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  1. Enrico Fermi Ben Geisler Jerry Valentine Seth Parker Antonio Scarpacci Dr Chester Ray Banton Manu Habib Alex Thorpe George Sitkowski
  2. It's arguably (I would argue it) his funniest movie. (But, yes, a different tropical fruit exported as a cash crop from Latin America.)
  3. Furious that his weapons are traded as contraband and used by terrorists, this inventor's mind snaps. Desperate to take down the giants who wield his tech, he arms up and assaults windmills to disarm them! (This movie is a musical.)
  4. Slightly behind on Gotham, behind on Supergirl, seriously behind on Marvel in general (I'll catch up on the off-season.) For the curious, I thought I'd toss in the comic canon on Slade Wilson just as a point of interest. Slade Wilson was a US soldier who volunteered for experiments that went awry. (His abilities would crash or escalate unpredictably.) He was offered a desk job when they seemed to normalize out. He had 2 sons, 1 daughter (Grant, Joe, Rose.) He spent a lot of time with big-game hunters and so on. When "Jackal" showed up and insisted "Deathstroke" give up a client's name, Slade came clean to his wife about his work as a mercenary/assassin, and elected to save young Joe rather than give up a name. He killed Jackal in the process, but Joe's throat was permanently damaged. (Grant wanted to be a soldier, Joe was the artist, musician and singer, now mute.) When his wife found out, she took the kids and left-but she tried to kill Slade first. His reflexes saved him-he lost an eye only. Grant later agreed to work for HIVE in exchange for them enhancing his abilities, (becoming "the Ravager") similar to Slade's but even moreso, in exchange for him taking down the Teen Titans. He tried-and Deathstroke showed up to assist, but Grant's enhancements burned him out and he died in combat. (Slade continued to try to fulfill Grant's contract, which was probably the idea the whole time- eventually succeeding in "the Judas Contract.") We learned all of this except the Grant stuff during "The Judas Contract", when Adeline Wilson showed up and explained why the Titans were missing. Dick Grayson, in temporary retirement as Robin, then put on his new "Nightwing" suit to rescue them- alongside Joe Wilson, aka "Jericho." This was all part of the early days of the popular "New Teen TItans", reinvented by that star team that later gave us "Crisis on Infinite Earths". artist George Perez and writer Marv WOLFMAN. (So the alias of "Cain Wolfman" may make more sense now.) We're trying to figure out who the FBI investigator is working for. It's clear there will be a resolution because the story's going to be painted in a corner if she just reveals everything to the FBI. Our current possibilities are: works for a villain (doesn't fit so far), works for herself (possibly wants to blackmail the team into doing things for her), works for another government agency (ARGUS is decimated, so another group might be moving up to replace them, Task Force X or Checkmate or something), or my favorite gonzo idea, works for a retired superhero of the JSA era who's looking to see if he can recruit them to act as his field agents. Statistically, I think she's working for another government agency, but I still prefer the last one.
  5. "All attempts I’ve seen or heard of in splinter and stump groups running clone classes have had relatively minor results. Minor compared to the “good old days.” I could be wrong about this world-wide, but in my sphere of awareness, there has not been a single grad of any clone classes to rise up to the level of a WOW or a Corps candidate or a committed, serving clergy. All the big leaders are old PFAL grads, and the clone grads seem to be not inspired to drop everything and move the Word like Dr inspired HIS grads. If you know of one such hot clone grad, check on him or her in a couple years, and see how they are still cooking." One common fallacy in logic is to confuse CORRELATION with CAUSATION. Example 1: Hot chocolate causes death by freezing. People drink a LOT more hot chocolate certain months of the year, and those months also see an increase in people freezing to death. Coincidence? Obviously not! It's plain that the hot chocolate is causing the freezing. Example 2: Modern pfal attempts don't have the same effect on society as the old one did in the 1970s. In the 1970s, legitimate, rad Christians who were getting things done were recruited into twi, and turned into advertising shills for pfal. They did their thing (were rad Christians) and (falsely but with good intentions) claimed the reason they were so rad was due to twi and pfal, and to be equally rad, one had to take the class. Society has moved on since then. The rad Christians are in completely different forms now, with virtually none connected with splinter groups. But the difference in the results is seen as "the class isn't really the same and that's why the results differ so much." The real answer is that "the class" was more of the "ground" and not the "figure" of the paining. Rad Christians made the difference in twi, and the classes were more window-dressing and artificial benchmarks to measure progress. For those who forgot, "The Joy of Serving" was a commercial for pfal. "You have to serve people something-so serve them the 3 levels of the class, and outside of twi, there's no real answers for people." (The End.)
  6. Well, you got caught with a flat. Well, how about that? Well babies, don't you panic. By the light of the night it'll all seem all right. I'll get you a satanic mechanic!"
  7. Different tropical fruit. ;) Ok, let me think....
  8. It's obviously "PINEAPPLES". Ok, now I need to come up with one....
  9. I think the correct title is "Lara Croft: Tomb Raiders of the Lost Ark."
  10. "A friend of mine got married recently. I couldn't make the wedding, but he filmed it and showed me the film afterwards, and d*ed if MICHAEL CAINE wasn't in it! I mean this guy..."
  11. "My name is Robert Hawkins. It's 6:42 AM on Saturday, May 23rd. Approximately seven hours ago, some... thing attacked the city. I don't know what it is. If you found this tape, I mean if you're watching this right now, then you probably know more about it than I do. Whatever it is, it killed my brother Jason Hawkins, it killed my best friend Hudson Platt and Marlena Diamond, and many many others. We've crashed into Central Park and we've taken shelter underneath this bridge. The military has begun bombing the creature and we're caught in the middle. Okay, ready? It's okay." "I don't know what to say." "Just tell them who you are." "My name is Elizabeth McIntyre. I don't know why this is happening. And we're going to wait here until this passes." "Okay, just to be clear here, our options are: die here, die in the tunnels, or die in the streets. That pretty much it?" "Yeah... that's pretty much it."[/b} "Listen, we need your help. Our friend, she's hurt, she's trapped in her building right by here. Colombus Circle?" "That is not where you want to be right now." "Do you guys know what it is, out there? Do you know what that thing is?" "There ain't nobody telling me. Whatever it is, it's winning." "Ocean is big, dude. All I'm saying is a couple of years ago, they found a fish in Madagascar that they thought been extinct for centuries." "So what? Its been down here all this time and nobody noticed?" "Sure. Maybe it erupted from an ocean trench, you know? Or a crevasse. Crevice. It's just a theory. I mean, for all we know, it's from another planet and it flew here."
  12. No, but you have the feel of the movie correct. BTW, congrats on the Series win.
  13. YES. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face-Off_(1971_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face/Off https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_Off_(TV_series)
  14. Stand and Deliver Edward James Olmos Blade Runner
  15. Ok, got another stealth triple. In this TV-movie, a domestic terrorist and sociopath targets the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team. An FBI Special Agent, desperate to catch him, enlists the aid of a panel of prosthetic makeup artists, who compete to see who is the best-qualified to help him disguise himself as and impersonate a rookie on the team. Stars include Art Hindle, John Vernon, John Travolta, and Nicolas Cage.
  16. There's 2 movies and one TV show. The show has nothing to do with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
  17. "My name is Robert Hawkins. It's 6:42 AM on Saturday, May 23rd. Approximately seven hours ago, some... thing attacked the city. I don't know what it is. If you found this tape, I mean if you're watching this right now, then you probably know more about it than I do. Whatever it is, it killed my brother Jason Hawkins, it killed my best friend Hudson Platt and Marlena Diamond, and many many others. We've crashed into Central Park and we've taken shelter underneath this bridge. The military has begun bombing the creature and we're caught in the middle. Okay, ready? It's okay." "I don't know what to say." "Just tell them who you are." "My name is Elizabeth McIntyre. I don't know why this is happening. And we're going to wait here until this passes."
  18. Do you think it was all about covering his tracks? I think it totally was about covering his tracks, but I also think, having seen his comments when he was alone- that vpw even convinced HIMSELF that all of that was connected- that he really convinced himself of his hearing voices and seeing imaginary snowstorms- and didn't really remember that without Leonard, there would have been no class at all. I think he overwrote his own memory, making it easier to lie to others because that's how he actually remembered it. This also benefited the narcissist because he was able to convince HIMSELF he was some great one, which is one thing he wanted all along!
  19. Yes. Then again, vpw claimed that he'd never taken an aspirin in his life and hadn't taken a sick day in his life- and that was in private! So, small wonder he lied about money.
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