Thanks to Quis for calling and closing the last thread

Yet Another Kill This Thread!

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, time to kill!

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

I say we lock Ibby up for all these thread murders so he can't post anymore!

They were mercy killings!

Hmmm...perhaps Ibby is more Querl's Computo-and-Omega-creating shadow-self than sweet, sunny Lyle??

Lyle has often been snooty and sarcastic. At least in the Reboot.

And don't get me started on the Threeboot version!

So if I am following what you are trying to say, Threeboot should have been actually been given the proverbial boot?

For some reason I keep hearing that as a pop song by Lady Gaga.

Threeboot was given the boot...
For some reason I don't give a hoot...
Maybe I should but...
I just can't seem to not say just say whoot!

I can imagine us dancing to it while wearing raw meat.

I once went to a French restaurant where I was told by a manager to order the raw venison. Then he wanted the lamb neck. Needless to say I want to another restaurant after that dinner.

I am a fussy eater. And I like my meat medium well.

I'm not much of a meat eater at all, though I am not a vegetarian.

And you can always tell when I'm a way from LW. Ibby kills a thread.

It has become a bit of a pattern recently

So since it is a pattern that makes Ibby a serial thread killer!

Only Rocky can keep me good!

The rest of you just make me very bad.

I prefer the original Rocky Horror Picture Show.

I never watched it.

I prefer Phantom of the Paradise to Rocky Horror.

The cartoon The Funky Phantom

The voice of Mudsy was provided by Daws Butler and was identical to his voice work for Snagglepuss, down to the use of Snagglepuss's catchphrases, (In turn, that voice was an impersonation of actor Bert Lahr.)

I got introduced to the Funky Phantom through the recent Scooby-Doo series.

We were cold and soaking wet, and lost out in a storm
We went inside a spooky house, just hoping to get warm
A funky clock said half past six, we knew that it was wrong
But when we set the hands to twelve, the clock began to ..
(Bong!)

(Whooo!)

"It's a Funky Phantom!"

"The spirit of 1776 even. At your service"

We found a friend, friend, friend, in Funky Phantom
He'll pop right in just when you need him most
And Boo will too, and you can't do without them
That cat and that funky phantom ghost.

"It's Funky Phantom Time!"

Ex-Monkee Micky Dolenz played the character Skip on The Funky Phantom.

I do a fair-to-middling Davy Jones impersonation singing the Monkees' "Daydream Believer" at karaoke.

Peter (to Marcia):
I got it! Take this down. 'To Davy Jones. Dear Sir, you have just won a 10 million dollar sweepstakes. For information, contact Marcia Brady at...'

Greg:
What's that got to do with singing at the prom?

Peter:
Nothing, but it would sure get his attention.

Davy Jones' locker is a real thing. In Pirates of the Caribbean anyway.

Well if Davy Jones of the Monkees ever went to gym, I am sure he had a locker.

John Paul Jones's body was ceremonially removed from interment in a Parisian charnel house and brought to the United States aboard the USS Brooklyn (CA-3), escorted by three other cruisers. On approaching the American coastline, seven U.S. Navy battleships joined the procession escorting Jones's body back to America. On April 24, 1906, Jones's coffin was installed in Bancroft Hall at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, following a ceremony in Dahlgren Hall, presided over by President Theodore Roosevelt who gave a lengthy tributary speech. On January 26, 1913, the Captain's remains were finally re-interred in a magnificent bronze and marble sarcophagus at the Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis

Annapolis Street in Metro Manila has some delicious Chinese restaurants.

Annapolis was known as the Athens of America during the seventeenth century and once served as the capital of the United States.

Boston is also known as the Athens of America. We won it off of Annapolis in a poker game.

A wooden codfish hangs in the State House located in Boston. It was once stolen.

I had some cod in Scandinavia

Another local Boston fact. The tallest building in Boston is the Hancock Tower. It is 60 stories tall. When it was opened in the early 1970s, windows would pop out and crash into the streets below. Each window was 4 feet by 11 feet and weighed 500 lbs. They eventually figured out what was causing it and had to replace all 10,344 panes. For a while the building was known as the Plywood Palace or Plywood Ranch because of all the plywood covering the empty windows.

52 miles south of Boston is Fall River home to Lizzie Borden, tried and acquitted for the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother.

Lizzie Borden took an axe
Gave her mother 40 whacks
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father 41.

Elsie the Cow is a cartoon cow developed as a mascot for the Borden Dairy Company in 1936 to symbolize the "perfect dairy product".

Speaking of dairy products: what the hell are kraft singles made out of? NO WAY is that cheese.

The product's full name is Kraft Pasteurized Processed Cheese Product. It cannot be called cheese because less than 51% of it is actually cheese. The rest is composed of other ingredients.

I've seen a few ads that tout that their product is made with real ingredients. Yup. Nothing imaginary in this cake mix.

It's like Cheez Whiz. I never liked Cheez Whiz.

The cheeses with that "natural" day glo orange like in Cheetos? Supposed to be made also from "real" cheese.

Even condiments like ketchup aren't all that good for us.

Ketchup and catsup are simply two different spellings for the same item.

Las Ketchup are one of my biggest guilty pleasures -- I actually know songs of their OTHER THAN their one hit!!

That one hit was a pretty nice listen.

I agree, and I do still enjoy it every once in a while, but these days, I like those other two songs more, because I've only heard them about 20 times each to the Big Global Monster Hit's 2000 times.

It's rare that I enjoy a song even after listening to it hundreds of times. I only have less than ten such songs.

Growing up with Schoolhouse Rock, I can only sing the Preamble to the US Constitution.

There are many calls for the Philippine Constitution to be amended.

Love the School House Rocks Adverbs song.

I have a DVD of them all.

I don't have many DVDs. They take up too much space for me.

I've recently started collecting Blu Rays of my favorite films.

I've been to Blue Man Group. I don't if any of them were named Ray.

Do they like playing ball?

Ray Charles was able to play piano, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet and organ since attending School for Deaf and Blind in Florida.

My grandmother used to have an organ in her living room.

Skin is the largest organ of the human body

Skin was part of Generation X.

I am a part of Gen X.

I'm Gen Y.

Members of Generation Y are often referred to as "echo boomers" because they are the children of parents born during the baby boom (the "baby boomers").

One of the most common questions my clients ask me, is how to retain and engage Generation Yers.

Naturally, all those clients who ask are Generation X or older.

In Ben 10 - Alien X has three personalities: Serena, the 'voice of love and compassion', Bellicus, the 'voice of rage and aggression' and Ben, the 'voice of reason'. All three of these voices combine to form Alien X's speech. Alien X is silent. The only things he will say are what he will be doing - what Ben, Bellacus and Serena have agreed to do.

You ever see "X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes"? Pretty decent flick

A guy called Doctor Xavier has weird optic powers, in the film released in September 1963. Meanwhile in comicdom, a guy called Professor Xavier has a top student with weird optic powers. Issue 1 released September 1963

Xavier University is a co-educational Jesuit, Catholic university located in Norwood, an enclave of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. The school is the sixth-oldest Catholic and fourth-oldest Jesuit university in the nation.

Xavier School is a Jesuit Catholic college preparatory school exclusive to boys in Metro Manila. The population is predominantly Chinese-Filipino.

The election of Pope Francis as the first Jesuit pope of the Catholic Church.

Francis. I always associate that name with Deadpool now.

I loved the Francis the Talking Mule movies when I was a kid.

Was Francis the Talking Mule a spinoff of either Mister Ed or My Mother The Car?

Neither.

The first Francis movie was in 1950
Mr. Ed debuted in 1958
My Mother the Car debuted in 1965

O Guarani which debuted in 1857, Peri is a fictional character and the protagonist of Jose de Alencar's O Guarani (The Guarany). Peri is a Brazilian Indian tribe goitacá (despite the title of the book referred to the Guaraní, both tribes are distinct).

I did not know that

Neither did I.

I knew you would say that

Say, say, say what you want but don't play games with my affection
Take, take, take what you need but don't leave me with no direction
All alone I sit home by the phone waiting for you baby (baby)
Through the years how can you stand to hear my pleading for you dear?
You know I'm crying, ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Yeah

Now go, go, go where you want but don't leave me here forever
You, you, you stay away so long, girl, I see you never
What can I do, girl, to get through to you
Cause I love you baby (baby)
Standing here baptized in all my tears, baby through the years
You know I'm crying, ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

You never ever worry and you never shed a tear
You're saying that my love ain't real
Just look at my face, these tears ain't drying

You, you, you can never say that I'm not the one who really loves you
I pray, pray, pray every day that you'll see things, girl, like I do
What can I do, girl, to get through to you
Cause I love you (love you) baby (baby)
Standing here baptized in all my tears, baby through the years
You know I'm crying, ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

Say, say, say
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

Ooh, ooh, ooh, say, say, say
Ooh, ooh, ooh, say, say, say
Ooh, ooh, ooh, say, say, say
Ooh, ooh, ooh, say, say, say
Ooh, ooh, ooh, say, say, say
Ooh, ooh, ooh, say, say, say
Ooh, ooh, ooh, say, say, say
Ooh, ooh, ooh, say, say, say
Ooh, ooh, ooh, say, say, say
Ooh, ooh, ooh, say, say, say
Ooh, ooh, ooh, say, say, say

Written by Michael Jackson, Paul Mccartney

Some things are better left unsaid.

"The Best Things in Life Are Free" is a duet between American singers Luther Vandross and Janet Jackson, recorded for the Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis-produced soundtrack to the 1992 American film, Mo' Money

And Volkswagon produced a car, the Thing in the United States (1973–74)

We used to have a yellow Volkswagen Beetle.

So did we. And my parents took all four of us boys in it on 5 hour road trips in the summer with no AC and a dog. Not a great experience. Both my brother, Doug, and the dog got car sick. We others would fight to sit in that cubby behind the rear seat to stay away from the others. My mother also had the fish bowl between her feet. We were going to or returning from two weeks at our cabin in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.

If your summers are anything like mine, I can just imagine...

We never brought our pet fish along, though.

The Fish is a character from the Dr. Seuss books. His real name is revealed to be Carlos K. Krinklebein in the TV program The Cat in the Hat, while he had no name in any of the other adaptions of the book, in which he was just called 'Fish'.

One fish, two fish,red fish, blue fish.

Baked Bluefish

Ingredients
One bluefish fillet (1/2 pound to 1 pound)
Kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
3 to 5 very thin slices of fresh lemon
3 pats of butter (about a teaspoon each)
Several sprigs of fresh herbs such as tarragon, thyme, fennel fronds, and/or parsley (or a teaspoon of dried herbs such as Italian seasoning or Herbes de Provence)
3 Tbsp dry white wine
2 Tbsp lemon juice


1 Preheat oven to 350°F. Cut a piece of foil large enough to enclose the bluefish fillet. (You can double layer the foil if you are working with thin foil). Place the foil in a roasting pan. Rinse the bluefish fillet and place it in the center of the foil, skin side down.

2 Sprinkle the fillet with salt and pepper. Lay a layer of thin lemon slices on top of the fillet. Arrange pats of butter along the top of the fillet. Lay several sprigs of fresh herbs on top of the butter and lemon slices.


3 Create a boat shape with the foil around the fish so that liquid does not leak out. Pour white wine over the fish, and sprinkle with the lemon juice. Crimp the edges of the foil together so they are relatively sealed.


4 Place in the preheated oven (or you can put the foil packet on the grill) and bake for 15 to 20 minutes or so, until the fish is cooked through and opaque. Carefully lift the fillet from the foil and place on a serving dish. Pour the cooking liquid over the fish to serve.

I have this Asian simmered fish recipe that my mom really likes. Even though she would not eat half the ingredients if I gave them to her raw.

Ingredients to make homemade Slime:

In one bowl mix 1/2 cup (4 oz) glue and 1/2 cup water. Add food coloring if you want colored slime. In the other bowl, mix 1 teaspoon borax with 1 cup water until the borax is dissolved. Add the glue mixture to the borax solution, stirring slowly. The slime will begin to form immediately; stir as much as you can, then dig in and knead it with your hands until it gets less sticky. (No one makes slime without getting a little messy!) Don't worry about any leftover water in the bowl; just pour it out.

I won't feel so weird about Nickelodeon slime anymore.

I miss Nickelodeon's Rocko's Modern Life.

So do I.

I Spy (TV Series 1965–1968)

The Emerald Eye spies on us

The Emerald Empress and the Eye of Ekron will be the last piece in my conversions of the Fatal Five

Save the best for last?

The best for last? That would be me. I guess I can lock the thread now.

Oh, I wouldn't want you to strain yourself. I can lock it for you.

You are so thoughtful like that

I try to take care of my friends.

“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.”
John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice

Green is my favorite color.

Kermit the Frog sang about it not easy being green. And it is my favorite color also.

I knew Kermit from the Muppet Show. I remember being a bit surprised that he was also on Sesame Street

Sesame Street premiered on November 10, 1969. I smell a birthday coming up.

That was a Monday. I was in 1st grade. My teacher was Mrs. Lyons.

My parents would have still been in elementary school.

As was I but it was kindergarten.

I don't miss wearing school uniforms.

I bet you look cute in short pants now.

I never stayed in the same school more than two years, including college. We moved often due to military assignments.

I stayed in the same school all through preschool, elementary and high school.

One room school house on the prairie?

I've never been to a prairie before. Deserts, yes, but not prairies.

I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me.

Hey lady, you, lady, cursin' at your life
You're a discontented mother and a rich inventive wife

It's my life
It's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just wanna live while I'm alive
It's my life

Message Board Karaoke

Whoever types loudest...

And on "key".

Let's hit all the right keys!

Night Keys was recorded by Satin Jackets

Mmm, Satin has such a nice feel.

Lady in Satin is an album by jazz singer Billie Holiday released in 1958 on Columbia Records. It is the penultimate album completed by the singer and last released in her lifetime.

I love holidays. There's one on my birthday.

I have had 51 official birthdays.

But I have had 18572.25 unofficial unbirthdays.

A very happy unbirthday to you.

New cups!

Perfect! Time for a toast.

I prefer a toaster oven to a pop-up toaster. The end product is a bit drier, but it's much easier to put the butter on first and have it melt into the toast as it cooks.

Now I feel like making pizza using my toaster oven.

I've been eating way too much pizza; it's like the only thing that delivers to my place

I should be eating more vegetables myself.

I detest most canned vegetables, especially peas. Fresh or frozen but that grey stuff that comes out all mushy. Ew!

Yeah. I have had mixed experiences with canned veggies

And I just seriously do not get canned asparagus. Why?!

It gets all soggy usually. I hate soggy veggies

Soggy towels will stink of mildew if you forget to hang them out to dry.

Mildew Wolf is a Hanna Barbera character

Queue Bristle Hound

Toothbrush bristles must be kept clean

My Sonicare cleans them with ultraviolet light when I am done using it.

Tyroc cleans my teeth.

Better than Blackbolt doing it.

Better if he keeps silent

Silence of the Lambs - IT’S THE THIRD FILM TO EVER WIN ALL OF THE "BIG FIVE" OSCARS—BEST PICTURE, ACTOR, ACTRESS, DIRECTOR, AND SCREENPLAY.

Ugh! I hated that movie

LECTER NEVER SAID "HELLO, CLARICE."

The line that most people think was a quote is actually, "Good evening, Clarice."

It's like how some sources say that Sherlock Holmes never said, "Elementary My Dear Watson"

I never read the SRA cards in elementary school because I was already reading novels and my mother challenged the teacher and vice principal on that for me and my brother.

I was an early reader too. I used to memorize my kindergarten books

I loved reading Bartholomew and the Oobleck bu Dr. Seuss back then.

Bartholomew is a Star of Destiny in Suikoden IV

Brenda Starr, Reporter (often referred to simply as Brenda Starr) is a comic strip about a glamorous, adventurous reporter. It was created in 1940 by Dale Messick for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate.

I read that when I was younger. It was published in one of our local broadsheets

Most local papers here have been replaced with digital media.

I also get my news online now.

Online shopping juggernault, Amazon, launched on July 5, 1994.

I want to visit the Amazon Rainforest

They closed the Rainforest Cafe in one of our local malls last year.

Blaze and I had some good coffee a while ago. He had a cappuccino, I had mint mocha.

Blaze and the Monster Machines is an animated series.

I used to play with Micro Machines when I was a kid.

There was a small little brook near where I lived. When I was a kid, I loved to play in it. I put leaves and small twigs in it and watch or follow them as they went downstream. I would image them on voyages.

The closest river to where I grew up was heavily polluted.

When I was little, my brothers and I would hunt for crayfish in the local streams.

I used to wish I had a brother.

You can have one of mine. They are annoying now.

Thanks, but I don't want one anymore.

But what if he was a sea monkey?

Aren't those really brine shrimp? I remember those and Magic Growing Rocks.

If they're brine shrimp, does that mean they're edible?

convincing the police that the brother you ate was really a shrimp is going to be awkward.

Ibby: But... he was a shrimp!
Officer: So, you ate him *and* you picked on him for being physically weaker?
Ibby: No! He was a brine shrimp!
Officer: Look at the art in those ads. Brine Shrimp are people too. Into the car birthday boy!

Wait... my sibling is a shrimp?

Does that mean I'm half-crustacean?

I am half Polish and half Irish

I am a mutt. Scottish, Norwegian, Cherokee, British, Canadian, Irish, French and we think way back when some Moorish.

Italian and English here. Most of my relatives identify more with the Italian side. I think I got all the Englishness.

Ethnically, I am 100% Chinese.

Blaze is a mix - Filipino, Chinese, Spanish.

And together we all form the United Colors of Benetton!

I like that brand.

Branding cattle seems inhuman

Crystal is an Inhuman.

Crystal Light is Kool-Aid for adults

Crystal Kid joined the Legion during the 5 Year Gap.

Crystal Gayle is the younger sister of the country singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn and the singer Peggy Sue and a distant cousin of singer Patty Loveless

In the Suikoden series, the Gale Rune increases a character's Speed.

The Speed Racer cartoon debut on September 23, 1967

The Wacky Races now have their own comic book

Penelope Pitstop had the best car. It had eyelashes.

She and the Ant Hill Mob appeared in the spinoff, the Perils of Penelope Pitstop.

Paul Lynde played the part of Sylvester Sneekly/The Hooded Claw

Dick Dastardly and Muttley were supposed to be the show's villains, but were dropped.

Dr. Miguelito Quixote Loveless was the arch-enemy of James West in the TV show Wild, Wild, West. The character was played by actor Michael Dunn

San Miguel is a famous Philippine beer which is now sold in many foreign countries.

Sam Adams is our local brew.

I havea co-worker named Sam.

I have a co-worker named Maudelcia

I have a friend who was a model in an international ad.

My other half has been an extra in many movies filmed here in Boston.

I usually get extra sauce whenever I order fastfood.

I ate at a Red Robin for the first time this weekend.

My backpack is red.

My backpack is a Victorinox black one.

Viktor is one of the main characters in Suikoden I and II.

Nipper is the RCA Victor dog's name

Nips is a brand of candy-covered chocolate.

Nips are what IB has been doing with typing these with me.

I had to google the definition of "nips".

A miniature is a small bottle of a spirit, liqueur or other alcoholic beverage. Their contents, typically 50ml, are intended to comprise an individual serving.

Spirit is one of the threads of the Power in the Wheel of Time.

I loved reading "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle when I was a young adult.

My bedsheets are wrinkled.

I can never properly fold a fitted sheet.

But they're not fitted. they just sit there until *I* do it! Bah!

Ebenezer's Pub & Restaurant in Lovell, Maine, is rated the best beer bar in America by Beer Advocate

There is an Irish pub near my office.

Guinness is an Irish dry stout that originated in the brewery of Arthur Guinness at St. James's Gate,

I love Guinness.

Sir Alec Guinness was born April 2, 1914.

In the Philippines, it's customary to address your boss, your teacher/professor, those more senior than you, and your clients/customers as "Sir" or "Ma'am".

Same for those of us raised in the Southern part of the US. My first time in New England, I was constantly corrected on the use of "Ma'am" as if it was a bad thing. It is a sign of respect and those that took it wrong were in my opinion being impolite and disrespectful of me.

Yeah, I think some people fail to consider the differences in culture. Those of us who use Sir and Ma'am are only trying to be polite. Corrections can be made gently and with sensitivity.

And I am sensitive. "Tito hand me a tissue." God, I miss the old Eddie Murphy.

Sometimes, sensitivity is what keeps us alive.

Or was that fear?

Fight or Flight. Basic survival tactics.

A flight ring would help with that.

Would you rather have a flight ring or a fight ring to get out of trouble?

Can't a flight ring do both?

Are you saying a flight ring can multitask?

Can't flight rings do a lot of things?

Are flight rings similar to lantern rings then just no constructs?

Flight rings have more added features, I think.

So added features is a major selling point to you when buying something?

It is important to look at all the features of a product before making a purchase.

Movie features with product placements drive me nuts.

Product placement is everywhere.

At least they have not found a way to put product placement in REM sleep. Now if you will excuse me I have to go out a new Audi, but first go to McDonald's for a their new breakfast sandwich and get double miles on my new MasterCard...

It's like we live in the Matrix.

For a while Matrix was Supergirl

Supergirl is Superman's cousin.

The Patty Duke Show featured the improbable idea of identical cousins.

The Nurse Joys and Officer Jennys of the Pokémon anime are said to be nearly identical relatives.

Pokémon's first movie was in 1998

There are now over 700 Pokemon species.

Believe it or not, there are about 950,000 species of insects

Ripley's Believe It or Not had a museum/exhibit near where I used to live.

The Mütter Museum is a medical museum located in the Center City area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It contains a collection of medical oddities, anatomical and pathological specimens, wax models, and antique medical equipment.

Madame Tussauds is a famous museum of wax sculptures.

I have visited the Madame Tussauds in New York City. While there a girl ripped the microphone cord out of the Tina Turner figure. Shameful!

I once saw a boy putting styrofoam blocks into the sewer. I had to explain to him that, no, they do NOT dissolve in water.

Pearls will dissolve in vinegar

A pearl found in the Philippines is said to be the world's biggest.

The Liberty Bell Ruby is the largest mined ruby in the world, found in east Africa in the 1950s and it was stolen in a heist on November 1, 2011 from a jewelry store in Delaware.

I saw the Liberty Bell. I did think it would be bigger.

The bell first cracked when rung after its arrival in Philadelphia, and was twice recast by local workmen John Pass and John Stow, whose last names appear on the bell.

Juan is a variation of John.

Legendary Phil Harris voiced many characters in Disney animated films such as Little John in Robin Hood; Baloo in the Jungle Book and Thomas O'Malley in The AristoCats.

I loved Robin Hood but hated the Jungle Book.

Kevin Costner was horrible in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and was was cast in The Big Chill and filmed several scenes that were planned as flashbacks, but they were removed from the final cut. His role was that of Alex, the friend who committed suicide, the event that brings the rest of the cast together. All that is seen of him are his hair and his slashed wrists as the mortician dresses his corpse in the movie's opening scenes.

I'm having some chilled juice now.

I ate a ham and cheese croissant

We're all out of cheese

I don't like cheese

I love cheese. Cheese is the most important topping on nachos, for me.

Good that means I get the ground beef, sour cream, guacamole and jalapenos!

But I want those too!

Choices! You need to pick your battles and you claimed the cheese, leaving all the rest for me. Maaahhhhahhhahahahahhahahahaha!!!!!

Oh stop with the puppy dog eyes. And the tiny amount of tear in the corners. I will share.

You are so kind

That's me...all heart.

So much love and compassion.

Black Bat Cat

Cute! So adorable.

Cuteness is an amazing thing. Adopt a loving pet from a shelter.

Animals can become homeless too.

Queue Sarah McLachlan! I cannot watch those commercials or I would become and animal hoarder. They are too sad.

I cried watching the Princess Sarah movie.

Toy Story 3 did it for me.

I walked into my local Humane Society's shelter eleven years ago and a beagle mix looked up and smiled at me. Hyvvie the Wonder Beagle will be 14 in January.

Hyvvie is adorable!

Demand pics of Hyvvie!!!

They are adorable!!

Adorable ducklings

I wonder if Donald Duck was that cute when he was young

Speaking of ducks: Why does Howard the Duck get such a bad rap? That thing is _still_ one of my favorites.

How big was the egg that Baby Huey came out of?! That is one big duckling!

That was one scary duckling.

I always preferred Wendy the Witch and Little Lotta myself.

I always liked Hot Stuff, that little devil.

He was cool (heh) too.

As was Stumbo the Giant

Richie Rich and Casper are among the most famous.

There is a theory that Casper is a murdered Richie Rich.

But there have been crossovers where these 2 characters met.

Casper going back to try and prevent his own murder? Sounds like a series waiting to happen.

Time paradoxes.

Casper goes back and murders someone else to take his place as "Casper" Someone willing to come back in time to kill themselves, so that *they* become Casper. Things get worse from there.

It is all a plot by Hot Stuff to get more souls into hell

When Hot Stuff joined the Teen Titans he became Kid Devil.

Kid Devil's mentor, Blue Devil, winded up in the Vega Galaxy during the first Crisis.

When Kid Devil grew to be adult he and his mentor, Blue Devil, formed the Dirt Devil vacuum company in the Vega Galaxy until they were hit with a trademark infringement suit.

Vegeta of The Dragon Ball anime is actually a refugee from Vega

Velveeta is definitely alien in origin, possibly from Vega.

Sometimes I think some foods are very much alien.

Quisp cereal's mascot is an alien.

Quislet is also alien to Earth

I am not an alien.

You are not Quislet. You are Quislet, Esq.

That's because the name "Quislet" was taken when I signed up with Legion World

Take it back! Take it back!

The other Quislet doesn't have quadruple Trapper status!

The other Quislet is from Cape Town and made only one post.

This post: "I like the return to a cleaner, better defined look for the Legion -- it often seemed to me that Coipel drew shadows or messy piles of slime or rubble to avoid having to flesh out the backgrounds or giving us a well thought out version of the 3000's.

But I'm a little apprehensive - it feels a bit too 'Elseworlds' at this stage."

I want to visit Cape Town

He was obviously the Quislet from Earth-6 Universe. Did not survive. Only Lady Quark did.

Lady Quark died, but inexplicably returned to life in Infinite Crisis

She had a day spa pass to the Lazarus Pit.

Ra's al Ghul took a liking to her.

Damien Wayne challenged her to a duel and got his ass whooped.

Almost anyone can whoop Damien's ass.

"I did it all for you, Damien" as you fall to your doom!

Father Damien was a priest who ministered to a leper colony on Molokai.

Mordecai replaced Validus in the Fatal Five

Mordecai resided in Susa, Persia.

Persia is now Iran.

Which is located in the Middle East

Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks

Istanbul (Istanbul)
Istanbul (Istanbul)

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way

Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks

Constantinople was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire

Emperor Constantine was called the Great

Catherine the Great was not Russian but was Prussian.

Prussian Blue was a color in my paint set

New Order – Blue Monday Lyrics
How does it feel to treat me like you do?
When you've laid your hands upon me and told me who you are.
I thought I was mistaken, I thought I heard your words.
Tell me how do I feel. Tell me now, how do I feel.
Those who came before me lived through their vocations
from the past until completion, they'll turn away no more.
And still I find it so hard to say what I need to say.
But I'm quite sure that you'll tell me just how I should feel today.
I see a ship in the harbor. I can and shall obey.
But if it wasn't for your misfortune, I'd be a heavenly person today.
And I thought I was mistaken, and I thought I heard you speak
Tell me, how do I feel. Tell me now, how should I feel.
Now I stand here waiting...
I thought I told you to leave me when I walked down to the beach.
Tell me how does it feel, when your heart grows cold, grows cold, cold.

I met a new friend today.

That's what friends are for....

You've got a friend in me.

You gotta have friends

No person is an island

Fantasy Island followed The Love Boat and had many crossover events.

Good Times spun off of Maude which spun off of All in the Family. One bit of weirdness is that Maude was set in New York and Good Times was set in Chicago, but the linking character was Florida Evans who was Maude's housekeeper. That must have been a heck of a commute.

Maude Flanders died tragically on The Simpsons

I heard it was because the voice actress wanted more money.

Mo' Money came out in theaters in 1992. It starred Damon Wayans.

Two of the Wayans brothers starred in White Chicks.

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka had them awesome goldfish bowls platform shoes dude.

Goldeen and Seaking are Pokémon based on goldfish

Goldfish, the fish that smile back.

We used to have goldfish.

I never want to own a "used" goldfish. They probably have bad habits anyways.

I bet they jump out of the aquarium

Koi are expensive goldfish in a pond.

Koi and arowana are both prized aquarium fish

As are Cichlids for freshwater aquariums

I had salmon the other day

Salmon is a range of pale pinkish-orange to light pink colors

Salmon is a Crayola color

Since the introduction of Crayola drawing crayons by Binney & Smith in 1903, more than two hundred distinctive colors have been produced in a wide variety of assortments.

About two dozen of those have since been retired,

Thecway things are going, myself and my coworkers do not feel we will ever be able to retire.

retire. When you put a new wheel on your car.

I changed a tire myself once. It got me all dirty

I tried changing a tire once just before a toll and a officer pulled up behind me and did it for me. He was very nice about it too.

A soldier helped me change my tire another time. He was also very nice

On our trip back from Dallas, Pov and I got stuck in the mud (Pov had to relieve himself and there were no gas stations around at that time of night) A very handsome young man named Jake stopped and helped us get the car out of the mud.

I wonder if Jake is gay.

He was handsome enough to be.

Gay men do tend to be handsome.

I am the exception that proves the rule.

That's not to say that I am ugly. I'm just not model handsome

I think you look very nice,Quis.

That's just the LASH drawing

You're so humble.

I would be perfect except I am much too humble

Your humbleness is so overwhelming obvious.

Humility is very important

Is humility a sign of humanity?

Are arrogant people inhuman?

Sometimes when people do stupid things, I roll my eyes and scoff "humans!"

Some humans can be very stupid indeed

Which is why pets are so important.

I love pets

Pets help to keep me sane at times. They listen and don't pass blame on you.

Pets don't blame you??? You've never seen my cat when I change the schedule.

Our dogs don't blame us

My mastiff used to cover for me.

Our shih tzu make good guard dogs despite being smaller than average

Smaller dogs tend to challenge more often.

Smaller dogs can be very aggressive

It sounds like small dogs believe that the best defense is a strong offense.

Some big dogs do seem to get scared.

"Big dogs don't cry

Big dogs don't cry-yi-yi (they don't cry)
Big dogs don't cry (who said they don't cry?)"

Let's let The dogs out

The Baha Men did that already

Let's do it again!

Déjà vu

Let's do it again!

Now I have a headache. Double deja vu. I need to report to the med lab.

Get well soon

Thanks. I prefer well water to city water anyways. City water tastes nasty.

The city of Boston gets its water from the Quabbin Reservoir. Four towns were flooded to make the reservoir. I believe they gave people time to leave before flooding the towns.

Water is vital to our survival

Yet too much and we die.

Washes out the vital salts in your body. Plus if you ever gulped in any as a kid at a pool or in the ocean --- well let's just say your body hates you for awhile.

Especially your throat and tongue

Never let your older brother (you are three or four) go anywhere near your uvula. I do not care what you just saw on Tom and Jerry.

Losing your uvula is scary.

If you lose you uvula, how do you notify anyone if found to contact you?

Maybe tattoo your contact info on it. Just in case

I have a tattoo. I got it in San Diego with mechana. It is Quislet's symbol

I'm not brave enough to get a tattoo. I did want to get my ear pierced.

I had my ears pierced eight times back in the day. All the holes have since closed.

I had a nipple pierced.

I feel so boring.

I am sure you do other things to make up for what you are perceiving as boring.

Hmm... I suppose Blaze and I do at That!

I don't

On Kenan and Kel, Kenan would use orange Sosa to bribe Kel.

Kenan would go, "who loves orange soda?"

Kel would go, "Kel loves orange soda!"

"Is it true?"

"It is! I do I do I do-oo!"

I used to like orange soda. I don't think I've had it in years.

Neither have I.

I tried limoncello in Italy. It was interesting

I've never been to Italy. I've been to Poland, England, Scotland, Canada, & Mexico

I am half Canadian.

My great-grandmother was born in Newfoundland, but it was not part of Canada then.

But Ren and Stimpy are Canadians

I watched a few Ren and Stimpy episodes.

Newfoundland did not become part of Canada until 1949.

Switzerland did not join the United Nations until 2002.

I joined this world 54 years ago. No posting to this thread on my birthday.

Perhaps we should lock the thread to prevent any posts being made.

You are going to lock Quis away????

That wouldn't be a fun way to celebrate his birthday

How did he celebrate his birthday? We demand details.

I wouldn't want to bore you to death.

Aw, we would still love to hear about it.

Bore us! Bore Us!!!

Yeah, bore us!

Who knows, we may not get bored at all.

I think the boring stories should go with the milling and drilling* stories in a DIY thread. I'll just sweep up here, and turn the lights off.



*none of these are suggestive Ibby!

- caretaker thoth

*puts down power tools*

Rats, and here I thought we were going somewhere with this.

If there is no milling, there will be no flour to bake bread.

I love bread. Especially hot buns.

Does Blaze have the hottest buns?

Yes,and they go well with butter.

bread and butter

Mmmmm. Especially if it's spicy butter

When we make garlic bread, we sometimes use cream cheese instead of butter.

I love cheeses!

When I make nachos, I use plain yogurt instead of sour cream

I don't like cheese. About the only time I eat it is when they put it on the HAMburger I ordered.

I love cheese, though I don't love all cheese equally. But I do enjoy trying different kinds. When attending a cheese buffet, I make an effort to remember which is which. The hotel I stayed in in Bangkok for training had a marvelous cheese spread for breakfast, over a dozen kinds.

That does not tempt me.

We should find something - or someone - that does.

Good luck with that

Oh, a challenge!

Challenges can make us stronger if we meet them with courage.

The Crest of Courage was given to Tai, the leader of the Digidestined in the first season of Digimon.

Courage Is a cowardly dog.

And IB wins another one. My last post was more than 24 hours after his post.