Michael Hopcroft

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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "What do we use to fill this hole in the wall?" NT: Subtle signs that the guy selling you peanuts at the ball game is out of his mind.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "We're out of ammunition for the grenade launcher! What have we got?"

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Borrowed VHS tape.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? A 1970's TV movie adaptation of Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders. Judge Dee was a real person who lived in the 7th century A.D. in China. He is cited as "the first recorded detective", and his fictionalized alter-ego is the protagonist of a popular series of historical mystery novels by Robert van Gulick. In The Monastery Murders, Dee has to spend the night at a Taoist monastery (a trail for him, as he is a strict Confucian) and discovers that the place is full of conspiracies, cross purposes, and ultimately homicide. I don't know whether the movie was meant to be a pilot for a TV series or for a series of movies. As far as I know only one was made. The actor who played Judge Dee is better known for his role as Wo Fat, Steve McGarret's nemesis, on Hawaii Five-O. He was clearly enjoying himself. A very rare movie, difficult to find.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Where do I pick up some Automatic Kittens? A: Silver, schmilver -- as long as you're a fox!

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Why weepest though, Small Hunter? A: Automatic weaponry and small, fluffy kittens do not mix after all.

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Re: Answers & Questions Q: How do you execute a misbehaving African pachyderm with a horn if you happen to be in Ancient Galilee? A: You know, people don't like it when you hit them in the head with a shovel.

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Re: Answers & Questions Q: There are twenty-seven super-powered bodyguards in front of the Don's house! How do we get in? A: Your superpowers won't get you out of this one, Senor.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat You WILL but Bounty paper towels. SO SAYS DOOM! NT: Truly unreasonable demands Doctor Doom makes in his latest big for global power. (Difficulty: no references to Reed Richards or the rest of the Fantastic Four)

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Re: Answers & Questions Q: What's the abbreviation for Cads Quarterly, the fashion magazine for supervillains? Q: Isn't there an alternative to being eaten by lions, Nero? A: I had a dream last night, and I think it involved zebras.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Where can you see every movie that could conceivably have been made? A: The search engine came up with it, but that doesn't make me happy.

Re: Hero System Good Idea/Bad Idea... For juvenile fantasy, Smurfs wasn't half bad. Particularly the original Peyo strips.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Who opened up the bird cage, and where is the canary? A: The cat found it all vaguely amusing.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: If a chocolate chip melts in a forest, does anyone eat it? A: The sound of one dog yapping.

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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Instead of drawing a pension, I'd probably be deported.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What is the Christopher Paolini equivalent of jumping the shark? A: And sometimes the T-Rex eats you.

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Re: Transformers Hero I had a strange dream about a spinoff called Transformers: Transporter. It was about a group of humans who are allied with the Autobots, sent as scouts to explore the universe (or Universes) on a special Transformer called Transporter that was capable of FTL travel in speeds that humans could make reasonable trips on (aka between adventures). The adventure in my dream involved an alternative Earth that was getting hotter and hotter, and the human race was dying out as a result. The reason was an ailing Unicron (after a stinging defeat from Optimus Prime in the normal universe) had fled into the alternative universe and was in a position to alter Earth's orbit with its gravitational field. In addition, it had sent some of its own agents (Transformers who could look human) to try and prevent anyone from finding out this cause. I don't recall how the situation was resolved (I believe it involved tricking Unicron into leaving that universe by holographically presenting it with a non-existent army of Autobots -- which it actually feared). The basic premise was that most life in the Universe was mechanical and humans were unique in being sentient biological creatures (as far as they could tell). This made humans special and explained the genocidal ambitions of the Decepticons on Earth.