WordWolf

No. He's well-known, but not QUITE as well known. But, cheez, have a lot of actors played him! (No, I didn't hide a clue in there, I was just making an observation.)

Orson Welles John Gielgud Clive Merrison Stewart Granger John Cleese Roger Moore Christopher Plummer Frank Langella Tom Baker Peter O'Toole Peter Cushing Charleton Heston Christopher Lee Patrick Mc Nee Matt Frewer Rupert Everett Jonathan Pryce Michael York Milton Berle Alan Napier Boris Karloff Peter Lawford Peter Capaldi Louis Oliver Moffatt John Barrymore Michael Caine Johnny Depp Ian McKellen

Was that the "Charles" character from the "Infantile Amusements" series?

What you said may well be true, but most of those actors never played Dracula. They all, however, have shared a different role.

Orson Welles John Gielgud Clive Merrison Stewart Granger John Cleese Roger Moore Christopher Plummer Frank Langella Tom Baker Peter O'Toole Peter Cushing Charleton Heston Christopher Lee Patrick Mc Nee Matt Frewer

No.

A) Dinner Impossible. B) Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. C) World's Worst Cooks. D)Kitchen Boss. E) Iron Chef America. F) Chefs Vs City G) Guys Grocery Games (Triple-G). George's turn!

"Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives." But that's the CORRECT show.

No.

Ok, some cooking shows. Name any to take the round. A) Michael Symon filled in for a season when Robert Irvine was fired for padding his resume. RI returned for the next season, because he was interesting and Symon was not! B) Guy Fieri zooms around, stopping at little hole-in-the-wall eating establishments and other places, and finds out how they make some specialty for which they are known. The nickname for this show is "Triple-D". C) 2 chefs assemble teams, then try to teach them to make dishes- after which the teams compete to make the dishes competently. D) Buddy Velasco tried to do a standard cooking show. This was the result- and it's not his best-remembered work.... E) Who decided that the best choice for a host for a cooking show is an actor-martial artist? Mark DeCasco was the host for a while. F) This show ended because Chris Cosentino, one of its hosts, was too injured from various "eat the hot food" challenges to continue in his role. Aron Sanchez and he normally had traveled from place to place, trying to out-cook and out-race local chefs at some local dishes and local sites. (The locals may be used to making the dish all the time, and definitely knew all the driving shortcuts.) Both teams (of 2) were issued a car and backpack for the episode (ignore the backpack's contents and risk losing the episode for lack of some critical tool.) One season had Food Network chefs brought in to compete against Aron and Chris. G) Walmart "Flavortown" is the setting for this cooking show. Four chefs (professional or amateur) compete to make a specified type of dish within the parameters, using the workstations provided and the contents of the Walmart "Flavortown" supermarket in which this show is filmed.

Ok, name this role: Orson Welles John Gielgud Clive Merrison Stewart Granger John Cleese Roger Moore Christopher Plummer Frank Langella Tom Baker

"Pinky and the Brain"?

Had to be somebody who's been all over the place. In this case, this "dirty, rotten scoundrel" was MICHAEL CAINE, wasn't it?

Everybody had heard the news. It was the headline of all the UK newspapers the day before the Advanced class started. (The headline for the Daily Mail was "We Belong Together", with a photo of Germans from both East and West holding hands and standing on a piece of the wall. The headline for the Sun was "Red and Buried!" with a photo of some of the wall's wreckage.) I expect every attendee knew. I don't know why there were no comments whatsoever. I also thought it was strange that WS, the country coordinator from Germany, had to catch his news on the same little TV on the bottom floor "garden level" that the rest of us caught things on. In fairness, most of the TV I saw then- which wasn't much- was more at the local pub in the village ("the Black Bull") than the little TV.

What's twice as shocking to me, although of less relative importance to the posters, is that the people at Gartmore House didn't make any kind of comment, not even at dinner in-house. Why is that shocking to me? The country coordinator for Germany was there, helping to run an Advanced Class at the time. When he had free time, he was often watching the news to keep up (this was pre-internet for most of us.) I suspect, had vpw not killed himself with carcinogens before that and left office, he would have had a LOT to say on the subject.

"Why do you have to take this so personal?" You wouldn't like it if you were in a discussion, and suddenly disagreements went from actual discussing into "So, that's your only care and concern? Not, what the truth is?' and . "...what appears to me to be some rather emotional and artificial reason, rather than given much of any real thought to the points or questions already posed" I think you're being a bit more honest with "Look, the fact here is, I really don't care much what your reason is or isn't for posting what you did. " Antagonistic responses are arriving independent of whether we're having a nice discussion or whether someone's trying to be dishonest, underhanded, or deliberately obtuse or obstructive. If that's going to be the response style to everything, then go ahead and have the last word on the subject. I thought you wanted to discuss and have an intelligent process going, I was obviously mistaken.

WW: " the Deathstroke fight was just insulting- starting with how Deathstroke moved a LOT faster than the Flash, who apparently chose to shove his chest onto a stationary sword.) " G St G: "I seem to recall that Deathstroke basically positioned himself so that Flash could only attack from one direction. Still, highly unreasonable, since Flash can vibrate through matter and, hence, attack from ANY angle." The problem there is just how fast the Flash was. When he was LESS fast than that, we saw an issue where he was in a house where a bomb went off. Shown from his perspective, we saw he had enough time to snarf up some food (he needed to fuel up back then), collect up 2 normal speed people from inside the house, and deposit them onto the lawn outside before the explosion reached them and harmed them. Simply put, Deathstroke was effectively standing still when the Flash moved. The Flash had a LOT of time to see where he was going and what was going on. Deathstroke somehow moved his sword ONCE FLASH STARTED MOVING. BTW, if he can actually break the speed of sound like that without Flash-type powers, there should have been a sonic boom when he moved. Anyway, even if Deathstroke moved, say, at Mach 2 somehow, Flash would have had a lot of time to see that as he approached, and to react accordingly. He would have had sufficient time to move out of the way once the sword touched his shirt. And, as you said, he could simply vibrate through the sword. The fight also had the Atom forget he could adjust his mass, even slightly, and land immediately, after being pushed by a faint burst of energy. (Amazing how Deathstroke developed the ability to effortlessly see things too small to be resolved by the human eye at that moment.) Zatanna was able to speak, but lacked the focus to complete a one-syllable spell ("POTS!") Black Canary was unable to strike Deathstroke at a distance- which is something her Canary Cry does all the time, at the speed of sound. We saw JLA members, one after another, blunder their way through a fight, followed by Ollie's claim that the JLA teaches you how to fight. BTW, Hawkman is VERY focused. He can stop flying and continue a battle in free-fall, knowing he has to finish it before he can try to fly again, and has done so. If his harness was damaged while he had a free hit, he would take his free hit and then fall. Hawkman had his heavy mace in his hand- Deathstroke should have had that thing slam into his head. Oh, Green Lantern! Kyle Rayner, some time before this, had taken on the power of Ion. Before giving it up, he upgraded his GL power ring. Among the other modifications was to limit it so that it responded to him and nobody else. and he didn't have to wear it to use it. He demonstrated by flinging it out a window and calling it back to his hand. Some time later, Amon Sur stole Kyle's ring. Kyle was able to spy on all his activities, using the ring to project an image of what Amon was doing while he wore it, and Amon was unable to control it at all, but Kyle controlled it on Amon's finger. The exceptions to Kyle controlling that ring would either people sharing his DNA (like his descendants) or Hal Jordan, who previously wore that very same ring (before Ganthet reshaped it) so he was sort-of "grandfathered" in. When Deathstroke tried to control the ring, it should have ignored him. BTW, Kyle, an anime fan, knows how to use the ring to make anime powered armor to fight in a close space while being protected. When that issue hit the stands, I did a panel-by-panel breakdown of that fight. Nearly every single panel had a technical error in it. I suspect the Flash problem was the writer's inability to grasp Wally's speed at the time. Shortly before CoIE, Wally had retired. He seemed to be moving slower, and using his speed seemed to be killing him. At THAT point, Deathstroke was not much slower than him, reflex-wise. After CoIE, Wally's speed had stabilized, and his new top speed was about Mach 1. After THAT, his speed varied quite a bit, but was a LOT faster than Mach 1. After THAT, Wally merged with the Speed Force and came back, and was even FASTER afterwards. It was at THAT point that "Identity Crisis" happened. Before the merging with the Speed Force was the incident with the explosion. (Sometime before the merging, his connection to the Speed Force had improved- which is why he no longer had to eat large amounts when using his speed- he was now getting the energy from the Speed Force.) If it had been me, I would have made sure the Flash and Green Lantern were nowhere near that fight. ===================== I think there's a mistake in promising "Invasion!" on a TV budget, since animation is probably the only way to manage events on that scale. They shouldn't have set themselves such a big target to hit. So, don't blame me too much for expecting "Invasion" when that's what they intentionally promised. I wasn't crushed, but I was hoping for a lot more than we got.

TLC: "But, perhaps the intention is merely to make that particular aspect or perspective sound as difficult or as "unlikely" as possible... " TLC: "This "who is in charge" angle (or approach, if you prefer) to oikinomia is not something I've really encountered or thought much about before, and quite frankly, I'm just not sure how or someone else might see or want to frame it in those terms, aside from it being a strawman." That's twice in 2 successive posts you've accused me of handling things dishonestly. I don't know if you intended to be insulting like that, but that's what you're posting. I was under the impression that you wanted to get into all of this because you wanted an intelligent discussion, so I stayed in out of respect, but I'm not going to bother if this is how it's going to be.

How long it took to go from "name it after my uncle" to "name it after something they did in the Bible." More than a decade after it started, more than 5 years after its namesake's death, and THEN it changed. For those paying attention, it mocks the idea that the Bible is the only important thing in twi.

If you're watching Batwoman, I highly doubt you have a "phobia." I object to the casual misuse of words, even if others do not. Disliking something is not a "phobia" any more than liking something is a "fetish". Some people may misuse both words that way, but I do not (unless it's in jest, and exaggeration is a legitimate figure of speech.) So, "the New Guardians" sprang from "Millenium." The cast from "Millenium" sounded like someone was trying to tick their way down some odd list, then handed the cast list off to the story's writer and said "Write this story." I suspect the overt acknowledgement of their inability to carry out their appointed task was the writer's way of admitting he thought it was stupid, also. That interested me MORE in the series, because the writer was aware of what was going on and was writing his story accordingly. But, that's really all that can be said for either story. Marv Wolfman complained, over a decade after CoIE, that they may have set the bar too high. Now, people were expecting a huge crossover in the Summer, and it wasn't mega enough if there wasn't a body count. In fairness, some big crossovers worked, some did not. "Atlantis Attacks" didn't work. "Operation Galactic Storm" DID work. "JLApe" worked because DC doubled down on the cheese factor, and didn't pretend the story was serious. "JL?" worked because they made it short and just involved the JLA cast's series, plus the framing issues at the beginning and end. "Invasion!" worked- which was amazing, considering how much they crammed into it. "Our World At War" and "Panic in the Sky!" didn't garner more than token audiences, so if that's what they were aiming for, they succeeded. With the name to live up to, and all the hype they've generated, I hope the Arrowverse CoIE lives up to its hype. The possible problem is being unable to do so. JK Rowling promised a lot for the end of the Harry Potter series, and foreshadowed a lot, and pulled a "read and find out" when asked about "the Prophecy" and its implications- then failed to deliver. (As phrased, it didn't come to pass, and she said she'd phrased it "extremely carefully and that's all I have to say on the subject!") She also said not to trust anything that didn't come from the official sources of Warner, Bloomsbury, Schoolastic, or herself like her own website. Then she wrote something on her website that she contradicted heavily in Book 7 ("What happens to a secret when the Secret-Keeper dies?" Her own answer on her own website was the opposite of what she wrote in Book 7 when it happened.) The movies where pretty good, but I felt the last 2 books didn't match up to her hype- and, frankly, could NOT have done so. Her mouth had written checks her writing ability couldn't cash. Robert Jordan used to pull "Read And Find Out" on questions about his Wheel of Time series (not all questions, though). but he delivered on those by the end of his epic. The comic "Identity Crisis" was hyped to the heavens when it was coming out. Renowned mystery writer etc was writing it. And the miniseries failed as a good story AND failed as a mystery! (The "thunk" just before the first murder was never addressed, until several years later when a different writer added something, and the Deathstroke fight was just insulting- starting with how Deathstroke moved a LOT faster than the Flash, who apparently chose to shove his chest onto a stationary sword.) When I speculated on the solution, I used all the elements he'd introduced into the story, and only added a minor piece of tech to the entire thing. Someone else had speculated early, and guessed the correct answer, based on it being the STUPIDEST possible way to resolve the story. They followed that up with "Infinite Crisis", which struck me as a mockery of the original CoIE, as if someone heard a description of the previous one, and decided that it didn't sound hard to do it again, then came out with "Infinite Crisis." After that, I stopped giving DC the benefit of the doubt on anything. This has saved me a lot of disappointment since then. Considering how good "Invasion!" the comic was, I found the Arrowverse version a major letdown. I'm cautious about whether or not to hope for the best for the new crossover.

TLC: "Geesh... can't say that I've ever even heard reasoning against seeing it as periods of time because there was some hard cut off point where one starts the other ends. When or where or why did "transition periods" get cut out of that picture? But, perhaps the intention is merely to make that particular aspect or perspective sound as difficult or as "unlikely" as possible... " I have to see it work "on paper" if I'm going to take it seriously. If it's "administrations" like the US government, then at any point, technically, one President or another is officially in charge, and the Secret Service are clear on who it is if no one else is. In college, I was in a student organization for a number of years, and I discovered that it was actually important to know exactly who was in charge at any moment in the school year. (I had written into the group's constitution the specific determinant on when the group's president changed- it was tied to the Final Exam schedule of the semester, so that the next president and cabinet was in power during Winter or Summer break, so they could get things prepared, and we were clear who was supposed to be prepping things.) If it's a governmental thing, the US is hardly the only government where "who is in charge this minute" after elections has become a sticking point- I saw one country's president decide to vanish as soon as they lost re-election, which prompted the president-elect to immediately assume the office to prevent an absence of president (he got sworn in immediately.) It's not about how the ideas are made to sound, it's about trying to get clear concepts, then looking at them coldly and seeing if they hold up under scrutiny. I don't hold to a doctrine if it doesn't withstand my scrutiny, whether or not I LIKE the doctrine. (That's been true for a VERY long time.) When vpw introduced the concept of "administrations" in pfal, he himself said that some of them ended ABRUPTLY, so the idea was introduced by him. If that's not true but the rest is, I'm open to hearing how "transition periods" are supposed to work. Adam and Eve were cast out of Paradise, and the Patriarchal "administration" supposedly began immediately. Moses was given the Law, and the Law "administration" was in effect.

I did forget LL was made one of their agents, aka a "manhunter" with all the others, like Laurel Kent from the Legion of Super Heroes' farm team. (Wait- if Superman had no decendants, who is she? *Laurel android explodes* ) I was one of the few people who was reading "the New Guardians", the series about the Millenium folk, mainly because I was interested in where the story was going to go when even the characters realized their primary mission was doomed to failure. Ok, in "Millenium", the Guardians (of the Universe) and the Zamarons (male and female from Maltus, respectively) decided to jumpstart the next species to replace them, and went to Earth to do it. With the entire population to choose from, their list of about a dozen included a dead villain (Terra), a South African white supremacist, and a plant being who was also in Arkham Asylum (Floronic Man.) When they were done, they had Harbinger (from CoIE), Jet (who was given identical powers to Harbinger, and nobody knew why), Floro the plant being, Betty or whoever who merged with the Earth, and a gay man. For people who were supposed to get a headstart on a new species of human, who had received extensive instructions from their instructors (one Guardian, one Zamaron), even THEY admitted their small group was ill-equipped to have offspring- of all the males, only RAM was able to sire children (Extraño was technically capable but disinterested) and only Gloss, Jet and Harbinger were capable of bearing children. Then again, Tom Kalmaku ("Pieface") was supposed to be in the group but initially refused, adding one more male. I'm baffled why they thought the white supremacist was going to be a good choice, or why the sociopathic dead criminal made the short list. Floro was already genetically infertile, and Betty was made so when they gave her powers and she merged with the Earth. On paper, even "the New Guardians" knew this didn't work, and were unsure how to proceed even with whatever they were told. So, I was curious where their story would go. The answer, ultimately, was "nowhere." They fizzled out. A few of them were quietly killed off here and there much later once they were supposedly forgotten.

*checks* Dr Helga Jace first appeared in the first episode I missed chronologically. I had no idea she'd appeared. In the comics, Dr Jace gave Terra and Geo-Force their powers. (She was also one of the infiltrators in "Millenium" but I think everyone's trying to forget that except me. You may remember one week with Dr Jace and a bunch of other, minor characters announcing "I'm a Manhunter." )

But- are they different time periods because they're required to be- as in "this period ended and this other one began at the same time", or because different people are under different rules because that's what was asked of them? Jesus told a parable about the workers in the field, with some angry because others got a better deal even though theirs was good. Right now, if we're "under grace", is "the law" just as effective as it was before, even if it's outmoded and obsolete? If the answer is "yes", then the critical difference is not the TIME, it is the RULES. IF that is so, then it's not "time periods" as much as the relationships or covenants or sets of rules someone is under, and 2 or more sets can be in effect and work at the same time. If it's time-periods, then that can't be true- just as there's only one president of a nation at a time, only one government can legally rule a nation at a time (Obama's term ended and Trump's began, etc.)

BTW, my posting for the rest of the year might be somewhat erratic. My internet has been going up and down (we're going to install a different provider within the week.) I'm stepping out of town for about a week before Thanksgiving. My PC may drop dead before it can be replaced (I hope to replace it in 2019.) So, don't rush to assume I'm in the trunk of someone's car with duct tape over my mouth or something.