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  Elders will not marry couple

  by Nosferatu in

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  my mother has a friend in another congregation.

  she has been dating, and is wanting to marry.

  here's where the "problem" comes in.... the guy is 20, she is 33. the elders have decided that they should interfere.

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  Reminds me of a Mad Magazine satire of the movie "Summer of '42 ", which had a romance between an older woman and a younger man.

  In the movie, she leaves town the morning after they "do it". Leaving him with that special memory, yadayadayada, you know, the kind they only tell in bad screenplays.

  In the Mad version, they get married. And the story fades forward to present day, as the character is wrapping up the tale to the reader; "So we got married, I was 17, she 32, back in that summer of '42. And now here I am, 50 years old, and here she is, an old "yeccch" woman of 65."

  I hope these two know what they are asking for.

  This isn't that schoolteacher and her pupil by any chance, is it?
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  Sharp dressed men, or thanks WTS.....

  by bikerchic in

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  .....yeah thanks to all the men in my (past wts) life!.

  i've recently started working for a big department store and was hired to work in the men's department.

  i've found that my years of being a jw has finally paid off because if there is one thing i learned being a jw is how sharp dressed men dress and yes some of those elders could really put on the nines!.

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  What is the deal with three buttons on a jacket? I hate that look! I look lopsided wearing such a cut. When did this particular aberration become the norm?
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  Movies that were supposed to be good but you thought they sucked....

  by DanTheMan in

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  bladerunner - lots of rain...big coca-cola ad on the side of a building...more rain...punk rocker chick...what is this movie about again?.

  finding neverland - blech.

  you're sooo pretty johnny.. pulp fiction - hit men discussing what mcdonalds quarter pounders are called in france.

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  You want Sacred Cows? You got it!-

  Gone With The Wind-I cannot sit through this movie. I don't understand what all the fuss is about. I would not want to be stuck in an elevator with Scarlett O'Hara, and I cannot be sympathetic to the aristo, slave-holding, inbred group of phonies that are the main focus of this film!

  Passage to India- okay, actually, most of David Lean's BIG films, like Laurence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago, etc. Very pretty visually, very dull emotionally. Especially Passage: I remember watching this very long movie, and at the end, thinking, "So what?"

  Ditto the second and third Matrix movies, and the second half of the first one. Barely a nod to Phillip K. Dick, who did the whole "your life is an illusion" story a lot better than this.

  Annie Hall-I still can't believe this movie beat Star Wars as best picture of '77. I resented it when I was 13 years old then, and I still resent it now.
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  Star Wars 111: Who's heading to the opening session?!

  by Frog in

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  anyone heading to the opening session tomorrow?

  anyone already been to an exclusive screening?

  anyone going in full jedi gettup?!!

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  Leia actually said she just had "feelings" not real memories. If she had an affinity with the Force, even as an newborn, she would have "felt" her mothers presence.

  Kinda like the Paul Atreides' kids in Dune Messiah, fully aware and cognizant even as newborns.
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  Greatest Rock drummers

  by DanTheMan in

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  i was listening to zep's dazed and confused today and the rocking middle section of that song never ceases to amaze me - john bonham was from a different planet, was completely insane, or both.

  nothing i've ever heard in any other song quite compares to that.. honorable mentions:.

  neil peart on the songs tom sawyer and subdivisions.

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  Mick Fleetwood! The Human Metronome!
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  Songs you like that were composed before you were in grade school.

  by ColdRedRain in

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  i was looking at my winamp playlist and i noticed that most of my songs were made before i was in grade school, or much more, before i was born.

  moody blues - nights in white satin .

  gene loves jezebel - desire .

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  "When you wish upon a star", as sung by the guy who was the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's "Pinnochio"
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  I am still Jazzed! Self esteem notched WAAAAY Up!

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  some of you might remember back in january, i started a little side business:.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/82808/1.ashx.

  since then, i have had a couple of customers, then things kind of went quiet.

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  Heeeeyyyy, good suggestion for a backing track for the next video, thanks!
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  I am still Jazzed! Self esteem notched WAAAAY Up!

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  some of you might remember back in january, i started a little side business:.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/82808/1.ashx.

  since then, i have had a couple of customers, then things kind of went quiet.

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  CaptainSchmideo

  Some of you might remember back in January, I started a little side business:

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/82808/1.ashx

  Since then, I have had a couple of customers, then things kind of went quiet.

  These past few weeks, my sons have been in a soccer league, and I have tried to video as many games as I could.

  I took the footage and made a "highlights" video to show at the end of season pizza party, thinking I might interest one or two parents in a copy of the DVD.

  I got 15 orders! The video was a smash success! Parents were screaming! Applauding! Cheering when their child was on the screen! I have never had such open enthusiasm for any of my other efforts in life (my Boss doesn't stand on a chair and go "Whoo Whoo!" whenever I turn in a project on time and under budget, and my wife takes me for granted, so this is a new experience for me.). What a rush!

  Now my business card is in a lot more hands, and I'm going to make another video for my other son's team, and see if this one is received as enthusiastically.

  I don't want to sound like I'm bragging. I just felt pumped up by the experience, and had to share.
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  Breaking the silence on the new Hitchhiker's Guide movie

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  did anybody see the new hitchhiker's guide movie yet?

  i went this weekend.. wow, what a disappointment.

  it didn't "suck", exactly, but it wasn't what it could have been.

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  Trillian was cute. I could give her and the casting director a thumbs-up for keeping it real and using the "girl next door" in the role but again, I had the preconceived notion that she should be a lot hotter.

  I think she was plenty hot! I was in love when I saw her in the shiny boxers and the large horn rim glasses. Beauty and brains in one nice package!

  I was disappointed that lot's of dialogue was snipped (I am hoping for an "extended edition", a'la "Lord of the Rings"), but lest we forget, before it was a book, it was a Radio Play. Radio relies on dialogue and narration to fill in what you don't see, which becomes the reverse problem when you have a visual medium like a major film.

  I'm glad it beat 'XXX-State of the Union'. I guess there was a wider appeal that what was imagined. Kinda of like the Star Trek movies....
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  Betcha I Know Something Else The Dubs Won't Be Doing Today..

  by Englishman in

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  they won't be dancing around the maypole!.

  now i don't know why they won't be doing this..matter of fact i've never read about maypole dancing being verboten..but don't you just know it's a no-no?

  englishman.

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  Rent the movie "The Wicker Man". An entire population of unapologetic pagans. The Maypole is definitely a penis in their version....

  http://www.steve-p.org/wm/