywood talent scout showed up, and she was one of the people who wandered into the apartment trying to audition, dressed like a Spanish señorita. Whenever the Mertzes left the building to travel with the Ricardos, we heard a line of dialogue that Mrs. Trumbull was watching the building. On the cross-country drive, she was the one who packed their picnic basket. On the European trip, Fred spoke to her on the phone once, but we only saw his side of the conversations. And when they all moved to Connecticut in the last season, she had agreed to collect the rent, and her nephew had moved in to act as the building's super. But they didn't have to pay the actress. For that matter, Carol Ann Susi never appeared on camera on "The Big Bang Theory," but we heard her yell a lot (We saw her arm once, but that was it.) When the actress passed away, the show bought some time by having her leave town and speak to Howard on the phone, while they figured out what they wanted to do with the character. *checks* If you ever saw the episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond" where we met Robert Barrone's ex-wife Joanne (aka "Cinnamon"), Suzie Plakson played her, too. She had a bunch of other roles, also.

That's how I still think about it. I read otherwise the other day, and it's going to take a while for that to sink in, and some practice.

I kinda saw the first one, and I don't remember seeing Bloodsport there, so, QED, the second one. Explains why I had so much trouble recognizing the lines.

No, no.... it was"SUICIDE SQUAD"!

Rhymes with "south", that is correct! With the movie "Scott Pilgrim (etc)", we can go from DC to Marvel or vice versa, with one evil ex played by Chris Evans and another played by Brandon Routh. To say nothing of Envy Adams (Scott's evil ex), who was played by Bree Daniels.

Hm. How about "Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn"? Or something close to that? I'm working from memory, here.

Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World Superman Returns 400 Days Anastasia It's not like this actor's an unknown- he's a Legend!

I know ISAAC and Mentor (Alars). I don't know this one. (BTW, geeky note. In the comic books, Marvel decided to retroactively rewrite the entire history of the Eternals. Instead of the last history- which made sense- they rewrote it completely, and now the whole "how do eternals get born" thing has changed from "the usual way" to "it involves the will of a supercomputer". I know I'm not the only one ignoring this. It's like when DC changed Nightwing's costume from black and blue to black and red. The fans completely ignored them, and kept photoshopping the images back to blue. Eventually, someone in DC read the writing on the wall and stopped with the red. I understand their intention was to standardize the Bat family to red and black. However, this is not a pack of cookies or a line of coffee. This is a character whose had fans longer than the DC staff have been alive, and whose fans have traditionally felt cr@pped on by DC since he usually didn't get his due. What he got was fans who got more and more stubborn. I remember Dan Didio was in charge of DC, and showed up at a HUGE panel at a HUGE convention. He said, offhand, that his first thought concerning Nightwing was to kill him off, since he wasn't Batman and wasn't Robin. The HUGE room went deathly silent. I think Didio saw someone in the front row tying a rope end into a noose, because the next words out of his mouth were a LOT of backpedaling. DG has a very big, very loyal fandom. )

That last one sounds so freaking familiar....

"MARY POPPINS."

No. Try again. There are almost no older folks in the entire Scott Pilgrim movie.

Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World Superman Returns 400 Days

I believe I have a DVD of that movie up on a shelf. Made the name a lot easier to remember.

Just so I can say I tried it, was this "THE HEBREW HAMMER"?

"Drunken Master" sounds like a JACKIE CHAN flick, and he was in the Cannonball Run.

A) Do you have the official names of the organizations by which twi are currently known in each of those countries? B) If the official census in twi is 600 per country, the actual number of people is possibly 300. Many of us are aware how easy it is to get on that list, and how slow it is to get off that list. I am sure my entire family was on that list for many years, but a maximum of 3 of us were in at all, and I am sure at least 5 were listed with them, more if splinter groups are counted because of when we showed up. I am aware that when twi consolidated their mailing address, the oldest person was the one mail was sent to, despite being one who almost never attended. (I am confident we all used the same mailing address, and that is why twi saved stamps that way.) Hey, twi claimed 100,000 people for membership when the largest membership they ever had was around 24,000. The higher number was based on how many people signed up for pfal.

There's a certain irony there. vpw once complained about "Rice Christians." His supposed book on the "Dilemma of Foreign Missions" complained that existing groups were seeing attendance on the basis of food being provided- in countries where finding food is a lot harder than in the USA (at least when he was saying that.) He and lcm criticized the RCC and said that they saw growth in the most broke countries. Now, we've got twi targeting Venezuela. Venezuelans fled the country by every method, including crossing the Andes mountain chain on foot because they couldn't find food or jobs. We've got twi, who targeted Zaire/DC of the Congo in the past and present, and there were already some complaints in the past with twi there that resembled the "Rice Christian" phenomenon. With the DC Congo, twi may be able to claim some numbers. However, as a whole, any attendees they find will be people with little to no income. (If they get people in Venezuela, I'd expect the same.) So, twi's investing time, effort AND MONEY on countries where it's unlikely they'll break even financially. I openly disbelieve twi's own reports that they have 20,000 followers in the Congo. I believe they might have gotten that many to show up to at least 1 meeting. We already know they wildly inflate their numbers at every turn, and I have no reason to think that, suddenly, the Congo's numbers are all accurate. twi plans on trying South America. Let them try. South America's already got local groups of every type. twi's late to the party, They'll have to actually compete with existing groups and attempt to get people to leave their own current place of attendance. it's a lot harder than it sounds.

I got to thinking again, and another page from the twi playbook is "get everyone else to pay for everything." Twi, as religious groups go, is expensive to continue in. You're shaken down for 10-15% of your income for a "tithe"(it went up to 20% once, and the word means "tenth".). You're shaken down for more than that ("abundant sharing.") They had "plurality giving", which was to hand over ALL of your income that you had left over after your expenses were covered. There's no counterpart in any other group I've ever heard of, and it was a shameless money grab. From the earliest days, vpw made sure all the classes and books were priced at retail prices, while doing all the production in-house-- which funnels extra money to the group. In fact, much of the materials were all bought on the cheap- auctions and so on, and machines were kept and staff had to make old, outdated machines work. It made them work a lot harder than needed, but proper machines cost money, and that means less money in the coffers for the cadre. (Religious groups generally keep prices low on their insiders.) So, in this case... How do we make more profit at the ROA? We either raise prices, or we cut expenses. If we raise prices, then we can't get all the people we want to show up. So, we cut expenses, and find things the innies require- and make them bear the additional expense. Let's see.... Got it! We lower or remove food services! Everybody staying on-grounds has no choice- they have to pay whatever the prices are. People there for the day won't care, they have the choice of buying food there or not. So, stop the expenses of bringing in most or all of the food, and that also works better with so fewer people in the group. We have many fewer people than before, but we require fewer of them to run things with fewer services. So, what do we do for food? We notify food trucks that we're having an event and they are welcome to show up. This means that they can actually charge the food trucks for the spot, and charge the food trucks for any electricity or water they use- if electricity is available, usually the truck provides their own. So, twi gets more money. The food trucks make it up by charging their prices at the event. The twi people pay more money for the food, but twi doesn't care. If the food trucks try to cut the nice Christian people a break, they make a lot less money on the event, and may not even break even- but twi doesn't care, they get paid when the truck arrives. So, this was a new variation on the same old themes. It was indeed something new, but it wasn't nearly as innovative as it might have sounded. All another way to wring money out of their people, and hang onto it themselves.

OK, well then, how about... That was right? Not bad. I'll need to think. I wasn't ready with another question so soon.

If you're having trouble finding 50s, 60s and 70s songs online on streaming stations, message me.

*blink blink* Yeah, your turn, and you earned it. I think the movie is under-rated, but I'm of the impression it's almost unknown. The cast includes Kim Cattrall, Peter Boyle, and Paul Sorvino playing himself. Now that I sat down to watch it again, I think it appeals more to New Yorkers and people who live in big cities. It's a movie that doesn't have a lot of violence or car chases, much swearing, and doesn't have a lot of sex stuff (and obviously no nudity.) For some people, that makes it a boring movie. A review I once read called it "a real yawner". I disagree. It has some action, it's got some laughs, and it is story-driven. If you get into the story, you'll enjoy the movie.

I've been getting good reviews of SNW. Also, their advertising had been slanted to try to pick up more viewers, but in a way that sent me the other way. Since that's not an issue (yet, if ever), I'm interested in sitting down for the show at some point.

OK, this one was on my mind. I'll take a shot and see if anyone can get it. "ZIMMERMAN FLEW. TYLER KNEW." "JUST ONE MORE QUESTION, MISTER MAYOR... ARE YOU READY? THINK HARD! WHO FLEW? ZIMMERMAN FLEW, THAT'S WHO! AND WHO KNEW? TYLER KNEW, THAT'S WHO!" Let's see if anyone can tell us who brought us those messages (not counting me.)