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Why would we slug you over puns? Let's not have a cow. It's not like you've ruffled any feathers with your puns.
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A slug is an invertebrate
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Many politicians might as well be invertebrates, what with their complete lack of spines.
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Humanoid from the Deep
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How many politicians does it take to change a light bulb?
Two: one to change it and another one to change it back again.
Keep up with what I've been watching lately! "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you."
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How many reparative therapists does it take to change a light bulb?
One, but the light bulb really has to want to change.
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How many Harry Potters does it take to change a lightbulb?
One. He holds it and lets the world revolve around him.
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Ho many idiots does it take to change a light bulb.
100. One to hold the bulb and 99 to turn the house.
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How many consultants does it take to change a light bulb?
I'll have an estimate for you a week from Monday.
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How many Brainiacs does it take to change a lightbulb?
Lightbulbs are obsolete. Brainy will just invent something better.
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I have a dirty version of ^^^ this joke
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How many Ultra Boys does it take to change a lightbulb?
Ultra Boy will never be able to change a light bulb, not because he doesn't know how, but because he's the poser son of nouveau-riche parents who is unhealthily obsessive about keeping up the façade of a moronic, hot-headed wrong-side-of-the-tracks rough boy.
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I love this version of Superboy 98 ![[Linked Image]](http://tonyznet.com/art/superboy98remix.jpg)
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How does his Ultra Penis work?? Can he only make one testicle at time function???  And why am I even asking an inane question about a character I hate*?? Oh, of course, the answer was starting me in the face the whole time -- so that this post of mine can be the one that will finally *kill this thread.* *The Preboot version, that is. J'adore the Postboot Ultra Boy!!
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I don't hate Preboot Ultra Boy. I just don't find him particularly interesting. Put him in the category of "meh" Legionnaires for me. 
Keep up with what I've been watching lately! "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you."
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Not much between despair and ecstacy
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Me, too. To me, he was always a poor man's Superboy or Mon-El. All those powers but can use only one at a time? Sheesh.
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If Preboot Ultra Boy had remained just as He Who described him^^, then I wouldn't have a problem with him. But I hate the way TMK made him so damn perfect in every way and at everything, always one step ahead of everyone else, always pulling off some kind of deception or hypocrisy for the supposed greater good.
There *are* things about the TMK Legion that I hate more than The Infallible Ultra Boy, but that's the one I find the most obnoxious.
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I refer the right honourable Lady to my posts outlining other takes on TMK Ultra Boy 
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
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If Preboot Ultra Boy had remained just as He Who described him^^, then I wouldn't have a problem with him. But I hate the way TMK made him so damn perfect in every way and at everything, always one step ahead of everyone else, always pulling off some kind of deception or hypocrisy for the supposed greater good.
There *are* things about the TMK Legion that I hate more than The Infallible Ultra Boy, but that's the one I find the most obnoxious. Yeah, that did get annoying after a bit. Threeboot Ultra Boy is the one I truly loathe, though. Reminds me of the hyper-aggressive bullies I used to know. Preboot Ultra Boy before TMK was also meh to me. I have a dirty version of ^^^ this joke Go for it, Quis! I love this version of Superboy 98 I'm sure there is a fully-drawn comic book out there somewhere 
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I refer the right honourable Lady to my posts outlining other takes on TMK Ultra Boy Thoth, I think I still remember, off the top of my head, the gist of those posts. IIRC, your contention was that TMK were merely reading between the lines, and elaborating on dropped hints, all from throughout Legion continuity up to that point. I would counter that their obsessive overreliance on twisting obscure Legion continuity minutiae to suit their twisted purposes was, in my humble opinion, pure fanwank, as well as counter-productive to good, coherent storytelling.
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Bold changes they made, yes. Not all worked out for the better. Giving Jo flashes of brilliance was good, but at times he felt like a Mary Sue to me. Handsome, muscular, chased by the ladies, powerful (despite the one power at a time limitation he is still up there), and now devious and smart too!
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I agree with almost everything that you just posted, Ibby.^^
My only caveat would be that, IMHO, he felt like a Mary Sue in *every* panel that he polluted with his presence.
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I would not say every, but he did end up a bit over the top, Fanfie.
Threeboot Ultra Boy went the other way, Becoming so dumb and arrogant that he ended up seeming like a neanderthal.
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And right in the perfectly balanced middle is Postboot Ultra Boy, the lovable lug who really *is* what he claims to be, and whose heart is always in the right place, even if he can't always articulate it in the best way (say it with a cactus? Ouch!) 
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