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BoloOfEarth

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  1. Is the main character named Dortmunder? Your description sounds familiar, I think it was based on a book by Donald Westlake. His books are a lot of fun, though another one that was turned into a movie (The Hot Rock) wasn't nearly as fun to watch as it was to read.
  2. I enjoyed it. You did a good job giving Slime enough "alien-ness" while making his POV all make sense. And I like the idea of him having a human friend outside the superhero set. (Nice that a COVID-induced lack of sense of smell works in her favor there, too.) I hope your brain is done going "zzzz" and things are going better for you now.
  3. Oreo cookies > Sweets > Munchies > Pigging out > Pig > Bacon > Kevin Bacon. There's your seven degrees of separation.
  4. Based on your recommendation (at least, I'm assuming the above was a recommendation), I've started watching Resident Alien. I'm up to episode 4 of the first season. Rather enjoying it.
  5. I read the following: So, what he's saying is that 98% of his supporters are cognitively impaired. (nods) I can agree with that. Pretty bold of him to come right out and say it, however.
  6. That reminded me of a joke I told here years ago.
  7. Sometimes I think the Republican Party should make "Cruelty is the Point" their motto.
  8. I'm guessing the army, because, Colonel.
  9. I don't think Florida is a joke to the rest of America. I think, as a joke, the state of Florida has international potential. I think that, when presented with an American doing something idiotic abroad, the person in that country might ask, "You're from Florida, aren't you?"
  10. That reminded me of a juggler/comedian I saw once (I think on Saturday Night Live). He was juggling an axe, a machete, and a cleaver. When he held up the axe, he said, "This is actually the axe George Washington used to chop down the cherry tree. I've just had to replace the handle... and the blade..."
  11. "I've said before that I'm giving a quarter of my $1 million estate to my estranged brother, another quarter to our drunk uncle, another quarter to the Republican party, and another quarter to the Democratic party. As to the remaining $999,999..."
  12. One wonders how she'd react if an atheist decided to torch a couple Bibles.
  13. I dunno, you might have trouble getting the horn down.
  14. Only semi-related, but let me tell you about a race I ran in high school track. True story. I was running the mile relay, in the second position for our team, because I really wasn't all that good. For those not familiar with the mile relay, the starting runners run once around the track each holding a baton. When they get all the way around, they pass their batons to the next runners on their teams, who then run around the track to pass the batons to the third runners, who run around the track to pass the batons to the last runners, who make the final lap around the track. So after the first set of runners start out, I take my position and wait for my teammate to come back around and pass me our baton. As they're coming up, I can see that our team's runner is just barely ahead of the other team's runner. So as soon as I grab the baton, I take off at my fastest. And I can hear the "crunch, crunch, crunch" of footsteps right behind me. So I push harder, but dang it, I can hear he's still right there, on my tail. I keep pushing myself faster than I'd ever run before, with that "crunch, crunch, crunch" of footsteps right behind me all the way. I get back around, pass my baton to the next runner on our team, and stumble off the track, too wiped out to even watch the rest of the race. Our coach comes up to me, puts his arm around my shoulders, and says, "That was incredible! That's the fastest I've ever seen you run!" He chuckles. "Too bad you didn't need to run that hard." Apparently, when the other team went to pass the baton, they dropped it. By the time their runner picked it up and started running, he was waaaay behind me. I was hearing my own footsteps and was trying to outrun... myself.
  15. For SHIELD, I had to appreciate what they did in the pilot for Agents of SHIELD:
  16. Regarding villain secret IDs and capture, in past campaigns I've had some high-tech supervillains start a support company to manufacture near-perfect fake IDs (complete with hacked-in info inserted into official databases), "cleansing" the villain's actual fingerprints / other identifying info, etc. All as justification for villains buying Deep Cover, plus it gives the heroes something to investigate.
  17. Regarding hero secret IDs and sanctioning by the government, I've used Bob Greenwade's Oregon Hero Sanction before to good effect.
  18. I've long told new parents that an ounce of distraction is worth a pound of cure.
  19. I have to wonder whether that guy in the first 20 seconds was hired for his ability to blow smoke rings.
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