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"Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives." But that's the CORRECT show.

No.

Ok, some cooking shows. Name any to take the round. A) Michael Symon filled in for a season when Robert Irvine was fired for padding his resume. RI returned for the next season, because he was interesting and Symon was not! B) Guy Fieri zooms around, stopping at little hole-in-the-wall eating establishments and other places, and finds out how they make some specialty for which they are known. The nickname for this show is "Triple-D". C) 2 chefs assemble teams, then try to teach them to make dishes- after which the teams compete to make the dishes competently. D) Buddy Velasco tried to do a standard cooking show. This was the result- and it's not his best-remembered work.... E) Who decided that the best choice for a host for a cooking show is an actor-martial artist? Mark DeCasco was the host for a while. F) This show ended because Chris Cosentino, one of its hosts, was too injured from various "eat the hot food" challenges to continue in his role. Aron Sanchez and he normally had traveled from place to place, trying to out-cook and out-race local chefs at some local dishes and local sites. (The locals may be used to making the dish all the time, and definitely knew all the driving shortcuts.) Both teams (of 2) were issued a car and backpack for the episode (ignore the backpack's contents and risk losing the episode for lack of some critical tool.) One season had Food Network chefs brought in to compete against Aron and Chris. G) Walmart "Flavortown" is the setting for this cooking show. Four chefs (professional or amateur) compete to make a specified type of dish within the parameters, using the workstations provided and the contents of the Walmart "Flavortown" supermarket in which this show is filmed.

Ok, name this role: Orson Welles John Gielgud Clive Merrison Stewart Granger John Cleese Roger Moore Christopher Plummer Frank Langella Tom Baker

"Pinky and the Brain"?

Had to be somebody who's been all over the place. In this case, this "dirty, rotten scoundrel" was MICHAEL CAINE, wasn't it?

Everybody had heard the news. It was the headline of all the UK newspapers the day before the Advanced class started. (The headline for the Daily Mail was "We Belong Together", with a photo of Germans from both East and West holding hands and standing on a piece of the wall. The headline for the Sun was "Red and Buried!" with a photo of some of the wall's wreckage.) I expect every attendee knew. I don't know why there were no comments whatsoever. I also thought it was strange that WS, the country coordinator from Germany, had to catch his news on the same little TV on the bottom floor "garden level" that the rest of us caught things on. In fairness, most of the TV I saw then- which wasn't much- was more at the local pub in the village ("the Black Bull") than the little TV.

What's twice as shocking to me, although of less relative importance to the posters, is that the people at Gartmore House didn't make any kind of comment, not even at dinner in-house. Why is that shocking to me? The country coordinator for Germany was there, helping to run an Advanced Class at the time. When he had free time, he was often watching the news to keep up (this was pre-internet for most of us.) I suspect, had vpw not killed himself with carcinogens before that and left office, he would have had a LOT to say on the subject.

"Why do you have to take this so personal?" You wouldn't like it if you were in a discussion, and suddenly disagreements went from actual discussing into "So, that's your only care and concern? Not, what the truth is?' and . "...what appears to me to be some rather emotional and artificial reason, rather than given much of any real thought to the points or questions already posed" I think you're being a bit more honest with "Look, the fact here is, I really don't care much what your reason is or isn't for posting what you did. " Antagonistic responses are arriving independent of whether we're having a nice discussion or whether someone's trying to be dishonest, underhanded, or deliberately obtuse or obstructive. If that's going to be the response style to everything, then go ahead and have the last word on the subject. I thought you wanted to discuss and have an intelligent process going, I was obviously mistaken.

WW: " the Deathstroke fight was just insulting- starting with how Deathstroke moved a LOT faster than the Flash, who apparently chose to shove his chest onto a stationary sword.) " G St G: "I seem to recall that Deathstroke basically positioned himself so that Flash could only attack from one direction. Still, highly unreasonable, since Flash can vibrate through matter and, hence, attack from ANY angle." The problem there is just how fast the Flash was. When he was LESS fast than that, we saw an issue where he was in a house where a bomb went off. Shown from his perspective, we saw he had enough time to snarf up some food (he needed to fuel up back then), collect up 2 normal speed people from inside the house, and deposit them onto the lawn outside before the explosion reached them and harmed them. Simply put, Deathstroke was effectively standing still when the Flash moved. The Flash had a LOT of time to see where he was going and what was going on. Deathstroke somehow moved his sword ONCE FLASH STARTED MOVING. BTW, if he can actually break the speed of sound like that without Flash-type powers, there should have been a sonic boom when he moved. Anyway, even if Deathstroke moved, say, at Mach 2 somehow, Flash would have had a lot of time to see that as he approached, and to react accordingly. He would have had sufficient time to move out of the way once the sword touched his shirt. And, as you said, he could simply vibrate through the sword. The fight also had the Atom forget he could adjust his mass, even slightly, and land immediately, after being pushed by a faint burst of energy. (Amazing how Deathstroke developed the ability to effortlessly see things too small to be resolved by the human eye at that moment.) Zatanna was able to speak, but lacked the focus to complete a one-syllable spell ("POTS!") Black Canary was unable to strike Deathstroke at a distance- which is something her Canary Cry does all the time, at the speed of sound. We saw JLA members, one after another, blunder their way through a fight, followed by Ollie's claim that the JLA teaches you how to fight. BTW, Hawkman is VERY focused. He can stop flying and continue a battle in free-fall, knowing he has to finish it before he can try to fly again, and has done so. If his harness was damaged while he had a free hit, he would take his free hit and then fall. Hawkman had his heavy mace in his hand- Deathstroke should have had that thing slam into his head. Oh, Green Lantern! Kyle Rayner, some time before this, had taken on the power of Ion. Before giving it up, he upgraded his GL power ring. Among the other modifications was to limit it so that it responded to him and nobody else. and he didn't have to wear it to use it. He demonstrated by flinging it out a window and calling it back to his hand. Some time later, Amon Sur stole Kyle's ring. Kyle was able to spy on all his activities, using the ring to project an image of what Amon was doing while he wore it, and Amon was unable to control it at all, but Kyle controlled it on Amon's finger. The exceptions to Kyle controlling that ring would either people sharing his DNA (like his descendants) or Hal Jordan, who previously wore that very same ring (before Ganthet reshaped it) so he was sort-of "grandfathered" in. When Deathstroke tried to control the ring, it should have ignored him. BTW, Kyle, an anime fan, knows how to use the ring to make anime powered armor to fight in a close space while being protected. When that issue hit the stands, I did a panel-by-panel breakdown of that fight. Nearly every single panel had a technical error in it. I suspect the Flash problem was the writer's inability to grasp Wally's speed at the time. Shortly before CoIE, Wally had retired. He seemed to be moving slower, and using his speed seemed to be killing him. At THAT point, Deathstroke was not much slower than him, reflex-wise. After CoIE, Wally's speed had stabilized, and his new top speed was about Mach 1. After THAT, his speed varied quite a bit, but was a LOT faster than Mach 1. After THAT, Wally merged with the Speed Force and came back, and was even FASTER afterwards. It was at THAT point that "Identity Crisis" happened. Before the merging with the Speed Force was the incident with the explosion. (Sometime before the merging, his connection to the Speed Force had improved- which is why he no longer had to eat large amounts when using his speed- he was now getting the energy from the Speed Force.) If it had been me, I would have made sure the Flash and Green Lantern were nowhere near that fight. ===================== I think there's a mistake in promising "Invasion!" on a TV budget, since animation is probably the only way to manage events on that scale. They shouldn't have set themselves such a big target to hit. So, don't blame me too much for expecting "Invasion" when that's what they intentionally promised. I wasn't crushed, but I was hoping for a lot more than we got.

TLC: "But, perhaps the intention is merely to make that particular aspect or perspective sound as difficult or as "unlikely" as possible... " TLC: "This "who is in charge" angle (or approach, if you prefer) to oikinomia is not something I've really encountered or thought much about before, and quite frankly, I'm just not sure how or someone else might see or want to frame it in those terms, aside from it being a strawman." That's twice in 2 successive posts you've accused me of handling things dishonestly. I don't know if you intended to be insulting like that, but that's what you're posting. I was under the impression that you wanted to get into all of this because you wanted an intelligent discussion, so I stayed in out of respect, but I'm not going to bother if this is how it's going to be.

How long it took to go from "name it after my uncle" to "name it after something they did in the Bible." More than a decade after it started, more than 5 years after its namesake's death, and THEN it changed. For those paying attention, it mocks the idea that the Bible is the only important thing in twi.

If you're watching Batwoman, I highly doubt you have a "phobia." I object to the casual misuse of words, even if others do not. Disliking something is not a "phobia" any more than liking something is a "fetish". Some people may misuse both words that way, but I do not (unless it's in jest, and exaggeration is a legitimate figure of speech.) So, "the New Guardians" sprang from "Millenium." The cast from "Millenium" sounded like someone was trying to tick their way down some odd list, then handed the cast list off to the story's writer and said "Write this story." I suspect the overt acknowledgement of their inability to carry out their appointed task was the writer's way of admitting he thought it was stupid, also. That interested me MORE in the series, because the writer was aware of what was going on and was writing his story accordingly. But, that's really all that can be said for either story. Marv Wolfman complained, over a decade after CoIE, that they may have set the bar too high. Now, people were expecting a huge crossover in the Summer, and it wasn't mega enough if there wasn't a body count. In fairness, some big crossovers worked, some did not. "Atlantis Attacks" didn't work. "Operation Galactic Storm" DID work. "JLApe" worked because DC doubled down on the cheese factor, and didn't pretend the story was serious. "JL?" worked because they made it short and just involved the JLA cast's series, plus the framing issues at the beginning and end. "Invasion!" worked- which was amazing, considering how much they crammed into it. "Our World At War" and "Panic in the Sky!" didn't garner more than token audiences, so if that's what they were aiming for, they succeeded. With the name to live up to, and all the hype they've generated, I hope the Arrowverse CoIE lives up to its hype. The possible problem is being unable to do so. JK Rowling promised a lot for the end of the Harry Potter series, and foreshadowed a lot, and pulled a "read and find out" when asked about "the Prophecy" and its implications- then failed to deliver. (As phrased, it didn't come to pass, and she said she'd phrased it "extremely carefully and that's all I have to say on the subject!") She also said not to trust anything that didn't come from the official sources of Warner, Bloomsbury, Schoolastic, or herself like her own website. Then she wrote something on her website that she contradicted heavily in Book 7 ("What happens to a secret when the Secret-Keeper dies?" Her own answer on her own website was the opposite of what she wrote in Book 7 when it happened.) The movies where pretty good, but I felt the last 2 books didn't match up to her hype- and, frankly, could NOT have done so. Her mouth had written checks her writing ability couldn't cash. Robert Jordan used to pull "Read And Find Out" on questions about his Wheel of Time series (not all questions, though). but he delivered on those by the end of his epic. The comic "Identity Crisis" was hyped to the heavens when it was coming out. Renowned mystery writer etc was writing it. And the miniseries failed as a good story AND failed as a mystery! (The "thunk" just before the first murder was never addressed, until several years later when a different writer added something, and the Deathstroke fight was just insulting- starting with how Deathstroke moved a LOT faster than the Flash, who apparently chose to shove his chest onto a stationary sword.) When I speculated on the solution, I used all the elements he'd introduced into the story, and only added a minor piece of tech to the entire thing. Someone else had speculated early, and guessed the correct answer, based on it being the STUPIDEST possible way to resolve the story. They followed that up with "Infinite Crisis", which struck me as a mockery of the original CoIE, as if someone heard a description of the previous one, and decided that it didn't sound hard to do it again, then came out with "Infinite Crisis." After that, I stopped giving DC the benefit of the doubt on anything. This has saved me a lot of disappointment since then. Considering how good "Invasion!" the comic was, I found the Arrowverse version a major letdown. I'm cautious about whether or not to hope for the best for the new crossover.

TLC: "Geesh... can't say that I've ever even heard reasoning against seeing it as periods of time because there was some hard cut off point where one starts the other ends. When or where or why did "transition periods" get cut out of that picture? But, perhaps the intention is merely to make that particular aspect or perspective sound as difficult or as "unlikely" as possible... " I have to see it work "on paper" if I'm going to take it seriously. If it's "administrations" like the US government, then at any point, technically, one President or another is officially in charge, and the Secret Service are clear on who it is if no one else is. In college, I was in a student organization for a number of years, and I discovered that it was actually important to know exactly who was in charge at any moment in the school year. (I had written into the group's constitution the specific determinant on when the group's president changed- it was tied to the Final Exam schedule of the semester, so that the next president and cabinet was in power during Winter or Summer break, so they could get things prepared, and we were clear who was supposed to be prepping things.) If it's a governmental thing, the US is hardly the only government where "who is in charge this minute" after elections has become a sticking point- I saw one country's president decide to vanish as soon as they lost re-election, which prompted the president-elect to immediately assume the office to prevent an absence of president (he got sworn in immediately.) It's not about how the ideas are made to sound, it's about trying to get clear concepts, then looking at them coldly and seeing if they hold up under scrutiny. I don't hold to a doctrine if it doesn't withstand my scrutiny, whether or not I LIKE the doctrine. (That's been true for a VERY long time.) When vpw introduced the concept of "administrations" in pfal, he himself said that some of them ended ABRUPTLY, so the idea was introduced by him. If that's not true but the rest is, I'm open to hearing how "transition periods" are supposed to work. Adam and Eve were cast out of Paradise, and the Patriarchal "administration" supposedly began immediately. Moses was given the Law, and the Law "administration" was in effect.

I did forget LL was made one of their agents, aka a "manhunter" with all the others, like Laurel Kent from the Legion of Super Heroes' farm team. (Wait- if Superman had no decendants, who is she? *Laurel android explodes* ) I was one of the few people who was reading "the New Guardians", the series about the Millenium folk, mainly because I was interested in where the story was going to go when even the characters realized their primary mission was doomed to failure. Ok, in "Millenium", the Guardians (of the Universe) and the Zamarons (male and female from Maltus, respectively) decided to jumpstart the next species to replace them, and went to Earth to do it. With the entire population to choose from, their list of about a dozen included a dead villain (Terra), a South African white supremacist, and a plant being who was also in Arkham Asylum (Floronic Man.) When they were done, they had Harbinger (from CoIE), Jet (who was given identical powers to Harbinger, and nobody knew why), Floro the plant being, Betty or whoever who merged with the Earth, and a gay man. For people who were supposed to get a headstart on a new species of human, who had received extensive instructions from their instructors (one Guardian, one Zamaron), even THEY admitted their small group was ill-equipped to have offspring- of all the males, only RAM was able to sire children (Extraño was technically capable but disinterested) and only Gloss, Jet and Harbinger were capable of bearing children. Then again, Tom Kalmaku ("Pieface") was supposed to be in the group but initially refused, adding one more male. I'm baffled why they thought the white supremacist was going to be a good choice, or why the sociopathic dead criminal made the short list. Floro was already genetically infertile, and Betty was made so when they gave her powers and she merged with the Earth. On paper, even "the New Guardians" knew this didn't work, and were unsure how to proceed even with whatever they were told. So, I was curious where their story would go. The answer, ultimately, was "nowhere." They fizzled out. A few of them were quietly killed off here and there much later once they were supposedly forgotten.

*checks* Dr Helga Jace first appeared in the first episode I missed chronologically. I had no idea she'd appeared. In the comics, Dr Jace gave Terra and Geo-Force their powers. (She was also one of the infiltrators in "Millenium" but I think everyone's trying to forget that except me. You may remember one week with Dr Jace and a bunch of other, minor characters announcing "I'm a Manhunter." )

But- are they different time periods because they're required to be- as in "this period ended and this other one began at the same time", or because different people are under different rules because that's what was asked of them? Jesus told a parable about the workers in the field, with some angry because others got a better deal even though theirs was good. Right now, if we're "under grace", is "the law" just as effective as it was before, even if it's outmoded and obsolete? If the answer is "yes", then the critical difference is not the TIME, it is the RULES. IF that is so, then it's not "time periods" as much as the relationships or covenants or sets of rules someone is under, and 2 or more sets can be in effect and work at the same time. If it's time-periods, then that can't be true- just as there's only one president of a nation at a time, only one government can legally rule a nation at a time (Obama's term ended and Trump's began, etc.)

BTW, my posting for the rest of the year might be somewhat erratic. My internet has been going up and down (we're going to install a different provider within the week.) I'm stepping out of town for about a week before Thanksgiving. My PC may drop dead before it can be replaced (I hope to replace it in 2019.) So, don't rush to assume I'm in the trunk of someone's car with duct tape over my mouth or something.

Ok, way back in Arrow season 1, episode 13- "Betrayal", we had a character named "George Wolfman." Now, the latest Flash (season 6, episode 4, "Dead Man Running") we had a character named "Marv Perez." (Ralph Dibny mentioned him as an ex to DD.) So, Marv Wolfman and George Perez (the team who brought us the comic book "Crisis on Infinite Earths") were name-dropped. We also got Ted Kord mentioned in the same episode as having just done something- so Ted Kord is alive (in the comics, he's the Blue Beetle.) That got me curious about the first issue of CoIE, and who was in the first motley crew The Monitor (back then, exactly ONE Monitor in the multiverse) assembled, and how many were introduced into the Arrowverse so far, even if we have to go across Earths and timelines to get them all. Ok, those in the comic were: King Solovar, Dawnstar, Firebrand, Blue Beetle, Arion, Psycho-Pirate, Firestorm and Killer Frost, Psimon, Cyborg, Geo Force, Obsidian, Green Lantern (John Stewart), Dr Polaris, Superman Earth-2, Ok, let's go over who's appeared. King Solovar of Gorilla City has definitely appeared in Gorilla City during the Gorilla Grodd stories on "Flash. Dawnstar has not appeared- but the Legion of Super Heroes has, and her planet Starhaven has, both in "Supergirl." Firebrand has not appeared. Ted Kord/ Blue Beetle was just name-dropped on "Flash". We know he's alive and a scientist, at least. Arion has not appeared. Psycho-Pirate appeared in "Elseworlds Part 2" and "Elseworlds Part 3"- he's in Arkham Asylum in Gotham City on Earth-1. Firestorm of Earth-1 appeared in "Flash" and "Legends of Tomorrow" as a regular, but died...at least the Earth-1 version did, there might be others on other Earths. (Earth-2's "Deathstorm" is also dead.) Killer Frost is a regular on "Flash". Psimon has not appeared. Cyborg/Victor Stone has not appeared in the Arrowverse- but in "Smallville", he appeared, and "Smallville" is about to cross over in CoIE, so that counts. Geo-Force has not appeared- but Markovia's earthquake technology appeared in Arrow, and was used in their "Undertaking" for the Glades. Obsidian appeared in the JSA when the Legends of Tomorrow met them. Elseworlds Part 2 implied that John Diggle's Earth-90 counterpart is named John Stewart and wears a (Green Lantern) ring (whereabouts unknown, most of Earth-90s inhabitants were killed. Doctor Polaris does not appear. we have Superman appear on "Supergirl", and there's more Supermen coming in the crossover. Checking if anyone else appeared in "Smallville" to help close the list, let's see, Ted Kord appeared there. Dawnstar appeared in a flashback to the Legion that Kara had. Firebrand has not appeared. Arion has not. Psimon appeared in the comic book version, but not in the TV series of "Smallville." John Stewart did not appear in the show, only the comic book. Dr Polaris did not appear. That's a considerable number of characters who were in the comic and have been introduced. Mrs Wolf already speculated Ollie accidentally recruiting a multiversal team including Black Siren.

Jim Carrey?????

Ok, since I can look it up now..... Child's Play Chris Sarandon Fright Ni the Princess Bride

"Bugsy Malone" was correct. The first movie WAS 'Dawn of the Dead." George Romero's famous for being the father of the zombie movie (not the very first director of any, but his movies spawned the genre, whereas older movies were forgotten quickly.) Romero poked some fun at consumerism by putting a lot of the movie at a mall and adding zombies to the mall. "Dawn of the Dead" was the sequel to "Night of the Living Dead."

For the record, Mrs Wolf knows SOME ABBA stuff, but she didn't recognize it, and then she looked it up so she was ineligible to guess it. It's funny that I knew NOTHING about the song, but was able to piece together part of the missing rhyme based on other songs and experience. Then again, it's not like most pop songs come out of NOWHERE.

I forget which comedian explained the stages of drinking and drunkenness at a bar. Early stages had the person keeping track of how much sleep they could get before work tomorrow morning, and arguing against artificial turf in stadiums and so on. Later stages had him arguing for artificial turf, and later deciding that he might as well stay up all night before work, since he was still up. He staggered out of the bar, and was struck by the sunlight- smashing into him like God's Flashlight. He got home, and said a prayer. "Lord, if you get me through this, I'll never go out drinking again..."- say it with me guys- "...AS LONG AS I LIVE"- and some of us add the coda at the end- "...and this time, I MEAN it." Ok, we have twi leaders who consented to the corruption, reaped its benefits, turned a blind eye to suffering, and so on. They left twi one day, then started up their own WHOLESOME ministry- and a few years later, the legalism started, the rules came down, the doctrine was locked, discussion and dissent were banned, and the money was solicited. Then the next set of leaders did the exact same steps. Then the NEXT set of leaders did the exact same steps. As did the NEXT set of leaders. But this time, now the CURRENT leaders who jumped ship, THESE are going to get it RIGHT and do the right thing and NOT make their own money-making venture, because these will succeed where all the others failed before them. Which poster's signature was "The lessons repeat until they are learned"?

It's interesting- when one thinks about what was SAID about the military. Breakthrough dd a song, "Military Man", and vpw often cozied up to the idea of the military like he cozied up quietly to the big money. Did vpw like the military? Yes and no. When it was time for vpw to serve, he went into ministry, which got him an exemption, IIRC. vpw talked up how good it was that the military were LOYAL- that an order was given and carried out without question. Since he had no experience with the military- no time himself, no family members in the military, all he knew was what was in the movies and/or television. What stuck with him was a system where people got to give orders that were obeyed without question. Compare that to the REAL military, and you see a different picture. Unlawful orders can be questioned and refused (uncommon, but not impossible.) Officers giving inappropriate orders may be followed NOW but the higher-ups will look into this. (There's always someone higher-up.) Finally, officers are ACCOUNTABLE and can end up serving hard time in Leavenworth if they just flatly decide to do whatever they want and issue whatever orders they want. vpw knew none of this. He saw officers bark orders and be obeyed, and that impressed him. That was the movies. Me? I was impressed when I saw Christopher Reeve fly in the movies with the big 'S' on his chest, but the reality never quite matched the movies. The sad part? Even as a kid, I knew the difference between the movies and the reality.