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  1. Oddly enough, George's reply got me thinking in the right direction. You didn't say the show was ANIMATED. It's Clint, Jackie, Chuck and Bruce- the Adolescent Radioactive Black-belt Hamsters! Or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-Donatello, Raphael, Leonardo and Michelangelo. (I once prepped a character for the RPG based in the setting. I named him 'Dante.') I still think of the Turtles in reference to the old comic, not all the cartoons that came out, despite all their versions.
  2. That's it, of course. It's the plot-and the game on which it's based, all in one sentence.
  3. "That's what we're trying to find out! We're trying to find out WHO killed him, and WHERE, and with WHAT!"
  4. I'm thinking this is "the Carrie Diaries", some sort of prequel or something to "Sex and the City."
  5. the Social Network Justin Timberlake Shrek the Third
  6. Has to be someone with a "domino" mask, not a full face mask. Eliminate all the non-glowing wearers, and that leaves us with "Green Lantern."
  7. From Dusk til Dawn Cheech Marin Once Upon a Time in Mexico Ghostbusters II
  8. Wild swing... "The Doors"? That movie about Jim Morrison?
  9. "Nights in White Satin," the Moody Blues.
  10. It is "Hollywood Squares." The "You Fool!" episode is famous, and has Gilbert Gottfried (and Penn Gillette) yelling that several times in a round that just wouldn't end..... Hollywood, Florida had X and O cards instead of electric things. It's partly based on Tic-Tac-Toe. The spinoff was "Storybook Squares", a great concept that took up too much time to be practical.
  11. Ok, so then that's Hugh Grant Music & Lyrics Drew Barrymore
  12. Edie Adams Milton Berle Sid Caesar Buddy Hackett Ethel Merman Mickey Rooney Phil Silvers Terry-Thomas Jonathan Winters Don't blink or you'll miss The Three Stooges in a cameo appearance.
  13. This game show had an episode where round 1 lasted most of the episode, because both contestants kept guessing poorly at the last question, and they had to answer correctly to win it- despite having 50/50 odds at a wild guess to do so. "YOU FOOL!" accompanied many of the misses. It's based partly on a children's game. This show also had a short-lived spinoff, a game-show targeted towards children based on the original. Although this show is named for a location in California, it's held episodes in Florida in an identically-named location, using pictures of ring-buoys (life-preservers) and crossed water-skis during the games. The first version of the show premiered in 1966, the last version ended in 2004 (not counting syndication, of course.) Bert Parks, Peter Marshall, John Davidson and Tom Bergeron have hosted.
  14. This game show had an episode where round 1 lasted most of the episode, because both contestants kept guessing poorly at the last question, and they had to answer correctly to win it- despite having 50/50 odds at a wild guess to do so. "YOU FOOL!" accompanied many of the misses. It's based partly on a children's game. This show also had a short-lived spinoff, a game-show targeted towards children based on the original. Although this show is named for a location in California, it's held episodes in Florida in an identically-named location, using pictures of ring-buoys (life-preservers) and crossed water-skis during the games.
  15. That used up the most obvious link. I could use Dangerfield, but not to anything else I can think of. So, let's go with Burt Young Rocky 4 James Brown
  16. That was also in the collateral readings- like "the First Century Church in the 20th" and so on. The actual pushing during pfal wasn't quite so heavy- vpw had to bait the hook first, and hide the net. pfal references to it were a bit subtle. That's why vpw said in pfal he dedicated his life to that field, but didn't say there-to the new people- that he claimed God Almighty spoke to him and that he was privy to the First Century Church like nobody else was, and based twi on it. That was covered later, informally. "In vain is the net spread in sight of any bird." So, the heavy advertisements were snuck in later. The early ads were subtle and designed to "get in under the radar." Blatant stuff would have tipped off too many people during pfal. As it was, a LOT of people took pfal and left within 3 or 6 months of having taken it. That's one way twi inflated their numbers and convinced people that there were huge numbers of members- they counted everyone who signed up and paid for pfal, whether or not they finished it, stuck around after, or even made it to Session 1. (When I took it the first time, 8 of us were signed up, 7 made it to Session 1, and 3 of us completed Session 12. All 8 were counted equally in twi "statistics.") Even the drones had a purpose in twi, and a purpose was found for those who stopped attending, but the rich, famous or influential, those vpw made a special effort to court, both locally and at events like the ROA.
  17. "The whole purpose of that booklet is to convince the readers..." How does this one isolated sentence convince the readers? ========== There's an easy-to-understand difference between "The purpose of this book is" and "Every sentence in this book specifically pushes the purpose of this book, which is" This means that one can find individual sentences that don't push the purpose of a book written with a purpose. (If the entire Bible can be considered to have the purpose of the plan of salvation, whole chapters can be found that don't point to it.) CSBP, as a whole, WAS a booklet-long commercial designed to convince people that A) they needed to give 10% of their income, according to God (this has been proven false) B) twi, as the best vehicle for giving to God, was the proper recipient of the 10% to give to God More of twi's other stuff was pointed at "the giving goes to twi" than the booklet. The booklet was primarily to convince people the giving was mandatory. Lots of other things here and there were pointed at giving to twi specifically- like vpw saying in twi that, instead of giving to other causes, why not give to Bible research-and pausing with a small smile to make sure that set in, and was viewed at the moment as a joke rather than part of the advertising campaign in twigs and all other types of twi meetings. But in twi, the special treatment for the wealthy and famous has been well-documented. They were honored in manners unofficial and official. They were introduced onstage at the ROA, and they were given WOW pins they never earned, and so on. Even lcm objected to vpw bringing a judge onstage at an ROA who was considered prideful- but he was influential. And some rank-and-file resented Tony Collins of the New England Patriots getting awarded a WOW pin by vpw personally despite never entering the WOW program. vpw invented some spin about him actually being a WOW while at work despite never actually fulfilling any requirements of the program. Even the innies at the time who heard of it objected, because it was a blatant example of "respect of persons."
  18. This game show had an episode where round 1 lasted most of the episode, because both contestants kept guessing poorly at the last question, and they had to answer correctly to win it- despite having 50/50 odds at a wild guess to do so. "YOU FOOL!" accompanied many of the misses. It's based partly on a children's game. This show also had a short-lived spinoff, a game-show targeted towards children based on the original.
  19. This was "(There's) Always Something There To Remind Me." The version I knew was by "Naked Eyes" in 1982. FREE POST!
  20. The only formal training in the corps has been: Dale Carnegie training in SALES Some people would claim the rock-climbing was professional training, but if it was, it wouldn't have been conducted the way it was- which meant there wouldn't have been crippling injuries. BTW, vpw STOLE the Carnegie training. He had someone take the training, then reteach it while giving them neither credit NOR TUITION. Since vpw based his career on those sorts of practices, really, this should surprise no one. I really do think it's surreal that the corps were told, despite having no training in any such things- that they were qualified to do counseling in general, marriage counseling, and to work as management in corporations. That's why there's so many horror stories about people being told rather insane-sounding things from corps who were trying to "counsel" them, or order/bully them into doing, depending on the situation. Right after lcm started making his pronouncements in 1988 and claiming he was supposed to be obeyed, I began pointing out that this is the same man who's lambasted popes for several years for their practices- who was now claiming Papal Infallibility and Apostolic Succession. Naturally, he had no idea he was claiming the same things Popes ever claimed- his education on the Papacy he was ridiculing was rather stunted.
  21. That's it. You didn't have to make it look THAT easy... (BTW, I'll be out of reach for a few days, so don't be surprised if I stop replying until Monday.)
  22. Based on both that and the vehemence of his post, it has to be "Guardians of the Galaxy." (I have GOT to sit down and watch it this upcoming week.)
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