WordWolf

"Not everyone believes what you believe." "My beliefs do not require them to." "I remember that for 100 years they have sent their armies to destroy us, and after a century of war I remember that which matters most... We are still here!" "There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept." "You!" "Me. Me, me, me." "Me, too." " There is so much in this world that I do not understand. See that machine? It has something to do with recycling our water supply. I have absolutely no idea how it works. But I do understand the reason for it to work."

The car is "Greased Lightning." The movie is "Grease." Now known everywhere as "Grease." Formerly known as "Vaselina" in some Spanish-speaking countries when it was released.

That would help you get the actual dates. :) To keep the twi gestapo off your back for it, however, you'd need a procedural pretext, like you weren't dating above your "station." In this case, the sum of your data added up high enough to make dating corps a small hop, not a giant leap.

I'm thinking, George, that had more to do with your status being close to theirs. I've never sat down to see if there was a coherent chart, but you were sort of on a boarder for being a TC and on another for being an AC grad. Put both together and you were within range of corps, but not quite on the same level. There were reverends, corps, staff, regional, limb, territory, branch and twig coordinators. There were wow vets, college division and U of L attendees. There were AC grads. There were Intermediate grads. There were pfal grads. There were FellowLaborer grads. There were a few other things here and there (doulos dudes, etc). All of these meant something to someone. Mixes of them meant something, too. So, a non-corps Regional Coordinator, say, was higher than a corps grad, and a corps grad could equal a BC who was an Advanced Class grad or something. No official chart, but people tried to make the sides balance regardless.

*checks*, Yes he did, no surprises there! At least once, he did a duet with Doris Day on it, in fact. Someone pointed out recently that the song sounds like it might be about date rape, since it sounds like he might have given her a Mickey in the song. Hm. The wikipedia page is fascinating. There's a really long list of artists who did this song (Ricardo Montalban? Red Skelton? Sigorney Weaver?) and some thoughts on the lyrics and the song's history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby,_It's_Cold_Outside ======================= "The lyrics in this duet are designed to be heard as a conversation between two people, marked as "mouse" and "wolf" on the printed score. Every line in the song features a statement from the "mouse" followed by a response from the "wolf". Usually the "wolf" part is sung by a male and the "mouse" by a female. Criticisms of the song stem from a reading of the lyrics not as the "mouse" wanting to stay and only putting up a token protest for the sake of appearance as supported by lyrics such as "The neighbors might think...", "My father will be pacing the floor", but instead as the "mouse" genuinely wanting to leave but being stopped by the "wolf" being coercive in his pleading with the mouse. Examples of questionable lyrics in this regard include, "I simply must go", "The answer is no", "I've got to go home". There is also the line "Hey, what's in this drink", which could be taken to sound suspiciously like the "mouse" has been drugged." ========================= Ok, your turn!

That's the song. So many people have covered it (many of them crooners), that if you picked a name at random, you'd probably be correct. So...?

I think you and I are the only Tom Petty fans here. This is "Into the Great Wide Open." IIRC, this is off "Full Moon Fever."

Sure. Since I posted a clue already, guessing it would be "playing".

As we saw in the thread, our favorite plagiarist plagiarized some definitions, then stuffed them full of 10-dollar words to make them sound more important, with no real understanding of them. So, he just paraphrased them more elaborately. If he'd understood them, he would have tried to actually improve on them. cg tried that. I think he succeeded a little and failed a little.

"This evening has been (Been hoping that you'd drop in) So very nice (I'll hold your hands, they're just like ice) My mother will start to worry (Beautiful what's your hurry?) My father will be pacing the floor (Listen to the fireplace roar) So really I'd better scurry (Beautiful please don't hurry) But maybe just a half a drink more (Put some records on while I pour) The neighbors might think (Baby, it's bad out there) Say what's in this drink? (No cabs to be had out there) I wish I knew how (Your eyes are like starlight now) To break this spell (I'll take your hat, your hair looks swell) I ought to say, "No, no, no sir" (Mind if I move in closer?) At least I'm gonna say that I tried (What's the sense in hurtin' my pride?)" "You've really been grand (I thrill when you touch my hand) But don't you see (How can you do this thing to me?) There's bound to be talk tomorrow (Think of my life long sorrow) At least there will be plenty implied (If you caught pneumonia and died)" You old fogies have definitely heard this song before. I'm reasonably sure everybody here's heard it at one time or another.

It's been mentioned by a few people, a few places, almost as a signature line. I still don't know the scene it appears in. ===================== X-Factor (1st series) # 87 Story Title: X-aminations As a result of the recent events surrounding the assassination attempt on Xavier, X-Factor’s government liaison, Val Cooper, has ordered them to attend counseling. The first, Rahne explains her dreams, where she is a character in a cartoon or movie, which the therapist interprets as her mind searching for a personal identity that she feels she does not have herself. And once she fell asleep watching “Rain Man” on HBO, and it was a whole dream of her saying… “I’m an X-cellent mutant X-cellent mutant.” Rain Man was an academy-award winning starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman, who played an autistic man. One thing Hoffman’s character said repeatedly was “I’m an excellent driver, an excellent driver,” which Rahne’s statement of “I’m an x-cellent mutant” is a takeoff. ===================== "So let it be written; so let it be done!"

I can accept people who have seen us together confusing us, but not online. Really, our families and especially our wives are pretty sure we're different people. For that matter, a few posters have met us both. AFAIK, that's Pawtucket himself, Steve! and DontWorryBeHappy. (I've met Mark Sanguinetti and a few others, but I don't know if they've met Raf.) I wouldn't know, I've never seen most of the movie. But the guy sounds ALMOST correct. What about my up again? Oh, I'm up. Ok, I need another movie....

I preferred advancing to retreating, but I also didn't like the usage of different terms primarily to establish a social boundary between "us" and "them."

*hands George an umbrella* You're kidding, right? You don't recognize RAIN MAN?

Supposing any of them is correct. I don't mind having a "working definition"- something kept as a rule of thumb. All these definitions were treated as AUTHORITATIVE and DEFINITIVE when they were no such thing. They all had problems in SOMEONE'S opinion. They can't all be right-but someone thinks each is somewhere, and they're considering that DOCTRINE and basing life decisions on it. That was true of the Keys to Walking By the Spirit, too, and everything else. We're still seeing people quote vpw on things he didn't understand- and acting as if it's mistrusting God to check if it was correct.

"Not everyone believes what you believe." "My beliefs do not require them to." "I remember that for 100 years they have sent their armies to destroy us, and after a century of war I remember that which matters most... We are still here!" "There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept."

"This evening has been (Been hoping that you'd drop in) So very nice (I'll hold your hands, they're just like ice) My mother will start to worry (Beautiful what's your hurry?) My father will be pacing the floor (Listen to the fireplace roar) So really I'd better scurry (Beautiful please don't hurry) But maybe just a half a drink more (Put some records on while I pour)" "You've really been grand (I thrill when you touch my hand) But don't you see (How can you do this thing to me?) There's bound to be talk tomorrow (Think of my life long sorrow) At least there will be plenty implied (If you caught pneumonia and died)"

Andy Serkis Lord of the Rings:Return of the King Christopher Lee

This is where the discussion of the last 2 pages was, minus your detours into accusations, ad hominem attacks, and strawmen. Not letting you off the hook here and pretending you're not doing it again. We left off with you making some avoidable errors and refusing to discuss them, adding the insults, etc to distract from the fact you were caught twice. I've reposted them here. You can address them or everyone can see, very easily, that you're ducking them. You're free to duck them, of course, but all your supposed superior understanding of Scripture looks like a big bluff when you're avoiding direct discussion of subjects. Last I counted, that was at least 2 on this thread and one on the other you're refusing to discuss while claiming everyone else's understanding is flawed.

Mostly from watching people do it rather than discuss like adults, sure, I suppose I do. They also decided they were right from the beginning, and wouldn't even CONSIDER they might be wrong. They called Jesus all kinds of names and spent a lot of time AROUND issues rather than dealing with them. They were soooo sure and refused to look at the evidence.

No, that's when you change the subject by announcing that everyone who's making sense is exhibiting worldly wisdom. I wouldn't mind John disagreeing if he did it more honestly and didn't flee and spew insults and subject changes every time he was caught being wrong- or even suspected he'd be caught being wrong. Hey-it's possible that he could present his case for something, and I could present mine, and he'd prove me wrong. But we'll never know for sure with him running and hiding.

I have to explain why that's so freaking funny. There's this group of entertainers called "Les Luthiers." (You can read up about them on Wikipedia or on their TVTropes page.) They have been likened to Monty Python's Flying Circus. They are musicians and comedians. The name "les luthiers" means people who make music instruments, Which they do- out of things that obviously aren't instruments. You can clearly recognize a canned ham, a rain barrel, a water-heater, etc- which they then proceed to play and play WELL. Often the music follows a comedy routine or is a part of one. They dress all in tuxedos, and use relatively few props, relying on voice, posture and other acting tools to convey the characters they play. They are hysterically funny, and multilingual. They are Argentinian and do their jokes primarily in Spanish- but occasionally dip into English or French to make a specific joke. Because they are multilingual, they do all their own subtitles. They do stage shows every few years across Argentina (and, I expect, much of South America), and DVDs are made of the live shows. That's where the subtitles come in. So, on YouTube you can find some of their stuff, and some of that has English subtitles included. I'm linking to one of those. From back in the 1980s, when they all had hair. This part of the show had been a spoof of those "experts" on children who obviously had no idea what they were talking about because they never RAISED any children. So, the guy is talking in a very unctuous manner to the parents. There's hysterical visuals because he tries to demonstrate how to explain things to children- and picks one of his assistants at random to play the child in each example. The guy looks very put-upon, and the other guys very obvious make fun of him every time it happens. But the part that's truly memorable follows thereafter. The speaker announces the group will play a children's song- which they do. The problem is, there's a kid present who keeps asking questions about the subject of the song and what is being sung. And the singer tries to answer the kid. (Both played by adult men in tuxedo, obviously, but follow the voices.) The song is called "The Hen Said Eureka." Since this upload has subtitles, you can follow it completely in English.

*falls over laughing* This has to be "Eureka." I was thinking of "Give me a lever and one firm place to stand, and I will move the world."

Cute. Got caught making mistakes on the Bible by believing pfal had it all correct, was told he was wrong and it will be laid out in specifics once he stops being vague on a matter and it can be compared to Scripture... and he attempts to equate the thinkers who like truth to Pharisees who like politics, and himself to Jesus Christ, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Like I said, cute.