WordWolf

"Whenever we kiss I get a feeling like this. I get to wishing that there was two of you. My heart cries out 'More, baby' "

To hear Mark Sanguinetti tell it, vpw HIMSELF called himself that to Mark. However, he appeared to have been joking at the time.

One last digression. Waydale had this, and the GSC Editorials had this. "Onion Free Zone." Here it is again. " The Way's Onion Free Zone (This article first appeared on WayDale's Discussion Forums) Craig Martindale does not like the smell of onions. THEREFORE, the TWI Food Services Department NEVER prepares food with onions as part of the recipe. NEVER. What's the big deal you may ask? Well, why not ask a staffer who has lived in an onion free zone for 10 years how he or she feels about it. Don't you guys know how good onions taste??? Imagine having almost EVERY meal that you eat in an average month, cooked for you and served to you by TWI FOOD SERVICES. Now, further imagine that you will NEVER have onions be a part of that meal. Are you getting nervous yet? :-) A few years ago I asked the Food Services Dept. coordinator about this *Onion Free Zone* that surrounds HQ. He told me that as *Rev.* Martindale doesn't like the smell of onions, Food Services chooses not to prepare meals with onions in the recipes. Food Services was to do everything in its power to encourage *Rev.* Martindale to attend meals and nothing to discourage him. It seems that if *Rev.* Martindale attends a lunch time meal, he will likely share the *word* with everyone. But he won't attend the meal if he can smell onions! [Anyone who knows Martindale also know how sensitive he claims his sense of smell to be. Onions take him over the edge apparently. At the Advanced Class Special in Dallas in the 1998/1999 year, Martindale was moved through the hotel via the *staff only* corridors. This way he didn't have to stop to greet people at every turn. Martindale claimed that it was so as not to cause a big commotion/distraction with the believers whenever he (LCM) moved about. Way Corps made sure that these corridors had incense burning whenever Martindale was due to come through, in order to cover up the smells of cooking that would distract and upset LCM due to his *hyper-sensitive* sense of smell] Martindale only attends the HQ noon time meal, Mondays through Fridays. His other meals are prepared for him privately by his own in-home staff, and yet, despite this, TWI Food Services Department NEVER cook with onions for the other meals. Why? you ask - Because. That's why! Of course there's nothing to stop a staffer from sneaking an onion in the *privacy* of his or her Founder's Hall cell bedroom. Can you imagine expecting more than 500 people to forego a basic food prep. item such as onions in order to *bless the man of God*?? Seems to me that LCM would rather inconvenience and deprive 500 people as opposed to inconveniencing himself a little. Isn't this all backwards for a *servant* of men? The *Onion Issue* is another of the TWI staffer's many sensitive issues that they try to look stoically at. After all, if the staff can help MOGFOT (Man of God for Our Time) stay blessed, won't that help in God's work?"

Watered Garden: "Mr. Garden and I arrived early to enroll our son in school and were volunteers in the canning room for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately we knew more about safe food preparation and canning than the staff zeeatch in charge, so there were a few conflicts. Also, when we made salsa, we were strictly forbidden to include onions, as LCM hated onions. Nor were we allowed to put garlic in the salsa, because he also abhorred garlic! What the heck, does he just want tomato sauce? I suggested we make him a personal batch and label it "El Presidente Especial Blend" but OHHELLNO! If that was the president's preference we needed to renew our minds to his godly thoughts on salsa recipes! In spite of the largesse of foods and veggies, we ate meagerly. Most of the good stuff went to NK for pleasurable consumption by the MOG and his minions. Sad." Watered Garden: "I think I saw the height of this stupidity when I was in Family WC at Rome City. We were volunteered to help process tomatoes. This was actually before the official start of the program, but we were there, the tomatoes were there, and we knew what we were doing, actually much better than the person in charge. Comes time to make salsa. We didn't actually make the salsa but had to watch it cook. The salsa had no garlic and no onion. I politely pointed out what I saw as a glaring oversight, and was promptly informed that Official TWI Salsa NEVER NEVER NEVER contained garlic or onions! Perish the thought! Was I possessed? Did I not realize that THE MAN OF GOD FOR OUR DAY AND TIME AND HOUR absolutely hated garlic and onions? I then suggested we could make him his own little stash of garlic and onion free salsa, which we could also call tomato sauce, and make normal salsa for everyone else. The supervisor was equally aghast! NO NO NO NO NO! If the MOG hates onions and garlic, then the entire WC must avoid them like the plague. This left me with two thoughts: 1) The MOG has NO right to impose his personal preferences on the entire world. 2) This is not gonna be the best time of my life." Unrelated, but useful if making tomato sauce.... "A word abouttomato sauce : Don't cook it over high heat for hours - it brings out the acidity of the tomatoes. Lots of folks think its necessary to add sugar totomato sauce - that's because they are trying to mask this acidity. If you just simmer the sauce for no more than 2 hours it will be fine." -doojable Chef Robert Irvine (who does not post here) recommends adding carrots rather than sugar for balancing the flavors when cooking. Carrots contain glucose naturally,

BTW, blame lcm for your meals lacking onions and garlic. Since he disliked either, he made a federal case any time anyone cooked with it. So, all of you were deprived of it, even if it was for dinner and he wasn't eating with the rest of you.

BTW, if this works for you exactly as I said, and you get the image, you will have just that and not a screen-shot. That way, you won't need to trim out anything that wasn't in the imdb image- no "rest-of-your-screen" stuff (no titles, no desktop...) If you get the image from another site, always check the image's title- otherwise, if you post it, we'll be able to access its title. That's fine if the title is "1234dft42dsdgw34qwdads" or something like that. If the title is "batmanholdingabomb", then it gives away the movie. Imdb tends to give them alphanumeric sequences that don't spell out anything. If you do it the way that Raf and George mentioned, you'll get your whole screen, and need to use a program to trim the image- as both mentioned. My way, you generally won't need one unless you're very picky about what the image file contained that you got from imdb.

I can tell you the process if you're using FireFox. I imagine the steps might be the same. Here's what I do. I go to IMdb, look up the movie, and call up its photo gallery. I click into one photo. That brings up one photo on my screen, and I can page through the rest of the gallery. On the image itself, I right-click. That calls up the options menu. Among those are "View Image" and "Save Image as..." Clicking on "save image as" give me the choice of where to save it, and the option to rename it. Clicking on "view image" gives me the image at full size. On imdb, that's usually a lot bigger than it looked before. THEN I right-click to "save image as". Once you have the image saved, you can edit it, rename it, or use it as-is and just post it here. You already figured out how to attach the image to a post.

I was confusing this for "Light My Fire," by The Doors, but this obviously is not that song. It is "L.A. WOMAN" by The Doors. (Both songs have a line about a liar.)

It probably was yet another of those wild stories that got passed along in twi. People in twi never believed/never believe in VETTING a story, checking if it was true. They just pass it along without looking into it. (Some out of twi for decades still buy the imaginary snowstorm/ snow job story.) When I was in, I remember at least 1 person passing along a story. From what he said, I was under the impression he was describing a television show he saw once. No, he heard the story and passed it along entirely. It was an urban legend and easily disproved. However, he spoke as if he'd vetted his source. That was typical. Some ex-twiérs still buy into some OTHER group's nonsense just as easily, because some people never learn.

I'll run these past Mrs Wolf- she watched more of those types of shows than I did.

I'm enjoying it enough to keep playing. So long as nobody minds I'm getting the still-frames from Imdb or elsewhere rather than capturing them myself, I'm good to keep playing.

I intend to watch both. We're rationing our last 3 Arrowverse episodes- 1 Flash, 2 LoT The titles of the Stargirl episodes look promising. I hope they're not a lot more promising than the content. I've resumed watching "the Daily Show", mainly because it's still pretty funny and still making episodes every week.

That sounds correct. lcm HIMSELF documented something like that. In his book "vp and me", his book-long adoration of vpw, he said that vpw told lcm off for sending some of the Lightbearers off in the morning with NO BREAKFAST. lcm didn't think of himself as much of a breakfast person, but the reason WAS primarily to save money. vpw told him off SPECIFICALLY for being foolish in cutting a corner there. When vpw tells you off for being stingy- and it's not about something he's going to use personally- then you know you've REALLY gone too far. Normally, vpw wanted top dollar spent on HIM, but wanted everything else done on the cheap.

STL, I don't think it's unreasonable to ask you for a little more information about this. So, again, I ask you. In light of what we've learned recently (who he was, where he worked...) my question is shorter and more specific. WHERE did you hear this? WHOM did you hear this from? Did Ira Hearne HIMSELF say this? Was this mentioned by someone official during a teaching? Was this an offhand comment by someone at dinner?

This rings a bell. Lined 3 &4, and the last 2 lines sound vaguely familiar. I'll have to keep working on them and see if my memory cooperates.

Now that we have the correct spelling.... There's a few references to that book, with nothing new to add. There's also this: http://dlfarms.com/seasonal-garden-vegetables/ " In 1977, I began working with one of the foremost organic gardening experts in America, Ira Hearne. Ira lived in Ohio and managed the small farms department for a Christian ministry. Through his tutelage, I learned about growing food by “serving the soil.” On that six acre garden, we grew everything from asparagus to zucchini squash. We had an herb garden, 30 bee hives, a new orchard of fruit trees, chickens, goats, and beef cattle. We truly believed what we were doing was God’s intention on how to take care of his Creation." https://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/topic/16874-i-am-a-3-dr-pepper-drinker-a-day/?tab=comments#comment-403766 "My first year in-rez, betty bowen ran the kitchen at hq, and, a "rank unbeliever", eileen hitchen, was the chief cook. We ate great food, every day, with plenty of it available!.......except for the 3 times we endured the full three week long, grace bliss administered colon-cleanse torture..er, 'skuse me, program,....we ate quite well. .We also enjoyed organically grown meats and vegetables and fruits from the kipp farm, which was run by a tremendous fellow named ira hearne. .We butchered and cleaned pigs, cattle, chicken, and sheep, and we ate good meat at least once-a-day, 7 days a week. We also had fish several times a month. We had our fair share of granola, figpep, and other healthy grains and veggies, which i called "rabbit" or "bird" food. There were plenty of burgers, pizza and sometimes even beer!!. All the trustees and all the staff ate at least lunch together with the in-rez corps every day, and many times joined us for supper too, .....Always in the brc basement, in which we all fit comfortably back then. There were often bacon, homefries, and scrambled egg breakfasts, with real coffee and apple cider, etc.,......sometimes pancakes and syrup with fresh berries.. And there were actually several meals we all looked forward to, like eileen's homemade enchiladas, dripping with cheese and stuffed to the hilt with chicken, or pork, or ground beef with terrific refried beans and sour cream!........and there were usually abundant seconds and thirds available..........the food was the same during our second year too, again all in the basement of the brc......... however, the food at emporia was horrendous from day one, when it opened for in-rez corps training in august, 1975.....people were literally made sick by that garbage they served.........it seemed the food never improved there during the entire time it was open!........initially, the food at both indiana campus and gunnison was comparable to what was served at hq when we ate in the brc.............once the osc dining room and kitchen opened for "business", the quality and volume of food served at hq depreciated noticably!..." If it's the same guy, he either lives or lived in Wapakoneta. OH.

Yep- Sam Dooley and Rick Blaine (Bogart), together as Sam played the piano and sang. The closest we got was HER saying, "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.' " Rick replied, "If she can stand it, so can I. Play it."

I don't know more about this. I tried to find something, but that name is coming up empty in 2 different search engines. For the benefit of those of us who don't know, can you fill in a little bit? Who is/was Ira Hearnes? Where was this " ancient tomb" ? Where did you hear this? Example 1: "When I was in twi, there was some buzzing on-grounds around the BRC that some ancient tomb in Jerusalem was found to have seeds. There was this Christian farmer who was among those chosen to try to grow them. His name was ira Hearnes." Example 2: "While at the water-cooler at work, I'd heard a news story about an ancient tomb opened near Cairo. Supposedly some guy names Ira Hearnes was one of the people selected to try to grow them." Example 3: "I heard through the grapevine that Ira Hearnes was picked by a Senate subcommittee to go to some farm to try to grow some seeds found in some ancient tomb." There's huge differences between those, but all fit what little you said. If I had more, I might be able to do better searches. Can we get what little information you have?

Oops. Actually wanted this one...

So, here's the next movie. Should be fairly easy.

Yeah. I get busy at unpredictable moments, lately.

If it was dumped in my lap, there would be an episode or 2 with his powers going crazy, then he'd stabilize with a new face. Again, this would have been easier to fix during CoIE.

How about "MELROSE PLACE"???

The Nitpickers Guides were fun. Personally, I liked "alternate explanations"- which is how some labeled "mistake" may not have been. I like to see if I can "fix" a problem so that the story we saw was "correct" because there's no actual internal error. (Example: We'd heard that the Borg had no names. Yet "Locutus" had one. I said "it's not his name TO the Borg, it's his name TO humans because he was borged specifically to be a spokesborg to the Federation and Earth." And so on. Other example- Riker was given a field promotion to Captain of the Enterprise-D at the beginning of "Best of Both Worlds 2". yet, afterwards, when Picard returned to duty, Riker was a Commander again. Since Riker had been offered 3 commands already, most recently the same Melbourne that was destroyed at Wolf 359, he was considered qualified for the promotion. Raf's explanation- that Admiral died at Wolf 359 but never put through Riker's promotion formally, possibly due to everything else keeping him busy at the time.) I'm confident that those Guides improved DS9. A lot of continuity gaffes could have been fixed with a line or 3 of dialogue. After the DS9 Guide came out, later seasons included such dialogue. Example: Before the Guide was the "Sword of Kahless" episode. Worf was able to just get up and leave the station with no comments- his job must really be make-work! After the Guide (and that comment), we saw another episode where Worf went away again. We had a moment where the senior staff sat around a table at Quark's, venting about all the extra work they had to make up for Worf's absence. (Miles had to hand-inspect all the hand-phasers, Julian had to wade through ALL reports to find the few that affected the station...) I'm certain those improvements came from knowing the fans were paying attention. In fact, I saw 2 moments where there were opportunities for gaffes, and the production team put in the work to prevent it. Example 1: Odo gained back his ability to shape-shift. As he was regaining it, I began watching closely. he transformed into a bird and flew up- leaving behind the cloth uniform Garak had made for him. It wasn't the focus of the scene, but it was clearly visible for those of us looking specifically for it. Example 2: Sisko rushes the Defiant (NX) to Cardassia Prime and said to ready the cloaking device. I watched Julian, who looked like he had something to say- and hoped it was a comment about their agreement with the Romulans about not using the device in the Alpha Quadrant. That IS what Julian said, Sisko agreed, but added he intended to survive this mission. "Well, I won't tell the Romulans if you won't." That's all that had to be said on the subject. And I was satisfied.

Mrs Wolf saw CoIE, and thought that the time to switch Batwoman would have been the beginning of Part 5- possibly not revealing she was different until afterwards in her own series. After all, we saw different Clark Kents, and different Lex Luthors, why not a different Kate Kane? She and I had different thoughts about whether or not flashbacks should show her with the first actress (she remembers the previous events) or re-remembering them with the new actress (her memories "corrected" to her current appearance.) Yes. the current thing also kicks out a "paragon", and so on. But, again, I'm not their target audience, so obviously they don't care what I think.