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Endless Mike posted:Technically, the word Billy says is an acronym, so it should stylized "SHAZAM" (or perhaps "S.H.A.Z.A.M." if you have a weirdo styleguide). Even more technically, it's a backronym since Shazam worked backwards from his name. Don't have to capitalize the letters, like scuba or *Dr. Evil voice* "laser."
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Dareon posted:That is the face of a man who stole forty cakes. That is not Lex Luthor you Baldist.
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Jan 26, 2021 21:16
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Rhyno posted:That is not Lex Luthor you Baldist. Noted Spider-Man villain, Lex Luthor
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Jan 26, 2021 21:19
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Endless Mike posted:Noted Spider-Man villain, Lex Luthor 
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Samovar posted:Where's an etymologist when you need one, cause I'd really like to know when this changed.
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Rhyno posted:That is not Lex Luthor you Baldist. That is Jeff Bezos celebrating figuring out how to make warehouse workers into independent contractors.
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I like how the first one is clearly based on Greek myth, but then they just sort of gave up when it came to the O and went with Norse mythology. Was it really that hard to think of Odysseus? Also using the Roman variant Neptune is lame too, but a bit harder to fix. maybe substitute that by Nereus and you can even keep the water thing going, if you really love the idea of depth. Velma's list is sort of a wild mixture of various badass ladies which are somewhat obscure and I can appreciate that. I think I spent more time on that than the writer of the whole comic. Also once I am at it. Apparently Shazam stands for Solomon - Wisdom Hercules - Strength Atlas - Stamina Zeus - Power Achilles - Courage Mercury - Speed That has the exact same problem as Shaggys thing, to a point where it feels intentional and it's odd, but weirdly appropriate, that Zeus is two-timing.
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Jan 26, 2021 23:21
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cant cook creole bream posted:Also once I am at it. Apparently Shazam stands for SHAZAM also stands for Shu, Horus, Amon, Zehuti, Aten, and Mehen, and there's probably others that I don't know immediately.
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muscles like this! posted:So this is an example of how phrases change over time. While there were recorded uses of the phrase "making love" as a euphemism for sex in the 20s at the time it was more commonly used for something closer to flirting. Reminds me of It's a Wonderful Life where Donna Reed calls out to her mother that George is "violently making love" to her. I always read it as sarcasm, but TIL.
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Random Stranger posted:SHAZAM also stands for Shu, Horus, Amon, Zehuti, Aten, and Mehen, and there's probably others that I don't know immediately. DC Bombshells went with various women involved in the Old Testament. .
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cant cook creole bream posted:Velma's list is sort of a wild mixture of various badass ladies which are somewhat obscure and I can appreciate that. Inanna / Ishtar's the odd one, because Inanna wasn't anything even close to resembling a goddess of love. She was the Queen of Heaven, goddess of civilization, the ruler of the gods, and was much more akin to Zeus (except her crime of choice was theft). Mesopotamian mythology is really interesting. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Jan 27, 2021 |
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Jan 27, 2021 01:34
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PoptartsNinja posted:Inanna / Ishtar's the odd one, because Inanna wasn't anything even close to resembling a goddess of love. She was the Queen of Heaven, Goddess of Civilization, the ruler of the gods, and was much more akin to Zeus (except her crime of choice was theft). It might be a reference to the famous flop of a film, I think that was at least partially a rom com, but I watched like half of it when I was 10 on comedy central, so I don't know.
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Rhyno posted:That is not Lex Luthor you Baldist. Oh, so Lex Luthor is the only man qualified to steal cakes? I happen to believe everyone, deep down, are all capable of the most ridiculous crimes.
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I would say it's more probably simply a half-remembered Classics class that went over cultural connections between Ishtar and Aphrodite.
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Dareon posted:Oh, so Lex Luthor is the only man qualified to steal cakes? I happen to believe everyone, deep down, are all capable of the most ridiculous crimes. And that’s terrible
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Jan 27, 2021 02:49
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There’s going to be a Shazam where the letters are all DC super heroes
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PoptartsNinja posted:Inanna / Ishtar's the odd one, because Inanna wasn't anything even close to resembling a goddess of love. She was the Queen of Heaven, goddess of civilization, the ruler of the gods, and was much more akin to Zeus (except her crime of choice was theft). Eventually, but all her earliest myths portray her as the goddess of sex which tends to get sanitized as love in the Victorian times when most of the translations were done. Her earliest myth is about her pleading with her brother to escort her to the underworld to taste the fruit of passion and assume the domain promised to her.
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Ghostlight posted:Shazam Is the first S an "ATM Machine" type of recursion?
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Uthor posted:Is the first S an "ATM Machine" type of recursion? Kinda feel like Superman would be the obvious choice here.
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jng2058 posted:Kinda feel like Skeets would be the obvious choice here.
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Yo Ho Ho He Took A Bite Of Gum Gum
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Infinitum posted:Yo YHHHTABOGG is my fourth favorite Kill Six Billion Demons character
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yeah, i have the same expression when i look at that guy's very confusing mechanized crotch.
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Ignite Memories posted:DICK That’s Richard Door to you
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thetoughestbean posted:That’s Richard Door to you His name is actually Richard Hatch.
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He's just carrying a printer to a girl's house, no different than any goon would have done
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mercenarynuker posted:He's just carrying a printer to a girl's house, no different than any goon would have done Poor Borky, he's carrying Jesus's printer in heaven now.
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He just does it so he tell people that his dick is manifold.
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Savage Avengers #17: Conan and Deadpool are in jail    
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TwoPair posted:Savage Avengers #17: Conan and Deadpool are in jail What a fun issue: 
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That's a really loving talkative Conan.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:That's a really loving talkative Conan. Conan isn't like a huge chatter or anything, but most versions, including the original, aren't anywhere as stoic as the Schwarzeneggar version.
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Skwirl posted:Conan isn't like a huge chatter or anything, but most versions, including the original, aren't anywhere as stoic as the Schwarzeneggar version. I've only read Thomas-Buscema Conan (which lasted what 40 000 years?) and he would've told himself to shut up.
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