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This is George's turn.

Omelet, the Cheese Danish.

It should be. However, the title is NOT "The Sator Square." :)

Vern has 2 choices- jump ship and leave twi, or stay in twi. So long as he stays in twi, there's no downside to accepting the big chair. If he refused, he'd probably be punished by being "reassigned" so someplace useless. So, he takes the chair and at least PRETENDS he can do something. Until he realizes how much he's wasting his time, he's going to stay in twi. Eventually, I expect he'll be ejected because he's not useful anymore, or ejected sooner because he was actually effective and doing something. Either possibility ends with him being thrown out of twi at a time of their convenience. Everyone before him was DISPOSABLE, and either jumped ship or was kicked out. Vern's actually going to be SURPRISED when it happens to him, because he's different. He can succeed where THOUSANDS before him failed.

And I was being cheeky with the title and artist. Right. Ok, next song. "I love my sunny day. Dream of far away. Dreaming on my pillow in the morning. Never been awake. Never seen a day break".

YES! I thought her character in "The Spirit" or the Cristina from "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" might have been the trick. At least I didn't have to put up The Black Widow. Your turn!

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Now, that explains why Donna was not made President. Donna was given all the REAL power, and Vern and John were given the visible offices. That's right out of Rosalie's playbook. Control everything you can from hiding, but make sure someone else is up front to take all the blame. This time, Rosalie was able to design the offices SPECIFICALLY to do exacgtly that. So, Donna has all the power (and controls all the money), and Vern and John have shiny new badges and pretend to run everything, and handle all the decisions that have no effect on the money and power. And if they actually prove effective, then Donna gets to eject them and install someone less effective.

Beguiled? Please don't blame yourself for what happened to your brother. You both were abused by twi and in twi. They abused your parents- who then abused both of you, and they abused both of you directly. Both of you had to learn to survive in the face of what they all did to both of you. Decades of callous people surrounding his every action, with callous parents modeling his behavior, resulted in him becoming a callous person and thinking that's how you're supposed to be- that it's "NORMAL" because that was "normal" in his upbringing. It's sad, but as an adult, he now has chances to be exposed to other people and learn differently, today, tomorrow, whenever. That's up to him now. I'm well aware that many people have become non-Christian or angry at God post-twi. Many have not, as well. I'm not going to tell you that you have to be one or the other. I will say that you can still pray for them and for yourself (or not, if it doesn't suit you.) Either way, you'll need to learn to forgive yourself for surviving the experience. I'm not sure I can tell you how, but thousands of us/people have gone on to happy lives post-twi, and you can be one of us/them. Oh, and you don't have to be a PERFECT Dad, just love your kid and do your best. I've found that making the effort gets better results than supposedly excellent parents who don't seem to want to invest the time and energy in their kid.

Considering that each self-appointed leader is following the pattern vpw set- with zero accountability, a "lockbox" for secrets, etc, it's not that shocking that some of those "leaders" have abused their congregations. There's nothing to protect the flock or stop abuses or limit the leader's power.

For some previous discussions here about Victor Barnard specifically, there's the following threads.... "Accused sex predator Victor Barnard, a victim's story" https://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/topic/23728-accused-sex-predator-victor-barnard-—-a-victims-story/ "Victor Barnard pleads guilty" https://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/topic/24350-victor-barnard-pleads-guilty/ "Remembering a woman of courage, who stood up to a monster" https://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/topic/24956-remembering-a-woman-of-courage-who-stood-up-to-a-monster/\ It was also mentioned in the following threads: "Splintering and subjugating, as night follows day" https://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/topic/24900-splintering-and-subjugatingas-night-follows-day/ "Splinters and groupthink" https://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/topic/24935-splinters-and-groupthink/ "Splinter cults are worse, not better" https://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/topic/24827-splinter-cults-are-worsenot-better/ So, if you're curious, you can follow up on one or more of those threads/ previous discussions.

You are corrrect! The new movie didn't have THRUSH, they had WASP. The A-Team episode was "the UNCLE Affair." The Avengers episode was "The Girl from Auntie", and even had MFU as an abbreviation on a sign at the beginning.

The Sator Square..... SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS Its exact meaning- and if it HAS a meaning- is debated. Some people think it's a magical incantation, like, say, "ABRACADABRA."

Ok, next show. In its time, this show was very well-known. In fact, it inspired one episode of "the Avengers" (Steed and Peel) and one episode of "The A-Team." It had its own spin-off. When it aired, several episodes were taken, with additional scenes either restored or added, and then released with new names as theatrical releases- but not in the US. Later, there was an entirely new story that was made into a completely new theatrical release (but not with the original actors.) Supposedly, there was a rival group. According to a novel, it was founded by Col. Sebastian Moran after the death of Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls in the Sherlock Holmes story, "The Final Problem". (This despite no obvious connection between Sherlock Holmes or Arthur Conan Doyle and this show.) In an episode of the show, a character claims she founded the organization. Oh, and the name of the rival group was changed in the last theatrical release (the one with different actors.)

"Sator Square," by the Pegasus Group.

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I'm currently blanking on a show. If anyone has one, they can take this as a FREE POST. If not, I'll post something as soon as I think of something.

Ok, next one. Laura Nelson Molly Pruitt Grace MacLean Kathy Caldwell Rachel "Birdy" Abundas Ashley Parker

Just to make it official, CORRECT. But you knew that already.

In fairness, George's misses helped me get in the groove for working this out. :)

Um, let's see.......I THINK "Free Enterprise" was something about the Star Trek fandom. With that in mind, the melodramatic pauses probably aren't for, say, Adam West, but rather for............. WILLIAM SHATNER.

*checks* No, and this movie is from 1986. He died in 1985. Depending on when they filmed the scenes, he may have been dead or too ill to act when they were filming.

Taking that as a clue that supposedly gives away the movie if you saw it, I'm thinking this might be "THE INVENTION OF LYING."

I know EMILIO ESTEVEZ was in "Loaded Weapon 1". Any chance this is he?