WordWolf

Which means Gen-2 should be posting now...

Ok, Oak seems to be out of town or something. *checks* The episode is DS9's "Captive Pursuit." It's described by both George and Gen-2, but George got the earliest correct answer. So, it's George's turn. Unless he wants to step aside and let Gen-2 take it for a change.

Thomas Crane! "Thomas" means "twin"- there's 2 halves to the brain, separated by the corpus callosum. "Crane" short for "cranium"- the bone that protects the brain (the skull).

Right. That was the scene when I-gor first met the young Dr Frahnkensteen. Your turn.

"My grandfather used to work for your grandfather. Of course, the rates have gone up."

The REALLY funny part was when people started copying him with no idea what they were doing and WHY. So we had people putting out BROKEN mints on hand at their podiums. Because they had been putting BROKEN mints on hand at HIS podium. Which he eventually COMPLAINED about, since he could never find an INTACT mint (anymore). So, they said he said he broke the mints- at which point he clarified "I meant I break them in my mouth!" So, he broke open the intact mints in his mouth, so the center with the most powerful mint was exposed directly to his mouth, hiding the alcohol reek more quickly. Of course, he NEVER explained that he was hiding Drambuie smell, or that his "coffee" cup (like one obscure MASH character) was either alcohol or mixed with alcohol, but so many people knew SPECIFICALLY that he drank Drambuie all the time, and he even had locals go out and buy him a full bottle of it sometimes when he traveled. (Naturally, he expected them to pay for it. He expected not only to be able to dip his hand in the twi till, but for twi'ers to always pay his way everywhere at all times- as if they hadn't already paid by filling the twi till.) The more one learns about him, the more disgusting he sounds. The more one learns about him, the more thorough he sounds. (Couldn't just be A LITTLE disgusting- he covered his bases.)

Must be that movie I didn't see with Tom Cruise about stopping a crime before it happened.... "Minority Report"???

Too small a quote to tell, but I'm thinking the vices to exploit might be Quark on DS9. Maybe it's from an early exchange with Odo.

My story was typical of the time. I was aware there were a few problems among the higher-ups, and I could tell they were problems with lcm. (Hey, I visited hq at the ROA and other times. Listening to him talk enough, you could tell he was at least part of the problem.) However, I was confident (being young and foolish and naive) that things could be solved internally by the others talking sense to him and lcm thinking it over and making changes. I even said so. A few weeks after I said that, hq sent a letter saying that all my state's leadership- including one of the people I thought could talk sense to lcm- were fired. It also included vague, serious accusations that ALL of them (a blanket accusation) weren't serving God, but rather their own appetites. Now, I hadn't met ALL the people on the list, but I'd met several, and knew people who knew others on the list. From what I'd seen, these people weren't perfect, but they were performing in a more godly fashion than lcm was. So, if SOMEBODY was "off The Word", I had a pretty reliable sense of who it was. That was Spring of 1989. In Summer of 1989, I went to the ROA. I figured one of two things would happen. One, hq would announce regret, contrition, and a plan to walk the straight and narrow like they had not been- and I'd be there when they said it (this was pretty unlikely but possible). Two, that hq would continue its present course, and this would be my last chance to be on-grounds, buy things at the twi bookstore, and so on (this is what I expected.) While I was there, I also had a week to listen to the people at the main podium, and all the people who weren't, and could get a lot more information that way. Well, the evidence was considerable before that week, but by the end, the evidence was pretty compelling. hq was planning on doing whatever they wanted, and slapping the label "godly" on it. So, when that week ended, we left the grounds, and that was a pretty final end. Of course, since my entire state was, in effect, excommunicated by the holy see of twi, we all stayed together as a convenient unit for some time.

"I owe everything to George Bailey. Help him, Dear Father." "Bert! Ernie!"

Now, that IS remembered from just one line! That's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 KJV 13Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. 14For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. NASB 13The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person. 14For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil. God's got a lot to cover. All we can understand are a few vague generalities. We know that He's got the end covered completely. Respect God and do what He says. Before the end, God will judge EVERY act, no matter how carefully hidden. Revelation 21:1-4 NASB 1Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. 2And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. 3And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, 4and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away." Revelation 21:10-27 10And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, 11having the glory of God Her brilliance was like a very costly stone, as a stone of crystal-clear jasper. 12It had a great and high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names were written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel. 13There were three gates on the east and three gates on the north and three gates on the south and three gates on the west. 14And the wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 15The one who spoke with me had a gold measuring rod to measure the city, and its gates and its wall. 16The city is laid out as a square, and its length is as great as the width; and he measured the city with the rod, fifteen hundred miles; its length and width and height are equal. 17And he measured its wall, seventy-two yards, according to human measurements, which are also angelic measurements. 18The material of the wall was jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. 19The foundation stones of the city wall were adorned with every kind of precious stone The first foundation stone was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; 20the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. 21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the gates was a single pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass. 22I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. 25In the daytime (for there will be no night there) its gates will never be closed; 26and they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it; 27and nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life. Revelation 22:1-5 NASB 1Then he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb, 2in the middle of its street On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him; 4they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads. 5And there will no longer be any night; and they will not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illumine them; and they will reign forever and ever. ================================= Before we get to that point, there's a lot to be attended to- especially considering that God has to get the details covered while still allowing people their free will and the freedom to do horrible things and mess up their lives- while not messing up salvation and God's plan as a whole.

Previous threads on the subject include: vpw's plagiarized sources Plagiarism 101 ====================== vpw's claims to why he could get away with putting his name on the work of others was explained by one poster as follows (who believed this tripe): "By the way, are you aware of the usual process by which a highly esteemed college professor writes his books? He has his trusted graduate students write most of it, under the professor’s supervision. After training them and getting them to speak his language and utter his thoughts, the grad students become a secondary mouthpiece for the professor." My response to it: "The TRUTH of the matter is that if a professor attempted to have a student write ANY portion of a book OR a dissertation he is going to attach his name to-without featuring their name SPECIFICALLY as having written part of it- the student could have the professor FIRED WITH CAUSE from the institution, and the professor's reputation would be DESTROYED. That's because colleges and universities take plagiarism VERY, VERY SERIOUSLY. Is it TECHNICALLY possible a professor (or professors) did this? Yes-but "getting away with it" makes it no less a crime than theft or murder ceases to be a crime if you don't get caught. A professor may have a respected grad student REVIEW his work before it's published-as a technical proofreader. A professor may ask a respected grad student to COMPILE DATA- which the professor will then read, evaluated, then write on. That's not "writing" his book-not even a single letter of text."

"When you get to my door, tell them Boris sent you."

Got it in one!

I think he's having some fun with us over the "Revenge of the Jedi"/"Return of the Jedi" controversy. :)

"I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic circuit using stone knives and bearskins."

That's "the Seeker", from The Who.

You're miscategorizing yourself AND the cat. If you're the last one with someone to say for now, then that's what it is. As for the cat, some people found it a comfort for this cat (if it's the same one) to be there in their final hours. Nobody's sure what the connection is-what is drawing the cat- but the cat seems to do not harm and may help the patient's mood. Some of them come back YEARS later. Most messageboards don't like someone bringing up old threads- it's called "necro'ing"- but here, it's accepted policy- so long as there's a reason to do it- someone asked about the subject, or someone had something else to say on the subject.

It is. Kevin Bacon's character is a last-minute substitute, since the flight doctors (incorrectly) diagnose Gary Sunise's character with an illness that will take affect during the flight. So, the replacement rushes in and forgets to file his taxes. That revelation comes up during the scene when they're clowning for the television. The best line was Clint Howard in Mission Control, replying. "That's no joke. They'll jump on him!" Later, during the endurance run back to Earth with all the systems off, Mission Control calls in the update. Since he's proven to be out of the country, he's granted an extension on filing his taxes. Over to you, George!

This is when we meet Klingon Ambassador Keylehr and Alexander. We find out Alexander's Worf's son. We also see a Klingon ship that was a sleeper ship of some kind, out to continue the fight with the Federation that's been over for years. The Enterprise stops them by pretending Worf and Keylehr were the command officers of the Enterprise, and the Klingons ALREADY fought the war and won.

"Uh, well, if anyone from the, uh, from the IRS is watching, I... forgot to file my, my, my 1040 return. Um, I meant to do it today, but, uh..." "That's no joke. They'll jump on him!" "Jack, you'll be glad to hear that we've contacted President Nixon, and he's going to grant you an extension on your income taxes, since you are most decidedly out of the country." "Roger that, Houston. That's wonderful news."

Of course, twi is the same, but the world is different. Kids are a LOT more cynical (and they were the twi target audience), and the internet makes it impossible to hide dirty secrets or make people disappear and only tell YOUR side of the story. So, the same tactics are used today- and fail in a fairly spectacular fashion today...

Of course, David was in charge in the FIRST place because the people had insisted on abandoning God's reign, and insisting on imitating other countries and having a king. What they got was King Saul, and eventually David was raised to rescue the people from the disaster that was Saul. Naturally, David abused HIS authority too (just ask Uriah.) David's successor was Solomon, who also copied some of the nations and decided he could have lots and lots of wives from the other nations, etc.... Abuse of power is an old, old story, and someone centralizing power to make it easier to accrue and abuse power is about as old....

BTW, Agent K was wrong about people thinking the world was flat. SOME people might have thought that, but all the educated ones didn't, and sailors certainly did not. (They can see the horizon is CURVED when they're out to sea on a calm day.) Look up the name "Eratosthenes" sometime- using math, he calculated the circumference of the Earth in the days of the Greek Empire, and he was almost exactly right. Songs to the contrary, people never laughed at Columbus for saying the world was round. He was debated when he said it was small enough that he could sail around and reach the Indies without having to turn back for food and supplies. Columbus, for those who haven't thought this through- WAS WRONG. If there was nothing but water between Europe and Asia, Columbus would have run out of food. If Columbus hadn't crashed into an unexpected continent, he would have been in trouble. And the land he crashed into was already inhabited. As Chris Rock said, Columbus basically discovered someone's back yard. Sorry for interrupting, but that's a pet peeve of mine.