WordWolf

People like that, besides being clueless, are PREDICTABLE. They rarely know the entire Bible. They know a specific technique with specific verses, AND THAT'S IT. That's where the fun begins-if you know more Bible. Furthermore, any martial artist can tell you, in a fight, the PREDICTABLE fighter is the LOSER. During their Vice-Presidential debate, Lloyd Bentsen waited for Dan Quayle to make his USUAL comment about JFK. "I have as much experience as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the Presidency." If you look closely, you can see Bentsen give a tiny smile, since he was waiting with the counter. "Senator, I knew Jack Kennedy. I worked with Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." The audience went bananas, Quayle lost control of the debate. "......................That was highly uncalled-for, Senator." "Well, you were the one who was making the comparison, Senator." After that, nothing Quayle said could make the debate about anything other than that exchange. For the record, there's no evidence that Bentsen knew, worked with, or was friends with Jack Kennedy. However, bringing that up wouldn't have made a difference unless it was brought up IMMEDIATELY, in reply. If Quayle had been using the line as a lure, he could have responded to "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" with a clever riposte about JFK's many failings, which Quayle may lack (Quayle's never been accused publicly of infidelity, for example.) However, he was NOT using it as a lure, he was just being predictable. So, when someone will certainly approach with a variation on "Would you like to know The Truth?" or "Why don't you want to know The Truth?" you have months to prepare your response for that day. Me, I just listened to their approaches and tailored my response to go from there to other verses they'd never read, but were on the same subject. They'd brought it up, after all. Most of the time, I was pretty nice about it. I saved my pitiless response for the man who insulted my by insinuation. He said they were going around to exhort people to read their Bible. I thanked him and said I was reading it daily. He replied that many people CLAIMED that... (Someone in earshot asked me later "Was he calling you a liar?" which, he was INSINUATING without having the courage to say outright.) At the time, I caught that, and decided to interpret that as a challenge, so I quickly took him all over the Bible on subjects he brought up, deliberately making him flounder every time he brought up something by taking him to verses he'd never seen. Repeatedly. If he had apologized at any point or acknowledged I actually read the thing, I would have stopped. Since he didn't, I gave him an ordeal. Eventually, he excused himself.

That's it, of course.

"Now is there anybody, got a sweet little woman like mine? There got to be somebody, got a, got a sweet little woman like mine? Yeah! Can I get a witness? Can I get a witness?"

It IS "Saturday Night Fever." Fran Drescher was in "Hollywood Nights" in 1980, but "Saturday Night Fever" in 1977. The producer of SNF was Robert Stigwood. When I saw that the other day, I realized why the Mad Magazine spoof named the paint so oddly. The soundtrack sold 20 million copies, which was the record until "Thriller" took the title. In "Dog Day Afternoon", someone suggested that Al Pacino improvise the line "Attica! Attica!" and in SNL, Tony Manero dreams people confuse him with Pacino. He starts chanting to himself "Al Pacino, Al Pacino, Attica, Attica." (He does this in his underwear, and his Grandma's scandalized he's walking around in his briefs. In the Mad spoof, he does this specifically to scare her and approaches her with spooky hands raised. "Al Pacino, Al Pacino, Attica, Attica!" Angry, she points the way out of the room. "Horny pervert, horny pervert, Bellevue, Bellevue!" In Rio de Janeiro, they sometimes call a cool guy a "maneiro."

This famous '70s movie included a quote of another famous '70s movie's even more famous quote. (The quote is remembered more than the movie it came from, I believe.) Funny how an unscripted line can become the best-remembered line of a movie, and even show up in other movies filmed later-complete with the name of the actor who said it. This film included the film premiere of Fran Drescher. In the real city of Rio de Janeiro, the cariocas have adapted the last name of the main character of this movie as a slang word meaning "cool." Filming of this movie ran afoul of "some local Italian businessmen in a consortium" *wink wink* and some Hasidic Jews, at different points of the filming. The Mad Magazine spoof of this movie showed the main character carrying a can of "Stigwood Paint." The soundtrack to this movie was a big success commercially.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0EpeX8tSoA

This is garbage, stupid girl. Ow! OW! *covers his head* I was giving the TITLE and the ARTIST! The band is "GARBAGE", and their first big hit was "STUPID GIRL"! No hit!

This famous '70s movie included a quote of another famous '70s movie's even more famous quote. (The quote is remembered more than the movie it came from, I believe.) Funny how an unscripted line can become the best-remembered line of a movie, and even show up in other movies filmed later-complete with the name of the actor who said it. This film included the film premiere of Fran Drescher. In the real city of Rio de Janeiro, the cariocas have adapted the last name of the main character of this movie as a slang word meaning "cool." Filming of this movie ran afoul of "some local Italian businessmen in a consortium" *wink wink* and some Hasidic Jews, at different points of the filming.

Haven't seen "No Way Out." I wish you had used Bridges instead.

Almost nobody watched the Tortellis. I think some of us would have tuned in for Norm and Cliff at least for a little just because we liked Norm and Cliff.

Given the zeitgeist of twi when vpw was alive, my first guess (not knowing the context) would be that he was INSINUATING (hinting without actually saying) that The Lord Jesus Christ was going to return shortly. It certainly was believed TLJC would return while vpw was alive, at least until vpw died. (twi was hardly alone in this- crackpot religious fringes tend to add that sort of thing. If their leader isn't the Messiah, then the Messiah will show up and shake his hand or something.)

I think RG was saying your answer was close enough and handed over the round to you....

Close enough- Naked Gun 2 1/2: the Smell of Fear.

A movie with a large cast but centered on nine of them. After 18 months of shooting, there's no surprise the actors got matching tattoos (in different places.) It's "the bunch of guys of the ring." Or "Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring." For the bored, check this out.... http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612 The story of a bunch of roleplayers playing through the adventure story of "Lord of the Rings" (without it having been a book) as an AD&D adventure rather than books that inspired AD&D adventures. http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=729 "Happy Halloween from the Bunch of Guys of the Ring." BTW, Rhys-Davies was the tallest actor in the Fellowship. He played the dwarf, Gimli. Gimli should be shorter than the humans (Boromir, Aragorn/Strider) and shorter than the elf (Legolas) but heavier since he's bulky and elves are wiry, but taller than all 4 hobbits. (Any DM from AD&D, any version, could tell you that the PC races go in height as follows: halfling/hobbit tied with gnome, dwarf, elf, half-elf, half-orc, human- with optional half-ogre taller than human. Some people consider gnomes to be a bit taller than halflings, which still puts halflings/hobbits as the shortest.) ======================== Oh, and Bob Anderson (the legendary sword-master of Hollywood) complimented Viggo Mortensen's great talent handling a sword. Too bad we'd never see Danny Kaye in his prime faced off against Viggo Mortensen in his prime in a movie anyplace.

"Hector Savage. From Detroit. Ex-boxer. His real name was Joey Chicago." "Oh, yeah. He fought under the name of Kid Minneapolis." "I saw Kid Minneapolis fight once. In Cincinnati." "No you're thinking of Kid New York. He fought out of Philly." "He was killed in the ring in Houston. By Tex Colorado. You know, the Arizona Assassin." "Yeah, from Dakota. I don't remember it was North or South." "North. South Dakota was his brother. From West Virginia." "You sure know your boxing." "All I know is never bet on the white guy." "Congratulations, Ed! I hear Edna's pregnant again." "Yeah, and when I find the guy that did it..." " I'm single! I love being single! I haven't had this much sex since I was a boy scout leader! ...........I mean, at the time, I was dating a lot." "Ladies and gentlemen, we would now like to draw the first Door Prize of the evening - an all-expenses-paid trip to the Gilligan Islands!" "What can you tell us about the man you saw last night?" "He's Caucasian." "Caucasian?" "Yeah, you know, a white guy. A moustache. About six-foot-three." "Awfully big moustache." "Que sera sera... You do speak French, don't you?" "Unfortunately no, but I do kiss that way." "Your coat, sir?" "Yes, it is. And I have a receipt to prove it." "Do you gamble?" "Every time I order out."

That's it. "Oh God, You Devil" was the third "Oh, God" movie, and went in an interesting direction. I thought it was pretty profound. Then again, I haven't sat down to see the first one yet. It sounds more my speed. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087835/?ref_=nv_sr_2 "Devil" was a small horror movie. It's gotten more than a little TV airplay on cable, which is how I stumbled across it. For a horror movie, I thought it was pretty interesting. It certainly was a nice break from horror movies that rely on the gross-out or splatter to be memorable. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1314655/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 You've all heard of "The Devil's Advocate." It's another movie where Keanu plays a clueless protagonist against a good actor playing a complex villain. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118971/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 After writing it out, I thought that having the 2 guys from movies 1 and 3 end up in the elevator in "Devil" would have elevated the movie considerably. (At least people like them. Movie would have taken one HECK of a plot-twist.)

When I do my rare triples, it generally is with one movie having a one-word title, and it being the link between the others. As Raf said, I could have gone from movie 1 to movie 3 without mentioning movie 2. With that in mind, if you've gotten 1 and 3, what would this one be called?

Thought I might have been making that one a bit too easy. But this is a well-known comedy, and I'm sure you've seen it more than once.

"Hector Savage. From Detroit. Ex-boxer. His real name was Joey Chicago." "Oh, yeah. He fought under the name of Kid Minneapolis." "I saw Kid Minneapolis fight once. In Cincinnati." "No you're thinking of Kid New York. He fought out of Philly." "He was killed in the ring in Houston. By Tex Colorado. You know, the Arizona Assassin." "Yeah, from Dakota. I don't remember it was North or South." "North. South Dakota was his brother. From West Virginia." "You sure know your boxing." "All I know is never bet on the white guy." "Congratulations, Ed! I hear Edna's pregnant again." "Yeah, and when I find the guy that did it..." " I'm single! I love being single! I haven't had this much sex since I was a boy scout leader! ...........I mean I was dating a lot at the time." "Ladies and gentlemen, we would now like to draw the first Door Prize of the evening - an all-expenses-paid trip to the Gilligan Islands!"

Here's another TRIPLE. A sruggling musician sells his soul for stardom to the infernal 'Harry Tophet'- (George Burns) then later ends up trying to petition THE Higher Authority (George Burns) to intervene and re-negotiate on his behalf. He ends up trapped in an elevator with a handful of sinners who all begin to die mysteriously- is 'Harry Tophet' secretly among the passengers? He's probably not the young attorney who's been facing a similar deal with his new boss and has ended up in the same elevator.... It stars GEORGE BURNS,Ron Silver, AL PACINO, Keanu Reeves and a bunch of people you've probably never heard of. (Chris Messina, Bokeem Woodbine, Matt Craven, Joshua Peace, Zoie Palmer, Logan Marshall-Green, Geoffrey Arend, Jenny O'Hara..)

My "rule of thumb" is to try to update once a day, or twice at most. If I update faster, I feel like I'm penalizing posters who don't stay glued to the site. If I update slower, I feel like I'm stalling a thread. Generally. That's not a rule, it's really a convention at most. For now I'm thinking George is right.

You asked what I thought. "Curious to know what others think." Excuse the heck out of me if you don't like what I think. If you wanted me to confine my response exclusively to the point, you might have phrased your request in a less open-ended fashion. I'm glad you noticed that when I challenged what Ehrman said, I hit the mark. I'm sure some people might have dismissed what I said for their own reasons, but I really think I had a legitimate point and would have said so whether or not I said it or even agreed with it.

I must be even worse at movies than I thought. I can't recognize this from one line, even twice... Are you sure this movie is recognized for those lines?

"Peter Pan"???????

24 hours have passed. Can we get a second clue?