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"And now back to Charlie Chan!" "What does it do?" "It does all of it." "I'm The Chef of the Future." "Pleased to meet you, o Chef of the Future." "I'm The Chef of the Future!!" "Pleased to meet you again, o Chef of the Future!"

Somewhere between "1 obscure clue" and "here's the name of the movie" is a lot of ground. This is probably "the Neverending Story".

Let's keep the ball in play. George seems not to be ready, so we can move on. It will be his turn again soon one way or another... Go for it.

I tend to go to either IMDb or Wikipedia for something on the movie, but occasionally I find inspiration elsewhere, like looking at Wikiquote, and seeing one movie title reminded me of an entirely different movie. I mean, really. The Movie Mash-Up threads allow partial lists of the cast, trivia about the movie, quotes from the movie, or anything else directly related to the movie. That covers a lot of ground and allows people to, say, pick a really famous movie but really difficult clues to start with for it. IMDb is usually a good place to find any or all of them once the poster has a particular movie in mind.

"And now back to Charlie Chan!" "What does it do?" "It does all of it."

2 days ago, I was hoping for another clue, a chance to figure it out fair and square. At 5 days without a 2nd clue, I call the round abandoned and move on. Either the poster is out of reach or doesn't mind stalling the thread. I have absolutely no idea about this one. I'd like it if RG would step in and take a round, since it's easy to her. ("It's only easy if you know the answer."-Regis Philbin.)

It's obviously all the actors who played The Doctor (Who.) One "life" was the original series (Hartnell, Troughton, Pertwee, Baker...), one "life" is the current one (Eccleston, Tennant...) but what was the third?

Yes. More respected than Costner, less so than Flynn decades before. I have no idea about Crowe. Too easy?

There are legitimate figures that switch the active sense for the passive sense. We use it whenever we break a dish and say "The dish broke", or a child knocks something down or drops it and says "It fell." The idea was that "the snare of the devil" was hidden until revealed by Jesus (which, I suspect, wasn't based on a verse of any kind). Further, that the language supported that kind of talk where God is spoken of as the Origin of everything, mainly to prevent people from focusing on the devil the way twi did in the 90s and later. Bullinger's explanation was a different figure for much the same reason. Bullinger used "synedoche" (parts for the whole) and said "God" was used for the entire spiritual realm. (At least, I heard people claiming that Bullinger used that very figure for his explanation. Either that or it was "metonymy" (an attribute for the whole.) It's easy to mix the usage of one for the usage of the other. Technically, some of those might be seen as the removal of protection- God walled up the Red Sea, then stopped doing it, and TECHNICALLY the normal Red Sea killed a lot of soldiers. Jericho's walls were destroyed, and then the ISRAELITES, not God, killed a lot of people (God's spared TECHNICALLY from having done it because He gave the order but didn't actually kill anyone HIMSELF.) As for other battles, including David vs Goliath, I think the explanation falls down with many of those. Therefore, the single verse twi based all of that on must be re-examined. Hebrews 2:14-16 (NASB) 14 Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives. 16 For assuredly He does not give help to angels, but He gives help to the descendant of Abraham. Hebrews 2 speaks of salvation, angels, Jesus, and humans. The idea that the devil is the SOLE being who has ANY say over death is more than the verse says. People who can order an execution are said to have the power of life and death. No verse says that God has no authority over death. Rather, we see instances where people are raised from the dead, removing the rulership of death over them for a time. (The Shunnamite woman's son, Jesus Christ, Lazarus, the little girl Jesus raised...) The idea that God would-of necessity- have to use the devil's own authority to kill goes FAR beyond what this verse says, and goes firmly into the category twi calls "private interpretation." I can make a flowing, sensible, artistic explanation about how that would work, but all my reasoning is useless if it takes me a different direction than Scripture. My conclusion was (and is) that God Almighty will accomplish His purpose, and we can cooperate and be a part of it, or we can oppose it and see God succeed despite our best efforts. God's playing the really long game, and moves which seem senseless now will make perfect sense in a decade or 2, or in a century or 2, and so on.

There's 3 different types of Bible versions: word for word concept for concept paraphrases The "word for word" ones are the best ones for doing research. Paraphrases are nice to listen to, but are patently useless for study. The Amplified Bible is a paraphrasing Bible. Furthermore, I consider the name to be false advertising, since the Amplified Bible actually is NOT any louder than any other version. Luke 17:26-30 (NASB) 26 And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27 they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; 29 but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

This is interesting. I'd like to see all sides agree on this. When I was an Intermediate Class grad, I once asked a corps dude what Jesus Christ is doing now. He extemporized (made stuff up on the spot), and said he didn't think Christ HAD to be doing anything now. I let it go because it meant he didn't know, and I found his answer a LOT stupider than "Good question, but I don't know-let me get back to you." Here's God Almighty's best agent of the last 2 millenia (or more). He's alive and healthy, and has no pressing tasks. And God chooses to have this most obedient One do absolutely NOTHING for the following 2 millenia. It struck me as wasteful, and poor use of available resources. Would Jesus really want to do NOTHING for 2000 years while his brethren suffered on the Earth? Would God Almighty want that? (The guy who gave me that answer, last I heard, is on twi's board.) So, I kept reading until I eventually had a much better answer. Romans 8:34 (NASB) 34 who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. Hebrews 7:24-25 (NASB) 4 but Jesus, on the other hand, because he continues forever, holds his priesthood permanently. 25 Therefore he is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. Jesus' job is to intercede for us. I'm not sure what that entails, but I'd bet it keeps him VERY busy. "Jesus Christ is one of a kind." I can SO get behind that. :)

Ok, it's "the Usual Suspects." So let's move this along. Cary Elwes' title role was not the most respected interpretation of his character, but he was the most respected in recent memory..at least when it aired, I'm not certain about now.

The key to this seems to be figuring out who the lead character is. If I could only figure out who that is...

Hopefully, I'm not making any of this up.... "Hollywoodland of the Giants"?

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%208&version=KJV No, among the first things Noah did when he landed was to build an altar and offer a sacrifice to God Almighty. Some time after that, Noah settled down, farmed, and cultivated a vineyard. After the vineyard's grapes were harvested and fermented, THEN Noah got drunk. That had to at least be several months later. Genesis 9:20-21a (NASB) 20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: 21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; It makes a lot more sense if you examine the life of Joseph. Joseph's brothers were envious of him, hated him, and wanted him dead- showing him mercy by selling him into slavery. Once he was in slavery, he worked well for an owner, and refused to deal corruptly with him. So he was framed and thrown into prison- still having done nothing wrong other than not shut up in front of his envious brothers. Eventually, his time in prison was used to A) turn him into the Chief Operating Officer of Egypt with power of attorney for Pharaoh B) store food sufficient for Egypt and several other countries to use to survive the coming famine (including Israel) When he finally confronted his brothers, Joseph made an interesting comment about what his brothers did to him because of their evil intent. Genesis 50:20 (KJV) But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. I don't claim to understand a lot about how God works. I do know it's possible for someone like God to use-unwillingly to them- beings of evil intent and confine their destructive abilities to targets of God's own choosing, much like a surgical laser can zap cancerous tissue while sparing healthy cells (presuming optimal conditions.) To me, it's a spiritual equivalent to someone performing Aikido or a similar martial art- a master practitioner can redirect the violence of an attacker and redirect it into something of his own choosing. Just because it is POSSIBLE is no guarantee this is how God works-but it's possible on paper. Yeah, what can I say? They're silly. Is there an actual verse they CLAIM supports this, or are they more honest that it's made-up?

twi taught this. I Peter 3:18-20 (KJV) 18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. twi taught that this meant that the spirits in prison were disobedient spirits whose disobedience specifically included causing The Flood. Reading it coldly, I see spirits who were imprisoned specifically because of their disobedience in the timeframe of the days PRECEEDING The Flood. If it's meant to say that these spirits caused The Flood, neither this account nor any other actually says that. Hebrews 2:14 (NASB) 14 Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, This is another single-verse doctrine of twi. I've gotten VERY leery of them, since so many of them turned out to be based on misunderstanding the verse and then spinning long doctrines out of whole cloth based on THAT. The idea is that the devil (and thus, his minions) must be involved if any death is caused by any supernatural means, since he had the power of death. I'm open to reconsidering specifically who the angel of death was-and, more to the point, who he took orders willingly from. However, I see no textual reason to think that The Flood was caused by the imprisoned spirits, other than that they were disobedient at the time.

At this point, I figured throwing the original name out wouldn't hurt. if the Nurse Joys and Officer Jennys didn't tell anyone, and "gotta catch 'em all" didn't tell anyone, it was time for quotes like "I wonder which Pokemon would be best to use now?"

The short of what it said was that the single verse that said something on the subject said rather clearly that "rain" wasn't happening back at the time it addressed, when there was no "man" either. Nothing says, suggests or implies that either state remained permanent. "Man" was introduced a few verses later, and "rain" is not discussed. Perhaps the thinking was that it was irrelevant-this not being a textbook on science- or that only the stupid would actually sit down and try to read that into the account. Either way, I see the explanation of "and there continued to BE no rain for thousands of years afterwards" to be a leap completely unsupported by any verses. So, with no verse suggesting it, and science firmly on the other side, the only reason to believe it is DOGMA- i.e. I was taught this and my teacher can't make mistakes, so I believe it.

Mrs Wolf just looked over all the clues and rattled off the answer halfway down the list. Since she doesn't want to log in and answer, she suggested that I mention: The long commercial refers to a game (as well as plush toys, the electronic pokedex), etc. Japan already had made pocket monsters a successful product long before this particular show came along.

Cheez Louise, I can't have 12-24 hours to respond to stuff? It's not like I'm hardlinked to the messageboard.... ================================================ Having reviewed the relevant verses in the KJV, NASB and NIV, pending a review in the Hebrew, I see no reason to think that description applied AFTER humans existed. The explanation on the linked page was a good one, and I see no quarrel with it... http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2010/10/19/rain-before-flood If I were to toss out an opinion, I'd say this really wasn't worth dwelling on as it's more to set the timeframe than to explain, but that it's a partial comment on the founding of the water cycle. (Any self-sustaining cycle has to begin SOMEWHERE and SOMEYIME, after which it can sustain itself.)

It is definitely not "Adult Swim". In fact, when I was in NYC, the thing aired on a commercial channel while in syndication on a different channel. I can currently see it in syndication on 2 different channels. It is VERY well known.

By any chance, was that line uttered in "the Wiz"???

Among the oddness of this show: -a lot of the police seem related and look similar...they're all named "Jenny" -a lot of the nurses seem related and look similar...they're all named "Joy" -many regular characters can't speak English, and their speech sounds a lot like their names.... and they don't have names as individuals, they're referred to by their sub-species rather than by a personal name "Gotta catch 'em all"

Among the oddness of this show: -a lot of the police seem related and look similar -a lot of the nurses seem related and look similar -many regular characters can't speak English, and their speech sounds a lot like their names

*checks* That show, oddly enough, HAS been around more than 10 seasons, but has been around less than the 1 I'm talking about. It's also been associated with relatively few consumer purchases- but the one I'm talking about has been very profitable, between cross-marketing and licensed products, and so on. Toys and cards are almost certainly the biggest sellers. Not many shows make it 10 seasons. Far fewer are current shows. This current show has had more than TEN theme songs! Among the theme songs were the following lines: "On a road, far from home, you don't have to feel alone. Brave and strong, together we will be. It's our destiny! We will be heroes, We can change the world if we try! I go where you go, Forever friends, you and I!" "Be the best you can be And find your destiny It's the master plan The power's in your hand." "Walking down this endless highway With nothing but my friends beside me We'll never give in, we'll never rest" "Yeah, this dream keeps us together, This shows that you and I - Will be the best that the world's ever seen, Because we always will follow this dream!" "And the future will decide If there's a hero buried deep inside" "No time to question my moves I stick to the path that I choose Me and my friends are gonna do it right You'll never see us run away from a fight To be a Master is my dream, All I've got to do is believe." "I wanna be the very best Like no one ever was." ============================================= Some might consider this entire series to be nothing more than a long commercial, but others might consider it some sort of modern, buddy "on the road" story like the old movies, with 3 buddies instead of 2 buddies. The main character's famous for wearing a cap. Replicas of one of his caps have been hot sellers for young folks at times.