WordWolf

"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. :) )

"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.

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?)

"Surely you can't be serious!" "I am serious. And don't call me Shirley!"

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.

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."

*checks* Different artist, but same lyrics, so that's it, which means it's your turn, more or less.

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.)

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.

*flips a coin in his head* "National Lampoon's European Vacation."

Bingo. Your turn.

Not the first line. "Well we all shine on, Like the moon and the stars and the sun"

I'm in the right neighborhood. I'm trying to remember if this was in the first or the second.

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.)

"Would you care for some wine?" "I never drink wine... Oh, what the hell. Let me try it."

*pictures Sean Connery collecting a shrubbery and falls over laughing*

That's another "Moody Blues." Is it "Question?"

It's hard to stump this crowd with a Mel Brooks movie, anyway. This one is "History of the World, Part I." Comicus had trouble when performing at Caesar's Palace. The peasants in the French Revolution were incredibly poor. And the Empress, I think, was having trouble with her litter-bearers. (I know I didn't HAVE to specify those, but I did anyway and you couldn't stop me...)

Some threads discussing some of these things: http://www.greasespotcafe.com/main2/waydale/waydale-documents-html/the-ways-y2k-document-for-all-way-followers.html http://www.greasespotcafe.com/main2/waydale/waydale-editorials/martindale-the-pope-and-the-aircraft-carrier.html If you really want to dig into some of the conspiracy theory stuff, do a search on "the Liberty Lobby" and "the John Birch Society" and be prepared to read all weekend.

*plugs "5 grain cereal" into Google* Here, it was probably one of these things. http://www.bobsredmill.com/5-grain-rolled-cereal.html http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/5graincereal.htm http://www.koshervitamins.com/shop/stores_app/Browse_Item_Details.asp?showpage=1&page_id=23&Item_ID=3146 http://www.organicdirect.com/wessex-grain-cereal-185oz-p-1252.html

....which means you should look here for more information, in the section on STFI/CES: http://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/forum/68-spirit-and-truth-fellowship-international/

He made it turn a profit, too. He charged people to enter the WOW program, provided no transportation, provided no support, and required them to find jobs and housing, tithe from their income, and spend days promoting his pfal class. Each student's tuition was a tidy profit for vpw, and any student who stayed meant more tithe money. [Edit: he provided no support to the WOWs- no housing, no job placement, etc although local twi'ers may have been tapped to help on their own time and out of their own pockets- but he "provided" the tapes for pfal, which was always a net profit for him.]

vpw used it surgically from the get-go. That's why 2 different Corps groups (the first, aka "Zero" Corps and another) were kicked out. The other group was permitted to humbly approach vpw and beg to be reinstated as a Corps class so long as they were willing to write out an oath of allegiance to vpw himself. (It's documented in "vp and me in wonderland.") vpw used it here and there down the years. Basically, anyone who ran the risk of causing him problems was kicked out, sent on a slow bus, and their home area was blanketed with a smear campaign so that, when they got home, nobody would believe anything they said. When 1988-1989 rolled around, lcm tried it on a grand scale, where anyone who wouldn't swear an oath of allegiance to lcm himself (as he agreed, a promise to "follow him BLINDLY") would be kicked out and nasty rumors spread around them. Since he was stupid enough to do it to so many people at once, the process wasn't anything nearly as successful as he hoped. Locals who'd worked with their local leaders and KNEW them would not accept the word of a virtual STRANGER who said they were "corrupt". twi's continued to use it as a measure, but until about 1993-1994 they kept it in reserve. They had to adjust to most of the people leaving in 1989-1990.

If I remember correctly (actually, I remember correctly, but if Casey Kasem REPORTED IT CORRECTLY), Sheena Easton released the song as "Morning Train (9 to 5)", then later changed the title to "9 to 5". When Dolly Parton's song came out, Easton changed it to "Morning Train." If he mis-reported it, please let me know.

You have to go back a bit further. As documented in the thread "the way:living in wonderland" (I bumped it up before to make it easier for you to find), in 1953, vpw read about BG Leonard and his classes. He found out that a class was currently IN PROGRESS, went there, and bulled his way in, demanding to be allowed to take the class in progress. Leonard permitted it. A few months later, vpw took his class again "as a grad" and brought a few twi people with him. A few months after THAT (still in 1953), vpw went to Leonard, and asked for permission to run Leonard's class locally one time for the benefit of the locals. Leonard permitted it. vpw ran a class, and sent Leonard a class photo for his scrapbook. When vpw ran that class, he told Leonard he was running Leonard's class one time only. He told the students "this is MY class on "Receiving The Holy Spirit Today" and made no mention of anyone else. He taught Leonard's material entirely- the students that came with him to Leonard's class, he automatically considered them grads of "his" class whether or not they sat through "his" class. vpw then continued to run Leonard's class and called it his own. Shortly after that, he completed taking apart JE Stiles' book on the Holy Spirit, and reconstructed it as the "white book" (Receiving the Holy Spirit Today.) It was Stiles book with some cosmetic changes in its first edition. As time passed, vpw took material from Bullinger, and added it to both the book and the class. What resulted was the Power for Abundant Living class- an amalgam of Leonard, Stiles and Bullinger. As more material was added (with a few other authors here and there with small additions), the one class became expanded eventually into three classes. Some of Leonard's stuff was in each level.