Isnt it a shame to kill this thread at such a milestone age?
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Kill This Thread (XVIII)
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Here's a history of our various felons, along with a few missed opportunities.....
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 (eff YEAH!!!) XVI- Quislet, Esq. XVII - Invisible Brainiac
In honor of Quis' holiday...The self-governing British colony of South Australia enacted universal suffrage in 1895, also allowing women to stand for the colonial parliament that year.
I'm sure it's possible, given the shared Batman status and the similarities between Secret Six and Suicide Squad (beyond the alliteration). I can't recall any interaction, though.
Aw, man...I SUCK! The memory is faulty, my friends! I guess I had the versions from the New 52-on on my mind, forgetting that the original Gail Simone iteration existed without any Suicide Squad book being published! In my defense it's been a while!
I was doubting my memory there. A previous Secret Six relaunch was the only reason I bought Action Comics Weekly. That and it was a book I could buy in my own town.
I enjoyed the Action Weekly GL series pretty well, but I will always remember regretfully that it featured the death of Katma Tui. She's always been one of my favorite GLs.
Katma died well before you were born, I think, Ibby! Did you get to read her stories at some point, or do you get this feeling more from references to her in modern stories?
Floppies or reprints? It seems to me that Bronze Age GL stories even until the Kyle Raynor era began have been woefully uncollected with exceptions like GL/GA and the Alan Moore stuff.
I didn't realise that was where Katma died. I wonder if I'd stopped reading it by that point. I remember a whiny Hal going round trying to ask his friends for some direction. It was a reprise of all the other stories where whiny Hal needs a sense of direction.
Yep, she died in AC Weekly. In fact, it was the first issue in that format: 601. Katma was ringless and was slaughtered by a near-feral Star Sapphire. She deserved a better death than that.
Floppies or reprints? It seems to me that Bronze Age GL stories even until the Kyle Raynor era began have been woefully uncollected with exceptions like GL/GA and the Alan Moore stuff.
I have an aunt who's a big comics collector, so was able to read some of her originals.
Yep, she died in AC Weekly. In fact, it was the first issue in that format: 601. Katma was ringless and was slaughtered by a near-feral Star Sapphire. She deserved a better death than that.
Yup, I'll have that one. I'll have plenty of time to read it too, now that my faulty memory has forced me to resign from the Legion World pub quiz team >sob<
Depends on which reality we are talking about, I guess.
Seriously though, I can't remember Katma being retconned in. She certainly deserves to be, but she didn't benefit along with the other "Lost Lanterns" found on the Manhunter homeworld (Arisia,who also had a pretty bad death; Boodikka, Kreon, etc.)
I think comics can be more than just "fun". I think it's even okay for them to "infuriate" us at times. But the latter shouldn't occur because the creators are shitting all over beloved characters and concepts. The problem is, different fans have different opinions as to what constitutes such instances of "shitting"!
You could diversify into executive posters for boardrooms. These are oil paintings of quaint 18th century cottage industries in idyllic villages. Somewhere in the painting, a villager will have a sign saying "Well paid employees are happier employees"
When I was little my mom would make pumpkin pie and squash pie. Because I didn't like squash, I didn't "like" squash pie. So mom always gave me "pumpkin" pie. When I got older, I found out I liked the taste of squash pie better than pumpkin pie.
My mom was clearing some old albums from their loft (vinyl!), over the last week, and there were a few albums from The Fall in there. One of the good things about the Fall is that its fine not to like a particular album. The lead singer will be having an argument with the rest of the band shortly, and there will be a new variation, and line up, by the next one.
There's always been a cult Vinyl following here (they gather in a cave and listen to an old jazz record, or something ) and it's growing in popularity. It was odd looking at some high street record shops over Christmas and seeing that they've converted racks back to the Vinyl ones they had decades ago. Obviously trying to promote something physical in a digital world.
The stock is far from great, but it's growing. I wonder what happened to their old stock. They must be regretting getting rid of a lot of it now.
On the other hand, there's all those lost B sides to dig up again...
You have a point about other people. I read a quote somewhere - “people are assholes”. especially on the Internet. present company excepted of course
Who was here when Ibby posted that, in order to be counted as "present company"?
My mom was clearing some old albums from their loft (vinyl!), over the last week, and there were a few albums from The Fall in there. One of the good things about the Fall is that its fine not to like a particular album. The lead singer will be having an argument with the rest of the band shortly, and there will be a new variation, and line up, by the next one.
The lead singer of The Fall, Mark E. Smith, died yesterday aged 60. Part of me hopes that death will just be the latest minor set back, a punch up with life that requires another personnel change and a slightly new direction, before he heads back out on tour. They weren't my favourite band, I didn't hear them until they had some commercial air time, and I didn't appreciate some of their albums when they came out. I even remember a couple of really mediocre-seeming gigs. Looking back, that was part of the magic of it. You never knew quite what you'd get. You never knew what bit of theatre Smith would pull out, whether consciously or not. When you were at an age when the popularity of something seemed to matter and if you were looking to impress, then The Fall were a learning experience. I think that's why the contrariness of his personality comes out even more strongly in the media. It depended on what people went in looking for and were trying to get. Smith played effortlessly with expectations. I enjoyed their music and all the concerts I happened to catch a whole lot more when I stopped trying to label it and just enjoy the work for itself. A learning experience one that you appreciate him for providing.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread...
Hangry is going to be appearing in the dictionaries here shortly. It makes me a bit bisinterested (a combination of bored and disinterested) in language really.
She's totally committed To major independence But she's a lady through and through She gives them quite a battle All that they can handle She'll bruise some She'll hurt some too But oh they love to watch her strut Oh they do respect her but They love to watch her strut
I said "get out of the way of this giant pile of motivational posters I' m dropping!". Oh dear. Still, Ron Karr showed us that super flatness was a power!
People are talkin', talkin' 'bout people I hear them whisper, you won't believe it They think we're lovers kept under covers I just ignore it, but they keep saying We laugh just a little too loud We stand just a little too close We stare just a little too long Maybe they're seeing something we don't, darlin'
Let's give them something to talk about Let's give them something to talk about Let's give them something to talk about How about love?
I was looking for mousse in the supermarche yesterday. Unless I wanted something made by nestle (yuck!) I was out of luck. Bah! Having said that, my once in a decade reminder that it exists probably wasn't doing much for the mousse industry.
And if the blue sky mining company won't come to my rescue If the sugar refining company won't save me Who's gonna save me? Who's gonna save me? Who's gonna save me?
But if I work all day on the blue sky mine (There'll be food on the table tonight) And if walk up and down on the blue sky mine (There'll be pay in your pocket tonight) And some have sailed from a distant shore (And the company takes what the company wants) And nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground
The Fountain of Salmacis was so named because it was there that the gods granted the nymph Salmacis her wish to be united as a single being with the object of her lust, Hermaphroditus. Any man who drank from the fountain thereafter was either changed into a hermaphrodite or at least became effeminate.
"The Fountain of Salmacis" is also one of my favorite songs by Genesis, and is based on this legend.
In Ranma 1/2, Ranma fell into the pool of the drowned maiden. Since then when he is hit with cold water he turns into a girl. Only by bathing in hot water does he turn back into a boy. His father fell into the pool of the drowned panda.
That's just a training video for the Fisher Cats of Hykraius . They hunt for Gil'Dishpan who they treat as cat toys. Once their shift is up, it's straight out of the water like a normal cat, for them.
"Milk chocolate for me," said a voice seemingly out of nowhere. It couldn't have come from thoth, surely, as he's in The Land of Huff. But then, he has been reading all those Action Comics with Super-Ventriloquism in them.
Uh oh. It's not far from looking for objectives to the dark realisation that there's no point in anything.... before perking up by figuring out it gives more time for Spacopoly! Ah, the peaks, troughs and favourite fun threads of the human condition.
I had a snooze after reading the above post. Fortunately, not for long. As the wind whistles outside and there's snow in the air, the idea of hibernating seems like a good one.
And I can't fight this feeling anymore I've forgotten what I started fighting for It's time to bring this ship into the shore And throw away the oars, forever
A painter, who lived in Great Britain, Interrupted two girls with their knitting, He said, with a sigh, That park bench--well I, Just painted it, right where you're sitting.
Speaking of Legion and DC Covers, I just found the character Replikon on an old Arrow/Lantern cover and I'm like "oh man, I could have a whole lotta fun with a power copying alien race whose natural state is a gaseous cloud, writing wise"
In "The Big Snooze" Elmer Fudd wonders where the billions and billions of rabbits are coming from. Bugs replies "I'm multiplying Doc! I'm multiplying!"
First day of class when teachers would take attendance, they would usually stumble over my last name. One class in college, the teacher was stumbling when this woman and I both said "Here". It turned out that our last name, although spelt slightly different, were pronounced the same. She gave me a dirty look anyhow.
It's part of the Law School admissions test. They give you a scenario in which there are 2 choices. You then select one choice and argue (write an essay) for that one. It doesn't matter which one you choose as long as you make a good argument. The trick is to show how the weak points in your choice are better than the strong points of the other choice.
Mine involved a downtown association that wanted to promote the businesses there. The choice was between a street fair/sidewalk sale and a charity auction at the civic center.
O: Oh I'm sorry, is this a five minute argument, or the full half hour?
M: Ah! (taking out his wallet and paying) Just the five minutes.
O: Just the five minutes. Thank you.
O: Anyway, I did.
M: You most certainly did not!
O: Now let's get one thing quite clear: I most definitely told you!
M: Oh no you didn't!
O: Oh yes I did!
M: Oh no you didn't!
O: Oh yes I did!
M: Oh no you didn't!
O: Oh yes I did!
M: Oh no you didn't!
O: Oh yes I did!
M: Oh no you didn't!
O: Oh yes I did!
M: Oh no you didn't!
O: Oh yes I did!
M: No you DIDN'T!
O: Oh yes I did!
M: No you DIDN'T!
O: Oh yes I did!
M: No you DIDN'T!
O: Oh yes I did!
M: Oh look, this isn't an argument!
(pause)
O: Yes it is!
M: No it isn't!
(pause)
M: It's just contradiction!
O: No it isn't!
M: It IS!
O: It is NOT!
M: You just contradicted me!
O: No I didn't!
M: You DID!
O: No no no!
M: You did just then!
O: Nonsense!
M: (exasperated) Oh, this is futile!!
(pause)
O: No it isn't!
M: Yes it is!
(pause)
M: I came here for a good argument!
O: AH, no you didn't, you came here for an argument!
M: An argument isn't just contradiction.
O: Well! it CAN be!
M: No it can't!
M: An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.
O: No it isn't!
M: Yes it is! 'tisn't just contradiction.
O: Look, if I *argue* with you, I must take up a contrary position!
M: Yes but it isn't just saying 'no it isn't'.
O: Yes it is!
M: No it isn't!
O: Yes it is!
M: No it isn't!
O: Yes it is!
M: No it ISN'T! Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says.
O: It is NOT!
M: It is!
O: Not at all!
M: It is!
(The Arguer hits a bell on his desk and stops.)
O: Thank you, that's it.
M: (stunned) What?
O: That's it. Good morning.
M: But I was just getting interested!
O: I'm sorry, the five minutes is up.
M: That was never five minutes just now!!
O: I'm afraid it was.
M: (leading on) No it wasn't.....
O: I'm sorry, I'm not allowed to argue any more.
M: WHAT??
O: If you want me to go on arguing, you'll have to pay for another five minutes.
M: But that was never five minutes just now! Oh Come on! Oh this is... This is ridiculous! O: I told you... I told you, I'm not allowed to argue unless you PAY!
M: Oh all right. (takes out his wallet and pays again.) There you are.
O: Thank you.
M: (clears throat) Well...
O: Well WHAT?
M: That was never five minutes just now.
O: I told you, I'm not allowed to argue unless you've paid!
M: Well I just paid!
O: No you didn't!
M: I DID!!!
O: YOU didn't!
M: I DID!!!
O: YOU didn't!
M: I DID!!!
O: YOU didn't!
M: I DID!!!
O: YOU didn't!
M: I don't want to argue about it!
O: Well I'm very sorry but you didn't pay!
M: Ah hah! Well if I didn't pay, why are you arguing??? Ah HAAAAAAHHH! Gotcha!
O: No you haven't!
M: Yes I have! If you're arguing, I must have paid.
O: Not necessarily. I *could* be arguing in my spare time.
Daffy Duck: I thay it’th duck seathon, and I say; ‘Fire! (he crosses his arms)
Elmer Fudd aims his gun at Daffy and shoots. Daffy’s bill spins round and round his head.
Daffy Duck: Hmm. (he zooms up to Bugs, and starts poking his chest) Let’th try that again.
Bugs Bunny: Okay.
Daffy Duck, now tapping his own chest: I’ll start it thith time.
Bugs Bunny: Right.
Daffy Duck, pushing the gun towards Bugs: Wabbit Seathin.
Bugs Bunny, pushing the gun back to Daffy: Duck Season.
Daffy Duck, pushing the gun back to Bugs: Wabbit Theathon.
Bugs Bunny, pushing the gun back to Daffy, then to himself: Wabbit Season.
Daffy Duck, pushing the gun to his own body: Duck Theathon, fire! (the gun fires at Daffy’s head and the smokes clears, showing us Daffy’s beak on the back of his head, which he twists around. Daffy starts poking Bugs again) Okay, thith time you thtart it.
Bugs Bunny: What ever you say (he pulls the gun towards himself) Wabbit.
Daffy Duck, grabbing the gun and pulling it towards himself: Duck, Fire!
Oh heavens no! They could help me with my weight training routine, make me as hot as they are. Maybe when we get rescued I can finally fulfill my dream of being an actor... and I'll have a cute actor boyfriend and we will go on weekend dates to Paris or Rome or Barcelona... Sigh...
Actually, that wouldn't work well for the Before & After category because "Double Final" isn't a thing...unless there's a such thing as one in college. Now, "Double Fantasy Island" or "Final Fantasy Island" would easily work!
Saturday night's alright for fighting Get a little action in Get about as oiled as a diesel train Gonna set this dance alight `Cause Saturday night's the night I like Saturday night's alright alright alright
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Those Python blokes came from, and worked for many years in, a long British tradition of radio comedy. That lot came from earlier entertainments. The comedy in Chap Hop taps into that, just as Python did. Monty Who? He'll never be as good as Kenneth Horne!
Crikey! Posting makes me thirsty. Time for a cuppa...
My daddy left home when I was three And he didn't leave much to ma and me Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze. Now, I don't blame him cause he run and hid But the meanest thing that he ever did Was before he left, he went and named me "Sue".
Two members of The Starland Vocal Band, Bill and Taffy Danoff, were previously known as Fat City. They co-wrote and sang backup on John Denver's hit, "Take Me Home, Country Roads."
On my recent trip to Australia I saw a bunch of kangaroos, 2 koalas, and 3 emus in the wild. There were about 10 of us standing there looking at the kangaroos and the kangaroos stood there looking at us until they got bored and wandered off.
Little does Quislet know that the kangaroos subsequently demanded money back from their tour operator. "Stupid humans just stood their and gaped all day," said their complaint form.
Routine rhymes with poutine (I think). Poutine, according to Dictionary.com, "is a dish of chipped potatoes topped with curd cheese and a tomato-based sauce". Never had it. Not sure if it sounds terribly good.
Distrust of the banking system goes back quite a bit. Back to the days where everyone would bury their treasure never thinking that carnivals would be built over the top of all of them. Or that meddling kids and owners would try to dig it up.
In my parents' house when I was growing up, water would seep into the basement when it rained. There was a hole in the floor that we would set a pump to drain the water.
The radio built up a new series of H2G2. I caught the first few minutes of two episodes. The first was a dreadful mishmash of some things that had happened before, but without any structure or particular relevance. I dozed off. The second one went into a musical number and again I dozed off. I should stress that although I have a cat, I don't have catalepsy.
Oddly enough, I was reading an '80s magazine earlier on this week. The fourth Adams novel was being reviewed. The reviewer who, whether he's to be agreed with or not, really does know his sci-fi books, didn't think much of it, and charted the diminishing returns of the series.
I was explaining the football war to someone only a couple of weeks ago. There was the Cod Wars between Namor and Aquaman. No, wait ... between Britain and Iceland.
Last year here in Boston, there was a new head of the public transportation system who moved here from Atlanta. There was a snowstorm and she shut down the buses and subway at 7:30 pm (the subway runs until 12:30am) and basically stranded thousands of people. It was a major storm, but not anything we haven't gotten through before. She said she did it for the safety of the drivers. She resigned shortly after that.
There's definitely been a change in risk appetite here. While correct for some regions, it's not granular enough for others. It just leads to services being shut down needlessly and, noticeably, for some public services to take advantage of that.
A post about not missing something is missing?! Or is your job missing?! Imagine turning up for work and no one knows who you are! Actually, I'd not mind that if it wasn't for the loss of a reference.
I had wondered why my post had gone on so long, as the last one in the thread. If Ibby now shows up mentioning his missing posts, we can declare Shenanigans!
Whatever happened to the Banzai Bike of Beneficence?
Selflessly gave it away when someone asked.
It was tough going from that to the Trendy Trike of Titters, but we've worked hard to get back to having the transport we deserve. Just in time to qualify for the Baffling Buspass of Bellylaughs.
All the missing items you wanted are now floating in the toilet. Next time you'll remember to leave both the seat AND the lid down.
(For real: when Butterscotch The Evil still lived, she would sit on the seat edge and splash water all over the place. That's how we got in the habit of always keeping the lid down when it wasn't in use.)
I predict that if cats splashing in the toilet doesn't kill this thread, nothing will.
I wonder if Veronica Lodge is related to Alexander and Alexandria Cabot. I know the Lodge name came from a famous Massachusetts political family the Cabot-Lodges.
Wanda: Well, I want to try the new Mexican place. Simon: But it makes me fart Ionic energy over half the city! Wanda: And just who is bringing you back from the dead to go anywhere? Simon: >sigh<
I was wondering if Levitz came up with it being the mask. But Raven fought a villain in Titans Hunt where a lot of the motivation came from the mask. So I might be thinking of that.
Rehashing tbe same plots is probably what makes dipping in and out of the Avengers easy. At least it was in the Busiek/Perez days. It was like I hadn't bee gone for long, and plot wise I probably hadn't been.
It could have been a piain for regular readers. But there may be sales validity in never straying too far from what makes something successful. There's still plenty of scope to arc out from that, slowly incorporating the best its as you go. Or in Pym's case thumping Jan for eternity.
I watched loads of Blakes 7 when I had the sniffoos before Christmas. I hadn't seen it for years. I thought there were lots of positives in it. A budget of 50p carried to heights with some decent writing and actors.
I also saw a sci fi comedy called Hyperdrive. Looking at reviews afterwards it seems some folks can't see past Red Dwarf. But the Hyperdrive crew, like Blake and his crew, are a bit more conflicted than that. They got a £1.50 budget allowing for effects Blake could only dream of.
I'm just glad there's enough moisture to be bringing back the Fall Astilbe plants I put in late last Spring. Well, about half of them have come back. But the dry, hot season came very early last year and I thought none of them would return. So I'm pleased.
The mini-guide that came with the plants said not to water them frequently when young, because they wouldn't build up strong roots. At least now I know to ignore that advice with the ones which are still left.
One year I went the week before and because of the warm weather the lilacs were at their peak then. An employee there said that they probably would be all over by next Sunday
The early Superman is probably one of the most interesting versions for me. Its as much for what's not on the page as for the frustrated power fantasies we get. We have a character with immense power. He wants to "do the right thing" But what does that mean, and how many laws is he willing to break to achieve it? Forcing a confession from a politician breaks a number of laws. But is it for the greater good of the society he's living in? Was it effective, or did the politician escape justice due to the forced nature of his information? Is it permissible for a vigilante to take the law into his own hands? Will his decisions always be for the benefit of the majority of citizens?
On the other hand, let's bring on Doomsday for an issue full of splash panel beatings!
That's the problem with Batman being an agent of the Gotham City Police. Most of the criminals he catches would be released due to the illegal means he obtains evidence.
I was reading about the technical difficulties faced by various rocket programmes and the innovative ways that they countered those issues. Computer modelling must save them loads of effort these days. But does that have a negative effect on coming up with quick, innovative solutions?
I went to his laboratory of evil and he said what a pickle I'd found myself in. I feared the worst, but it was a lovely afternoon discussing the seasons, beetroot and bottling.
Yesterday, I remembered the PATB episode where Brain tries to take a day off from failed plans for world rule. He and Pinky try to go shopping for clothes, out for a nice dinner, and so on. Brain keeps encountering bad service, so he calls it out and gets them both kicked out of the various venues. But without knowing it, he inspires several observers to stand up for their own rights, and these anonymous people all think to themselves, "Who was that short guy with the big ears? He fights for what's right! He should rule the country!"
Something else else haunting about that, even decades later.
Speaking of ruling countries, I'm a bit sad about the results of Hungary's latest election. Another government with authoritarian tendencies still in power...
I see it as a bit of a moral quagmire, where no side comes out if it looking very good. Unfortunately authoritarian tendencies come in a variety of guises. Oooh, political. That's definitely going to kill the thread. After the falling outs, tears of rage and flame wars.
I'm crazy flowing over with ideas A thousand ways to woo a lover so sincere Love and hate, what a beautiful combination Sending shivers up and down my spine
For every Casanova that appears My sense of hesitation disappears Love and hate, what a beautiful combination Sending shivers up and down my spine
And the lovers that you sent for me Didn't come with any satisfaction guarantee So I return them to the sender And the note attached will read
How I love to hate you I love to hate you I love to hate you I love to hate you
The thin line between love and hate vanished forever starting with the age of Usenet.
The great thing about 4chan and its descendants/wannabes is that now any subject can make you a target for horrid insults and death threats. Doesn't matter how seemingly innocuous the subject might be.
Of course, I was an adolescent back when there was no internet. I could be pretty mean and thoughtless. But I like to think that at my worst, I wouldn't have told somebody to go kill themselves, etc.
Watching all the FB uproar unfold right now is making me gloat a little, I admit. I feel like I haven't made many good decisions in this life, but eschewing FB stands out as one of the best, I think.
I really hate people who throw around random death threats. Rarely is any comment so bad that people deserve that kind of abuse... except perhaps for those people who give death threats!
I find it common that people who are quickest to go for the jugular are also quickest to cry when they get back what they dished out. Schoolyard bully syndrome, times 1K.
Take that back cleome or I'm going to give you a bouquet of flowers!
"they began to operate what they called 'The Operation'... They would select a victim and then threaten to beat him up if he paid the so-called protection money. Four months later they started another operation which the called 'The Other Operation'. In this racket they selected another victim and threatened not to beat him up if he didn't pay them. One month later they hit upon 'The Other Other Operation'. In this the victim was threatened that if he didn't pay them, they would beat him up. This for the Piranha brothers was the turning point."
My favorite almonds are roasted, dipped in chocolate, then unsweetened cocoa. I think they were more widely available in the Seventies and Eighties.
I should just get some decent chocolate and make them myself. These days it's usually the ones with sea salt over the chocolate that are available in stores. (Not my thing at all. Heavy salt is for pretzels, not chocolate.)
Indeed. I don't get the habit of putting sea salt on everything. And then we got sea salt and caramel, and now salted caramel is showing up on doughnuts, in coffee, in cakes...
Desserts don't really work like soups or stews. At some point, there's just too many ingredients, textures... just too much going on overall.
Like, there's a popular cookie in the U.S. called the "cowboy cookie," and it's essentially all the other popular cookies in a single sugary disc. I don't care for it. Gimme' my oatmeal cookie, or my chocolate chip, or my peanut butter. I don't need them all in the same bite.
I admit that I sampled a peanut butter cookie with a hint of curry in a fancy coffee shop last month. It was all right. Not necessarily the greatest dessert ever. But all right.
I do quite like plain oatmeal cookies, preferably with as few additives etc as possible in it.
Originally Posted by Invisible Brainiac
Indeed. I don't get the habit of putting sea salt on everything. And then we got sea salt and caramel, and now salted caramel is showing up on doughnuts, in coffee, in cakes...
Salted Caramel Lass will be joining us next week.
Easter eggs were still in the shops on the way home tonight. In recent years, you'd be lucky to get one on the Saturday in my nearest supermarche. But this year, someone went the other way on the order forms. Even discounted, they're not that great. Except for that previously expensive white chocolate fancy, smancy one that's now sitting on top of my bread bin, of course.
I joined a group that was interested in saving the Earth. It was only later that I learned that we were saving the Earth for the eldritch horrors from beyond to consume. I haven't trusted a faith group with more than one organisational level since.
Tony Nelson in "I Dream of Jeannie" was much better. Although he didn't want Jeannie to use her magic to advance his career or do his work for him, he let her use her magic to do household tasks and prepare meals.
It's a long way to Tipperary, It's a long way to go. It's a long way to Tipperary, To the sweetest girl guy I know! Goodbye, Piccadilly, Farewell, Leicester Square! It's a long long way to Tipperary, But my heart's right there.
You've come a long way, baby was the name of a Fatboy Slim album. I bought it because of his connection to Beats International, and the Housemartins before that. Good singles.
I'm sure it also appeared in the RPG Underground, which was a Marshall Law take on the American industrial / military complex mixed with superheroes. It was made by the guys who had a license for the DC RPG, and I think was written, at least in part, by the guy who did the rather good Watchmen sourcebook. That contains information that's as close to Moore's work as you were ever likely to get.
Originally Posted by Quislet, Esq
It's a long long way to Tipperary, But my heart's right there.
This is sung by both the Brain and Cyborg when they get drunk.
"Is it as cunning as a fox what used to be Professor of Cunning at Oxford University but has moved on and is now working for the U.N. at the High Commission of International Cunning Planning?"
I was going to say that they wouldn't have bothered publicans as much, but they're a good indication of slurring speech by customers who have had too much.
Pelican publicans would be poor if they are tied to large breweries and pub chains. It pretty much removes their profit margins. The usual coin operated political foot dragging hasn't done them any favours either.
While I was making tea this morning, I listened to two members of parliament talk answer questions about the missile attacks against Syria. Whether or not it's something you agree with, neither person provided a view that would stand up to the slightest bit of scrutiny. It was feeble from both sides. The quality bar is pretty low, but they must have been briefed before going on. Which says a lot about the mess both parties must be in. That neither were taken to task for it, says a lot about the BBC too unfortunately.
I was pleased to hear that one of the mods for a local news org was moving on. A lot of his opinions I found... uh, questionable. They also made him mod of their online service, and he was very, very free about pruning comments. It looked like he'd just remove any comment with an opinion that contradicted his, even when it wasn't abusive or spammy.
The word "opinion" originally meant a reasoned judgment based on evidence. Along with many words in the vicinity, it has become watered down in contemporary culture to where it tends to mean anything someone happens to believe, whether it's a reasoned judgment or not.
Chapman: Croquet hoops look damn pretty this afternoon.
Cleveland: Frightfully damn pretty.
Idle (as her mother): They're coming along *awfully* well this year.
Chapman: Yes, better than your Aunt Lavinia's croquet hoops.
Cleveland: Ugh! Dreadful tin things.
Idle: I did tell her to stick to wood.
Chapman: Yes, you can't beat wood. Gorn.
Idle: What's gone, dear?
Chapman: Nothing, nothing -- just like the word, it gives me confidence. Gorn. Gorn -- it's got a sort of *woody* quality about it. Gorn. Go-o-orn. Much better than 'newspaper' or 'litter bin'.
Cleveland: Ugh! Frightful words!
Idle: Perfectly dreadful!
Chapman: 'Newspaper' -- 'litter bin' -- 'litter bin' -- dreadful *tinny* sort of word.
(Cleveland screams)
Chapman: Tin, tin, tin.
Idle: Oh, don't say 'tin' to Rebecca, you know how it upsets her.
Chapman: Sorry, old horse.
Idle: 'Sausage.'
Chapman: 'Sausage'! There's a good woody sort of word, 'sausage'. 'Gorn.'
Cleveland: 'Antelope!'
Chapman: Where? On the lawn?
Cleveland: No, no, Daddy. Just the word.
Chapman: Don't want antelope nibbling the hoops.
Cleveland: No, no -- 'ant-e-lope'. Sort of nice and woody type of thing.
Idle: Don't think so, Becky old chap.
Chapman: No, no -- 'antelope' - 'antelope', *tinny* sort of word.
(Cleveland screams)
Chapman: Oh, sorry old man.
Idle: Really, Mansfield.
Chapman: Well, she's got to come to terms with these things. 'Seemly.' 'Prodding.' 'Vac-u-um.' 'Leap.'
Cleveland: Oh -- hate 'leap'.
Idle: Perfectly dreadful.
Cleveland: Sort of PVC sort of word, don't you know.
Idle: Lower middle.
Chapman: 'Bound!'
Idle: Now you're talking!
Chapman: 'Bound.' 'Vole!' 'Recidivist!'
Idle: Bit *tinny*...
(Cleveland screams and rushes out sobbing)
Idle: Oh, sorry, Becky old beast.
Chapman: Oh dear, I suppose she'll be gorn for a few days now.
Chapman: No, no -- the word, 'intercourse'. Good and woody. 'Inter-course.' 'Pert,' 'pert,' 'thighs,' 'botty,' 'botty,' 'botty' (getting excited), 'erogenous zo-o-one'. Ha ha ha ha -- oh, 'concubine', 'erogenous zo-o-one', 'loose woman', 'erogenous zone'...
(Idle calmly empties a bucket of water over Chapman)
Chapman: Oh, thank you, dear. There's a funny thing, dear -- all the naughty words sound woody.
Idle: Really, dear -- how about 'tit'?
Chapman: Oh dear, I hadn't thought about that. 'Tit.' 'Tit.' Oh, that's very tinny, isn't it? 'Tit.' 'Tit.' Tinny, tinny.
A clever ruse to make us spend 24 hours reading the full post Quis. But I've seen it before and don't have to read it! The maid behind the comedians looked on the verge of breaking down in fits of laughter. Verge...woody kind of word.
The thinking of a DC character brought up the Black Condor and the Ray. I remember old comic store owners talking about Lou Fine's art in quiet tones of awe. Not that they told me why. I just liked the characters, so that was me dismissed. I had to find it all out years later. There's a nice panel in The Golden Age with the two of them together.
The Ray and Superboy once teamed up to fight Brimstone. Of course, they bickered as many teenage boys do. That was one of the first comic books I ever owned.
I mentioned it in the all-TV/Movie thread, but I did enjoy the fan-made "5th Season" of the original Trek. The guy who played Kirk also did a lot of work behind the camera.
Janice Rand was actually intended to be Kirk's ongoing romantic interest, and part of the reason for eliminating her character was to make Kirk available for other romantic storylines.
One of the (many) things that annoys me about the Star Trek reboot is that it missed the opportunity to give much bigger roles to minor characters such as Janice Rand and Nurse Chapel from the original.
When the Legion gets their own title again, there should be a companion series titled "Ex-Girlfriends of the Legionnaires". Of course the lead character will be Sinde
But who takes death away to the afterlife? Is it just something death has to do itself?
Besides, it would be embarrassing if death left at the moment of a collapsing universe, only to miss out on the expanding one that's blasted back out again. Death should at least hang around a bit to make sure nothing else is going to happen.
I find that a lot of things from the past aren’t worth revisiting. But there will always be people stuck in the past
It must be a constant fear for time travellers. Getting stuck in the past without the available technology to make repairs. I wonder if there's a Temporal Repair service? Rip's Repairs headed by Rip Hunter perhaps.
li'l thoth was going back home one day on weekend. At the corner of the bottom end of the hill where he lived, was a raised concrete semi-circle that was part of the church there. More a fringe church than the big cultist thing. On that semi circle, someone had hacked several eels. I have no idea why and I'm sure it had nothing to do with the church there. But traumatising enough for li'l thoth to think about at the time, bury for a few decades and remember again. It's a memory I superimpose like a William Gibson novel on the location whenever I visit my parents.
In the old Rocky & Bullwinkle show as they were going to commercial, Rocky would fish a bottle out of the ocean and say "Look Bullwinkle, a message" Bullwinkle would reply "Fan mail from a flounder?" Rocky would say look, hold up a blank piece of paper and fade to commercial.
Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata was called that later on. It's actually a lot more emotionally intense than I thought, as it expresses his various feelings on a doomed relationship.
In the Suikoden series of video games, one of my favorite tracks is called "Moonlit Night". It is usually played during deep conversations between characters at night - which often have a touch of humor but are always very personal.
The Thing at Play: A four issue mini series of Ben Grimm flower arranging, painting and working hard on his pamphlet on butterflies. Coming soon from Marvel.
I thought that Dolphin had been involved with Tempest. A quick google search shows that the poor girl should have been left well alone. She's one of a disturbing number of female characters that seems, to an outsider, to be passed around a number of male characters considered to be more important. Her personality shifts disturbingly, any mystery is taken away and she meets a poor fate after some poor subplots. The next time the Forgotten Heroes call, she should swim off into the depths and out of range of the Sea Devils.
I've always imagined him as bisexual. Of course, that's kind of how I imagine all my faves. And why all my favorite ships are threesomes. I don't like to see anyone left out.
Of course, IRL this wouldn't necessarily be manageable or plausible. Then again, the same applies to superpowers.
There is an old Warner Brothers cartoon where Porky Pig & Daffy Duck share a hotel room (and one bed). Porky says " Bonsoir" and turns off the light. Daffy turns the light on and asks "What does bon sewer mean?" Porky replies: It is French for buenas noches." and turns the light back off. Daffy turns the light back on and asks "What does buenas nachoes mean?" Porky replies "It's Spanish for bonsoir." and turns off the light. Daffy turns the light back on and is about to ask Porky, but thinks better of it.
"In Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass, And in his pocket is a portrait of the Queen He likes to keep his fire engine clean, It's a clean machine"
My last name is the given name of one of my ancestors. It's a not-unheard-of practice among Filipinos whose ancestors migrated from nearby Asian countries.
I think I was about thirteen or fourteen the last time I was on a horse.
It was at summer camp in the Poconos. I think the instructor was trying to teach us a healthy caution for dealing with large animals, but she went overboard with the scare stories and I was too freaked out to enjoy the ride.
Heather is tolerant of grazing and regenerates following occasional burning, and is often managed in nature reserves and grouse moors by sheep or cattle grazing, and also by light burning.
Round Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever-spinning reel Like a snowball down a mountain Or a carnival balloon Like a carousel that's turning Running rings around the moon Like a clock whose hands are sweeping Past the minutes of its face And the world is like an apple Whirling silently in space Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind
Right. Let's find out what the Joker thinks about it...
Are they an item? I've only seen her a couple of times from Sneakpeeks. Oh, and I flicked through an issue of Suicide Squad in the shop. It looked dreadful.
Yeah, there should be room for other heroes. Why, imagine if Marvel introduced younger versions of the original 5 X-Men, who existed in the same time and place as the modern day counterparts! Two Angels, two Icemen, two Beasts...
Yeah, there should be room for other heroes. Why, imagine if Marvel introduced younger versions of the original 5 X-Men, who existed in the same time and place as the modern day counterparts! Two Angels, two Icemen, two Beasts...
That would be almost as crazy as if DC brought in younger versions of the Legionnaires alongside their older counterparts!
I mean, that would almost be as bad as having Superman's origin be tied to his being the last survivor of Krypton... than bringing in a Supergirl, a Superboy, a Super-dog, a Super-cat, dozens of Phantom Zone criminals...
Actually, according to Superboy #158, Jor-el and Lara sort of survived, albeit in a suspended animation from which they couldn't be woken without dying from kryptonite poisoning!
and he had to take Krypto out for his morning walk before putting him in a rocket.... and feed Beppo before putting him in a rocket... and gather the dishes before putting them in a rocket he mistook for the dishwasher...
Now it's good that no one or thing actually died when Krypton exploded, but it does feel like the origin was a bit of a cheat.
Hustling your parents into an escape rocket is only one thing. Jor-El did so much more. He even had to forego his morning coffee break.
In the back up story in Action 381, it was revealed that Jo El converted his thermos flask into a rocket that survived Krypton's destruction. Jimmy brought it into the Daily Planet, not realising it had specks of Kryptonite still on it.
And in an imaginary story in Adventures of Superbaby, it was revealed that King Kong was an early experiment of Jor-El who had gotten trapped in the Phantom Zone and somehow traveled through time and space to end up on Earth, because of the presence of maroon spotted kryptonite.
It can be hard to stop once you’ve started. I used to drink alcohol to cope with negative emotions. Once I developed better coping behaviors, I started having an easier time controlling my alcohol intake too
I've thought about what it would be like as an actor. I know one of the things I would enjoy most, is being able to pretend I'm someone else - and take roles that don't have to conform to society's expectations.
Hi-diddle-dee-dee An actor's life for me A high silk hat and a silver cane A watch of gold with a diamond chain Hi-diddle-dee-day An actor's life is gay It's great to be a celebrity An actor's life for me Hi-diddle-dee-dum An actor's life is fun Hi-diddle-dee-dee An actor's life for me A wax mustache and a beaver coat A pony cart and a billy goat Hi-diddle-dee-dum An actor's life is fun You wear your hair in a pompadour You ride around in a coach and four You stop and buy out a candy store An actor's life for me! Hi diddle dee dee An actor's life for me A high silk hat and a silver cane A watch of gold and a diamond chain Hi diddle dee dee You sleep till after two You promenade a big cigar You tour the world in a private car You dine on chicken and caviar An actor's life for me!
Of course, these days some people have become too sensitive. I think we should call out improper behavior when we see it, but we should also do so politely and calmly. Sometimes, improper behavior is just ignorance, and often people are genuinely sorry when they realize it was wrong.
I agree. I would be comfortable escalating if the other person were being rude. And it would be better than telling someone off only to find out the whole thing was an honest mistake
East of Eden is also a movie starring James Dean, based on a book by John Steinbeck. It is also a Biblical reference. The land of Nod where Cain was exiled to was said to be east of Eden.
Now if man had been born with 6 fingers on each hand He'd also have 12 toes or so the theory goes Well, with twelve digits, I mean fingers He probably would have invented two more digits When he invented his number system Then, if he saved the zero for the end He could count and multiply by twelve Just as easily as you and I do by ten
Now if man had been born with 6 fingers on each hand He'd probably count: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, dek, el, doh "Dek" and "el" being two entirely new signs meaning ten and eleven Single digits! And his twelve, "doh", would be written 1-0 Get it? That'd be swell, for multiplying by 12
Hey Little Twelvetoes, I hope you're well Must be some far-flung planet where you dwell If we were together, you could be my cousin Down here we call it a dozen Hey Little Twelvetoes, please come back home
Now if man had been born with 6 fingers on each hand His children would have them too And when they played hide-and-go-seek they'd count by sixes fast And when they studied piano, they'd do their six-finger exercises And when they went to school, they'd learn the golden rule And how to multiply by twelve easy: just put down a zero But me, I have to learn it the hard way
Let me see now: One times 12 is twelve, two times 12 is 24 Three times 12 is 36, four times 12 is 48 Five times 12 is 60, six times 12 is 72 Seven times 12 is 84, eight times 12 is 96 Nine times 12 is 108, ten times 12 is 120 Eleven times 12 is 132, and 12 times 12 is 144 WOW!
Hey Little Twelvetoes, I hope you're thriving Some of us ten-toed folks are still surviving If you help me with my twelves, I'll help you with your tens And we could all be friends Little Twelvetoes, please come back home
Stegosaurus was my favourite too, although I was probably had to pick something. My brother liked Triceratops. We had a big book on dinosaurs when I was li'l thoth.
When I was a kid, my brother would watch Dark Shadows. When a really scary bit was happening, I would always go to the kitchen to see if my mom was alright.
I don't remember having nightmares from watching scary movies. Our house was old and I would hear some creaking. I'd cry out. When my family would come to my room, I said I heard footprints, meaning footsteps. My brother drew some footprints on a piece of paper and said "These are footprints" For some reason that calmed me down and I was never scare of footprints again.
He would also get me to chase him around the house. He'd then duck around a corner and yell "Boo!" when I would run by. When we were adults he apologized for doing that. I told him that he had nothing to apologize for as I liked him doing that.
>hides golden pigtails under hat and reminds self not to talk about other hobbies such as chair testing and bed testing. Especially the last one, as folks on Legion World will just get the wrong idea<
Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder? Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover
NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.
Alternating current was championed in the US by George Westinghouse. Thomas Edison, to discredit alternating current and promote his direct current, had an elephant electrocuted.
George R R Martin's Wildcards apparently stemmed from a Superworld RPG campaign. I had to hunt for ages to get that one. These days you can just buy a PDF version online.
The London fog pools around the foundations of the dockland warehouse, home of Houdinesque Escapes Ltd.
Watson: A dreadful business Holmes. He looks to have starved to death. But was there foul play behind it? Holmes (turns head to survey room in a single sweep): No, he was an idiot.
- Excerpt from the exceedingly short A Study in Stupidity, by Arthur Conan Doyle appearing below the racing results in The Strand.
Scenario 1: The shoes were bought by well meaning relatives from a loving family, but the kid is already too big for them. Money for the mum in selling them. Scenario 2: Thank the heavens I got rid of that partner and their obsession with having kids. Now I can sell all the stuff they left behind. Scenario 3: You give birth to Mysa Nal. As she levitates above the ground, she has no need for shoes. For sale they go.
I was listening to a comedy show earlier. The characters go down into the sewers, and one of them remarks about dead pets being discarded there. He says "Look over there, for example. A guinea pig. It's unusual to see one that's all brown like that..." followed by "EWs" as they realise...
Be careful of things about to crawl from the pipes as you do, Ibby
I'm sure there's a horror film where something attacks someong on the toilet, from below. Fortunately the film was OTT horror fun and not creepy enough to make people scared to use facilities.
There definitely was a horror film about that, which came out in the Philippines when I was a child. A monster would hide in toilets, and attack its victims with acid.
I'm woken up at dawn every morning, which isn't great as I'm up late too. If I got a mask, could it come with two little removable bits so I coudl also use it for crime fighting?
Blaze is sick now, and I'm not feeling so good either. I've been drinking tons of orange juice and multivitamins so I can take care of him without getting sick myself.
Hmmm... there was me about to pass along a "Get Well Soon Blaze" message, but now I'm suspicious of what's really going on. Is Blaze even there? Is Ibby covering up Blaze's disappearance by pretending he's ill? Hmmmm....
Unfortunately I used to think that Ms Tree comics were about plant life, so I missed out on some detective stories. But some investigating needs to be done here.
Hmmm... there was me about to pass along a "Get Well Soon Blaze" message, but now I'm suspicious of what's really going on. Is Blaze even there? Is Ibby covering up Blaze's disappearance by pretending he's ill? Hmmmm....
There are some questions that shouldn't be asked....
"Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some people have chosen to see it as the final and clinching evidence for the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this. ‘I refuse to prove that I exist,’ says God, 'for proof denies faith and without faith I am nothing.’ 'But’, says Man, 'the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don’t. QED.’ 'Oh dear,’ says God, 'I hadn’t thought of that’ and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. 'Oh that was easy,’ says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing."
And the silver lining is that it's good hammer selling business for DIY and Hardware stores in a competitive market. We're more a pitchfork and flaming torches sort of mob here.
One of my old neighbours used to have an anvil in their yard. They had also been neighbours elsewhere, when I was a kid and the anvil was there too. It came from an old town blacksmith and was of a considerable age.
I remember visiting a working blacksmith's when I was a kid. Lots of farmland and horses meant that it was still a going concern. The nearest Blacksmith's to where I am now was converted to a car sales/ garage place.
I once was going up a parking garage, and the car that was two vehicles in front of me had trouble. It started to slide backwards. Thankfully, the driver of the car in front of me stepped out and was able to talk the driver two cars ahead into braking.
As I was walking in to work last year, the brakes had trouble on a flatbed truck on one of the hills I was passing. It started to slide back as they moved it off to the side. Just as well there hadn't been anyone behind it or any pedestrians crossing.
I imagine that the Comics Code prevents Calamity King being responsible for killing off numerous unsuspecting passers by every time he goes out for coffee. He'd never have got on the team otherwise.
It's my theory intelligent power design. Every time a powered heroic character is created, they are given the right combination of powers to ensure they can function perfectly well as a hero without harming themselves or others. Unless there is a need to up the drama quotient, in which case there will be critical flaws to the functioning of said power.
It's also weird, how people criticize the fact that 75% of current DC heroes are Bat-something, Super-something, Wonder-something, a Flash or a Green Lantern.
Officer: That's not a bat, Batflash Batflash: Only by being free of clothing can we renounce greed and finally eradicate crime! Officer: Tell it to the judge...
Bat-flash Jr.: Well, I realized that criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot... and most of them are afraid of my incredible amount of bat-themed body piercings and frightening tattoos!
I remember Animal Man having Sunshine Superman and Magic Lantern as a hippy themed JLA from another universe. The more pointlessly brutal and poorly plotted DC became, the more I wanted to read about those guys.
A lot of heroes start with a gadget, before it is mysteriously integrated into themselves. Would Lori have got into the Legion if she could manifest powers that might be tailored for a situation. Or would they have been considered to be too unreliable?
I was comparing Nemesis Kid because he had powers that manifested themselves based on the situation. Wasn't the point of thothy's question, would Lori have made it in if her powers were internalized but situational?
If I am not mistaken, later posts do not have to be totally on point, but only related to the previous 2-3 posts. So, I could respond to a post about Nemesis Kid with a post about the Roman god Nemesis.
Well, as Quislet said posts do not totally have to be on point...
Lori Lemaris would have qualified for the Legion with her "ability to survive underwater" powers, wouldn't she?
(but my complulsion to remain on-topic is strong, so... I don't think Lori's powers were quite as targeted as Nemesis Kid's, yeah. Her H-Dial often gave her abilities that could have been useful for a given situation, but they weren't always direct answers to said situation, unlike with Nemesis Kid)
If I am not mistaken, later posts do not have to be totally on point, but only related to the previous 2-3 posts. So, I could respond to a post about Nemesis Kid with a post about the Roman god Nemesis.
The winning post has to be clearly related to one of the previous five posts. I would say the transition from Nemesis Kid to Nemesis counts. A post about Nike shoes would not count, even though one might argue that "Nike is named after the goddess of victory, and Nemesis Kid's power is that he always wins...". The connection doesn't seem strong enough. To me, at least.
Of course, one can post a non-sequitor, but one can't win with it. Nor can one win with a post responding to a non-sequitor. Responses to responses to non-sequitor can win, however.
Incidentally, I've always felt Nemesis Kid to be among the most poorly used characters in Legion history.
He's definitely a bit challenge to write, but what makes him interesting is that he is both extremely powerful and yet has some major limitations. Besides stuff like only working against single opponents, there's also the fact that just because he adapts whatever power would be most useful to defeat a certain enemy, that doesn't mean that it's obvious how that power is useful. So imagine him fighting Mordru, his power responds by adapting terrakinesis, but then he still has to figure out that he needs to use it to bury Mordru rather than, say, pelt him with rocks.
It’s very H -Dialish. I wonder if Nemesis Kid’s power considers the powers and skills of his companions too. Lori Morning once gained ice powers to fight the Composite Durlan, but could not have beaten him without Element Lad’s plan and powers
So imagine him fighting Mordru, his power responds by adapting terrakinesis, but then he still has to figure out that he needs to use it to bury Mordru rather than, say, pelt him with rocks.
I'd be wondering how his power knew to give him terrakinesis. It would be as though his power could determine the weakness, even if it's user couldn't. The frustrated power is just waiting for its user to catch up. But since Nemesis Kid always gets an out, the power may also prod him along in the right direction too. If he died waiting for a colleague to plan something, then the power wouldn't be working effectively.
So:-
- Does the power have access to the Multiverse, where it goes through all the options to defeat Mordru. - Is it precognitive, sees how it turns out and then puts that chain of events into practice. - Does it alter reality to effectively give an opponent a weakness that it can then exploit. - Does the power shift. Initially, it would protect against magic, then perhaps provide him with a body of iron. Then, if Mordru showed any weakness to being buried, shift to something more telekinetic.
In the same line. IIRC when he fought Superboy, he said that his power made him twice as strong as Superboy. However, even being twice as strong would not guarantee winning the fight. SUperboy, having had his powers for a longer time, would know the best ways to use them and ways to negate the power that Nemesis Kid would not be aware of.
I don’t think the power can change opponents, it only changes Nemesis Kid himself.
Which is why Projectra killing him was ludicrous. I would assume the power would be best at keeping Nemesis Kid alive - wasn’t there an instance when his power teleported him away automatically?
That would then mean that his power auto-activates...
Another option would be that his power only works against super powered opponents, so any ordinary human could shoot him. and accidents and natural disasters would do him in....
My point wasn't that Nemesis Kid's power would change Superboy, but that Superboy would have more experience using his power which Nemesis Kid now had. And that experience would give Superboy an edge even though Nemesis Kid was stronger.
It seems like it is a cool power, but in operation it brings up a lot of questions.
I think it should work against non-powered opponents, but not against accidents/disasters.
The way I see it, the basic power is that when in any sort of competition with another individual, his power analyzes that individual and gives him whatever ability is needed to defeat that individual in that competition. That can be a matter of giving him the ability to exploit an opponent's weakness, or just making him better (more powerful) than his opponent. He has no control over what power he adapts, but automatically know what the power is, even he doesn't necessarily know why this particular power is the one chosen. When faced with multiple opponents, or with obvious defeat, his power should generally shift to survival mode, allowing him to "not be beaten", even if he can't win.
I like those two elements - that he instinctively knows what his power is (but may need to figure out how he should apply it effectively), and the shift to survival mode in certain situations
Originally Posted by Quislet, Esq
My point wasn't that Nemesis Kid's power would change Superboy, but that Superboy would have more experience using his power which Nemesis Kid now had. And that experience would give Superboy an edge even though Nemesis Kid was stronger.
It seems like it is a cool power, but in operation it brings up a lot of questions.
I was responding to one of thoth’s bullets, where he asked if Nemesis Kid’s power changes reality
According to some traditions, names have magical powers, so that knowing someone's true name will give you power over them. Rumpelstiltskin is a famous example of this idea.
In our internet age, the idea of true names and obtaining them has a new relevancy. Unfortunately, my real name is Mr thoth lad, so I don't fare too well there.
Not if it's not the one people can use to summon you into their presence and bind you into doing their bidding. This is easily mistaken in relationships for the name your partner calls you.
Creature 1: And the mortals did know me as Astazorn, the desolator of worlds! Creature 2: And I, Zorn the Furnace of Souls revelled in slaughter until the humans learned of my true name. Quiz: I didn't want to change the channel, but Pov used "snugglebottoms" and that was that.
What happens if two flashers meet? Do they just keep flashing at each other. Or does one get offended at being flashed at, and goes off in a hypocritical sulk?
Hi! I'm Captain Stereotype, and I'd just like to add that Italian drivers are also lousy! Now back to your cartoon starring a central white character and a supporting cast that ensures that all other ethnicities are represented, but not in charge!
It can be depending on the background of that individual. I was listening to a comedian from the southern part of Africa last week. He was saying things that annoyed him included his own government pretending to be impoverished and downtrodden in order to keep the charity money coming in. Regardless of positives in the country. They budget for the charity money. That kind of approach filters out into creating an outlook in some people of never being able to progress. So, they reinforce a stereotype and refer to it, even though they live there.
On the comedian, a funny bit was a reference to a racist right wing UK group. "It's their fault that I came to the UK. I was fooled by their advertising. The group blamed immigrants for taking the good jobs and the women. A good job and better dating was just what I wanted so I came straight over. They should rethink their marketing if they don't want people coming in."
I was lazing in the garden this afternoon. We've had a couple of weeks of nice weather, and it's been nice to watch the cherry blossom fall in warm evenings.
If you thought that was profound, wait until I've had more beer...glug, glug, thump...ow...fallen over... can only reach ...punctuation... on keyboard...………
thoth lad didn't need to fall over, but does so automatically after a certain number of beers. Ironically, he's drinking Pavlov's Dog ale from Alloa.
Yeah, all he or any of the band had to do was help me up and instead they all shout at me and make a hit record.
"Please, please please", I said. "You've got the power" and "I'm begging, I'm begging." I thought he was angry at my repetition, but he just said "no,no,no,no." It's the last time I travel on the Night Train.
When I was in Sydney this year, they were having trouble with their trains. IIRC 30 trains were canceled on one day. At one point stations had to be closed because too many people were trying to get into them to wiat for trains that weren't coming.
Blaze used to have to spend over 30 minutes in line just to get on the train for work. He had to clock in at 8:30am, but needed to be at the train station by 5:30am to avoid that long wait...
Blaze used to have to spend over 30 minutes in line just to get on the train for work. He had to clock in at 8:30am, but needed to be at the train station by 5:30am to avoid that long wait...
That's just one of the good things about sharing information across the world. Getting a sense of perspective
Kirk Allyn was actually in two Superman serials, the first versus the evil Spider Lady, and the second one, versus The Atom Man, who turned out not to be a version of the popular Superman radio villain, but instead a disguised Lex Luthor.
Rocky: Shut up! Bugs: Shut u-up? Why certainly! You don't think I'm the type that would keep on blabbin'? Some people never know when to stop. When I'm told to shut up, I shut up... Rocky: [sticks gun in Bugs's face] Shut up shuttin' up!
I still haven't seen the Bugs-Legion crossover. And even though I was enjoying the Trek-Legion crossover a few years back, I got distracted and never finished it.
I still haven't seen the Bugs-Legion crossover. And even though I was enjoying the Trek-Legion crossover a few years back, I got distracted and never finished it.
I loved it! Especially the scenes where the Legion falls into super-angst. And Lightning Lass marveling at how Bugs Bunny's toon behaviors (pulling hammers out of thin air, changing into different disguises) are amazing super powers!
Interviewer: And now, finally, a word with the lady who is at the centre of this bye-election mystery: the voter herself. And her name is Mrs. L Ta... Mrs Taine, *you* are the only voter in this rotten borough...?
LT: Yes, that's right.
I: How long have you lived in this constituency?
LT: Since Wednesday morning. I took over the previous electorate when he, very sadly, accidently brutally cut his head off while combing his hair with The Persuader's axe.
I: One voter, 16,472 votes -- a slight anomaly...?
E: Not really. You see, Mr Londo may look like a monkey who's been put in a suit and then strategically shaved, but he is a brillant politician. The number of votes I cast is simply a reflection of how firmly I believe in his policies.
Lots of anime series have plenty of filler. Not just filler episodes, but extended animation sequences and dialogue during fights. It could take ages for anything to happen
There was one section where the different characters' origins were recapped. And a couple of episodes that put the characters into a different genre/scenario
Hello. My name is Expository Dialogue Lass and I would like to join the Legion of Superheroes. The Legion was founded by Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad, and Cosmic Boy when they saved RJ Brande, the richest man in the galaxy, from an assassination attempt. The Legion consists of many members each with a unique superpower. The Legion uses the legendary careers of Superboy & Supergirl, survivors of the planet Krypton, as a basis for their heroic dare-doing. My power is that I can provide background information on anyone or anything.
Unfortunately Expository Dialogue Lass, we're not convinced that your powers would have any uses that can't be more effectively accomplished by Julie Lad!
Our "brave" British heroes of the HMS Camden Lock are being overrun by the Red Shiny Robots of Vortis. In their last stand, the ship's android Sandstrom bursts forward to tackle the invaders! The ship's Captian is amazed...
"Sandstrom! Fly! Hai-yah! Aaaaaah! She's winning! As long as they keep attacking her one at a time."
The Shiny Robots pause... look at the captain... and group together to beat up the android in a second.
Well, French & Spanish are Romance language derived from Latin. English is more of a hodgepodge, but does have some French influence from William the Conqueror.
Considering the number of words derived from other languages that are in the English dictionary, you'd think we'd be a bit better with foreign languages.
Some of the standard phrases in English is because they were using the English word and the French word. For example: Last Will and Testament, null and void,
Considering the number of words derived from other languages that are in the English dictionary, you'd think we'd be a bit better with foreign languages.
Part of the problem is the education system; part is that English is the common language for many regions (e.g. in Europe); part is that English's grammar is simpler than many Latin languages (we don't nearly conjugate as much in English as in French, Spanish, German...).
Scrubbing Bubbles was originally called Dow Bathroom Cleaner. The scrubbing bubbles were ftom an ad campaign. It then became Dow Bathroom Cleaner with Scrubbing Bubbles and finally just Scrubbing Bubbles when it was sold to SC Johnson.
Kristen Bell plays Eleanor who has died and finds herself in the Good Place, run by Ted Danson. When they review her life, she realizes they made a mistake. She was actually very selfish when living. In the Good Place, people are matched up with their soul mates. Eleanor's is a professor of Morality and Ethics. She confesses to him and he tries to help her become good so she can stay.
That is sort of what I mean by good selfishness. Doing anything for ourselves is technically selfish. But there is a difference between having a good lunch and eating something when you are not hungry and there is someone else who is hungry right there.
It always tickles me when they give that safety talk on airplanes and they mention that the floatation device can be inflated manually by blowing into the tube. I can’t blow with my hands. That’s inflating it orally.
Not so much. Ick! Obviously the transformation of the rescuers refers to those plucky mice from the Disney cartoon. They then spread Y'golonac's contagion around the world via the bird they fly on. It's the horror sequel Disney didn't want you to see!
Something else else I was listening to recently said you could map the decline of megafauna in an area with the arrival of mankind. Even if initially it didn't look as though mankind had got there that early, there would be signs due to the dying off of easy to hunt other species.
Conservation International identified 17 Megadiverse Countries that contain the majority of Earth's species, and that all have a high level of endemism.
They are:
Australia Brazil China Colombia D. R. Congo Ecuador India Indonesia Madagascar Malaysia Mexico Papua New Guinea Peru Philippines South Africa USA Venezuela
I’ve visited Malaysia twice and Indonesia once, Australia once, the USA four times (once was to Guam), China more than five times (if counting Hong Kong and Macau).
A friend invited me to India for his wedding, but I can’t say yes yet because I’m officially unemployed
Hmmm yes. I really should have added "If you're not being Madame Fatal..." somewhere in there
Originally Posted by Invisible Brainiac
I have no idea. Ask me again when I have a superhero-type body, maybe.
I'm not quite fat enough to be Bouncing Boy, and definitely not muscular or lean enough to be anyone else...
Cosplayers seem to be just fine regardless of having superhero type bodies. Which is just as well, considering the amount of steroid abuse and organ failure you'd go through to get that look in real life.
Lash and I were working on an idea a few years back for a sitcom about an ordinary guy whose mad scientist/super-villain mother-in-law moves in with him.
One of the ideas I had for it was that she would have a can of canned laughter sitting on the shelf in her lab, and that, if opened, the show would suddenly have a laugh track for a certain amount of time.
On a standard keyboard the letter "I" and the number "8" are next to each other. So I assume thoth's finger slipped while typing.
I have seen videos where they play a sitcom and remove the laugh track. It is eerie seeing the actors just stand there and be silent so they can run the laughtrack.
Liz Taylor appeared in 1972's Under Milk Wood. She did it for a small fee that she would write off as a tax loss, and did it because of the source material and to appear with Burton.
I once did a mashup of the Brady Bunch and the Manson family
Here's the story Of a lovely lady Who was bringing up three very lovely girls All of them had hair of gold Like their mother The youngest one in curls
Here's the story Of a man named Charlie Who was busy with a commune of his own They were living on a ranch together But they were all alone
Til the one day when this lady met this fella And though they knew it might be a calamity This group must somehow come together And that's the way they became the Manson Family
(Help!) I need somebody (Help!) Not just anybody (Help!) You know I need someone (Help!)
When I was younger so much younger than today I never needed anybody's help in any way But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors
Help me if you can, I'm feeling down And I do appreciate you being 'round Help me get my feet back on the ground Won't you please, please help me?
And now my life has changed in oh so many ways My independence seems to vanish in the haze But every now and then I feel so insecure I know that I just need you like I've never done before
Help me if you can, I'm feeling down And I do appreciate you being 'round Help me get my feet back on the ground Won't you please, please help me?
In the movie, a religious cult is trying to sacrifice Ringo. And I believe they sing this song during a montage of attempts on Ringo's life. No cheerleaders though.
Having traveled around the world in my spaceship... er... weather balloon, crossing the International Dateline along the way, a whole Earth Day has just passed for me.
That was a weird turn of events, where the original LMB helped Spain colonize Mexico, the Philippines and South america. and the new LMB helped these countries achieve independence
There was a silent version of the Wizard of OZ which I think is the first aka original film. The quote is from the film most people think of. The one with Judy Garland.
There is a reference in the movie to the cut Jitterbug scene. When the witch is sending off the flying monkeys. she says that she sent some insects ahead to slow them down. Also when Dorothy & friends leave the Emerald City to fight the witch, they are carrying a giant bug sprayer, a net, and a revolver.
The comic strip The Family Circus had invisible gremlins named "Not Me" and "Ida Know" who were responsible for many things. Like tracking mud all over the carpets.
Because time won't give me time And time makes lovers feel Like they've got something real But you and me we know They've got nothing but time And time won't give me time Won't give me time
Right after Cyndi Lauper made it big, I heard an interview of her. The interviewer asked if becoming famous changed her life. Cyndi replies that now she could, whenever she wanted, buy two - TWO - sets of sheets.
Noggin the Nog was a UK TV programme, created by Oliver Postgate. Postgate would also create the influential Clangers and Ivor the Engine. It's only a matter of time before the Legion/ Clangers crossover sees the light of day.
And pants is rubbish, which in the Realm of Pov is widely known.
I went to London for 4 days once. One of the things I remember was touring the Tower of London and seeing the crown jewels. One of the items was a huge gold punch bowl. I remember thinking that I would not want to drink anything out of that thing.
I really hope Azrael isn't immortal. Imagine him spending an eternity crying out for Lilith, instead of making himself useful and dying in place of Kole in Crisis...
Thia: Like the Olympians appearing from their otherworldly home, we too have the power to appear before mortals! I shall teach this to you, but know that there is a price... Kole: What price? Thia: Another must take your place! Kole: Then it is a power I shall never use! Thia: Really? Even this being? Look how whiny and tearful he is! Look at him spend years lamenting someone he's seen for 5 seconds! "Liliiiiiith" indeed. Are you sure you would not have this power? Kole: Well...
Just call me angel of the morning, (angel) Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby Just call me angel of the morning, (angel) Then slowly turn away from me
I just read the Scooby-Doo Team Up issue featuring Angel and Sam Simeon.... and the Inferior Five... and Stanley and his Monster... and Sugar and Spike.
And also Laurel and Hardy, the Three Stooges, Don Knotts, Phyllis Diller, Sonny and Cher, Jerry Reed, Davy Jones, the Harlem Globetrotters, Speed Buggy and crew, Jeannie the genie...
You could go through life acting out misremembered movie lines. Things you thought made you wise and heroic but that were really baffling to everyone else.
Hawkins: I've got it! I've got it! The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! Right?
Griselda: Right. But there's been a change: they broke the chalice from the palace!
Hawkins: They *broke* the chalice from the palace?
Griselda: And replaced it with a flagon.
Hawkins: A flagon...?
Griselda: With the figure of a dragon.
Hawkins: Flagon with a dragon.
Griselda: Right.
Hawkins: But did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle?
Griselda: No! The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!
Hawkins: The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.
An elderly woman at the train station asked where the train to New York was. The porter replied "Go left and you'll be right." The elderly lady said "Don't be impertinent!" The Porter said "OK Go right and you'll be left!"
I've always wanted a magic window that in the winter opened onto summer and in the summer opened onto winter. That way it would warm my apartment in the winter and cool it in the summer.
Two things to keep in mind when shopping for your magical portal/ air conditioner.
1. If you are going to go through it, make sure you install it on the ground floor. The injuries suffered by first lot of kids travelling to Narnia, meant they were killed by woodland animals. 2. Find out where it's a portal to. Common mistakes are buying from Aquaman or Adam Strange, resulting in widespread property damage.
In the old Fleischer cartoons, the stuff he mumbled was really funny. In Popeye meets Ali Baba, Bluto says "Are you trying to make a fool out of me?" And Popeye replies "Nah! Nature beat me to it."
In an old Judge Dredd comic, there was a chronic food shortage in the city. Scientists came up with the solution of eating bugs. The thought repulsed vocal minority groups, and they gained a following. In the end the Justice Department found another solution in generic, but highly nutritious food created from scratch in their labs. The vocal groups were appeased, particularly after being made to feel involved in the replacement process. Except, that the lab grown food was a myth. The replacement food was just the rebranded bugs.
All my bags are packed I'm ready to go I'm standin' here outside your door I hate to wake you up to say goodbye But the dawn is breakin' It's early morn The taxi's waitin' He's blowin' his horn Already I'm so lonesome I could die
So kiss me and smile for me Tell me that you'll wait for me Hold me like you'll never let me go 'Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane Don't know when I'll be back again Oh babe, I hate to go
Talkin' to myself and feelin' old Sometimes I'd like to quit Nothin' ever seems to fit Hangin' around Nothin' to do but frown Rainy days and Mondays always get me down What I've got they used to call the blues Nothin' is really wrong Feelin' like I don't belong Walkin' around Some kind of lonely clown Rainy days and Mondays always get me down Funny, but it seems I always wind up here with you Nice to know somebody loves me Funny, but it seems that it's the only thing to do Run and find the one who loves me (the one who loves me) What I feel has come and gone before No need to talk it out (talk it out) We know what it's all about Hangin' around (hangin' around) Nothin' to do but frown Rainy days and Mondays always get me down Funny, but it seems that it's the only thing to do (only thing to do) Run and find the one who loves me What I feel has come and gone before No need to talk it out We know what it's all about Hangin' around (hangin' around) Nothin' to do but frown Rainy days and Mondays always get me down Hangin' around (hangin' around) Nothin' to do but frown Rainy days and Mondays always get Me down
It might seem crazy what I'm 'bout to say Sunshine she's here, you can take a break I'm a hot air balloon that could go to space With the air, like I don't care baby by the way Huh, because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof Because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth Because I'm happy Clap along if you know what happiness is to you Because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do Here come bad news, talking this and that (Yeah) Well, give me all you got, and don't hold it back (Yeah) Well, I should probably warn you I'll be just fine (Yeah) No offense to you, don't waste your time Here's why Because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof Because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth Because I'm happy Clap along if you know what happiness is to you Because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do Hey, come on, uh Bring me down, can't nuthin' (happy) Bring me down My level is too high to bring me down (happy) Can't nuthin', bring me down (happy) I said, let me tell you now, unh (happy) Bring me down, can't nuthin', bring me down (happy, happy, happy) My level is too high to bring me down (happy, happy, happy) Can't nuthin' bring me down (happy, happy, happy) I said Because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof Because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth Because I'm happy Clap along if you know what happiness is to you Because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do Because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof Because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth Because I'm happy Clap along if you know what happiness is to you Because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do Come on, unh bring me down can't nuthin' (happy, happy, happy) Bring me down my level is too high (happy, happy, happy) Bring me down can't nuthin' (happy, happy, happy) Bring me down, I said Because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof Because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth Because I'm happy Clap along if you know what happiness is to you, eh eh eh Because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do Because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof Because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth Because I'm happy Clap along if you know what happiness is to you, eh hey Because I'm happy Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do, heh come on
We had a dog names Pooch. Pooch liked to lie on the kitchen floor in a patch of sunlight. When the patch would move, she would try to drag it back to where she had been lying. She was a good watch dog. People could walk by the house and she wouldn't bark unless they stepped into the yard. Then as soon as one of us would be get there, she would stop barking.
As I type, I can see the battle of cat wills on the back wall. Leia cat has chosen there to snooze. Visitor cat goes back home that way, but is now blocked. There's only room for one cat. Visitor cat has tried to get as close to Leia cat without setting off hissing frenzy. But he's not going to get past. And now he's asleep too. In the end, Leia cat will get up and walk back , driving visitor cat around the wall, back to my house. Leia cat will be hissing and growling all the way behind a startled visitor cat. Only then will visitor cat get home, possibly after having a little supper first.
You'd think after the first couple of times, one of them would try something different. But visitor cat likes the company and Leia cat likes the growling.
'Cause everybody hurts Take comfort in your friends Everybody hurts Don't throw your hand Oh, no Don't throw your hand If you feel like you're alone No, no, no, you're not alone If you're on your own In this life The days and nights are long When you think you've had too much Of this life To hang on Well, everybody hurts sometimes Everybody cries And everybody hurts sometimes And everybody hurts sometimes So, hold on, hold on Hold on, hold on Hold on, hold on Hold on, hold on
The threads you buy depends on the part. I mean if your part is that of the lone cowboy who is cleaning up that one horse town, a tutu would not be good threads to wear.
The summer heat came to an end here yesterday with downpours. Having seen Leia cat go into bushes rather than come in I went to get a brolly and shoes and went out to coax her in. 10 minutes later I gave up and came in. Only to find her snoozing on a chair having scooted in while I found the brolly. Rascal.
I don't want to be that guy, but... "their senses"?
and yeah, I think the dogs just haven't figured out how to deal with height and altitude. once the cat was on the floor, they spotted it right away. they just can't imagine cats levitating, so they didn't think to look up
I don't want to be that guy, but... "their senses"?
But you are That Guy. Coming soon from Desperate Comics, That Guy Monthly. Cancelled after issue one as heroes, villains and supporting cast descend on his house with pitch forks and flaming torches, because no one likes a pedant. Said one source: Our spulling iz fine. Ask our leeder Cobie!
In my favour, that sentence was originally something different. An actual error based on stupidity will be with you in a few posts.
Originally Posted by Invisible Brainiac
and yeah, I think the dogs just haven't figured out how to deal with height and altitude. once the cat was on the floor, they spotted it right away. they just can't imagine cats levitating, so they didn't think to look up
No, no. It's flaming torches and normal pitchforks. It's no good trying to light your pitchfork. The metal bit isn't flammable, and you'll get burned if you light the handle you're holding. Threatening evil scientists/ thoths isn't nearly as effective if you're presenting them with some broken, smouldering farm implements.
Well, you seem like you have a lot of experience with that.
One thing that makes sure you get to see more of the world, is being driven out of various bits of it.
Originally Posted by Invisible Brainiac
But I predict you will be quite surprised when the mob shows up at your place with flaming pitchforks...
Surprised in a funny way.
Originally Posted by Invisible Brainiac
Yes, it is indeed possible!
Oh, it's possible. Just not very useful.
Farmer 1: We'll rid our selves of the evil one now! Farmer 2; Yes! Just as soon as we get these burns seen to, we'll drive him out! Farmer 1: You've only got until our recovery period is over evil one! Aaaargh! Farmer 2: I think that showed him...
Originally Posted by Invisible Brainiac
I've been making quite a profit supplying angry mobs with their instruments of torture.
I wondered why all their equipment had the same logo in it.
Fight fiercely, Harvard fight, fight, fight! Demonstrate to them our skill Albeit they possess the might Nonetheless we have the will
How we shall celebrate our victory We shall invite the whole team up for tea (How jolly!) Hurl that spheroid down the field, and Fight, fight, fight!
Fight fiercely, Harvard fight, fight, fight! Impress them with our prowess, do! Oh, fellows, do not let the crimson down Be of stout heart and true Come on, chaps, fight for Harvard's glorious name Won't it be peachy if we win the game?
(Oh, goody!) Let's try not to injure them, but Fight, fight, fight! (Let's not be rough though) And do fight fiercely! Fight, fight, fight!
That song was written by Tom Lehrer. He also wrote thi little ditty about the Boston Subwy
H is for my alma mater, Harvard C is Central, next stop on the line K is for the cozy Kendall station C is Charles that overlooks the brine P is Park Str- Pahk Street, busy Boston center W is Washington, you see
Put them all together, they spell: "HCKC-PW!" Which is just about what Boston means to me!
Although now, the Washington Station is called Downtown Crossing.
The Red line of the MBTA used to end at Harvard station. In the 1980s, the line was extended to Alewife (3 new stations stops were added) and a new Harvard station was built. When travelling from Harvard into Boston, you can see the old Harvard station through the window of the train.
I picked you guys up on the Blue line and then we transferred to the Green line. The blue line is blue because it goes underwater. The Green line is green because of all the parks it passes. The Red line is red for Harvard (aka crimson) The orange line is orange because I do not know.
Round and round it goes. Which shell is the pea under?
You sir! You look like an intelligent man. Is my hand quicker than your eye? See the pea. I place it under this walnut shell. Switch them around a bit. And where is the pea sir?
Oh you are good. Shall we try it again? *move shells* Shall we make it a little interesting with a wager sir?
>sigh< the real world has so many horrific kidnap stories that I can't really summon the enthusiasm to make a funny there. Here's what you could have had,,,
a) As soon as they tell me where Turmeric Spice is, they shall be released and I can get on with my cooking. b) They're only imprisoned on behalf of all UK music listeners. They have a cell next to Take That. c) Don't think of them as prisoners. Think of them as preserved National Treasures. That's what I tell Piers Morgan as I slide the food tray under his door. d) Of course I'm not holding them prisoner! The slave orphans are taking up all of the room.
… and so on... but each one has a real world parallel so >sigh< Besides I'm sure that the Spice Girls and Take That are lovely. Piers Morgan, by all accounts, really is an utter mammary.
A few of my friends go in for a bit of Live Action Roleplaying where they take on characters in a fantasy setting (no, not *that* sort of fantasy. You guys.) All very realistic except for the terror, smell, life expectancy of under 30 and plague.
This thread has beaten the odds, including plagues, accusations of witchcraft, turf wars and forest fires, to reach 2000 posts. Another thread that has not been killed.
dunno. There are characters that I won't follow in a reboot if they've been ruined in a previous version. So, I'm counting something there.
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