It's been exactly six months since the last "Kill This Thread" and I think it's time to slay another!

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

The rules:

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

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

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

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

Okay, folks, let the thread-killing begin:

<span style="font-size: 36px;">DIIIEEEEEEEEE THHHHREEEEAAAAADDDD!!!!!!</span>

It would be really anticlimactic to end it on first reply, but that was an awesome try.

BAH! (I was hoping the "Die Thread" would come out bigger anyway)


AHHH YES. It is in position now .... FIRE IT UP!

Think this thread is hardier than Alderaan?

You must be looking for the "Answering questions with questions" thread ....


I am hiring a bouncer for this thread. Her name is Gladiatortrix ... or something to that effect.

She looks mean.

Aw poo, we can't ask questions now?

I dunno, she looks pretty jolly in that picture. Is that a smile I see?

When Peebs said "bouncer", I was think more like this guy!

I wouldn't dare punch that guy in the chest. I think I'd break a few bones.

You should do a vid like that, Ib.

Rocky has a one-bounce mind.

Yes, this is a non-sequitur. So what?

Ohmygod! Why do you guys like bother killing these threads? They like just reincarcerate or some junk like that a few months later anyway.

"Bounce" rhymes with "pounce," something Snoopy used to practice, but always in vain because he always messed up the actual pounce.

Ohmygod! like what happened to my last post? And anyway this is my 1400th post.

Artists born in 1400 include painter Bernardo Martorell and sculptor Luca della Robbia.

Ohmygod! And they're all like dead and junk like that!

Dead or Alive is one of my favorite 80s dance music groups.

Ohmygod! Aren't all your like faves, like kinda dead?

Isn't the ultimate fate of almost every entertainer's career worse than death?

Ohmygod! Gramps says the True Greats will live forever in our collective memories.

I'm like not quite sure what that means, but I think it might be a retirement home near Albuquerque.

Maybe that's where Bugs lives now.

Congratulations EDG!

Ohmygod! Thanks Mr Shakyrear.

I demand Kent make a video where he shakes his rear.

Has anyone heard Alabama Shakes?

Does it involve milk shakes?

Only after you make a vid like the one I posted on the last page.

There's a vid? Am I looking at the wrong thread?

That wouldn't be a Michael Fitt vid, would it?

No, it would not. It's the "bouncer" guy.

Only if Blaze approves Alas, my pecs can't quite do that yet

"Blaze" on the old Batman TV series was played by Myrna Fahey (1933-1973).

Every time I see Victor Buono in something, I can't help but think of him as "King Tut".

well, that sounds like a problem.

Anyway, Cookie Monster is here to eat this thread.



Now, no one post for 24 hours. *glare* *point finger*

Cookie Monster isn't quite the Matter-Eater he used to be. Threads are now a "sometimes food".

I suppose he should change his name to "Cookie Sensible Eater" then.

Hey, that wasn't my idea! It was the suits behind Sesame Street! They thought he was promoting unhealthy eating habits in children.

King Tut prefers his subjects to have a healthy appetite.

<strike>Who is stronger: The Thing or The Hulk?</strike>

Who is stronger: King Tut or King Vitamin?

Ohmygod I like leave for a few minutes and somebody lets King Gut In?

King Cereal. It has King Vitamin and King Mineral!

Oh we are the Freakies
We are the Freakies
And this is our Freakies Tree

And we never miss a meal
Cause we love our cereal

This is the Big Boss
We call him BossMoss
Make sure you spell it right

Snorkeldorf they call me
So handsome and pretty

Here's little Hamhose
He's got a weird nose
Do I really have to sing?

My name is Grumble
I am Cowmumble
You're standing on my foot

Gargle is his name
Smartness is my game
I know more than you do

And don't forget me
I'm Goody-Goody
I always do what's right
For instance, I eat Freakies
cause it's got a lot of vitamins
and it's good for me

Oh we are the Freakies
We are the Freakies
And this is our Freakies Tree
Yessir...

I bet it tastes like crap. Any cereal that features "vitamins and minerals" as one of its most appealing factors is going to taste like cardboard.

Reminds me of these evil things.

I admit I'm more of a steel-cut oats fan, myself.

I'll be there for breakfast, cleome. I'll bring the oats.

Caliente + Bicycle Repair Man + Legion Tracker = Hot Wheel Track

Fat Cramer is, too. She grinds her own.

That would be The Amalgame -- Legion World Style! thread over in Spaceopoly. The last post in it was Cleome's own in June.

I miss Cali.

Yeah, Cali is pretty awesome. She needs to pop in and say howdy.

Are we not hot enough for Caliente to hang out with anymore?

I have not tried to kill this thread all day ...

Rachel ... oh Rachel ...

Why is she holding that frying pan like a bat? it looks like it's been coated in ink. reminds me of an old pan my grandma once had. it was smelly and icky and every time I held it my fingers got all black and messy and greasy and all the food cooked in it was blackened and decidedly unhealthy and I once used it to kill a cockroach which made quite a squishy noise...

This is why ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kci12O2EI8I

this thread, is clearly on drugs, and Rachel is PISSED! Pissed mad not pissed drunk ... or maybe she is ... who knows what makes Rachel Leigh Cook crazy and trash kitchens.

Let's talk about Rachel Berry instead. Because she thrives on the attention.

I know what Rachel Leigh Cook would do if she met Rachel Berry ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=k4H517oi7pU

"This is Rachel Berry on DRUGS!!" KAPOW!

So does Bicycle Repair Man. (Maybe I missed a recent appearance?) I'd much rather hang with them than with that frying-pan lady (or the rest of the Legion of Rachels) who I never even heard of until today.

Ohmygod! This thread is like weird. I mean like who ever even like heard of fried steel cut oats?

The same people who know what self-sealing stem bolts are for, perchance?

So Jake Sisko and Nog eat fried steel-cut oats?

If Chris Pines was gay, we could have a real life Kirk/Spock fan fiction.

That reminds me that I've been meaning to complain about using Vulcan actors to play Native Americans , though I do think it's clever how well they hide the ears.

No, they were typical brokers, buying and selling stuff while having no idea what it was for

I suppose so, but they might have tried the oats as part of the deal.

Wouldn't that eat up their profits?

Once when I was working in a restaurant, a customer caught me munching on some little munchy things. He said "Are you eating up the profits?" I answered "Yes, this was is Isaiah, this one is Jeremiah and this one is Ezekiel." He laughed.

Did the restaurant management ask you to write a Prophet & Loss statement?

Rocky deserves the head of this thread in a silver charger for creating the weirdest damn mini-fanfic ("ficlet"?) I've ever read...

Though Reboot's tale of Jake and Nog the oat salesmen wasn't bad, either.

So Jake and Nog sow their oats in the head of Rocky's silver tial?

I always wondered about them.

I wonder if they would mind me killing this thread.


I asked my good friend "Scarface Salu" to help me:




She complained that I couldn't do anything ... and then she said "Frack I'll do it myself!"

And then she went and said, "Never send a gay man to do a lesbian woman's job!"

And we all went, "OH NO you didn't!"

Isn't "lesbian woman" redundant?

Pittacus of Mytilene might disagree.

yet gay man is not ... discuss. NO don't discuss ... let me win this *expletive*!

[distracts Power Boy by sending over a plate of cookies]

Lesbia Scott wrote a hymn called "I Sing a Song of the Saints of God" which contains the memorable lines:

"And one was a soldier and one was a priest and one was slain by a fierce, wild beast."

And

"You can meet them in school or in lanes or at sea, in church or in trains or in shops or at tea."

Actually, a man from the Greek isle of Lesbos could be called a Lesbian man. You just have to capitalize the L.

"Did someone say cookies?"

"I will kill a thread for some cookies!"

Looks like someone beat you to it ... creepy sewer clown.

Ohmygod! Cookies!

Really? I thought those were buttons.

Wouldn't that make him Button Monster?

Like Pittacus of Mytilene?

Did you know that the word "button" was created to refer to something you put on your butt...i.e., butt-on?

By that logic, was 'mutton' something to put on your dog?

I think my dog would rather the mutton be inside him.

Terminal disease for a thread coming right up!

She's crying because this thread is finished! Finished!( Or maybe because this thread is driving her a bit insane. )

Double-posting is antithetical to the purpose of this thread!

Double-posting is antithetical to the purpose of this thread!

I remember in an early version of this thread, a poster no longer on LW posted in the thread that he was winning, which, of course reset the clock. That poster had trouble with the rules of game threads.

In honor of this occasion ... I shall try to kill this thread TWICE today. Drura was unsuccessful.

My cousin is visiting:



She's a bit disagreeable ...

Aha! Reboot is an alt-ID of Ibby! I knew it all along!

For the record, I am currently winning this thread.

Prove it!

Just wait another twenty-four hours!

Who won the last one of these?

Cleome won the last one. I won the previous two.

This thread has activated the auto-reply feature on Abin's computer

<span style="font-size: 30px;">Die You Bastich Thread! DIE! DIE! DIE!</span>

This post will autorepeat every time some poor deluded fool, other than Abin, posts in this thread!

Abin's autoreply has never won.

List what killed all the previous threads. That way he'll know what not to try...

Usually, they get killed when someone forgets or stops paying attention.

Slutty Terra wants to kill this thread ... because she's bad.

Can you be more specific?

(Can you be less specific?)

Okay. Can you and everyone else in the thread at least put a dollar in this jar, so we can collect enough to buy Terra a pair of pants?

Here to mess things up!

The Mess is such a pretender! Here's the real deal:

Before Pigpen (or around the same time), there was that kid in the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books who refused to bathe. Her Mom planted radishes on her because she accumulated so much dirt.

"The Radish Cure" would be a great name for a band.

I have fond memories of this book from my childhood:

All this pig talk is making me crave bacon

My goodness! Peanuts, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and Richard Scarry in successive posts! It's my childhood on parade!

Just so it's not <span style="font-size: 18px;"><font face="courier">"Pink Elephants On Parade."</font f></span>

Obscure Dumbo reference. Very clever. Won't kill the thread, but it's very clever.

That song gave me nightmares as a kid. Ugh.

Dumbo is the shortest Disney animated feature film. Short but sweet.

I am fascinated by racism in old pop culture. Like the crows in Dumbo.

Oh, Quis. I'll bet you've even gone so far as to watch a bootlegged print of Coal Black and the Seven Dwarves.

My grandpa was a coal miner.

^Now I've got the Police's "Canary in a Coal Mine" playing in my head.

I have Loretta Lynn's "Coal Miner's Daughter" in my head.

She still rules, as does Wanda Jackson .

Remembering the shortening commercials in which Loretta Lynn was featured back in the '80s, I sometimes say "He's flakier than a Crisco crust" or "She's as flaky as Loretta Lynn's piecrust."

Bootlegger's Daughter is a Margaret Maron novel, which introduces her character, the mystery-solving judge Deborah Knott. I've only read one of the Deborah Knott books, and it didn't do much for me.

That is very interesting EDE ... in fact it reminds me to ask ....

Does this outfit make me look like Big Bird?

No. You're too short.

I was thinking it looked more like a Woodstock costume.

That's not a Woodstock costume. This is a Woodstock costume

I think I might've once worn a Woodstock costume, but I don't remember it.

I know what you mean, It is not yet 5pm here and it is dark outside.

... but I am hungry for dinner.

I just finished breakfast! 10 AM is amazingly early for me to be done with that on a weekend.

(Of course, I still have to do the dishes. )

I need to go to the gym.

I need to kill this thread.

I think Anita Cocktail is missing a friend ...




"Aneeta! U in here? Where'd you go? Last thing I remember is passing out in the restroom!"

I have a sister named Anita.

My sister is not named Anita.

Eryka Davisa Ester?

I actually have three older sisters. The character Rockhopper Lad has one younger sister, though we've only ever really seen her Earth-4 double.

I have one sister IRL, who is 4 years younger than me

I have no sisters.

Sister Christian
Oh, the time has come
And you know that you're the only one
To say, okay
Where you going
What you looking for
You know those boys
Don't want to play no more with you
It's true

You're motoring
What's your price for flight
In finding mister right
You'll be alright tonight

Babe, you know
You're growing up so fast
And mama's worrying
That you won't last
To say, let's play
Sister Christian
There's so much in life
Don't you give it up
Before your time is due
It's true
It's true, yeah

Motoring
What's your price for flight
You've got him in your sight
And driving thru the night
Motoring
What's your price for flight
In finding mister right
You'll be alright tonight

[Instrumental Interlude]

Motoring
What's your price for flight
In finding mister right
You'll be alright tonight
Motoring
What's your price for flight
In finding mister right
You'll be alright tonight

Sister Christian
Oh, the time has come
And you know that you're the only one
To say, okey
But you're motoring
Yeaaaaah, motoring

There are some Anglican/Episcopal religious orders for women whose members have been ordained. Such a person would be both a nun and a priest. I'm not sure of they retain "sister" or automatically take "mother" as a title.

Funny story, They just called me and said I could call them anything I want ... as long as I killed this thread. Also they'd like a vacation in Vegas.

I am not a big fan of Danzig (well I do enjoy his early work as Samhain) but his song "Mother" is one of my all time favorites

I call my mother "Mother". "Mom" just never seemed to fit.

Ohmygod, so like nobody won yet? {Giggle}

Everyday Girl you seem to be blossoming into a nice young woman.

Compromise and call them "Aunt."

*sing* You are sixteen going on seventeen, baby it's time to thiiiiinkkk...*sing*

I never did notice just how striking your eyes are, Everyday Girl...

I love it! I think it would have to be "Auntie", pronounced "ahntie", of course.

You can anagram "aunt" into "a nut"

As well as "tuna".

"Aunt Tuna, a nut" sounds like a chaacter from the Matter-Eater Lad series.

Ohmygod! So does like nutty aunt Tuna, have striking eyes? {Giggle}

I don't have an aunt named Tuna. You must be thinking of the Sivanas who live in St.Paul.

"Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz was born in Minneapolis, but raised in St. Paul.

Most scholars think that only 7 of the 13 epistles attributed to St Paul were actually written by him.

Saul was said to hasve been converted on the road to Damascus. Some say the road still stands in modern day Syria.

St. Paul's shortest letter is to Philemon (pronounced fy-LEE-mun), in which Paul writes to Philemon about the latter's slave, Onesimus.

Onesimus wasn't named in a biblical sex act, but Onan was.

If there isn't already, there should be a Conan parody called Onan the Barbarian.

And just what office are Cummins and Onan running for, anyway?

Solicitor General?

One of their facilities is only a ten-minute drive from my place. I could stop in there and ask, if you want me to...

Better take protection!

Against brainwashing, I mean.

I don't need to be brainwashed. My brain is already clean.

Quick, Igor! This Rockhopper Lad has just the kind of brain we've been looking for!

This thread is ALIVE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xos2MnVxe-c


... despite my best attempts.

Hmm... I'm now wondering how a "Bring this thread back from the dead" contest might work...

Ohmygod! Like Obviously you start with a dead thread in a glass coffin. Then you like talk several posters into standing around that coffin outside in a like thunderstorm, with metal rods held high over their like collective heads.


Then Proty Wins.

Or some junk like that.

See? It's like easy.

Would that really bring the thread back to life, though, or just cause Proty's consciousness to inhabit the thread?

That is the $US 100 Million Dollar question!

Ohmygod! Of course it would bring the tread back to life! It would just change topics like frequently. Or some junk like that.

or marry a Saturn Girl thread.

Perhaps it would marry a Saturn Girl's Rotting Corpse! thread!

Ohmygod! Zombies!

<Click-Click> <span style="font-size: 20px;">BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!</span>

ah ... kindred spirit.

Ohmygod! Didn't you like see that sign over there?

"No Bulletproof Guys Allowed In This Thread!"

It's hard to read with all the bullet holes in it.

The holes in Swiss cheese are called eyes.

But what are they called in Switzerland? Give us all four answers.

In the French-speaking part, they would be called "yeux". I'll let someone who speaks German, Italian or Romansh answer the rest. Whoever speaks Romansh should post the next answer.

If I really dredged into my memories I mind manage Middle Earth Elvish but Romansh is beyond me (actually its the first time I've heard of it)

Romansh is one of the four official languages of Switzerland, along with French, German and Italian. That is why Switzerland uses its Latin name, Confoederatio Helvetica, on many documents and why it's often abbreviated "CH".

So are you saying all those " I <3 Helvetica " tattoos are actually people who love the Swiss, not people who have a font fetish?

<span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">Who wants to place a bet that someone reads font fetish as foot fetish?</span></span>

I have a font fetish. I am partial to Arial but this new Calibri is exciting.

I use Bauhaus for special things, and Garamond used to be interesting but I haven't used it in a while.

Times is not too bad. Courier is also nice, especially if you have to fill space.

I don't get the popularity of Helvetica.

Helvetica = Sixties

Souvenir = Seventies

Palatino = Eighties

(I lost track of font ubiquity after that.)

Garamond will always have my heart.

And here I thought Romansh was lovemaking when you're drunk!

Visit the Romansch-speaking valleys if Switzerland. You might get to experience both!

booking .... ticket ..... now ....


mmm hmmmm

I think Romansh may have to be one of the official languages of Legion World.

It makes more sense than Esperanto.

I speak Esperantu ... Kid Gravity always gets quite a chuckle when I say that.
heh heh

Ohmygod! I like speak Valley-isms or some junk like that, does that like count?

Interestingly enough, "love making when you're drunk" is the official registered Legion World language.

wrong Valley(s).

*sigh* Misses the imminent death of the Dark Oval wars.

I wonder how Everyday Girl's musings would sound in Romansh.

Nam'Lor hug thread. Why everybody want to kill poor thread? Nam'Lor pat thread on head. Its ok he tell thread

Nam'Lor, be careful. These threads are all the same. Shameless, and full of hussies.

Ohmygod! Mr Rockyhopper you're like quite a cutie and all kinds of junk like that but you keep that drunk romance stuff away from me.

I've already got a boyfriend.

Really? I guess now's my big chance then.

[clears throat]

Cobie, can't you see I love you?! You take me, and I'll take a vacation. I'll need a vacation if we're going to get married. Married! I can see you right now in the kitchen, bending over a hot stove. But I can't see the stove!

[waggles eyebrows seductively]

Hussies?!? Where? I love hussies!

So do I.

[HOMER]mmmmm....... Hussies.....[/HOMER]

Well, as long as we are talking hussies and posting scripts, here is My favorite script

Ohmygod! Well, Mine's Cuter!

It always goes back to the chest region. In the interest of those of us who are male-oriented, here is a fellow who apparently shops at the same store as Power Girl and Peebs!


Ohmygod! Well, Mine's Cuter! </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No. No, he's not.

I believe "side boob" is the new boob window.

As long as you don't pull a Harpo on me!

Next years trend for the new new new 52...underboobs for all

As I've said before, it's not called a boob window on a man: It's a pec portal.

Rocky, you live in Texas. Have you seen any Tex Mex Pecs?

Indeed I have. My boyfriend is of Slavic heritage and has Czech Pecs.

Check out the pecs on this T. Rex!

T. Rex, the 1970s band, influenced everything from punk to 2nd generation metal to indie rock.

I'm pagan...does that mean I have Hex Pecs?

By that logic, Viridis, I have EpiscoPecs.

Being a lapsed Catholic, I'd like to see a product named CathoLax -- "Poop all the sinfulness away!"

Somehow, I think they might have a problem marketing that.

Most likely.

There could also have been a laxative inspired by the now-defunct comic strip, "Cathy" -- CathyLax. "AAAACK! Now I have to race to the bathroom!"

I thought you were going to say ... "Poop all the Catholic away!" hahaha

At least no one said "Poop all the pope away."

...

um... oops.

Pope Paul VI was the last pope to wear a papal tiara.

I have never watched Toddlers and Tiaras.

Though I bet Wonder Tot would rule on it.

Speaking of rules, Sentient, this thread has been declared a toxic disaster zone under Legion World Security Ordinance 23.75 section Q subsection SR and is now declared off limits.

Please gather up all your ideas, thoughts, and insane musings and exit quietly to the right. The decontamination of this thread will take approximately 30 hours. You may return anytime after that period has passed.

Thank You for your co-operation and have a Nice Day.

Bye

I've ridden out toxic disaster before, and I'll ride this one out as well!

Your choice sentient, but when the decon spray eats holes in your lil' nelly cap, don't blame me.

I've been hit with 700ppm of H2S and walked away without even feeling nauesous. A little decon sray doesn't bother me.

Yeah, but you don't have a lil' nelly cap.

Space Ranger ... have you met Nam'Lor's aura?


Nam'Lor thinks not yet.

I always wonder about people who speak of themselves in the third person. I don't know that I'd care to be in a group that includes Solomon Grundy, Bob Dole and Elmo.

What about people who speak of themselves in the second person?

You never know!

Of course the one exception to third person is on Facebook, where one is supposed to refer to oneself in the third person, even if few people still bother.

If you don't like Facebook's rules/structure, wait 15 minutes and they will change into something less likable.

They say the pretty much the same thing about the weather everywhere I've ever lived.

Even Houston? odd. one pictures that as fairly steady.

It certainly adheres to a pattern, but there is a lot of variation. In the wintertime, it can be hot (like 80sF) and sunny one day and below freezing the next.

It is 45sF here in Wisconsin and it will keep getting colder.

It stays fairly stable out here. We missed virtually all of the summer heat waves, and also most of the cold snaps. It only got below freezing for a week or so in January, and only into the 80s F a similar span in early August. The main variability right now is if it will rain, and of so, how heavily.

We had a nice rain today. It's been a bit dry lately, but not nearly as bad as last year.

Today is the first day it has not snowed in around a week and a half.
Was actually pretty warm all things considered (still below zero though)

better there than here.

We've had snow flurries a few times since I've lived in Houston. It usually shuts down the whole city because no one can drive in it.

I've seen vid footage of Texans trying to drive in the snow. Not pretty.

not their fault, mind you. Without regular experience, one does not build any skill set.

Experience preferred, but not essential

sounds like a cool flick.

My relatives from the wrong side of the tracks showed up ...




TO KILL THIS THREAD!!!!!

It took me forever to fill out my ballot this year, because I couldn't decide whether to vote for Zod or Cthulhu.

I suspect Zod will win because his name is easier for people to pronounce.

It's hard to believe it's only three days until the start of the 2016 campaign!

When I was a teenager, I had such a crush on Terence Stamp's Zod.

Cle, Cthulhu ALWAYS wins

C\'thlu Thlu is a song by Caravan. According to one of the posters on Youtube, it is in 14/4, though I haven't bothered to count the rhythm myself.

Thanks for the tip VL.


Cthulhu ATTACK !!!! killlll this thread!

The 1986 cartoon "Inhumanoids" was about a team of heroic humans who battled Chthulu-esque monsters. It broke new ground at the time in terms of violence and horror imagery, but it seemed to quickly run out of ideas, and it lasted only 13 episodes.

I've never heard of that one Fanfie, but then again there were only two channels available in my backwards little town at that time.
Sounds like something I would like though, I'll have to see if I can find it

My favorite short-lived cartoon of the eighties was Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light.

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

^^No, I don't think that was actually one of the spells from Visionaries.

But here's one I remember:

A whim, a thought, and more is sought
Awake my mind, thy will be wrought!

I love Simon and Garfunkel. "The Sound of Silence" and "The Boxer" are two of my go-to karaoke songs.

Rocky and his boyfriend dancing ballet in matching pink-and-white tutus?

No, he's the dancer. I'm the singer.

Besides, black leotards and bowler hats are more appropriate for modern dance than pink tutus.

Speaking of gay stuff...

Here's presidential candidate Andre Barnett. I'm pretty sure that unless he wins, America is doomed.

That's not what I'd call Presidential attire! Can't he at least put on some gardening gloves or a baseball cap or something?

Tsk!

Maybe he's planning a goodwill tour of the Pacific Islands, and that's his official attire.

Alls I know is that when Putin starts taking off his shirt, I want to make sure our guy is not going to be intimidated.

Perhaps we should make sure Andre Barnett really does appeal to the voters.

Have him visit Legion World first and let's see

Maybe he should just visit my bedroom and I can report back to you all.

We expect a very detailed report, Quis. Make sure you write at least 500 words for each muscle on his body.

By my count that's at least a half a million words just for his head.

Quis is gonna be Busy, Busy, Busy!

Can Nam'Lor kill thread ? Or just for cool kids?

Wait... isn't Nam'Lor one of the cool kids?

"Cool Kids" was the second album by the hair-metal band Kix. One of the most entertaining bands of their kind (imagine a shotgun marriage of 70s bubblegum and Bon Scott-era AC/DC), all half-dozen of their albums are still fun to listen to today.

"Cool Kid" would make a nice name for a Tharrian character...

Brek Bannin's cousin, maybe?

We could call him "Drek."

Here's one for the Amalgame thread: Brek Bannin + Lash = Cool Whip.

Cool Jerk

Isn't jerking while cold kind of painful?

Not if you do it right

Would you care to demonstrate for us, Quis?

Is Quis going to demonstrate his recipe for jerked chicken?

Or is he chicken?

One of my favorite "Peanuts" strips is where Linus asks Lucy if chicken-birds ever build their nests on mountain tops.

Schultz was a great sports fan. I always enjoyed the sports, CB and his baseball team, trying to kick the football, the birds playing hockey on a frozen bird bath, Snoopy playing tennis at Wimbledon.

There is a guy here at work that has been nicknamed Charlie Brown

And Crikey, Tamper is back!!!

My favorite Peanuts strip has Linus outside with it starting to rain. He then smiles the widest smile he can as he starts for home. As he runs and smiles, the rain becomes a deluge. In the last panel, dripping wet in the house Linus says to Lucy "Actually a smile makes a lousy umbrella."

I so want to see Lucy get her comeuppance. Poor Charlie Brown!

In the last year of "Peanuts", Lucy had Rerun hold the football for C.B. When she asked him if he pulled it away, his response was "You'll never know!"

Hah! Take that, you crabby evil little...

Hah! Take that, you crabby evil little...

This dramatization of Peebs ....



IS KILLING IT!!! and this thread too.

We need to see a real life photo of you in that outfit, Peebs.

I need some spirit gum!

I'm sure a bottle came with the costume.

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

The character of Lobot, whose name is derived from "lobotomy", was originally supposed to die in Empire Strikes Back, but the death scene was cut to maintain the possibility of a re-appearance in Return of the Jedi.

Lobots are guaranteed thread-killers, so there is no need for anyone else to post now.

I agree

There used to be a brand of shampoo called Agree. I don't think they make it any more, but when you are follicularly challenged, you tend to forget about hair care products.

There is now a hair treatment in testing that really works and is in easy to take pill form.
According to the report one man was totally bald for over ten years and grew new hair. Works on around 85 to 90% for the people who have taken it.

Is that the vile miscreant who stole mine and Rocy's hair?

That would be ...



I think Sif has a support group.

*Lobot glare*

Years ago, there was a discussion about hair care in the vesting room of the choir with which I sing after some service or other (I think it was Evensong). One of the basses quipped "We sound like a bunch of women!" The room went silent and he got an "Oh, crap! What did I say?" look on his face. He was the only straight guy in the room.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY!!!!!"



"Now you sound like a drooling monkey after a quick mind wipe!"

Who's Rocy?

Uh, the inventor of <font face="garamond"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Almond Roca</font f></span>™?

(Best I could do today. Sorry.)

Still better than anything else I could come up with.

But the thread lives! That's what really matters.

(Mmmm... Roca...)

Sentients, Please! The vast majority of altID's (Abin's anyway) are a direct result of typos simiar to the one above.

You must do better. Or we (Abin's Alts, who have wrested control of his computer from him) be forced to allow Abin to resume posting.

Shape up People! Shape UP!

Anyway, almonds are awesome.

Almond Joy's got nuts. Mounds don't.

I believe the poison cyandie gives off a smell of bitter almonds.

"Cyandie" is such a sexy way to say "candy."

That is such a cute accent!

I'm pretty sure nuts vs. mounds is a useful way of distinguishing something else, but I can't remember what at the moment.

Brazil nuts are rather tasty... so I'm told.

Brazilian... whatever.

You want tasty nuts? Cashews, Boyo, There's nothing tastier, nut-wise, than cashews.

I'm more a fan of the good old peanut. It also lent its name to my favorite comic strip.

The peanut, despite its name, is not actually a nut, but a legume.

In French, "legume" refers to any vegetable.

Well the French can kiss my petite derriere legumes are beans.

Peanuts are okay (for legumes, that is) but if you want a really great nut, cashews are the way to go.

I'm nuts for cashews.

I never cared much for cashews. When I was little, I thought they were called "cat shoes".

Your loss, Rocky. But if we're talking nuts Cashews are the best.

You can have mine.

Speaking of nuts, did anyone catch Karl Rove's little rant on Election Night? Talk about cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!

Does anyone ever go on the Song Meanings website? They actually do serious analysis of a song called "Cuckoo for Caca." I'm not making this up!

http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/5098/

Right before I visited this thread I was watching this groovy video of Steve Hackett teaching Genesis's "Cuckoo Cocoon" to Francis Dunnery of It Bites and Brett Kull of echolyn while backstage at a recent charity event.

"Cuckoo Coccoon" is from the album "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway," which was the last Genesis album with the five-piece Peter Gabriel-led lineup. Gabriel went on to a successful solo career, albeit one with such cute indulgences as giving his first three albums the same title, "Peter Gabriel."

As a child, I thought Little Anthony and the Imperials' song "Shimmy, Shimmy Ko Ko Bop" was "Shimmy, Shimmy Cocoa Puffs". Actually, I was an adult before I found out that it wasn't.

*Has vision of individual Cocoa Puffs with arms, legs, and faces, all of them dancing*

Actually, the first four solo albums were all named "Peter Gabriel", though the fourth was renamed "Security" when released in the U.S.

Peter Gabriel II was conceived as part of a trilogy with Robert Fripp's Exposure and Daryl Hall's Sacred Songs.

I listened to "Sacred Songs" with an open mind. It sent me running for my copy of "Private Eyes." IMO, Hall's a great pop craftsman, but not an art rocker.

Private eyes. They're watching you. They see your every move.

Seventy-Seven Sunset Strip.
Seventy-Seven Sunset Strip.
Seventy-Seven Sunset Strip.

The street that wears a fancy label
That's glorified in song and fable.
The most exciting people pass you by
Including a private eye.

Seventy-Seven Sunset Strip
Seventy-Seven Sunset Strip
Seventy-Seven Sunset Strip.

You'll meet the high brow and the hipster
The starlet and the phony tripster
You'll see most every kind of gal and guy
Including a private eye.

Seventy-Seven Sunset Strip
Seventy-Seven Sunset Strip.

In my younger days, I could eat as many as a dozen strips of bacon at a time. But for the last couple of decades, my limit at breakfast/brunch has steadily dwindled to two strips at the very most.

In my younger days, I was skinny as a beanpole. Now I am not. See? No good deed goes unpunished.



I even think that freaky-looking Morningstar Farms™ faux bacon is delicious. Their pretend sausage is also good.

But I don't eat Tofurky™. A person has to draw the line somewhere, by damn!

oh my .... anything Morningstar Farms RIPS my stomach to shreds ... cramps GALORE!

I can't eat any sort of faux meat vegetarian item.

Vegetarian products in a meat disguise are PB's Kryptonite.

Ugh. Soy allergy, huh?

PB, I will be happy to fix you the genuine article bacon-wise. We are very accommodating here at chez_cleome's Brunch Palace.

Or you could just have a veggie scramble with actual veggies in it. I do those, too.

<span style="font-size: 36px;">BRUNCH PALACE</span>

mmmm bacon! I really enjoy the thick canadian bacon ...

actual vegetables arent really a problem for me.(maybe if I eat a ton of corn. but a ton of edamame is cool with el gut de Power)

just that crazy suped up soy stuff.

ok, if you fry up some bacon I will mix up some cocktails!

I don't eat beef or pork. More than anything else, I just don't like them. Bacon is the hardest to avoid because it's put in foods (like vegetables) that you wouldn't expect.

On the other hand, I quite like the Morningstar Farms facon. I'm also very fond of Quorn.

Morningstar Farms Bacon is just about the only one of their products I don't care for. Their Mushroom Lover's Burger is to die for.

Lucifer is the Morningstar. I wonder if Morningstar Farms considered that when they choose their name.

The German word for "Morningstar" is "Morgenstern". I always did wonder about Rhoda.

In Greek, the morning star was known as Phosphorus. The evening star was known as Hesperus.

Of course, both of them were manifestations of the planet Venus.

The Greek alphabet is A&#914;&#915;&#916;&#917;&#918;&#919;&#920;&#921;&#922;&#923;&#924;&#925;&#926;&#927;&#928;&#929;&#931;&#932;&#933;&#934;&#935;&#936;&#937;.

Lucifer was the Etruscan sun god before the Christians borrowed him to be their devil.

Its 0615 and I am listening to Motorhead

I haven't seen it in years, but Jeopardy used to have a category called "Those Wacky Etruscans".

"Funny, you don't look Etruscan!"

Etruscan raiders travel single-file to hide their numbers.

Oh, wait...

"First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."

My old favorite British kids' science fiction TV series The Tomorrow People featured one rather bizarre story arc called "A Man for Emily", which featured three humanoid aliens, a woman called The Momma and her grown children, Emily and Elmer. They learned about Earth culture from watching old westerns on TV, so they all spoke in really bad US Southern accents.

They had a device called a "Doozlum Pin", which when stepped on, teleported a person to a set location. It looked liked a large golf tee in the ground.

As I said, it was a weird story arc.

I saw one episode of the Tomorrow People where the girl gets into the bad guy's office by posing as a telephone sanitizer.

I always did like Tomorrow Woman. DC doesn't have nearly enough telekinetics.

"Clean phone! Clean phone! I'm here to clean your phone!"

I suppose people have died from dirty phones, though!

I think dirty mobile phones nowadays are a bigger problem.

Do you think people will hand me their smart phone if I tell them that I am a telephone sanitizer?

Hey Quislet, Nam'Lor have phone for you to sanitize .... tee hee ... titter ... snicker ...


get it? Nam'Lor make it VERY dirty ...


bwahahahahahahahaha!

oh Nam'Lor so funny. sigh!

Oh Nam'Lor, you are so funny, but looks aren't everything.

they aren't? Shit. forever alone.

I know a certain red-head who might take exception to that last remark.

?

(Wait. Is he still a red-head?)

Charlie Brown's great crush, the Little Red-Haired Girl, was based on Donna Johnson, an old friend of Charles Schulz's. Personally, I always thought Charlie Brown secretly preferred Linus.

But could Linus have accepted an ultimatum to choose between his two great loves: dude and blanket?

Would he really have to choose? CB was a pretty understanding fellow.

Yes, but I do wonder about how the blanket would feel about such an unconventional relationship.

The course of true love never runs smooth, etc.

I don't think the blanket would mind. It could cover both Linus and Charlie Brown anyway...

The blanket only demonstrated sentience in one 1965 story arc in which it was openly hostile to Lucy. It seemed to harbor no ill will toward Charlie Brown.

That was one of the many things I loved about Peanuts. It was grounded just enough that Schulz could get away with wild flights of fancy like sentient blankets.

Could the 1965 sentient blanket have been the inspiration for South Park's Towelie?

Reality in "Peanuts" was kind of fluid. Usually no one but Linus believed there was a Great Pumpkin, but once Charlie Brown stated that he heard on the radio that the GP appeared in a pumpkin patch owned by someone named Freeman in New Jersey.

"Boots" Rutman and R.W. Daniels also claimed to have seen the Great Pumpkin.

I need to make some pumpkin cookies. Sadly, there's no pumpkin in the house, so it'll have to wait a few days.

I prefer squash pie to pumpkin pie, but when I was little it was always "pumpkin pie" no matter which one mom made.

My mother's tactic when we refused to eat something she prepared had a couple of variations.

1) "Suit yourself, but this is your only choice for the next 12 hours."

2) "Good. More for your Dad and Me."

So, yeah... I had to try a lot of things that didn't impress me at first glance. But on the plus side, I didn't grow up to be super-finicky about food.

If you don't believe her, look in the record!

It's not "Kill This Thread" without Obscure "Peanuts" Exchanges with Rocky and Fanfie!

In fifth grade I wrote a fan letter to Charles Schulz. He sent me a short note back. I wish I knew what happened to it.

I tried writing a fan letter to him for years, but never quite could do it. I guess I thought I'd sound too much like a blathering fanboy (which I was). I did send his wife Jeannie a sympathy card when he passed away.

I've never written a fan letter.

I've written a few attempts at comics lettercols, back in the 80s. GL, Mage, probably Legion. I got mentioned in a readers' roundup in GL, and my guess for the 'Guess Kevin Matchstick's middle name' contest in Mage got on the list of wrong guesses.

I've never written a fan letter either, but have tried a couple of fan e-mails... the scary thing about e-mails now is they're so easy to forward. You really gotta be careful...

I've never written a fan letter either, but have tried a couple of fan e-mails... the scary thing about e-mails now is they're so easy to forward. You really gotta be careful...

I do my fan communication through facebook and twitter. And most of that has been with game developers, not comic creators.

I had a letter published in the letter column of one of the JLI books around 1990. It was from the issue where Beetle and Booster build a casino on Kooey Kooey Kooey. I wrote a filk about it to the tune of "The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle".

I HAVE THAT ISSUE.

weird.

I guess I have the satisfaction of knowing that 20-ish me was able witty or clever enough to impress a comic book editor, at least a little bit.

All the good things only get better with age.

But alas, only up to a certain point

No, I only get better with age.

All the way until you're 100 years old?

Do you really have to ask that question?

Not all questions need to be answered

Not all questions need to be answered

He's already an immortal Time Trapper.

(Which reminds me: I think we should take full advantage of the "Artisan" food craze and have our own line of Time Trapper™ Gourmet Aged Cheeses.)

That 's a great idea, Cleome. We'll also need to start a Time Trapper wine label!

"We will sell no wine before the end of time."

"Time Trapper Wines: When it absolutely, positively has to be fermented overnight."

Or, we could bring Jim Croce back from the dead to sing "Time in a Bottle".

His son, A.J. , is still very much with us.

(I also remember a mad scientist on The Muppet Show who sang "Time In A Bottle.")

We could also sell bottled time along with the wine. Maybe bottled time-reversal for those who want to undo their embarrasing bloopers.

Bottled time probably should come with a cork instead of a screw top. You should have to put in some effort.

What happens if you break the bottle to get the time?

I remember reading a book of Jack Tales when I was a kid. The last tale in the book featured Jack obtaining a bag in which he could trap anyone, which he ended up using to trap Death. Eventually, after he discovered that there were bad consequences to nothing dying, he had to let Death go. Kid-me was kind of frightened by this story.

A lot of those fairy tales were pretty scary... like Hansel and Gretel with the gingerbread house-trap (and the idea of parents leaving their kids to die in a forest!)

A lot of those fairy tales were pretty scary... like Hansel and Gretel with the gingerbread house-trap (and the idea of parents leaving their kids to die in a forest!)

(double post )

Myths weren't much better... those ancient gods could be so mean and capricious!

Not just the gods. Odysseus was a right bastard too.

If I remember right, Hercules lost his temper on more than one occasion and poor innocents suffered for it as well.

There is only one god that matters....Cthulhu!!!
(unless you are feline, in which case ceiling cat must be considered)

I'd faint, too!

You can obviously see the pattern of thinking that went into designing that outfit:

"I think I'll pattern myself after Doll Man, only his costume isn't quite revealing enough, so I'll just go shirtless..."

If I looked like that, I wouldn't own a shirt!

His forehead is freakishly huge though

What was he thinking wearing that cape with those manties though?

He was bitten by a radioactive Liberace?

Liberace once successfully sued a British newspaper that said he was gay.

I bet they wished they'd written about his brother George instead.

Any group of four people can be identified as the various members of the Beatles, but the last one is always George by default.

I thought the pope to succeed John Paul should have been called George Ringo.

George was also the name of the, er, tomboy sidekick in the Nancy Drew mysteries.

I think Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys had at least one crossover mystery.

My name is John. My boyfriend is named Georges. Someday when we cohabitate, we will have two dogs named Paul and Ringo.

Your family theme song should be "He Loves You (Arf! Arf! Arf!)"

What dog breeds are you thinking of having, John?

(and it is so sweet that you're already planning to cohabitate!)

That's 'way down the line--several years, I expect. Right now, I have my place and he has his. I have Hyvvie and he's enough.

Blaze and I are also thinking of moving in together, but he's used to being wholly independent and I'm not. Then there's the fact that his place is way over on the other end of the city (takes me upwards of an hour of travel time just to get to his place!), so it would be very difficult for me to get to work everyday.

Georges has an uncle who is also named John. Within his family, he needed another name to which he could refer to me. He asked me if I had a nickname.

They now call me "Rocky".

I wonder why Blok wasn't called "Rocky" instead?

If I have to be associated with another Rocky, I'd rather it be the flying squirrel than the boxer.

And you told me, years ago, how you used to hate the name Rocky.

Or blocky!

Bloc has a ne'er do well cousin who likes to frolic in meadows and give daisies to rampaging super-villains. You should've seen the time he used a mixed bouquet to plug up Hunter's space-elephant gun!

He's a sweet guy, but he has trouble holding down a job: always has that lingering aroma of Durlan "toasted ozone" around him, if you get my drift. His codename?

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Peace, maaaaan!!

He IS quite a pacifist, though.

It took me a long time to get comfortable with it. I associated it with the worst Italian-American stereotypes. My dad, to whom I am not close was born in Italy, but I feel no affinity at all for things Italian.

Anyway, I love the name Rocky now. Legion World sort of redeemed the name for me.

Didn't you also first get the nickname "Rocky" over here on LW?

That's right. The first person here to call me Rocky was Tempest.

Where is Temp? I do miss her. We share a love for all things Kinetix

I'm sure she'll be back.

I never really read the Reboot era, so I really don't know much about Kinetix.

I always associated your "Rocky"-ness closer to Bullwinkle than Stallone.

Oh, the things I could tell you! But I fear if I enumerated everything I did know about Kinetix... I still wouldn't kill this thread

There was a Rocky in the Power Rangers too, a while back. But I never really associated that Rocky with our Rocky!

I think Kinetix is, in retrospect, my favorite reboot-original character.

I knew EDE had such wonderful good taste!

I'm pleased to note as well that Kinetix won The Multiverse Legion Idol game a while back, though I'm fairly positive she'd have lost had another Postboot Legionnaire made the Final Three.

And I always knew there was something I liked about Kent.

Feathers and...

Antlers?

No,silly! Rocky the Flying Squirrel!

I love Rocky and Bullwinkle. I loved it as a kid and then, seeing the cartoons as an adult, realized all that I missed.

I love Boris and Natasha.

Taral Wayne wrote a mock-interview zine with Rocket J. Squirrel back in the 1980s. It was pretty good fanfiction. I have long since lost my copy, alas.

Taral Wayne is not the daughter of Bruce Wayne and Talia Al Ghul

I don't even think Taral was/is a "she." (Though in the zine I mentioned, Rocket J. most definitely is.)

Well, Rocket J.'s voice was done by a woman, the great June Foray, but in an interview I saw with her, she referred to Rocket J. as a "he."

Rocket J., the Orlando of squirrels.

Wayne's backstory was that Rocket was a pilot during WWII who passed as a dude until she was injured in a minor skirmish. Then she was discharged and went to work as an small-time entertainer, taking tourists up in a plane she rehabbed.

(Apparently, Bullwinkle drank a lot, could play the sax, and his original name was... John!)

Well I did say that Taral was not the daughter.

It's too late now, Quis. We have to have a huge flamewar that decimates the boards and ends up being sung about in the sagas of fandom for the next half-century.

Also, we can't speak to each other for at least six months, unless it's with the goal of killing this thread.

Taral was Damien Wayne??

[sulks]

You're not helping, FL!

[sulks some more]

[retreats to the kitchen to make dinner]

More importantly .... We're Boris and or Natasha in this fan fiction????

Peebs, I have a feeling you're not going to get your answer until Cleome's finished her dinner.

I had pumpkin soup for dinner last night.

There were two attempts (1992's Boris and Natasha and 2000's The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle) to make movies about Rocky and Bullwinkle-related characters. Neither was very successful.

I've never had squirrel soup or moose soup.

But have you had chocolate moose? (*Ducks*)

I am an invertebrate punster. I am spinelessly unable to resist a pun. So slug me.

Or else you'll crawl like a bug? Undulate like an octopus? Squirm like a sponge?

I admit I once poured salt on a slug. I didn't realize it would kill it and certainly didn't think it would be so gruesome.

But...ducks don't breathe water.

I've never eaten chocolate moose...or chocolate ducks. Would anyone like some Cadbury eggs? Or are they eclipsed by dark chocolate diamonds these days?

Best Candy Dispenser Ever by John Swords , on Flickr

The boyfriend and I went down to Galveston last weekend. We passed by a candy shop on the Strand. We saw this chocolate and, ever the smartass, I had to say "Look! An enormous turd!"

To me it looks kind of like a huge caterpillar.

I thought it was a log. Or a poorly made fruitcake.

Robert Smith of the Cure knows something about caterpillars:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfxb1dJeY4k

Caterpillar roll is one of my favorite things at sushi restaurants.

I prefer "dynamite" rolls myself.

Sushi is a wonderful thing. I haven't had it in a while, but it's one of the things, I think, that keeps me from becoming a vegetarian.

I lke the vegetarian sushi. Tried raw fish. Not my thing, but the cooked shellfish sushi was also yummy. But now I can't eat any fish, so it is a moot point.

"Wonder Twin POWERS ... KILL THIS SPROCKING THREAD!!"

Zan: Form of a douche.

Zan seems really nice. Jayna seems like a control freak.

Umm...folks, it looks like I won this one.

I will see this thread BURN.

Mullet Superman...

Peebs, you could have killed this thread 32.5 pages ago?!

Tsk.

Actually, it does look like Rocky won. His last post on the prior page was 22 November 8:21 a.m.

My next post, at the top of this page, was 23 November, 11:57 a.m.

the wink made it look like you were joking.

Congrats, Rocky!!!!

I'll let some congrats flow in, and, if someone else doesn't get to it first, I'll lock this thread when I wake up tomorrow morning.

Thanks, Kent!

The wink was more of a tease. I win and no one notices!

Congrats Rocky!!

Wow! I bet some of us literally fell asleep Congrats, Rocky, O Killer of Threads!

I'm mad at Rocky because he prevented us from avoiding Mullet Superman.

[shakes fist]

Damn you, Penguin Mannnnnnnnnn!!11