Mantis

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I'm confused. Do you play scenario paintball or not?

Re: Making Growth power Inherent Males (only) have a spur in their ankle which can kill small animals, but is merely excruciatingly painful for humans.

Re: Need a Name for a Temporal Prison Is the wing for the criminally insane called "The Nut Sac"?

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER

Re: Need a Name for a Temporal Prison Limbo Stasis "The Freezer" could be a slang name.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings I gotta stop reading the Musings on Random Musings thread before reading the A Thread for Random Musings thread. I just get my threads tied in knots.

Re: Musings on Random Musings Belgium?

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER It's been raining here too. In fact we have been in drought for almost a year, and had more rain during the last three days of April than we had throughout all of last winter!

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Invisible mode is stealing my schtick.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Well, here I am...

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER So what have you been doing with your time, Dr A.? Oh, wait, I know - playing cards!

Re: Musings on Random Musings They have markets for that now?

Re: The Ten Eyed Man 360 degree vision, Gestures. BTW, I read Ten-Eyed Man's origin story when I was a kid, which was in a Batman comic. IIRR, he was a security guard with a third "eye", not really an eye but more of a sixth-sense, something to do with a grenade explosion in 'Nam that got him the nickname "Three-eye Reardon." He foiled a robbery using his sixth sense, but then one of the knocked-out crims recovered enough to throw a concussion grenade at his head. He was blinded but the explosion also re-wired his brain so his sense of touch worked through the optic centre in his brain, so he could see through his fingertips - he didn't actually have eyes in his fingers, and wore gloves when he went to bed because "fingers don't have eyelids". For some reason he decided to become a criminal, and in mid-heist, was confronted by Batman. He fought Batman to a standstill, since Batman couldn't sneak up on him, until the observant Batman noticed that, after knocking him down, Ten-Eye Reardon (as he called himself) didn't look towards him and instead swept his hand around, stopping when he pointed at Batman. He thus deduced that Reardon saw with his fingertips. Obvious, really. He also deduced that when Reardon closed his fist to punch, he couldn't see, so made sure Reardon got a chance to take a good swing at him, then whipped off his cowl and wrapped it around his fist. As Reardon flailed around, whining about being blind (I think he was wearing a glove on his other hand), Batman decked him. I have no idea how or why I remember all that.

Re: The cranky thread My wife thought I was crazy for hoarding a stack of old 2-liter ice cream containers. Until a bout of gastro goes through the family, when they come in handy - you can take them everywhere, so you only need to race to the toilet when you need to sit down, not kneel down. My term for them is "chum buckets".

Re: Top 10 Action Hero One-Liners Ah, but was this spoken in a movie?

Re: Top 10 Action Hero One-Liners German Officer from heavily-armed forces surrounding British Paratropers at Arnhem: "My general says there is no point in continuing this fighting! He wishes to discuss terms of a surrender! " Major Carlyle of the Red Devils: "We haven't the proper facilities to take you all prisoner! Sorry!" - A Bridge Too Far

Re: Top Eleven Adversaries of Arnold Yes to both.

Re: Top Eleven Adversaries of Arnold That would be the late Kevin Peter Hall, who also had a brief unmasked appearance as the chopper pilot at the end of the movie.

Re: Top Eleven Adversaries of Arnold Damn straight! Drat, there goes my alternate career as a porn star.

Re: Rejected Superhero Names After being accidently exposed to high doses of a strange radiation, he is... Leukemia Lad!

Re: Musings on Random Musings I think he's compensating for something.

Re: Rejected Superhero Names The Glass Jaw

Re: Rejected Superhero Names Captain Cadaver sounds like a rip-off of Deadpool...

Re: The "Nice Happy" Thread Premature, I haven't got my mark yet - but I am quietly confident of a good result!

Re: The "Nice Happy" Thread Before I submitted my assignment, I thoroughly checked it and tested it and found a few minor things I'd missed. Not only did it take up less time than I expected to finish, but I'm very happy with the quality.