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He said the show was LIKE "Romper Room", which means that, whatever it is, it is NOT "Romper Room." It's "Bozo", but please explain about the logo.

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.

A lot of what I do watch is syndicated to different networks than when they're airing where you are. And SyFy doesn't air exactly the same stuff. And some of it lacks SAP so I can't watch it that way.

I'm curious about the logo, but I've got the rest...

"Hey, hey, ten points for our fearless leader. Sway, how about giving us the Bill Bixby trifecta?" "Drove a Corvette in "The Magician", a Ford pickup truck in "The Incredible Hulk", and in "The Courtship of Eddie's Father", he walked. "

Just realizing that-without syndication years later- IF I ever saw it at all- I was a very young child. *does a search* Yep. You could have posted every single thing and I would never have gotten it. I have never heard of this show as best as I can remember.

There's more than 1 movie. Is the one "the Incredible Hulk"?

I'd disagree, but that last quote seems familiar from SOMEWHERE....

Did this show run ONCE for ONE season in the early 70s?

Oh! That's David Bob.

"The Lone Ranger"?

"Mission Impossible?"

"Django Unchained"?

Nice, and (IMHO), you didn't make any jumps that weren't warranted by general familiarity with the current political system. (That is, you didn't outline specifics of the system because you expect the instructor to be familiar with it, but otherwise, you moved systematically.) In fact, I'm just musing about something- not disagreeing, but wondering about phrasing. I was wondering if the sentence would be better served with the addition of the phrases "de facto" and "officially", with a slight rephrasing to accomodate it. On the books, the USA is still technically a constitutional representative republic. In practice, it's a plutocratic oligarchy. So, I was thinking, how about this? "Over time the Federal government has transformed into a de facto plutocratic oligarchy, while remaining a constitutional representative republic officially/on paper." That's just me thinking, there. Otherwise, I saw nothing in need of correction or comment. I thought that was worth repeating.

BOTH. Yes, he schemed to arrange people to abuse and use as sextoys. In that respect, he planned carefully, and detailed things carefully, and succeeded. As for the entire corps program, that was the bait for the trap, and vpw was incompetent to actually do a real Christian leadership training program. That's why it was all so slapdash and changed a lot from year to year. vpw was never in any kind of training program, and his time in school was looking for "soft options"- homiletics rather than church history or BIBLE LANGUAGES, supposedly a subject he knew about but was pretty clueless. So, he had no actual experience to draw on- nothing from a leadership program, and nothing from the actual military he CLAIMED to draw from with the program. That's why it all seems based on A) movie cliches B) passing whims C) things added on in passing Movie cliches include the "don't think-just follow orders" mentality that the real military doesn't have- ex-military ex-twi have made that very clear, from different branches. He didn't borrow from actual religious training- except to say they were inadequate while he pushed inadequate training on people. Sometimes it's hard to tell which things were slapped on in passing and which were whims. The whole "you will hitchhike then risk life-and-limb rock-climbing" thing was a little of both. It was obvious people were permanently injured with the climbing, and the hitchhiking was illegal and dangerous, and resulted in rapes and deaths- but vpw INSISTED it continue. Then there was someone who suggested they air everything during Spring cleaning and suddenly it became a doctrine. The only thing that seemed to be added carefully across the program was the SALES TRAINING- which was Dale Carnegie training taught without paying them their licensing fee, of course. Why a 4-year "leadership training program for Christian leaders" lacked anything professional except for how to become SALESMEN shows the priorities of those running the show.

George is up...

Sounds familiar, but I could use a little more...

Is the "the 3:10 to Yuma"?

Luke. From the thread "The Wierwille Heritage"... The thread is here:

Actually, vpw DID teach a Prosperity Gospel- but he taught the corps a Poverty Gospel. It should surprise nobody that vpw pulled yet another bait-and-switch. In Session 1 of pfal, we heard quite a bit that translates into a Prosperity Gospel- all of it centering about his false "Law" of Believing. With enough believing, mean men got rich, normal men avoided statistical crashes, children were killed, drapes were obtained, etc. But if you wanted to be rich, you Believed a lot....and don't forget you needed to Tithe as well, "Christians Should Be Prosperous" (the why-you-should-tithe manual) was usually required reading after Session 1. So, when apart from vpw, you were supposed to be prosperous. When vpw had to deliver, you were supposed to expect poverty- learn to live on little and expect little, eat disgusting food and not enough of it, wear hand-me-down clothes, etc. So, here's how it went. Tier 1. "Welcome to twi! With our teachings, you will learn to be Prosperous and Successful!" Tier 2. "Welcome to the corps! Learn to sacrifice to be best for God! Always do what we say and learn to do more with less!" Tier 3. "Welcome to the inner circle of twi! Here we lack for nothing material!" People were LURED IN with promises of prosperity and required to tithe and give more than that. twi had terms for 2 more levels of handing over money- -abundant sharing -plurality giving and if they could talk you into handing over ALL your money and never saving for the future, that's what they did- they certainly TRIED to. Those tricked into becoming drones for twi worked hard and got little for their efforts, less than out in the world where they actually aren't supposed to care about you. But for the handful at the top, all the money from the many at the bottom was at their disposal. vpw considered twi to be his personal piggy-bank- just as rosa-lie and donna do now.

It was. This 1990s suspense-drama revealed the killer....who was incorporated into the story solely to explain how the incompetent SET DECORATOR ended up tangentially in-shot in a mirror reflection in a supposedly empty room. Rather than fire him, the director made him a recurring character. That's how we got "BOB". The director hired a trainer to help one actor speak backwards for his role, only to find out the actor already knew how! (He'd done it with his friends in junior high school!) So the director cancelled the trainer and added more complicated lines for the character. The little guy who showed up in Agent Cooper's dreams with clues. The Simpsons spoofed that in their "Who Shot Mr Burns" 2-parter. This show introduced the Douglas Fir to the US viewing audiences. Agent Cooper was obsessed with those trees all around, as well as the really fantastic ("d* fine") coffee they served with the pie locally. The main plotline was to find out who killed Laura Palmer while dealing with a weird, small town. Once that was resolved, the show got a lot weirder.. Agent Cooper was there primarily to investigate the killing of Laura Palmer. Me, I liked the Judge Dredd spoof, "Twin Blocks", when Dredd tried to find out who killed Lola Palmer? With his own style, he cut a swath through the suspects, including "the mop lady." (Instead of questioning her, he cuffed her and took her into custody and snapped the broom.)

This 1990s suspense-drama revealed the killer....who was incorporated into the story solely to explain how the incompetent SET DECORATOR ended up tangentially in-shot in a mirror reflection in a supposedly empty room. Rather than fire him, the director made him a recurring character. The director hired a trainer to help one actor speak backwards for his role, only to find out the actor already knew how! (He'd done it with his friends in junior high school!) So the director cancelled the trainer and added more complicated lines for the character. This show introduced the Douglas Fir to the US viewing audiences. The main plotline was to find out who killed Laura Palmer while dealing with a weird, small town. Once that was resolved, the show got a lot weirder..

Sit back, and, if you have a chance, have a d* fine cup of coffee while I do stuff and come back later with some more clues.

Mark 5:1-5 (NASB) 1 They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes. 2 When He got out of the boat, immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met Him, 3 and he had his dwelling among the tombs. And no one was able to bind him anymore, even with a chain; 4 because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces, and no one was strong enough to subdue him. 5 Constantly, night and day, he was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains, and gashing himself with stones. Does that sound anything like how you acted when they were accusing you? If not, they were f'ing morons for trying that accusation. Me, I probably would have laughed in their faces. If you want to avoid alcoholism, avoid bars. If you want to avoid advanced demon problems, avoid minor demon problems. If you want to avoid minor demon problems, avoid sin as best you can, mentally and physically. BINGO.

Good point. Poor terminology can lead to misunderstanding things because someone's trying to shoehorn their thinking to fit it into accord with a term that is incorrect and deceptively wrong. The Pharisees accused Jesus of having a devil. "Demonized" is probably as good a term as any for the subject of demonic activity. Irrelevant example of stupidity by misunderstanding terms: Someone once was telling of the resources at their disposal. They started saying what it was that they "possessed." vpw objected to that term because "only the devil possesses." If it were true that A devil possesses, then it would not be true that ONLY A devil possesses, because the term only means something because there's other usages- like possessing your computer or cellphone or change for the bus or things like that, or even abstracts like possessing the ability to whistle or wiggle your ears or whatever. What makes this even MORE egregious is- as was just mentioned- A devil doesn't actually "possess" the person according to the Bible. I mean, really, "possessed" is "daimonizomai" and stuff like that to even a cursory read of an Interlinear. vpw didn't know any better?