I just got back from the movie theatre with six kids… my two younger ones and for each of them 2 more of their friends. It was the opening night for the new Pokèmon movie… The movie started off as the typical kid's morning cartoon… but near the end… one line just stuck out in my mind…<P>During a battle scene… the main pokèmon character (Pikachu) was being struck over and over again by an evil clone… the line that came from his "pokèmon trainer" (Ash) was… <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Someone's got to be strong… you don't have to fight back… like Pikachu.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>If this wasn't a direct rewording of "turn the other cheek", then I don't know what is. It made me think of what so many of us our striving for in our Plan As and even Plan Bs... Strength in not love busting… Strength in the silence of no contact!<P>Needless to say these two characters save the day… when in the tears of all the battling pokèmon (good and evil clones alike) resurrect the fallen Ash. I hope that the tears we shed for each other here and in our own personal battles, will resurrect some of our marriages… if not with our spouses, then the new lives we have been given to live.<P>I hope I didn't spoil the story line for anyone! I hope you all get a chance to see some more adult type movies too! Man... this was a kid's movie! Yeh… I am a way too mushy at times… It was one of the things my W once said she loved about me. <P>Jim

Yeah, you're a mushball... <P>I hear these kinds of things in movies, songs, and just when people are talking all the time. It may mean nothing spectacular to anyone else, but it jumps out at me... like in the Matrix, when they go to see the Oracle, I noticed that the song playing in the backround was Duke Ellington's "I'm beginning to see the light" and it JUMPED out at me...<P>Gotta love this kind of stuff <P>------------------<BR>~Sheryl<P>Marriage: the most important contract you'll ever enter into, and the most sacred.<P><BR>

Man, are we desperate or what?!

NSR:<P>My reaction to the title of this was that you wanted to "Thundershock" all the OP's... <P>I'll be hanging around my office today going "squirtle, squirtle, squirtle..."<P>

Taking off work early today to take my son to see it... then he’s going AGAIN tomorrow with some friends.<P>I actually managed to get a hold of SIX packs of cards yesterday, too! Better for bribery than leftover Halloween candy... <P>I know the “squrtle, squirtle, squirtle” thing... as well as “char, char, char” and “pika, pika, pika” and... and... and... <BR>

Just to answer the question posed by the title of your thread - This is how the aliens are preparing us for the coming occupation.<P>--Wex

<B>~Sheryl</B><BR>Three cheers for all us <B>mushballs</B>!<P><B>Paul</B><BR>Desperate is as desperate does... Forrest Gump<I>two</I>.<P><B>K</B><BR>"Thundershock" away!!! <BR>"squirtle, squirtle, squirtle..." <P><B>WhoDat</B><BR>I really hope I didn't spoil it for you...<BR>Then again, if you've seen one story line...<BR>“pika, pika, pika” <P><B>Wexwill</B><BR>The aliens are here... super evil OPs... controlling evil clones of our spouses... (the scary thing about this... it's plausible!)<P>----------------<P>Jim

Jim - That's got to be it! (Knew there was an answer.)<P>--Wex

NSR and Wexwill beat me to my line about spouse! Oh well, case of the body snatchers huh? I wander what they did with my W's mind? I hope they don't poke and prod it too much!!!