WordWolf

I'm confident the regular players (except yourself) have no idea on this one. If you posted the entire song we'd miss it.

Taking a guess here, Charlie Sheen?

BTW, his calling himself "THE TEACHER" began YEARS EARLIER with that cheap film class he did before pfal. We never heard much about it, but he called the series "THE TEACHER." Yes, he was the only one teaching it.

Let's take the first 2, since we have something about them. A) Jesus said he couldn't do anything of himself. Nevertheless, his healings made the news and got crowds looking for healing, and other crowds wanted miraculous bread and fish after the loaves and fishes incident. He was also introduced by the biggest prophet of his time, John the Baptizer. B) Paul called himself LEAST of all the apostles, and worked a secular job to avoid causing problems if people complained he was living off the ministry. You mentioned Moses separately, the man who was "MEEK" over all the Earth, the man who begged God Almighty to send ANYONE ELSE rather than himself. Self-referential? Of that group, possibly The Son of God qualifies, but he's The Son of God. He STILL said he could do nothing of himself. Knowledge PUFFS up, God's love BUILDS up. I think of the difference between a building (built up) and a giant balloon SHAPED like a building (puffed up, puffed full of air.) They can look similar to an unobservant bystander, but the differences are dramatic. Something built up is SOLID. Something puffed up collapses with the first hit.

The "comedy" part is corrrect. The many cameos is correct (no duh.) Otherwise, I think you're really off-track.

You can do it, George. Work through the quotes. You have a lot there. This is a movie. There's a lot of clues in some of the quotes. There's 5 clues in the last quote alone- which, BTW, is a song in the movie (and thus the soundtrack.) I know you can figure this out on your own.

A) It's your turn. B) The problem wasn't the movie, the problem was you doubled back. I linked from Seth Rogen to Elizabeth Banks. You immediately followed up with Elizabeth Banks to Seth Rogen. We can't immediately cross the same movie or the same actor. Even mentioning the same actor on the same PAGE raises an eyebrow (a few moves later). So, you were fine with the movie, but had to link to ANY other actor than Seth Rogen in it, or pick another movie you knew with Elizabeth Banks and another actor (besides "Zack and Miri", of course.) And it goes without saying (but I'll say it anyway in case anyone wants to split hairs) that you can't link to the same actor or movie in the same move, either (so, can't go "Zack and Miri, Seth Rogen, Zack and Miri", for example.) C) Doing it from memory is the idea, unless the thread is stalled. It's just your turn now. (We look stuff up only to move the thread along.) Otherwise there's no challenge in the links, we'd just look everything up.

"If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were reciting some sort of important plot point." "I hope so. Otherwise I would've bored half the audience half to death." "You mean half the audience is still alive?" "I'm being held captive by these weirdos!" "Now you know how we've felt for the last forty years." "You give people the greatest gift that can ever be given!" "Children?" "No, the OTHER gift." "Ice cream?" "No, no, after that..." "Laughter?" "YES! The THIRD greatest gift ever!" "Are you one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? "Yes I am!" "We found a celebrity! Jack Black has graciously agreed to host the show for us." "That's great! Where is he?" "In the trunk." "Remember when the stage caved in while you were rocking out? Who’d have thought your smorgasbord would be hard to live without? If we could do it all again, just another chance to entertain Would anybody watch or even care? Or did something break we cant repair? Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope. They may have been unbearable- but I still loved your jokes. Is there more I could have said? Now they’re only pictures in my head."

Dom de Luise James Coburrn Paul Williams Madeline Kahn Telly Savalas Carol Kane Milton Berle Elliott Gould Bob Hope Richard Pryor Steve Martin Mel Brooks Cloris Leachman Orson Welles

She was. I was a bit unclear. I meant to choose a movie other than "Zack and Miri" and an actor other than Seth Rogen.

In pfal, vpw was rather specific that "the abundant life" was financial and visible. It's right at the beginning. He saw non-Christians living a more abundant life than Christians-according to him.

I'm trying to remember if the series premiere was directly at the end of the "Happy Days" episode- which I think it was. The first time the episode aired, the episode was said to "all be a dream of Ritchie's" and outside the house, Mork reported in, confirmed he was traveling to Boulder in 197x, and faded away. That sounds nothing to me like a one-off character who was never meant to have his own show, especially if I remember correctly that he had the 8:30pm slot right behind "Happy Days." But the scene with Mork outside was not tacked on later, it was in the episode's premiere when it aired in NYC. (The series premiere of M&M also had Fonzie make a cameo, IIRC.)

Seth Rogen Zack and Miri Make a Porno Elizabeth Banks 40 Year Old Virgin Seth Rogen Knocked Up ================ BZZZT! Sorry- you linked SETH ROGEN to SETH ROGEN. You have "Green Hornet" to Seth Rogen to "Zack and Miri" to "Elizabeth Banks". You need another movie she was in (not Zach and Miri) and a different star other than Banks or Rogen to proceed- and there's more than 1 or 2.

He probably has. As usually happens with lyrics to songs that were only distributed inside twi, nothing comes up. His best bet is with ex-twiers. His other thread showed someone identifying one of the singers and albums if not where to find them. (The same thing used to happen for really small bands until they hit it big- you had to go to a messageboard of the fans to get the lyrics since they weren't posted online.)

Correct. And thank you for typing the title. Those of us who don't have hotlinks enabled in our browsers can't see what you're hotlinking to, so we can't see if it's correct. Since you typed the title, I can confirm it.

"If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were reciting some sort of important plot point." "I hope so. Otherwise I would've bored half the audience half to death." "You mean half the audience is still alive?" "I'm being held captive by these weirdos!" "Now you know how we've felt for the last forty years." "You give people the greatest gift that can ever be given!" "Children?" "No, the OTHER gift." "Ice cream?" "No, no, after that..." "Laughter?" "YES! The THIRD greatest gift ever!" "Are you one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? "Yes I am!" "We found a celebrity! Jack Black has graciously agreed to host the show for us." "That's great! Where is he?" "In the trunk."

"I want a girl who gets up early. I want a girl who stays up late. I want a girl with uninterrupted prosperity Who uses a machete to cut through red tape. With fingernails that shine like justice And a voice that is dark like tinted glass. She is fast and thorough And sharp as a tack. She's touring the facility And picking up slack."

Was this "Bull Durham"?

Seth Rogen Zack and Miri Make a Porno Elizabeth Banks

I suspected the shows were short-lived, but not sure they all died one season in, and I didn't know Summer got around to all of them.

I'll give you "Archie Bunker's Place". but not "Mork and Mindy." Laverne and Shirley were in "Happy Days" before they spun off, IIRC, for a few appearances. but Mork ONLY appeared in his back-door pilot- which ended with him jumping forward in time to "the present" (as of original airing) and Boulder, Colorado from Milwaukee. I may be operating with a much more strict definition of "back-door pilot." (I.e. "Assignment: Earth" was a back-door pilot on "Star Trek (TOS)" and we never saw Gary Seven again on ST:TOS before or after.) For that matter, "Out of the Blue" also had one from "Happy Days"- where Random appears in 1 episode of Happy Days, then vanishes and the new show begins (an odd quirk in airdates meant that the actual appearance in "Happy Days" aired after the show began, but that was accidental.) In other news, who cares, really?

It figures. The fun has to happen while I'm out of town. Mike, nobody's kicking you off the board. You're even invited to play in the games in the "Movies, Music..." forum. (Just try to follow the rules, such as they are.) I think most people here won't begrudge nostalgia, so long as it's phrased a bit diplomatically- and, more to the point, subjectively. (I have some fond memories of time in twi, but I acknowledge that my experiences certainly weren't universal.) I'll honor the bilateral ceasefire and not get into things all over again. I will, however, point out that you're attributing hostility SOLELY to people who are reacting to nostalgia. Most of the reactions are people disagreeing with you, not people just reacting.

Ok, the "it's somewhere in a thread, now go find it" homework thing was classic Mike, so it didn't suprise me. Give a vague answer and some homework, deflect, and change the subject, and later announce that you answered it directly. However, he actually followed up by answering something, which was a real shocker for those who've been watching the same episode of this show over and over. Doesn't mean it was RIGHT, but at least it was something that can be discussed. Now then, there's a few things I like to remember about making claims about how super-special vpw claimed his stuff was. (Not an exclusive or complete list.) 1) vpw was a homiletician. He spent his time at work at the podium with a Bible in his hand, teaching (generally, teaching other people's research from one source or another, as has been documented across his iife.) Sometimes he would set things up. He had a receptive audience in his church and in his ministry. So, who's going to disagree with him? He set things up with that in mind. From time to time, he'd read something from the Bible, announce what it was about (correctly or not but never in doubt), and if it was supposedly something slightly controversial, he would disavow his responsibility for it and claim that any objectors were arguing with God Almighty. "Don't blame me-I didn't write the book!" Obviously, he was saying that the contents were in the Bible, and that he wasn't responsible for the contents of that book- rather, God Almighty was responsible. Much later, someone came along and said "He's saying he didn't write the book- the Orange Book is obviously not his writing, but God Almighty wrote it. Can't you see it? It's so simple!" 2) vpw ripped off the styles of others as well as their substance. If he'd heard any of us do a great teaching, he might later teach it and even ape our speech patterns and vocabulary shamelessly. Was it intentional (it worked for them) or unintentional (I don't understand this but I can regurgitate it as well as they taught it)? So, for example, when Stiles spent several HOURS working with vpw on sit, going over all his objections and doubts, vpw was mentally taking notes. Later, he bought Stiles' book. Between the 2, vpw taught Stiles' words from both forms, both the substance and the style, regurgitating them whether the context was apt or not. , Naturally, Stiles had to tell him things like "If this is really what God wants, then you have to think of this not as my words, but God's words" and other things of that nature. Later, someone came along and said "He obviously means the contents of the book this appeared in contains the words of God Almighty in a direct sense, not just expositing about the Bible. (What's really sad about that was that vpw and Stiles were BOTH wrong. Stiles was very sincere and well-intentioned. In fact, he based his life around it. And, as it turns out, he was wrong. It's sad to really base your life around something that is just plain wrong. 3) vpw was a lazy student, a lazy researcher, and a lazy plagiarist. So, when "he wrote a book", often HE did no such thing. The collaterals of pfal (except the White Book) were others taking vpw's sermons and typing them up and editing them. (The White Book was vpw doing a cut-and-paste on Stiles' book, at least 1 book of Bulliger's, and some of Leonard's work. ) So, when pfal as a class had vpw say "this is a class on keys", the Orange Book reads "this is a book on keys." Why did vpw change his focus, and what's the deeper meaning? Ridiculous questions. Others came along and tried to make sense of his work, and sometimes succeeded. Since they weren't him, they had to make certain assumptions here and there, best guesses, since the other approach meant he'd have to be actively involved with every page- and we know he spent his entire life getting away with as little of that as he could manage. I have to take off for a few days. It's a shame that we finally have something to discuss just as I'm stepping out, but that's life. I'll rejoin the dance at the next song. I bet I won't miss much/

We'll be traveling and so on for the next week. On the bright side, we should be caught up to today when we return...and, naturally, we'll need to catch up on this week at that time...