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Ponsonby Britt posted:This is probably a reference to Edgar Bergen, a ventriloquist, and his wooden costar Charlie McCarthy, who were one of the most popular shows on radio at this time. My dad has been getting into old-time radio recently and showed me that poo poo and it's stunning. They gave a ventriloquist a radio show! It boggles the mind
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site posted:Return to the days where you could get poo poo like this in the mail for 30 bucks Back then, that was like the price of a house.
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Ponsonby Britt posted:This is probably a reference to Edgar Bergen, a ventriloquist, and his wooden costar Charlie McCarthy, who were one of the most popular shows on radio at this time. Easiest loving job in show business. “Wow, I didn’t see his lips move at all!” - guy sitting at home in front of the radio
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TwoPair posted:My dad has been getting into old-time radio recently and showed me that poo poo and it's stunning. They gave a ventriloquist a radio show! It boggles the mind They did it more than once!
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D-Pad posted:Everybody else sees it too right? 
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It's a good go but it doesn't have the class of the 'the beer is wolverine's erection' cover.
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MikeJF posted:It's a good go but it doesn't have the class of the 'the beer is wolverine's erection' cover. The one where Nightcrawler is obviously naked, but it somehow got past editorial? 
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Sam Sterns? Please tell me that the origin of The Leader is that he got mad after Bruce turned into the Hulk in his truck
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Snackmar posted:Sam Sterns? Please tell me that the origin of The Leader is that he got mad after Bruce turned into the Hulk in his truck This is actually part of a bizarre scheme by the Leader to get info on the Hulk, because his Sam Sterns personality doesn't know he's the Leader, so he primes his unsuspecting human alter ego to go to the Hulk's last known location and make friends with him to find out his weaknesses, so he'll know them when he turns back into the Leader. (This is from memory. I think this story also features the return of a swamp monster called the Glob that Hulk fought-but-liked years ago, who the Leader resurrects on learning that the Hulk liked it?)
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glitchwraith posted:The one where Nightcrawler is obviously naked, but it somehow got past editorial? Greg Rucka posted:"Also please note the placement of the beer bottle.
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That’s one of my favorite comic creator stories
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It makes sense if this guys like a reverse ron paul libertarian where he thinks golds useless and he all about that fiat.
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I'd guess it's omly a temporary transformation, or the gold explodes or something.
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Why would the police care? Other than trying to steal it themselves that is. "Oh no somebody put gold trashcans on the sidewalk, now the trashmen are gonna throw out their backs!"
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Someone in the comments pointed out that it was illegal for Americans to own most gold at the time, so this makes perfect sense. The gold would have been near impossible to sell, so using it as an indirect means to get cash is a sensible strategy.
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SimonChris posted:Someone in the comments pointed out that it was illegal for Americans to own most gold at the time, so this makes perfect sense. The gold would have been near impossible to sell, so using it as an indirect means to get cash is a sensible strategy. You know another thing that was illegal at the time? Robbing banks!
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evilmiera posted:Why would the police care? I am no sociologist but I'm reasonably sure that huge amounts of gold just popping up all over the place would cause some unrest, on account of everybody trying to take it for themselves, by force if necessary. The police is kinda obligated to stop such things.
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Grendels Dad posted:I am no sociologist but I'm reasonably sure that huge amounts of gold just popping up all over the place would cause some unrest, on account of everybody trying to take it for themselves, by force if necessary. The police is kinda obligated to stop such things. Fun fact, the police are not legally obligated to help anybody at any time!
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Uthor posted:Fun fact, the police are not legally obligated to help anybody at any time! They very, very frequently don't do it, but they actually are legally obligated to protect people in their custody. Legally speaking (though they fail at this legal obligation all the god damned time) cops are required to keep you safe if they've arrested you. Again, this legal obligation is violated all the time with little to no repercussions, but it does exist in case law and has been upheld by the supreme court. Basically it just makes it easier for your family to sue the city or state after cops murder you while you're wearing handcuffs.
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Air Skwirl posted:They very, very frequently don't do it, but they actually are legally obligated to protect people in their custody. Legally speaking (though they fail at this legal obligation all the god damned time) cops are required to keep you safe if they've arrested you. Again, this legal obligation is violated all the time with little to no repercussions, but it does exist in case law and has been upheld by the supreme court. But they don’t have to put anyone into custody, in which case they have no obligation to do anything.
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Okay but what about gold trashcans
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site posted:Okay but what about gold trashcans They’re allowed as road jewelry
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Okay, I was talking out of my rear end and I also don't live in the USA, I have no idea what your hosed-up police system is required to do when a massively valuable item just shows up in public. Shoot everybody, would have been my guess following the regular news, but I might have been distracted by the time the story was set in when I made my last post.
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Grendels Dad posted:Okay, I was talking out of my rear end and I also don't live in the USA, I have no idea what your hosed-up police system is required to do when a massively valuable item just shows up in public. Shoot everybody, would have been my guess following the regular news, but I might have been distracted by the time the story was set in when I made my last post. Old timey media tends to portray cops as generally nice, so your theory makes sense. It's just that cops have been sued because like, they didn't arrest a man after he called his ex-girlfriend or estranged wife or whatever saying "I'm going to kill you with the knife I bought when we went camping" like incredibly specific threats that would terrify anyone, and then they carry out that threat. And then the courts said "ehh, cops don't actually have a legal responsibility to protect anyone from anything, except prisoners in their custody." It's just cops also don't follow that rule either, It was either this year or last cops left a person in the backseat of their car parked on train tracks and it got hit by a loving train. I think the person survived but who the gently caress parks on train tracks, even if there's no one or any item of value inside the car?
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Air Skwirl posted:Old timey media tends to portray cops as generally nice, so your theory makes sense. It's just that cops have been sued because like, they didn't arrest a man after he called his ex-girlfriend or estranged wife or whatever saying "I'm going to kill you with the knife I bought when we went camping" like incredibly specific threats that would terrify anyone, and then they carry out that threat. And then the courts said "ehh, cops don't actually have a legal responsibility to protect anyone from anything, except prisoners in their custody." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeShaney_v._Winnebago_County- "The court held that a state government agency's failure to prevent child abuse by a custodial parent [which had been reported by hospitals and social workers] does not violate the child's right to liberty for the purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia- "[DC Court of Appeals] held that the police do not owe a specific duty to provide police services to specific citizens based on the public duty doctrine[, even if you call 911 and say 'help this is a home invasion']." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksim_Gelman_stabbing_spree#Lozito_v._New_York_City- "Joseph Lozito, who was brutally stabbed and "grievously wounded, deeply slashed around the head and neck", sued police for negligence in failing to render assistance to him as he was being attacked by Gelman.Lozito told reporters that he decided to file the lawsuit after allegedly learning from "a grand-jury member" that NYPD officer Terrance Howell testified that he hid from Gelman before and while Lozito was being attacked because Howell thought Gelman had a gun. In response to the suit, attorneys for the City of New York argued that police had no duty to protect Lozito or any other person from Gelman." In conclusion, 
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Darthemed posted:
I think that would have worked whether the alien wore glasses or not, buddy.
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Am I right in assuming that this video game was not conceptualized in the US and is fairly old? So yeah, put that one up on me not being up to date with even the faintest idea of what the police in the USA is supposed to do. Makes me wonder what Batman's relationship to them even is now, like, does Gordon even still exist?
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Grendels Dad posted:Am I right in assuming that this video game was not conceptualized in the US and is fairly old? So yeah, put that one up on me not being up to date with even the faintest idea of what the police in the USA is supposed to do. Makes me wonder what Batman's relationship to them even is now, like, does Gordon even still exist? That's Streets of Rage, which originally came out in '91 from Sega, so right on both counts.
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Grendels Dad posted:Am I right in assuming that this video game was not conceptualized in the US and is fairly old? So yeah, put that one up on me not being up to date with even the faintest idea of what the police in the USA is supposed to do. Makes me wonder what Batman's relationship to them even is now, like, does Gordon even still exist? I'm pretty sure Gordon is still around and still a decent guy, and a good number of GCPD are decent cops, because it's fiction. One of Batman's closest friends is an invincible alien who can fly and shoot lasers from his eyes, why wouldn't cops be semi competent and caring in that universe, not any more ridiculous than having a shape shifting Martian and a guy who can talk to fish as your coworkers.
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Air Skwirl posted:I'm pretty sure Gordon is still around and still a decent guy, and a good number of GCPD are decent cops, because it's fiction. One of Batman's closest friends is an invincible alien who can fly and shoot lasers from his eyes, why wouldn't cops be semi competent and caring in that universe, not any more ridiculous than having a shape shifting Martian and a guy who can talk to fish as your coworkers. Right, so what was different about that in 1958?
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