Legion World
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Kill this Thread XVI - 10/17/17 01:06 PM
More Massachusettsisms: You are thirsty? There's a bubbler over there.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/17/17 02:52 PM
The Bubbler: small New England bird nearing extinction due to local human custom of tearing off the heads of the birds and draining the body fluids.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/17/17 03:21 PM
Clam Chowder - a creamy white liquid that is served in a bowl

and the obligatory introduction to the thread follows:

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 response nses 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
XX - cleome
XXI - Jfposey
XXII - Invisible Brainiac
XXIII - jfposey
XIV - Invisible Brainiac
XV - Paladin
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/17/17 03:28 PM
IB declined the bread bowl for his chowder. I don't know if he knew what that was.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/17/17 09:38 PM
Oh, I knew. But I also knew I wouldn't be able to finish the bread bowl AND my hangover sandwich in one sitting!
Posted By: Jfposey Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/17/17 10:03 PM
Why we had to go for a walk afterwards. But we didn't have time to stop at Dunks for an ice coffee in a double cup.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/17/17 10:06 PM
Blaze was able to try McDonald's coffee, and Starbucks coffee, but sadly not the Dunkin coffee.
Posted By: Lard Lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/18/17 12:12 AM
I think they're all pretty cawful.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/18/17 03:51 AM
The bird pun confuses me.

Sometimes I just need some caffeine to dip my beak in.
Posted By: Lard Lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/18/17 04:57 AM
Coffee + Awful = Cawful
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/18/17 06:46 AM
Ohhh! thanks Lardy, now I get it

my vocabulary has expanded!
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/18/17 07:39 AM
Look no feather than Legion World to learn something new.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/18/17 12:32 PM
Oh no, not this again
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/18/17 12:49 PM
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/18/17 02:53 PM
Originally Posted by Invisible Brainiac
Oh no, not this again


You say that like it's a bad thing smile Still, we don;t want to repeat ourselves. That would be more than anyone could Swallow.


Originally Posted by Quislet, Esq
The more things change, the more they stay the same.


And the more they stay the same, the more they change - Reep goes Minimalist in trying to get back into the Legion with no powers. smile
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/18/17 06:12 PM
Minimalism began in post–World War II Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with minimalism include Donald Judd, John McCracken, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Robert Morris, Anne Truitt, and Frank Stella. It derives from the reductive aspects of modernism and is often interpreted as a reaction against abstract expressionism and a bridge to postminimal art practices.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/18/17 08:45 PM
My art history knowledge has greatly increased!
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/18/17 08:52 PM
So glad to have expanded your mind.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/18/17 09:04 PM
It is my pleasure!
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/18/17 09:38 PM
You'll be able to enjoy those Brotherhood of dada Doom Patrol issues that little bit more.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/18/17 09:38 PM
That was too much of an expansion
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/18/17 09:58 PM
Drowning pyramids exultant!
Posted By: Jfposey Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/19/17 03:59 AM
Moses expanded the Sea of Reeds. Not sure if the Pyramids were caught in the waves.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/19/17 07:30 AM
Originally Posted by Jfposey
Moses expanded the Sea of Reeds.


Watching another thousand clones of himself being lined up, Reed Richards realised that Kang had been impersonating Moses. He had to find a way back to his own time.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/19/17 12:49 PM
Judy Collins sang "Send in the Clowns" which has been used to title stories about clones as "Send in the Clones"
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/19/17 12:50 PM
I heard that playing in the background during the Star Wars Clone Wars.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/19/17 01:04 PM
Are the music charts in the Star Wars Universe a waste because millions of cloned troopers, with the same taste, download the same songs?
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/19/17 02:32 PM
This does represent a good opportunity for artists who fit the clone troopers' tastes! You have billions of customers right away!
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/19/17 03:33 PM
Ed Sheeran's chart success explained!
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/19/17 08:20 PM
Hush, thoth! If even one fan sees this...
Posted By: Jfposey Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/20/17 12:03 AM
Clone fans also explain Boy Bands.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/20/17 12:53 AM
There's no accounting for taste, sometimes.
Posted By: Jfposey Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/20/17 01:47 AM
Accountants don't have taste? My mother and stepfather will be crushed when I tell them this. They never should have gotten their CPA licenses.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/20/17 10:37 AM
Oh, they do have taste. They just can't quantify and record it as easily as they do business transactions.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/20/17 11:48 AM
well saved Ibby smile
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/20/17 11:55 AM
thanks thothy wink savings things is part of the job wink
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/20/17 01:18 PM
Here I come to save the day!
That means that Mighty Mouse is on the way!

Yes sir, when there is a wrong to right,
Mighty Mouse will join the fight!

On the sea or on the land,
He's got the situation well in hand!
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/20/17 02:17 PM
Mighty Mouse and Atom Ant would make a wonderful team-up.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/20/17 02:48 PM
I think mice eat ants
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/20/17 03:51 PM
I guess they could put their differences aside to battle a common foe... but not without the obligatory superhero fight first!
Posted By: Jfposey Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/20/17 04:06 PM
Let's get B'wana Beast to combine them and see.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/20/17 04:13 PM
Mouse + Ant =... Mant? Anouse?
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/20/17 04:35 PM
Cat + Bear = Bat?
Posted By: cleome57 Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/20/17 04:51 PM
No... Bearcat!
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/20/17 05:12 PM
Beercat!
Posted By: cleome57 Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/20/17 06:11 PM
There's already Gato Negro brand wine, so there's probably beer with a cat logo out there, too.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/20/17 07:03 PM
Well, why not? I just saw a bottle of wine with a hen for a logo. I don't get the connection, but...
Posted By: Jfposey Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/20/17 07:24 PM
There are tons of them. Here one...

http://www.madcatbrewery.co.uk/portfolio/golden-india-pale-ale/
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/20/17 07:28 PM
I wonder what happens when cats drink beer...
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/20/17 07:38 PM
I would suppose that it gets drunk.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/20/17 08:27 PM
I wonder how drunk cats act.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/20/17 08:46 PM
Probably like the cats in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY6bs9GeskE
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/20/17 09:27 PM
Poor kitty.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/21/17 07:20 AM
The only thing the cats in my life could get drunk on is power.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/21/17 07:39 AM
And scratching your legs.
Posted By: Lard Lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/21/17 06:18 PM
Be careful not to get the cat scratch fever. Or Ted Nugent.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/21/17 07:46 PM
Now I'm scared.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/22/17 05:50 AM
In good time for Hallowe'en.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/22/17 10:21 AM
I want to experience Halloween in the USA, and Guy Fawkes Day in the UK!
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/22/17 01:40 PM
I was looking out at fireworks catalogues just an hour ago ahead of Guy Fawkes Day.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/22/17 04:30 PM
My birthday falls on Guy Fawkes day. another way to celebrate it with a bang!
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/22/17 04:47 PM
In case I miss it or some reason, have a Happy Birthday!
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/22/17 05:56 PM
My aunt ended every birthday car with "Health & Happiness Always!". After considering what the wish means, I now end all my birthday greeting with it.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/22/17 06:09 PM
That's a good greeting to give, Quis!

And thank you for the early birthday greetings, thothy!
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/22/17 06:29 PM
Are they early or really really late for your last birthday?
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/22/17 07:34 PM
Originally Posted by Quislet, Esq
My aunt ended every birthday car with "Health & Happiness Always!". After considering what the wish means, I now end all my birthday greeting with it.


I take from it that the "always" indicates that I'm immortal and that the "health and happiness" means that it will all be about me for the forthcoming aeons, ensuring I'll be fine regardless of what happens to anyone else. smile

Originally Posted by Quislet, Esq
Are they early or really really late for your last birthday?


[sniffily] While I'm sure I paid the due respects at the time of Mister Brainiac's celebration, I see no reason why it can't be both, therefore celebrating the time between celebrations. [/sniffily] smile
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/22/17 09:10 PM
Thoth doth sniff too much!
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/22/17 11:58 PM
I hope I'm not coming down with the sniffles smile
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/23/17 10:50 AM
Have some chicken soup, thothy
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/23/17 01:03 PM
Sit on the sofa, wrapped in a blanket. The TV is on. There are Kleenex handy.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/23/17 05:02 PM
I have some ginger tea to help get rid of that nasty cold
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/23/17 05:14 PM
I like ginger ale
Posted By: Lard Lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/23/17 05:18 PM
I prefer Mary Ann ale.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/23/17 05:26 PM
I hear Gilligan can make a mean coconut cream pie himself.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/23/17 08:14 PM
I wonder what ingredients he uses.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/23/17 08:37 PM
You don't want to know
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/23/17 09:59 PM
A secret recipe like KFC. Probably very much like it smile
Posted By: Jfposey Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/24/17 02:20 AM
Maybe I can get the Professor to analyze it.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/24/17 06:51 AM
And Element Lad to reproduce it.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/24/17 07:28 AM
Could Chemical Kid help Jan in some way?
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/24/17 08:05 AM
They could work together.

With Kid Quantum II. And Kinetix. and the White Witch and Dragonmage, to be sure.

With Brainiac 5 to supervise.
Posted By: Lard Lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/24/17 08:21 AM
Are we trying to kill this thread with Legion fanfic?!?!
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/24/17 01:21 PM
Don't you like Legion fanfic?

ElementLad1 ChemicalKing Kinetix KidQuantumII WhiteWitch Dragonmage Brainiac51
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/24/17 03:18 PM
most fanfic is not my cup of tea.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/24/17 04:01 PM
English Breakfast is my cup of tea.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/24/17 04:29 PM
I actually don't like tea. So tea is not my cup of tea.
Posted By: Lard Lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/24/17 05:06 PM
Iced tea for this southern gent, baby!
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/24/17 05:12 PM
Have a little tea with your sugar?
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/24/17 07:59 PM
In the rain slicked neon streets of Legion World, a frantic call gushes like arterial blood from a post-a-thon booth. Across town, the Murder Phone Operator stirred his cup o' java with his pen... and listened.
Posted By: Lard Lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/24/17 09:23 PM
I wouldn't recommend stirring your hot cup o' java with your penis! shake Ohhhhhhhh...pen. Nevermind. blush
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/24/17 09:35 PM
It was supposed to be a steaming hot cup o' java, so just as well smile
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/24/17 09:37 PM
Ouch. That would make for uncomfortable sitting down.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/24/17 10:02 PM
Beanbag chairs are not that comfortable
Posted By: Jfposey Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/24/17 10:53 PM
My friend's leather couches are so deep that they too are uncomfortable to sit on or get out of. Life is a struggle, but that is obnoxious.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/24/17 11:03 PM
I dislike obnoxious people
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/25/17 01:33 AM
So do I
Posted By: Lard Lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/25/17 02:06 AM
I wonder if some people like obnoxious people. Maybe other obnoxious people?
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/25/17 05:07 AM
We should study this.

Pick a reality TV show to watch.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/25/17 12:48 PM
Reality shows hardly show reality
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/25/17 01:52 PM
Are those people nice and friendly in real life?
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/25/17 01:56 PM
I don't know them in real life.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/25/17 02:10 PM
Do you read any of the gossip mags where presumably they appear even when they're not on a show?
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/25/17 02:23 PM
I don't read those magazines. The most I will do is look at the covers while I am waiting in line at the grocery store.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/25/17 03:00 PM
Which covers do you like looking at?
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/25/17 04:53 PM
Covers by Brian Bolland or George Perez
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/25/17 10:42 PM
Very hard not to buy anything with such good artwork on the front. It was sometimes a bit disapointing to realise they didn't do the interior art too.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/26/17 04:01 AM
I think some people felt that way when Alan Davis began doing covers for the Reboot Legion
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/26/17 07:32 AM
That worked for me as I picked up a few of them. Did Adam Hughes ever do Legion covers?
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/26/17 12:00 PM
Did you know beforehand that Davis only did the covers, thothy?
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/26/17 12:43 PM
For me, if it not a book I regularly buy and the cover attracts me, I flip through the book before buying it.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/26/17 04:03 PM
I'd have bought it for the cover anyway. This would have been back when the comics were bagged... and presumably when I was either too rushed or thick to look at the credit box on the cover smile
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/26/17 06:20 PM
I used to buy solely back issues because they were cheaper. This was when the Internet was new and issue summaries were not common. I would have to use the cover to guess whether I wanted an issue.

It also left a lot of holes in my collection that took a while to fill...
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/26/17 06:34 PM
How much dirt is in a hole 25 feet deep and 10 feet wide?
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/26/17 08:33 PM
Ugh. I hate geometry
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/26/17 08:56 PM
You don't need geometry to solve that riddle
Posted By: Jfposey Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/26/17 10:47 PM
Enough to dispatch Mordru.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/26/17 10:48 PM
Geoetry is Mordru's weakness
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/26/17 11:57 PM
Jimmy Olsen's silly hat collection is Mordru's real weakness. That's why he invaded Earth and went back in time. And since when was there dirt in a hole anyway? smile
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/27/17 12:21 AM
Jimmy sure is earning his keep as a Legionnaire...
Posted By: Jfposey Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/27/17 01:27 AM
Jimmy stole the dirt? Was he trying to get some "dirt" for a story with Lois?
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/27/17 07:38 AM
He was getting the dirt on Superman so he could run off with Lois - Jimmy Olsen's Blues
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/27/17 09:49 AM
I thought he was trying to prove he was the ancestor of The Mess.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/27/17 12:53 PM
After being rejected by the Legion, the Mess started a janitorial service. He soon had as much money as Lester Spiffany.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/27/17 04:32 PM
He also had as much dirt on him as Trump does.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/27/17 04:40 PM
At least the Mess' dirt is organic.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/27/17 08:25 PM
Indeed,and he is undeniably a good guy.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/27/17 08:58 PM
Maybe he should get his own book.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/27/17 09:20 PM
Trump's fetching tan always reminds me of the orange Arm Fall Off Boy. So now comic options include:-

Trump Tot - This little rascal causes all sorts of problems for the Legion. Will they ever find out that he was responsible for the lack of immigrants to Earth on the team.

Democracy Fall Off Boy - Not even a wall around Fortress Lad could prevent the farcical end of the UP and the takeover of the Dominators.

Top Trump - The Royal Flush Gang attack Ventura with a new man behind the scenes controlling them.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/28/17 08:03 AM
He could also be Turns-Everything-Orange Trump

you just know he will keep his name as part of his code name...
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/28/17 12:01 PM
Trump Lad - Able to emit super-farts, usually from his mouth!

(Trump is an English word for fart, just in case that's not known the world over)
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/28/17 02:09 PM
It wasn’t. I have a lot of friends who would be pleased to know that
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/28/17 04:02 PM
As toot is another word for fart, instead of it being another tweet from Trump I always say it's another toot from trump.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/28/17 06:12 PM
Malodorous and vile. Apt comparison
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/28/17 06:32 PM
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/28/17 07:35 PM
Although that applies to politics everywhere smile
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/28/17 09:19 PM
Sad, but probably true.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/29/17 06:13 PM
The world's shortest sad story:

For Sale - Baby clothes, never used.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/29/17 06:21 PM
I'm trying to remember who I heard that attributed to recently. It wasn't Hemmingway, it was someone... nope.. can't recall... brain...cell ...shutting...down...

Why can't it just be an unwanted, but expensive, gift because the kid is too big? Some people are Gloom Merchants :-)
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/29/17 06:43 PM
Snopes says that it was not Hemingway
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/29/17 07:18 PM
Nopes. It was the memoirs of an author on the radio and he mentioned that as an example of something. I'm sure he said a name to go with it.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/29/17 07:20 PM
Are you doubting Snopes?
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/29/17 07:41 PM
On the contrary, I've stated throughout that it wasn't Hemingway. I would never doubt the word of Snoopy smile
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/29/17 07:43 PM
Snoopy is a very credible reporter...
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/29/17 08:30 PM
He's had a long career in the industry. I heard that he covered Woodstock smile
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/29/17 09:05 PM
And the Red Baron!
Posted By: Lard Lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/30/17 09:15 AM
Originally Posted by Invisible Brainiac
And the Red Baron!


Makes me want some pizza! YUM!
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/30/17 10:53 AM
Ooh, I miss eating pizza!
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/30/17 04:08 PM
Having never (as far as I know) eaten pizza, I do not miss it.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/30/17 05:46 PM
But do you eat pies?
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/30/17 07:31 PM
sure. Apple, Pumpkin, Squash, Chocolate, Custard, Coconut Cream, Banana Cream, Lemon Meringue, Key Lime, and Boston Cream Pie. Although that last one is really a cake.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/30/17 09:38 PM
I was going to say I was fond of Rhubarb pie, but then I remembered it's a tart. But it's just the same as the Apple Pie I get. confused
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/31/17 12:33 AM
I always did find it odd that rhubarb was so sweet. It looks like a leafy veggie to me.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/31/17 12:21 PM
I believe the leaves are poisonous. A quick Google search proved me correct.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/31/17 06:04 PM
Thank goodness for Google! Imagine if someone had tried the leaves...
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/31/17 06:35 PM
When I looked it up this particular tidbit came up:

Humans have been poisoned after ingesting the leaves, a particular problem during World War I when the leaves were mistakenly recommended as a food source in Britain.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/31/17 06:36 PM
I remember when such things would weed out people from the gene pool. Bloomin' Google! smile
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 10/31/17 06:45 PM
From this years Darwin Awards:

(March 2017, England) What's that smell? A burglar removed a few roofing shingles and climbed into the roof of a chemist shop in Queensbury. On his way down, the man became stuck and was strangled by his own clothes. The asphyxiated pill seeker was found several weeks later and well into decomposition.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/01/17 12:12 AM
Perhaps he should have climbed down naked
Posted By: Jfposey Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/01/17 01:50 AM
Obviously his prescription had...expired.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/01/17 02:04 AM
A rather naked attempt
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/01/17 08:44 AM
The bare cheek of the man.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/01/17 12:06 PM
but clearly there was no cover up.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/01/17 12:39 PM
or so THEY would like you to think.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/01/17 04:27 PM
Gasp! the authorities would never do that!
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/01/17 06:31 PM
Of course the authorities wouldn't. I'm talking about the puppet masters
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/01/17 07:17 PM
Punch wnd Judy men rule the world?!
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/01/17 07:51 PM
Welcome to your life
There's no turning back
Even while we sleep
We will find you

Acting on your best behaviour
Turn your back on mother nature
Everybody wants to rule the world

It's my own design
It's my own remorse
Help me to decide
Help me make the most

Of freedom and of pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world

There's a room where the light won't find you
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
When they do I'll be right behind you

So glad we've almost made it
So sad they had to fade it
Everybody wants to rule the world

I can't stand this indecision
Married with a lack of vision
Everybody wants to rule the world
Say that you'll never never never never need it
One headline why believe it ?
Everybody wants to rule the world

All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/01/17 09:58 PM
Welcome to my life.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/01/17 10:29 PM
I only heard the Tears For Fears single Head Over Heels for the first time a couple of years ago. If I didn't happen to catch the charts for a few weeks I'd miss everything.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/02/17 12:32 AM
I'm not up to date on music either. I used to listen to the charts on the drive to work back home, but now I don't really have an opportunity to do so.

I spend my commute to school reading handouts and cases for class.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/02/17 02:25 PM
I read on my way to work. Right now I am reading about Edwin Stanton who was Lincoln's Secretary of War during the Civil War.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/02/17 08:12 PM
That is one advantage of not having to drive to work!
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/02/17 08:30 PM
If I find myself on the train without a book, I will take a word form one of the ads and see how many other words I can make with the letters
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/02/17 11:22 PM
I've put lots of classic sci fi on my phone to read over the next few months.
Posted By: Lard Lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/03/17 05:23 AM
Call me a Luddite, but reading books or stories on a phone is not something that interests me.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/03/17 06:27 AM
You’re a Luddite!
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/03/17 01:13 PM
I also like the real book. Although I can see an advantage if one was going on a long trip to not having to carry a heavy book.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/03/17 04:49 PM
Indeed, that's one reason I prefer electronic copies now.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/03/17 05:11 PM
I have never actually used electronic media to read a book yet.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/04/17 01:34 AM
I think the first one was Dracula when I got stuck away on a business trip. It saved me from complete boredom, and I didn't mind the format even on a smaller screen pre smartphone. The book was probably on there for ages before I tried it.

I get a few magazines digitally now too. I like having a choice of what to read on the way in. The Twomorrows mags are good for reading in and out of work.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/04/17 08:05 AM
Most of the stuff I have to read for class is online as well. Usually we get PDF files and Powerpoint slides. I read them on my laptop to save paper, I can make highlights there anyway.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/04/17 01:03 PM
Technology has made summarising a breeze.
Posted By: Lard Lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/05/17 03:07 AM
Well now, they call me the breeze
I keep blowin' down the road
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/05/17 09:36 AM
Are you telling us you've got wind? smile
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/05/17 01:31 PM
Lardy is going to huff and puff at you, thothy!
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/05/17 01:52 PM
It's which bit is going to huff and puff I'm having an issue with. smile
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/05/17 02:08 PM
Perhaps we need to have the fainting couch ready, just in case!
Posted By: Lard Lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/06/17 04:04 AM
Maybe a fainting beanbag? Or did we establish that those are too uncomfortable? :confused;
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/06/17 02:34 PM
I don't think bean- anything should be mentioned anywhere near wind thank you smile
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/06/17 02:47 PM
Those fainting beanbags need to be very sturdy! Imagine if Monstress or Blok suddenly fainted!
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/06/17 04:10 PM
Would you try a Mexican Jumping Beanbag chair?
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/06/17 05:11 PM
If you paid enough lobbyists, the Mexican Jumping Beanbag chair would become such a perceived threat that the height of Trump's wall would have to be adjusted smile
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/06/17 05:45 PM
But we can’t utilize Mexican Jumping Beans! the wall, you know?
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/06/17 07:13 PM
We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/06/17 09:08 PM
A lot of teachers have given me a tough time over the years. Some have been great, but some have been terrible.

One time I was five years old, and I had to hand in a letter to my teacher from my mom. The letter was explaining that I had to be absent for a week for family stuff. The teacher asked me for our home phone number, which I did not know (it had never seemed important to me to know, I was five and someone always dropped me off and picked me up at school, and the phone number was on most of my school books and notebooks; so the number was handy, I simply never memorized it).

The teacher gets angry, accuses me of lying, and demands that I tell her. I keep trying to explain that I didn't know. She drags me from class to the faculty room and keeps questioning me. Another teacher had to intervene to get her to stop, but by then I was sobbing and cowering in the corner.

And to this day, one of my hot buttons is being accused of something and not being believed when I deny it.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/06/17 09:09 PM
So what was your phone number?
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/06/17 09:18 PM
I can remember, actually. But posting it here would reveal my identity wink
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/06/17 09:47 PM
right now in the us to call another phone, you have to dial 10 numbers. When I was a kid, to make a local call, you only had to dial 5 numbers. To dial within your area code, you only had to dial 7 numbers. Beyond the area code, you had to dial all 10 numbers plus a 1 in front of it.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/06/17 11:54 PM
Originally Posted by Quislet, Esq
So what was your phone number?

smile Bad Quis. Bad.

Originally Posted by Quislet, Esq
right now in the us to call another phone, you have to dial 10 numbers. When I was a kid, to make a local call, you only had to dial 5 numbers. To dial within your area code, you only had to dial 7 numbers. Beyond the area code, you had to dial all 10 numbers plus a 1 in front of it.


Oh, oh, telephone line, give me some time, I'm living in twilight. - ELO

I wonder if you have to add extra digits for the twilight area code as it's international, or if local twilight codes are available.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/07/17 05:11 AM
ah, the misadventures we have had dialing foreign phone numbers...
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/07/17 08:43 AM
I'm stunned that Telephone Directory monthly didn't become more of a success. Probably a mistake going through the characters in order. I think "Summer Blues: The Aaron A Aaronson story" was a precursor to Bradbury's Something else else Wicked This Way Comes. Still, it was retitled to save on costs and Crossed Wires did give us zany love stories as Cupid became a telephone operator. Happy days of alternate universe reading.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/07/17 11:40 AM
Stalkers loved it though!
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/07/17 02:12 PM
You know what I love? Coconut.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/07/17 06:38 PM
Coconut juice is common in the Philippines.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/07/17 07:27 PM
I have not tried coconut water.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/07/17 08:12 PM
I don't like it very much. I prefer mangoes or pineapples.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/07/17 09:47 PM
I probably eat more bananas than any other fruit.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/07/17 10:37 PM
I eat a lot of clementines and mandarin oranges. But I love peaches best. Strawberries are a close second.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/07/17 11:00 PM
Pears would be towards the top of my fruit choices. Peaches are nice though.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/08/17 12:04 AM
Mmmm peaches.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/08/17 01:28 PM
Movin' to the country,
Gonna eat a lot of peaches
Movin' to the country,
Gonna eat me a lot of peaches
Movin' to the country,
Gonna eat a lot of peaches
Movin' to the country,
Gonna eat a lot of peaches

Peaches come from a can,
They were put there by a man
In a factory downtown
If I had my little way,
I'd eat peaches every day
Sun-soakin' bulges in the shade
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/08/17 04:05 PM
Now *they* were Presidents of the United States of America.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/08/17 05:19 PM
I rank them in the middle of the list of presidents from best to worst.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/08/17 11:37 PM
But there are some presidents who are undeniably terrible.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/09/17 08:38 AM
Is that why the band split?
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/09/17 12:26 PM
That would make a lot of villain groups break up.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/09/17 01:57 PM
Should we get Yoko Ono to infiltrate villain groups in order to break them up?
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/09/17 02:07 PM
That would be effective!
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/09/17 03:29 PM
Although given Yoko's age, maybe not nearly so effective.
Posted By: cleome57 Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/09/17 04:24 PM
I'm not a fan of Ono's music, but I've always figured they were grownups who were responsible for their own lives and the demise of their own band.

Always thought the "Yoko ruined it" thing was pretty sexist.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/09/17 04:28 PM
Sadly, I bet a lot of fans have an idealized vision of the group.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/09/17 04:36 PM
Surely half the band turning more into studio musicians rather than members of the group must have played a part.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/09/17 05:35 PM
It does seem like a factor.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/09/17 05:41 PM
Do you think the show "The X Factor" in the Marvel universe is about young mutants trying out for the X-Men?
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/09/17 07:51 PM
Going back to the origin of the X-Factor group I think it's a show that glorifies the identification and subsequent incarceration of mutants. Young Timmy getting national recognition for finding Mutants in his barn. He's still on a high from that when the authorities arrest his parents for harbouring them. Caught on the wave of attention he denounces his folks on the following week's show.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/09/17 09:14 PM
So little Timmy's mutant power was detecting other mutants?
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/09/17 10:48 PM
Useful power
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/09/17 11:21 PM
I think Caliban of the Morlocks had that power.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/10/17 12:43 AM
Caliban was originally supposed to have the power to "project portions of his own powerful life force into inanimate objects... imbuing them with life." His costume is really a vehicle for his smaller form. So pretty much a proto-Quislet smile That was back when John Byrne pitched a few characters for a second string of X-Men a while before the New Mutants were launched.
Posted By: Lard Lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/10/17 07:50 AM
I wonder if Caliban ever joined the Taliban? hmmm
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/10/17 09:41 AM
He was recruited at an Ichiban.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/10/17 02:04 PM
Ichiban? Well scratch it!
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/10/17 03:18 PM
Mentioning Old Scratch as the name of the devil would have been a lot more appropriate around Halloween.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/10/17 04:18 PM
There are 355 days until Halloween
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/10/17 07:44 PM
How close do I have to get before I can mention it appropriately?
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/10/17 07:58 PM
Please wait until after Arbor Day.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/10/17 08:13 PM
When I read that, I just think someone with an accent is saying 'arbour day and that we should all go and look at some boats.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/10/17 08:46 PM
Harbors are pretty.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/10/17 08:47 PM
I like going to Georges Island in Boston Harbor
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/10/17 08:49 PM
Sydney also has a nice harbor.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/10/17 08:53 PM
I'll be able to see for myself in a couple of months
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/10/17 08:53 PM
I take a walk down to the harbour every weekend... Well a lot of weekends when I'm up early enough... there's a harbour that's within easy walking distance... smile
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/10/17 08:56 PM
In Manila, the bay has a beautiful sunset and is a decent place for a stroll.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/10/17 09:45 PM
Many offices have Manila folders
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/10/17 10:36 PM
While it can be scenic, you don't get much exercise walking along a manila envelope.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/11/17 02:44 AM
Unless you are from Imsk
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/11/17 09:43 AM
I worry I might tread on a lost Imskian expedition who thought the envelope was an endless blasted wasteland.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/11/17 07:43 PM
Or talking ants. Those things will not be happy.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/12/17 09:37 AM
Aunts, as much as other family members, can talk a lot leading to tension during the festive period.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/12/17 11:25 AM
So can uncles.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/12/17 03:00 PM
Do you cry uncle to get uncles to shup up or do uncles cry after you've told them to shut up?
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/12/17 04:56 PM
Some uncles sure seem sensitive.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/12/17 05:23 PM
People could buy them a couple of the million skincare for men packages that have invaded the aisles of all my local supermarkets.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/12/17 10:46 PM
A man's got to keep his youthful glow.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/13/17 02:53 AM
Radiation Roy is giving free hugs?
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/13/17 01:43 PM
Only to those suffering from cancer.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/13/17 01:46 PM
Or to robots.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/13/17 02:00 PM
Have robots taken over to the extent that they are buying skin care products for their fake skin?
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/13/17 02:24 PM
Don’t robots need some help to be all shiny?
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/13/17 03:24 PM
Shiny happy people holding hands
Shiny happy people holding hands
Shiny happy people laughing
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/13/17 04:40 PM
The humans are dead
We used poisonous gases
And we poisoned their asses
The humans are dead The humans are dead

Their system of oppression,
What did it lead to?
Global robo-depression
Robots ruled by people.
They had so much aggression
That we just had to kill them
Had to shut their systems down.
Posted By: Rockhopper Lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/13/17 05:12 PM
The humans are dead, but somehow this thread is still alive. I need to be around more to help kill threads.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/13/17 06:50 PM
Penguins are among the best thread-killers!
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/13/17 07:22 PM
Even more so with all the humans being dead and the robots discovering that the skin care products cause rust.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/13/17 08:07 PM
Penguins are practically chicken!

Hoboken!!!! Ooo, I'm dying!!!

Pardon me, but could you help out a fellow American who's down on his luck?
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/13/17 08:13 PM
Sometimes, I hate myself.

I leave you alone for a little while, and look what you get yourself into!
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/13/17 08:17 PM
I love to sing-a
About the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a,
I love to sing-a,
About a sky of blue-a, or a tea for two-a,
Anything-a with a swing-a to an "I love you-a,"
I love to, I love to sing!

I was born a singin' fool-a,
Lah-de-dah!
Ol' Major Bowes is gonna spot me,
Got through Yale with boula-boula,
Lah-de-dah!
Old microphone's got me!

I love to sing-a,
I love to wake up with the south-a in my mouth-a,
And wave a flag-a,
With a cheer for Uncle Sammy and another for my mammy,
I love to sing!
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/13/17 09:42 PM
You’re dethpicable
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/13/17 09:48 PM
Bugs: Say, doc, are you trying to get yourself in trouble with the law? This ain't wabbit huntin' season.
Elmer Fudd: It's not?
Bugs: No, it's duck huntin' season.
Daffy: That, sir, is an in-mitigated frab-rication. It's wabbit season.
Bugs: Duck season.
Daffy: Wabbit season.
Bugs: Duck season.
Daffy: Wabbit season.
Bugs: Duck season.
Daffy: Wabbit season.
Bugs: Wabbit season.
Daffy: Duck season.
Bugs: Wabbit season.
Daffy: I say it's duck season. And I say fire!
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/13/17 10:18 PM
Loved that series of episodes.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/14/17 01:54 PM
Warner Brothers did a series of Hollywood celebrity cartoons. The Three Stooges appeared in one of them.
Posted By: cleome57 Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/14/17 05:19 PM
We used to watch those cartoons with our parents and they'd explain all the caricatures and references to us.

I guess no one needs parents now that there's Wiki, though.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/14/17 05:28 PM
I think current parents would need Wiki to explain those reference.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/14/17 07:41 PM
but not all parents know how to use wiki
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/14/17 08:27 PM
I was raised in the wild by wikis after my browser crashed.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/14/17 09:02 PM
I was found floating down the Amazon in a hatbox.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/14/17 09:19 PM
Wild Haggis stormed the village where I was born and kidnapped me back to their Highland tribes.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/14/17 09:46 PM
Oh so you had Wild Haggis. I cried myself to sleep wishing for Wild Haggis.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/14/17 10:45 PM
Yeah, we used to sit around dreaming of the day we could own a hatbox that floated, despite the weight of our bitter disappointment in life, never mind one that floated down the Amazon.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/14/17 10:46 PM
You got to sit?
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/14/17 10:56 PM
We would take turns. One would sit for a few seconds on another who would have to hold them above the flooring of nails, while getting cut to bits. Then we'd swap.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/14/17 11:17 PM
Oh you had someone to help you?
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/14/17 11:31 PM
Ha! Help indeed. We used to have to fight in the pit of broken glass to see who got to sit first. Annie Lennox, also raised by Wild Haggis, got the inspiration for her song "Walking on Broken Glass" from this. In later years, we would gladly suffer the injuries of our society, as at least we didn't have to listen to it.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/14/17 11:34 PM
How is Annie?
Posted By: Jfposey Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/15/17 12:38 AM
She is waiting for "the sun to come out tomorrow".
Posted By: Lard Lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/15/17 05:11 AM
Until then, it's "here comes the rain again"... shrug
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/15/17 07:14 AM
Bet my bottom dollar it will
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/15/17 01:37 PM
You're on! (Now to finish my Sun-blotting machine)
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/15/17 04:46 PM
Quis is Mr. Burns from the Simpsons!
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/15/17 04:52 PM
Excellent!
Posted By: Jfposey Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/16/17 12:22 AM
Does that make IB Smithers?
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/16/17 01:18 PM
That puts a new spin on things
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/16/17 01:37 PM
He does have a huge Malibu Stacy collection
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/16/17 01:47 PM
I wanted Stacy’s boyfriend though
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/16/17 01:50 PM
But she has a new hat.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/16/17 02:08 PM
Her boyfriend has new shoes!
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/16/17 03:11 PM
Like you care about mens shoes.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/16/17 04:28 PM
I care about what’s in them
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/16/17 05:34 PM
Barefoot in the Park with Invisible Brainiac
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/16/17 10:57 PM
Mmmm, bare manly feet
Posted By: Lard Lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/17/17 06:57 AM
Not sure if all manly feet qualify as kinks for you, Ibby, but you might want to avoid googling Shaquille O'Neil's feet.....
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/17/17 07:56 AM
Aw Lardy, now you know I got to do it!

(for the record I’m just joking about the feet thing - though I did once date a guy who was very into it...)
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/17/17 08:33 AM
I hope he handled the defeet of not continuing together with you well smile
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/17/17 11:15 AM
He didn’t make me feel like a heel smile
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/17/17 02:06 PM
That is because you are a good sole
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/17/17 05:10 PM
Now that Ibby is with Blaze, the guy is just a footnote in Ibby's life.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/17/17 05:19 PM
You nailed it.
Posted By: Lard Lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/17/17 05:20 PM
Toe-tally!
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/17/17 05:28 PM
*Arches eyebrows*
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/18/17 02:21 AM
Whoa, let's not toe the line here.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/18/17 07:44 AM
Uh oh. Quis is arching his eyebrows. Perhaps we should move on before this thread is plucked from the board.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/18/17 08:06 AM
I wouldn’t want this thread to be cleaned up.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/18/17 07:00 PM
Threading eyebrows is a new trend.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/18/17 07:19 PM
I thought it was done in ancient times
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/18/17 07:55 PM
Not when I was a kid. And I am feeling pretty ancient these days.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/18/17 09:46 PM
You're only as old as you feel, so I generally try to avoid feeling the elderly. smile
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/19/17 02:24 PM
There are days when I just feel weary and tired.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/19/17 06:35 PM
Are there days when you're too tired to post to Kill this thread?
Posted By: cleome57 Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/19/17 07:17 PM
[clears throat]

I don't know what you're talking about, Lad.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/19/17 07:46 PM
Oh you can call me thoth, Cleome. It's nicer sounding than all the other names I get called. smile
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/19/17 08:01 PM
Can I call you 'Frank'?

Why 'Frank'?

It's a nice name. Richard Nixon's got a hedgehog called Frank.
Posted By: cleome57 Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/19/17 08:01 PM
If you need to be called nice names, you can revive The Victorian Flirting Thread.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/19/17 08:11 PM
Why Miss Cleome, a good person does not flirt.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/19/17 08:30 PM
My governess has to recover from diphtheria before I can be allowed to venture near the Victorian flirting thread.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/19/17 08:35 PM
Why my dear Mr. thoth lad, that is so caring of you. You must be so tired. Why don't you come sit down on the divan next to me.
Posted By: cleome57 Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/19/17 08:41 PM
Despite my newly-discovered status as LWWW*, I believe I shall hie to the kitchen and prepare us a proper tea. Scones and Pettis Fours, and perhaps some cucumber or cress sandwiches, too. I do hope Mavis remembered to launder all the linen napkins and get the silver tea service polished before accepting Sunday as her day off this week.

*Legion World Wicked Woman
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/19/17 08:55 PM
Why Miss Cleome, Cook will not like you messing about in her kitchen, Relax with a glass of Aunt Ida's Special Lemonade.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/19/17 09:05 PM
My good sir. I should stress both the fact that it is my governess, and not I, who has diptheria and that it would be highly irregular for me to be seen unchaperoned near any furniture, let alone a divan.

Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/19/17 09:08 PM
Are you not nursing her back to health?
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/19/17 11:43 PM
It is to my great regret, that my chaperone, who would have to accompany me on any visit to the sick bed of my governess, is presently suffering from dropsy.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/20/17 10:02 AM
Heavens, have I traveled back in time? I suddenly feel quite faint.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/20/17 01:33 PM
Lay down on the divan. I will fetch a glass of medicinal sherry for you.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/20/17 10:33 PM
My word, that is so very kind of you, Mr. Quislet.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/20/17 10:48 PM
Kindness had nothing to do with it.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/20/17 11:31 PM
If you can kill with kindness, why isn't there a bigger public awareness campaign to stop people being excessively nice?
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/21/17 06:30 AM
Is there anyone you would like to kill with kindness?
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/21/17 02:47 PM
Me. But would that be suicide by kindness?
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/21/17 05:37 PM
Wouldn't that be a good way to go?
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/21/17 05:56 PM
Joke I heard:

When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather did. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.
Posted By: thoth lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/22/17 12:25 AM
"When I said I was going to become a comedian, they all laughed. Well, they're not laughing now, are they?"
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/22/17 11:07 AM
I’ll show them. I’ll show them all!
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/22/17 01:59 PM
Funny thoth lad, very funny.


And IB, flashing is a crime.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/22/17 10:33 PM
Er, that’s not what I was planning to show...
Posted By: Lard Lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/23/17 06:20 PM
What were you gonna show us? The way? The money? The state?
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/23/17 08:59 PM
The way, the truth and the life
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/24/17 01:56 PM
That's life (that's life) that's what people say
You're riding high in April
Shot down in May
But I know I'm gonna change that tune
When I'm back on top, back on top in June
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/24/17 03:40 PM
The circle of life
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/24/17 05:09 PM
I prefer the dodecahedron of life
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/25/17 01:00 AM
That could work. Many sides to life
Posted By: Lard Lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/25/17 07:06 AM
Sure are. Including side-boobage! love
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/25/17 02:25 PM
I think we know what Lardy is thankful for tongue
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/25/17 06:17 PM
Not sideboobs
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/25/17 07:58 PM
Perhaps it is lack of sideboobs
Posted By: Lard Lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/26/17 11:10 AM
I don't think I'd ever heard the term "sideboob" before the show "Scrubs".
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/26/17 11:19 AM
I watched a couple of episodes of Scrubs. I liked its more lighthearted tone. Grey’s Anatomy, on the other hand...
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/26/17 07:32 PM
I just finished watching the last season of Downton Abbey.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/27/17 09:20 AM
Blaze watches it too
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/27/17 01:58 PM
I am rewatching Orphan Black now
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/27/17 06:26 PM
I get bored easily, so watching TV series is not ideal for me. I prefer being more active/
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/27/17 06:31 PM
I await your all-male version of "The Women"
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/27/17 09:37 PM
Oooh that would be interesting
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/27/17 10:00 PM
Who would you cast in the Joan Crawford/other woman role?
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/28/17 06:29 AM
Matt Dallas and his dreamy eyes
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/28/17 02:13 PM
I see said the blind man
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/28/17 08:18 PM
But I’m not blind
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/28/17 08:22 PM
There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/28/17 10:58 PM
But I want to see!
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/28/17 11:29 PM
“I want to live!” - Robin Nico
Posted By: Lard Lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/29/17 02:31 AM
"It's alive!" -Victor Frankenstein
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/29/17 09:26 AM
"It's undead!" - Count Dracula
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/29/17 01:34 PM
Interjections (Hey!) show excitement (Hey!) or emotion (Hey!).
They're generally set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point,
Or by a comma when the feeling's not as strong.

Interjections show excitement or emotion,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah... YEA!

Darn! That's the end!

- Schoolhouse Rock
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/29/17 02:08 PM
That’s a great grammar lesson
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/29/17 03:39 PM
You probably never saw them. They had ones for math (multiplication), grammar, history, and science.

There are those of us who can only recite the Preamble to the US Constitution in song.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/29/17 04:38 PM
The context of learning (learning in song versus learning without) helps with memory
Posted By: Jfposey Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/30/17 02:54 AM
Proven by Sesame Street and the Electric Company.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/30/17 11:09 AM
I still don’t know how to get to Sesame Street
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/30/17 01:48 PM
But do you know the way to San Jose?
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/30/17 02:03 PM
I think I have to make a left at Albuquerque.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/30/17 03:03 PM
I knew you should have.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/30/17 05:22 PM
Drat, now I have to go back
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/30/17 05:51 PM
Hello, Dolly,
Well Hello, Dolly,
It's so nice to have you back where you belong
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/30/17 06:13 PM
Dolly is a good name for a doll
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/30/17 06:23 PM
Esmerelda would be a better name. Not so derivative.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 11/30/17 10:14 PM
I hate studying derivatives. All the computations that go into them... Finance really isn't for me.
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 12/01/17 02:01 PM
Me neither. I do have a flair for customer service, even if I do say so myself.
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 12/01/17 04:17 PM
Having met you, I can imagine that you do!
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 12/01/17 05:19 PM
But did you really meet me or the actor I hired to play me?
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 12/01/17 05:48 PM
Darn! Oh, these mind games!
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 12/01/17 05:51 PM
Daylight, alright
I don't know, I don't know if it's real
Been a long night and something ain't right
You won't show, you won't show how you feel

No time ever seems right
To talk about the reasons why you and I fight
It's high time to draw the line
Put an end to this game before it's too late

Head games, it's you and me baby
Head games, and I can't take it anymore
Head games, I don't wanna play the...
Head games
Posted By: Lard Lad Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 12/03/17 06:47 AM
Foreigner had a lot of catchy hits!
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 12/03/17 02:43 PM
I want to know what love is...
Posted By: Quislet, Esq Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 12/04/17 02:31 PM
I believe I won this round.

My post: December 1 5:51pm

Paladin's post: December 3 6:47 am
Posted By: Invisible Brainiac Re: Kill this Thread XVI - 12/04/17 03:51 PM
it does seem like it!
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