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  1. WordWolf

    John 1

    Of course, John 1 dovetails nicely with Hebrews 1-which says nothing about a Trinity- but who could convince a conventional Christian?
  2. "One's standing in the aisle-way, two more at the door, We've got to get inside there before they kill some more." "No time for indecision-we've got to make a move. I hope that were forgiven for what we got to do. How this all got started I will never understand. I hope someone can fly this thing and get us back to land." I bet if I used this one closer to 2001, a lot more people would recognize this song.
  3. Morgan Freeman Almighty Bruce Jim Carrey
  4. "One's standing in the aisleway, two more at the door, We've got to get inside there before they kill some more."
  5. Can you please link us to one? I can't find one offhand..... If there's no attributions on the carpet- which there may not be- this is all a non-issue. The quote is there, and was said by both MLK and Theodore Parker (who said it first.) If there IS an attribution on the carpet- and we haven't seen one yet- this is still a non-issue. MLK did say it- although Parker said it first. (A lot of famous quotes are similar, especially when you go down the centuries. FDR's quote about fear itself is not 100% unique in history, for that matter... Seneca the Younger said much the same in the 1st century AD) Personally, I hope the President is working on more important things than his carpet right now, and that other people realize this is interesting but ultimately insignificant.
  6. I'm not sure where you were going with MLK's plagiarism- which appears to be documented, if worth discussing conerning ways and means. By quoting an article which lies about a sitting US President, however, you've undermined wherever you were going. You linked to here: http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/09/smartest_president_in_history.html Which includes the following bald-faced lie concerning our current President: "Obama is a man who accumulated academic credentials while giving no evidence whatsoever of achieving any depth. He was the only president of the Harvard Law Review to graduate without penning a signed article in that esteemed journal. His academic transcripts remain under lock and key, as do his academic papers." Besides saying "We haven't been able to look at his transcripts and his academic papers" (the last sentence) "but without looking at any of his academic history, we have concluded his academic credentials show no proof of depth" (the first sentence), which is obvious nonsense (how seriously do you take investigations that say "We have no evidence, so we have made up the following conclusions"?) It makes several claims: 1) Presidents of the Harvard Law Review pen signed articles. 2) Obama was an exception to the preceeding sentence. This is false on both counts. http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/03/limbaugh-obama-law-articles/ The following was said by "Bradford Berenson — a lawyer who worked in the Bush White House and served with Obama on the Harvard Law Review", "As a 2L [second year law] student, Barack wrote the same amount as all of his 2L peers, although by policy of the Harvard Law Review, no student writing is signed or attributed to individual authors. As a 3L, it is true that he did not write, but that is because he was the President of the Review. Because the President does so much editing, including of all the major faculty articles, he is not expected to author original pieces himself and almost never does so." ===================== Wherever you were going, you didn't need to try to get there by getting into a faulty article about the current US President. (Unless you were deliberately attempting to take a shot at the current US President- in which case, you really should have done at least a minute's fact-checking like I did...it took seconds to correct this....)
  7. The splinter groups often did the same/ do the same.... unless you're one of certain SPECIFIC people.... they get a free pass and the rest of the group are supposed to conform.
  8. He meant to quote "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" all along. So the corrected quote and the second quote were both from it. I guessed that correctly. ================= Next movie. "Would you like to have a 'roll in the hay'? It's fun! Roll, roll, roll in the hay!"
  9. "Saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue. Followed him up to the gates of Graceland,then I watched him walk right through."
  10. The misquote is from "Blazing Saddles", and the original quote is from "Treasure of the Sierra Madre." Most people remember the "Blazing Saddles" version.
  11. "Is it any wonder I've got TOO MUCH TIME ON MY HANDS"?, by Styx. (We almost went from Stones to Styx. Maybe another time. :) )
  12. "Jarvis" was the very smart A/I program that runs his house, and he copied to his IM suits (except for the Mark I, of course, which he left in pieces in the desert.) "Dummy" is the most consistent name he gave the robot that he put on fire safety. "Day 11, Test 37, Configuration 2.0. For lack of a better option, Dummy is still on fire safety. If you douse me again, and I'm not on fire, I'm donating you to a city college. Seriously, we're just gonna start off with 1% thrust capacity. And three... two... one. Please don't follow me around with it either because I feel like I'm going to catch on fire spontaneously. Just stand down. If something happens, then come in." It also worked around the lab, notably in a deleted scene when Stark was constructing one of the boots.
  13. I'm hearing the piano part, and I think that's the Rolling Stones on vocals, but I'm blanking on a name. "Angel"? (Am I thinking of the right song?)
  14. "Surely you can't be serious!" "I am serious. And don't call me Shirley!"
  15. Raf said it here first. "We don't die when we stop believing- we die when we stop breathing." Ultimately, that's one major weakness of twi and the Word-Faith movement in general- nobody knows how to minister to the suffering other than to BLAME them for suffering. Oh, it's easy for a celebrity (already rich, famous, etc) to say "I got this far through believing." What about the millions of celebrity VIEWERS who believed hard enough to pop a blood vessel and reality just stayed where it was? Among scientists, the supposed "proof" of this sort of thing is called "counting the hits and ignoring the misses." When the "law" of believing fails, they change the subject and claim it never failed.... This is the same type of talk the "miserable comforters" gave Job- "Oh, bad things are happening to you? Well, it's your own fault!" twi aligns itself with the miserable comforters whenever one of the twi'ers opens their fool mouth to someone suffering in any way. It's adding insult on top of the injury.
  16. I liked that Clark began with saying he wasn't....then eventually, at the rate they were going at the breakfast table... "He MAY pork her, Russ."
  17. *checks* Different artist, but same lyrics, so that's it, which means it's your turn, more or less.
  18. Plug a decent set of headphones in your PC's speaker's port, or in the headset port if you're using a laptop or smaller, and you have an internet radio. Then all you need is a station streaming, or Pandora's URL. (Inside the US. Outside the US, Pandora doesn't work. RIAA concerns.)
  19. In the internet age, you have increasingly fewer excuses. Besides there being "streaming" content for thousands of radio stations (I saved one local one and another in Canada) in every imaginable format, If you live in the USA, you can listen to "your" radio station on Pandora. Give it about 2 hours in the first few days, and then you should find fewer songs you dislike playing, and more songs you like playing. http://www.pandora.com/ Give them some input in the beginning, and the selection will steer towards what you like.
  20. *flips a coin in his head* "National Lampoon's European Vacation."
  21. Not the first line. "Well we all shine on, Like the moon and the stars and the sun"
  22. I'm in the right neighborhood. I'm trying to remember if this was in the first or the second.
  23. Yes. No. Considering Dracula is the most-filmed character in movie history (Sherlock H took 2nd place, last I heard), it should surprise few people there's more than one parody of Dracula. Although my favorite scene is still from "Love at First Bite." (The "black chicken" scene.)
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