WordWolf

"Woman, please! I am not from Havana!"

Oh, so a journalist could get that information? How interesting. Now, if we only had a journalist who wanted to find it....

Raf posted the correct answer-Julius Caesar. Technically, Disney's Aladdin would have been correct because it also contained the quote. But Raf posted both answers. Then he posted a clue, which George got. So it's George's turn.

I don't think it's obscure. I knew Richard Gere was in it. It's a chick film, though, and we're short on chicks playing at the moment. I was pointing out that I am not avoiding the thread. I just am looking for a good opening to post.

There's been a few homages here and there, in cartoon form or comic book form. IIRC, 52 had expies of them, who all died in battle. Ok, got me on WW & Robin. Although the current Robins have all had long pants since Grayson became Nightwing and since Tim Drake became Robin. Ok, open-shirt, but Black Vulcan had shorts, and Apache Chief and Samurai wore what could be considered swimwear- short top, shorts. And El Dorado didn't HAVE a shirt. Trying to figure this one out. So far, nothing....

"Well screw them to get your package there on time." IIRC.

"Begin the day with a friendly voice A companion unobtrusive. Plays that song that's so elusive And the magic music makes your morning mood. Off on your way, hit the open road There is magic at your fingers For the spirit ever lingers Undemanding contact in your happy solitude. Invisible airwaves crackle with life. Bright antennae bristle with the energy. Emotional feedback on timeless wavelength Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free."

It is. Wonder Woman, and Wendy, and Batman, Robin, Superman, Aquaman, Flash, Plastic Man, Green Lantern... Black Vulcan. (Oddly enough, they didn't use Black Lightning who already existed in the comics, but made a new character with almost identical powers.) El Dorado. Apache Chief. Samurai. Wendy and Marvin, Zan and Jayna. Firestorm was added, as was Cyborg. I'm unclear why the tokens all had incomplete outfits. Black Vulcan had short pants, El Dorado's shirt was abbreviated, Apache Chief and Samurai basically wore underwear. (Were they trying to get more girl viewers for what was seen as a boys' show?)

I'll play again when I recognize the actor ending a turn, or can identify someone in the movie other than the actor linking into the movie. You're naming movies where I only know 1 actor-and naming that actor. Either that, or answering something fast before I even see it, so I can't name those either because I'm not camping on the thread.

Volvos- they're boxy but they're SAFE. "I don't know about the plant, sir. Please hold." That was the line that put me in hysterics. It was when people phoned in about the diet ad. Let's face it, if you look like this, you're fat. The ad ended with "If you call know, we'll send you a free plant." And the poor people answering the phones had no idea what the ad said. This is "Crazy People." And yes, I should have been able to get it from any of those. :)

This is correct. One sub-plot involved a "Stonehenge" tour with an 18-foot model of Stonehenge onstage. Except it was specified as 18 inches, not 18 feet. So, rather than looming over the band, the band could trip over it and kick it over. A running gag was that the drummers were all cursed and dying of mysterious things- spontaneous combustion and so on.

It's not a high school-based show, but it did have a couple of teens on it. (Different teens in different seasons, but 2 teens each time.) Although at least one college age Caucasian was added by the end. And another African-American.

"Nigel gave me a drawing that said 18 inches. Now, whether or not he knows the difference between feet and inches is not my problem. I do what I'm told." "But you're not as confused as him are you. I mean, it's not your job to be as confused as Nigel." "I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object." "I really think you're just making much too big a thing out of it." "Making a big thing out of it would have been a good idea." " In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing..." "He died in a bizarre gardening accident..." "Authorities said... best leave it... unsolved." "Now, during the Flower People period, who was your drummer?" "Stumpy's replacement, Peter James Bond. He also died in mysterious circumstances. We were playing a, uh..." "...Festival." "Jazz blues festival. Where was that?" "Blues jazz, really." "Blues jazz festival. Misnamed." "It was in the Isle of, uh..." "Isle of Lucy. The Isle of Lucy jazz and blues festival." "And, uh, it was tragic, really. He exploded on stage." "Just like that." "He just went up." "He just was like a flash of green light... And that was it. Nothing was left." "Look at his face." "Well, there was..." "It's true, this really did happen." "It's true. There was a little green globule on his drum seat." "Like a stain, really." "It was more of a stain than a globule, actually." "You know, several, you know, dozens of people spontaneously combust each year. It's just not really widely reported." "We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel, they're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries, it's like fire and ice, basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water." "Isn't there a law against this sort of thing? Surely you can't just buy a full page ad in the music papers and publish your divorce demands. What do you mean 'I paid for it'? Joint account!" "You put a greased naked woman on all fours with a dog collar around her neck, and a leash, and a man's arm extended out up to here, holding onto the leash, and pushing a black glove in her face to sniff it. You don't find that offensive? You don't find that sexist?" "This is 1982, Bobbi, c'mon!" "That's right, it's 1982! Get out of the '60s. We don't have this mentality anymore." "Well, you should have seen the cover they wanted to do! It wasn't a glove, believe me."

"Begin the day with a friendly voice A companion unobtrusive. Plays that song that's so elusive And the magic music makes your morning mood. Off on your way, hit the open road There is magic at your fingers For the spirit ever lingers Undemanding contact in your happy solitude."

It's the 70s. Let's diversify the cast. Right now, we have 2 white females, and the rest of the people are white males. Ok, you want to diversify the cast? Let's diversify the cast, then- we'll add an African-American, a Mexican, a Native American, and a Japanese.

I was just telling Mrs Wolf that I was thinking of answering "Disney's Aladdin" later today...

It's incredibly obvious in hindsight, but.... If someone starts a program, 12 people enter it, and 1 person washes out, we figure the problem was with the 1 person. If someone starts a program, 12 people enter it, and 12 people wash out, we figure the problem obviously is with the program. That means it goes back to who planned the program and who executed the program. With the so-called zero corps, those are both the same person-wierwille. He came up with a concept and executed it, then later discovered he had no idea what he was doing and it was blowing up in his face. So he blamed everyone else and closed it up for the moment. He had much more success with the wow program because so little was expected of wierwille, and all the hard work was isolated away from him. People busted their tails all over the US after a few pep talks from him, and locals were there to help them when there were problems. That's why the wow program worked when the corps program imploded the first time around.

"Begin the day with a friendly voice A companion unobtrusive. Plays that song that's so elusive And the magic music makes your morning mood"

"I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object." "I really think you're just making much too big a thing out of it." "Making a big thing out of it would have been a good idea." " In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing..." "He died in a bizarre gardening accident..." "Authorities said... best leave it... unsolved." "Now, during the Flower People period, who was your drummer?" "Stumpy's replacement, Peter James Bond. He also died in mysterious circumstances. We were playing a, uh..." "...Festival." "Jazz blues festival. Where was that?" "Blues jazz, really." "Blues jazz festival. Misnamed." "It was in the Isle of, uh..." "Isle of Lucy. The Isle of Lucy jazz and blues festival." "And, uh, it was tragic, really. He exploded on stage." "Just like that." "He just went up." "He just was like a flash of green light... And that was it. Nothing was left." "Look at his face." "Well, there was..." "It's true, this really did happen." "It's true. There was a little green globule on his drum seat." "Like a stain, really." "It was more of a stain than a globule, actually." "You know, several, you know, dozens of people spontaneously combust each year. It's just not really widely reported."

Counting Crows, "Mr Jones and Me"?

"I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object." "I really think you're just making much too big a thing out of it." "Making a big thing out of it would have been a good idea."

Ok, you want to diversify the cast? Let's diversify the cast, then- we'll add an African-American, a Mexican, a Native American, and a Japanese.

You're kidding. Ok, hang on.... EDIT: deleted a clue to something that wasn't a movie. I should type a LOT slower...

I had a fuzzy memory that there was a show with that narration, and a fuzzier memory of the name of the show. I'm surprised I got it.

vpw had no experience whatsoever with leadership programs, whether in-residence or not. vpw had no experience whatsoever with the military, not even ROTC, Reserves, nor the National Guard. vpw claimed he wanted to base it on the US Marines. But vpw had no idea what the actual Marine experience was like. So, on what did he base his expectations? The movies. vpw had seen Marines be loyal and just follow orders. Whether or not that matched reality, that was what he wanted from his program- he wanted people who would jump off a cliff if ordered by him. Naturally, he never told any candidates that's what he wanted. He gave all sorts of stories about it, which never matched reality. He claimed it was based on something in Acts, but the entire experience was the opposite of the experiences of Acts. So, he was deceiving the candidates and lying to them. To him, that's fine because the candidates didn't matter- except when they were carrying out his orders.