WordWolf

BZZT! George, that's not "Star Wars". (aka Episode 4-A New Hope.) That was Yoda's famous line, which makes this Episode 5-The Empire Strikes Back.....

That's not it. (And it's not close, either.)

"You're lucky he didn't kill you, too. Or rape you, then kill you. Or kill you, then rape you." "I warn you I get sick. Car sick, air sick. And I'm going to throw up all over *you*." "Go for it. Won't show on this shirt..." "Me and my big mouth. We should have taken the trip to Hawaii." "I had the shirt for it, but you f***ed it up." "Mr. Spock, you have the com." "Who is Mr. Spock?" "Hi, cutie pie. You know one of us is in deep trouble. You know who I am?" "I've seen you before. You're the @$$hole on TV." "That's funny. I was going to say the same thing about you."

"Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine."

If that's not from "Dead Poets Society", it should be.

"You're lucky he didn't kill you, too. Or rape you, then kill you. Or kill you, then rape you." "I warn you I get sick. Car sick, air sick. And I'm going to throw up all over *you*." "Go for it. Won't show on this shirt..." "Me and my big mouth. We should have taken the trip to Hawaii." "I had the shirt for it, but you f***ed it up."

*hums "Axel F" * This is from "Beverly Hills Cop", when Axel Foley was trying to check in to the Beverly Palm Hotel with no reservation.

He also told some corps to quit smoking so they could use the money for cigarettes to spend on their corps tuition...while continuing to chain-smoke.

Pierce Brosnan Laws of Attraction Julianne Moore

Yes. You've pointed out quite a few similarities. However, the Amish are VERY different in certain things. A) They encourage their young to see the outside world and decide for themselves if they prefer the world of the Amish. (They look around, and some leave and some stay.) B) The Amish AVOID technology. twi is afraid of new technology, but uses outdated stuff they understand just fine. C) The Amish avoid violence or even the suggestion of violence. Harsh words are avoided. twi people bluster and threaten violence as if self-control was evil. D) The Amish work toward the GENERAL good. The whole community will work together to raise a barn on a farm. In twi, all resources are bent towards helping twi and never the average member on the field.

Dragnet Tom Hanks Apollo 13

Indeed! "BUT HE DOESN'T KNOW THE TERRITORY!" A complaint about "Professor" Harold Hill among the travelong salesmen, "Shipoopi!" "A girl that's hard to get!" A musical number featuring BUDDY HACKETT singing and dancing. "HE DON'T KNOW ONE NOTE FROM ANOTHER! Another complaint about Hill at the beginning. "When a woman's got a husband, and you've got none, why should she take advice from you? Even if you can quote Balzac and Shakespeare and all them other high-falutin' Greeks." IIRC, the librarian's Mom was reminding the librarian that it is good to have standards. but standards don't keep you warm at night, and she might have set her sights too high so that NO man could match up to them. That was Shirley Jones, and her little brother was played by RON HOWARD. (IIRC, there was a moment once in Happy Days where Marion said once how the boy in the original musical looked like Richie. :) Hermionie Gingold also appears in it. The casting choices were pretty eccentric- except for Preston reprising his role from the musical.

"BUT HE DOESN'T KNOW THE TERRITORY!" "Shipoopi!" "A girl that's hard to get!" "HE DON'T KNOW ONE NOTE FROM ANOTHER! "When a woman's got a husband, and you've got none, why should she take advice from you? Even if you can quote Balzac and Shakespeare and all them other high-falutin' Greeks."

Yes, indeed. I've seen people using this as an online signature, sometimes with images, and sometimes with animated GIFs.

At some point or another, you've probably seen this movie.

"Yes, but why is the rum gone?"

BTW, can we dispense with the "include the names of the characters" thing until at least the first 2 quotes drew blanks from the audience? I could have gotten that one from the characters OR the quotes, that time. ============================= "BUT HE DOESN'T KNOW THE TERRITORY!" "Shipoopi!" "A girl that's hard to get!"

"How did Cronauer's voice get on there?" This is "GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!!!"

"ARMY TRAINING SIR!" This is obviously THE scene from "Stripes."

lcm didn't do it on purpose- he just didn't care. He was taught by vpw (approximately) that whatever fool thought passed through the head of the man on the throne was anointed by Gawd Almighty no matter how silly or stupid that thought was. So, lcm just spewed them out without polishing or any kind of quality control. vpw knew he himself was a fraud- and calculated the best words to appeal to each audience. In public, that meant not cursing. (Once the cameras were off, he indulged himself-in every sense of the word.) So, in private, "closed" meetings, vpw could have a filthy mouth and/or be verbally abusive, but when the cameras and microphones were on, he was a sweet grandfatherly sort. So, lcm just spewed all sorts of curses no matter who was around because he didn't care, and if anyone DID care (not him), he considered the fault to be THEIRS, since he was immune to making mistakes. So if they were offended by something, it's not because he was offensive and violated good taste- it was because the other person was oversensitive, carnal, and needed to renew their mind. Once lcm ran off everyone who was unwilling to bow their knee to his image, the remaining "leaders" aped him in all sorts of ways, growing facial hair when he did, carrying a briefcase when he did, and indulging in immature screaming and filthy language whenever they wished rather than exercising self-control because that was lcm's style. They would have followed him off a cliff if he'd have jumped first.

The account in Acts 9 is a "this is what happened" account. The account in Acts 22 is a "this is how Paul recounted it" account. They say MOSTLY the same thing. Is it possible Paul's recounting might have been off? Is it possible we can move on? I'm still wondering if we all were beginning with the same premise, but expressing it in radically different ways.

lcm said often that if you didn't give AT LEAST 10%, God wouldn't even SPIT in your direction. (Never explained why this was a desired result.) In twi, we had freedom from the world outside twi, but eventually, one restraint after another descended FROM twi. We were required to give protection money to God- 10% or something bad would happen to us and family. We were required to give time- or be disobedient, and something bad would happen to us and family. (One person hesitated and a family member died at the time- it happens, people die and we can't stop that- and someone in leadership held that over their head and asked which family member they wanted to drop dead the next time they didn't jump when he said so.) Eventually, it looks like it's safer to be disobedient to God and just be a bad Christian. To be a twi Christian means that God, the devil AND twi are ready to inflict things on you. Of course, those of us who survived twi thrived once we recovered from the experience.

"First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me." - Hans Niemoller (translated) ===================== Some people are scared of EVERYTHING. twi has terrified them of the world outside twi. twi had them terrified OF twi. So, they're scared to leave because they think they'll be outside God's protection. So, they stay in twi and huddle together, afraid of twi but hoping twi won't hit them. It's like an abusive marriage, and rationalized the same way. "It's nice most of the time, if something happens to me, I deserved it...."

A number of parents reported that their child learned to swear and curse from exposure to lcm's raving lunacy, his unprepared rants delivered off-the-cuff all through the 1990s. lcm, of course, was prone to doing that a bit in the 1980s, also, but at that time he was actually a bit apologetic when he began yelling at his audiences. (I heard him apologize on tape once immediately after one- he said that the people he was talking about-in denominations- got him mad.) lcm, of course, didn't originate it himself. He enshrined and institutionalized what he learned and observed from vpw. lcm seemed to legitimately think everything vpw told him was of God- and vpw seemed to know when he was bs-ing and when he wasn't- which was why vpw's style was more effective. He knew WHICH lies to tell and when. lcm thought he was doing the right thing. So, we trace it back to vpw. vpw claimed it was our liberty in Christ that he was preaching, which allowed him to, in effect, do whatever he wanted and it wouldn't touch him spiritually. So, he rationalized his drinking, smoking, sex mania, and of course, his foul mouth. Oddly, he kept his foul mouth hidden whenever a microphone was around- but in private would curse up a storm when he wanted to.

I'd like to see if we aren't all saying variations of the same thing, after all. So, let me take it from the top. Are we all, to some degree, mulling over how an Infinite God conveys His Infinite-ness and His Infinite Wisdom to finite people using finite words in a finite book/codex? (The Bible's always presented to us, in the US in the 21st century, as one book, but it's technically one codex- a book of books.)