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John Steed, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel, Purdey, Gambit !?

8 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:

And a comment reported by the Canadian Press, attributed to an anonymous diplomat at the recent G7 summit, will probably become my mantra the next time this President spews venom our way: "Aren't we all getting used to it? The dog barks, the caravan moves on."

The dog barks and his Pavlovian canine friends at Fox news salivate !

On 6/10/2018 at 11:02 AM, FenrisUlf said:

 

Technically Houdini was a pulp hero. At the very least he was the narrator of the HP Lovecraft story "Beneath the Pyramids".

 

And talking pulp characters, another one might be pulp author Harold Lamb. He traveled extensively through Russia, the Far East, and Central Asia; spoke with Cossacks and Turkish nomads in their own languages; and apparently had so many connections in the area and knew the land and lingo so well that OSS had him working for them for a while.

Houdini also appeared in a movie serial in which he featured many of his escapes.

Why does Trump think that it is okay for him to run around imposing tariffs on other countries but , when they retaliate in kind, it is some sort of crime ? Surely he, or someone in his administration, must have expected pushback from those countries that he imposed tariffs upon ? Did they tell him what was likely to happen ? Did he just ignore advice  ? or was no-one game enough to tell him ?

On 4/27/2018 at 7:19 PM, Starlord said:

Who doesn't love the smell of trenches and mustard gas in the morning?

If you are actually smelling the mustard gas you don't need to worry about anything else !

Forty niners would seem to have a "mosquito fleet" of receivers this season. They better hope that they can get separation because I don't think that they will be winning too many jump balls in the endzone !

15 hours ago, Old Man said:

At this rate I might actually have to start watching Fox News.

Don't do it ! You know that it will rot your brain !

16 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:

Giuliani: Trump repaid Cohen $130K for payment to porn star

 

Is it a requirement for working on the Trump team to not know when to keep your mouth shut?

Well they ARE just following their leader's example.

8 hours ago, Old Man said:

*sigh* So Trump phoned into Fox and Friends this morning.  He revealed some key information:

 

- He admitted to staying overnight in the Moscow pee tape hotel

- Thereby admitting that he lied to James Comey about it

- He declared that Michael Cohen does not represent him

- Thus wrecking most claims of client-attorney privilege

- Except in the Stormy Daniels case, where he admitted that Cohen did represent him

- Contradicting his own statements from two weeks ago

 

Seriously.

Par for the course with Trump isn't it ?

On 4/20/2018 at 12:24 PM, Lord Liaden said:

It's pure distraction. Trying to shift the attention on to Hillary Clinton's shenanigans and away from Trump's. Create some sort of mock equivalency, as if her not being investigated means he shouldn't be investigated.

 

 

Hey, he's trying.

I'd say that Trump is VERY trying !

On 4/20/2018 at 11:21 AM, BoloOfEarth said:

 

Bwa-ha-ha!  (snort)  Man, that was really funny, but the Jokes thread is over that-a-way.  (giggle)  Doing their jobs...  what will they think of next...

Glad I could give you a laugh "Bolo". Of course some of them see themselves as "doing their jobs"; destroying public education, wrecking the EPA, etc.

On 4/14/2018 at 9:18 AM, Cassandra said:

Back in the 1930s Gangsters were celebrities.  A generation before that it was inventors who got the public's attention. 

 

Imagine a TV show called "Super" which covered the Cape and Mask crowd.

Magazines too ! And existing news outlets  such as :The National Enquirer: could have a field day with gossip about supers.

How would things be altered by someone with minor super powers ? Someone with eidetic memory and super speed reading could be VERY useful to the intelligence service for example, and most of the world would never know he existed.

I haven't read them yet but "Powerless" and "Relentless" by Tera Lynn Childs and Tracy Deebs looks as if they could be interesting.

The Tepublicans ; and Trump on particular, need to get over their obsession with Hillary Clinton and get down to actually doing their jobs.

1 hour ago, zslane said:

I think it is easier to make the original X-Men "balanced" from a Champions perspective than most other superhero teams of the same size.

Possibly that is because each of the original "X-Men" had only one obvious power "Cyclops'-Energy blast, "Angel"-Wings (flight), "Iceman" - Cold/ice ,"Beast"- Acrobatics (you might add prehensile feet to that)."Marvel Girl"- Telekinesis. They were also first introduced as a single team, unlike many super teams that are collections of heroes with existing back stories (e g JLA, Avengers etc).

How about a luck manipulator (I called mine "Talisman") or a magnetic hero called "Lodestar"? (I don't know what either of these names would be in Russian).

"Ghosts of Manhatten" (and sequels) by George Mann are worth a look if you like low powered "Pulp" type heroes such as "The Spider" or "The Shadow".

I have to agree with "Pinecone" about "Devil's Cape" and "Nobody Gets The Girl". (Damn I want a sequel to "Devil's Cape" !)

I found Richard Roberts' series that begins with "Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm  A Supervillain" to be a fun read.  "Playing For Keeps" bu Mur Lafferty is also good with a bunch of what might be described as heroes with "loser" type powers (ala the dueces from "Wildcards"".

7 hours ago, dsatow said:

I figure current sports wouldn't allow supers, but would other sports allow it?

 

• Would you have a WWF style show, professional boxing style show, or an NFL show?
• Would you watch such shows? 
• How about a reality show like Cops?

If I remember correctly Marvel had something like an "Ultimate Wrestling League: for supers only in some of their comics.

19 hours ago, Old Man said:

 

The next level of difficulty is to find fictional cowboys who are women or Native American or both.

 

It's literally easier to find a white cowboy who went native than it is to find a Native American protagonist in a Western.

If we are allowing Anime , what about the two female detectives in "Trigun"  (You REALLY want to mess with a woman who uses a gatling gun as a sidearm ?) Millie and Merrill.

Fascinating thread. I'm surprised that no one has taken any of James Stewart's characters from the westerns he did for Anthony Mann ("Winchester '73", "Bend Of The River" etc).

I am starting to like Victoria Adams, the new version of "The Shield" in the "Mighty Crusaders" comic from Dark Circle/Red Circle/MLJ/ Archie  whatever else they have called themselves over the years.

Raiders and Dolphins  (and my team the 49ers) seem to be spending big in free agency.