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Isn’t that where little Groot’s come from?

You can’t say that!!! That’s OUR word!!!! Back to the game. Style

Jed’s probably about a 20-23 due to his age. Elly Mae was about the same plus the Martial Art “Rassling” (use Judo) Jethro ran about 25-28, I remember scenes of him lifting the back end of the truck off the ground with only minor straining. BTW the whole family has a number of levels with handguns & rifles. Their shooting contests off the back of the “cement pond” set into the wooded area beyond were a plank set with half driven nails a half mile away. Jed drove the nails in with a revolver! Jethro once took out 2 phone wires coming from the top of the Drysdale’s mansion while standing on the street with what looked like a .22 rifle.

I have a question for the crowd. In my first post I suggested an American Highlander style immortal. The pinball machine with faulty wiring I use for a brain came up with two concepts. I’m just wondering which one sounds cooler. 1) An American Indian (Tribe to be decided.) who was born and resurrected before the Europeans ever came. With all the emotional baggage that implies. 2) It was watching Buckaroo Banzai that started all this in the first place and thought about the end sequence of the movie with all the good guys doing that strut....including Rawhide who was killed during the film. Hmmmm. The part was played by Clancy Brown who was also the Kurgan in Highlander. Maybe the Indian character becomes his mentor like Sean Connery was to Macleod. It’s not like anything will ever be done with either of these ideas, I just wondered what you thought.

I went back thru the whole thread. In the words of Gilda Radner’s SNL character Emily Littella, “Oh, well that’s VERY different....never mind.”

If you’ve really got a thing for this song, you’re gonna either love me or hate me for this. I saw her do this song from about six feet away at the Park St. station subway stop about a million years ago when she was still just a street singer back in Boston. It hit me like a ton of bricks then and then years later when I heard it on the radio I was so happy she made it big.

I like “Take on Me”, not necessarily the original version but some of the covers of it. Try the one by Lake Street Dive for the A.V. Undercover line of videos on YouTube. I am an old geezer at heart who still uses VHS and audio cassette tapes and am completely incompetent to put that video here. If somebody likes the band or their take on the song, put it on up.

See my earlier comment about the possible age slowing effects of drinking from the Grail. If enough folks want him in, who am I to refuse.

I have a soft spot for John Matrix. I once GM’ed a team who’s UNTIL contact was Lt. Cmdr. Jennifer Matrix. The now adult version of Alyssa Milano’s character. Even with the quotes I threw in it took them half of forever to figure it out.

Toxie does fit. I’m surprised but pleased you chose Egg Shen and his six demon bag over the more obvious choice of Jack Burton.

Sorry, both of them were TV rather than film. If people like this thread, we can do a separate TV version later.

I’m not trying to trash Dazzler, sometimes good stuff can come out of a contrived beginning. Take the Monkees for example. I love their music, but they were built as TV network’s version of the Beatles.

I know of the film, but I’ve never seen it for myself. What does everyone else think?

Indy would be in his mid to late 80’s by the 1980’s (Unless drinking from the Grail slowed his aging.) and I did consider Doc Brown & Marty, but when you look at the films they don’t really care about what their actions may do to the timeline or anybody else’s history. Marty is out for his and Doc’s survival, and later he does everything to keep his own improved timeline. Doc on the other hand knows full well that Clara is fated to die but saves her anyway. Compare this to Kirk’s actions in Star Trek’s “City on the edge of Forever”.

Right now I’m listening to Buckaroo Banzai as I surf the net and I got to thinking that the ‘80’s might have been Hollywood’s last gasp at creating true heroes until the recent surge of Superhero movies. Well, neurons started misfiring and I started to imagine an American “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”. So far I’ve got Buckaroo leading Remo Williams, Meteor Man, Buffy (the original) vampire slayer and an American (Highlander style) immortal. The only criteria’s would be original movie characters from the ‘80’s (So no Batman or Greatest American Hero) and no dark or “anti” heroes. (So no Professional or Hackers) Anybody have any candidates?

Right now I’m listening to Buckaroo Banzai as I surf the net and I got to thinking that the ‘80’s might have been Hollywood’s last gasp at creating true heroes until the recent surge of Superhero movies. Well, neurons started misfiring and I started to imagine an American “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”. So far I’ve got Buckaroo leading Remo Williams, Meteor Man and an American (Highlander style) immortal. The only criteria’s would be original movie characters from the ‘80’s (So no Batman or Greatest American Hero) and no dark or “anti” heroes. (So no Professional or Hackers) Anybody have any candidates?

You’re pretty close, back then Stan Lee set up a deal with Casablanca Records, who at that time were big on cross promotional deals. (The Sgt. Pepper movie with the Bee Gees and that movie with the Village People for instance.) So Marvel would create a female Disco superhero who’s powers created a huge light show, guest star her in all their books and the record company would put some pretty background singer under contract to do concerts and pound away albums. So Marvel created Dazzler and debuted her in X-Men in what would be the same issue that first featured Kitty Pride and the White Queen and was the first chapter of the Dark Phoenix/Hellfire Club saga. From there she bounced around a few other books trying to gain some traction as something other than a joke when Casablanca pretty much folded up its tent and went away. (Cocaine binges only last so long)

I was trying to be nice, you write too well to be one of those young whippersnappers with their loud music, always riding their bikes on my lawn, damn kids.

Don’t worry, I’m sure your skin is grey and sallow enough for anyone.

Yes, but what I was trying badly to say is more about younger people not picking up the paper & dice type of games to replace the “graying” of the marketplace. In other words us old f@rts are dying off and kids are more interested in on-line games. Easy to learn, no heavy reading required either for rules and world books or to just understand where the concepts come from that make a future GM. Most especially there’s no emotional content needed to push buttons the way there is for role play and no need to use an imagination grown stale from having every thought and dream blasted through in IMAX. Spence, I didn’t look up your Bio, but I’m willing to guess that you’re closer to 30 than 20. And it’s those 15 and 16 year olds we need to keep these games alive. Sorry folks, tonight I’m just a grumpy old guy who’s late for his dinner.

And now unfortunately, the country suffers from “toostupidtoreadabookitis”.

Scarlett Johansson. But then again, I’m always thinking of her.

Quick fix

My best wishes and hopes for everybody who trods these boards.

No real reason, just vague curiosity.