WordWolf

Oh, you're going to LOVE the explanation for the broken mints...... vpw had standing instructions to have mints at the podium for when he showed up. (He did NOT explain it was to cover the booze on his breath, which would have helped understanding.....) At one point, vpw mentioned in passing that he broke the mints. So, naturally, an instruction went around IMMEDIATELY- always break the mints FOR vpw before he gets there....eventually going to "break them in 3 pieces." So, vpw started showing up to the podium, intending to put an intact mint in his mouth, and crack it open to use the interior to hide the booze on his breath with the stronger interior. One day, he got there, and the mints were all cut up. So, he went with it. That kept happening. After a few weeks, and after that became a long-standing tradition to break the mints in 3 pieces no matter what- vpw was speaking at the podium, and made a passing comment about all the mints he could find being these little smashed bits or whatever. Immediately, people began pointing out he said he broke the mints, so they were saving him trouble. "I meant, I break them IN MY MOUTH!" vpw never meant them to cut up his mints, he meant to hide all the booze on his breath. But he mentioned it out loud, some time after he insisted that "the suggestion of a general is tantamount to an order" , and after he'd equated himself with every kind of leader, generals included. So, the dutiful people tried to help him. I SWEAR I have not made up ANY of this.

I don't think the current players are sports fans.

That was Conan the Barbarian, when Conan was making his prayer to Crom. Aw, nuts, George beat me to it.

John Cusack The Road to Wellville Matthew Broderick

The scene where Penguin dehydrates his mooks ends with that improvised line about being careful and how each of them has a mother. All the other Bat movies were Warner Brothers. Bruno Diaz is Bruce Wayne, Ricardo Tapia is Dick Grayson (now finally known as Rick Grayson after too many decades and too many jokes, not to mention curse blockers stopping his name.) Gotham City, if it's anywhere, is located in New Jersey (Bludhaven also.) And so on.

Confirming it is the Batman 66 movie.

I'm going to give "Gotham Knights" a chance. I found the first episode interesting- but there better be more substance soon, or the story is going to eat itself.

Um, "Inner Space"...... DENNIS QUAID?????

Um, which one was he, again? I think this was STEVE MARTIN.

"Ooh- give me a chance, give me a sign. I'll show her anytime."

Here's a title cut off another album sitting in that window right now. "We don't need no education."

I passed by a bookstore last week. In the window, as has been the custom recently, they had several vinyl records displayed for sale. One that had been added last week was Dire Straits' "Brothers In Arms." The answer this round was "WALK OF LIFE," 2nd hit single off of Dire Straits' "Brothers in Arms." (IIRC, also the last hit single off of that album.

Raf posted that the answer was "Revolution." He posted a movie question, and judged my answer close enough to count as correct. So, I posted this one, which you answered CORRECTLY. The Buggles' one hit was nicely symbolic for MTV coming in and changing the music landscape.

The prosperity gospel is a hallmark of the dangerous Word of Faith Movement, of which vpw was an incredibly minor player, copying others. We were taught that if we wanted something, we could ask God Almighty and He'd give it to us. https://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/topic/25436-the-dangerous-word-of-faith-movement-and-how-it-harmed-christians-in-twi/

Next. We all know MTV used to play music videos. In fact, it exclusively used to play music videos. When MTV first began broadcasting, what was the first video they played?

Say 'goodbye' to the oldies-but-goodies, 'cause the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems. "Keeping the Faith", Billy Joel.

Ok, most likely some vampire flick, then. "Dracula-the Untold Story"???

Some prints of this movie omit the final line from a scene- one of my favorite lines from the movie- "Every one of them has a mother." There's some prints that leave out part of the scene where 2 of the characters reach a boat. What was Jack La Lanne doing in this movie? Some of the characters have odd histories. One had a last name of "Beagle" before it was rewritten into the now-familiar last name (and middle names "Thaddeus Crane"). Another was visually based on the comic strip character "Broadway Bates." (With a middle name of "Chesterfield.") Another has the middle name "Worthington." (None of the middle names appeared in the movie.) It's not stated in the movie, but it's thought the bulk of the story took place in New Jersey. The Spanish-language version of this movie included characters named Bruno Diaz and Ricardo Tapia Someone parodied Nikita Krushchev's famous "bang the shoe at the UN" moment in this movie. A Chrysler Imperial and a Lincoln Futura prototype both appear in this movie A former Miss America appeared in the cast. References to Robert Louis Stevenson's novels were snuck into the movie, but not into the dialogue. This movie was NOT distributed by Warner Brothers (making it peculiar). Once you've seen the scene where "Bringing in the Sheaves" is played, it's hard not to have the song stuck in your head whenever thinking about that scene.

I am??? Ok, hold on.....

Ok, the most recent series has had at least 7 seasons, so that eliminates a few possibilities. I'm thinking this is only one of a few possible franchises, but I'm not sure which has been around longer. So, I'll go with a "CSI" spinoff. Is it a "CSI" spinoff?

Then Raf was right. Wordpup loves the concept of the Rickroll. Furthermore, he's cool with Rick Astley's song without any tricks.

(I thought "You're all mad" was actually a giveaway.)

Ironically, it was a small number. Was it "ONE"?

There's a few possibilities here. I'll start with the outlier. "HIGHLANDER???"

The link isn't working for me. What song did he say it was?