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  1. Since you named the artist, you can have the round. I was trying to keep dropping hints about the song title- "JEEPSTER."
  2. Jiminy! Nobody got it from this? It's the guy with the top hat. So, the movie's "Disney's Pinocchio."
  3. ...is not the name of the song. You have an artist, want to take a shot at the song? Or is this some sort of drive-by? I know we're a bit off-road from what we normally do, but I think you can name it.
  4. After his insulting of the works of others and insistence on usage of the KJV, it should be no surprise that he lifted some or all of his "literal translations according to usage." Philippians 4:13 in the Amplified Bible includes this, which may sound familiar: "I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me" Remember it? Remember singing along when it was made into a song?
  5. The Studies in Abundant Living weren't even commentaries as much as they were typed-up versions of sermons. Any of us could have had our teachings typed-up and produced bigger books of equal or better quality with fewer pretensions. I felt much of the other stuff wasn't up to "commentary" status. Except for the rare "gmir" articles, which were better than vpw's work.
  6. Not the kind of music you used to play in your car stereo? Maybe it was the wrong kind of car. There was some indie band once called "Dinosaur Jr". This wasn't them. This was a band that might have been considered "Dinosaur Sr."
  7. "You're so sweet. You're so fine. I want you all and everything Just to be mine 'Cos you're my babe 'Cos you're my love." "You slide so good With bones so fair You've got the universe Reclining in your hair. Yes, you're my babe, You're my love." "Just like a car You're pleasing to behold I'll call you Jaguar If I may be so bold. 'cause you're my baby, you're my love." "The wild winds blow Upon your frozen cheeks The way you flip your hip It always makes me weak. çause you're my baby, you're my love." "Your motivation Is so sweet Your vibrations Are burning up my feet. 'cause you're my baby, you're my love." "Girl, I'm just a vampire For your love, & I'm gonna suck you!"
  8. "You're so sweet. You're so fine. I want you all and everything Just to be mine 'Cos you're my babe 'Cos you're my love." "You slide so good With bones so fair You've got the universe Reclining in your hair. Yes, you're my babe, You're my love." "Just like a car You're pleasing to behold I'll call you Jaguar If I may be so bold. 'cause you're my baby, you're my love." "The wild winds blow Upon your frozen cheeks The way you flip your hip It always makes me weak. çause you're my baby, you're my love." "Your motivation Is so sweet Your vibrations Are burning up my feet. 'cause you're my baby, you're my love."
  9. Or, worse, he may end up on his deathbed, and only THEN look back and realize that he wasn't allowed to have his own identity, and permitted to have his own thoughts.
  10. *checks* Technically, it came later.
  11. Perhaps it's accidental humor, but why in the world are those 2 particular cowboys interested in beavers in the first place?
  12. It's also a matter of perception. In this case, he didn't actually READ the post, so it's not even an INFORMED perception. He looked, saw a few paragraphs, and declared them "boring" regardless of content. For him in particular, the content would have been interesting and controversial.
  13. And you phrased it correctly. IF-> THEN IF yelling helps an athlete, THEN... But yelling doesn't help athletes in general. It is common for coaches to yell at athletes, but that doesn't mean it actually HELPS the athletes. The coaches were yelled at when they were athletes, so they yell because that's what was done for them. But we know better now. It would be like doctors only doing the medical procedures that were popular when they were studying and never advancing medicine..and teaching the next generation of doctors to do the same. I'm thankful doctors don't do that, even though coaches operate that way in general. BTW, not every coach yells, and it's not common in EVERY sport. It is common in US college football. And before you say it, I'm not suggesting the opposite extreme is any better- New Age-y cuddles for teams where athletes learn NOT to compete are as bad in a different dimension. A stern coach doesn't have to yell and scream, and doesn't have to blow off athletes getting injured. Then there's the separate issue of vpw and lcm inventing the whole "we're athletes now" thing out of maybe 1/2 a dozen verses isolated from their contexts. So, we're not athletes in the first place. All lcm taught was what he'd learned- and all he'd really retained was what he'd learned on the football field, and what he'd learned from vpw- who felt free to yell at people with neither preamble nor provocation. So, he wasn't yelling for any Christian reasons, he did it because it was all he knew. As we've already discussed before, yelling and especially screaming isn't about good management, it's about poor impulse control in the screamer.
  14. "You're so sweet. You're so fine. I want you all and everything Just to be mine 'Cos you're my baby 'Cos you're my love." "You slide so good With bones so fair You've got the universe Reclining in your hair." "Just like a car You're pleasing to behold I'll call you Jaguar If I may be so bold." "The wild winds blow Upon your frozen cheeks The way you flip your hip It always makes me weak."
  15. Some 40 hours of vpw, and a few good points (NOT unique to twi no matter what we were told and often common knowledge among Christians today) were not enough to transform the rest from "boring", even if that HAD been interesting (which I'm not stipulating to.) Most of us couldn't actually "show from Scripture that Jesus isn't God" or "the dead are dead". We could spit back what was taught by rote memorization, but the exceptions were the ones who studied those out on their own. No matter what vpw claimed in pfal, he actively discouraged independent study outside of pfal if it was on pfal-related subjects. And pfal made weak cases for each, larded with lots of bluster. If all either belief had going for it was what vpw taught, I'd have discarded them decades ago. As for SIT NOT going out with the first-century apostles, that may or may not be true. However, what was taught in twi, and has since been taught to post-twi groups, that has NOTHING to do with Biblical SIT except to hear people insist that it is the same thing as Biblical SIT despite all the differences. If Biblical SIT exists now and is "available" now, to find it, one will first need to discard any and all counterfeits- like the one vpw demonstrated so clumsily and by rote. "U shanta mala ka sita la shonta." (He said that one ALL the freaking time.) If one is busy pretending pfal, twi and vpw were the be-all and quintessence of Christianity, one will never get there because they're convinced they've already "arrived" and can laze about without ever beginning their journey. It saves a lot of time and effort to declare oneself right by fiat and never bother to get out and look for wisdom and truth. Of course, the consequence is never finding wisdom and truth, but security and comfort are more important to some people, so I can get they'd value those more.
  16. I can't get angry at James Caan now? ;) In other news, this is "Star Trek II- the Wrath of Khan."
  17. Originally, this show began as a drama, with 20-somethings worrying about SATs and so on, but it got more popular once it got a shot of melodrama (and some new actors). After that, it became traditional for someone to get thrown into the pool each season.
  18. Neither the title nor the artist.
  19. Your guess was correct. James D. Edwards III's social security number was 905-80-5406. Agent J's information was on display before it was deleted. Don't blink or you'll miss the joke about Al Roker, Isaac Mizrahi, Danny DeVito, Sylvester Stallone, Dionne Warwick, Newt Gingrich, and George Lucas. On-screen, they were shown to be aliens living on Earth who were being monitored. Ray-Ban really appreciated the boost in sales of their Predator 2 sunglasses. Sales shot up of the same glasses used to deflect the neuralyzer. I imagine getting the permits to film in the Queens-Midtown Tunnel and the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel was done in one meeting for the producer or director. They drove across the ceiling of the QMT, and the BBT was where the entrance to MiB HQ was.
  20. Or, you know, click the PLUS button right by the Reply button.
  21. To a degree, it WAS scripted. Whenever pfal was mentioned to new people, if you didn't join in on how fantastic it was and how it would answer EVERY question, you were seen to have missed your cue. Every single joke, no matter how lame, was supposed to be laughed at (or at least groaned at.) Lines from pfal here and there were used later in all sorts of contexts and approved-of if introduced. And grads sitting in on a pfal class acted like it was a watershed experience and a positive life-transformer.
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