Raf

It's clear that you do not take this discussion seriously, as is your right. Derailing the thread is not. It ends now.

Your assumption is not correct. I will be as explicit as I can because this keeps coming up. The statement I made in the opening post does not require any particular definition of God-breathed/theopneustos/given by inspiration of God. It simply does not matter how one defines those terms. If you view theopneustos as perfect in every way, then you can rule out PFAL. You can also rule out the Bible. Neither is perfect in every way, and (in my view) neither even claims to be. So far we are on the same page. NOW, eliminate "perfect" as a definition or defining characteristic of theopneustos. Your new definition is "___." And with THAT definition, you rule out PFAL but include the Bible as God-breathed. I contend you can't do it, no matter how you fill in that blank. The determination that something is theopneustos and something else is not is ultimately arbitrary, even capricious. Whatever criteria you use to rule out PFAL as theopneustos can also be used to rule out the Bible, and how you define theopneustos ultimately does not matter. Mike and I do have something in common in this regard: we both believe PFAL and the Bible belong on the same plane when it comes to divine inspiration. But where Mike wants to elevate PFAL to the place where Christians revere or respect the Bible, I contend they are equally NOT inspired by anything supernatural. That's not to say they are of equal quality. That's a different discussion. They are equally not God-breathed.

Michael J. Fox

Does someone want to take him aside, intervention style, and help him stop making a total Balaam's Donkey out of himself?

It was Ally McBeal and The Practice. You're up.

Demoniations? WTF is this guy babbling about? You are making no g-dang sense. You keep getting everything wrong, especially when talking about what i'm trying to say. I take Mike too seripusly? Are you f-ing stoned? See that calendar? Does it say 2003? No, dip. It's 2023. It's been decades since I took Mike remotely seriously. That's part of the point of this thread which you would know if you had the reading comprehension skills of a lemur. Not one person said anything remotely approaching this. Please hire a lawyer and sue every school that gave you a passing grade in reading comprehension. You have a case. You will win. Use the proceeds to find a f'ing real school.

The Great Muppet Caper

it is. David Banner was the next and last one

If you were any closer you would be right.

The song most identified with Billy Joel is, of course, Piano Man, released in Nov. 1973. His last hit was Lullabye, off the River of Dreams album.

Last two before the giveaway: Russell Donavan Tim O'Hara

sorry, not a lot more to choose from save the giveaway...

Musical interlude does not necessarily mean characters breaking into song. And in this case it mostly did not. The average dress size of the female characters [all full-grown adults] was 0-2.

This movie starred everybody. Except me.

He's more associated with Long Island, just outside NYC, rather than the Bronx.

Correction: he DOES have a Tony. No Oscar and no Emmy. He played piano on an early demo version of "The Leader of the Pack" by the Shangri-Las. Played the first rock concert ever at Yankee Stadium and the last rock concert ever at Shea Stadium [home of the NY Mets]. In 2018 he played his 100th concert at Madison Square Garden in NYC. His guest was Bruce Springsteen.

You going somewhere with this?

No. BOTH shows were hits with critics and audiences. Cop Rock was not a comedy.

Name BOTH shows. One was a comedy about members of a certain profession. It was light-hearted and fun. Lots of musical interludes. The other was a drama about the same profession. It dealt with grim topics and serious ethical dilemmas. You would never know they were set in the same universe until one day, a character from the comedy got in an elevator and bumped into a character from the drama. Their exchange was something along the lines of, "You could use a cookie." "Look who's talking!" The stunt was possible because both shows were set in the same city, often in the same building, and had the same producers. It was odd because they were different genres and aired on different networks. Nonetheless, they decided to go for it one year and have a full blown cross-network-crossover, at the end of which the comedy characters, guest starring in the drama, looked at each other and said they didn't want to be a part of that side of their world. It was a critically acclaimed crossover of two critically acclaimed shows. They never repeated the stunt.

His breakthrough album was released in 1977. It contained a number of huge hits that remain well known and still get airplay. He made $3,000 from it. And yeah, he was bitter about it. Good thing he had concerts. Did I say had? Still has. Regularly. Like all the time.

Wrong thread. No idea how. Sorry

George is closer. His last hit song was released in 1994. It was a sleeper. He never won an Oscar, though he did contribute an original song to a Disney movie. Never won a Tony, though there was a jukebox musical of his hits on Broadway. Never won an Emmy, though one of his songs figured prominently in a dream sequence of a major hit comedic drama series. Yeah, he has Grammys.

He played... Matt Cassidy Willie Abbott Anthony Blake/Anthony Dorian Tom Corbett

You associate this artist with another location to the extent you'd be surprised to learn he was born in The Bronx. He started out as a boxer, and won 22 Golden Gloves fights. But he had a strong desire to play music, so he joined a heavy metal band named Attila. That didn't work out for him. Music did work out, though. Today, when he plays a concert, he doesn't allow the venue to sell the first few rows of tickets. Instead, he gives them away to real fans. Not entirely sure how he identifies them. He's written more than 50 hit songs, and the one people identify with him most turns 50 this year.

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