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In some people, it's a byproduct of time spent in twi. vpw himself was fond of doing it and it served his purposes. It made him sound clever and more interesting to many people, and it's the lazy way to criticize something. vpw liked to discredit those who disagreed with him, and a flippant comment is a LOT less work than refuting them. vpw was all about not doing any work he didn't have to, and cut corners everywhere. That, and he didn't have any compassion, so those who disagreed with him were just obstacles to knock down rather than people to win over. lcm himself was fond of doing it. lcm treated vpw's methods as having descended from the heavens. Furthermore, as an ex-jock, he was experienced in just snappy comebacks and putdowns, but not skilled in any academic or substantive method of refuting someone. So, it played to his strengths, as well. So, lcm learned both to do that sort of thing, and learned that other people don't count, so it's appropriate to ridicule them and belittle them. Naturally, between the two of them, that infected twi at a lot of levels. Lots of trainees and leaders emulated one, the other, or both, and passed all that down the "tree" to people all over the place. Frankly, vpw WAS callous and flippant, and lcm learned to be that way from vpw, and they passed it down the line.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

"When they came for me, I ran like a thief right into Grand Central Station. They trapped me in a pay toilet." "Beautiful." "Cost them four dollars in nickels to get me out." "I love a volunteer."

Matthew Patel Lucas Lee Todd Ingram Roxy Richter Kyle Katayanagi Ken Katayanagi Gideon Graves

"I didn't kill my wife!" "I don't care!"

That's it.

That's it.

"Summer Loving."

"In God, I know I'm one."

Mia Kunis Forgetting Sarah Marshall Jason Segel

He MIGHT quote from that type of movie. But he DID quote famous last words from "the Untouchables."

"Uncle ****er" was enough of a giveaway without "Blame Canada." This is the "South Park" movie.

And I mis-read your reply to it for a moment and thought you were correcting me because I posted the wrong name. :)

Might be what he's listening to now, or a few years ago. I know I wasn't listening to anything hard when you were listening to soft rock, and I wasn't listening to Cake in the 70s because I don't think they were a band in the 70s. Not that they're hard rock, of course. Nowadays, he might listen to anything on the radio, on some specialized cable music channel if he has one, or stream online for just about any format that's still in operation. "Who Are You?"- by The Who.

Bernie Mac Charlies Angels: Full Throttle John Cleese

I'm thinking that's "Dr Strangelove- Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."

Heaven Help Us Wallace Shaun the Princess Bride

Next one. I'd like to thank Slim Whitman for his role in saving the Earth.

"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."

"Desilu's Playhouse 90." No, wait, "Pee-Wee's Playhouse 90."

*watches* That's certainly a departure from Cake's usual cheerful melodies. Usually their tempos are upbeat even when the lyrics are about death.

"Gomer Pyle, USMC"?????

The only other playhouse I've got is "Desilu Playhouse", which is obviously wrong.

"Kill me? Lex Luthor? The Greatest Criminal Mind of Our Time? The only man in the world with-" "Kill him." "-Superman's address?" The movie was "Superman II."

"Gremlins 2: the Next Batch"?