Pariah

What do Dallas Cowboys fans do after their team wins the Super Bowl?

On my way to class today I got hit by a violin. And then I got hit by an oboe. And then I got hit by a French horn. Now I'm just trying to figure out who orchestrated the attack.

A Bills-Lions Super Bowl would really be something.

I find that I'm pretty okay rooting for the Buccaneers now that Brady isn't there.

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Hunger Games prequel)

Zadig; or, The Book of Fate (Voltaire) New Topic: Books Published In the 21st Century

“There’s a different energy about our team. It’s so much fun to come to work every day.” ~Packers coach Matt LaFleur Hmm, I wonder what's different....?

Robinson Crusoe

At least Mike McCarthy is still helping the Packers win in the playoffs!

I'm so sorry to hear that. I wish there was something we could do for you and your family.

Jane Eyre

Uranus

My first GM had a trio of villains we found really annoying. They didn't have a group name, but they always appeared together. They were: Fastback: A speedster (33 DEX, 9 SPD, 30" Running if memory serves) who also had a SPD drain and a DEX Transfer. Note: This was under the early rules where the number rolled in the dice was the amount of SPD or DEX you lost. A few of us used XP to buy Area of Effect powers after fighting this guy a couple of times, because that's the only way you could hit him. Hummel: A guy in a suit of powered armor. 80-ish STR, 40-ish PD and 35-ish ED, fully resistant, pretty much every exotic defense available, and an Energy Blast as powerful as his punch. He also had Radar that he could use for targeting if he got Flashed. With no obvious tactical weaknesses, all you could do was beat on the guy until he fell down 'Chuk: A bare-chested Martial Arts Master with DEX and SPD values only slightly less ridiculous than Fastback. He also had the ability to create a Chi energy field around any weapon he held (like his ever-present nunchaku) that would make the damage Armor Piercing. He had some other Chi powers that made him unpredictable and hard to put down. Anytime we saw these guys, we knew it was gonna be a long night.

There was a one-shot my friend ran for us when we were all home from college on winter break. The antagonist in question was Captain Heroic™! He had Superman-esque powers: brick, flight, super senses, a couple of ranged attacks, etc. He just showed up in town one day and started doing good deeds. The catch: there was a fee schedule attached. Help an old lady cross the street: $5 Get a cat out of a tree: $20 Rescue people from a burning building: $50 per person Stop a robbery: $500 (Mom and Pop store) up to $10,000 (large chain bank) Fight a team of supervillains: $5,000-$50,000 per villain ...and so on. He even had a toll-free help line: 1-800-HEROIC-1. It was annoying, but as he and his well-dressed publicist pointed out, there was nothing legally or ethically improper about it. We had no real reason to shut him down. Until we discovered that he was using his powers to cause a lot of these problems. For example, using his heat vision to start an apartment building fire, hiring villains (through shell companies) to rob banks or kidnap the mayor, things like that. It was a hard final fight, but it was incredibly satisfying to take that guy down.

Rockies (mountains and/or baseball team)

"'Mudslide Kills 600 Religious Pilgrims'. And yet, both my ex-wives live on."

Pittsburgh Penguins

Yet another reason to despise the Dodgers.

Mormon missionaries

Q: Free haggis! Get your free haggis right here! A: All the chicken curry, sauerkraut, and deep fried Oreos you could ever want.

This conversation is probably better held in the Politics thread.

Fixed it.

The argument over whether Schrödinger's cat is alive or dead is irrelevant, because Death Tribble ate it.

Sounds like the story of the guy in the record store who overheard a kid saying, "Hey, did you know that Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?" I saw an article a few days ago about artists who put out albums in 1973 and 2023. The two that come immediately to mind were Peter Gabriel (part of Genesis back in the day, of course) and Yes.