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  1. Running Scared Jimmy Smits Star Wars Episode 3-Revenge of the Sith For those who saw "Running Scared" and wonder who he was, he played Detective Tony Montoya, one of the 2 young detectives that were undercover. "Croissant?" "Nice car. What do you call it, 'the Chicken-Mobile'?"
  2. Appears to be "Star Trek." (The Original Series.)
  3. It does. The only artist I know who did a broadcast of this song was DANNY AIELLO. He was on Saturday Night Live- which was indeed broadcast. The song was "CHUBBY CLEMENTINE." So, a cover of Bobby Darin's song.
  4. Just so I can say I asked, Cream with "Sunshine Of Your Love"????
  5. Wow. *checks* One source says he was 5'4" and 100 lbs, giving him a BMI of about 17.19. But, yes, that was James Madison. Apparently 3 James Madisons standing on a scale at the same time would still weigh less than one William Howard Taft (322 lbs.)
  6. Considering this messageboard has been going for more than 25 years, and still has daily activity, I think that's quite remarkable. Out of all the messageboards I've been at since I went online, I think there's only one other one that's still around. IIRC, that one went down completely, and was restarted by someone else, so it's more of a different board with the same name as the first board. This one has been active since the 1990s, and underwent migrations between hosts and servers. It's outlasted the entire hosting company on which it started.
  7. Right. Lots of claims by non-experts who weren't there and whose accounts contradicted all the official reports. I'd at least respect if you'd just SAY you thought my friend was a liar rather than the cowardly approach of INSINUATING it. No airplanes- despite people there managing to get footage of the impacts. No airplanes- despite people actually seeing the planes hit. People who weren't there say there weren't any, so the eyewitnesses and the actual footage must be wrong. I used to find that sort of disconnect amazing, but it's always been possible, and now it's even easier to have an echo chamber where all the voices agree with you, and all the dissenting voices never reach you. Facebook alone has a lot to answer for, there.
  8. BTW, George, you've seen the Bugs Bunny cartoon with Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf. "HEY, GRANDMA! That's an awful big nose for you. TO HAVE!" That was "Little Red Riding Rabbit."
  9. "YOU'RE Abe Frohman? The Sausage King of Chicago?"
  10. The second line is also from Dire Straits' "Heavy Fuel", but the first line is not. But I keep hearing the Dire Straits song when I try to name this one.
  11. Neither FDR nor Franklin Pierce, although neither was from my lifetime. The lowest BMI was 20.9, and I've posted everything you need to know to figure out who it was without looking it up.
  12. https://allpoetry.com/The-Bridge-Builder The Bridge Builder An old man, going a lone highway, Came, at the evening, cold and gray, To a chasm, vast, and deep, and wide, Through which was flowing a sullen tide. The old man crossed in the twilight dim; The sullen stream had no fears for him; But he turned, when safe on the other side, And built a bridge to span the tide. "Old man," said a fellow pilgrim, near, "You are wasting strength with building here; Your journey will end with the ending day; You never again must pass this way; You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide- Why build you the bridge at the eventide?" The builder lifted his old gray head: "Good friend, in the path I have come," he said, "There followeth after me today A youth, whose feet must pass this way. This chasm, that has been naught to me, To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be. He, too, must cross in the twilight dim; Good friend, I am building the bridge for him." Will Allen Dromgoole was a woman who was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. She wrote over 7,500 poems, 5,000 essays, and published thirteen books.
  13. I have a question about the content. I'm curious if they included the poem, "the Bridge Builder," by Ms Will Allen Dromgoole, and, if they did, did they include her name? I'm thinking they didn't include it, even though it was the reason they picked that name for the book. Personally, I quoted the poem once on the GSC, when someone asked why we post, warning about twi.
  14. I picked the asbestos example for a reason, and I phrased myself rather specifically for that reason. I think you noticed.
  15. 8) Posting 5-15 minutes a day at most (sometimes less), and occasionally, some of those posts warn people away from twi, and that means that my life's goal is to warn people about twi. Well, judging from the amount of time spent, I must have a more important "life's goal" of having lunch every day, since I spend a lot more time eating lunch in a week than I do about twi in a week.
  16. I had a friend who saw one of the planes hit the building. Was looking in the sky, watched the thing fly, and ram into the building. We spoke at length about it that evening. I was in NYC at that moment, but not at the Battery. So, call the eyewitness a liar if you wish.
  17. We can clearly rule them out both due to them being heftier. No, it wasn't anyone from my lifetime.
  18. For those people who think that the PLAGIARISM stopped with vpw -who plagiarized just about EVERYTHING he ever taught- THIS IS PLAGIARIZED from chris geer. Complete with the plagiarized title. They didn't even bother to change the name. When vpw plagiarized 2 of Bullinger's papers to make "Are the Dead Alive Now?", he at least changed the title. He was lazy enough to keep the question format for it, but he changed the title. They didn't even bother to do that. Oh, but they don't do the harmful things they did before. Yeah, right. If they're doing this, they're still getting away with anything their lawyers say they can still do. The only real changes have been to quiet their lawyers. Outside of twi, I've never heard of a church group who does the right thing on advice of their lawyers, or are less moral and nice than their lawyers.
  19. No. For the record, he's neither the first nor second place-r. How to calculate BMI..... Take the weight in pounds, and multiply it by 703. Then, divide the product by your height in inches (12 inches to the foot), then divide that quotient by your height in inches (yes, a second time.) The result is the BMI. For this round, using a calculator is not cheating, but looking it up still counts as cheating.
  20. Let me check my notes. 1-Correct- Abraham Lincoln, at 6'4". (LBJ was second, at 6'3 1/2".) 2- Correct- James Madison, at 5'4". 3- Correct- William Howard Taft, at 322 lbs/340 lbs, depending on the source. 4- Correct- James Madison, at 122 lbs. 5= Well, I'll call it CORRECT because it was Taft, with a BMI of 42.3. Even Taft's height couldn't shake that. 6- Incorrect. He was pretty lanky, but there were other lean Presidents who had a lower BMI. BTW, I'm showing results that said the lowest was a President whose BMI was 25.3, and there was no way to calculate the BMI of another. That having been said, all that's needed to calculate it is the height, the weight and the formula. The lowest BMI of any President so far was 20.9, once it's actually calculated. So, that just leaves #6 unanswered.
  21. So long as it was presented, and even promoted to a point, but not made mandatory/indoctrination, I think it would help, at least as far as was stated on that page. On paper, I think it is a good thing. In moderation, I think it would benefit society. In practice, if it caught on a lot, I think there would be a rude surprise in that- once it took on FORMAL structures and FORMAL doctrines- it would start to suffer from some familiar problems. I'm well aware there are people who say much the same as this- without any structure to draw from, and live their lives with a view towards making the world a better place. I'm well aware that some of those people are atheists or agnostics. But, it would be INEVITABLE that structures and doctrines would form. It's been that way through all of history, and I would not trust anyone who claimed it was only a possibility. Once those formed, it would become an organization. Once that happened, we would find SOME people using it for their own ends- hypocrites who mouthed its tenets but looked to get what they could from the system, people looking to skim off some money and pocket it, people in it for the authority of the offices, and so on. I think that, for the most part, the ideas are good. I think that, should this gain a lot of popularity, it would replace one set of structures with another one. Eventually, everything someone might complain about if there were a religion would appear- dogmatism, corruption, etc. I'm also aware some people alive now would probably swear up and down such a thing could never, and would never, happen. But then, every group has their fanatics, and fanatics have never been strong on reflection and examining the evidence or their conclusions. So, yes, a positive thing, but overall, a lot less effective than you're thinking.
  22. Romeo + Juliet Vondie Curtis-Hall Die Hard 2
  23. Ok, next one. The category is US history, to be specific, US presidents. Please name which US President was 1) the tallest US President 2) the shortest US President 3) the heaviest US President 4) the lightest US President (based on the Body Mass Index/BMI rating..... who was 5) the fattest US President/President with the highest BMI 6) the leanest US President/ President with the lowest BMI Answer at least 2, and we'll see if we can get all of them filled in.
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