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Umm, I got 100%. :) I RULE! Now if only I could master PFAL...

This isn't a thread I visit all the time, so I didn't want to put a stumper up there.

This should be easy: "I believe my exact words were 'a dangerous, savage, child-race.' " ***** "Captain, we've got a problem with the warp core, or the phase inducers, or some other damn thing." ***** "Five card stud, nothing wild. And the sky's the limit."

I only go for movies I've seen. I go to www.imdb.com Put an actor's name in the search box, wander around the site for a while until I find a movie I've actually seen, sometimes look for specific quotes, sometimes see if I find one I only remember when I've read it. They have the character names in there, so I copy and paste, then delete the character names. Usually it's a quote I specifically recall, but have no idea exactly how it went. There are times when I go from memory, or I go with a movie I've just seen or am watching at the moment. In the case of Big, I just watched this movie. I could have picked lines I remember that are not on the imdb site, but it's easier to pick the ones that are there. If no one had guessed, I would pop the movie back into my vcr and gone for the line where Tom Hanks says "I play with all these toys and tell them what I think." His friend replies, "And they pay you for that?" "Yeah." "Suckers!" Now, those quotes are not precise, and they're not on imdb, so I would have to have typed it while the movie played. Point is, I only go for movies I've seen and quotes I remember, and I use imdb to save time. WordWolf, your move.

Agreed. I ain't in his fan club, but he deserves his say (much as I despise what he has to say).

And just to clarify, I'm thinking of the one where Max Headroom shows up on the Enterprise pretending to be a historian from the future, but he's actually an inventor from the past out to steal some toys. It's a next generation episode.

Some nut is just a lie of the mind It's make believe until it's only a matter of time But Data and Picard could adjust for them it never was a matter of trust.

Why does the name "Max Headroom" ring a bell?

Nope. "You've gotta get me someone who knows what she is doing. Excuse me. I'm not getting any of my mail, nothing has been filed. Ever since she got engaged, my life has been a disaster." "You know, she came so highly recommended." "She spent the last three months writing down her married name. "Mrs. Judy Hicks", "Mrs. Donald Hicks"; "Mrs. Judy Mitchellson Hicks", sometimes with a hyphen, sometimes without a hyphen. Sometimes, she spells the hyphen."

Didn't even see this thing here. Thanks for the nudge. "Three dimes, a hundred dollar bill and 87 ones." *** "Where did you go to school?" "It was called George Washington." "Oh G.W. My brother-in-law got his doctorate there. Did you pledge?" "Yes. Every morning."

Tina Turner What's Love Got to Do With It Laurence Fishburne Before anyone objects to this entry: Tina doesn't act in the movie, but she shows up in the end as herself in a concert. It's a significant amount of screen time, a few minutes, so it counts.

No, he's not suggesting it. He's stating it outright. God gave the revelation to Leonard, who didn't do a good enough job and inserted his own junk, so God went to Wierwille next. God told Wierwille what to plagiarize from Leonard, Kenyon and Bullinger, and since God was the original author, no one could accuse Him of plagiarism! Dude, you can't even MAKE this up! The funnier you try to make it sound, the more shocked you are to learn that, yeah, that's pretty much what Mike is telling you. I'd love to re-evaluate whether Wierwille was a cold, calculating, manipulative sex predator, but that would be judging his accusers, and I don't want to judge. Besides, i have a life.

Sigh. Once again, I did not suggest that you leveled any criticism at the press. I said other people have and addressed them, not you.

Ok, so part of that was tongue in cheek... But satori. I wasn't referring to you or to Full Circle. I was referring to other posters who were critical of the media for second-guessing the police. I addressed two things: one, I think second-guessing the police/response is not necessarily fair, though it is natural, and two, I don't think the media should be blamed for bringing up this issue because it's not the media doing the second-guessing. The second-guessing is coming from the streets, so to speak. Look at my post again: I said I hope "OTHERS" can see that it's not originating in the media. No beef with you.

You have no idea. Thing is, he's totally serious.

As for satori and full circle, I totally understand where you're coming from. However, I hope others can see, because of that, why it's unfair to blame the media for raising the issue of possible wrong steps that were taken at crucial moments. It's a natural part of the discussion, and last I checked, neither satori nor Full Circle have a column or a cable news show.

1. What does "slanted eyes" have to do with anything? 2. What does "you have '02 before your GS registration date" have to do with anything? 3. What does "PC" have to do with anything? Who's being PC here? To suggest that his immigration status had nothing to do with it is being PC? Only slanted eyed foreigners do this? Is it PC to point out that American citizens committed all sorts of similar acts in the past? What exactly is your point, other than picking on people because of irrelevant details?

Satori. You MAY be right, but it's purely speculative. We have no way of knowing what would have happened because it didn't. Another option is they would have locked down but incapable of keeping a monitor on the entire campus. Thus they would have made everyone in his vicinity a sitting duck. Is it possible you're assuming more manpower than they had on hand? We don't know what would have happened had there been a lockdown, and second-guessing may help at some point, but not for the purpose of assigning blame, as is being done now. Anyway, I respectfully disagree. Neither your scenario nor mine is based in fact, and that's my point.

Relax, Mike. I've no need to spar with you any further. Eagle, it's my soon to be Mrs!

Uh oh. Now you've done it. If you read something in the Bible and it contradicts something in PFAL, PFAL is right and the Bible is wrong. That's basically what you need to know about Mike. (Just thought I'd give the shorthand answer).

I first heard the second guessing on talk radio yesterday. Don't blame the media for this one: the media are relaying what they're hearing on campus and from families. It's natural, just as natural as wanting to know whether the guy is here legally or not. It's a distraction from the tragedy: our natural reaction to tragedy is to somehow undo it. Why didn't airport security work properly on 9/11? Why didn't authorities know what McVeigh and company were up to? Why didn't the V-Tech campus go into lockdown right away? It's just a natural response. But here's the truth as I see it: if the campus had gone into lockdown or something, that student (I won't dignify his memory by naming him) would have shot up his dorm instead of the classrooms, and people would have been wondering if the lockdown just made his dormmates sitting ducks instead of protecting them. If only they had not ordered a lockdown, maybe he would have tried to escape and not done any more killing! Alas, there was no lockdown, and he continued to kill. No matter who is second-guessing the police, be it other students, their families or "the media," it is wrong-headed to second-guess them. It's natural, understandable, downright instinctive. And flat-out wrong.

Freddy's Fashion Mart: homegrown perp. Little Chester Shoe Store: homegrown perp. Columbine: homegrown perps. That nut in the clock tower in Texas: homegrown perp. Oklahoma City: homegrown perp. Origin of the perp is a sideshow. The issue is valid by itself. Don't let it distract you from the horror that took place here.

Likewise, Kathy.

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