WordWolf

Hello!

You all know how Mad Libs works, I'm sure!

I have taken a section of writing from a twi source, and deleted certain words,

making a template for a Mad Libs round.

So, here's how we play.

(For those of us who want to play.)

I'll ask for certain parts of speech.

For each one I ask, I'd like TWO posters to supply their choices for the words to

go in that space.

For example, if I say we need a noun, one person will submit "tree" and another person

will submit "chilipepper."

This allows me a little latitude in picking the funnier one.

And this is PURELY for laughs.

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Ok, here's the start.

1) I need to have the following:

an adjective

an adjective

a verb ending in -ed

an adjective

a noun

"'Sic gorgiamos allos subjectatos nunc'- 'We gladly feast on those who would destroy us.'

Those are not just pretty words."

Even though he was assigned to the Research Department after his stepping down from the presidency, I don't think he actually worked in that Department. His face was unseen at HQ for at least 2 months after he was found out. There was an actual office for the Research Department. He was never in there before he left HQ. I think that was just a cover to make people think he actually had a job to do and that he wouldn't be collecting money without working (if he ever did do that while he was president.)

So, are you saying they lied intentionally to the rank-and-file?

Imagine!

Programs-> Accessories-> System Tools-> System Restore -> Restore my computer to an earlier time-> Next->

Then select the latest date you can find, then follow the steps.

That will put your machine back to the setting/programs it had on that date.

So long as that date is before your problem update, you're all set.

In theory.

(No guarantee it will fix it.)

Definitely "Fried Green Tomatoes", and I didn't have to see the movie to know that.

Have you tried going back to your last Restore Point?

Of course,

Bullinger explained the name was from "sphingo" or "TO JOIN",

since it joined Virgo and Leo.

lcm invented a "puckers" explanation?

I'm occasionally amazed at some of the things that proceeded out of his mouth or pen.

This is the man who was in charge of the RESEARCH DEPARTMENT,

don't forget.

Your ABS funds at work.

"No more blah, blah, blah !"

Damn- George JUST beat me to identifying 'Miri'!

Sorry, Tom,

but both "the Da Vinci Code"

AND "Holy Blood, Holy Grail"

are made up of whole cloth.

Here's the summary on the book and its ideas...

http://experts.about.com/e/h/ho/Holy_Blood,_Holy_Grail.htm

Here's from the wikipedia entry on it...

"The “Priory of Sion” which was listed as “fact” in Holy Blood Holy Grail, never actually existed.

Far from having a “history (that) spanned more than a millennium,” the Priory was a hoax created by an anti-Semitic French pretender to France’s throne, Pierre Plantard, a convicted con-man, in 1956.

As part of his hoax, Plantard had planted two sets of forged mediaeval documents: one in the French National Library, and another in the 1967 book Le Trésor Maudit de Rennes-le-Chateau. (For more details, see The Priory of Sion, Rennes-le-Chateau, and Pierre Plantard). The documents were taken as factual by the authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, which led to many of the false claims in the book."

"In 2005, UK TV archaeologist Tony Robinson narrated a critical evaluation of the main arguments of Dan Brown and those of Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln, The Real Da Vinci Code, shown on Channel 4. The programme featured lengthy interviews with many of the main protagonists. Arnaud de Sède, son of Gérard de Sède, stated categorically that his father and Plantard had made up the existence of the Prieuré de Sion, and described the story as 'piffle.' The programme concluded that, in the opinion of the presenter and researchers, the claims of “Holy Blood” were based on little more than a series of guesses. The authors of the book itself have also backpedaled in recent interviews, claiming that they were only presenting a

'hypothesis.' "

Here's a lengthy review that addresses a number of points...

http://www.equip.org/free/DH028.htm

This one was in the NY Times originally...

http://www.cesnur.org/2004/davinci_nyt.htm

Here's a short, sweet, commonsense review...

http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/b...115/book2.shtml

If you like, we can dig into the claims and how they originate from fiction.

"I loved you in Wall Street!"

Tim Curry

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Susan Sarandon

This is an actual article American women read back in the day!

This is NOT an actual article American women read back in the day.

http://www.snopes.com/language/document/goodwife.asp

Here's a few quotes off of that page, which I insist should be read entirely to understand it,

in accordance with Snopes' rather strict copyright notices.

"The question here is whether the piece quoted above really came from a home economics textbook. Is it real, or is it yet another of those "look how far we've come" fabrications? We know the graphic reproduced above (supposedly from the 13 May 1955 edition of a magazine called Housekeeping Monthly) is a fabrication: It didn't first appear until well after the "How to Be a Good Wife" list had begun circulating via e-mail, and it's clearly a mock-up produced by adding the text of the e-mail around an image taken from a 1957 cover of John Bull magazine. (The image itself even bears an "Advertising Archives" legend along its side, indicating its source.) As for the text itself, nobody has turned up the infamous textbook that supposedly included these ten steps. The list is often attributed to Helen B. Andelin's book Fascinating Womanhood, first published in 1963 to provide instruction in "The Art of Winning a Man's Complete Love," but no such list appears in that work."

That doesn't mean that the items in this list have nothing to do with what women were being told

back then. However, it DOES mean it wasn't compiled into THIS list with THIS picture.

Seth,

what hopes do we have to be able to customize the thing to resemble Classic Windows?

XP has that option, and I consider that superior to the XP interface.

I know Betas don't have the stability of later builds, but how has this thing been

running? Is it more crash-prone, say, than 2000 or XP? (They don't crash much.)

What do you consider to be the greatest improvement over XP or 2000?

Please excuse me while I put some spaces into this so I can read it comfortably...

I'm also going to tweak the punctuation.

Abe: (Sep 28 2006, 08:28 AM)

"I was a Way Disciple in the fall of 2001 to the spring of 2002, but I got the boot just before the 6-month program finished. They really hated to boot me out because I was a Way Disciple at Headquarters. (Ha Ha Ha.) Our group of 8 - 4 men and 4 women- "witnessed" to over 1000 people. (We had to keep track.)

Not one- yes, not one- wanted our fellowship.

On top of that, 4 out of the 8 were apprentice Corpoops. One got demoted to a regular Way Disciple, then it became 3. At Headguarters, where we worked 40 hrs a week, for 7.00hr, they continually during the 6months complimented us

at Sunday Night Service,

meal times,

and any other PR thing

at how successful we were.

I was the exception. (Ha ha ha.)

Anyway, to answer your questions.

The Way Disciple Objectives I remember.

Life Style & Strategy I remember.

I know we were on a strict schedule. I remember I got food poisoning and enjoyed the time off. Except for being sicker than a dog the 1st morning. They couldn't wait to get me back on schedule.

I remember the check list before going in. Everything from those things-

Objectives, Lifestyle & Strategies, and the check list-

were carried out to the T. Absolutely EVERY item and every instruction had to be carried out.

It was the disciplined lifestyle of a Way Disciple.

Always under the supervision of our Coordinator that lived with us! He was a good man. Twi leaders corrupted him. He was apprentice Corpoops. I remember the Monthly household worksheet. The two Coordinators,(two households, one for the guys and one for the girls. The two groups lived at separate locations, (shuckie darn) I don't remember the rest of the sheets. The Coordinators probably did those.

Each person kept 3x5 cards on each individual we "witnessed" to. So we would divide up the "witnessed to people" on our cards. Planned follow-up calls was one of the schedule things we did. We always did everything together. (Except sleep, takes showers, and you know the other thing.)

Very tiring and a complete failure of holding forth the word.

I was very happy to get out of there. We had weekly meetings to pick one topic from a list we had to bring up in our conversations when we went witnessing. Aw, lots of stories to tell. I'll be happy to answer any questions. On the lighter side. Us 4 guys had a blast door to door witnessing the 1st couple of weeks. It was just a month after 911 and we were out there pounding the pavement, walking the neighborhood, door to door witnessing. HAH, I LOVED IT.

Then we had to Get on the schedule. We had to say it a certain way. All the "witnessing" was planned out a week in advance. Bet that came down from the top brass of Twi. Guess us guys were having to much fun."

I never saw that book, but the book "God's Word in Culture" had a chapter that limited the view of the

art world as well. Seems straight lines and corners were evil.

(I thought they had a point about a character's eyes being in shadow,

but having said that, so what?)

In wayworld, you are expected to be able to trash ANYTHING not produced IN wayworld-

classic art, classical literature, technology, movies, television, radio, magazines, newspapers.

My personal favourite was a criticism of untouched wilderness in Utah.

"Everything is so out of order here- God would have never created such an irregular and desolate

landscape. "

But no, I've never heard of the book you mentioned before you mentioned it.

That's why I left the thread alone-I didn't want to dilute it with discussions of a different book.

The last one says to me:

"Zorro the Gay Blade"

George

Correct.

There were a few quotes from when the Esteban the Alcalde (Mayor) was conferring

with Diego Vega(the injured, real Zorro) when someone passed by- Ramon Vega/Bunny Wigglesworth

(the substitute with the flashy wardrobe.)

Esteban stopped him, as Diego improvised, saying it was Brother Ramon, a travelling priest.

Esteban asked which order prompted colourful robes (his orange cape.)

Ramon replied the dressmaker line.

As Ramon almost slipped away, Esteban shouted after him. "PADRE!

Pray for me, that I will soon catch this Zorro."

The resulting prayer-with them repeating (plus one mistake) after him-was one

exchange I'll never forget.

A different scene took place when Esteban's wife wanted a masqued ball to show off her new necklace.

Esteban refused, saying that Zorro would HAVE to show up and steal it- then realized it would be a

perfect trap. Ramon slipped in disguised as a woman, and Esteban began flirting with "Marguerita",

and bought her flowers (the florist confused the order, and gave him 4 daisies.)

And the line you recognized was one of the Alcalde's men- reporting to the Alcalde after Diego and his

servant stopped him from oppressing a peasant. Diego was dressed as Zorro (as a Halloween costume,

but using the real costume), and his servant supposedly as a bear-but NOBODY thought he looked like a

bear. This soldier reported in with this description.

Go, George!

Actually. to go back to the opening post on this thread, I don't think Walter Martin's book ever had much if any mention of TWI. Dunno if the degree thing had anything to do with that or not.

It had LITTLE mention of it, IIRC.

The only one that really devoted space to it was the "Encyclopedic Handbook

of Cults and Sects in America."

Gave it a pretty fair shake, too. It skipped just about all the wild 3rd-party made-up claims

and everything.

Neither Monty Python nor Zoolander.

"We are followers of Peter the Dressmaker-

he who was Christ's tailor."

"Oh, heavenly Peter,"

"Oh, heavenly Peter."

"He who sews and knits,"

"He who knits and sews."

"That we may follow in his fashion."

"That we may follow in his fashion."

"Help this simple, inane man,"

"Help this simple, inane man"

"Find what he seeks."

"Find what he seeks!"

"For Marguerita!"

"Four Margaritas."

"He was accompanied by a hideous dog."

The largest number of people at any one time in twi was about 30,000.

There were about 100,000, worldwide, who signed up for pfal.

That includes those who never made it to Session I, those who made it to Session I

but did not make it to Session 12,

and those who completed Session 12 but were gone within the next 3 months.

Maybe 1/3- 1/2 the people I ever met personally in twi had faded within 3 months of Session 12,

whether or not they made it that far.

twi was fond of obscuring its numbers whenever possible to appear larger, all through

its history. 30,000 is not a monumentous number, but 100,000 was enough to get people's attention,

especially when someone claimed it was "the fastest-growing cult" at some point.

That was probably true in the H33fn3r/D*op era, but not true a few years later, except locally in a few

places, for time periods of about a year. Of course, that partly backfired, when "followers"

had to deal with the easy panic of people worried that twi was going to subvert all their teenagers

(like those evil commies or those possessed D&D players). That, in and of itself, was a windfall

for twi, since it gave them something to "brag" about, causing a panic, but it was a problem for

the individuals. Not that this bothered twi any-individuals have always been DISPOSABLE in twi,

and vpw himself began that proud tradition.

Getting back to the CURRENT numbers,

twi had tried hard to get people to associate the number "5000" with them currently.

It's a fiction.

The number "5000" supposedly referred to the number of people on-grounds for some anniversary,

when everyone within a 250-mile radius who could be convinced to show up walked in.

That included family, neighbors, etc.

The number "5000" supposedly was the highest estimate around 2000 AD of members worldwide,

which included all children. That meant the number of adults at the time was 2000-3000 worldwide.

Since that time, the total number of members, of course, has been dropping steadily. We know that

because plenty of posters HERE left within that timeframe.

That means current numbers of adults is below 2000, and that perhaps 2500-3000 includes the children

currently. I don't expect that number to change radically over the next few years, since they've pretty

much run off everyone who is capable of developing independent thought. They'll still lose seniors

through attrition, since they consider them "dead weight", and youngsters as they learn there is life

outside twi, where free thought counts for something. twi now is a little like those fringe-groups

that spun off Mormonism, and hide in the hills, still practicing polygamy. People in the group grow

and learn once they are exposed to the outside world.

West End Girls

by the Pet Shop Boys.

CORRECT.

What made this tricky was the specific lyrics.

The Pet Shop Boys released 2 songs that didn't chart so well,

then later re-released them, with marked improvements in their charting.

(The other was "Opportunities".)

The lyrics I posted were from the original, which included some lines

the later, more famous version, did NOT include.

So,

"I've said it all before, I'll say it all again: We're all modern men" was from only the original.

"We've got no future, we've got no past Here today. Built to last In every city, in every nation

From Lake Geneva to the Finland Station" was from both.

"You've got a heart of glass or a heart of stone, Just you wait 'til I get you home" was from both.

"All your stopping, stalling and starting, Who do you think you are- Joe Stalin?" was from the original.

To make matters worse, the later version mixed up the order of the lines that remained,

so "Finland Station" was the closing line, whereas the original ended with a repeat of the

opening lines- "Sometimes you're better off dead-there's a gun in your hand and it's pointed at your head."

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GO, Raf!

I'm sure it is. And it was a GREAT line. :)

There used to be 30K people involved with twi. Now there is an estimated 4 -5K, I believe. That is a lot of people that are out. Of those, many moved on to splinter groups, some of which post here, but many of which don't.

The largest number of people at any one time in twi was about 30,000.

There were about 100,000, worldwide, who signed up for pfal.

That includes those who never made it to Session I, those who made it to Session I

but did not make it to Session 12,

and those who completed Session 12 but were gone within the next 3 months.

Maybe 1/3- 1/2 the people I ever met personally in twi had faded within 3 months of Session 12,

whether or not they made it that far.

twi was fond of obscuring its numbers whenever possible to appear larger, all through

its history. 30,000 is not a monumentous number, but 100,000 was enough to get people's attention,

especially when someone claimed it was "the fastest-growing cult" at some point.

That was probably true in the H33fn3r/D*op era, but not true a few years later, except locally in a few

places, for time periods of about a year. Of course, that partly backfired, when "followers"

had to deal with the easy panic of people worried that twi was going to subvert all their teenagers

(like those evil commies or those possessed D&D players). That, in and of itself, was a windfall

for twi, since it gave them something to "brag" about, causing a panic, but it was a problem for

the individuals. Not that this bothered twi any-individuals have always been DISPOSABLE in twi,

and vpw himself began that proud tradition.

Getting back to the CURRENT numbers,

twi had tried hard to get people to associate the number "5000" with them currently.

It's a fiction.

The number "5000" supposedly referred to the number of people on-grounds for some anniversary,

when everyone within a 250-mile radius who could be convinced to show up walked in.

That included family, neighbors, etc.

The number "5000" supposedly was the highest estimate around 2000 AD of members worldwide,

which included all children. That meant the number of adults at the time was 2000-3000 worldwide.

Since that time, the total number of members, of course, has been dropping steadily. We know that

because plenty of posters HERE left within that timeframe.

That means current numbers of adults is below 2000, and that perhaps 2500-3000 includes the children

currently. I don't expect that number to change radically over the next few years, since they've pretty

much run off everyone who is capable of developing independent thought. They'll still lose seniors

through attrition, since they consider them "dead weight", and youngsters as they learn there is life

outside twi, where free thought counts for something. twi now is a little like those fringe-groups

that spun off Mormonism, and hide in the hills, still practicing polygamy. People in the group grow

and learn once they are exposed to the outside world.

I think that's the Next Generation episode, where Wesley and some other cadets were responsible for the death of a classmate, while trying some super flying stunt, and they tried to cover it up.

That was a really good episode. Even had Ray Walston as Boothby.

That episode is called 'The First Duty.' The title almost certainly comes from an exchange

between Picard-who deduced what happened after the Enterprise crew investigates on their own-

and Wesley Crusher, pilot in Nova Squadron, covering up their attempt at the very dangerous-

and very outlawed- Kolvoord Starburst.

"The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based! If you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve to wear that uniform!"

BTW, on that quote, I think Locarno (played by Robert Duncan MacNeill, who later plays Tom Paris)

was right-Picard gave Wes a grand speech. Starfleet is more said to be guided by the "PRIME

DIRECTIVE" than some appeal to "truth". That's why it's called the "PRIME" directive, not the

"strong suggestion."

Go, hiway29.

"Oh, heavenly Peter,"

"Oh, heavenly Peter."

"He who sews and knits,"

"He who knits and sews."

"That we may follow in his fashion."

"That we may follow in his fashion."

"Help this simple, inane man,"

"Help this simple, inane man"

"Find what he seeks."

"Find what he seeks!"

"I've said it all before, I'll say it all again:

We're all modern men.

We've got no future, we've got no past

Here today. Built to last

In every city, in every nation

From Lake Geneva to the Finland Station"

"You've got a heart of glass or a heart of stone,

Just you wait 'til I get you home.

All your stopping, stalling and starting,

Who do you think you are- Joe Stalin?"

New episode.

"It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based! If you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve to wear that uniform!"