WordWolf

Is this "the Fifth Element"?

I kept focusing on the "Illinois" when the "October" was the clue. Silly me. Imagine what the movie would have been like if Michael Myers had worn an unaltered Shatner mask and killed looking like Shatner..... This is the original "Halloween" movie.

There were all sorts of claims that pfal and so on were about learning how to read the Bible and study for ourselves. However, as you went up the ladder, that changed. On the field and out of sight, each night, nobody cared we did exactly that. However, when a higher-up heard that a handful of us were planning on going over the basics of Bible study and do some basic study for ourselves, he strongly discouraged it and pushed for us to reread the collaterals, instead. That really was ingrained and obviously what he'd learned when HE was in the corps. Learn to do Bible study? Good thing. Actually DO Bible study? BAD thing. Remain dependent upon what vpw already published. At local fellowships, we always benefited most from when we studied on what WE needed and not what was SCHEDULED. Seriously, scheduled, canned studies reminded me of the church services we were supposed to scorn, and vpw lampooned in pfal.

Still trying to figure this out...

"End of the World"?

That may indeed be another point of view, but it doesn't seem to address the initial question at all. (I'm not watching more than an hour just to confirm that.)

That's it. That was the year I stopped taking the Oscars seriously. Tron wasn't a GREAT movie, but it should have been a lock for SFX, and Ghandi didn't really need any costumes designed, since any well-equipped studio should have had the outfits whereas Tron had costumes designed from the ground up. The quote was Flynn encountering a "Bit" inside the computer. It knew stuff but only communicated "yes" and "no."

Next movie. "Hey! Hold it right there!" "Yes." "What do you mean, "yes"?" "Yes." "Is that all you can say?" "No." "Know anything else?" "Yes." "Positive and negative, huh? You're a Bit." "Yes." The Academy refused to consider this movie for the Special Effects Oscar, despite it using Special Effects for maybe 1/2 the movie. They felt it was "cheating" to use CGI of any type for any kind of special effect and disqualified them for that. They did get nominated for Costume Design, but lost to "Ghandi."

*wild swing* "Sea Wolf"??

I need to check this thread more often. I knew "Real World" but forgot the artists. I didn't recognize "Smooth" from that clip, but I know the song and artists. (Love the video.) Naturally, I recognize Jethro Tull often.

Yes, BLIND LOYALTY was packaged and sold by vpw originally, as was the "I'm kicking you out, but swear a loyalty oath TO ME and you're back in." vpw did it on the zero corps with limited success. lcm was stupid enough to do it on most of the rank-and-file and it backfired.

As reported by posters over the years, PUBLICKLY, vpw wanted to hear who should replace him, and PRIVATELY he had it decided long before any discussion began. In fact, people kept telling him they either thought it should be either Walter, or "not-Craig." After hearing a resounding response of one or the other, vpw blew everybody off and chose lcm. According to lcm, (in "vp and me"), when he wanted to find a wife, he asked vpw to find one for him, and later said he'd decided on one BEFORE ASKING HER. Before he did, vpw went off and all but told her that lcm was going to be president next- after which lcm asked her to marry him. There's 2 interesting things about this. A) According to lcm's own account, they needed time to get to know each other better AFTER LCM ASKED HER TO MARRY HIM. B) Donna had previously told friends she was going to marry someone who was going to be at the top in twi no matter what or who... and this was followed by vpw saying something like "You're about to be proposed to by the guy who might be the next president of twi after I step down." Then lcm asked her to marry him. Despite needing to get to know him better, she accepted. Of course, different people were told different things about how vpw's successor was picked. The reality was that vpw did it unilaterally. I was told it was done like in Acts 1, where they prayed, and lots were cast, and Matthias was voted in. I don't know who started that lie, but it traveled pretty far...

If one HAD to have a piano out in the open where it might rain, isn't the SMART thing to set up a canopy over the thing, or even a framework behind it that can be wheeled or carried a few feet forward to cover it if you can't bring yourself to cover it before rain begins. Corps Principle #1 was "acquire an in-depth spiritual perception and awareness." Naturally, even though he wrote it, vpw was inconsistent about what it meant. At one point, he told the corps it originally said- and SHOULD say "....OF THE WORD" at the end of it. "Acquire an in-depth spiritual perception and awareness OF THE WORD." He DERIDED the idea that the perception and awareness could apply to anything else. He also told lcm that "common horse-sense" was the most important part of Corps Principle #1. So, by that thinking, "in-depth spiritual perception and awareness OF THE WORD" would require "common horse-sense"- and the man who said all that demonstrated none of it when setting up a piano where rain was supposed to fall and did nothing to block the rain. Naturally, it would be someone else's fault if the rain fell. They would be blamed for not planning in contradiction to him (which, if they did, was worth a yelling session). They would be blamed for failing to hear Divine Revelation to get a tarp. They would be blamed for failing to believe away the rain. And so on. Nothing was EVER vpw's fault.

The FOG years..... vpw appointed lcm to replace him, the #1 groveler got the promotion. lcm and everyone pushed vpw aside like vpw taught lcm to do by pushing aside everyone else who wasn't critical. vpw, feeling ignored and useless, went on a little road-trip and sought validation. He went to Gartmore and talked to cgeer- #2 groveler. He (allegedly) made grandiose predictions of horrible events, prophet-style, that would befall twi because it stopped kissing his posterior every five seconds stopped putting God first- without explaining HOW they did it, what supposedly went wrong and how it went wrong. So, geer swallowed it all, then went and preached, prophet-style, how twi was headed for disaster for forsaking God. Naturally, he never got into specifics because there WERE no specifics to get into. lcm, shaken that vpw had called him such a reprobate, spent the next few years in "a fog"(his term), and geer supposedly was to get things in order-without the slightest identification of the PROBLEM. So, there was some minor staffing changes and some paper-shuffling, and eventually lcm remembered he was president and demanded an oath of BLIND LOYALTY from everyone in twi. (He confirmed that to one poster here who knew him and asked if that's what he meant to do.)

FREE POST! I'm hoping another day or so will mean someone gets this one, if only for the bragging rights.

1."Hello, and welcome to "TV Car Trivia!" First question, who was the driver of a '73 Firebird? Uh, Otto?" 2."Uh, Jim Rockford, "Rockford Files"." 3."Gimme "Columbo"." 4."A Peugeot convertible." 1."What color?" 4."Gray." 5."How do you know that?" 4."'Cause I love that show." 5."Man, I got three words for all of y'all: Get a life!" 6."What's on Magnum P.I.'s license plate?" 7."ROBIN-1" 4."Wait, wasn't Robin that faggoty guy that always hung with him?" 8."Naw, that was Higgins. That was Higgins." 2."Hey, hey, ten points for our fearless leader. Sway, how about giving us the Bill Bixby trifecta?" 3."Drove a Corvette in "The Magician", a Ford pickup truck in "The Incredible Hulk", and in "The Courtship of Eddie's Father", he walked. " This remake did well enough in the box office, but I can't help think part of that was due to the advertising. One supporting character was made to look like a main character with most of the screen-time. This is one of the appearances in media of the "coroner with an iron stomach" type of thing. When one character answers the phone, he's at work in a crematorium. He puts down his sandwich- on the corpse- to answer the phone. "If his unpleasant wounding has in some way enlightened the rest of you as to the grim finish beneath the glossy veneer of criminal life, then his injuries carry with it an inherent nobility, and a supreme glory. We should all be so fortunate. You say 'poor Toby'? I say 'poor us'. " Cast includes Delroy Lindo, Christopher Eccleston, Giovanni Ribisi, Arye Gross, Robert Duvall, Angelina Jolie, and Nicolas Cage. Cast of the original includes H.B. Halicki, Marion Busia, Jerry Daugirda, James McIntyre, George Cole, Ronald Halicki, and Marcos Kotsikos. "You ever feel bad about any of this?" "Hell, no. I'm Robin Hood, man. I rob from the rich and give to the needy." "You mean the poor." "No, like I said, the needy. 'Cause brother, we need this car." 1."Hey, man, that was as easy as pie!" 2."I'm a veteran, son." 3."Get outta the car, b*, or I'm gonna blow your brains out!" 2."You gotta be sh*ing me..." 3."Do I have shoot you, d* it?" *WHAM* 3."D*!" 2.*WHAM*"You lazy, half-@$$ bully! Any @$$h* can pull a gun on somebody! You don't know the first thing about stealing a car! Boy! You need a role model!" "Without disappointment you cannot appreciate victory." "Did Eleanor tell you that?" "Don't touch nothing! You can't negotiate turns. You can't signal properly. You can't maintain speed. You can't parallel park. Hell, you can't drive, honey. Sh*, I can't swim, I know I can't. So you know what I do? I stay my black @$$ out the pool!" "Air One. we're over the pursuit." "Suspect has increased speed to 120." "Maintain visual, Air One." "140 miles an hour." "Do NOT lose him." "This is an A-Star, sir, not an Apache." "I just stole fifty cars in one night! I'm a little tired, little WIRED, and I think I deserve a little appreciation!" " Shut it off!" "You got 30 seconds to consider your options." "SHUT IT OFF!" "One, you kill me, they kill you, your brother dies anyway. Two, you lie, you accept the job, you run, I hunt you down, I kill you, I kill your brother, and I kill your mother for the aggravation you cause me. Three, you accept the job, you steal some cars, you make some money, and you be a big brother. 8 a.m. Friday Morning. The cars are on the boat, or your brother's in the coffin." Once upon a time, someone got this movie from ONE of the first quotes I did. Is anyone besides George reading this thread right now?

1."Hello, and welcome to "TV Car Trivia!" First question, who was the driver of a '73 Firebird? Uh, Otto?" 2."Uh, Jim Rockford, "Rockford Files"." 3."Gimme "Columbo"." 4."A Peugeot convertible." 1."What color?" 4."Gray." 5."How do you know that?" 4."'Cause I love that show." 5."Man, I got three words for all of y'all: Get a life!" 6."What's on Magnum P.I.'s license plate?" 7."ROBIN-1" 4."Wait, wasn't Robin that faggoty guy that always hung with him?" 8."Naw, that was Higgins. That was Higgins." 2."Hey, hey, ten points for our fearless leader. Sway, how about giving us the Bill Bixby trifecta?" 3."Drove a Corvette in "The Magician", a Ford pickup truck in "The Incredible Hulk", and in "The Courtship of Eddie's Father", he walked. " This remake did well enough in the box office, but I can't help think part of that was due to the advertising. One supporting character was made to look like a main character with most of the screen-time. This is one of the appearances in media of the "coroner with an iron stomach" type of thing. When one character answers the phone, he's at work in a crematorium. He puts down his sandwich- on the corpse- to answer the phone. "If his unpleasant wounding has in some way enlightened the rest of you as to the grim finish beneath the glossy veneer of criminal life, then his injuries carry with it an inherent nobility, and a supreme glory. We should all be so fortunate. You say 'poor Toby'? I say 'poor us'. " Cast includes Delroy Lindo, Christopher Eccleston, Giovanni Ribisi, Arye Gross, Robert Duvall, Angelina Jolie, and Nicolas Cage. Cast of the original includes H.B. Halicki, Marion Busia, Jerry Daugirda, James McIntyre, George Cole, Ronald Halicki, and Marcos Kotsikos. "You ever feel bad about any of this?" "Hell, no. I'm Robin Hood, man. I rob from the rich and give to the needy." "You mean the poor." "No, like I said, the needy. 'Cause brother, we need this car." 1."Hey, man, that was as easy as pie!" 2."I'm a veteran, son." 3."Get outta the car, b*, or I'm gonna blow your brains out!" 2."You gotta be sh*ing me..." 3."Do I have shoot you, d* it?" *WHAM* 3."D*!" 2.*WHAM*"You lazy, half-@$$ bully! Any @$$h* can pull a gun on somebody! You don't know the first thing about stealing a car! Boy! You need a role model!" "Without disappointment you cannot appreciate victory." "Did Eleanor tell you that?" "Don't touch nothing! You can't negotiate turns. You can't signal properly. You can't maintain speed. You can't parallel park. Hell, you can't drive, honey. Sh*, I can't swim, I know I can't. So you know what I do? I stay my black @$$ out the pool!" "Air One. we're over the pursuit." "Suspect has increased speed to 120." "Maintain visual, Air One." "140 miles an hour." "Do NOT lose him." "This is an A-Star, sir, not an Apache."

1."Hello, and welcome to "TV Car Trivia!" First question, who was the driver of a '73 Firebird? Uh, Otto?" 2."Uh, Jim Rockford, "Rockford Files"." 3."Gimme "Columbo"." 4."A Peugeot convertible." 1."What color?" 4."Gray." 5."How do you know that?" 4."'Cause I love that show." 5."Man, I got three words for all of y'all: Get a life!" 6."What's on Magnum P.I.'s license plate?" 7."ROBIN-1" 4."Wait, wasn't Robin that faggoty guy that always hung with him?" 8."Naw, that was Higgins. That was Higgins." 2."Hey, hey, ten points for our fearless leader. Sway, how about giving us the Bill Bixby trifecta?" 3."Drove a Corvette in "The Magician", a Ford pickup truck in "The Incredible Hulk", and in "The Courtship of Eddie's Father", he walked. " This remake did well enough in the box office, but I can't help think part of that was due to the advertising. One supporting character was made to look like a main character with most of the screen-time. This is one of the appearances in media of the "coroner with an iron stomach" type of thing. When one character answers the phone, he's at work in a crematorium. He puts down his sandwich- on the corpse- to answer the phone. "If his unpleasant wounding has in some way enlightened the rest of you as to the grim finish beneath the glossy veneer of criminal life, then his injuries carry with it an inherent nobility, and a supreme glory. We should all be so fortunate. You say 'poor Toby'? I say 'poor us'. " Cast includes Delroy Lindo, Christopher Eccleston, Giovanni Ribisi, Arye Gross, Robert Duvall, and Angelina Jolie. Cast of the original includes H.B. Halicki, Marion Busia, Jerry Daugirda, James McIntyre, George Cole, Ronald Halicki, and Marcos Kotsikos. "You ever feel bad about any of this?" "Hell, no. I'm Robin Hood, man. I rob from the rich and give to the needy." "You mean the poor." "No, like I said, the needy. 'Cause brother, we need this car." "Hey, man, that was as easy as pie!" "I'm a veteran, son." "Get outta the car, bitch, or I'm gonna blow your brains out!" "You gotta be sh*ing me..." "Do I have shoot you, d* it?" *WHAM* "Damn!" *WHAM*"You lazy, half-@$$ bully! Any @$$h* can pull a gun on somebody! You don't know the first thing about stealing a car! Boy! You need a role model!" "Without disappointment you cannot appreciate victory." "Did Eleanor tell you that?" "Don't touch nothing! You can't negotiate turns. You can't signal properly. You can't maintain speed. You can't parallel park. Hell, you can't drive, honey. Sh*, I can't swim, I know I can't. So you know what I do? I stay my black @$$ out the pool!" "Air One. we're over the pursuit." "Suspect has increased speed to 120." "Maintain visual, Air One." "140 miles an hour." "Do NOT lose him." "This is an A-Star, sir, not an Apache."

Typical sniper kill- one shot, one hit. Correct. I suppose you figured out Groucho grew a real moustache for television and gave up the greasepaint one...

Just saying, that's a clue that I had a shot at figuring out.

I actually would have had a shot at remembering "Warehouse 13" (you've mentioned it before). "13 Ghosts" was a 1960 movie that had a REMAKE in 2001. If you'd mentioned that, I would have remembered a few movies that were remade around that time, that among them.

AFAIK, there were exactly 3 "Cannonball Run" movies. (This is none of them, nor was it marketed as a comedy.) The first CR was really good. The second CR was pretty good and was the last movie (IIRC) that Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr worked with Frank Sinatra. The third CR, aka "Speed Zone" was a miserable attempt to cash in on the first 2, which is why it's known as "Speed Zone" as much as CR3. Only 1 actor from EITHER of the first 2 movies appeared in Speed Zone- Jaime Farr as the Prince, who didn't bother wearing a fake beard in his scene, and wasn't accompanied by his trademark musical riff from the first 2 movies. Hopefully, there will be no further plans to do a CR movie.

"Have you ever been made love to by a Frenchman?" "Not that I can recall!" Based on the radio show. When the host prepared for the television show, he chose to grow a moustache for it. This show was honored with a commemorative stamp by the USPS.

1."Hello, and welcome to "TV Car Trivia!" First question, who was the driver of a '73 Firebird? Uh, Otto?" 2."Uh, Jim Rockford, "Rockford Files"." 3."Gimme "Columbo"." 4."A Peugeot convertible." 1."What color?" 4."Gray." 5."How do you know that?" 4."'Cause I love that show." 5."Man, I got three words for all of y'all: Get a life!" 6."What's on Magnum P.I.'s license plate?" 7."ROBIN-1" 4."Wait, wasn't Robin that faggoty guy that always hung with him?" 8."Naw, that was Higgins. That was Higgins." 2."Hey, hey, ten points for our fearless leader. Sway, how about giving us the Bill Bixby trifecta?" 3."Drove a Corvette in "The Magician", a Ford pickup truck in "The Incredible Hulk", and in "The Courtship of Eddie's Father", he walked. " This remake did well enough in the box office, but I can't help think part of that was due to the advertising. One supporting character was made to look like a main character with most of the screen-time. This is one of the appearances in media of the "coroner with an iron stomach" type of thing. When one character answers the phone, he's at work in a crematorium. He puts down his sandwich- on the corpse- to answer the phone. "If his unpleasant wounding has in some way enlightened the rest of you as to the grim finish beneath the glossy veneer of criminal life, then his injuries carry with it an inherent nobility, and a supreme glory. We should all be so fortunate. You say 'poor Toby'? I say 'poor us'. " Cast includes Delroy Lindo, Christopher Eccleston, Giovanni Ribisi, Arye Gross, & Robert Duvall. "You ever feel bad about any of this?" "Hell, no. I'm Robin Hood, man. I rob from the rich and give to the needy." "You mean the poor." "No, like I said, the needy. 'Cause brother, we need this car." "Hey, man, that was as easy as pie!" "I'm a veteran, son." "Get outta the car, bitch, or I'm gonna blow your brains out!" "You gotta be sh*ing me..." "Do I have shoot you, d* it?" *WHAM* "Damn!" *WHAM*"You lazy, half-@$$ bully! Any @$$h* can pull a gun on somebody! You don't know the first thing about stealing a car! Boy! You need a role model!" "Without disappointment you cannot appreciate victory." "Did Eleanor tell you that?" "Don't touch nothing! You can't negotiate turns. You can't signal properly. You can't maintain speed. You can't parallel park. Hell, you can't drive, honey. Sh*, I can't swim, I know I can't. So you know what I do? I stay my black @$$ out the pool!" "Air One. we're over the pursuit." "Suspect has increased speed to 120." "Maintain visual, Air One." "140 miles an hour." "Do NOT lose him." "This is an A-Star, sir, not an Apache."

1."Hello, and welcome to "TV Car Trivia!" First question, who was the driver of a '73 Firebird? Uh, Otto?" 2."Uh, Jim Rockford, "Rockford Files"." 3."Gimme "Columbo"." 4."A Peugeot convertible." 1."What color?" 4."Gray." 5."How do you know that?" 4."'Cause I love that show." 5."Man, I got three words for all of y'all: Get a life!" 6."What's on Magnum P.I.'s license plate?" 7."ROBIN-1" 4."Wait, wasn't Robin that faggoty guy that always hung with him?" 8."Naw, that was Higgins. That was Higgins." 2."Hey, hey, ten points for our fearless leader. Sway, how about giving us the Bill Bixby trifecta?" 3."Drove a Corvette in "The Magician", a Ford pickup truck in "The Incredible Hulk", and in "The Courtship of Eddie's Father", he walked. " This remake did well enough in the box office, but I can't help think part of that was due to the advertising. One supporting character was made to look like a main character with most of the screen-time. This is one of the appearances in media of the "coroner with an iron stomach" type of thing. When one character answers the phone, he's at work in a crematorium. He puts down his sandwich- on the corpse- to answer the phone. "If his unpleasant wounding has in some way enlightened the rest of you as to the grim finish beneath the glossy veneer of criminal life, then his injuries carry with it an inherent nobility, and a supreme glory. We should all be so fortunate. You say 'poor Toby'? I say 'poor us'. " Cast includes Delroy Lindo, Christopher Eccleston, Giovanni Ribisi, Arye Gross.