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This is REALLY good. I think we should have a Movie Pictionary Hall of Fame. And this one will all but certainly qualify. This is a two-word title. The second and third pictures combine for the second word. Hall of FAME stuff. (that's not a clue).

Mark, Let me caution you, having been on this road before, that if you absolutely nail an actual error, as I did more than 30, Mike will never, ever admit it. Ever. He says it outright: his response will be to dodge. That's his word, not mine. Dodge, distract, etc. but never admit an error is an error. And he sees this as a virtue! Against such, you may be wasting your time. Nonetheless, should you succeed where I failed, let me know. I will immediately press for Obama to name you the U.S. envoy to Gaza to settle a minor land dispute there.

For the record: I am out of the nitpicking through the PFAL writings business. I wrapped all the books up in plastic and gave it to this guy who comes by my house twice a week to file my important documents, many of which contain important nutritional information such as the sugar content of each bowl of Frosted Flakes contained in the box my stepdaughters recently emptied. As a bonus, he also finds a special place for orange peels and apple cores I placed in the same plastic wrap as LifeLines and The New Dynamic Church. Amazingly, the air is cleaner in my home now. Release from your prisons, indeed.

Something's wrong with my computer. I haven't been able to get in.

We missing a pic?

Most of this article is pretty much harmless and not subject to rebuttal. This writer, if I'm viewing this correctly, is concerned with finances, not faith. The only difficulty is certain things are stated as fact that should be marked off as the opinions of her subjects: That's clearly going on the say so of the interview subjects. I doubt highly there was independent research to verify that this group is "worldwide" by any stretch. Agree or disagree, this is CLEARLY the opinion of the subjects. There is plenty of Christian disagreement on tithing and living debt-free. SCHOLARS? Puh-LEASE. For the most part, I'd advise against giving TWI any publicity by responding to this. At best, this warrants a letter to the editor about calling people Biblical Scholars when their only claim to the title is membership in a discredited cult founded by a plagiarizing predatory preacher.

I'll see you in chat. 7 p.m. CST.

WW< looks like you've got trouble, my friend. Trouble right here in...wait, this isn't river city. Where the hell am I?

Connect the first two, and the third becomes obvious. I mean the fourth. That's your clue.

"When guys are persistent, it's romantic, they make movies about that. If it's a woman, then they cast Glenn Close." Ally makes an observation about how men and women are treated by Hollywood. *** "Bygones." Recurring line whenever someone says something that another person usually can and damn well should find offensive. *** "A fat man, trying to squeeze through a narrow chimney, and I taunt him with Oreos and whole milk." Peter MacNicol on Santa Claus *** "Snappish" Recurring line whenever someone sounds, well, snappish. *** "You think we're all from Mars here, don't you?" "I never said which planet." Exchange between Ally McBeal and Bobby Donnell on one of the best TV crossover episodes ever: the lawyers of Ally McBeal (FOX) need help with a murder case, so they cross the street, and the network, to visit the lawyers of ABC's The Practice. Naturally, the folks at The Practice, a very serious show, think the lawyers of Ally McBeal are loopy. *** "Maybe you should eat a cookie." "Maybe we should share it." Not a crossover episode: more of a crossover moment. Ally gets into an elevator, and Helen Gamble (Lara Flynn Boyle) from The Practice is on it. Both actresses are known to be frighteningly thin. For the record: Helen started it. *** "Friendly group. They probably take homicides just to lighten up." Final crossover quote: Cage (from Ally McBeal) sums up his first visit to The Practice office. Both shows were produced by David Kelley. Boston Legal is a spinoff of The Practice.

It's Howdy Doody Time!

Nah. Just someone willing to write the next clue

The common link is not Candace Bergen. The common link is not on camera, except tangentially, maybe, a tiny bit. By "it's got something in common with the last answer," I meant the last correct answer, from the previous clue. In other words, something in common with Boston Legal

Howdah/Elephant Dung/Turd Olaf and Don? Oh! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! WHAT TIME IS IT????

Correct on all counts. You left out Christopher Lee's line about the appalling publicity, which I thought was hysterical.

You're thinking along the right lines: more recent, but not current. Another hint: It's got something in common with the last answer

To be offended, I would have to care about his opinion. Since I don't, I'm not. Remember that these folks are quick to condemn us for judging Weirwille, yet equally quick to judge the multitude of people who have come forward to expose the abuses that Wierwille committed. We shouldn't judge him because we don't know the facts, but his accusers? They're all cowards and liars. That judgment is okay, but judging Wierwille by the standards of common decency (not to mention the Bible he held in such supposed high esteem) is out of bounds. Hey, compare ANYONE to Christ, and that person will come up short. And as sinister as I believe him to be, I can think of a great many people more vilely evil. Don't lose sleep over the comparison, rascal.

Realized yesterday that seaspray does not need a welcome. He's been here before, a few years back (as someone noted). And no, nothing seems to have changed with him. Welcome back, seaspray. Let us know when you have an original thought. I'll alert the rest of the media.

Read it again. Slowly. Sound out the words if it helps. When you start, I'll ... Nope, sorry, won't stop thinking, not even for you.

My skin's a little thicker than that, Bolshevik. :) Glad to know where you stand, seaspray. My prayers are with you. Be well.

Good one, Mike. Interesting. See how easy it is to talk about Jesus Christ when you focus on the Bible rather than PFAL? I'm just saying. (and yes, I'm just kidding). Honestly, I think there's a difference between being a sinner, which everyone is, and being sinister. Of necessity, God works with sinners (not a lot of options on that front). But to expect me to believe Wierwille is what you claim him to be, God would have to work not with a sinner, but with the sinister; not with a man who occasionally succumbed to evil, but with a man who occasionally rose above it; not with a man who failed to be what he knew to be, but a man who knew what he was and reveled in it. You compare Wierwille to Saul the apostle, I to Saul the king. You compare Wierwille to the penitent sinner David, I to the unpenitent and ultimately disgraced Solomon. And that's being gracious, for it assumes that at some point there truly was a desire to serve God. Unfortunately, Wierwille ended up serving man, not in any noble sense, but he served man up to the altar of his own greed, his own lusts. Do his misdeeds mark his entire life? No. Of course not. Most of the people he met, he did not hurt. Most of the people who heard him preach were inspired by it, I dare say. And bravo for that. But he didn't need to prey upon more than a handful of God's people to earn the mark of predator. He didn't have to manipulate everyone he met to be a manipulator. As I've mentioned over and over: Jeffrey Dahmer only ate a miniscule fraction of the people he met over his lifetime. A teensy weensy... almost immeasurable percentage. Defend what you want of the cult leader Victor Paul Wierwille. He preyed upon God's people, in Christ's name. It wasn't merely sin. It was a calculated lifestyle of manipulation of Scripture and people for his own lustful ends. Sad, yes. Tragic? Depends on his motives to begin with. A legacy? Maybe. He'll have the legacy of L. Ron Hubbard, Charles Taze Russell, Mary Baker Eddy... when the final history of Victor Paul Wierwille is written, he will take his place among the second or third tier of those who traded in money and lives in Christ's name. He will be, perhaps, a footnote at best (ironic, considering his own failure to use such inconveniences). And Christianity will move on.

Mike, Again, nice try. We've been through this before. Let's not bother, k?

Jeff put it well, as usual. It's true, seaspray, but once you come to that realization, your recovery can begin. The belief system you cling to was, to a large extent, concocted by a predator of God's people for the purpose of satisfying his lust for money, sex and power. Oh, his legacy includes many fond memories for you, and I won't begrudge you that. I had some good memories too. But I'd trade those good memories in a heartbeat if it would take away the pain and anguish suffered at Wierwille's hands by people whose only crime was a desire to get to know God better.

"When guys are persistent, it's romantic, they make movies about that. If it's a woman, then they cast Glenn Close." *** "Bygones." *** "A fat man, trying to squeeze through a narrow chimney, and I taunt him with Oreos and whole milk." *** "Snappish" *** "You think we're all from Mars here, don't you?" "I never said which planet." *** "Maybe you should eat a cookie." "Maybe we should share it." *** "Friendly group. They probably take homicides just to lighten up." Hint: The last three quote might make you think of another show, with good reason. Nonethless, all the quotes are from the same show. Even the last three. Even if they remind you of another show. On another network. With good reason.