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isabella (isabella)
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Username: isabella
Post Number: 675
Registered: 11-2004
Posted From: 24.60.65.227
| | Posted on Friday, February 03, 2006 - 8:25 pm: | 
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Anyone have an opinion on this?
I'll start with my previous post on the PRE-WIG ERA.
Pre-Wig:
"He sold bread and cupcakes to women who invited him in and gave him some coffee and looked forward to a little conversation...they looked forward for the Bakery Salesman.
He noticed how they would confide in him.
They mentioned their husbands and children and told him about personal matters.
He was ‘amazed’ that they would speak about these things to a perfect stranger.
He liked it quite a bit.
It made him feel influential and powerful, and he knew that they (Bakery Customers) actually thought that he cared more about them than their own husbands and children did!
The customers looked forward to the Bakery Man...once a week.
Prewig/Postwig....to be continued....
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redsnapper (redsnapper)
New member
Username: redsnapper
Post Number: 6
Registered: 8-2005
Posted From: 216.183.184.253
| | Posted on Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 1:18 pm: |
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'Dats how it all began Isabella!.
From the beginning, (the early 60's) Carl Stevens motive was tainted.
After hearing a handful of fundies on the radio, it gradually dawned on his follically challenged head that evangelical Christianity is a cash cow.
Now if Carl was refined with that southern gentlemanly earnestnes of a Billy Graham he (Carl) may have been a lot more 'successful'.
But Carl always was the worst Maine had to offer, considering some of the many very good things to come from that state.
He was the stereotypical huckster,hick,carrying that inferiority complex as a chip on his shoulder, suspicious of anyone with a formal education, unless they sucked up to him.
He became conviced he was pretty damned clever, and started to believe the applause some of those 50's version desperate housewives gave him.
If you were ever close to Carl like I was at one time, you realized in hindsight, by some of the many things he uttered that he was sly, insincere, and convinced by his own spiel that he was just a little smarter, and more 'humble' than other preachers and 'educated fools'.
I know fersure that I 'aint the only one to see this side of Carl up close... so I echo your words Isabella...Anyone else? |
johncollins (johncollins)
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Username: johncollins
Post Number: 83
Registered: 8-2005
Posted From: 69.143.75.131
| | Posted on Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 8:42 pm: |
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If you have not long ago discarded all your books from bs -- I recall seeing an early copy of "Let's Go Fishing For Men" with a prewig photo of the author... |
david_munson (david_munson)
Senior Member
Username: david_munson
Post Number: 2186
Registered: 9-2005
Posted From: 65.140.247.140
| | Posted on Monday, February 06, 2006 - 9:59 am: |
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That's the truth John,I remember that photo also.
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