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Re: Char: Amp Already stolen one, filed the serial numbers off, given it a new paint job and did a block find and replace on the name.

Re: Wow....that is a useless power for sure.... Nullify - Find Direction: Lets you stop a person with "Find Direction" from EVER finding the direction they are facing.

Re: Starship Size Comparison Website The Nuke bomb powered 'Michael', from the Niven and Pournelle "Footfall"

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Wild Country - Dean Ing. An old post apocalyptic SF tale. I've had to look up "Yaoi fangirl" in Urban Dictionary and I think I'm scared now

Re: Char: Amp Why so many points? Now a 200 pt Hero a day would be interesting. Then I'd be able to repay some rep.

Re: Lost and Found super-ads Lost - One pair of eyes. Will reward due to sentimental value, they used to belong to Bette Davis.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Quo's biggest hits were "Pictures of Matchstick Men", 'Mean Girl', 'Caroline' and possibly 'In the Army now' outside of the UK. In the Uk there was a bunch of other stuff, 'Whetever you want' and 'get down' (or was is 'deeper and down', I always forget)

Re: A Thread for Random Musings An old project manager wants me to go back to England and work on an aluminium smelter project for Qatar. I laughed so hard, I snorted my tea.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Excellent!! It's from before they got into the thundering 2 chord wall of sound.

Re: Complicate the Person Above Enforcer84 has been hired as the new 'friendly face' spokeman for the CIA

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Hey Cancer, just remeber, if a banker says it's so, then it must be so! Now take that power and use it for world peace and harmoney.

Re: Musings on Random Musings 42... 42... I know that number. And here's my cleaner wanted to mop the floor of the container with newly pumped river water. I miss civilization.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? In my chair - Status Quo

Re: The "Nice Happy" Thread Too much mass. But it on a CD or memory stick, hell, put it ALL on a CD. Auction it and give the profits for pro-space education. Or maybe use the money to buy spray paint for anybody wishing to be "upset" with the likes of Proxmire and his cult.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Orinoco Flow - Enya

Re: Char: Amp Very nice, not sure about the reasoning for the acrobatics, nothing in the write up showed a proclivity (oooh, big word!) for the exercises. I think I'd link some Knock back resistence in there. As her power absorbs the energy of a blow, nothing is transmitted to knock her back... maybe not though. As it is, she could get slammed, knocked back a loing way, take no damage from the attack and now have to run back for the return blow. Hmmm.

Re: Top Five vs The Unknown Menace! Ah well, if we have to make the writers explain how wolverine landed up in any specific group... Machine Man - (Marvel) a real life stretchy toy. Red Tornado - (DC SIlver age) the thinking fans air mover Human Torch (Golden Age) - gotta toast marshmallows Adaptoid - he can't duplicate machine powers but he's a good cheerleader. Wolverine - Go on, get out of that.

Re: Anatomy of a diorama Now do it again using 54mm figures.

Re: Lost and Found super-ads Lost - Great White Whale. If found call Nantucket 18-16-32, ask for Jonah.

Re: Musings on Random Musings Second sign is when you obey the command.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Our admin asistant has decided that, just for a change, we're drinking strawberry flavoured tea this week. God hates me.

Re: Dealing with Anachronism A glove box is not a Waldo guys. There's notes on military chemists in Germany and England using glove boxes in the 1906-1912 period when war gases and were first being played with. So a government funded "black op" of the time might have them. They're just a metal box with a sheet of glass and long rubber gloves nailed around a couple of holes. Just something to keep gas and liquids inside and let you manipulate them with safety. gases and liquids posed known threats and this was an easy way to handle them safely. We still use gloves boxes in the maniplulation of radioactive, but a modern glove box is a high tech wonder. Prior to RAH's story "Waldo", I can't find references either in SF or in public domain military tech. Before the discovery of radioactive materials and the knowledge of thier danger to organic objects (like people), there was no need or knowledge (or technical bility) to build or use remote control arms. Remember, a lot of Madame Curie's memorabilia is still only viewable through leaded glass. She (and hubby) used bare flesh to handle pitchblende and radium. The 30's shows the development of understanding in how to handle radioactive materials, but the guys who built the first nukes still worked with huge lumps of radioactive metal in unsealed areas. (HBO did a movie on it as I recall - Laura Dern as a nurse, yummy.) So if you run this, I'd throw in a lot of curiousity and "Bah! Unproven Speculation!" from the resident authorities. Remember, OSHA as a purely modern affectation.

Re: Pimp my Pulp Ride Is that a Zen question? Apart from Batman, and a quick pic in "The Rocketeer", I don't remember anybody else flying one.

Re: Complicate the Person Above I was told that it was a good sheep of high morals. Apparently this is just another example of Thia's shady "Sheep for Hire" business not giving vale for money.

Re: Top Five vs The Unknown Menace! Zatanna & Zatarra - She's following her dad's footsteps, might as well work with him. Dr. Fate (Silver age) Nabu's best friend The Spectre - Come on, in Crisis he kept two universes from going bang bang Wolverine - Dammit! I wanted the Doctor Strange or at least the Phantom Stranger! Instead I got Wolverine. Who wrote that rule?