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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 XVIII - none XIX - none XX - Quislet, Esq. XXI - thoth lad XXII - Ann Hebistand XXIII - Quislet, Esq. XXIV - Invisible Brainiac XXV - Invisible Brainiac XXVI - Quislet, Esq. XXVII - thoth lad
I love the mumbling in those Popeye cartoons. In the Ali Baba one Bluto (as the chief of the thieves Abu Hassen) says “are you trying to make a fool of me?” To which Popeye replies “Nature beat me to it!”
Hound, an Autobot from the original Transformers, turned into a US Army jeep.
He was my favorite of the "first wave" Transformers. He looked cool and he loved the planet Earth, which reminded him of Cybertron before it became a tech-topia.
Hound had a holographic projector built into him, which always became handy for tricking the enemy.
His voice actor, Ken Sansom, seemed to base Hound's voice on Jimmy Stewart...only Sansom was easier on the ears than Stewart. IMHO.
Yes! That was one of my favorite things about the Transformers show, the "cast of thousands."
It did create some problems during the first season, as a lot of characters got pushed into the background while the writers tried to work out how best to give them all some space.
The second season found the perfect solution: give as many of their characters as possible their own spotlight episode.
One of the things I really dug about the first year Transformers that go lost as the series progressed is how each of them was conceived as having their own special ability/"super power", such as Hound's hologram projector. It was a nice side effect of their character profiles being written by Marvel comics writers.
Good point, although it didn't get entirely lost during Season Two. Blaster had his special sonic powers, Tracks could fly in his car mode (one of my favorite lines from the show is when a Stunticon sees Tracks demonstrate this special power for the first time, he remarks, "A flying car! How droll!"
Certainly made it more interesting than just having everyone be a type of vehicle. As a young boy who never really got into cars and trucks, that was a treat!
I seem to remember an X-Man with 2 slug thingies as companions. Or was he one of the Fallen Angels. Slug was also the name of a rebel leader against the reign of Baron Karza in the Micronauts. That didn't end well. Some very good comics in the Micronauts series, which isn't often the case in tie-in series.
Fire services baffled following latest rooftop blaze. Fire chief Ash told reporters "We're baffled, like your announcer said. It was like a lightning strike but the skies were clear. It's like magic or something."
From memory it looked as though science police controlled the fire engines of the future. Which can only mean there was a war between the emergency services at some point. Read more in Emergency Space Crisis 2525!
I'd read that! On second thoughts no I wouldn't. Having the different groups whose job is to help people fighting against each other sounds depressing.
That remindsme of a darkly satirical scene in Nemesis.One of Torquemada's career torturers gets so upset with the quality of apprentices, that he vents to the victims. One ends up torturing himself while they sort it out. Even the bad guys have feelings.
The thing that most annoyed me about the second Guardians of the Galaxy movie was all the touchy-feely, greeting-card, pop-psych B.S. These were hardened killers, and they were going all soppy and syrupy with not a hint of irony from either the script or the actors. Yuk.
Keeping with movies, I was reading my friend's copy of Dark Empire. I hadn't realised how much of it had made it's way into the last movie. I wonder if the Veitch/ Kennedy got credits in the move, since their work has been lifted and dropped. Much like I wonder if Moore and Miller got credits in the Joker movie.
I've not seen ET, pretty much any animated Disney Movie, the Goonies or Karate Kid. Or nearly all movies after a certain cut off point. I generally catch older movies.
A few years back I was on holidays with my young-adult daughter and three of her young female friends. (I was very kindly treated as the group dad.) It was Christmas in a foreign country and everything was closed so we ended up watching a couple of animated Disney movies I had never seen, Tangled and Big Hero 6. Both were quite entertaining.
With odd exception I've not strayed far from Ghost inthe Shell Akira and Patlabor. Those were a long time ago. I'd be interested in things in a similar vein.
I've watched bits and pieces, but sadly as a child I was always pressured to excel in school and had little time to actually follow long-running series.
I never got into The Simpsons. The only funny bit I remember in 30 years of occasionally giving the show a chance was Homer Simpson seating his big butt on his easy chair while that 70s radio chestnut, "Groove Me," played in the background.
My favorite Simpsons bit was from an early season. Mow is going out to catch the crank caller. He starts to tell Barney to watch the bar but then changes to Homer. Barney says “What kind of hopeless alcoholic do you think I am?” Then he goes “Someone spilled beer in this ashtray!” And he drinks it.
As there never used to be much to do on a Sunday night, I used to watch the early series with my parents. We liked them enough to record them, even if I don't remember details or ever rewatching them. My dad probably liked it best and a "D'oh" or a "robot with a human brain" still makes it into conversation.
Robert Crane appeared recently in Metal Men #4. He was a guest star at a RoboCon 2020 which Tin and Lead attended although he used his alias of Paul Dennis but in his Robotman guise.
I went through his '53 stories for Bits. They were fine although hedging their non super hero bets by having a little humour and a pet dog. I'd like to read more of his earlier tales.
Cliff Steele's creator said he wasn't aware of the earlier version.
With Robotman in the All Star Squadron, I thought Commander Steel as a bit unecessary.
Thomas' Retcon Power and his awesome Continuity Cube trumps little things like team dynamics. Commander Steel would have been used by Thomas before creator Conway brought his grandson back on another Earth in the JLD. Conway's Steel vs Steel plot could have been one used for Infinity Inc had the the JLD not happened.
You'd have thought people would recognise Robotman as his metallic face really didn't replicate the mask that was put over it. The lack of expression and the odd shape would have been give aways.
In Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country, the female Vulcan named Valeris (played by Kim Cattrall) recites the definition and the etymology of the word "sabotage."
I used to make nacho chips with salsa, cheese sauce, ground meat, yogurt (as a substitute for sour cream), and pickle relish (as a substitute for guacamole). Had to make do with what was common in Manila
Isn't Pilate's whole point that no-one has a grasp on truth - especially when being put in a tight spot you don't want to face - (although Webber kinda reversed Jesus words since they were that he claimed to testify to the truth or even be the truth - a bit arrogant, unless of course he was right).
And yeah he missed out on a lucrative future in the Pilates movement there. Done some myself. Never knew some of the places I had muscles.
As a small child, I was a fan of the later seasons of "Alice." I actually didn't find out until much later that there had been other waitresses before Jolene. I was too young for the "Flo Years" of that show.
They're looking release a more polished Xenonauts 2 soonish. The first one has nice Cold War era art to help get into the setting. Its worth playing without waiting.
Did the Xenonauts ever visit a utopia named...Xenadu?
A place where nobody dared to go The aliens that we came to know They call it Xenadu And now, open your eyes and see that the Earth's in flames We are in Xenadu A million lights are dancing and you are, a shooting star Shot from orbit and you're now here with me, eternally Xenadu, Xenadu (Now we are here) in Xenadu
Making your way in the world today takes everything you got. Taking a break from all your worries sure would help a lot. Wouldn't you like to get away?
Making your way in the world today takes everything you got. Taking a break from all your worries sure would help a lot. Wouldn't you like to get away?
"get away?" Is this a travel agents? Then mine's a pint, thanks.
All these organisations scooted across the universe for centuries, before Greta IV's 26th century discovery that their energy trails were directly responsible for a collapsing universe.
I am catching up on the current volume of Justice league which has a whole lot of Snyder weird stuff but one is a new corps, variously called the Unseen/Invisible/Ultra-violet Corps. Apparently it lives off primal urges or some such rubbish and is powered by a (wait for it) sentient ultra-violet sun that captures planets with the deepest darkest urges and adds them to it's "galaxy", so of course it has come for Earth. Although I agree that the emotional spectrum was an interesting idea but perhaps became overdone, compared to this tale Geoff Johns additions are a stroke of genius.
I loved to chew gum until I got TMJ. Of course two insurers ago they made some noise about helping me get therapy for that, but of course it turned out that my plan wouldn't cover that.
Whether they are Ready or Not, sometimes there's nothing like a Marvellous Change of sheets, although don't over smell the detergent or you might Tilt to Dizzy Heights.
I met a guy in the Philippines called Casper. He joked that it wasn't his real name, only his nickname, and it was given because he was relatively pale.
Back when Rosie O'Donnell was not yet famous, I found her funny. Especially when she'd do a bit about how she'd walk bare-legged in the sun, only for rude people to yell, "Yo, Casper, cover up, willya? I'm getting blinded by the sun's glare off those ***damn albino legs of yours!"
I'm not sure I ever found Rosie O'Donnell funny, but I did find hilarious the issue of Darwyn Cooke's The Spirit in which Rosie and Rush Limbaugh (or their obvious stand-ins) turned out to be the same person.
I'm not sure I ever found Rosie O'Donnell funny, but I did find hilarious the issue of Darwyn Cooke's The Spirit in which Rosie and Rush Limbaugh (or their obvious stand-ins) turned out to be the same person.
I should read that. Thanks, EDE.
After I stopped finding her funny, I'd get amused by Howard Stern's jokes about the size of her head.
Back in the 90s, I watched so much stand-up comedy (mostly on Comedy Central and VH1) that I got oversaturated with it. I still watch it every once in a while.
Weirdly enough, with all this talk about stand-up comedy, yesterday I took out a biography of Robin Williams from the library!
It's nice that people have different tastes. Although if we didn't we could hire ourselves out as a live laugh track.
Back when I watched those things, he was easily amongst the unfunniest ones there. He was trading on posh prep school dimness and not much else. That might have been enough to get him an award at Edinburgh. That's usually the path: Get a Edinburgh fringe award; get on a panel show; be nice to the production company that uses the same cast of comedians; shuffle through all the shows; do enough stand up in slack periods to put out a Christmas DVD and look to diversify; presenting/books/TV scripts etc.
Decent, early representation goes along way to getting the connections to get a career out of it. ( A quick peek at Whitehall shows his parents were an actress and a TV producer, so a good example) Radio is currently littered with people who I've not heard a funny thing from. But they're on the track, so I'll be hearing lots more from them regardless.
The good news is that the money from getting on panel shows allows the comedian to hire better writers. So, they can appear to get funnier as their career progresses.
In my younger years, people would sometimes compliment me by saying, "Aw cleome you're so funny! You should do stand-up!"
I was on Twitter for awhile, a few years back. If ever anything persuaded me that the life of a comedian was not for me, it was watching the awful way the majority of those people behave online... not to mention their reliably awful politics. Feh. Give me a nice quiet fileroom and a bottomless cup of coffee any day.
The onscreen or on radio politics of comedians here is pretty homogenised. There's the odd left field one, but it's all about following that production company panel-go-round for the vast majority. There's some unnecessary hypocrisy about it too. Someone got away with an acid attack gag on a righter than centre politician. There was a stony silence and some nervous laughs in the room. But the person got a wrist slap at best.
When I was about 28 my 5 year old niece asked how old I was. I replied “How old do you think I am?” She thought and said “83”. I neither confirmed or denied but asked how old her father was. He is 7 years older than me. She thought and said “19”
I thought there was the one time they were seen together, from a distance, as captured by a blurry photograph, that proves they are NOT one and the same!
Peter Porkchops was actually DC's most successful original funny animal character, with his own series from 1949-1959, as well as being the lead character in Leading Comics.
When Roy Thomas created the Zoo Crew, he brought back Peter and gave him a super-heroic identity!
Fox & Crow were actually a licensed property, having originated in the cartoons originally produced by Columbia Pictures. I would assume they are now owned by Sony?
The Three Mouseketeers made an appearance in Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew, in a time travel issue in which they also met Nero Fox, saxophone-playing emperor of Rome, and the Terrific Whatzit during the Second Weird War.
When I saw the word "kilig," the first thing I thought of were klieg lights. I guess that's because I've been into the behind-the-scenes world of cinema since I was in high school.
The time is precious I know In time it could have been so much more The time has nothing to show 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 (time, time, time)
If you're lost you can look and you will find me Time after time If you fall, I will catch you, I'll be waiting Time after time If you're lost, you can look and you will find me Time after time If you fall, I will catch you, I will be waiting Time after time
"Spend, Spend, Spend" was the title of the memoirs of Vivian Nicholson, a poor Englishwoman who won the lottery and...well, the title makes it clear what happened from there.
Ah "Sweet Charity". First saw the film when I was quite young and most of it went over my head. Great songs and Shirley MacLaine does a great job. Some bits might be a bit dated in terms of acceptable attitudes these days but the basic story still holds up.
When I was a kid, I was thankfully a little too young for Menudo, but their hit single "Caridad," a cover of an Italian song from Umberto Tozzi (best known for the original version of "Gloria") was such a massive hit it was unavoidable.
Once I grew up and heard it again, many years later, I could better appreciate it as a catchy 80s tune.
I considered posting a video, but out of respect for people who cannot stand even the idea of Menudo, I shall refrain.
After learning some Spanish, I began to appreciate the given names of many people I knew from the Philippines. Like Corazan (heart), Fe (faith), Esperanza (Hope).
A number of empty shelves at the supermarket this morning. And no Footy this afternoon! >Cue Airplane panic scene< I turned the radio on for five minutes. It's wall to wall coverage. Turned it back off. Having 24hour news channels makes it all sound a lot worse than it is.
"3. Minimize watching, reading or listening to news that causes you to feel anxious or distressed; seek information only from trusted sources and mainly to take practical steps to prepare your plans and protect yourself and loved ones. Seek information updates at specific times during the day, once or twice. The sudden and near-constant stream of news reports about an outbreak can cause anyone to feel worried. Get the facts; not the rumors and misinformation. Gather information at regular intervals, from WHO website and local health authorities platforms, in order to help you distinguish facts from rumors. Facts can help to minimize fears. "
In the words of one of my favorite fictional grandfather figures, kindly old Sgt. Esterhaus from "Hill Street Blues:"
One of the scenes in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is Deckard getting taken to a police precinct. Except it's not his own. It's a parallel force run by replicants.
Speaking of segregation, the Netherlands has imposed a partial lockdown. Not quite as bad as the ones in Spain or Italy or even France or the Philippine capital...
I like the Peanuts strip where Snoopy & Marcie get back at Peppermint Patty for treating them like cattle by going "Moo, moo, moo," until she runs away, covering her ears.
In the very last football strip, Lucy got called home by her mom, so she asked Rerun to hold the football. When she went back out and asked Rerun if he pulled it away or not, he said, "I won't tell."
An old Peanuts cartoon I like starts with Linus outside and it begins to rain. Linus has a big grin as he starts to run for home. The rain gets heavier. The last panel has Linus coming in soaking wet. He says to Lucy ?A smile makes a lousy umbrella!?
All the Silver Age statue appearances makes me smile on the rarer modern appearances such things make. Other things from comics have the same effect, like comic book gorillas and go-go checks.
I didn't think he'd appeared before his first parody appearance in the late '80s. Since when, hes been used as a stick to mock the Legion by people who never read the book.
It's for a friend's wedding. I haven't booked anything yet as nobody can say whether it will push through. We're still hopeful the coronavirus trend will reverse before then, but who knows?
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Originally Posted by Invisible Brainiac
I do, after all, see them every day in central Amsterdam.
It's the ones you don't see that you have to worry about...
I would hope I could HEAR them coming. They don't exactly seem light on their feet!
I do, after all, see them every day in central Amsterdam.
It's the ones you don't see that you have to worry about...
I would hope I could HEAR them coming. They don't exactly seem light on their feet!
For someone who's now spent a fair bit of time in Europe, has no one told you about the Royal Rhino School of Ballet?!
Just be careful, the next time you think about posting that your partner is giving you the horn. If you're lucky you'll hear the ruffle of a tutu as warning of their attack!
I swear, I haven't "gamed" since the days of Pac-Man and Qbert. I have nothing against games, but don't I already waste *enough* time screwing around when I ought to be doing something important?
Plus, I'm still stubbornly hanging on to my flip phone.
It'd be nice to have a better handle on what people are talking about when they talk games, though.
'Course, when I was a kid they BANNED arcade games after a few years, because kids from poor families were hocking their mom's kitchen appliances for token money. And while my parents weren't poor, we certainly couldn't afford one of those big, stupid state-of-the-art Nintendo stay-at-home set-ups.
We had a Playstation when I was younger, but certainly could not afford buying too many games. We had maybe 5-10 games. My favorite was the Suikoden series. For each, you could recruit 108 characters to your cause.
I still like video games although I prefer turn-based strategy type on a PC to those requiring fast reflexes. Both my sons are deep into games so we talk about them a bit. I also frequent videogamegeek, an offshoot of boardgamegeek which is the largest site for boardgames (another major interest) on the net. Course I am not well enough to play them often but I still like to keep in touch.
When I was little the local kindergarten expanded the number of students it would take. There was a line overnight to sign up kids and my brother Mike waited in line to sign me up.
The Boston Globe did a story on it. But they wrote that my brother waited in line for me and that my child would be attending that fall.
Seconded. Let's talk instead about celebrities who are decent people who use their fame and fortune to try and make the world a better place. Elton John, for instance.
I don't follow much celebrity stuff, so the last things I heard about Elton John were a story about how he became a drug addict, being sued by an employee for harassment and a super-injunction preventing the UK press reporting on some tittle tattle. I was going to say that the stories must have been big to have spread into the main news, but I imagine the press having a field day and reporting it everywhere to get the clickbait in, and being piously enraged when they can't get their way.
Ah, clickbait. There's a Facebook group called Clickbait Crusaders, whose members are dedicated to spoiling clickbait. The practice is to post a screenshot of a clickbait-y Facebook post, and spoil the contents. Screenshots only so you don't reward the clickbaiters by giving them more clicks.
I don't follow much celebrity stuff, so the last things I heard about Elton John were a story about how he became a drug addict, being sued by an employee for harassment and a super-injunction preventing the UK press reporting on some tittle tattle. I was going to say that the stories must have been big to have spread into the main news, but I imagine the press having a field day and reporting it everywhere to get the clickbait in, and being piously enraged when they can't get their way.
That was a long time ago. Like more than 30 years ago. Since then, he's gotten sober (and he's the only celebrity who I actually *believe* when he claims he hasn't once relapsed in 3 decades) and dedicated himself to various LGBTQ causes and other social activism.
He was once every bit as reckless and childish as his peers. Unlike them, he's grown up.
If you have a kitty, that still counts as a relationship. You know, the kind where you're the servant and the kitty's the deity. But still...
There's a certain quality in the laugh of visitors, containing a delighted tone with a hint of future blackmail, as they see me pander to the whims of kitties in a way they know I'd never do for them.
On my first shopping run post-virus shutdown I got a bag of cat food and 3 bags of cat treats. The cashier noted it and said ?can?t run out of that, can we??
Paying dearly for things was what happened with some price gougers a few weeks back, before there was some official response.
I didn't stockpile kitty food in one go, I just bought a small amount extra with each shop over weeks before the lockdown. It lasts a while before it has to be used, and depriving another kitty of its food would get me in trouble. *they're * not on lockdown, and they talk.
People who broke quarantine also paid dearly in fines! Including those silly people who held "I am invincible to the coronavirus ha ha ha" parties (and some of them ended up getting it too)
We're not in complete quarantine. Amongst other things, we can currently leave the house for exercise. Once a day and local and keeping social distancing in place, and basic common sense, like not meeting up with people etc. Fortunately, I live next to a little park and have gone round it.
The restrictions are even looser here in the Netherlands. You can go out as often as you want, though it's highly recommended (and somewhat enforced) to keep 1.5 meters away from others unless you are a pair of people going about. I do see families of 3, 4 or more standing close to one another though, but they are clearly families.
We are family I got all my sisters with me We are family Get up everybody and sing
We are family I got all my sisters with me We are family Get up everybody and sing
Everyone can see we're together As we walk on by (And) and we fly just like birds of a feather I won't tell no lie
all of the people around us they say Can they be that close Just let me state for the record We're giving love in a family dose
We are family (Hey, y'all) I got all my sisters with me We are family Get up everybody and sing (sing it to me)
We are family I got all my sisters with me We are family Get up everybody and sing
Living life is fun and we've just begun To get our share of this world's delights (High) high hopes we have for the future And our goal's in sight
no, we don't get depressed Here's what we call our golden rule Have faith in you and the things you do You won't go wrong, oh no This is our family jewel
We are family (hey, sing it to me) I got all my sisters with me We are family (oh, I can hear you now) Get up everybody and sing
We are family I got all my sisters with me We are family (get up, get up y'all) Get up everybody and sing
We are family (I got all my sisters with me) I got all my sisters with me We are family Get up everybody and sing (Get up and sing it to me)
We are family I got all my sisters with me (we're having fun) We are family Get up everybody and sing
Get up, get up, get up and sing it to me Oh, I can't hear you y'all Oh, have faith in you and the things you do Hey hey, oh hey hey hey Get up, get up y'all Oh, hey hey hey I got my sisters with me Everybody, hey hey hey Get up, get up and sing it to me
We're having fun Life, life has just begun for me Me, me and my family Get up, get up and sing it Sing it, sing it, sing it, sing it to me
Yeah, we're back together like birds of a feather Get up, come on y'all We are family (yeah, sing it to me) I got all my sisters with me
There was a Zatanna story where the bad guy was reversing Zatanna?s words to undo her spells. When she realized what he was doing, she casts her spells using only palindromes.
Pretty clever. And wow, she must have quite the vocabulary... I would try speaking all in palindromes, but probably wouldn't even be able to finish a sentence!
I recall reading a story where the person inventing time travel kept changing. He'd always have a reason for inventing the machine. But would be completely unaware that every time it happened, the world and its history changed around him.
Love that concept Thoth. If you ever remember who wrote the story I would love to read it.
In the Doctor Who universe the Time Lords not only discovered/invented time travel but then setup the rules around it - not just ethical laws but actual physical laws about how it worked (at least in the off-screen canon).
Love that concept Thoth. If you ever remember who wrote the story I would love to read it.
In the Doctor Who universe the Time Lords not only discovered/invented time travel but then setup the rules around it - not just ethical laws but actual physical laws about how it worked (at least in the off-screen canon).
I'd hazard a guess that it was a Future Shock in 2000AD. Another story there had 2 temporal investigators going on a case and returning to HQ. There are other people in the backgrounds, and as the story continues, you see that they are all the two investigators, at different points in time.
When you think about it, there are so many ways to manipulate statistics that even "legitimate" research can come up with silly conclusions. Change the sample size, remove extreme values, do non-random sampling...
One of the reasons cited for people supposedly turning away from "experts" wasn't turning away form knowledge, just the use of poor research and analysis to come up with any old guff. People see right through it, and a lot of them were very tired of it. I could give you some stats on the distribution...
I saw a clip of Weird Al on *~*Conan*~* singing "One More Minute," and I was disappointed to note that he hadn't written any new lyrics for the age of social distancing.
Typical. Talk shows are all a waste of time anyway.
Posting on Legion World is an excellent use of his time. You should allow him to do it as his only duty. He will be the most productive employee you ever had.
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Yeah, I had to leave most of my comic books and books behind when I moved to Europe. Ah well, I still have the memories. And brought a few of the best ones with me.
I stopped buying comics about five years ago. I went into my old comic book store about a year ago and I remembered how I always felt awkward and out of place there because I didn't read the most popular titles, I didn't buy figurines, and I didn't play RPGs. I would sometimes have to wait for ten minutes to get a staff member's attention for them to get my pull list.
I stopped buying comics about five years ago. I went into my old comic book store about a year ago and I remembered how I always felt awkward and out of place there because I didn't read the most popular titles, I didn't buy figurines, and I didn't play RPGs. I would sometimes have to wait for ten minutes to get a staff member's attention for them to get my pull list.
Yeah, some stores really help perpetuate this stereotype that to enjoy comics you have to belong to this whole subculture, which then ends up excluding the people who don't.
Some fans (of anything) can be so proud of their fan status that... well... yeah. Every place I hear the word "noob" getting tossed around, I just tune out.
My favorite episode of Keeping Up Appearances ends with Hyacinth and the vicar's wife find our Rose in a storage closet where the vicar has fallen on top of her. Rose looks at them and says, "It's all right! I'm going to be a nun!"
I tuned into a farce this afternoon, where a girl had fled her house after an argument, creating numerous scenes of misunderstanding as she spent the night at a grand neighbours house... in her pyjamas. Pompous mother of neighbour ended up being caught holding the argumentative instigator's trousers up, as he was using his belt as a muzzle for his angry dog.
One night farmer brown was taken the air Locked up the barnyard with the greatest of care Down in the hen house somethin' stirred When he shouted, "who's there?", this is what he heard There ain't nobody here but us chickens, there ain't nobody here at all So calm yourself, stop that fuss, ain't nobody here but us We're chickens trying to sleep and you butt in And hobble, hobble, hobble, hobble with your chin There ain't nobody here but us chickens, there ain't nobody here at all You're stompin' around, shakin' the ground, kickin' up an awful dust We're chickens trying to sleep and you butt in And hobble, hobble, hobble, hobble, it's a sin
"Extant" might actually make some sense as a villain name if it were used by the evil Hal Jordan, if he was the last extant Green Lantern, but I have no idea what was up with "Parallax".
There was the Parallax View film form the '70s. It had a Manchurian Candidate type of subplot. SO the person you saw was really conditioned to be controlled by someone else. That has some parallels with the GL plot.
I don?t like the DC tv shows because a lot of times the characters do things only because that is what the plot needs them to do rather than because of real motivation.
There is a Norse myth where Thor, Loki, and Thor?s servant boy are traveling and come to a city of giants. They each compete in a contest. Loki in an eating contest, the servant in a foot race, and Thor in a wrestling match.
Thor?s opponent is a little old lady. Thor loses to her and Loki and the servant lose their contests too. It turned out that Thor was wrestling with old age, Loki was pitted against fire, and the servant raced against thought.
Back in the 80s I was at ComicCon with a bunch of friends. My friend Adam had just bought a toy catbus from My Neighbor Totoro and was playing with it. Another friend commented that he was easily amused. I then said ?You should see him with a piece of string!?
String was the topic of one of my favourite "The Goodies" TV episodes when they look for something wholesome and clean to start selling and end up selling string. Still remember the jingle "String, string, string, string, everybod y loves string."
(For those unaware The Goodies was a British comedy TV series in the 70's-80's starring three comedians coming from the same school of comedy as Monty Python. Very popular here in Aus.)
I was sorry to hear of Tim Brooke Taylor's death of COVID-19 related illness. He was a terrific comedian. Amongst many other roles he had a brief part in the original Willy Wonka movie as the computer guy trying to program the computer to predict the location of the last golden tickets.
The Goodies were quite the thing in the UK. The giant Kitten climbing the Post Office Tower was a favourite (Kitten Kong).
I've got into the habit of listening to old comedy shows on the radio, and that's when I realised that the Goodies and Monty Python were so good because all of the comedians worked together on I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again. Actually, that's when the penny dropped that there were several decades of top radio comedy behind loads of TV hits. There's also a goodies/ Python mash up in the At Last, the 1948 Show! (broadcast in the late '60s). There's also Doctor in the House (which I've not seen). Loads of the writers (Brooke Taylor did some of that too) would move around shows too, like Marty Feldman.
A radio spinoff of I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again was I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. I've only listened for 6-7 years, but Taylor's been on it probably since it started in the early '70s. In my listening, it's hosted by deadpan Jack Dee and when Brooke-Taylor was on, they'd invariably have a round where he had to sing a tune with the lyrics of another tune. But pretty much everything about it is funny.
A big loss across lots of media and another bit of cherished childhoods across generations sadly gone.
I also feel for Barry Crier. He's been involved in so many of these shows across TV and radio. Before that, he would have performed in clubs where they all got their starts. He's so often heard saying kinds words and reminiscing about all the comedians, and friends, who have now gone.
The dye packs that banks use are made to look like a packet of money. In a robbery that happened in the bank I worked at (but a different branch), the robber pointed to the dye pack and said ?I want those bills too?. The teller dutifully gave him the dye pack.
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is a Steve Martin movie, made in the '80s but set in the '30s or '40s. It's about Plaid Lad using futuristic technology to solve crimes while trying to return to the future.
I don't know if Tenzil was the most handsome, but he was definitely one of the most attractive. I remember that 5YL story where several female Legionnaires were very complimentary of him, thinking it was a "waste" that he got married.
Sigh, Chris Evans. You could do the laundry on those abs...
I liked it too, and thought it was cool that this obviously punny name was given an in-universe explanation: Granny Goodness mocking him. Speaking of, Granny Goodness is a very ironic, self-mocking name...
I have seen several references on the net to Bismoll's capital city being called Pepto City, but none of them tell me where that was actually published.
All I remember is Proty leading the Super Pets, expanding its size and scope to 25 members... then the Legion apologizing after Proty?s sentience was recognize and admitting it after Cham and Imra left (no more duplication of powers rule as an obstacle!). Proty eventually became Legion leader, finally negotiated with the UP to lift the tax restrictions limiting the Legion to 25, and ushered in the Golden Age for the team...
Proty really knew how to play that whole ?remember when you treated Proteans as pets? angle...
Poochie was a one-shot character in Peanuts, an insensitive girl who hurt the feelings of a very young Snoopy. She threw a stick for him to chase, and then thoughtlessly walked away as he was bringing back the stick.
I've always found Rex "Metamorpho" Mason sexy. Tough guy with a heart of gold archetype. Proof that it's the personality that counts, not the outer appearance.
Completely agree about Rex. He's also smart, curious, adventurous (an archaeologist! who had a lot of insights into different cultures, ancient and modern). No wonder Crimson Fox had a thing for him.
DC's revived Neanderthals is has a few entries, with Java, Gnarrk and Garn (who appeared in Teen Titans before Gnarrk). Not as ingrained as DC Gorillas, but still...
Two Ton Tony Tubbs was a character in a near future UK comic. His need for weight gain to achieve fame was a satire on celebrity culture as well as the levels of self worth a lot of people have. It was a poignant story.
Uranus was a Greek God as opposed to the other planets which were named after their corresponding Roman Gods. The equivalent Roman God was Cronus who the father of Saturn who was the father of Jupiter who was the father of Mars (see how it works?).
Interestingly it was decades after its discovery that the name was agreed upon. The name its discoverer gave it was Georgium Sidus (George's Star) after King George III so it could have been a lot worse.
There was a lot of interesting politics concerning the discovery of new planets and the classification of such. The category of "asteroid" was actually invented as a way of demoting Ceres (and its companions) from planetary status, primarily because the British wanted to maintain the honor of having had the only astronomer to have discovered a new planet. Of course, about the time they finally got everyone else to go along with this, Neptune was discovered by German astronomers, spoiling the whole thing.
When I was young, I went to a lecture by Clyde Thompson, the discoverer of Pluto. It seemed so cool at the time, because he was the only person alive who had discovered a planet, and it seemed unlikely that anyone else would discover a planet anytime soon.
Of course, since then Pluto has been demoted from being a planet, and astronomers are discovering exo-planets all the time now.
If I ever got a chance to go to the moon... I don't think I would take it. so many things to see here on Earth. and going to the moon would take... well, the trip itself would take about three days I think, but the preparation to go there... hmmm... actually... come to think of it.... that wouldn't be so bad...
In one of the early episodes of Futurama they were going to the moon. Frye wanted to do the countdown. The trip took place while he counted down from 10 to 0.
The Futurama episode with Nibbler's birthday included a birthday song with a tune similar to, but slightly different from, "Happy Birthday to You." It went: What day is today? It's Nibbler's birthday! What a day for a birthday! Let's all have some cake.
Since that episode was made, it has been determined the "Happy Birthday to You" is actually in public domain and no royalties need be paid. This explains why movies and TV shows once commonly showed characters singing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow," or a made-up song (such as Nibbler's), or only the closing bars of "Happy Birthday to You."
I remember reading about that, and thinking, if someone DID have the royalties and DID want to enforce it... how? Everyone just sings Happy Birthday in the privacy of their own birthday gatherings.
They'd be able to get their pennies from broadcasting organisations. Every time it was in a jingle or film or TV etc. Every time Monroe sings Happy Birthday Mr President, they make some money.
I strayed from my usual station today (it has now reduced it's schedule so that it repeats 3 times a day (thanks a bunch Beeb)) As the others are 24 hour news misery, I found eclectic mix programmes with a variety of funk, electronic, folk and all sorts) I enjoy these snippets rather than listening to dedicated stations.
No, but when Bugs acts smug I wish someone would kill him.
I actually have a drawing in one of my sketchbooks of Daffy Duck shooting Bugs Bunny dead and saying, "If you want somethin' done right, you gotta do it yer th'elf."
No, but when Bugs acts smug I wish someone would kill him.
I actually have a drawing in one of my sketchbooks of Daffy Duck shooting Bugs Bunny dead and saying, "If you want somethin' done right, you gotta do it yer th'elf."
I was in one of my moods that day.
I can totally relate. I feel the same about most cartoon characters, like Jerry (from Tom and Jerry), Daffy Duck, Mickey Mouse...
When they have a good, justifiable reason for their antics, it's fine. Examples: When Bugs Bunny is just defending himself from Elmer Fudd or Yosemite Sam. But when they torment some poor soul for no reason...
Videoman was an original charater created for Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, and meant to capitalize on the burgeoning popularity of video games in the 80s.
When Wolfman and Perez's Games finally got released, it had a lot of antagonists based on '80s video games. When it was conceived, they were probably more relevant than retro.
Videoman was an original charater created for Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, and meant to capitalize on the burgeoning popularity of video games in the 80s.
You give me fever (you give me fever) when you kiss me Fever when you hold me tight (you give me fever) Fever in the mornin' Fever all through the night
I loved that "Good Thing" song when I was in junior high. I still think it's pretty good. "She Drives Me Crazy," by the same group (Fine Young Cannibals,) is fun to hear every once in a while.
If memory cell serves, they got a couple of directors in for the She Drives Me Crazy video. They felt the first created a video that was too slow, so they got someone else in for some quicker bits and mixed the two. If it wasn't them, it might have been New Order... or...memory cell failing...
She drives me crazy. Has at times applied to my mother, my ex-girlfriend (yes, I didn't always know I was gay!), and that bossy friend of mine who dominated our MBA class.
My new place of work has someone who simply *has* to be part of *any* conversation or activity going. Nice enough, but as long as it centred completely around him and helped his goals. It slowly drove me crazy and I was happy when the team's diverged.
There's hardly anyone in my office, either. Mostly I like this. Except that they left me to reorganize the whole space by myself and almost no one is advising me on whether or not they care for the changes I'm making.
Also, the floor is solid concrete. I get that it's not glitzy enough to merit carpeting but some pads to stand on would be nice. [grumble]
That's the wild part. There is way too much inventory here for such a sparsely-populated office. More duplicate supplies than anyone will use even if they have 50 years to do so. But of course in the current climate they can't donate it.
Also, they could've brought in somebody at this time last year to do inventory of all this unnecessary stuff, ditched it before they moved, and saved themselves a massive headache and probably some money on the moving fees, too. But whatever. Neither the first or last time that I owe my job "security" to bad decisions made by important people.
In one of my previous jobs, we had this insane quota that I could never fulfill, and yet the supervisors liked me so much they let it slide.
Why am I not still there, you might ask? Well...if you have five seconds decades to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life. Didn't think so. No worries, I don't take it personal.
In one of the all-time classic Peanuts Sunday strips (1967 vintage,) Charlie Brown is despondent that his baseball team is getting creamed (yet again,) and Schroeder replies with a quote from the Book of Job -- which leads to the entire team gathering at the mound to discuss theology!
Another time, Charlie Brown traded Snoopy to Peppermint Patty's team in exchange for five equally good players (Snoopy has always been the only good player on Charlie Brown's team.)
Of course, CB was guilt-ridden, and everyone was angry at him for trading his own dog!
The cat rescuers at Tiny Kittens in Vancouver, B.C. dubbed one rescue colony The Peanuts. So when they bring kittens in for adoption they name everyone after characters from the strip. So there's a momcat named Frieda right now and she's adorable.
On Facebook, I follow some rescue groups. Quite heartwarming seeing animals be adopted. Hope it's not a temporary thing, but that the new pet owners actually realize how much work pets can be.
In one of the all-time classic Peanuts Sunday strips (1967 vintage,) Charlie Brown is despondent that his baseball team is getting creamed (yet again,) and Schroeder replies with a quote from the Book of Job -- which leads to the entire team gathering at the mound to discuss theology!
The Sermon on the Mound!
Originally Posted by Quislet, Esq
Both my former cat (R.I.P. Belinda) and my current cat are rescues.
The two currently enjoying the afternoon patio sun here, moved in from other homes, and wouldn't leave. Both started off as rescues.
Apparently only on alternate days, and the types of fish change along with the time of day they're edible, and which dish they're in and whether you've hand delivered it to their snooze spot... and ... oh, It's time for me to clean out more dishes of unwanted cat noms...
Cats are inscrutable. Sometimes you can step over them and they do not move. Other times you walk beside where they are and they jump up to get out of the way.
I used to know a guy who said he'd cook fresh-caught salmon for himself and offer a few morsels to the cats. But they'd only eat the fish after they'd consumed all the kibble around it. Their true obsession was cream cheese and they would cry and beg for a bit of it anytime he got the container out of the fridge.
Cats are inscrutable. Sometimes you can step over them and they do not move. Other times you walk beside where they are and they jump up to get out of the way.
My current cat will literally walk in front of you. No matter how many times she gets stepped on, she keeps doing it.
One of my family dogs is more like a cat than a dog. He naps under the bed so nobody can disturb him. Even if you wake him up in the middle of a nap and wave a steak in his face, if he decides he's too sleepy, he'll just stare at you and go back.
He even has a favorite pillow that he snuggles against like a human would with their favorite pillow.
My Lodger cat is more like a puppy. He follows me around all the time. He likes to have his mind put at ease, as he knows it's not Home #1 (mind you, we're on 5 months now).
Originally Posted by Ann Hebistand
Swing Out Sister is one of those groups I've heard good stuff about, that I keep intending to listen to, but never get around to it.
Will remedy that later today. Thanks, Thoth.
There's a Swing Out Sister Golf company in the UK. I thought that was a neat company name.
Our second dog was like that at first, we were Home #2. After about six months or so, she got used to it, and began asserting herself as Queen over our first dog.
My Lodger cat is more like a puppy. He follows me around all the time. He likes to have his mind put at ease, as he knows it's not Home #1 (mind you, we're on 5 months now).
Originally Posted by Ann Hebistand
Swing Out Sister is one of those groups I've heard good stuff about, that I keep intending to listen to, but never get around to it.
Will remedy that later today. Thanks, Thoth.
There's a Swing Out Sister Golf company in the UK. I thought that was a neat company name.
That is pretty clever.
BTW, I did listen to some of their songs, and commented on one of them in the Anywhere Machine's So What Are You Listening To thread, but no one replied.
Drawing curtains is a bit less important than not drawing breath, which would mean curtains for you. But it helps let the day into your life and put your life into the day.
I was stunned to find that the UK also uses miles and other imperial units for road signs... the Philippines is a bit like the UK, except we often use imperial units for height and weight. I would think of my height in feet and inches, for example. But for distances and driving, we use the metric system.
No. It is because the sales tax can vary from state to state. Also one state might tax an object that another does not. Having national distribution of products but varying sales tax, the price tag just shows the price without tax.
The last flight I was on was my return from Australia. That was a long flight.
I have only done one international flight which was to Europe (well two including the return flight) but the 14 hour flight from Melbourne to Abu Dhabi was looong.
Where did you visit while you were over here, Quis?
I have mixed feelings about some countries with questionable governments and human rights records. On one hand, they offer beautiful sights and amazing experiences. On the other hand, would I really want to enter such environments?
I'd love to see stuff like the remains of Babylon, but I've also come to accept that it's unlikely to be a place that I'd actually feel comfortable going with my lifetime, so...
On my flight to Australia I got a little nervous when I realized that I would be flying over the Middle East. But then I realized that there are probably hundreds of flights through that area every day so the probability of being shot down was low.
stile86, I flew from Boston to Perth and spent a week there. Then flew to Sydney for a week. Then up to Darwin for 4 days. I liked Perth the best. I went out to Rottnest Island for a day.
If I go again I will probably go back to Perth then to Melbourne and maybe Tasmania.
Alas, I have only been to Sydney and the Gold Coast.
Melbourne and Uluru are my top priorities for my next visit to Australia, whenever that may be. But I also want to see Brisbane, Perth, Tasmania and the Great Barrier Reef...
I've found that my wanderlust has been tempered a bit though. Maybe because I feel at home here in the Netherlands, so I no longer have the burning desire to escape from something.
"Dutchmen are good sailors" is a standard example of a weak generic statement (i.e. one that is asserted as true of a group even though it is not true of most members of the group).
I remarked to my family early on that if these lockdowns continue for long then men's hair fashion is likely to go from the current short-closecropped to either long or shaved bald.
I'd rather morph my body into one... though if I did have enough money, I could buy a house with a pool and hire a nutritionist and chef to prepare all my meals..
"Behold! I bring you the Superman", taunted Nietzsche, "in my copy of Action Comics #1."
"Gott und dammerung!" cursed Wagner. "How could you show off your comic collection? You know mine was incinerated in that unfortunate fire in Vallhalla."
Muttering that a new collection would rise in the place of the old, Wagner went off to keep his new comics in safer locations, free of foreshadowed cataclysm, such as New Genesis and Hellboy's Earth.
An avid DC collector, Nietzsche would ensure his former friend was remembered. Readers will note the appearances of Wotan and Firebrand in the first All Star Squadron arc.
Ducktales was just a little bit after my time, but as a kid I loved reading reprints of the Carl Barks comic book stories that inspired it.
These days, Barks tends to be labeled a racist, a misogynist, and a reactionary. And while I think there's a grain of truth there (especially his attitudes towards women,) I think "tolerant misanthrope with a sense of humor" would be a fairer summation.
I don't know enough about the Barks background to comment on that... but I also think there's no harm in enjoying his work for what it is. It's not like Barks committed horrible crimes against humanity, after all.
I don?t think Barks was intentionally racist or misogynistic but more a product of the times in which he wrote. That said any racism or misogyny in the stories needs to be pointed out and discussed.
I heard a sketch last week where the animals conduct an intervention for Pooh on his crazed honey addiction. It cites some of his published adventures as highly endangering acts to get his fix, and his mood swings when he doesn't get the honey. Piglet has become scared of him. At the end, it's the thought that his behaviour has parallels with the deranged Tigger that convinces Pooh to stop.
Oh no! How can we have Pooh without him feeling it was time for a little something? (Actually writing that out and I can totally agree with an intervention order.)
Oh no! How can we have Pooh without him feeling it was time for a little something? (Actually writing that out and I can totally agree with an intervention order.)
Exactly.
It was in John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, which gets a thothy double thumbs up.
Edit: And it was a deranged Tigger comparisons he gave up honey on account of. I'd left out tigger in my last post, and it must have been keeping people up nights wondering.
One story has a young woman telling Dorothy that she could not go to Dorothy?s party because she cannot bear fools. Dorothy replies Your mother could.
My favorite Dorothy story involves her running feud with Clare Boothe Luce. Once they both arrived at a restaurant at the same time. Mrs. Luce said Age before beauty. Dorothy replies And pearls before swine and walked in to the restaurant.
I just occurred to me that in my 15 years at Legion World, I''ve always pronounced "Quis" as "Quiz." I never (even in the two times I met him in person) asked how he pronounced it.
Quis, oh Quis What a pleasure it is To play Spaceopoly games with you And when I say that I, too Like Quislet the Legionnaire It's true, it's true, it's true Even though fans of his are all too rare That makes us special, so there
Quis, oh Quis What a pleasure it is To play Spaceopoly games with you And when I say that I, too Like Quislet the Legionnaire It's true, it's true, it's true Even though fans of his are all too rare That makes us special, so there
Music class in high school? The final exam was drawing a keyboard on a piece of paper and labeling each key. Never actually got to touch a musical instrument.
I never had the discipline to do well with an instrument. Eventually, I was told "just sing in the choir." That was in my teens. I've pretty much been doing it ever since.
I still remember the screams of the kid readers, when Frank Miller turned Dr Teeth into a post modern villain who extracted the molars of his victims with pliers. "It's an ironic statement about healthcare," he said over the howling.
A certain old woman, out of excessive curiosity, fell out of a window, plummeted to the ground, and was smashed to pieces.
Another old woman leaned out of the window and began looking at the remains of the first one, but she also, out of excessive curiosity, fell out of the window, plummeted to the ground and was smashed to pieces.
Then a third old woman plummeted from the window, then a fourth, then a fifth.
By the time a sixth old woman had plummeted down, I was fed up watching them, and went off to Mal'tsevisky Market where, it was said, a knitted shawl had been given to a certain blind man.
One day Orlov stuffed himself with mashed peas and died. And Krylov, on finding out about this, also died. And Spiridonov died of his own accord. And Spiridonov's wife fell off the sideboard and also died. And Spiridonov's children drowned in the pond. And Spiridonov's grandmother hit the bottle and took to the road. And Mikhailovich stopped combing his hair and went down with mange. And Kruglov sketched a woman with a whip in her hands and went out of his mind. And Perekhrestov received four hundred roubles by wire and put on such airs that he got chucked out of work. They are good people all -- but they can't keep their feet firmly on the ground.
A baby was born and did not cry at all. As he got older he did not say a word. His parents took him to doctors and specialists but no one could find anything wrong. When he was 10 they were eating dinner and he said ?The peas are cold.?
Everyone was astonished. His mother says ?If you could talk all this time, why didn?t you say something?? He replied ?Everything was good until now!?
It's really a good one! I still remember how compelled and interested I was by it. It really sucked me in again, after a bit of losing interest in the late Reboot just before DNA took over.
I thought it was going to be like the team stuck between Orando and Earth at the start of the Baxter run. So I skipped it. I wasn't taken by DnAs Legion #1 either so I skipped all of that too.
I thought it was going to be like the team stuck between Orando and Earth at the start of the Baxter run. So I skipped it. I wasn't taken by DnAs Legion #1 either so I skipped all of that too.
What were your initial impressions of Legion of the Damned and Widening Rifts? I would imagine they must not have been favorable, either, if you really thought DnA would do something as awful as the early Baxter issues.
Originally Posted by Rockhopper Lad
The first time I saw "Orando" in a Legion comic, I misread it and thought Jeckie was saying she was Princess of Orlando.
It always makes me think of "orange," like in orange soda. Coke vs Pepsi, Orando vs Orangina.
Was Zoe's homeworld actually misprinted as "Aelph" once? I seem to have a vague memory of that, but maybe I'm making this up as a way of explaining Ibby's error!
"Won't you pick the pieces up 'Cause it feels just like I'm walking on broken glass Thanks a bunch Nick Lowe"
- Annie Lennox
Nick was too busy counting his royalties from the "Bodyguard" soundtrack (which, for those not in the know, had a terrible cover version of "What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?")
I don't know that I have ever had Dutch food. We used to have a really good Belgian restaurant, but it was more with the French/Walloon influence than the Dutch/Flemish.
When I first got home my wife Teresa beat me, But the blows fell very lightly on my back. She kept missing ev'ry other stroke And crying from the heart That while I was gone She'd gone and lost the knack! Of course, I hit her back, Your Grace, but she's a lot harder than I am, and you know what they say... "Whether the stone hits the pitcher or the pitcher hits the stone it's going to be bad for the pitcher" So I've got bruises from here to...
Sancho was a recruitable character in the Suikoden I Japanese Playstation RPG. Sancho was the squire of Maximillian, who was a very Don Quixote-like character.
One of my favorite Monty Python sketches is "Sam Peckinpah's Salad Days," where a stereotypical upper-class British family tennis game turns into a bloodbath.
Nothing like the smell of cat fur after they've come back in from outside, where they've been sitting in trees and bushes waiting for boids. They come in carrying their cute little sniper rifles with them. So sweet.
Our smallest pup is always being licked and groomed by her bigger sister (well, they're technically twins, but the big one is like three times the size). So, the small one often smells like sloppy dog spit.
If there's a sachet opening he'll be there! If there's the hint of an opportunity to be the centre of attention, he'll appear! If he can do this while dominating other cat's and territory, his job is done! Impervious to criticism! Able to walk through any cat hissing! Yes! It's Lodger Cat!
I do feel for him. He's a rescue cat, but has a good home, where his sister lives (also a fraction of his size). He's desperate not to let anything pass him by, in case it affects his place. In contrast, Leia cat has Super Grumpy as a power and does what she likes. Lodger Cat (teddy) is really a bit insecure.
of our dogs, one acts like Super Grumpy Leia Cat. He usually hides under the bed or in a corner when he wants a nap, and you can literally wave a steak in his face and he'll just look at you and go back to sleep.
He also nips at the others whenever they're being noisy or whenever they annoy him.
Except his mother, even he can't handle her. She's the only one grumpier than him.
I didn't like Disney's Alice in Wonderland. I prefer the uplifting, heroic-journey, musical numbers and (actual) funny characters of Little Mermaid, Mulan, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Hercules, Tarzan...
The British folk song "A Maid That's Deep in Love" is about a woman who disguises herself as a cabin boy in order to sail to America, and the confusion of the captain who finds himself lusting after her unaware of her true identity.
Some people cheekily claim that Shang from Disney's Mulan is bi, as he seemed to have started getting feelings for Mulan when she was disguised as a man.
I was reminded of the reveal of Roger Taylor as a schoolgirl in Queen's I want to break free video. I had to search for which one of them it was. So I've just learned that MTV banned it because of the crossdressing. The song was' 84 and the ban lasted until '91. That's a lot of years it was run without a brain cell.
I've been so much happier since moving to Europe. Sure, there are still people with bigoted views here, but the proportion I encounter is much fewer than when I was still back in the Philippines.
Super highways, coast to coast Easy to get anywhere On the transcontinental overload Just slide behind the wheel How does it feel
When there's no destination that's too far And somewhere on the way You might find out who you are
Living in America Eye to eye, station to station Living in America Hand to hand, across the nation Living in America Got to have a celebration Rock my soul
Smokestack, fatback Many miles of railroad track All night radio, keep on runnin' through Your rock 'n' roll soul All night diners keep you awake, hey On black coffee and a hard roll
You might have to walk the fine line You might take the hard line But everybody's working overtime
Living in America Eye to eye, station to station Living in America Hand to hand, across the nation Living in America Got to have a celebration
I live in America, help me out But I live in America Wait a minute
You might not be looking for the promised land But you might find it anyway Under one of those old familiar names Like New Orleans (New Orleans) Detroit City (Detroit City), Dallas (Dallas) Pittsburgh P.A. (Pittsburgh P.A.) New York City (New York City) Kansas City (Kansas City) Atlanta (Atlanta) Chicago and L.A.
Living in America - hit me Living in America - yeah I walk in and out Living in America
I live in America - state lines Gonna make the prime, that I live in America - hey I know what it means, I
Living in America Eddie Murphy, eat your heart out Living in America Hit me, I said now Eye to eye, Station to station Living in America So nice, with your bad self Living in America - I feel good!
Once again I find myself coming across a song that I heard in my childhood; it's tantalizingly familiar but I never learned the song name or the singer.
Not Strange Looks! That insidious villain power that causes a hero to feel self conscious in their spandex! That's what led to that hero trend of wearing Jackets. Animal Man, The Avengers, Starman...
There was an Archie comics story where Archie learns to use insincere flattery to get out of trouble around school.
The staff (Mr. Weatherbree, Ms. Grundy) taught him a lesson about it, by engineering things so... I'm trying to remember. It was either Veronica overhearing Archie flatter Betty, or Moose overhearing Archie flatter Midge.
If Archie worked on losing the insincere tone and did to everyone, then they might all think he's a nice guy. Anyone who is jealous from overhearing something, is insecure as well as an eavesdropper.
I'd have thought they were wary of it. The last thing you want is Arthur Curry glaring at you over the JLA meeting table because you killed and ate his best friend.
I'm sure it's a Timewarp that brings them. I don't think a medium is needed to narrate them. Checks cupboard of Legion comics... discovers a medium sitting reading timewarped comics... closes door...confussled?.
In France, the keyboards are slightly different. Among other things, the Q and A are transposed. I remember being in an internet cafe and typing an email to a friend about what a great time I was having in Pqris.
I had to work with the French keyboard for a couple of months. The S is also different from its English-keyboard position. S and A are both very common in English and in French, so you can imagine my difficulties.
I learned touch typing in high school as well. Everyone in the class was amazed at how fast I was at it, but the reason was that I'd been hunting and pecking for years, and instinctively already knew where the letters were.
This one used to open the bedroom door of the big house I shared with six others in Boston in the early '90s. The house was built around 1897. The lock finally gave out and was replaced when I lived there. I kept the old key.
I don't know that it was necessarily original to the house. I do miss that about Boston. In Houston, there are very few buildings that date back before World War II.
I don't know that it was necessarily original to the house. I do miss that about Boston. In Houston, there are very few buildings that date back before World War II.
I hear you. That's exactly how I feel about Philadelphia, where I'm originally from, as compared to Miami, which I live in the vicinity of. They just don't build them like they used to.
I am older than you. I will always be older than you. Until I die. Then you have a chance to catch up and pass me. But I won?t care because I will be dead.
You're older than you've ever been. And now you're even older. And now you're even older. And now you're even older. You're older than you've ever been. And now you're even older. And now you're older still. Time! Is marching on. And time, is still marching on. This day will soon be at an end and now it's even sooner. And now it's even sooner. And now it's even sooner. This day will soon be at an end and now it's even sooner. And now it's even sooner. And now it's sooner still. ?
Embrace me, My sweet embraceable you. Embrace me, You irreplaceable you. Just one look at you, my heart grew tipsy in me. You and you alone bring out the gypsy in me. I love all The many charms about you, Above all, I want my arms about you. Don't be a naughty baby, Come to papa, come to papa, do! My sweet embraceable you.
I remember going to a friend's house party last December. All the guests were gay men, most were single, and at one point I was surrounded by six men who were complimenting my behind at the same time...
The 13 members of the Legion of Doom were Lex Luthor, Brainiac, Bizarro, Toyman, Riddler, Scarecrow, Cheetah, Giganta, Captain Cold, Gorilla Grodd, Sinestro, Solomon Grundy, and Black Manta.
after this is over...
I should be in bed anyway.
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