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I will not campaign. If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve.

DOOOOOOOOOOJ!!!!

Maverick Jodie Foster Sommersby

I wish I knew how to quit you, SIR!

Wesley Snipes New Jack City Judd Nelson

No need to apologize: it wasn't a need. GS is working just fine. :)

Kevin Bacon! Just kidding (although he is in it, I really want to go with someone a wee bit more obscure...) David Strathairn L.A. Confidential James Cromwell

Dirty Movie.

What a cast! Robert DeNiro, Kathy Bates, F. Murray Abraham, Gabriel Byrne, Harvey Keitel... When a cast that extraordinary makes a film and you still haven't heard of it, rest assured, it's a godawful movie. Great book, though. You're up.

Heh heh heh... good one. Back to Bataan

Hey guys. It's time for me to shut down the Living Epistles Society Web site. I'm not sure exactly when. I haven't had time to update the main site, and the forum gets very little activity, so it really hasn't done much of anything lately expcept take up cyberspace. Maybe another time. Thanks for all the encouragement over the years. But I'll still be a regular here at the Greasespot Cafe.

Looking at the legalities of the Swaggart case: I can see where and why he got into trouble. It was not about losing tax exempt status. It was about the commercial sale of a product. This is why in most cases televangelists will tell you that books and other materials are "free" when you make a certain donation. It's a technicality, but a perfectly legal one. That way the non-profit can say they are not charging you for the product they're sending you. But Swaggart was actually selling books in bookstores and expecting to get away without paying the sales tax. Dimwitted. And yes, Tom, that is why the PFAL class was offered to those who made a specific donation. If they charged for the class, they'd have to charge the sales tax. The government usually winks at this kind of thing.

That's the part I was missing. Having not been a part of the group for years before that, I wouldn't have known this bit.

Noni, My experience was that we paid for the Watchtower and Awake magazines, then did with them as we pleased. If people gave us money, we took at as reimbursement. If they did not, we counted it as a donation. Is my memory faulty? The Watchtower is in no danger of losing tax exempt status for selling magazines, even if they make a profit off them. There's nothing in non-profit law that stops a non-profit from owning and making money off of a publication (the Poynter Institute, for example, is a non-profit organization that publishes the St. Petersburg Times, a for-profit venture: the money that comes in from the paper finances the non-profit activities of the Institute). As long as the vast majority of the non-profit's activities are consistent with non-profit status, for-profit endeavors are considered fundraising. Poynter's not a perfect example, but we could discuss that in detail another time. === Other similarities: JW's teach that stauros means Jesus was nailed to a single stake (no crossbeam), just as Wierwille demonstrated in PFAL. Big difference: Jehovah's Witnesses do not teach that God expects a tithe from Christians.

I think Dooj got it. Tooth House Juan? Asp Ace Sod Dizzy.

Yay! Happy B_day!

Sorrow/Gay/Blade.

:) I'm so PROUD of you, CA Dreaming!

Dang. And I was going to use BASEketball. Salma (sigghhhhhh) Hayek Dusk Till Dawn George Clooney

One. And it's more than close. As far as the third pic: you're looking at the wrong thing.

Not even close. So far, not even a syllable has been guessed.

My guess would have been wrong. There actually is a movie called "Diamond Dead." I'll come up with one in the morning, unless someone wants to jump in.

I guess I'm asking, do I get credit for coming up with something close? Or do we wait for someone to get it exactly right?

All together now! Don't forget, jump and turn left. Okay, ready? One, two, three! HEY MACARENA! (jump!) That was terrible.