Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly Kill This Thread XVIII - The Debutante Death

Scene: a 1920s-style drawing room

Chapman: I say!

Cleveland: Yes, Daddy?

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.

Idle: Caribou.

Chapman: Splendid word!

Idle: No, dear, nibbling the hoops.

(Chapman fires a shotgun)

Chapman (with satisfaction): Caribou -- gorn... 'Intercourse.'

Idle: Later, dear.

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.

Wood is one of the 5 Chinese elements

Wood was the weakness of Green Lantern in the Golden Age.

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.

The Ray has evolved over the years from just riding in beams of light to becoming light.

It's a great power - as long as he can change back to being human.

I am human and I need to be loved just like everybody else does.

Me too

The people of my planet are unable to comprehend this strange emotion you humans call "love".

Uh Oh. Captain Kirk will appear to teach you all about the Earth custom of kissing if you're not careful EDE

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.

But this is Kirk we're talking about. With him, that's not love.

But it could be

He does need to find someone to make him feel true love, finally

Maybe he has and they broke his heart so now he drifts from relationship to relationship.

He's a victim, too!

But it just takes one nelly cap, at just the right angle, to capture his heart once again.

So I do have a shot at Captain Kirk.

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.

Kind of like Nurse Chapel and Spock

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.

I totally agree. I was also annoyed that Carol Marcus just disappeared after Into Darkness. She had a pretty compelling arc, IMO.

James T. Kirk needs a nice boyfriend to settle him down.