WordWolf

Nicely phrased, from both of you.

"We skipped the light fandango. Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor."

Freddie Prinze Sr and the "other Chico." Eddie Albert. I know him entirely from this show and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. I remember, vaguely, Della Reese from there. Scatman Crothers was a LOT more recognizable. "Stick out your can, 'cause here comes the Garbage-Man!" It confused me horribly to think that Mexicans looked exactly like Puerto Ricans when I was a kid. It didn't occur to me that the "Mexican" was played by a Puerto Rican. (I could have gotten this one if I'd had a few hours to log in.)

Automatically rejecting anything old just because it's not new is foolish. However, we're talking about the foolishness of rejecting the new and embracing the old JUST because it's old. That's demonstrably foolish. It's like seeing characters like "Disco Stu" who can't grow past their glory moments of decades ago, in the 70s and 80s. To see it in real life is sad and cliched. It's watching someone refuse to grow up. To look back at past decades- the styles and fads, is to look back at silliness to a degree because styles and fads ARE silly to a degree. They're popular at a moment in time for arbitrary reasons (generally) and returning to them for arbitrary reasons when you're the ONLY one who's trying to return to an old fad is just sad.

Yeah- when lcm was just getting the big chair as 2nd grand poobah, vpw announced that his grandson Luke S would be the 3rd grand poobah after lcm. lcm hadn't even had a chance to put a tushie-print into the chair when vpw was already announcing lcm's successor. Granted, Luke was a kid at the time, but still. When reality intruded, Luke S was nowhere near trying to reclaim vpw's "legacy. So, some poor kid was indoctrinated to be handed it. Think about it- the kid was given the same name AT BIRTH. All through his childhood, he was fed a line of bull about how his namesake (plagiarist, rapist, felon in general) was some great one and how the kid had to pick things up from there and carry them in some noble calling. So, all the aging 70s hipsters who refused to move on with their lives pretended the 70s zeitgeist could be captured in a bottle, and told the poor kid he had to do it. He's been fed a steady diet of recordings of vpw with nothing about how he was a complete FRAUD. Poor kid had no chance. I'm hoping, as he gets older, maybe hits 25, 30 or so, that he realizes what they did to him and decides to make a life for himself and distance himself from the name with which he was cursed.

My first class? 7 of us were signed up. 6 of us made it to Session 1. 3 of us made it to Session 12. That was me, the wife of a coordinator, and the son of a coordinator. In fairness, all 3 of the remaining 3 stuck around... In the context of "perception was everything", that means the PERCEPTION of no student left behind, via MLM. We certainly were given that PERCEPTION, and if anyone WAS left behind, it was their fault and their choice, so it didn't count.

Dire Straits, "Walk of Life."

"The Three Musketeers"?

Peter O'Toole King Ralph Richard Griffiths

Arnold Schwarzenegger Twins Danny de Vito

I agree. vpw was willing to go in KNOWING he was deceiving people completely, which the current people, for all their faults, aren't prepared to do. (Their deceptions are accidental, and they THINK they're doing the right thing.) vpw tapped into a genuine movement of God among people and subverted it- but the current remnants aren't doing that and can't. If they try that "we have the secret knowledge" business in the information age, it will only be successful for the naive, the inept, and the uneducated. That's a very limited audience, and it's a hard sell for those people to offer techniques to do supposed research. It's counter-intuitive. So, vpw was in the "right" place at the "right" time and was fully prepared to deceive people entirely. That's just not happening here. This is, what, less than 100 Christians NOW? In another 20 years, I'd expect that number to be more than ALL the ex-twi movements PUT TOGETHER (with this one less than 20 people entirely.) Look at the numbers- tiny groups of youngsters, many offspring raised into this, and tiny groups of aging ex-twi people. That's how you shut down a group, not how you grow it...

That's it. IMHO, the 2nd and 3rd most recognizable lines in the movie.

No. They're young, naive, and lied-to. You remember what that was like.... The worst part is, they have no idea that it has nothing at all to do with them. It's all about the insecurities of the previous generations, clinging to nostalgia with large amounts of denial, trying to produce some sort of copy of their nostalgic memories despite the steadfast refusal of reality to cooperate.

"Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in." "Wendy, I'm home./

Correct- each actor has played Hamlet in a movie of the same name.

This story has seen more than 14 different versions made into movies. 6 were silent films, A few were television-film and didn't air in theaters. 2 were French, one was Soviet, 1 was Danish, 1 was Italian, and the rest were US or UK versions(as far as I know.) Not to mention 1 opera version. Depending on the director, it's been a film noir, an action adventure, or an epic. (A critic said that, and I agree with him.) It's also been adapted, sometimes radically. (Bob and Doug Mackenzie? Really?) (A Spaghetti Western???) What do Mel Gibson, David Tennant, Ethan Hawke and Richard Burton all have in common?

This story has seen 14 different versions made into movies. 6 were silent films, at least 1 was a television-film and didn't air in theaters. 2 were French, one was Soviet, 1 was Danish, 1 was Italian, and the rest were US or UK versions(as far as I know.) What do Mel Gibson, David Tennant and Ethan Hawke all have in common?

"Standin' in front just shakin' your @$s. Take you back stage you can drink from my glass. Talk about something you can sure understand Cause a month on the road and i'll be eatin' from your hand."

"Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in."

The versions of that story are not versions of the story I'm addressing at this time. About both actors, technically true, but not germane to the round. (Also true: two actors who have never been in my kitchen, but also not germane.)

Exactly. They obviously talked about SOMETHING else. Someone was speaking in front of a map of the Palestine area and so on. However, the "highlight" of the entire event was "the old chestnut." It's kinda sad that Walter's biggest thing nowadays is an 8-table event that had him play a supporting role. I remember when there were double that to hear him speak solo, and I'd heard there were 80 people at his home weekly for Bible study once upon a time. Maybe he's not as elite as we were told he was-he's tops for the twi crowd but maybe he's a lightweight as soon as we move from a little pond to a big lake.

I can hear The Moody Blues sing the line "I decided that we're really not to blame".

This story has seen 14 different versions made into movies. 6 were silent films, at least 1 was a television-film and didn't air in theaters. 2 were French, one was Soviet, 1 was Danish, 1 was Italian, and the rest were US or UK versions(as far as I know.) What do Mel Gibson and David Tennant have in common?

I have the artist, but not the title.

Following the tradition of delusions of grandeur vpw began, this little get-together, while perhaps a nice little get-together, falls far short of the definition of an "extravaganza." http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/extravaganza?s=t "1. a musical or dramatic composition or production, as comic opera or musical comedy, marked by a loose structure, a frivolous theme, and elaborate costuming and staging. 2. any lavish or opulent show, event, assemblage, etc.: an extravaganza of new housewares on the twelfth floor." "— n 1. an elaborately staged and costumed light entertainment 2. any lavish or fanciful display, literary or other composition, etc " The only part that was kept as audible speech was someone quoting the plagiarizing rapist. Played for chuckles, and getting the obligatory chuckles. That's a pretty concise way to let me know everything I need to know about the entire organzation right there. For the curious, this was a SOWERS event.