WordWolf

That's it. I'm thinking the last quote was the giveaway for you.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0277371/ When you have the actual name of a movie, you can look it up on Wikipedia or imdb. Keep in mind, however, that looking up a movie BEFORE we have the answer is cheating. Once it's named, we're all free to look up that movie. ====================================================== "Good teacher, he really seems to care....about WHAT, I have no idea." "Bring us a pitcher of beer every seven minutes until somebody passes out. And then bring one every ten minutes." "The football team at my high school, they were tough. After they sacked the quarterback, they went after his family."

Well, yes. It takes 2 people to keep a peace. It only takes one pinhead to ruin a discussion. But we can't blame others if we're looking for a fight. In twi, that was the default for a lot of people, and getting rid of it is healthy for everyone. Outside of twi, that's often the territory of people who don't need anything because they have Jesus. "Do you want some gum?" "I don't need gum-I have Jesus."

Not "Animal House."

"Good teacher, he really seems to care....about WHAT, I have no idea."

"I'm king of the world!"

That's it.

Gene Hackman's last line as the blind hermit in "Young Frankenstein." For Mel Brooks fans it can be identified by this line, maybe. It's probably unfair for anyone else.

I've noticed some Christians are actually quite nice to get along with... so long as I'm not trying to start a fight. Some, I've let know my beliefs on doctrines they disagree with. They accept I disagree, and we talk about all the other things that we can do something about. The other way is to waste time and energy picking fights with Christians who should be doing other things, and pretending the fight mattered, while we take time away from doing something that could actually get somewhere.

Don't give vpw more credit than he's due. He was a SCHEMER but not a MASTERMIND. Everything was around laziness, and getting him MONEY, POWER and ADULATION through DECEIT. According to lcm's own account, lcm chose Donna to marry, despite not knowing her very well. (His own account in "vp and me" said vpw made special exceptions for the 2 of them so they could spend time and get to know each other- AFTER they decided to GET MARRIED.) lcm, supposedly, chose Donna, and didn't know her very well. Donna had previously said she was planning on marrying someone influential in twi. According to lcm's account, as soon as lcm told vpw he wanted to marry Donna, vpw went off and told her how influential lcm was going to be in twi. vpw didn't need to convince Donna of anything after that. Would they have problems? Probably- but vpw was neither trained in counseling nor concerned about other people's problems. If they had a problem, they'd work it out and he'd stay out of it because he didn't care. My opinion is that vpw MIGHT not have known Donna ONLY cared about marrying for influence, but if he did, it worked out perfectly for that and he phrased himself accordingly. I don't think vpw understood people as well as he thought he did. He billed himself as an excellent thinker and believed his own press.

Another teen movie? No, it's Not. It's "Not Another Teen Movie."

Iron Man 2 Jon Favreau DareDevil

How do you simulate flight? You lie down on a table with a blurring background behind you and the audience just has to go with it.

Superman II Terrence Stamp Star Wars Episode I: the Phantom Menace

I can hear that phrase with the buzzy electronics, clear as day. (Well, the buzzing isn't clear, but you know..) "BATTLESTAR GALACTICA."

When you realize the MONSTER Manual was meant to have things for the player characters to BEAT UP, the low number of good-aligned "monsters" makes sense. The MM 2 had more beings that were good-aligned or other (lawful or chaotic) in addition to animals and evil monsters. Dragons, from the beginning, were good or evil depending on type.

vpw talked a good game and regurgitated the works of others, but his recitals exceeded his understanding. That's how frauds like Arthur Ford fooled him. In other news, we discussed Dave Arneson before.

I just came across something that reminded me of something. When Sonny Liston went up against Mohammed Ali, Liston bet heavily against himself and took a dive. People referred to it as "the phantom punch" since Ali didn't actually hit him when he fell. Apparently, it's common knowledge now. (It came up on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?") Naturally, in twi, the thing COULDN'T have a mundane explanation, it HAD to be "evil spirits." In "who did you hear was born of the wrong seed?" we had this post: "Muhamud Ali (He knocked Joe Frazier out without touching him he was soooo seed.) Dot Matrix" Broken Arrow, on "Where's the Library?" "Some of his other "insights" were that Muhammad Ali was born of the seed of the serpent and it was actually a devil spirit that ko'd Sonny Liston in Ali's first title fight (Cassius Clay at the time.)" Broken Arrow, on "Big Fat (but unsubstantiated) Claims": "Muhammad Ali was seed (LCM). It was a devil spirit that ko'd Sonny Liston in the title fight. We know this because no one saw the punch that knocked him out." Steve Lortz had an update... George Aar summed it all up , "Who did you hear was born of the wrong seed?" twi was-and is- very superstitious and under-educated, especially considering their claims on always having the inside story on everything.

"Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe diMaggio."

Well, I said "name either" and you did, so, yes, it's your turn.

I suppose I'll have to look that up- from your response, "Kate Smith" was incorrect. I always thought that was the name. Some woman who plays football and sings "God Bless America" or something. One Richard Hatch was "Apollo" in the original "Battlestar Galactica." (He also was in some soap opera.) I didn't know he was in the newer show with all the weird felgercarb going on. A DIFFERENT Richard Hatch was the winner of season one of "Survivor." I had to see them show his face so I could confirm it wasn't the other one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hatch_(Survivor_contestant) I don't see a reference to it, but I remember "Apollo" Richard Hatch, years ago, on TV saying he was trying to pitch further stories based on the Battlestar:Pegasus spinning off the original series. I liked the idea but they never approved it.

The "how" is an easy answer. Nobody actually sets up a whiteboard and announces "today we are going to learn proper shouting techniques." (Unless you're a character in Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker" series- the Vogons had officer ranks like "Senior Shouting Officer.") They taught BY EXAMPLE. If you're someplace where you are told EVERYTHING is PLANNED to the nth degree and it's ALL spiritual, then there's significance to how the carpets are vacuumed, the lightbulbs are changed, etc. (Yes, they taught how to vacuum the carpets. Really.) So, when leadership spends lots of time SHOUTING about things, then you get the lesson that SHOUTING is part of being a leader. You have a good question as to "why". I think it was laziness. By that I mean, vpw and lcm had poor self-control and shouted all the time. So others absorbed that, and thought it was INTENTIONAL when it was just that leaders were too LAZY to police their own behavior. It's the same with all the CURSING. vpw and lcm cursed a lot in private- lcm did it in LESS private venues. So, people learned to curse. At least one parent said their child LEARNED TO CURSE through sitting through lcm's (MANDATORY) lunchtime tirades. Imagine- there you are with your child, eating lunch. Then some maniac tromps up to a microphone, and spends 20 minutes yelling and cursing on a subject. Then he pauses and changes subjects, yelling and cursing for ANOTHER 20 minutes. How can you tell your child to control himself when the supposed leader of the group is more impulsive than your child? The most hypocritical part? Children on-grounds in twi are frequently BEATEN if they're not behaving PERFECTLY. Adults were REQUIRED to all carry a wooden spoon with them at the family corps so they were prepared to beat ANYONE'S child at any time. Yet the leaders were the ones allowed to be brats and terrors. (Oh, if your parents were big muck-a-mucks, there was always an excuse and you could manage to escape punishment for committing CRIMES and trashing things. Otherwise, children were in terror of adults and sometimes other kids there.)

It looked like he was pointing that at me, although I'm probably misinterpreting him. I know Farrah Fawcett was there, and I think Cheryl Tiegs and Kate Smith were there, and that's all I've got. For someone who never watched the show, and who heard what he did hear was decades ago, I think that's pretty good. Next round. There were two television shows that featured a "Richard Hatch" on them. (Not character names, those were the real people.) Name either television show. (For bragging rights, name both and who each Richard Hatch was in there.)

It seems YELLING and dominating discussions was a big part of what little was actually TAUGHT in corps. I visited hq once, and chatted briefly with a guy who was in-residence. I made a comment that was true but he didn't want to hear it. He then went off for a few minutes on the comment. I was going to point out his errors, but he wasn't interested in DISCUSSING- just EXPOUNDING. I stood calmly. and when he was done, I said "You must have been waiting all week to deliver that speech." He actually unclenched and became a human after that. Took me years before I really connected the dots on him being TAUGHT to do that.