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    st barbara got a reaction from tkdguy in What "Pulp" have you read lately ?   
    "Kharis 2000" You might see if you can find the DVDs of "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries":, an Australian T V series based (originally) on the Kerry Greenwood novels.
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    st barbara got a reaction from Spence in What "Pulp" have you read lately ?   
    "Kharis 2000" You might see if you can find the DVDs of "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries":, an Australian T V series based (originally) on the Kerry Greenwood novels.
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    st barbara got a reaction from Ternaugh in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    Had a spaceship named after him in an S F novel too !
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    st barbara got a reaction from assault in In other news...   
    Nah ! It is Black Manta and Ocean Master up to their tricks. Ireland will need Aquaman to save it !
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    st barbara got a reaction from Hermit in In other news...   
    Nah ! It is Black Manta and Ocean Master up to their tricks. Ireland will need Aquaman to save it !
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    st barbara got a reaction from Cassandra in DC Movies- if at first you don't succeed...   
    At the risk of upsetting the Diana Rigg/Emma Peel fans here I have to say that I always preferred Honor Blackman's Cathy Gale when it came to  ":Avengers "girls.  (I like Emma and Purdey too, but Cathy was THE original kick ass, leather clad avenger)
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    st barbara reacted to Lord Liaden in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    Like I said, there are reasonable people on all sides of issues like this, capable of proposing reasonable compromises. Sadly, the reasonable people don't seem to be driving the conflict, and those who are likely have no interest in compromise.
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    st barbara got a reaction from bigdamnhero in Destroy Your Geek Cred!!   
    I don't believe you ! Really "Cassandra" you should just go and see Apollo about that curse and get him to fix it !
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    st barbara got a reaction from Bazza in Destroy Your Geek Cred!!   
    I don't believe you ! Really "Cassandra" you should just go and see Apollo about that curse and get him to fix it !
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    st barbara reacted to Kal'El Wayne in Good Pulp Movies to watch   
    The Librarian Trilogy and the ten episode sequel television programme The Librarians
     
    Perpetual student, Flynn Carsen is recruited by a mystical secret library underneath the New York Metropolitan Library, to be the new Librarian. He is sent around the world to retrieve dangerous mystical artifacts and stop them falling into the wrong hands. Sort of like Indiana Jones, if he didn't need the gun or the whip because he was the smartest, most well-educated man in the world.
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    st barbara got a reaction from Twilight in Larger Than Life! Real people who could be pulp heroes.   
    Obviously we see this matter differently. It is is a little bit surprising to me that you seem to be so vehemently anti Tesla. You may have perfectly good reasons for this, but I haven't seen anything to prove any of your assertions so I shall continue to give Tesla the credit that I think is his due. Merry christmas !
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    st barbara got a reaction from Gary Miles in Good Pulp Movies to watch   
    I don't know if it has been shown where you are but "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries" is worth a look (set in Melbourne, Australia in the 1920's) is another good Pulp crime detective show.
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    st barbara got a reaction from pinecone in Larger Than Life! Real people who could be pulp heroes.   
    That article doesn't  say that Tesla stole Ferrari's motor. Marconi stole some of Tesla's ideas for radio too and it has only been recently that Tesla has received any credit for his contributions. Simultaneous inventions do occur without theft as well, an example would be Edison and Swann inventing the incandescent electric light at about the same time on opposite sides of the Atlantic.  I think that you are being too harsh in your judgement of Tesla.
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    st barbara got a reaction from Pattern Ghost in Destroy Your Geek Cred!!   
    I have to agree with "Sociotard" re "Dune". Overrated, derivative (the personal shields that mean people use blades was lifted straight from a novel by Charles Harness) and inferior to the book with which it tied for the Hugo Award ("And Call Me Conrad"- Roger Zelazny).
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    st barbara reacted to Pariah in Destroy Your Geek Cred!!   
    Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!!
     
    I thought 2001: A Space Odyssey was the most boring movie I've ever seen.
     
    There, I said it.
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    st barbara reacted to Michael Hopcroft in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    This is all starting to take a pretty serious toll on me. I was laid off last month (my department was reorganized), and I can;t help but feel there are going to be decreased opportunities in the field I worked in (health care) owing to changes in the law and who gets insurance (and who doesn't). Worse, I strongly suspect that my own health care is going to be taken away, and that my disability income is in peril. In short, the world doesn't need or want me anymore.
     
    When the aim of our elected leaders appearing to be inflicting as much suffering as possible on as many people as possible, and the public eager to oblige, I wonder if I live in an evil universe.
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    st barbara got a reaction from tkdguy in What "Pulp" have you read lately ?   
    Maybe he is an ancestor of Auric Goldfinger ?
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    st barbara got a reaction from Hermit in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    Yeah. You would think that he could at least get The Red Army Choir (or what is left of it !) .
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    st barbara reacted to Old Man in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
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    st barbara got a reaction from Netzilla in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    It is all very well to say that you "Didn't vote against planned parenthood", but I don't think that Trump and the Republicans ever made any secret that that was one of the programmes that they wanted to get rid of should they be elected. To quote "Super Chicken" "You knew the job was dangerous when you took it", so complaining about what is likely to happen  NOW is "closing the barn door after the horse has bolted".
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    st barbara reacted to Bazza in DC Movies- if at first you don't succeed...   
    What Harley Quinn’s Creator Thinks Of Margot Robbie’s Suicide Squad Performance
    http://www.cinemablend.com/news/1541850/what-harley-quinns-creator-thinks-of-margot-robbies-suicide-squad-performance
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    st barbara got a reaction from Doc Shadow in Wild Wild West (TV Series)   
    I have the box set of "Wild Wild West' (the T V series) and it is fun. As far as I am concerned the movie version was an absolute travesty, done by people with no taste or appreciation of the source material that they were bastardising !
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    st barbara got a reaction from pinecone in Good Pulp Movies to watch   
    I don't know if it has been shown where you are but "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries" is worth a look (set in Melbourne, Australia in the 1920's) is another good Pulp crime detective show.
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    st barbara got a reaction from assault in In other news...   
    Don't worry, be happy it is St Barbara's Day !
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    st barbara got a reaction from Bazza in In other news...   
    Don't worry, be happy it is St Barbara's Day !
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