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  1. Bingo. Bonus points for "why you think anyone here thinks you have something to offer on a topic of substance." After years of nothing but smoke and allusions alternating with correctable/corrected errors, and elevation of the pfal books beyond anything vpw said about them, in between worship of vpw, we're skeptical you've anything of substance to bring to the table NOW. And if anyone's wondering what I meant by worship of vpw, I meant comments that he was "born with an overabundance of brains and brawn", that he was "overgifted" and that "where he walked, the earth shook." At that level, it is NOT hyperbole to call that "worship", at least "hero worship".
  2. Since there's no actual reason to think Uriah's family had any reason to suspect anything improper happened, it is logical to think that Uriah's relatives mourned his death in combat, and then thought that it was good that his widow was taken care of- whether out of genuine concern for her, or out of relief that they didn't have to see to it, depending on how nice his family was. BTW, elevating vpw to the same status as David in discussions is, well.....
  3. WordWolf

    Cancer

    DWBH has a medical background. DWBH has both study and experience in medicine, at some level. vpw didn't- and still spoke at length on cancer. It was common for vpw to speak at length on topics on which he was factually ignorant.
  4. Furthermore, Mike's tendency to re-imagine events or invent them wholesale is evident here. When we discussed TW:LiL, and the apologists were claiming that one offhand comment in one book was equal to the legal citing of sources in all the books in which this comment wasn't even mentioned, there were 3 posters who said that. If Mike posted on it at all, he was an incredibly minor voice, although he's now remembering himself as the main proponent who scored imaginary victories then also. (Yes, we've had a consistent pattern of that, too.) Based on how he's consistently misrepresented his discussions here over the decades, I'd be truly shocked if his discussion with JS even RESEMBLED what he's said. As if any of us here care what JS said in between managing his splinter group.
  5. Those are people who feel NOTHING for other people. They only feel for themselves. It's not a guarantee they're a bad person, but it's a common enough ingredient. One Psychologist discovered he had the absence of empathy, but his good upbringing made him a better person. vpw, on the other hand, had an abusive dad, and vpw learned early on to run off and shirk his chores, and to use a gift of gab and the threat of violence to get what he wanted. That was his rep as a teenager.
  6. Probably not. Discussions about Psychology point to vpw having Antisocial Personality Disorder. His "concern" for people was shown to all be STAGED-which is why he could sit and chat with you, turn his head, SCREAM at someone, and turn back to you and resume the conversation, all without batting an eye. None of it touched him.
  7. A lot of the old cartoons are still eminently watchable, from the 60s and 70s, to say nothing of the Batman and Green Hornet shows.
  8. BINGO. Besides, we're still waiting on discussion on a few matters raised in 2003, matters highly relevant to your position- and which completely refute it. (BTW, it was 6 months ALMOST to the day, not to the exact day. (I checked.) )
  9. When Mike wrote a post whose sole content was the phrase "When Christ returns, he'll be holding a PFAL book in his hand and teaching you from it." , I immediately concluded he was joking. However, someone asked him outright if he was actually serious when he made that claim. Mike replied he was "Very serious. I've seen him that way many times myself." Mike has decided to stake his entire life on the assertion that the PFAL books were of divine origin and superior to any and all modern English Bibles, let alone the texts remaining from Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew. He's said the closest we have to the originals is "unreliable fragments" and "tattered remnants." He also is rather creative in how he interprets both current and past posts. (He's been thoroughly refuted, gone away for 6 months, then returned and said that the previous time, nobody'd been able to hold a candle to him. So, if you're looking for a LOGICAL answer, don't be shocked if you don't get one. To date, Mike's dangled questions and insinuations, and gone out of his way far afield to ever avoid answering questions simply, directly, and unambiguously. He's also shown some elementary errors in understanding the Bible the few times he's mentioned something in it. He did this once, I refuted him and pointed out specifics, and announced then and there that he'd probably be back in 6 months, claiming he was correct and unrefuted. 6 months to the day, guess what happened? ;) BTW, Mike, I'm doing well by objective standards. I'm seeing a much brighter future for my day-to-day life, in fact.
  10. I'm completely caught up on Flash and BBT, and obviously LoT and Powerless. I'll catch up on Gotham and Supergirl this week (1-2 episodes behind on each.) I haven't sat down to finish Agent Carter, and seriously behind on Agents of SHIELD. I saw the first episode of Iron Fist. Not making him Asian made sense if it was Iron Fist. If they wanted an Asian, they should have picked Shang-Chi (Master of Kung Fu.) George asked about if it's faithful to the series. Well, all the names are correct-Daniel Rand and family, Meachum, Colleen Wing, Lei Kung the Thunderer, Shao Lao the Undying (whether shown or mentioned.) As for a faithful depiction of the guy who later joined with Luke Cage to start Heroes For Hire, I see no resemblance. I can't even prove DR actually has "the Iron Fist." And with that in question, he certainly isn't like "the Immortal Iron Fist" of the more recent series. My main problem is their inability to decide if they wanted to be faithful to the source material (all the names) or go in a completely new direction (almost everything about the first episode.) Raf was wise to keep expectations low for the series. I kept mine low but not quite low enough.
  11. One of those Hong Kong stars was Jackie Chan, in his US appearance. He had comedy martial arts films under his belt. The discrepancy of the "Japanese" team being Chinese actors ticked off Jackie Chan when he found out. But it explains why the host of the talk show looks befuddled- he speaks Japanese, not Cantonese. I don't know why the labelled Subaru is confused for a Mitsubishi in the credits. Fenderbaum was written for Don Rickles. He refused, and Sammy Davis Jr got the role-and did a better job. BTW, Sinatra was actually disappointed they never considered him for a part after Dean and Sammy got roles-but they fixed that in the sequel when he played "Frank." John Fiedler was the hotel desk clerk-seen when someone was knocked out; he asks the "paramedics" to help. George Furth plays Arthur J Foyt, who tries to stop the race. Peter Fonda led the biker gang in the big fight. Valerie Perrine was the lady highway patroller. Bianca Jagger played the Sheik's sister. Steve Mc Queen was considered-so this obviously involved fast cars. Recasting Burt Reynolds meant the directional change to a comedy. Burt Reynolds admitted his motives were financial, and thought he didn't do the movie for a good reason. (Hey, Christopher Lee did some bad movies, also, for the money.) Rick Aviles played Mad Dog. He crashed his truck into the lobby, his truck jumped the freight train empty bed, and in the big fight, showed how one survives in a NYC subway. Pamela Glover was named "Beauty" by JJ after he's unable to guess her name-and that becomes how everyone refers to her. The ambulance drivers know the Ferrari drivers, but fail to identify the priests in the car despite that. (It causes a problem, after all....) The Dodge Tradesman was the ambulance, "Roger Moore" drove the Aston Martin, the chicks drove the Lambo, the "priests" drove the Ferrari, and the Sheik drove the Rolls Royce Silver Shadow.
  12. Did the experience ever really make a great book?
  13. -This 80s film includes 2 actors who were well-known in Hong Kong at the time, both with experience in comedies (and action-comedies, each of a sort.) -The production company for this US film was a HONG KONG company- Golden Harvest. That explains some of the cast but causes another wrinkle in the casting at the same time. -One role was written specifically with DON RICKLES in mind, but he refused the role, and we got a better movie for it once it was recast (with the same name.) -George Furth and John Fiedler both appear in this movie. (I used to confuse the 2 actors because of this.) -Peter Fonda appears in it as well. And Valerie Perrine. And Bianca Jagger. -Steve McQueen was cast, but died before they prepared to begin filming, so that part was re-cast and the mood of the movie was changed radically. -In one scene, a Cantonese-speaking character is interviewed by a Japanese television presenter. Neither the presenter nor the audience understand what he's saying, but the other Cantonese-speaker in the movie and he chat several times, in Cantonese. They use a Subaru-incorrectly identified as a Mitsubishi. -One actor spoke about having done the movie, later. "I did that film for all the wrong reasons. I never liked it. I did it to help out a friend of mine, Hal Needham. And I also felt it was immoral to turn down that kind of money. I suppose I sold out so I couldn't really object to what people wrote about me." -This was the first movie the late Rick Aviles appeared in (you may remember him as Willie Lopez in "Ghost.") -Nobody remembers the name of the character Pamela Glover-she ends up with a nickname early on, and that "becomes" her name for the rest of the movie. -Continuity error: the "Hawaiian Tropic" car changes from a Laguna to a Monte Carlo after a quick paint job. -Continuity error: Jamie Black and Fenderbaum know JJ Mc Clure and Victor Prinzim early on. However, in the middle of the movie, Mc Clure and Prinzim completely fail to recognize them. -Other vehicles appearing include a Dodge Tradesman, an Aston Martin, a Lamborghini Countach, a Ferrari 308 GTS, a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow, -Bianca Jagger plays the sister of Abdul ben Falafel. (In the sequel, their father is played by Ricardo Montalban.)
  14. The Facebook page is here:https://www.facebook.com/pages/St-Louis-Bible-Fellowship/118451138168054?_fb_noscript=1 It's got all the familiar buzzwords, guaranteed to trigger PTSD. It has a link to a separate website- which is to an expired domain someone's cybersquatting on. Nobody has updated their Facebook page to reflect their current URL. The current URL off Facebook is http://www.stlouistheologicalseminary.org/index.php It's well-phrased, and should NOT trigger PTSD. Furthermore, it's got notices that their school won't tolerate plagiarism, and gives some examples of 2 categories of plagiarism. I think someone's learned something, at any rate. If we take this site as 100% truthful, it's come a longer way than the people posting to their Facebook page-who sound like they just came out of a twi class.
  15. ...and waited until now to get new information, for which I appreciate your reply.[ The internet age sure makes it easy to learn all sorts of things, doesn't it?/b]
  16. -The production company for this US film was a HONG KONG company- Golden Harvest. That explains some of the cast but causes another wrinkle in the casting at the same time. -One role was written specifically with DON RICKLES in mind, but he refused the role, and we got a better movie for it once it was recast (with the same name.) -George Furth and John Fiedler both appear in this movie. (I used to confuse the 2 actors because of this.) -Peter Fonda appears in it as well. And Valerie Perrine. And Bianca Jagger. -Steve McQueen was cast, but died before they prepared to begin filming, so that part was re-cast and the mood of the movie was changed radically. -In one scene, a Cantonese-speaking character is interviewed by a Japanese television presenter. Neither the presenter nor the audience understand what he's saying, but the other Cantonese-speaker in the movie and he chat several times, in Cantonese. -One actor spoke about having done the movie, later. "I did that film for all the wrong reasons. I never liked it. I did it to help out a friend of mine, Hal Needham. And I also felt it was immoral to turn down that kind of money. I suppose I sold out so I couldn't really object to what people wrote about me." -This was the first movie the late Rick Aviles appeared in (you may remember him as Willie Lopez in "Ghost.") -Nobody remembers the name of the character Pamela Glover-she ends up with a nickname early on, and that "becomes" her name for the rest of the movie. -Continuity error: the "Hawaiian Tropic" car changes from a Laguna to a Monte Carlo after a quick paint job. -Continuity error: Jamie Black and Fenderbaum know Mc Clure and Prinzim early on. However, in the middle of the movie, Mc Clure and Prinzim completely fail to recognize them.
  17. Yes, they all played Dr Who in one form or another. (Mrs Wolf figured it out without cheating, but she doesn't want to play logging in.) John Hurt played "the War Doctor", the Doctor who refused to call himself "the Doctor" because of his behavior when at war. William Hartnell played the First Doctor, but when he passed away, the First Doctor was played by Richard Hurndall (in The Five Doctors). Michael Jayston and Geoffrey Hughes played aspects of the Doctor's dark side. Toby Jones did something similar. Peter Cushing played him on film in 1965 & 1966. No fooling. Paul Mc Gann, Sylvester Mc Coy, Peter Davison and Colin Baker all played Doctors in the television series (Fifth thru Eighth.) Jim Broadbent, Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Grant, Richard E. Grant, and Joanna Lumley were all in the Comic Relief UK spoof, "the Curse of Fatal Death." (You can see it on YouTube.) Go ahead, George.
  18. "Superman, thank God....I mean, GET HIM!" Superman, just before the big fight at the end of Superman II.
  19. -The production company for this US film was a HONG KONG company- Golden Harvest. That explains some of the cast but causes another wrinkle in the casting at the same time. -One role was written specifically with DON RICKLES in mind, but he refused the role, and we got a better movie for it once it was recast (with the same name.) -George Furth and John Fiedler both appear in this movie. (I used to confuse the 2 actors because of this.) -Peter Fonda appears in it as well. And Valerie Perrine. And Bianca Jagger. -Steve McQueen was cast, but died before they prepared to begin filming, so that part was re-cast and the mood of the movie was changed radically.
  20. John Hurt Richard Hurndall Michael Jayston Geoffrey Hughes Toby Jones Peter Cushing Jim Broadbent Hugh Grant Rowan Atkinson Paul Mc Gann Richard E. Grant Joanna Lumley Sylvester Mc Coy Colin Baker Peter Davison
  21. BTW, We saw-with Willy Wonka and Hermione Granger- that parodies count-providing the parody carries the exact same name, i.e. "George St George as Super-Duper Man" would not count as G St G in the list of Superman actors. (No, THAT wasn't a hint, either.)
  22. "The only ones from the list I can put a face to are Hurt, Cushing, Atkinson, Hugh Grant, and Lumley." That's why you're way off base. But I thought a serious enough fan might have gotten ONE of those names to be a giveaway. " The woman, of course, throws a wrench into this, but there are a number of traditionally male roles now being portrayed by women," It IS a traditionally male role, correct. The other sentence doesn't EXACTLY apply here. (That will make sense when I reveal all.) "Let's try another "Holmesian" role:Inspector Lastrade?" No, you're way off-course here. Wrong pew AND wrong church. (No, that's not any kind of clue, either.)
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