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Did you know that Thieves World was originally planed when Robert Asprin and a number of other writers (who were his friends) were drinking in the hotel bar at a Sci-Fi convention here in my home town of Boston? It’s true, in fact they used the city map in the guests packet as the map of Sanctuary! The ship docks are the wharf at Boston Harbor, the Governor’s mansion is the State House complete with gold leaf dome roof and The Maze is or was the red light district known locally as “The Combat Zone”.

How about anybody or everybody who’s been on “The Jersey Shore” “Survivor” “The Bachelor/Bachelorette” or “The Apprentice”? Aliens are monitoring these signals people! You’re making us look bad!

Much better! The cuffed over gloves & boots give it a nice swashbuckler kind of thing.

I know there’s been a lot of pages, but did we see this one? I’ve also heard “I’m not flying all the way back there every time I want to take a piss.”

Did you ever see the “Lost ending of It’s a Wonderful Life” on SNL? Dana Carvey doing his Jimmy Stewart impression and Jon Lovitz as Potter. The entire town figures out Potter stole the bank deposit from Uncle Billy and beats the hell out of the evil old bugger. It’s on YouTube.

You do it dude, her dad is the Master of Sinanju, and she’s married to Agent Coulson. I’ll be waiting down the block with an ambulance for ‘ya.

I said that originally about my best friend Scott, who’s birthday is today. So I will also put up for public usage some of the other more colorful ways I’ve described him.... “He doesn’t just carry a grudge, he has them fitted with extendable handles and little wheels on the bottom so he get through the airport faster.” When somebody called him an a$$#0le I replied “He’s not just any a$$#0le, he is their King...as a matter of fact whenever in the world someone is an a$$#0le, they have to send him a nickel.” “That man does not simply have “issues”, he has a lifetime subscription to Pissed Off Daily!” Live and be immortal my brother. Happy Birthday! P.S. Not the alcoholic part, just the rest of the line.

I just got done re-reading Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files novel Changes. One of his best, and the title says it all.

Wanda affecting his mind is a point for debate. But the next time you watch the Iron Man movies notice how often Tony has an alcoholic drink in his hand. That got dialed way back in later films, but the earlier ones were true to the comics version of Stark as a heavy drinker.

A very nice lady by all accounts. Well, if we’re good when we get to the good place there’ll be a yummy slice of coconut cream pie waiting for us.

PREPARE FOR RANT...3...2...1...RANT! Tony Stark is an alcoholic with control issues so large that on the weekends they go out and crush small Japanese cities. He pendulum swings wildly between tantrums of the “Daddy...pay attention to me!” type, going on ad nauseam about never listening to or respecting ANY authority, and then boldly stating that since he is smarter than everyone else they should follow him blindly and agree with any nonsense that pops into his addled mind. Let’s see how smart ‘ole Tony Stank really is. He ignored everything happening at his company to such an extent that he was almost murdered by the guy he paid to steal it. He announced his being Iron Man at a press conference without thinking what it might do to said company’s stock prices thus destroying the savings of his investors and the jobs of his employees. Not to mention possibly putting the lives of anybody standing near him in jeopardy when some bad guy came to call. He was dumb enough to tell Ivan Vanko how to power up his armor, ‘cause hell, nobody ever escaped from being a prisoner before...right. He gave a terrorist the address of the home he shared with his girlfriend, and instead of moving her out ASAP he got obsessed with hearing how she liked her giant bunny rabbit. He let his PTSD talk him into taking an object from space that he didn’t understand, talked someone with no backbone into hiding their experiments from the rest of the team and after he accidentally created a “murderbot” he had the nerve to act like the team was just too stupid to understand when they called him to task. After all that he decides to hook up with an asshole with an Ahab fixation on someone who is supposedly one of his best friends and come up with the Sokovian Accords. I’m starting to see spots in front of my eyes so I’ll let the idiocies of the rest of the films go for now Tony Stark should be punched in the mouth on an hourly basis for about 6-8 months with an occasional surprise boot to the nads a couple of times a week. Thank you. WE NOW RETURN YOU TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED THREAD.

According to the official DC database on Fandom, Zook is not a resident of the 5th dimension. (I always loved “Up, Up and Away.) You can look there for background on every version of every character owned by DC Comics. Were you looking for factual information on those characters or more like challenging us to come up with others?

1) If I miss it the first time, I’ll be sure to pay more attention when I’m in the alley puking my guts out. 2) We can put that up to a vote sometime.🤗

Why? I’m not challenging your opinion, I just don’t understand it.

Yeah, pork and apples do go well together, but pork and milk products sound sort of gross and I prefer my apple pie with vanilla ice cream melted all over it.

It’s always great to find another fan of this series! I’ve been re-reading it about once a year for going on two decades now. The thing is, what he does is the same as most other fantasy villain types, The horror is when it happens to and is seen through the eyes of modern day role-players sent into a fantasy world. Rape, plunder and pillage. Burn the village and take the survivors as slaves doesn’t seem like much fun when it happens to you. The PC’s eventually start a revolution of ideas and values between the slave holding system and their free enterprise one. But somehow more fun than I’ve made it sound.

Sisko got in a couple of good shots in the episode Duet where he and Dukat were marooned on an asteroid and Dukat was talking to the voices in his head. As well as their fight at the end of the final episode What You Leave Behind. But I agree he never got the full on ass kicking he deserved. It was a good character arc overall. Well written and wonderfully acted by Marc Alaimo. Dukat swung back and forth from irredeemable villain to flawed hero and back again over the course of the series.

The venn diagram list of people who are both astronomers and comedians is not a big one. And no, that guy on Cosmos is not funny.

DC comics had L.E.G.I.O.N. and the Darkstars working along side of the Green Lantern Corps. True, the organizations pretty much hated each other but they got along well enough when on a case.

Maybe we beat Kevin the Bird to death with the shovel, put his body in the chest and bury it in the sand for someone else to find.

I would rather see Gweneth (Fu€#ing Welsh spelling.) Paltrow’s dead eyes looking up at me that seeing what’s in those boxes.

A law would be a good and righteous thing, but back in the Middle Ages it really only took the King or local lord saying “Do it.” and it got done. I’m just saying that we’re talking about three different things here. First a set of laws that make sense to 20-21 century people. Second, a discussion of the history of law during the Middle Ages. And third, an imagining of what legalities might exist in a Fantasy environment. This conversation keeps moving the goalposts. Asking what the law would be if there were no PC’s there to enforce it is like asking who stopped the bandits from robbing the bank before John Wayne showed up. The answer is...nobody. And if there are no PC’s to hear a tree fall in the forest does it really matter if it makes a sound?

My Good Lord Liaden, you miss my point. If there are no heroes to stop/slay the evil mage then who is going to bell the cat and arrest, charge and put him in a cell? And as far as a deterrent for others, putting the bastards head on a spike at the town gates does send a message.

Spells taking away the evil mages powers and cells that keep him from casting are all well and good, along with my personal favorite....cutting off his hands, removing his tongue and preforming an ice-pick lobotomy. But my original point still stands. If he screws up the spell there’s nothing left to arrest and if he gets it right he’s probably going to get killed by the PC’s during or immediately after the final battle. Either way he’s dead, so what does it matter what you charge him with?

This may sound like just a joke but seriously... Option 1) The mage summons a creature from beyond and it obeys him. Anybody trying to give him a ticket or take any other kind of legal action gets mind controlled, eaten or worse. Any heroes defeating the creature are probably going to have to kill the mage as well. Option 2) The mage summons said creature and can’t control it. What are you gonna do, arrest that greasy burnt up pile of half chewed on bones next to the pentagram?