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
XVIII - cleome
XIX - cleome

Quis said that cleome was the new Ibby. But I'm really just the new Rocky!

There's nothing new under the sun, you know.

Also, I don't think I've been granted power to lock the previous thread. Someone else will have to.

It sure gets confusing figuring who's who in this thread.Am I still Set?

Perhaps we should do a roll call.

Present

You weren't here in the old days when Set's other two bodies: Game & Match, were killed in the big battle with Computo. A tragic time for all. But we pulled through!

When Game was the first to die, they became Matching Set for a little while

At least IB & Tamper Lad were eventually able to re-create Set's lost bodies. Unfortunately, he'd been a solo act too long and the other two went home to Carggg after their fight about cake as a legitimate dessert.

I do not see the fascination with red Solo cups?

They're a staple of college parties for some reason.

What about a green Solo in honor of the new thread?

If your playing with your flute solo and it turns green, your grip is too tight.

Green with gangrene.

I can cure your gangrene, but it will cost you an arm and a leg.

That poor guy in Night Force lost one of each.

Night Daze is a Pokemon attack.

There are too many Pokemon. It is so confusing. I do know some people say that about the Legion.

Weird Al sure does love his polkas

Little Dot loves polka dots.

If Little Dot loves polka dots, does she them more when they are sugar dots?

No, that'd be Little Debbie.

Did you hear that Little Debbie was seen out and about enjoying Dolly Madison and her fruit pies?

Well, that's a zinger.

I haven't had a Zinger in a while

I once had a zinger on my finger but I forgave her.

I know it's almost Valentines Day, but my heartstrings seem to have lost all their zing.

Valentine's Day means nothing to me.

I loved the Teen Titans Go! Valentine's Day episode where Jinx and Cyborg pretend to be married and Gizmo is their baby.

Jynx is an Ice/Psychic type Pokemon.

In Daniel Keyes' novel The Fifth Sally, the title character's "bad" personality is named Jinx.

One of my favorite characters is Crazy Jane who has split personalities.

I could use a banana split.

Chocolate covered banana brownies warm with vanilla ice cream.

I have dark chocolate with coconut and toffee here, but I haven't opened it yet.

Mmmmmmmm coconut!

Coconut gives me hives.

H.I.V.E. was one of the first opponents of the Wolfman/Perez Teen Titans. Where have they gone?

Probably Monsanto finally finished 'em off.

Monsanto - Hero or Villain? The story that YOU demanded!

Should I read those while having mamosas?

Samosas & mimosas! The picnic of my dreams!

(But I can't have alcohol. Bring me a Lassi instead.)

I have never drank alcohol (well I tried sipping a beer once) Never had a desire to drink.

I like drinking moderately to relax.

I mostly use the stuff to cook with. So many recipes....

I don't really cook at all. Occasionally I do cook and eye roast with pan-roasted potatoes

I fixed a pretty nice pulled pork with Mexican seasonings last week. After the meat is in small pieces, it's re-cooked briefly in a pan with some oil to give some of the meat a crispy texture. Then you serve it with the juices left from the slow-cooker after they've been thickened a bit with flour. Pretty good.

My favorite type of tacos are al pastor style.

Al pastor style? Does that make them heavenly or divine?

Wait pastor, thought it was pasture. Do divine or heavenly pastures have cow pies?

No, no, no. The cow drank an RC Cola™ & then jumped over a Moon Pie™.

That explains the footprints in the pie.

I thought those were from the four and twenty blackbirds,

Footprints in the jell-o is how to tell if there is an elephant in your refrigerator.

Jell-O is 120 years old. If the elephant is eating that one, I hope you have plenty of Charmin in the house.

My gay buddy "C," used to serenade his large black kitty with the Jell-O™ jingle.

Though they both moved on a higher plane years ago, I still do the same for all my kitties.

Sing to my kitties too. Though Bobby would say that what I do is NOT singing.

What does Bobby know!

Yeah, everyone's a critic these days.

Everybody has an opinion. But not all opinions are intelligent or informed.

Yeah, who cares that he graduated from Berkley in voice and is an AFTRA/SAG member! Thanks guys.

Eh, you know people...

I may not know people, but I know what the kitty likes.

I miss having pets around.

I guess if you put your hamster in a ball then it's a round pet.

Hamsters are generally round too.

Hello...

Man, these Grammy shows get weirder and weirder every year.

Bjork's dress looks lovely though.

Was Bjork wearing hamster?

What else does one do with hamsters? Don't answer that! This is a family message board.

The Sid tells me he wants to have some over for dinner.

Ham d'oeuvres!

Homer: Lisa, honey, are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Ham?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Pork chops?
Lisa: Dad! Those all come from the same animal!
Homer: [chuckling] Yeah, right, Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.

Got a can opener?

Now all I can think of is Dr. Terminus singing about dismembering the title character for quick cash in Pete's Dragon.

I love Jim Dale, but I'm guessing watching that again would be even more hair-raising than it is in my memory.



The Seventies. What can you do?

Wasn't Jim Dale also the lyricist of the song "Georgy Girl"?

I never watched Chip 'n Dale's Rescue Rangers

I prefer neoclassical furniture to that of Chippendale.

Last week, I was oiling the wheels on the coffee table & found some molding pulled loose from where Butterscotch The Evil used to enjoy scratching the wood.

I miss that little fluffy hellspawn.

I still haven't put away Belinda's litter box.

It takes time to get used to life without a buddy.

Brittany Ann Marie's urn is on the bedroom highboy dresser. And the Rainbow Bridge poem sits with it.

BAM! is the best pet acronym ever.

My sister is a BAM. She used to be a BAP.

Bostonian Advanced Presbyterian turned Methodist?

nope, nope, nope. die-hard Catholic

Why do Catholics have to die hard?

So heaven can seem softer in comparison

Sounds like a toilet paper commercial, the "softer" brand.

I'm disturbed by that *Angel Soft* brand. Isn't it sacrilege to do that to God's messengers?

I love Angel Food cake

Devil's Food cake and Angel's Food cake should have cupcakes together.

I think they will make some decently good cupcakes.

"Nothin' but the Devil could change my baby's mind..."

Kinetix always did thrive on change.

I have 92 cents in change in my pocket.

92 cents change in Philippine pesos is not much. But in euros or US dollars, it is quite significant.

Actually 92 cents in US dollars is not that significant. There is not much is would buy.

Did I miss something? 50 Cent changed his name!

Celebrating one's Name Day is referred to often in Chekhov's stories.

What is in a name?

Well there is an N and an A and hey look there is an M as well. Oh I almost overlooked the E.

There is a mane in a name

Many names are mainly plain.

In Spain

Many Spanish words are found in the Filipino language. We use many of the same words for food and clothing. A lot of names and surnames are the same, too.

I feel the need to play The Name Game!

I loved when they used this song in American Horror Story: Asylum

I feel like visiting an asylum. My midterms are driving me nuts

Asylum was a British horror anthology filmed in the early 1970s.

I am seeking asylum from perpetual idiots that ride the T. Look up from your phone before entering or exiting the train fools!

The refugee world where the title character lived in Baron & Rude's Nexus comics was called Ylum, which was a shortened version of "Asylum."

Some people can be extremely rude.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

I loved this song so much in my 20s that I named my mini-comics after it:

Loved to sing Westlife's "Fool Again" with my late daughter.

Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.

Shame everywhere.

Oh, that's just dustbunnies. Be right back after I find the broom and dustpan.

While you have those out, my floors could use a good sweeping.

I thought I was the only one on Legion World who had hardwood floors!

I have wooden floors... I don't know if they're hardwood.

I think our floors (golden oak -- apparently much tougher to afford, or find, in newer homes) are actually our place's best-looking feature.

Hate the "popcorn" ceiling, though. To me the texture looks like cottage cheese, and I've always hated cottage cheese.

Thankfully, on an average day, a person spends more time looking at the floor than the ceiling anyway.

If people were to pass out drunk, while standing up, which way are they more likely to fall?

You know they took all my booze away (or most of it), so someone else will have to test this out in the field... floor... whatever.

Yeah, but I was hoping that someone could use previous experience...

...passing out... tipping over... falling.... falling past notebook...pause to write direction.... thump...

"But why not get them to write when they're on the floor," I pay people to ask me so I can then use their questions to pretend it's something that a lot of people dwell on for message board purposes...

Because, what if they've passed out, then roll over, wake up and then note it down?

That's right! people would end up noticing that the results were wrong, science everywhere would be distrusted and the world would enter a new dark age.

I bet when Richards and Von Doom were still in college, they sat up at night talking about this kind of thing a lot.

Could that be the reason for Doom's mask? Lots of facial injuries after passing out drunk! It all makes sense now!

Alex Robinson, one of my all-time fave writer-artists, did a one-off story about Reed and his college sweetheart: another "big brain" who went on to work for NASA (or something else important). When he built a spaceship for the FF years later, he named it after her. I think only Ben knew why he picked the name.

It also explains that even when locked in hand to hand combat over the fate of the world, witnesses could hear the two men saying "Face Up" or "No, Face Down!" The whole reason for their enmity was due to a fall out over that passing out conundrum.

And let's not forget...

Ben Grimm: Hardened flesh to better withstand falling down drunk.
Sue Richards: Powers suited to breaking curfews and getting more drink unseen.
Johnny Strom: Always available to create flaming shots.

The Fantaschtic >hic< Four, comin' soon form "Libation" Lee and "Krashed Out" Kirby!

So, that's where "banjoed" came from when overindulging!

The banjo is of African origin. I didn't know that for years!

Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah
Someone's in the kitchen I know oh-oh-oh
Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah
Strumming on the old banjo
Fee fi fiddle e i o
Fee fi fiddle e i o-o-o-o
Fee fi fiddle e i o
Strumming on the old banjo
Strumming on the old banjo
Strumming on the old banjo-o-o

How upset is Ollie going to be when he finds out about Dinah in the kitchen?

Maybe banjo playing is an undiscovered talent of Oliver Queen

I see Hal Jordan as a clarinet man, myself.

Batman on bongo drums

Matt Groening's Bongo wouldn't make a very effective crime-fighter, though.

Matthew McConaughey could fight crime playing his bongos nude on his front lawn. Oh wait, he was arrested for that. Never mind.

I think some kinds of crime would increase if he did that again.

Despite what the fearmongers say, the crime rate in the US has been going steadily down

Except on television, where it just keeps going up and up.

I recently binge watched Law & Order: Criminal Intent and thought "I wonder how the actual murder rate in NYC compares to the number of murders in one season of all the Law & Order series (as they are all set in New York)"

If you watch enough Forensic Files you start to feel like everyone must know someone who bumped off their spouse & tried to make it look like an accident/suicide.

Perhaps we all do know someone like that... we just don't know that we do.

Right now I am binge watching One Piece. It is Japanese anime about pirates. It is mostly a comedy. My 2 favorite characters are Sanji, the ship's cook and Robin, the ship's archaeologist. Robin also has devil fruit powers. She can make multiple copies of her body parts, either growing out of her or growing out of other things or people.

I know One Piece. It is amazingly long-running. The comic series (manga) it is based on has been going on for ages.

Gum-Gum Gatling!

Anime is one of those things I feel like I should "get," but I really don't. I'll watch it if I'm around other people who do, though.

Also, I'm pretty sure that mr_cleome hasn't killed me. Uh... unless I'm like that poor dude in Matt Wagner's old comic who wasn't aware he was a ghost until some mystical beings clued him in about it.

I saw a trailer for Ghost in the Shell live action the other day. A lot is lifted from the anime, which is fine, and they've added what seem to be some interesting plot changes. But I just can't quite get past Scarlett Johansson in the lead role. Something else else in the voice/delivery. Still, it looks good, so I'm happy to try and get used to it.

It sucks that after all these years, Hollywood still insists on casting a White performer in what should've been a role for an Asian performer.

Anger at S.J. is only part of that. The money people behind these films made the decision and then she capitalized on it. To be honest, I think it deserves to be a massive flop, just like Avatar was after similar casting missteps.

cleome50 is a mass murderer! Another victim!

It's dead, Jim.

I take one day off and cleome wins another one.