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  1. 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.
  2. I can't tell if this is a list of characters or a list of actors. Guessing it's actors and guessing from there, my wild guess is "the Dream Team."
  3. It's rather obvious vpw didn't understand "his" "Great Principle" because it was both inconsistent and senseless. "God is Spirit. God can only give that which He is." As Raf pointed out on this once, God gave manna. God is not manna. (And so on.) "God is Spirit. Spirit can only communicate with spirit." Again, Raf pointed out that this is inconsistent. According to vpw, God CAN'T communicate with body-and-soul, flesh-and-blood. (Let's ignore all the instances where God did EXACTLY that.) So, God gives spirit, and God communicates with spirit, and that spirit God gave us communicates with our mind. Wait- that spirit can communicate with flesh-and-blood, body-and-soul, but God Almighty is UNABLE TO because he is spirit??? This gets even more senseless when they end up tacking on the wild explanation that every incident and instance in the Bible where God Almighty darn well DID communicate with people involved putting spirit upon them for just that moment in a "phenomena." It just gets more and more convoluted and wrong for every single incidence that's discussed-since that stupidity has to be tacked on to discussions about lots of unrelated things.
  4. This a current show that has had enough seasons to justify all the theme-songs. No- although since I just added that this was a current show, I'm sure you figured that out. But I'm replying because I don't want to ignore you and be rude. :)
  5. AFAIK, when people say "mass marriages", they usually mean the group told them who to marry and assembled them all. twi DID have groups who all got married at the same time, at least once that I know of. (lcm was complaining about how outsiders spoke derisively about it, at the event, and he was recorded.) AFAIK, all the people actually chose to get married, who to get married to, and to get married at the group time. (Yes, I'm sure there was some bandwagon-ing, but there wasn't a directive to get married, and at that day or to whom. As for house-painting and window-washing, I know that it got very popular right at the split in 1988-1989, as all the paid staff suddenly became unemployed. So, they wanted jobs that required little or no startup capital, and no special training. Naturally, those were popular choices, and we later heard some splinter leaders start mandating people got their windows cleaned often because the transparency of your windows indicated your spiritual well-being. I kid you not. Naturally, the people being hired to clean the windows just happened to be the ones who TECHNICALLY didn't make it MANDATORY, but acted as if it was and brought social sanctions to bear if they weren't obeyed. I don't know the history of the thing before the 88-89 split.
  6. Glad it wasn't TOO easy. Each theme song has been for a different season.
  7. This 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 "
  8. No idea. I'm hoping more of the rounds will be aimed at movies than actors or actresses.
  9. Is that Rod Serling's "Night Gallery"?
  10. Clint Eastwood Firefox John Ratzenberberger
  11. Bravo! You have it in one. I didn't know the lyrics existed until just before I posted the clue.
  12. Ok, next show. Someone wrote words to this show's theme song. Here they are. " So you think that you've got troubles? Well, trouble's a bubble So tell old Mr. Trouble to get lost! Why not hold your head up high and Stop cryin', start tryin' And don't forget to keep your fingers crossed. When you find the joy of livin' Is lovin' and givin' You'll be there when the winning dice are tossed. A smile is just a frown that's turned upside down So smile, and that frown will defrost. And don't forget to keep your fingers crossed "
  13. I knew Alphas was cancelled, but I never saw the show. I knew Dollhouse was cancelled, but never saw it either. I knew Eliza Dushku was in it but not Summer Glau. I never watched Warehouse 13.
  14. That was it. Mrs Wolf loves this movie. I didn't even get to mention Cesar Romero in the cast...
  15. Next movie. Shirley Mac Laine Norman Fell Red Skelton George Raft Joey Bishop
  16. Obviously, I know her from "Firefly." I know she was in "Terminator- the Sarah Connor Chronicles."
  17. No. I hope you're feeling flexible. You'll want to kick yourself soon....
  18. *looks* I've heard of the one with Bill Murray and might have gotten it, but the one with Joan Collins, I've never even heard of it.
  19. "I've seen the footage. The only thing you really fight for is yourself. You're not the guy to make the sacrifice play, to lay down on a wire and let the other guy crawl over you." "I think I would just cut the wire." "Always a way out..." " You really have got a lid on it, haven't you? What's your secret? Mellow jazz? Bongo drums? Huge bag of weed?" "This is out of line, Director. You're dealing with forces you can't control." "You ever been in a war, Councilman? In a firefight? Did you feel an over-abundance of control?" "They needed a push in the right direction. They got it." " Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on." "They'll come back." "You really sure about that?" "I am." "Why?" "Because we'll need them to." "Raise the mizzenmast! Jib the topsails!" "Kneel!" "Not today!"
  20. I can name 2 series, not counting guest shots and not counting "Arrow."
  21. That specific wouldn't apply, but others would, or might, depending on how they were presented in court. There was no signed contract that said the corps was "signed up for a lifetime of Christian service." It wasn't anything they SIGNED- it was a SLOGAN for the corps. IF they HAD signed such a document (which they didn't), it would be unenforceable to be signed up for "a lifetime" for a program, especially with such a nebulous requirement as "Christian service." That is far too VAGUE. Working in soup kitchens is "Christian service." Mission fields are "Christian service." And so on, and so on. "Misrepresentation" is a separate issue, and violation of twi's fiduciary responsibilities are completely different issues-but applicable to prosecuting twi. The main reasons to sue twi are not "breaking contracts". That's a little like bringing in Al Capone on income tax evasion. It's true and legal, but hardly the main reason to bring in the criminal.
  22. I think EVERY country has had someone hide out there at some point or other, but a reputation for being a refuge for wanted criminals is more a fiction than a reality for any country. (Running to Brazil is as realistic, today, as running to Mexico and being shocked when you're caught and extradited. Most countries don't really look like their media impressions- England is modern, Mexico isn't an old Western set...) IF he slipped the net into Brazil, he'd have to live completely "off the grid" and sponge completely off the followers. That's less likely every year with information nets getting tighter every year. He's practically be under "house arrest" since he doesn't speak Portuguese and would stand out quickly between not looking Brazilian and having a US accent even if he DID try to speak Portuguese. He can make a MUCH more successful fade into the background if he stays in the US somewhere, even if it's an island of the mainland US.
  23. Ok, to move this along, "Batman the Movie". The moustachioed guy was Cesar Romero. As a kid, I never noticed the moustache under the makeup. The cast-change was Julie Newmar replaced by Lee Meriwether. (Julie couldn't clear her schedule for the shooting.) Given that 3 different recurring villains were played by more than 1 actor, none of whom looked like each other, this didn't seem peculiar to me when I was the movie. Then again, I saw it on television years later. (I wasn't ALIVE when the movie hit the theaters.)
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