WordWolf

Let's give Human a few more hours.

"I'm not feeling alright today, I'm not feeling that great, I'm not catching on fire today, Love has started to fade, I'm not going to smile today, I'm not gonna laugh, You're out living it up today, I've got dues to pay.When the grave digger puts on the forceps, The stonemason does all the work, The barber can give you a haircut, The carpenter can take you out to lunch, Now, I just want to play on my panpipes, I just want to drink me some wine, As soon as you're born, you start dying, So you might as well have a good time,"

In this thread, if one half of the answer eludes you, plug in the other and see what matches up with it...

Different song, same artist. "I'm not feeling alright today, I'm not feeling that great, I'm not catching on fire today, Love has started to fade, I'm not going to smile today, I'm not gonna laugh, You're out living it up today, I've got dues to pay."

In this TV-movie, chef Gordon Ramsay tries to help restaurant owners who struggle to remain alive as a serial killer stalks their dreams. (BTW, Mrs Wolf figured it out from the previous post, and she's never seen the movie.)

I knew this character's name long before I sat down to watch any of the first movie. But I can wait to see if someone else chimes in. Perhaps you'll remember overhearing his name mentioned somewhere. His fame has increased. One might say he's gotten bigger.

Ok, this one hasn't been done before. In this TV-movie, we see a chef try to help restaurant owners who struggle to remain alive because a serial killer wants revenge.

"Assemble the Minions."

"A golden bird that flies away, A candle's fickle flame, To think I held you yesterday, Your love was just a game. You tell me that you love me so, You tell me that you care." "Take the time, To get to know me, If you want me, Why can't you just show me, We're always on, This roller coaster, If you want me, Why can't you get closer,"

We'll wait for Human to check in as well, of course. :)

Strictly speaking, I did not disallow them. All the shows I was thinking of were broadcast network shows. However, if we don't get any of the others, I'd accept cable as the closest answer. And I was specific about "psychiatrist" or I'd also accept "Psychologist" and the title character of "Frasier" would be included.

The moments preceding that line are a favorite in my home. To be specific, the best instant is the slight pause. "THE HULK", as said in the first "Avengers" theatrical release from Marvel. There were a lot of little moments I really liked in the movie. One also preceded this by seconds- the look Loki gave when he caught the arrow.

Ok, let's make this a little more vague. Get any of these to take the round. Some jobs show up a lot more than others on television. Name the show where one of the main characters/ primary characters had this job: A) Psychiatrist (practicing) B) Owner-Operator of a trucking business. C) Beautician (practicing) D) Advertising Executive E) Shepherd/sheep-herder (retired or practicing-but the one I'm thinking of was formerly one/retired)

I've been watching this show, on and off, lately. That made it a lot easier to get. Ok, next one, let's see...

This one's more recent than my usual "1985 or older" preference. "A golden bird that flies away, A candle's fickle flame, To think I held you yesterday, Your love was just a game,"

Ok, this was Pink Floyd's "Shine On, You Crazy Diamond."

It's almost amusing how often Mike accuses me of saying he "WORSHIPS" vpw, yet can't pull up a verse showing me doing exactly that- while claiming once again (and falsely) that HE is being misrepresented. If Mike can't even read what's written in my humble posts, why should I take him seriously in his claims he's superior to everyone here in reading divine revelation? Mike, don't be shocked when your criteria for determinng vpw was some top athlete and genius don't match anyone else living. Genius can be determined technically with an IQ score, or demonstrated with PhDs, discoveries, patents, and so on. Assembling a class from materials composed of the work of others is not considered in the same "weight class" as those. For that matter, any top saleman, with the right timing and right audience, could reach a LOT of people. In the case of vpw, he "sold" the class to the hippies, and THEY sold it to everyone else. BTW, it didn't exactly get "all over the world." If it did, his name and the class' name would be "household names." If I say "Woody, Mia and Frank were at that party", a lot of people wouldn't even need the last names of the people to know who I meant. In countries outside the US. pfal never impacted the culture of any country or even its cultural memory. The Furby has more name recognition. But in any case, that determines the success in advertising and sales, not "GENIUS." Furthermore, saying a high school basketball player who never made it onto any college varsity team, professional team, or regional competition (let alone national or international) is really inflating their accomplishment. That would mean, fairly, that those who WERE in college varsity were SUPER-Athletes, in the top portion of the top 1%. And those who made it pro would be athletes so far above humanity that we should all offer them burnt offerings. A FAIR and HONEST criteria for determining athletic skill is one that is objective and rewards evenly for accomplishments. The simplest way, the fairest way, was to just check what the highest level of participation was of everyone. The professionals and Olympic athletes at the top, college below them, high school below them, peewee and little league below them. That having been said, it's easy to see the difference between THAT and "I think Basketball is a lot harder than other sports because I wasn't good at it." Naturally, it's only an incredible coincidence that the one sport that gets the special exemption for demonstrating the top tier of talent disproportionately is the one sport vpw participated in, such that even a high school only participation puts him in the top 1%. Surely that's not tilting the table specifically for him. Surely that's not being unfair...

According to Mike, vpw should be compared to Balaam. Hey, Mike and I agree on something again!

WW: You stated he was "born with an overabundance of brains and brawn." You stated that he was "OVERgifted." Mike: "I also stated, and several times (and several times ignored by you) that a lot of people in the top 1% genetically are in that category. I identify him as being in the smart tail of the bell curve. Thereare many millions of such people. I was just saying, in a poetic way, that he was not averageC." The thing is, Mike, you're putting him in "the top 1% genetically." The man's demonstrated accomplishments are- STATISTICALLY- strictly average. That's not opinion- when charted, he fell in the middle of the bell curve, where most people fall. Statistically, that's not below average, but that's not above it, either. For that matter, saying that performance is "genetic" is not measurable without reams of data which neither you nor I, or the Census Bureau have. Performance can be measured, but not its reason. Is that why you keep invoking "genetics", because it's not disproven that he had good genes, so you're going to claim he did? They're a complete non-issue sinc they can neither be measured nor matter in any material discussion. WW: The man's brains and brawn were strictly average- as has been shown beyond any REASONABLE doubt. " Mike: "Oh MY! We have a difference of opinion. Know what I want to do about it? Debate it? I don't care about this issue at all. I said what I said 10 years ago, forget the context, and moved on. When are you going to be honest about this? HMMMMM?" You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts. (DP Moynihan) When his performance was charted, it fell into "average", as it should have. I opened this up for discussion and possible debate if someone felt it wasn't definitive. I noticed a silence of disputing the facts. Oh, and let's be honest about things: You just said right now that you think vpw was in "the top 1%" when discussing "brains and brawn." There's no evidence to support this, and the evidence at hand is pretty consistent that he was pretty average. You're pretty emotional about how this plays out-vpw shown to be an AVERAGE athlete and AVERAGE student. Yet you insist you've "MOVED ON." WW: "You don't have "a healthy distance" from him." Mike: "He died 32 years ago! I have distanced myself from several aspects of his life and personality. What God worked out with him I admire and appreciate and celebrate. " You keep insisting an AVERAGE athlete and AVERAGE student was in the top 1%. Of a man whose life supposedly didn't rely on either. And he died 32 years ago. That's not a healthy distance.

Concerning vpw and whether or not he repented, I think it's good to go over what he said and did, and not what we THINK. In his final hours of life, one of our posters actually had interacted with vpw. vpw was dying of cancer. His "Law of Believing" had completely failed him, as he was unable to just believe away the cancer in a manner consistent with decades of his teaching. At moments like that, anyone would be thinking a lot about their mortality, about what they'd done so far, what would happen after they were gone, what they were to do now, in the little time they had left. vpw had plenty of time to think over the rapes, druggings, molestations, plagiarisms, abuses of alcohol and tobacco that led him to that moment. What was his overwhelming thought in what he was sure were the final hours of his life? He was reviewing it in his memory, and reviewing it more. According to him, he was trying to figure out when he'd displeased God Almighty that he was unable to believe himself healthy. He was unable to come up with ANYTHING, which is why he kept searching and searching. For those of you who skipped over that, let's look at it from another angle. Does God Almighty like rapes, ,molestations, druggings, etc? No, he does not. Do they displease Him? Yes, they do. Did vpw know this? vpw supposedly spent his life teaching the Bible and about what God Almighty wants. If vpw, after all that time, still didn't know those were wrong, then he had to have been quite remarkable as a figure of immense ineptitude among Christians. one who could preach that God Almighty was pleased by sinning and displeased by temperance. If vpw really DID know, then he was completely fooling himself as to whether or not his rapes, molestations, etc counted among the rapes and molestations to which God Almighty disapproved. Did vpw repent? vpw didn't even repent ON HIS DEATHBED.

"Remember when you were young, and you shone like the sun?" "Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky." "You were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom, blown on the steel breeze. Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and SHINE!" "You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon." "Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light." "Well you wore out your welcome with random precision, rode on the steel breeze. Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and SHINE!" Someone once said they had a school dance that was heavily monitored. The chaperones allowed the last song of the night to be a request. Someone requested this, and the kids had a slow dance that lasted about 8 minutes...and that wasn't even all the song. Including all the instrumentals and so on, it goes on for TWENTY-SIX MINUTES! (per Wikipedia.)

This particular show is "Get Smart" (Superagente 86, Mini-Max, etc, depending on the country and language.) I thought 86 meant to scratch an item off the menu because it's run out or something. *checks* Apparently, it's meant both.

Close enough. His name is "Nigel EXPOSITION." Your turn.

A lot more recent than WW&tCF, a LOT older than Deadpool. The movies don't revolve around this character. He gets lines like "Austin, the Cold War is over!" "Austin, we won!" And when discussing time paradoxes, he said the line up top.