WordWolf

Give me a few more hours to post the next one....

"You can talk to me"

"The lunatic is on the grass"

The "hoodoo" rings a bell. "Born on the Bayou." IIRC, that's Creedence Clearwater Revival, not John Fogerty in his solo career.

I know the song, of course, but I'm blanking on the artist.

That was "the Spirit of Radio", by Rush.

Didn't hit me until now that both episodes had the Feds, Klingons, and powerful being. Ok, this was "Day of the Dove."

"Begin the day with a friendly voice, a companion unobtrusive... Plays that song thats so elusive and the magic music makes your morning mood"

Is this from "Day of the Dove", when the Organians FORCED peace on Klingons and Federation, and a Klingon (Kor???) decided that there's times even Klingons don't fight? The "burning house" comment is familiar.

Ok, you've got the artist, so you can take the round. Maybe I was thinking about this because the other guy called HIMSELF "The Teacher" ======= Well the dawn was coming, heard him ringing on my bell. He said, ``My name's 'The Teacher', that is what I call myself. And I have a lesson that I must impart to you. It's an old expression, but I must insist it's true. Jump up, look around, find yourself some fun, no sense in sitting there hating everyone. No man's an island and his castle isn't home, the nest is for nothing when the bird has flown.'' So I took a journey, threw my world into the sea. With me went the teacher, who found fun instead of me. Hey man, what's the plan, what was that you said? Sun-tanned, drink in hand, lying there in bed. I try to socialize but I can't seem to find what I was looking for, got something on my mind. Then the teacher told me it had been a lot of fun. Thanked me for his ticket and all that I had done. Hey man, what's the plan, what was that you said? Sun-tanned, drink in hand, lying there in bed. I try to socialize but I can't seem to find what I was looking for, got something on my mind. ======== Go, bfh!

"F Troop?"

"Begin the day with a friendly voice, a companion unobtrusive..."

Could this be Aretha Franklin asking for a little Respect?

Perhaps some advice for us twi survivors: "Jump up, look around, find yourself some fun, no sense in sitting there hating everyone. No man's an island and his castle isn't home, the nest is for nothing when the bird has flown.''

Was this "Wild Wild West?"

"BEHIND BLUE EYES", The Who.

There are plenty of soldiers who go on and "man up", but still remember something in war, sometimes having flashbacks. There's Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, which applies to soldiers and civilians, and both can seem fine, then struggle when something triggers a painful memory. When a soldier is doing just that, would you recommend telling him to just buck up and handle it? He already knows he's SUPPOSED to find a way to do that. Of course, telling him that AT THE TIME really doesn't help. That would be as silly as confronting someone for having a racing heartbeat, or because they had some sort of brain attack where they suddenly were disordered and aphasic and all that. Yet, there ARE people who would confront someone under such an attack- right when it's happening, they'd demand to know how the person let his brain get all scrambled. (Of course, it the person's aphasic, it's hard to answer....)

Dear Watered Garden, Thank you for your input on this subject so far. I hope we can prevail upon you to fill us in a little better, so long as we phrase the questions in a civil and respectful manner. I was getting ready to re-read the thread, then ask you to clarify your post. It seemed both like you were saying it WAS an STD, and that it WASN'T. After all, you said the DIAGNOSIS HS2 wasn't around yet-not that he couldn't have GOTTEN it, just that he could not have been DIAGNOSED with it. However, the "OH HO!" part made it sound like you were saying it was definitely NOT HS2. I think it's not unreasonable to see it's possible that many people here-especially those of us who, like myself, lack a medical background. IIRC, when you get a COLD SORE, that's a herpes virus or something, and THAT usually isn't an STD. *glances at something* Hm. A Herpes virus is responsible for chicken pox, and Epstein-Barr/"mono". (And not everything people call a "cold sore" is caused by this virus. I could use some time reading up...) If you could explain to us, in terms that complete duffers can understand, I certainly would appreciate it. I expect others would as well. Here's something I found on wikipedia on Encephalitis.

Is this a movie whose title is technically inaccurate?

Hm. The first one's a Klingon proverb. I didn't remember it being used in an episode. Obviously, it was. And I don't know which one, yet.

Either that, or a reminder I forgot it was my turn. "Hungry Like the Wolf", by Duran Duran. Next song. "The undertaker drew a heavy sigh, seeing no one else had come"

I keep wondering if I've heard the first and third quotes...

Very true. Some people got off light. (I got off light, to name one.) Some others were beaten down. (Some committed suicide.) if you want to trace the progress, lcm HIMSELF made it easier. Do a search for the thread: "vp and me in wonderland", where we discussed lcm's own words on the subject. What some posters have reported, is that vpw asked for who EVERYONE thought should be his replacement, and that he said it could be "any Advanced class grad." Naturally, that wasn't true-he'd want someone with years of twi experience, who's held some office in twi. However, some people took him seriously. Lots of names were sent to vpw. Almost nobody thought it should be lcm. vpw chose him IN SPITE OF all suggestions. There were some closed meetings, and, apparently based on the beginnings and the results, vpw insisted it would be lcm, and kept at it until others eventually endorsed what he'd already decided. lcm's OWN story shows vpw had this planned for quite a while. I don't know how his dynastic prophecy (we just started discussing this) figured in, but it would not surprise me if he made 2 different contradictory plans, and expected them BOTH to work. Or, if he made that "prophecy" after choosing lcm and seeing he didn't get the results he wanted....what year was it, and when did he install lcm? Anyone?

Apples and oranges. The apples were vpw trying to make twi all about him (which worked), and to perpetuate that by making it a dynasty of his blood descendants (which would have taken more work and time.) He MIGHT have succeeded with that, but it would have taken time to set up and set in motion. Instead, he made one statement by divine fiat, and expected everyone to get up and try to make it work. It's the LAZY method of getting it done. Then again, vpw's modus operandi seems to have ALWAYS been to cut corners, and find the method to do something that involved the LEAST investments of time and energy from him. (Studied "Homiletics" and only PRETENDED he studied Bible languages, claimed history was useless-but he never studied it, so that's convenient... got his Doctorate from an unaccredited source and lied about its credentials...lied about taking courses at Moody that he never took... plagiarized the classes and books of others and claimed he got the information from God...) As for the oranges.... In the case of him running to geer, vpw was ill AND made to feel superfluous. (He'd treated others as disposable for decades, and he was reaping the result, since now HE was the disposable one. Poetic justice.) It USED to be ALL ABOUT HIM. He used to be the NEXUS for all things twi. Now he was completely in the dark as to activity, and considered (by the powers-that-be) to be unnecessary. So, he wanted some emotional comfort. He wanted the blanket and warm milk and bedtime story. He wanted to hear that he was the center of the universe. Luke couldn't give him that. Two men had been THE best at that- lcm and cg. lcm was now one of the ones who was pushing him out, so vpw went to the other to bask in the attention and adoration. That was NOTHING to do with long-term plans, that was EVERYTHING to do with vpw needing to feel special again. It worked so well that cg wrote "Passing of the Patriarch" in response, which included a number of predictions that never came to pass, and a number of current problems that were the results of his decisions for many years- but now, mysteriously, had nothing to do with him and were completely the fault of everyone else.

AND, they had it DOWN TO A SYSTEM. They had PRACTICE. That means this wasn't the first time ABS money went for that, locally.