Post Funny Panels: Maximum Bogosity

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Mulva: Sep 13, 2011; It's about time for my once per decade ban for being a consistently terrible poster.

Ghostlight posted:

fighting in world war ii

All those guys are dead. It was 80 years ago, if they were in their 20s for the later part of the war they'd be in their 100s now. Sliding timescale do be a bitch like that, ridiculously old 80 something folks were just being born when he went in the ice in modern Marvel. The old people of today are the entitled boomer children of the folks he went to war with. There's maybe a hundred thousand people in the entire US who are vaguely similar in age to him, and most of them aren't having regular conversations. And even then, they have multiple times his life experience. They've actually lived for nearly a century longer than he's been alive and conscious.

The idea of Steve hanging around with older folks made more sense in the 70s and 80s when those folks were the people he knew when he was young, because it'd been only 30 to 40 years at that point. Some 20-something he knew is in their 60s. Old, but you know. Alive. We are 40 years on from that point. There's nobody from him to sit around and go "Man, remember the Great Depression? That sucked!". He is an incredibly young man from the past, not an old man that looks vital.

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Electric_Mud: May 31, 2011; >10 THRUST "ROBO_COX"
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Mulva posted:

All those guys are dead. It was 80 years ago, if they were in their 20s for the later part of the war they'd be in their 100s now. Sliding timescale do be a bitch like that, ridiculously old 80 something folks were just being born when he went in the ice in modern Marvel. The old people of today are the entitled boomer children of the folks he went to war with. There's maybe a hundred thousand people in the entire US who are vaguely similar in age to him, and most of them aren't having regular conversations. And even then, they have multiple times his life experience. They've actually lived for nearly a century longer than he's been alive and conscious.

The idea of Steve hanging around with older folks made more sense in the 70s and 80s when those folks were the people he knew when he was young, because it'd been only 30 to 40 years at that point. Some 20-something he knew is in their 60s. Old, but you know. Alive. We are 40 years on from that point. There's nobody from him to sit around and go "Man, remember the Great Depression? That sucked!". He is an incredibly young man from the past, not an old man that looks vital.

Just imaging him saying that and someone replaying that yes they remembered 2008, it wasn't that long ago.

# ? Jul 30, 2022 13:34

Taerkar: Dec 7, 2002; kind of into it, really

Ghostlight posted:

fighting in world war ii

Sharing a drink and reminiscing on all those times they all punched Hitler and had that bullet-proof shield, just like any other Vet.

# ? Jul 30, 2022 18:30

Forum accident: Jun 15, 2006; All hail Thor...the THUNDER GOD!

Lassie #51 (1960) wherein Lassie, Timmy, and the whole family get irradiated.

# ? Jul 31, 2022 04:29

Darthemed: Oct 28, 2007; "A data unit?
For me?"; College Slice

Spidey Super Stories #48 (1980)

Quasar #38 (1992)

# ? Jul 31, 2022 04:31

Elissimpark: May 20, 2010; Bring me the head of Auguste Escoffier.

Was Quasar the one where the Watcher brought a date to watch the end of the universe?

# ? Jul 31, 2022 04:47

The Lone Badger: Sep 24, 2007

Elissimpark posted:

Was Quasar the one where the Watcher brought a date to watch the end of the universe?

"He went to Milliways?"

# ? Jul 31, 2022 05:01

Thaddius the Large: Jul 5, 2006; It's in the five-hole!

Electric_Mud posted:

Just imaging him saying that and someone replaying that yes they remembered 2008, it wasn't that long ago.

It is pretty funny to think about how when he went on ice to first reappearing was initially what, 20 years? Like somebody who disappeared around 9/11 coming back doesn�t feel much a man out of time, occasionally referencing how crazy Y2K madness was maybe?

# ? Jul 31, 2022 05:30

Bruceski: Aug 21, 2007; The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Thaddius the Large posted:

It is pretty funny to think about how when he went on ice to first reappearing was initially what, 20 years? Like somebody who disappeared around 9/11 coming back doesn�t feel much a man out of time, occasionally referencing how crazy Y2K madness was maybe?

Pre-Youtube, pre-Facebook, early Google, cellphones weren't commonplace yet and were mostly used to make calls. iPod wasn't out yet so were still thinking of music as inherently tied to physical disks. If the guy wanted to find out what they'd missed their first stop would probably be going to a public library for encyclopedias.

Don't let the lack of flying cars fool you, a lot has changed and become "normal."

# ? Jul 31, 2022 05:42

TwoPair: Mar 28, 2010; Pandamn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta; Grimey Drawer

Man unfrozen from the early 2000s: "I don't understand, why are there like 5 news channels and all of them tell me the others are lying? Is this a riddle?"

# ? Jul 31, 2022 06:09

nimby: Nov 4, 2009; The pinnacle of cloud computing.

TwoPair posted:

Man unfrozen from the early 2000s: "I don't understand, why are there like 5 news channels and all of them tell me the others are lying? Is this a riddle?"

"Oh they're all lying. If you want the truth you need to follow these accounts on Twitter and whenever more than half agree on something, it might be accurate."

# ? Jul 31, 2022 08:11

Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

"Wait, the real estate guy??"

# ? Jul 31, 2022 14:11

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

Just remembered the bit in Buddy Faro where he confuses Hanson (the orchestra) with the Hansons (from Slap Shot).

# ? Jul 31, 2022 14:16

Selachian: Oct 9, 2012

Phy posted:

"Wait, the real estate guy??"

I always think that the folks who laughed at "Ronald Reagan? The actor?" from Back to the Future in 1985 would be equally boggled to hear about President Trump.

# ? Jul 31, 2022 15:28

Beerdeer: Apr 25, 2006; Frank Herbert's Dude

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_Ice_Man

South Park�s take on a dude frozen for 3 years

# ? Jul 31, 2022 15:48

Taerkar: Dec 7, 2002; kind of into it, really

Selachian posted:

I always think that the folks who laughed at "Ronald Reagan? The actor?" from Back to the Future in 1985 would be equally boggled to hear about President Trump.

Back to the Future II should have prepared them!

# ? Jul 31, 2022 16:10

Darthemed: Oct 28, 2007; "A data unit?
For me?"; College Slice

Lightning Comics #6 (1941)

Ghost Manor #57 (1981)

# ? Aug 1, 2022 05:16

Air Skwirl: May 13, 2007; Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Darthemed posted:

Ghost Manor #57 (1981)

Kinda annoyed the skeleton guy is obviously just a guy in a skeleton suit and not a skeleton.

# ? Aug 1, 2022 05:29

Zereth: Jul 9, 2003

Skwirl posted:

Kinda annoyed the skeleton guy is obviously just a guy in a skeleton suit and not a skeleton.

If I had to guess the plot these are guys in costumes, and they're going to run into real monsters at "the mansion".

# ? Aug 1, 2022 09:49

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

Zereth posted:

If I had to guess the plot these are guys in costumes, and they're going to run into real monsters at "the mansion".

Yeah there's exactly two types of monster story that they did in America back then:

1) Fake monsters meet the real monsters
2) The fake monster is the real monster AAAAH!

# ? Aug 1, 2022 09:53

Dareon: Apr 6, 2009; by vyelkin

3) the real monster was man all along

# ? Aug 1, 2022 10:51

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

Dareon posted:

3) the real monster was man all along

Oh yeah but then it's a sci-fi or apocalypse story. Like Asimov's novella Yute. (e: which is the former)

# ? Aug 1, 2022 11:03

muscles like this!: Jan 17, 2005

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Yeah there's exactly two types of monster story that they did in America back then:

1) Fake monsters meet the real monsters
2) The fake monster is the real monster AAAAH!

Or the real monster accidentally attacks another monster.

# ? Aug 1, 2022 17:47

muscles like this!: Jan 17, 2005

Witch Watch spitting truth

# ? Aug 1, 2022 18:25

Kennel: May 1, 2008; BAWWW-UNH!

Mandrake (2005)

# ? Aug 2, 2022 01:47

Gnome de plume: Sep 5, 2006; Hell.
Fucking.
Yes.

Darthemed posted:

Ghost Manor #57 (1981)

There's probably a joke somewhere about saying you saw a large menacing group of weird-looking people with strange clothes and hair in odd places riding noisy motorcycles and the reply being, "Teenagers?"

# ? Aug 2, 2022 04:06

Keromaru5: Dec 28, 2012; Pictured: The Wolf Of Gubbio (probably)

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What I want to know is, when did John McCain become a horror comic host?

# ? Aug 2, 2022 04:10

Darthemed: Oct 28, 2007; "A data unit?
For me?"; College Slice

Blue Beetle #29 (1944)

The Age of the Sentry #6 (2009)

# ? Aug 2, 2022 06:11

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

muscles like this! posted:

Or the real monster accidentally attacks another monster.

The real monster was the other monster the monster met along the way :hai:

# ? Aug 2, 2022 07:54

Air Skwirl: May 13, 2007; Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.