Great thread - brings back so many memories. Pioneering with the COs and bringing them on Bible Studies, and they would talk such insanity to studies who were high and loaded. They would leave telling me how they thought the study needed to be prodded and dragged to meetings, and as we would be going to another study, the past study would be getting high again and loaded. Great progress! Brother Brown would call down fire, "no one will hide from the fury of the Great God!' And then there was Conti on RVs, phew! He would tell them in mafia style how Jehovah would decimate them at the big Feast of the carrion birds. Thompson was like the Judge, mean bastard who would wail at people at the door, and when they would refuse a 6 month BS to get paradise, he would read some passage about "being gaffed by fish hooks and hung up by the jawbone." LMAO - those guys were crazy! Yes, the bulletin board sign up to "host" and the fights to get Friday night - an early glimpse of Sunday's lecture. The show was awesome, as if a Cardinal or the Pope were coming. And yes, when the CO and DO were there, hell one would have thought they were in the manger. And when a Bethelite visited, especially an "important one" - now you were standing in the Holies. How the hell did they pull it off?