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Sorry. Been real busy. Easy one: "I'm not the bad guy, kid."

bzzzt. Please avoid clues like that inverness one.

Is it Inverness?

Soapdish Unmistakably.

Sharing my birthday: Barack Obama; Jeff Gordon; Percy Shelley; Louis Armstrong; Raoul Wallenberg; Dylan and Cole Sprouse (Disney Channel's Suite Life of Zack and Cody).

santa/claus/beard/cold skillet/fryer/pan susan/day/laurie/partridge castle/mansion/hillside No friggin idear.

Chris Tucker Friday Ice Cube

Oh my God, Becky! WTH, that was funny!

RUN FOR THE MONEY????? Did Val Kilmer even see that movie? Sheesh. Christian Slater Robin Hood: Men With Fake English Accents Brian Blessed Just kidding. Alan Rickman

I will not campaign. If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve.

DOOOOOOOOOOJ!!!!

Maverick Jodie Foster Sommersby

I wish I knew how to quit you, SIR!

Wesley Snipes New Jack City Judd Nelson

No need to apologize: it wasn't a need. GS is working just fine. :)

Kevin Bacon! Just kidding (although he is in it, I really want to go with someone a wee bit more obscure...) David Strathairn L.A. Confidential James Cromwell

Dirty Movie.

What a cast! Robert DeNiro, Kathy Bates, F. Murray Abraham, Gabriel Byrne, Harvey Keitel... When a cast that extraordinary makes a film and you still haven't heard of it, rest assured, it's a godawful movie. Great book, though. You're up.

Heh heh heh... good one. Back to Bataan

Hey guys. It's time for me to shut down the Living Epistles Society Web site. I'm not sure exactly when. I haven't had time to update the main site, and the forum gets very little activity, so it really hasn't done much of anything lately expcept take up cyberspace. Maybe another time. Thanks for all the encouragement over the years. But I'll still be a regular here at the Greasespot Cafe.

Looking at the legalities of the Swaggart case: I can see where and why he got into trouble. It was not about losing tax exempt status. It was about the commercial sale of a product. This is why in most cases televangelists will tell you that books and other materials are "free" when you make a certain donation. It's a technicality, but a perfectly legal one. That way the non-profit can say they are not charging you for the product they're sending you. But Swaggart was actually selling books in bookstores and expecting to get away without paying the sales tax. Dimwitted. And yes, Tom, that is why the PFAL class was offered to those who made a specific donation. If they charged for the class, they'd have to charge the sales tax. The government usually winks at this kind of thing.

That's the part I was missing. Having not been a part of the group for years before that, I wouldn't have known this bit.

Noni, My experience was that we paid for the Watchtower and Awake magazines, then did with them as we pleased. If people gave us money, we took at as reimbursement. If they did not, we counted it as a donation. Is my memory faulty? The Watchtower is in no danger of losing tax exempt status for selling magazines, even if they make a profit off them. There's nothing in non-profit law that stops a non-profit from owning and making money off of a publication (the Poynter Institute, for example, is a non-profit organization that publishes the St. Petersburg Times, a for-profit venture: the money that comes in from the paper finances the non-profit activities of the Institute). As long as the vast majority of the non-profit's activities are consistent with non-profit status, for-profit endeavors are considered fundraising. Poynter's not a perfect example, but we could discuss that in detail another time. === Other similarities: JW's teach that stauros means Jesus was nailed to a single stake (no crossbeam), just as Wierwille demonstrated in PFAL. Big difference: Jehovah's Witnesses do not teach that God expects a tithe from Christians.

I think Dooj got it. Tooth House Juan? Asp Ace Sod Dizzy.

Yay! Happy B_day!