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WordWolf

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  1. No, this movie had NO sequels, just a remake. And a different reason to possibly have no casualties-at least, REAL ones (in the movie.)
  2. You get NOTHING! You LOSE! Good DAY, sir!
  3. This movie was not a war-flick. However, it still ended up with a body count of 77 people (plus 1 rodent and one "robot"/A.I.)....... or, possibly, there were zero casualties, including no rodents and no "robot"/A.I. This movie-and its remake- were given the same name in English. The Spanish version of both was called "The Avenger of the Future."
  4. Bingo. That was an exchange from "Dear Officer Krupke."
  5. That's him. I included his role in "Marathon Man." There's a story that goes around, about the scene with him and Dustin Hoffman. They both prepared for the scene where LO tortures DH. LO used the "external" technique, and DH used the "internal" technique. Dustin simulated the receipt of torture by staying up all weekend and other uncomfortable things. When he showed up Monday for filming, LO asked what happened to him. DH explained his measures in preparation. LO replied "Next time, you might try acting- it's easier." LO prepared by selecting the type of stances and movements for the character, and emoted from there. I think both styles have something to offer, but in this case, LO had a MUCH easier time than DH.
  6. Hamlet Ian Holm Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
  7. Dr Christian Szell Dr Totenkopf Ezra Lieberman Admiral Hood Douglas Mac Arthur Duke of Wellington Fitzwilliam Darcy Heathcliff Horatio Nelson Hamlet Richard III Othello
  8. "Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson Courtney Love, and Marilyn Manson. You're all fakes Run to your mansions. Come around We'll kick your @$$ in!"
  9. This movie was not a war-flick. However, it still ended up with a body count of 77 people (plus 1 rodent and one "robot"/A.I.) This movie-and its remake- were given the same name in English. The Spanish version of both was called "The Avenger of the Future."
  10. Angelina Jolie Gone in 60 Seconds Ving Rhames Robert Duvall
  11. Not it. And although I read the body count as including a MOUSE, it was probably a RAT IIRC. Not that the difference affected the movie in any way (except for the extremely specific, I imagine).
  12. twi's had a "do as I say, not as I do" policy from the beginning. Every once in a while, vpw said something publicly about fidelity, and the rest of the time was into encouraging infidelity-especially if it was with him-and covering his tracks. vpw made a passing comment buries in "The Way-Living in Love" that what he taught wasn't original, but putting it together that way was. A few people seem to think his comment that one time, buried in one book many twi'ers never even HELD IN THEIR HANDS was the same as giving proper accreditation to all the material he blatantly plagiarized. (Anyone who wants to see how that would work should look over an old copy of "Babylon Mystery Religion." It was a reworking of the public domain book "The Two Babylons" and it was completely credited properly throughout the entire book. And most people aren't even AWARE of it unless LOOKING for it, so there goes the notion that doing so would be intrusive or distracting.) ) But, yes, twi often had sensible things to say in public- and the privately instructed people to do the opposite when the microphones were off. It's obvious now. It fooled us somewhat back then, but with the bright lights shining on the dirty secrets now, only the vpw fanatic or the twi fanatic can think it's anything other than obvious in hindsight.
  13. This movie was not a war-flick. However, it still ended up with a body count of 77 people (plus 1 mouse.)
  14. "Juvenile delinquency is purely a social disease." "Hey! I got a social disease!"
  15. Dr Christian Szell Dr Totenkopf Ezra Lieberman Admiral Hood Douglas Mac Arthur Duke of Wellington Fitzwilliam Darcy Heathcliff Horatio Nelson
  16. That's it. Eventually, they learned other songs but this was still their signature song. There was one gig where they played nothing but variations of this song all night. When they took a break, someone started music on the jukebox, and the dance-floor filled up instantly.
  17. A) Thank you so much for adding some spacing. I am absolutely certain that will increase the number of people actually reading your posts here. B) The things of God and matters of the Bible are NOT confined to one teacher, one program, one system of study. Even when I was in twi and bought into the "we're the best" stuff, my thinking was to draw from all other Christians who had something to contribute, then improve even further by both taking the best of what each had, and by improving the twi system wherever possible (I did believe that was a reasonable task because I didn't believe it was perfect and immutable), and the result would be far greater than JUST the twi system even if that was the best ISOLATED SYSTEM of teaching. So, the last word on things is not, and should not be, "How much of vpw's publications did you memorize?" (Especially when SOME of the errors therein have been documented, and it was a long list.) Furthermore, in discussion, there's no "winners" and "losers" as such. It's not a formal debate where you have to be on the winning side. We can all "end on the winning side" and this would be more about what we all learned and how we grew than about who had the last word or who said the most clever thing. So, in discussing, you "have the same chance" as everyone else. Mostly, if you're rude, then you can be said to "lose", mostly because others won't want to play with you (listen or add to your existing knowledge.) C) If you're going to address some stuff about the Bible, at least around here, and you want people to take it seriously, you're going to need to include the verses, or at the very least, cite the specific verses you're addressing. Otherwise, it's a matter of "thus saith the poster", and the GSC especially is a place where that doesn't fly. We all got burned by that sort of thing already.
  18. The second half could be "Babes In Toyland," but the version with Laurel and Hardy's also known as "March of the Wooden Soldiers." I'm stuck on the first half.
  19. It's in my "queue" of movies to see. Is it any good?
  20. On this show, for a while, the characters had their own band, but the only song they knew how to perform was "Splish-Splash."
  21. It's "Splish Splash", isn't it?
  22. There's twi, and there's making sense. Sensibly, twi should have left groups intact until there were more than 8 regular attendees plus new arrivals. Then they should have considered how to make a division so you had at least 4 regular attendees plus new arrivals. As it was, the appearance of growth was more important, and other appearances were more important, so they made all sorts of decisions that didn't work so they had the appearance of doing something. Splitting already small "twigs" up meant neither was sustainable, so they either had to re-form or BOTH were destroyed in the process. I saw a corps assignee once arrive, then arbitrarily decide he was going to have a "twig" right where he was operating from, so he began assigning some locals to it to start attending it. There were a number of ways to handle it, but I'm sure he picked one of the least-successful ones so that it looked like he was doing stuff. (He got people to smile and nod a lot until he left.)
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