BoloOfEarth

I think this was the perfect response to a GOP proposal to rename Dulles airport after Trump.

Democratic congressmen unveil bill to rename a federal prison after Trump (nbcnews.com)

I'm just disappointed that nobody pointed out that renaming an airport after him wasn't so out of bounds, either, as he's likely a flight risk.

"Our business is a very hard one. But it was never the, uh... the killing or the stress, the bad pay that bothered me."

"Well, what was it, Frank?"

"It's how anything that you love... can be taken away from you. It taught me never to care. Never to invest. Then I met this woman. Sarah. And now you have her. Now I can't think of anything more horrible than to know that your enemies can hurt someone you love. The feeling is almost indescribable."

[the trace completes, and the technician hands Cooper a printout]

"You still there, Cooper?"

[horrified] "You're at my house"

[Frank looks out the window into the yard where Cooper's wife and two children, unaware, are playing]  "Almost indescribable, isn't it?"

10 minutes ago, unclevlad said:

Nope, that was Carnac the Magnificent.  

"Sis, boom, bah -- Describe the sound made when a sheep explodes."  It still cracks me up.

"I'm sure he'll be alright."

"Oh, I should think not.  He seems to have fallen for a clever woman.  He's in for a lifetime of trouble."

50 minutes ago, Cancer said:

Either that, or not enough whiskey.

Is there such a thing as "enough whiskey"?

Edit to add:  As you think about that, imagine that you're giving or grading exams.

2 hours ago, Starlord said:

Hey, that's the real dill.  But they're dancing awfully close.  Not sure that's kosher.

11 hours ago, Old Man said:

58 minutes ago, Starlord said:

Where are you in that photo?

6 minutes ago, death tribble said:

He is bottom row second from left square

Oh, man.  They did the picture when his eyes were closed.  How embarrassing.

From "Silly Martial Arts" by Aaron Allston from Adventurer's Club #17, there were five maneuvers, plus one Advanced Maneuver:

• Bonk (basically a Martial Strike)
• Curly's Charge (a full-move Martial Strike with additional velocity damage)
• Ear Yank (Martial Grab)
• Nose-Twist (Grab plus minor NND)
• Slap (NND strike)
• Eye-Poke (no-range Flash)

I'm assuming there's a later version of the martial "art" that you reference but if so I don't have it.

I've used Foxbat in nearly every Champions campaign I've run.  (He has yet to make a named appearance in my current campaign, but a news article talked about one of his antics without naming him.)

He typically has a team in my worlds - The Foxbat Five (obviously greater than the Fantastic Four, at least numerically) and Foxbat Force being the most used names.  I'm pretty sure Exo-Skeleton Man has been in all teams, though the rest of the roster has changed with each campaign.

IIRC, The Foxbat Five were Foxbat (naturally), Exoskeleton Man, Dot (I stole the pic from CLOWN but made him more like Spot, the Spider-Man foe), Harmonious Fist, and The Amazing Static Man.  At some point, I think I replaced The Amazing Static Man with Garble.

Foxbat Force added the Foxbots (mainly comic relief), Professor Robert Steriaca, Blinky, and The King (claims to be the real Elvis Presley kidnapped by aliens).

Along the way he got a love interest (Batfox), kinda the Harley Quinn to Foxbat's Joker.  

And of course, he had the Centipedemobile, the multi-pod vehicle, with each pod having its own special movement power, sensor, and weapon for when they separate.  That was fun to write up, and I even got a set of multicolored ping-pong balls (with velcro to attach them to each other) to use on the battle map to represent his crazy vehicle.

He has appeared alone a few times, but only when facing off against a lone hero.  Otherwise, he's with his team.

Many, many fond memories of Foxbat and his crazy crew...

On 3/22/2024 at 9:27 PM, Pariah said:

I absolutely do not recommend that you watch this. You'll suffer SAN damage, guaranteed. You'll question any faith you might still have in the human race. Even knowing this video is linked to Florida won't help. I can only call it...

 

A Crime Against Steak

I think my blood pressure spiked just watching them pour on all that salt.

3 hours ago, Old Man said:

Second grader tries to organize classmates to adopt a horse as class pet.  (Longish tiktok video but you have to watch till the end.)

2 hours ago, unclevlad said:

 

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Can someone help me pick my jaw up off the floor?

 

I wanna smile, and I wanna cry, and........wow....

Ditto.  I was wondering at first why this was on the Political thread... and then yeah.  Wow.

I told a friend of mine that I wanted my remains scattered from an airplane over Ann Arbor.  But that I didn't want to be cremated first.  That should wake people up, I'd think...

17 hours ago, death tribble said:

Bank Shot

George C Scott is a bank robber sprung from prison to rob a bank that is based in a mobile home. Joanna Cassidy plays the backer and Clifton James as the prison governor tracking Scott down. This is a comedy and a lot of fun.

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.  

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.  

Oreo cookies > Sweets > Munchies > Pigging out > Pig > Bacon > Kevin Bacon.

There's your seven degrees of separation.

On 2/28/2024 at 7:03 AM, mattingly said:

Just finished rewatching the first two seasons of Resident Alien.

It was the wife's first time watching. She loved it.

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.  

4 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:

 

 

I guess that would be R2-FU.

I read the following:

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Trump has also boasted on the 2024 campaign trial about how he passed a test, believed to be the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, which is used to detect cognitive impairment or signs of decline such as dementia.

 

"You'd be amazed at how many people would fail it," Trump told a crowd of his supporters in Las Vegas in January. "There's only about two percent in this room who can do it."

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.

1 hour ago, Bazza said:

The adult version of “head, shoulders, knees, and toes” is “wallet, glasses, keys, and phone"

That reminded me of a joke I told here years ago.

2 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:

You don't want to know what happened to the last guy who came after me with a stick.

Sometimes I think the Republican Party should make "Cruelty is the Point" their motto.

I'm guessing the army, because, Colonel.

1 hour ago, Lord Liaden said:

 

The Mongol Empire was bigger than Russia is today. In fact it was bigger than the Russian Empire ever was, or the Soviet Union. Only Britain's colonial empire was more vast. And Mongols dominated Russia for three centuries.

 

All this historical-precedent mythology Putin's spouting is just a reskinning of manifest destiny, or jingoism, or crusade/jihad, or whatever imperialist rationale you care to cite. Borders are drawn according to who has power, and what they want to do with it. It's always been that way.

On 2/9/2024 at 1:09 PM, Lord Liaden said:

Do Floridians really not recognize how big a joke their state is to the rest of America already?

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?"