WordWolf

vpw was always an expert on anything he wanted to expound upon... ..and if following his advice messed you up, then it was your fault for "insufficient believing."

Sometimes the comics include little moments like that, too. There was an incident with a series of disasters, where Lex Luthor was in his office trying to find out what was going on. One of the secretaries giving him an update was Ms Teshmacher, and one of the towns hit by an earthquake was Otisburg. (Me, I loved the 'Otisburg' reference.) A different comic showed Dick Grayson recounting a story to Batman about trying to dispose of a bomb when he didn't have his tools on him. "You said it yourself-there are some days you just can't get rid of a bomb." That was a reference to a VERY well-remembered scene from the 60s Batman movie that was in the theaters-with Adam West and Burt Ward. YOU LEFT OUT "VICTORY!" BTW, the "60s" versions are usually called "the Golden Age" whoevers, or-if you're old-school- the Earth-2 whoevers. (No longer applicable since 1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths.) I'm not sure they were actually active into the 1960s in real time, but in comics time they had retired following an investigation by the House Unamerican Activities Committee in the 50s.

More likely, it was because the book went OUT OF PRINT. It was still for sale in the bookstore in the 80s, but around 1990 it became impossible to find. Someone lent me a hand and gave me a copy they got when buying a cache of out-of-print books. I never encountered the specific things mentioned in the book. However, without attempting to outline a precise nuts-and-bolts approach, the author gave enough information for a careful reader to do so based on the book- and THAT information was consistent with what I DID experience. That is, the difference between "miraculous" effects versus "spiritualist" effects, and so on, both in execution and in long-term side-effects. vpw lacked understanding of all that, but he was correct when he mentioned the importance of free will.

The impression I get is that-if you read the whole book- you come away thinking virtually all medication is unnecessary, but comments like this show a distinction between OVERmedicating and proper dosage. I'm not sure Adams wasn't "hedging his bets" and basically allowing for people to claim he said both at once. For situations NOT the result of a chemical imbalance, or requiring a chemical rebalancing, I think this was quite a handy book. For true psychiatric (medical) problems, however, the smart thing for the reader of this book to do is to not interfere.

Perhaps you're thinking of one of its covers. The original was getting airplay before I was born! "My heart cries out, 'More, baby', It feels so nice, I want your arms to wrap around me twice" "Whenever we kiss, I get a feeling like this, I get to wishing that there were two of you" "I only wish the night was twice as long" The keyboard work on the original would ring a bell, if I could play it.

Plus it might have relevance here, where "the Hero With a Thousand Faces" has little, if any, relevance here.

It's been quite a while. I have a dim impression that Adams thought there were no such thing as true psychatric disorders that require medication or institutionalization. Is that correct that he said that?

"It feels so nice, I want your arms to wrap around me twice" "I get to wishing that there were two of you" "I only wish the night was twice as long"

"I get to wishing that there were two of you" "I only wish the night was twice as long"

Unless you've corrected it so that it NOW links right, the link BEGINS LOADING at the top of the page, and is completed pointing EXACTLY at Galen's post. So, just wait a second.

When I was a little kid, we had a record player with a lot of different speeds. One of the fun things was taking 33 1/3 rpm records and playing them at 45 rpm and listening to the voices at chipmunk speeds. Another was playing an Alvin and the Chipmunks record at a slower speed (I think we had the slowest speed of 12 rpm) and hearing what the singers' voices sounded like. Except David Saville, who now sounded odd. Meanwhile, we DO have another song on the table...

Was there a textbook for that class, and, if so, was it Jay Adams' "Competent to Counsel"? A corps person once recommended it to me as a good read on the subject. (Interestingly enough, it's not exactly limited to twi people in terms of who owns a copy.)

Hm. I MUST be the only "old-school" AD&D player or DM checking in lately. This was obviously wrong to the old-schoolers because the system of feudalism's lowest rung was not the SLAVE, it was the SERF. (They did not go "serfing", however. No decent waves over there.) A serf's lot wasn't THAT different from a slave, but a serf was BELIEVED TO OWN HIMSELF. He may have been required-SOME of the time- to work his lord's farmland, and desperate times may have been given a weapon and sent to war (if the lord called for the "fyrd", the LEAST useful military force), but he was also entitled to protection from bandits and other lords, and most of his time was his own. If he didn't want to tend his OWN crops today, he didn't HAVE to. Also, serfs ate decent meals. If a lord wanted his work done, he needed his serfs to eat nutritious meals, or they'd have no energy to do the work. (They ate better, according to reports, than the average attendee of the way corps. vpw was not as good a student as he claimed- at least his European history was lacking.) If this was NOT true of a lord, and he MIStreated his serfs, they could just sneak off and try the next lord. (They had the LEGAL right to leave, but the current lord often "forgot" that when he saw fleeing serfs.) Anyway, except when working FOR the lord, a serf's time was his own. He could relax, practice a trade-presuming he KNOWS a trade- farm his own land, etc. Yes, the "etc" includes what you're thinking. He did not need a permit from his lord for...thingy. (If he did, it sure would have made audits a lot more interesting.)

Since the invention of smaller motors, LOTS of people have done tricks with "moving-body-part-severed-from-the-body". Shop around. You can buy LOTS of them in retail stores- novelty shops, costumers, indie S/F companies...

To 'walk' with your hands at a walking pace TAKES YEARS OF PRACTICE. Interesting how he does his stunts over concrete, and this one was done over a lawn, where it would be comfortable to walk on your hands or barefoot. No-you saw what the bystanders saw. And no "midget" was involved. That woman had adult-sized body-parts--you saw that. And who said a SECOND midget would have been used anyway? Her supposed upper half was active. NOBODY was looking at the lower half. Which was in a SKIRT. Not pants. Only person in a full-length skirt in the area. She was not wearing trousers. They're tricky to get into if you've hurt your foot, for example. NOW do you get it?

I dunno. How could they deny Mrs W homecare and kick her out of her house? I know they did it, but I can't see how they COULD.

IIRC, which I may not, the release-title of that movie was "THE KLANSMAN", and it was supposed to show how the Klan saved this country. The book I can recommend that mentions the reconstruction is "Lies My Teacher Told Me", by James Loewen. It addresses the SOCIOLOGICAL bias of "history" classes- that is, "this is a great country and has gotten better as time has passed", which puts a spin on simple reporting of events, and the "history as myth" thing, which makes historical figures into legends, not humans. Legitimate controversies get bleached out, and only what fits the mold gets reported. So we lose things like white Southerners who were opposed to slavery, post Civil War Northerners who entered the South and actually DIDN'T go to bleed the South dry, and the entire life of Helen Keller after she was a child. It doesn't fixate solely on one time-period. It addresses the overview and uses several textbooks as examples, and goes thru the history of the US, from "the age of colonization in the New World" thru up to Vietnam or so. It's the one history book I recommend. Even if you disagree completely with it.

I would like to point out the timeframe for this. "This was early 90's stuff." That means that the spiritual climate for this-the policies that put this psychopath in a position to give this advice- and the polity that made this sound perfectly acceptable at the time to the power-that-be-- this was all the direct result of lcm's 'line in the sand' in 1989, and the consequence of what he CLAIMED was a desire to serve God and do godly things. Did he? Well, take a look at this example (among others), and I think most people actually exercising their thinking abilities will say "obviously, lcm was 'all talk' in this, and knew what to say in 1989, but never had any intention of carrying it out, instead going into the tyrant mode that made all this 'work' to him, and made the people DISPOSABLE." A few might even add "lcm learned from vpw HIMSELF to make even the corps DISPOSABLE, as we ourselves saw."

I use the back button for the same reason. Another tip to remember is that your connection may time out, or the site may time you out if you have stayed on the same page and not "pinged" it with any directions (like "refresh page"). So, here's what I do when typing a very big post. I open a second window to the GSC forums, and every once in a while, I refresh that page. So the site knows I'm still there and doesn't log me off. Every 5 minutes is PLENTY- I think 8-10 minutes is enough. (Works on other boards too, BTW.) The official recommendation is to type the post into a word-processor program, then cut-and-paste it into the window. That way you still have the original if cyberspace eats the post and it never makes it to the site. THEN you can erase your document when you see it saved onsite. This is a good idea, but I'm hoping never to need it, especially since I'm often posting where that's not really an option.

Dot Matrix, when facing vpw taking BOTH sides of an issue at different times in front of different people, was told this by a staffer, "Don't you know how he works? HE will be on your sister's side and tell her how awful her husband is, then if her husband walks in he will tell him how awful she is and take his side."

Fair enough- but I think the others all picked now to go to the movies or something. When I see this line, I keep hearing the "Japanese Banana" song with it, because that's the OTHER song I know well from the group. This was "Alvin and the Chipmunks", or "David Saville and the Chipmunks" (depending on how they're labelling it) doing "Christmas Don't Be Late". =========== So, with my muse awake, I submit the next song for The Academy's august consideration.... "I only wish the night was twice as long"

No, they did not. The illusion was that she was pulled apart. She was NOT harmed or reduced in any way during this trick...

I only try another site if Snopes doesn't have the answer.

I can believe that. It's also the correct answer. Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs did this song, and the Rolling Stones covered it later, and Bowling for Soup covered it around 2005 for the "Cursed" soundtrack. Sam the Sham's biggest hit was "Wooly Bully", which should ring a bell. ChasUFarley, your turn.

That might do me permanent damage. As a kid, I think I never recovered from the Star Wars Holiday Special despite suppressing the memory entirely. ======= Inspiration has hit. Ok, next song..... "Even bad wolves can be good"