Yet Another Kill This Thread!

The following rules were established by Kent at the start of the first 24-hour version, adapted from the original rules by EDE:

The rules:

1. The Basic Idea: Post to this thread, if no one posts after you for 24 hours, you win!

2. Posts that are not direct responses to one of the five preceding posts are ineligible to win. The topic can drift, but no complete non-sequitors. Posts that are responses to non-sequitors are also ineligible to win. Posts that are responses to responses to non-sequitors, and responses to those posts, etc., become eligible, however.

3. In the event that this thread is locked, there shall be no winner unless a new thread is started for the contest. Furthermore, any post that results in the banning of the poster shall also be ineligible to win.

4. So, more precisely, one wins if one makes a post, and then no one makes another post that's eligible to win for 24 hours.



Okay, time to kill!

I - walkwithcrowds (7-day version)
II - none
III - none
IV - Quislet, Esq
V - Rockhopper Lad (the first 24-hour version)
VI - Rockhopper Lad
VII - cleome
VIII - Rockhopper Lad
IX - Rockhopper Lad
X - none
XI - none
XII - none
XIII - Invisible Brainiac
XIV - Invisible Brainiac
XV - Invisible Brainiac
XVI - Invisible Brainiac
XVII - Invisible Brainiac

Alas, the last thread has been killed! Why do the good always die young?

Because I was too busy to get online on Saturday

I'd better make sure to check in on weekends, then.

But I like to sleep in on weekends...sigh...

So do I. But now I have insomnia.

The cure for insomnia is a good night's sleep.

I sure hope I can get some tonight.

Snort!

Warn a guy!

IB is a man's man

If I dress like He-Man, will I get some?

Are you into guys that have a skull for a head?

Could I get a sexy vampire instead?

Just do not have scampi for dinner.

I'd be afraid to kiss a vampire. I'm guessing he'd want to bite my tongue.

Vampire boyfriends are a pain in the neck

They tend to be easy on the eyes though

especially if you are looking at them with a mirror.

As long it is not the mirror from the Evil Queen. That one is a judgmental bitch.

Witch Hazel from the Looney Tunes tales great pride in being ugly. But when she got transformed into a pretty woman, her mirror went Pepe Le Pew on her.

Abra-Ka-pocus!

Abra is a Psychic-type Pokemon that can teleport.

I never used Alakazam on my Pokemon teams because I never had anyone to trade with to evolve my Kadabra.

I traded with a cousin, and beat the Elite Four with Alakazam and Gengar.

I really hated having to trade to evolve, though

Oh you kids with your Pokey-men. In my day you had to find a real man to pokey him.

Poking Pokémon is... perplexing.

Positively perplexing is the porcupine and the platypus playing polo on their ponies.

Perry the Platypus perplexes puny perpetrators.

Alliterative adages age ancient Albanians.

Children's choices can catapult concentration and cognitive calculations.

Eh... effort exhausts everyone.

They have a spa treatment for that, right?

There are instances when a spa can be even more exhausting!

Then you are not doing it right

Perhaps I'm doing something else.

Well I am definitely not doing something at all.

I could use a massage now. My arms hurt from yesterday's workout.

my toe hurts. I trimmed a nail a little too much.

I hate when I do that.

Better than having cliffhangers for toe nails.

I hate cliffhangers. They keep me up at night.

The only thing worse than a cliff-hanger at the end of an episode is...

Get on with it!

In a bit...

The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the waterspout.
Down came the rain
and washed the spider out.
Out came the sun
and dried up all the rain
and the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the spout again.

Big spiders scare me.

Giants Ants were another example of critters used in Creature Features of the 1950s.

There was one horror film about giant, vicious rabbits.

Tim: There he is!
King Arthur: Where?
Tim: There!
King Arthur: What? Behind the rabbit?
Tim: It *is* the rabbit!
King Arthur: You silly sod!
Tim: What?
King Arthur: You got us all worked up!
Tim: Well, that's no ordinary rabbit.
King Arthur: Ohh.
Tim: That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!
Sir Robin: You tit! I soiled my armor I was so scared!
Tim: Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide! It's a killer!
Sir Galahad: Get stuffed!
Tim: He'll do you up a treat, mate.
Sir Galahad: Oh, yeah?
Sir Robin: You manky Scots git!
Tim: I'm warning you!
Sir Robin: What's he do? Nibble your bum?
Tim: He's got huge, sharp... er... He can leap about. Look at the bones!
King Arthur: Go on, Bors. Chop his head off!
Sir Bors: Right! Silly little bleeder. One rabbit stew comin' right up!

He certainly didn't have a Bor-ing end to his life.

Wayne Boring was a famous Superman artist

I never seen any of Superman's art. Any good?

I guess Silver age Supes has Super Art powers

Super dooper art pooper?

Poop as art.

People were upset about the picture of the virgin Mary that used elephant dung. Also Piss Christ (a photograph of a crucifix in urine) upset many people.

I just ate. Now I find myself getting upset.

Pepto-Bismol is good for an upset stomach

Bismoll was nearly invaded by evil robots once

Real men wear pink.

Real men admit to blushing.

Or using a little on the apple of their cheeks.

Apple-cheeked. The new rugged.

Is it rugged if you go camping but insist on a hotel room?

Someone once said "to me roughing it means no mint on the pillow!"

I don't have mint for my pillow, but I do have a spray.

Peppermint, Spearmint, Wintergreen

Green is still my favorite color.

Green and red and gold and silver. Ahhhhhh, the holidays!

After all the boneheaded internet scuffles I've been in this year, here's all the holiday-themed decoration I need:

http://amylsacks.tumblr.com/post/154930171418/via-make-a-gif-wishing-peace-on-earth-to-all

I need to borrow some of those Christmas seals!

I know, right? Friz Freleng was onto a brilliant idea there. Patenting it would make you an (almost) instant millionaire.

Now I want to listen to the theme song again. And hear Porky stutter.

Merrie Melodies were originally cartoons created to plug popular songs owned by Warner Brothers. So they were like pre-television music videos.

Silly Symphony is a series of 75 animated short films produced by Walt Disney Productions from 1929 to 1939. As their name implies, the Silly Symphonies were originally intended as whimsical accompaniments to pieces of music. As such, the films usually had independent continuity and did not feature continuing characters, unlike the Mickey Mouse shorts produced by Disney at the same time. (Exceptions to this include Three Little Pigs, The Tortoise and the Hare, and Three Orphan Kittens, which all had sequels.) The series is notable for its innovation with Technicolor and the multiplane motion picture camera, as well as its introduction of the character Donald Duck making his first appearance in the Silly Symphony cartoon The Wise Little Hen in 1934.

I preferred Looney Tunes.

In Mystery Science Theater 3000's take on the dreadful movie Time Chasers aka Tangents, the villain sounded a lot like Sylvester the Cat. I was bummed that nobody in the audience made any jokes about it.

I wonder if Sylvester gets saliva all over his kitty litter.

Sylvester appeared in 103 cartoons in the golden age. He appeared fourth most frequently in films behind Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, and Daffy Duck respectively. Three of his cartoons won Academy Awards, the most for any starring Looney Tunes character: they are Tweetie Pie, Speedy Gonzales, and Birds Anonymous.

Sylvester is the dark horse in that ensemble.

Birds Anonymous is a brilliant satire. I don't think they showed it even during the Turner Network's rebroadcasting binge in the late 1990s. I'm not sure why.

It had a rather brilliant punchline.

Of course, who can forget Elmer in that Chuck Jones cartoon carrying off Bugs the bride, with Bugs turning to the audience and concluding, "I t'ink it always helps a picture t'have a romantic ending!"

Then there's What's Opera, Doc?, where Elmer kills Bugs then collapses in a sobbing heap. Make up your mind, Elmer!

And Bugs goes, well, did you expect a happy ending from an opera?

You've seen the live-action version of that, right? I can't remember if I ever posted it here.

There's a live action version of the cartoon? Ohhhh!

Amazing! Thanks cleome

So amazing I shared on FB too.

A live performance of a Looney Tunes cartoon! I still can't get over it.

what did you expect with an opera? A happy Ending?

There's another version with better dance moves, but this one has the closest voices. You've gotta' love "Elmer" not quite being able to pick up the "'dead' wabbit" because the latter's too heavy.

Sorry I read ladder which made that weird.

Kill the Wabbit, kill the wabbit....

With his spear and magic helmet!!!!

am I too late and IB won - again?

I'm not sure. Looks like the thread is still alive...

Well, the Wabbit always returns, and so will a new thread, as needed.

A lot of passings this year, including Richard Adams, who wrote Watership Down: one of my all-time favorite books since my age barely hit double digits. It's hard to be too sad about it, though. He was prolific, acclaimed, and 96 years old. His rabbit characters will live on a long time, too.

I need to reread that in '17. It's been too long.

Rabbits are still my favorite animal.

It's weird that they're stereotyped as the gardener's ultimate foe. I suppose the wild ones are, but if you have domestic rabbits, their droppings are great for growing plants. I used to have a pal in my book club who kept several rabbits, and she made quite a lot of extra cash selling the droppings to local hippie gardeners.

They're also a delight to pet. The ones that want to be petted, anyway. They can nip something awful though. We used to have one that demanded the attention due her. She would nip us inattentive humans into line.

Captain Carrot is depicted as a superhero who lived on the other-dimensional world of Earth-C, an alternate Earth populated by sentient animals, which was later redesignated Earth-26 in the new DC multiverse. At the beginning of the Captain Carrot series, he was referred to as "Roger Rabbit"; later in the series, "Rodney Rabbit" was usually used, to avoid legal issues involving the literary (and later film) character Roger Rabbit. Rodney was officially stated to be his middle name in the letters column.

Carrots used to be my favorite vegetable. Now, bell peppers are.

Mmmm... craving some vegetarian stuffed peppers now. Time to hit the market again.

Stuffed peppers! I love them. I made three stuffed green bell peppers once and ate them in one sitting.

I'm a big fan of stuffed poblano peppers!

I want to try them!

Stuffed with cream cheese?

My fave sweet stuffed pepper recipe has brown rice, jack cheese, browned onion, and herbs. Eh... no sales this week though, so maybe later.

That sounds excellent!

I tried one with corned beef and onions. Turned out okay but I would love to add cheese and to try different cuts of meat.

Seasoned beef (or a mix of beef & pork) is the traditional filling here, often with rice mixed in to keep it all from being super-fatty and heavy.

I've also done squash, baked, with the seeds removed & filled with rice and/or beans. Gotta' be careful they don't dry out in cooking, though-- because by nature they're less fatty than even lean meat.

Tonight I'm doing regular old baked beans w/veggie "franks," though.

Ah, squash. I did a squash risotto once.

I like squash. Butternut or roasted acorn with brown sugar, maple, butter, cinnamon and nutmeg. Spaghetti with parmesan cheese and garlic.

Those sound divine.

I was and am a fussy eater. I did not like squash (still don't) My mom would make both pumpkin pies and squash pies, but always told me they were pumpkin pies (which I would eat).

Now, I actually like the taste of squash pie better than pumpkin pie.

So much commercial pumpkin pie is bad: gelatinous texture, not enough spice, and soggy cardboard-y crust. If it's made right, I love it.

Sweet potato pie is also fabulous if made with care. I'd totally try the squash pie.

I miss making mashed potatoes.

I prefer sweet potatoes.

I like them too. We dip them in brown sugar and fry them.

I have never had a sweet potato

My fave way to make sweet potatoes is cubed and oven baked with a coating of veggie oil, honey or maple syrup, and a sprinkling of toasted pecans.

I almost never bother to peel potatoes before cooking them.

I also include the skins when cooking potatoes. The skin is supposed to be nutritious.

I use the leftover mashed potatoes or sweet potatoes the next morning to make potato cakes that I fry up.

I only have a microwave right now. I need to learn how to cook potatoes using that. Apparently it can be done.

Yes, but not well.

Sadly, Blaze really wanted his potatoes so we agreed we would try.

Maybe you should get a toaster oven

Never had to use a toaster oven. Mine stay together.

I once lucked into an old GE Toaster oven very similar to the one we had when I was a kid. It lasted a long time even though I bought it used. Was sad when it died. The replacement's all right, I guess. But I swear: the inside of the window fogs up when you turn it on. Which strikes me as a design flaw that someone in Engineering-land should've corrected.

The good news is that now in this area we have "Repair Fairs" several times a year. You can bring your small appliances there and tinkerers will look them over for a nominal fee. When this toaster oven wouldn't work, it took the guy about 5-10 minutes to find and fix the issue. We thanked him and donated about two bucks to future events.

Much more cost-effective than buying a new one.

Older appliances seem to always last longer than the new stuff. Sad really. More options means more failures.

Built in obsolescence has come >bzzt< to be more important >click< than reliability >whirr<

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Legion fans hate reboots.

I've lost track of how many reboots we're up to now.

This does not apply to Legion World's Reboot!

Hey, I remember that guy!

But was there ever a member named Boot?

Here he is!

I will need to buy new boots soon.

I love my Red Wing workboots. I discovered them several years before my [ahem] glorious spate of temp jobs in warehouses.

I once worked at the Timberland headquarters in New Hampshire.

I want a an opportunity to yell TIMBER!!!!!

I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK
I sleep all night and I work all day

Our local men's soccer team is The Portland Timbers.

I haven't seen them play, but I have seen the women's team: The Portland Thorns in a game. They won.

The Football Association banned women's team from playing on grounds affiliated to their organisation back in 1921.

One reason was the supposed physical damage playing football could do to a woman. But it was far more likely to have been fear of gender equality, and odd ideas of morality, as the women's teams were popular and had been attracting large crowds.

Physical damage? I think men can potentially get more damaged if the ball hits a certain spot...

That is why you should wear a cup

Like this?

Only if you are playing Solo

Does this mean I got the part of Han Solo? Oh wait, didn't he die?

I wonder if Han Solo is related to Napoleon Solo.

Open channel D

Now that I've finally tabbed all of my LPs, I can accurately (and easily) report that I own 13 albums featuring artists whose last names begin with the letter "D."

LP is an abbreviation for the Liberal Party of the Philippines.

Eddie Murphy had a hit single "Party All the Time"

Sorry for the earworm

LP is also an abbreviation for paper corp. (& serial villain) Louisiana Pacific.

I swear, I don't think I've ever heard that Murphy song, except for the snippet covered in one of Weird Al's polkas.

The first Weird Al song I heard was the one about Pokémon

We haven't heard from Weird Al is a while now.

I didn't even know that he'd registered on Legion World.

Maybe he got drunk at Rocky's party.

I get drunk on Shirley Temples

Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, DBE (born 8 January 1937) is a Welsh singer whose career began in the mid-1950s, best known for recording the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979).

One of my earliest memories of a non-Disney flick in a theater is Moonraker. I remember even then thinking that it was unfair that only the last woman to sleep with Bond was allowed to live. [grumble]

Poor Jaws and his girlfriend.

After all they went through with the destruction of the space colony and such, I have faith that they found a way to overcome their other... issues.

Jaws and Dolly.

It's so great to have them back where they belong.

Can a middle-aged Jewish match-maker find happiness with a man-eating great white shark?

This sounds like an episode from Jabberjaw.

Frank Welker was the voice of Jabberjaws. He also was the voice of Fred in Scooby Doo, And Wonder Dog & Marvin on Superfriends.

I was just watching one of the later Futurama episodes last night, and he was in that, too: as Nibbler.

I nibbled on some cheese for breakfast.

Our cat, Misty Moo, likes to nibble on your fingers after you eat ham.

I'm trying not to nibble on the almonds I just blanched and toasted so I can make vegetarian pate' later on.

Almonds are great in cereal.

Originally almonds were poisonous.

The almond-tomato-kale-chia-pet-acai smoothie is a big moneymaker in my town. I need to move.

I love almond syrup with lychees and jelly. A classic Chinese-style dessert back home

Amaretto is a fun almond liquor for making almond croissants.

Aw, Man. I miss lychee nuts. We have Asian restaurants & grocers out here. I should look for some. I like both the fresh and canned versions.

And if the time on my computer is in synch with the time on the board, then Cleome has won this round, brreaking Invisible Brainiac's streak.

It was 4:10 pm when I posted that last post.

Is time always relative?

I didn't even notice because I've lost home internet access.

I'll be back in time for the next thread, though.

Did you try using bread crumbs to find your way back to the internet access?

As I said, I am pretty sure cleome won. So, I am locking this thread. Anyone else can start a new version of the thread.