WordWolf

Including the closing line of the series DID make it a bit easy to bullseye....

No. I'm watching, and they're getting a lot of things WRONG, and getting right the things they have been seeing regularly, like the formula for calculating area and so on. I must try out for this show....

*pokes* WASWAY, your turn...

"BIG!" What other movie does a man cash his paycheck and ask for it in denominations that fit into video games? In some cases, I HAVE gone from memory. With DC Cab, I found NOTHING and worked hard to remember lines. With "Stand and Deliver", I popped in the DVD and paused when I found some good lines. With the others, I Goggled. I put the name of the movie in quotes, I put the word "quotes" in quotes, and then looked up the results. In the case of Yellow Submarine, that gave me 2 pages. In the case of the Highlander tv show, I ended up on Wikipedia pages. Most movies, you'll find yourself on its IMDB page, written up by fans of that movie. In the case of the Star Trek episodes, I Google for the SCRIPT. Many episodes' scripts have been posted entirely on webpages. I remember the line about spelling the hyphen, but that didn't tell me which movie like the paycheck did. (Yes, technically, dollar bills won't fit in a game, but in any arcade, you'll give singles to get handfuls of quarters. And if you're on a roll, a worker there will stay nearby as you keep flagging him over for more change. Ah, memories...Revolution X.... STUNrunner....)

The thief's name was Rasmussen.

Here's how I answered previous objections earlier in the thread, when they came up.

Let's face it- vpw set out, from the beginning, to be obyed without question, and to never have disagreements. That's why he dissolved the Board of Directors and set up a trio that he could control. That's why he put forth he was the sole Christian in 2000 years to hear the voice of God and teach God's Word like it hadn't been known in that time-while taking all his teachings from material already in existence. That's why the corps was set up to FOLLOW ORDERS WITHOUT QUESTION NO MATTER WHAT. (We're still hearing horror stories about that.) That's why he was "The Teacher"- even long before he ever taught a pfal/rthst class. That's why "the suggestion of a general is tantamount to a command." etc. etc. vpw wanted people who were-in terms of judgement and free will- HELPLESS. That way, he could tell them what to believe and what to do- and they'd believe it and do it. Was he successful? There's still people believing everything he said and he's been dead for 20 years. How's that for a successful salesman and conman? To work on staff was to be subject to his rants when he felt like ranting-without warning, without pattern and without good cause, and to be paid less than minimum wage AND not contribute to a Social Security fund, thus ensuring you would NEED to "work until you die." (That's only been corrected for the last year or two.) To be a corps grad was to follow any orders that came down, to work on your own, send in 10% of your salary, to take 2 weeks off work, travel on your own money to hq, then spend 2 weeks of manual labour setting up and putting on the ROA- or earn vpw's wrath for having a life. To be a corps student was to spend 4 years paying tuition, live in a walk-in closet, eat disgusting food I've never HEARD of because it's cheap, perform manual labour while paying for the privilege, and risk life and limb hitchhiking to sell pfal or climb mountains under unsafe directions and unsafe instructors. How many people do you know came out of the way corps looking malnourished and wearing cast-off clothing and second-hand suits? For which they paid tuition for.... To be a wow was to pay them for the privilege of going wow, be sent somewhere with no say on the location, travel on your own expense (carpooling with wows in cars), work fulltime and sell pfal, run pfal classes on your own time and at your own expense, then return at the end at your own expense, having brought in pfal class tuitions and new people expected to pay 10% of their salaries, for which you received a lapel pin. To be none of the above was to be told what to do by those who WERE in the above categories (except wows), and to be told to give 10% of your income and believe whatever vpw said- and encourage others to do the same. All levels of involvement in twi were constructed to benefit vpw, accomplish his goals, and to do whatever he said and soak up whatever punishment he sought to dish out. And those closest to him were hardly immune to this- cg admitted in pop that he (cg) and ha put up with a lot of abuse from vpw. A read-thru of "vp and me" shows lcm put up with abuse from vpw when they were in contact. God only knows what Mrs W lived through.

Bingo. twi taught EXACTLY what the Bible said, still practiced completely the opposite, and somehow reconciled the two in their/our minds. That's why some people STILL claim that all their dealings were completely above-board and fair- because they were fair ON PAPER, and can't conceive of the idea that they'd WRITE ONE THING and PRACTICE ANOTHER.

Actually, I'm just one poster with one opinion. Others have their own. The staff makes their own decisions and carries them out, partly in accordance with the policies they've enacted. If you think you can sway them, go ahead and contact them. If you object to a specific post, you can click on that post's "Report" button. If you think you can sway the opinions of most posters, go ahead, post your "argument", and see if it moves anyone. Your posts objecting are as welcome here as posts that you perceive as tasteless but are not illegal. The internet-and the GSC- are sorts of "free market economies" of ideas. Of course, you can always just let this particular one go- I do that all the time, choosing what to respond to and what to leave alone when I don't think I can add to the discussion.

Then I'm probably mistaken. I doubt they'd reuse it.

Scourging alone produces some horrific damage. It won't KILL you as fast as it MUTILATES you, because it's designed primarily to TEAR SKIN and not PENETRATE FLESH so much. But being horribly beaten, at the time, was not as isolated as some people think or portray. (Not COMMON, but not unknown.) I came across some references a number of years back concerning their gladiator games. Some of them were man to man, weaponless combat, which is no less brutal for using fists rather than swords. Leather caps were instituted later to preserve ears from being bitten off. Anyway, one poet wrote of a fighter who came home so brutally beaten up that his own dog didn't recognize him. Whether literally true or not, the concept was at least feasible to them at the time.

Last I heard, twi owns the house where he lives, and he either lived with or currently lives with a twi doctor, who could keep an eye on him if needed. If they're laundering some cash and handing it to him in an envelope, we haven't seen proof of it. Perhaps some GSCer can get some video of it and put it on YouTube or something. THEN we'd have something on the subject.

I've been waiting until I had something to add before responding. All I can say is, Every time I think I've read the WORST thing vpw or twi people have ever done, someone else posts something WORSE that they were an eyewitness to.

The name Kivas Fajo is coming to mind here....

Gee, and I'd hoped Mike might have grown beyond this when he stopped shoehorning it into every thread. Mike, continue to derail this thread and I will start replying to your posts.

I'll save some time. He's referring to the "militant atheist" position that all religious belief is grounded in delusion and deception, whether self-deception or deception of other, and that society would be better served by eliminating all religion. It's different from what we were discussing on the rest of the thread, but you did ask.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/bloodymary.asp

I don't know THAT page, but if you go to YouTube and type in "ghost car ad" in the search bar, you'll get another screamer.

I still can't beat "If you're really Goths, where were you when we sacked Rome?" Then of course, there's Gallagher's observations. "Why do they call it a 'bust' when it stops just short of the thing it's named after? Shipments go by truck, cargo goes by ship, you wear a PAIR of panties but only ONE bra. Why is it called a television SET when there's only one of it?"

I was just coming back with another quote, too..... Yes, that was a quote from the Argument sketch of "MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS." Go ahead, wasway, your turn. You can post it right after you finish leaping from tree to tree as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia.

Ok. It sounded like you WERE. Oh. Well, you could have just said that. "I find the jokes about vpw's plastic eye in poor taste, etc" I'd still disagree about removing the posts, but I'd agree they might be in poor taste. I'd keep them in anyway because that's one price for freedom in posting. When I find something in poor taste but not factually incorrect and not abusive, I just skip over it. Some people vented some anger concerning his many evils by making some statements I would not have made. I don't say they were necessarily wrong to do so, just that it doesn't match my taste. (snip) No, I can't. I also can't say John Wayne Gacy was evil through and through. He was considered by some to be a pillar of his local community, was a member of the Jaycees, and entertained children as a clown. He also was a serial killer, and killed a bunch of kids. That's the type of person you lock up for life or give a death sentence so they can't harm innocents anymore. Similarly.....

If you were asserting that the text illustrates it, I'd disagree. However, you're asserting you have an opinion. You are entitled to any opinion you wish, so I'm not going to bullyrag you on it. (Besides, I'd only repeat earlier posts, and you can read those anytime you wish.) So, are you asserting that, in your opinion, every perversion known to the Roman soldiers at that time were performed on Jesus in that instance?

My interactions with them have tended to be more laissez-faire, types, that is, they didn't judge me nor want my judgement. Other than that, they've been cordial, and occasionally evidenced notable mutual respect.

"I've had enough of this." "No, you haven't." "Oh, shut up."

"We're the Warner Brothers!" "Like the studio?" "Not really, but we don't have any choice..." Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Warner, the principal characters on "Animaniacs"- along with Pinky and the Brain, Goodfeathers,(pigeons that were "connected" and worked for the Godpigeon) Mindy and Buttons, (a demented Lassie ripoff) Rita and Runt (the musical numbers with a singing cat and slow-witted dog), and a few others. When they were dressed as Musketeers, they reminded Slappy Squirrel of a young Yippy, Yoppey, and Yahooey.