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It came up in the Comic Strip Megathread relatively recently - Haifisch posted:1999 Spider-Man Julet Esqu posted:Peter Q. Parker? What's the Q stand for? Quincy? Quentin? Quartermain? Ghostlight posted:The 'Q' stands for "Stan Lee doesn't give a poo poo". His middle name is Benjamin.
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next: blame it on the internet that's very good advice for a wide variety of situations
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More comics should end with Spidey reflecting on how his soul is damned.
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Benito Cereno posted:In this story, there's a millionaire who hates Christmas, so he develops a chemical that makes you gain weight rapidly and puts it in some chocolates that Santa Claus eats. Santa is then too fat to slide down chimneys, so Superman comes to the North Pole to help him lose weight. The cranky millionaire also drugs Santa's reindeer, so Superman ends up pulling the sleigh, too. The millionaire ends up crashing his helicopter on an iceberg and his heart softens when Superman and Santa rescue him. I'm kind of surprised that Jimmy isn't involved in any of that, also mind the walrus posted:I 100% cannot tell if this is a joke or not.
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A little late to the Animal Man talk, but is all post-Morrison Animal Man bad or just the rest of that run? Because I've become very enamored with Jeff Lemire as of late (Holy gently caress! Sweet Tooth!), and was considering checking out his New 52 Animal Man, though his body of work is so large, there's many others I could read first. I've never touched Essex County and they have it at my library.
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mind the walrus posted:I 100% cannot tell if this is a joke or not. That is totally a thing that happened, as is this.  Mighty Avengers #10
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Jul 7, 2017 12:52
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Ohhh I used to have this annual when I was a kid,man you've just brought back so many memories.
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Ghostlight posted:It came up in the Comic Strip Megathread relatively recently - I always loved the Robert Bruce Banner thing. Because my dad always goes by his middle name instead of his first name (the nurse talking to his parents got confused and recorded the wrong name first so legal his middle name ended up as his first name.) So since I discovered that Bruce Banner does the same thing it let's me imagine my dad as the Hulk.
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Robert David Bruce Banner.
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The Question IRL posted:I always loved the Robert Bruce Banner thing. It's a very common thing for boomers to go by their middle name.
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Toshimo posted:It's a very common thing for boomers to go by their middle name. There must have been a lot of confused nurses in the 1950s.
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Jul 7, 2017 15:41
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Is it a generational thing? I thought it was just down to how lovely your first name was.
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I believe it used - first half of the last century, maybe - to be somewhat common for people to go by their middle name but keep their first initial. H. Rider Haggard or W. Somerset Maugham, for example. There's one scene in To Kill a Mockingbird where Scout sits in on a meeting of Aunt Alexandra's ladies' meeting, one of whom pontificates about the activities of a missionary named "J. Grimes Everett" and ever since I read it, "J. Grimes Everett" has been the most American name ever to me.
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Is that supposed to be Jaime Hernandez? Punky looking kid in Southern California in the 80s named Jaime, and his face sort of looks like a Xaime face.
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zoux posted:Is it a generational thing? I thought it was just down to how lovely your first name was. My father, his brother and sister, my boss, my coworker who is my father's age. It's anecdata, but I see it a lot in people born in the '50s.
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I was born in 1978 and I go by one of my middle names because otherwise I'd be a "Junior".
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Phylodox posted:I was born in 1978 and I go by one of my middle names because otherwise I'd be a "Junior". Born 9 years earlier and same. Plus my dad grew up in the deep south and got really angry when people tried to call me Junior.
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zoux posted:Is it a generational thing? I thought it was just down to how lovely your first name was. I think a lot might involve parents naming their kids after themselves. Like my grandpa's name is George and he named my dad George, so obviously he had to go by something else.
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TwoPair posted:I think a lot might involve parents naming their kids after themselves. Like my grandpa's name is George and he named my dad George, so obviously he had to go by something else. My family has four generations of people named John and they've all gone by something else (Jake, Jeff, Jack, and Fred).
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I share a name with a famous dead person (very famous in Indiana) so I stopped using my real last name about 7 years ago. I just recently put it back up on my FB profile but only for wedding purposes. Ryan White, famous kid who died of AIDS 27 fuckin years ago but idiots in this state still make "I thought you died" jokes
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It never stops amazing me how much of an improvement Texas' citizenry, if not their politics, managed to be over Indiana.
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kujeger posted:"BIG PUN" I think it's supposed to be a Heathers reference? Amazing.
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Keeshhound posted:It never stops amazing me how much of an improvement Texas' citizenry, if not their politics, managed to be over Indiana. Yes, but it's like the improvement of projectile vomiting over projectile diarrhea.
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mind the walrus posted:I 100% cannot tell if this is a joke or not. Read Ewing's Mighty Avengers. it's not a joke
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Wheat Loaf posted:I believe it used - first half of the last century, maybe - to be somewhat common for people to go by their middle name but keep their first initial. H. Rider Haggard or W. Somerset Maugham, for example. A lot of the time publishers would use initials to hide the fact that a book was written by a woman. I'm 90% sure J.K. Rowling said that's why Harry Potter was credited to J.K. Rowling.
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Toshimo posted:Yes, but it's like the improvement of projectile vomiting over projectile diarrhea. You misunderstand; I had assumed it was going to be worse.
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Jul 7, 2017 19:00
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 A bit of old Love and Rockets for your punk rock weekend
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zoux posted:Is it a generational thing? I thought it was just down to how lovely your first name was.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I believe it used - first half of the last century, maybe - to be somewhat common for people to go by their middle name but keep their first initial. H. Rider Haggard or W. Somerset Maugham, for example. The S in Harry S. Truman doesn't stand for anything, he literally just had the letter S as a middle name.
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Alhazred posted:The S in Harry S. Truman doesn't stand for anything, he literally just had the letter S as a middle name. My grandfather was named EJ. That's what was on his birth certificate.
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Some places have rules on what you're allowed to record as "a name". Some places do not give a gently caress at all.
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My dad legit tried to name me Slagathor. The nurse blinked at him, turned to my mom- "So what are you really naming him?" He tried it again when my sister was born, and was shot down a second time 
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From Batman 455
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Malachite_Dragon posted:My dad legit tried to name me Slagathor. The nurse blinked at him, turned to my mom- "So what are you really naming him?" Is he a big Scrubs fan?
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smashpro1 posted:Is he a big Scrubs fan? This was back in the 90's, way before Scrubs was a thing.
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Gaunab posted:From Batman 455 People who live in costumed vigilante mansions...
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The Question IRL posted:I always loved the Robert Bruce Banner thing. A friend of mine goes by his middle name with first initial, J Jonah Jameson style. Gets junk mail addressed to J all the time. I think it's part generational, part how bad your first name is. Bruceski fucked around with this message at 06:53 on Jul 8, 2017 |
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Gaunab posted:From Batman 455 Spider Jerusalem looks terrible.
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There's J. Michael Straczynski, who admittedly goes by "Joe" to his friends. Ulysses S. Grant got renamed by a War Department clerical error. His birth name was Hiram Ulysses Grant, but someone at West Point wrote it down as Ulysses Simpson Grant (the Simpson coming from his mother's side of the family who were sponsoring him to the Point ). Since going with the initials "H.U.G." would probably lead to shenanigans he decided to just let it ride.
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