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evilmiera posted:More importantly why did they send the capsule into space, why not just send it into the sun to dispose of it if they absolutely have to send it somewhere? What makes you think they were trying to dispose of it? Maybe it was a perfectly legitimate transfer of disease samples to Space CDC.
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Sending Kryptonian stuff into the yellow sun probably isn’t going to help as much as you’d like it to
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Jan 15, 2024 18:16
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they could have sent it into their own, non-yellow sun.
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Jan 15, 2024 18:18
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A joke I remember someone making about Silver Age Superman stories is that after a certain point it seems like Jor-El and Lara were the only Kryptonians who didn't leave before the planet exploded.
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muscles like this! posted:A joke I remember someone making about Silver Age Superman stories is that after a certain point it seems like Jor-El and Lara were the only Kryptonians who didn't leave before the planet exploded. Jor-El: "We must construct this space-travelling baby crib for our child, before it's too late!" Krypton News: "Evacuation plans are proceeding well, as more and more transport ships and colony expeditions leave our doomed planet for new planets." Jor-El: "If only our government would take this seriously! Nobody even knows we're doomed!" Krypton News: "The Government has completed the pilot project to protect Kandor City with a dome, and launch the whole thing into space, where it will simply land on a new planet and carry on. Construction has begun for other major cities." Jor-El: "The short-sighted fools!" Some guy, sticking his head into Jor-El's lab door: "Hey, Jor buddy, you coming? Our transport is leaving in a few hours." Jor-El: "You feebleminded simpleton! How are you so carefree when our entire civilization is about to die! I must save my son!" Guy: "I got your family tickets right here, bud. First class, all the way!" Jor-El: "I only wish that your mother and I could go with you, Kal-El, my son. If only we too could get off of this planet. Alas, I can only send you. And your cousin." Guy: "Hey, if you don't want on this transport, there's like five hundred more." Jor-El: "Go! Go live what little remains of your life in blessed ignorance!" Guy: "Ok, man, hopefully I see you again when our transports all land on New Krypton. Don't be late!" Jor-El: "My son, my son, we stay here to die, trapped by the folly of our people. Fare well, Kal-El, last of the Kryptonians." Guy, popping his head back in, "Hey, want me to take your dog?"
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Darthemed posted:
When you have people as strong as Ryoga walking around as part of day-to-day life, this policy makes sense
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TheCenturion posted:Jor-El: "We must construct this space-travelling baby crib for our child, before it's too late!" Imagining it as Marlon Brando Jor-El makes it extra special.
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evilmiera posted:I could go for a Sushi burrito There's a burrito place near me that makes them. The default is smoked salmon, Kani, and a pickled cucumber salad wrapped in rice and a piece of nori. Though you can get the pulled pork instead of salmon and Kani as a special request.
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Darthemed posted:
Uh-huh and why not?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Uh-huh and why not? That's actually a well-known UFO legend.
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PainterofCrap posted:That's actually a well-known UFO legend. Yeah OK why could it not have been fabricated? I'm fabricating UFO things right now, in my mind.
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Space-tarts, dropping from the sky, is no basis for a system for Brazilian farmhands to get laid!
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Yeah OK why could it not have been fabricated? I looked it up, and the original argument was that a dumb, Brazilian peasant farmer simply could not have made up such an intricate story. When he later became a lawyer, the ufologists argued that he was too respectable to have made up a story like that.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Yeah OK why could it not have been fabricated? My favorite 'are you serious' moment is when in Angels and Demons, Dan Brown describes how the Illuminati have a special symbol that spells 'Illuminati' both right side up and upside down, and that nobody except them can produce, or reproduce it. He then reproduces it on the page so readers understand what it looks like.
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TheCenturion posted:He then reproduces it on the page so readers understand what it looks like. I was going to ask to see it, but it popped right up with a Google search. Unless the one I see on Google is a lie... 
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Darthemed posted:
Why is he speaking Spanish if he's in Brazil?
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Jan 16, 2024 20:11
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He thought it was a Spanish lady.
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Kennel posted:He thought it was a Spanish lady. Right, because of Spain's famous space program in 1957.
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Air Skwirl posted:Right, because of Spain's famous space program in 1957. 
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Yeah OK why could it not have been fabricated? Nobody would ever lie about making contact with tiny humanoid girls.
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FMguru posted:Yeah, Spain didn't launch their first astronaut into space until 1973.
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I don't know if covers count as panels but the new Nightwing cracked me up. (And yes, it is relevant to the plot).
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Chinston Wurchill posted:I don't know if covers count as panels but the new Nightwing cracked me up. (And yes, it is relevant to the plot). Holy God damned poo poo.
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Air Skwirl posted:Holy God damned poo poo. I love that real-life comicbook writer Gail Simone makes an appearance in the book. Their blood-feud with Taylor is really serious.
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Lobok posted:Did he fridge her? Well kitty Damian did a number on her
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Lobok posted:Did he fridge her? 
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It's an advert, but still
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Unkempt posted:It's an advert, but still Is he on OnlyFans?
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i would like to not meet this man, if that's an option
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I don’t understand why people used lick to mean defeat
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thetoughestbean posted:I don’t understand why people used lick to mean defeat Like a lot of weird English terms it probably came from Polari.
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It comes from the Latin ligma
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thetoughestbean posted:I don’t understand why people used lick to mean defeat That meaning predates the tongue stuff. There's evidence of it in the Aeneid who attributed it to Etruscan Lictors who carried out corporal punishment. Being beaten by their rod of office was known as 'getting lict'.. To lick with a tongue came about ~1000 AD and since they sound similar started getting spelled the same as English evolved.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:That meaning predates the tongue stuff. There's evidence of it in the Aeneid who attributed it to Etruscan Lictors who carried out corporal punishment. Being beaten by their rod of office was known as 'getting lict'.. Yup, Lictors in Rome were a specific type of bodyguard, basically for government officials. The thing to remember with English is that words come from all over the place, and sound-alike doesn't mean actually-alike. For example, in English, the words 'male' and female' aren't etymologically related. https://sillylinguistics.com/the-words-man-woman-male-and-female/ It's also why different words have different rules for pluralization, and why we have the whole 'i before e except after c except for exceptions like 'neighbour' or 'weigh.'' Does the word come from Latin? Welsh? Saxon? Angle? Dane? French? Somewhere else completely? Where it's from will determine, amoung other things, the whole 'i before e' thing. Also 'goose' and 'geese' or 'mouse' and 'mice' vs 'bird' and 'birds' or 'cat' and 'cats.' TheCenturion fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Jan 19, 2024 |
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