WordWolf

I don't think your friend is correct, but I think there's some truth to that. The merchandising and multimedia money is a lot more than the money for the comics, so the comics can be seen as the source for what generates revenue in other media, and if the comics are break-even, that's fine. But, they DO have to actually SELL the comics to retain all rights and renew all copyrights and trademarks. It's the same reason Marvel kept bringing in one Captain Marvel or another- to hang onto the rights to the comic book name just so DC couldn't get it. Seeing anyone just fiddle with Kirby's characters bugs me- and that includes the Eternals. Then again, I don't think Marvel knows what to do with them, anyway. The Inhumans were used as a substitute for mutants since Sony has the X-Men rights, but the Eternals are markedly different.

You presume correctly. The divide between ocean liner and luxury yacht- as described by yachtees- is enormous and has come up in discussion, as in whether or not someone can count liner experience when applying to work on a yacht.

Next round. Ever wonder what it's like to live and work on a luxury yacht during the yachting season? No? Well, too bad- we're putting out 4 different series on the subject, all by the same company so they aren't in competition with each other, and all the same base name so you can see they're related shows. What's the name of any of the shows? (Bragging rights for anyone who can correctly name all 4.)

I didn't announce a change of song- it's the same song. This song made it to 1 on the Top UK Singles and Top Canadian Singles, and 1 on the US Billboard Top 100, both weekly and for that year. In fact, it made it to 5 on the Billboard Chart for the Decade. And it fits under my usual rule of "1985 or earlier."

That's the thing. Under capitalism, people vote with their dollar. In the case of television, they vote with their viewership. If your show lacks broad appeal, it will lack broad viewership. If it targets a niche market, you will have niche ratings. Both DC and Marvel seem to be putting a lot of that niche entertainment out now. In the case of Marvel, one of the executives has set, as a goal, 50% of ALL protagonists in Marvel to be lgbt+ . I don't know how far they will get, but their attempts keep resulting in shows with dismal ratings. Eventually, both companies will have to decide whether it suits them to do this sort of thing regularly, or not. My complaints also include changing characters to make them fit quotas. I don't recognize their "Eternals" because they changed a lot of things. It improved nothing that one of the actresses (Angelina Jolie) berated the fans for not embracing their changed characters wholeheartedly. It just showed another example of someone who just doesn't "get it." I mean, there's a way to address fan concerns and still promote something. But just dismissing complaints about the depictions categorically is not going to work. The Cosby Show was largely about a family in the US. They could have been any ethnicity, and the early seasons could have had them OF any ethnicity. So, the settings and jokes had a broad appeal.

"1-2-3, it's as easy to learn as your A-B-Cs."

"Once that you've decided on a killing, First you make a stone of your heart. And if you find that your hands are still willing, Then you can turn a murder into art. There really isn't any need for bloodshed, You just do it with a little more finesse. If you can slip a tablet into someone's coffee, Then it avoids an awful lot of mess." "Now if you have a taste for this experience And you're flushed with your very first success, Then you must try a twosome or a threesome And you'll find your conscience bothers you much less." "Because murder is like anything you take to It's a habit-forming need for more and more. You can bump off every member of your family And anybody else you find a bore." "Now you can join the ranks of the illustrious In history's great dark hall of fame. All our greatest killers were industrious At least the ones that we all know by name." "But you can reach the top of your profession If you become the leader of the land. For murder is the sport of the elected, And you don't need to lift a finger of your hand."

Then again, I've been reminded of something when watching politics in the US right now. [Specifics redacted.] So, some people may feel no need to take action when they think something is self-evident and requires no explanation. Only when someone either messes up explaining it- or challenges it- would they need to offer an explanation, or would need to be articulated. (To phrase it differently, if one explanation resulted in people misunderstanding, another explanation might follow, meant to correct the misunderstanding, with both explanations being correct but one more prone to being misunderstood.)

Different adherents to The Trinity doctrine have different views on what it means. One hard-line explanation of The Trinity is that all 3 parts are Co-Equal. One time, way back in twi, I asked a Roman Catholic if he believed that Jesus was the Son of God or if he was God. When I phrased the question that way, he said, with a look of "obviously", that he believed Jesus was the Son of God. He didn't sound like he believed that The Trinity was Co-Equal. However, I strongly suspect that, had I asked him if he believed in The Trinity, he would have said he did- again, with a demeanor that it was obvious. So, there's room for different concepts of The Trinity, including ones where, in practice, it doesn't SOUND like a "trinity" to us. There's also a practice, around the world, of being a Roman Catholic but not embracing everything about it, feeling free to ignore or disregard official doctrines here and there. The name for that in the US is "cafeteria Catholic." (For example, the RCC officially rejects birth control methods as devices of any type, whether chemical or physical. Most RC's in the US completely disregard that, and have for more than a generation.) So, don't be too shocked if some people's idea of The Trinity includes a concept of Jesus where he's not actually in a "trinity" while officially being in "The Trinity."

I don't know if they're "fundies", but there's Buddhist terrorists. ""The problem is far too many Westerners fail to understand that Buddhism, like any other religion, can be misused for political purposes," Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch."" The Khmer Rouge were, and look into Myanmar or Sri Lanka if you want some current examples. There's more out there as well- but that's POLITICS, so, off-topic at the GSC. You can look it up fairly easily on the internet in 2022.

The story is set in San Dimas, California. Alex Winter said History teachers like him and English teachers hate him, for making history interesting or ruining the English language, respectively. At the end of "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey", Bill and Ted hop into the future and return to the present, after 2 years in the future. They got married, got instrument lessons, and both had sons whom they introduced- little Bill and little Ted. In "Bill and Ted Face the Music", we find out they had 2 daughters, with no names similar to Bill or Ted. The closing of the 2nd movie showed progressive success of Bill and Ted with show after show, and the 3rd movie shows they did nothing of the kind, and stagnated after their exposure to the entire planet. The villain of the 2nd movie was De Nomolos. Blame Ed Solomon. De Nomolos was scared of Bill and Ted becoming famous- and ended up introducing the entire planet to them! Primus with in the battle of the bands at the end of the first movie, but Faith No More's lead singer was brought into the future to teach. Clarence Clemons was in costume and not playing himself. In Bogus Journey, Bill and Ted were killed outdoors, and the set was Vasquez Rock, recognizable to some ST fans.

Bill S (Stanley) Preston, Esquire, is not a lawyer despite using the lawyer suffix, and was not named for Billy Preston. Yes, Keanu worried about being remembered only for Bill and Ted, and Alex Winter IS remembered that way.

Different people are thought of as the 5th Beatle- I would have gone with Pete Best, Mrs Wolf, IIRC, prefers Brian Epstein. Other people think of Billy Preston, and a few with nerve suggest Yoko Ono, possibly to start arguments.

I agree that's how it sounds. However, this was a regular song off a regular album off a regular band. Actually, now that I think of it, there's a bit of irony there.

-This film had several scenes filmed in Arizona, despite most clearly NOT being set there. -One character's middle name was "Stanley", but this didn't effect the story. He obviously never graduated from law school, no matter what he said or implied. -That same character was never INTENTIONALLY named after anyone referred to as "the 5th Beatle." -One of the actors was once worried he'd only ever be remembered for his role in this movie. He's not primarily remembered for this movie. A different actor is primarily remembered for this movie. -One of the actors gets mail from teachers. Some of the letters are positive, and some are negative, and they're divided primarily by which subject the teacher teaches (English teachers sent him angry letters.) -This movie has had 2 sequels and 1 cartoon. The sequels contradict each other. -One of the writers was Ed Solomon. He snuck his name into the first sequel. -The first sequel's bad guy was a former gym teacher. (I forget if he was a former champ at sit-ups or push-ups.) He was scared of certain things happening, and then ended up setting the stage for them to happen. -The first sequel included the band Primus, and included the lead singer from Faith No More. It also included Clarence Clemons, but he wasn't as obvious as the others. -The first sequel included a scene at Vasquez Rock. Star Trek fans may recognize it, it was used in the original series more than a little. -Several of the characters in the first movie died horribly- by assassination, poisoning, or burning to death. -There was a line from a soap opera snuck into this movie, and a line from a rock song as well.

"There really isn't any need for bloodshed, You just do it with a little more finesse. If you can slip a tablet into someone's coffee, Then it avoids an awful lot of mess." "Now if you have a taste for this experience And you're flushed with your very first success, Then you must try a twosome or a threesome And you'll find your conscience bothers you much less." "Now you can join the ranks of the illustrious In history's great dark hall of fame. All our greatest killers were industrious At least the ones that we all know by name."

MIa Sara portrayed Harley buck nekkid? Boy, I really missed something when I skipped that series!

"VPW is DEAD! 37 yrs and counting. I believe he had a one of a kind ministry. Back in 1980 or so, the coordinator of the music group I was in said that VP was the 7th "THE man of God" and that this was very significant. I never heard that same message from anybody else and I'm not sure what it even means, but I do believe that VPs combination of gift ministries was unique, not cookie cutter. Nobody has duplicated the respect and impact he got from his people." Ok, leaving aside the usual delusions about how vpw motivated "his" people, and how he used showmanship to INSINUATE he was getting Revelation all the time, and plagiarized his way through other people's writings and conspiracy theory hotlines and make it sound like he was getting that all by Revelation, and his rephrasing of the definitions of all the "gift ministries" so that he could INSINUATE he had them all when he had none of them, leaving those aside...... What's this business about "vpw was the 7th THE man of God"? Who, supposedly, were the other 6, and what did this reference even mean? Someone once claimed that exactly 3 people in history ever faced the devil directly- Jesus Christ, Paul and vpw. Where does this stuff even COME FROM? No, seriously, I'm asking because I want to know. Anybody?

"Now if you have a taste for this experience And you're flushed with your very first success, Then you must try a twosome or a threesome And you'll find your conscience bothers you much less." "Now you can join the ranks of the illustrious In history's great dark hall of fame. All our greatest killers were industrious At least the ones that we all know by name."

I'm a little annoyed that my previous TWO posts got eaten, with one actually displaying here before it vanished. One more try, from memory. -This film had several scenes filmed in Arizona, despite most clearly NOT being set there. -One character's middle name was "Stanley", but this didn't effect the story. He obviously never graduated from law school, no matter what he said or implied. -That same character was never INTENTIONALLY named after anyone referred to as "the 5th Beatle." -One of the actors was once worried he'd only ever be remembered for his role in this movie. He's not primarily remembered for this movie. A different actor is primarily remembered for this movie. -One of the actors gets mail from teachers. Some of the letters are positive, and some are negative, and they're divided primarily by which subject the teacher teaches (English teachers sent him angry letters.) -This movie has had 2 sequels and 1 cartoon. The sequels contradict each other. -One of the writers was Ed Solomon. He snuck his name into the first sequel. -The first sequel's bad guy was a former gym teacher. (I forget if he was a former champ at sit-ups or push-ups.) He was scared of certain things happening, and then ended up setting the stage for them to happen. -The first sequel included the band Primus, and included the lead singer from Faith No More. It also included Clarence Clemons, but he wasn't as obvious as the others. -The first sequel included a scene at Vasquez Rock. Star Trek fans may recognize it, it was used in the original series more than a little.

Ok, that actually tells me a lot. ONE name will be a dead giveaway. I'm thinking I read one of these names as the credits for the "DC Super Hero Girls" cartoon flashed by at the end. But most of those characters have not appeared elsewhere, or rarely did so (Bumblebee, Zatanna, the new GL.) A few have appeared a number of places (Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Supergirl), so there's more than one giveaway name for each (Gal Gadot and Linda Carter, Yvonne Craig and Alicia Silverstone, Helen Slater and Melissa Benoist.) It's not any of the male characters (so Aquaman is out, Hal Jordan is out, James Gordon is out.) I'm thinking all the hero girls are out. So, that leaves me with only 1 or 2 villain girls as a possibility. Taking George as accurate for one name actually being a real giveaway, I scratch off one character, and that leaves me with the character who replaced Duela Dent in the DC continuity. "HARLEY QUINN." Of course, if I'm wrong somewhere, I could be way off. But I think I'm down to the cast of that cartoon and eliminated most of them.

I have no idea if you're on the right track or not. I don't see where you're going with this one.

This has got to be an animated role with voice-actors. That's the most likely way to reconcile the first 3 with each other. Tara Strong and Arleen Sorkin sound familiar. I think I have this narrowed to a cartoon, but not to the character yet. (Otherwise, I don't think I'd recognize either name- one of them has got to be on this cartoon series.)

All I have so far is my amazement, and some puzzlement since they look different from each other. (Maybe a little impatience waiting for the next clue.)

Ok, next song. "Now you can join the ranks of the illustrious In history's great dark hall of fame. All our greatest killers were industrious At least the ones that we all know by name."