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POSTED BY: Jess-San <jesse_popoca_401@hotmail.com>, 04:01:23 11/04/2012 [MegaPower User] SUBJECT: An Open Letter to AnimIron I’m not sure how many of you are left to read this note, but one thing I’m sure of: those who remain are those that are true to our mission statement. So it is to you, …
Mark Doolittle, local historian: It really all started with the tourist trade. People started showing up from all over the country all wanting to see the “birthplace of Superman”. At first it was just snowbirds, retirees, people passing through on road trips, but word got around and the economy started …
WHY ARE JOKES, BIT ONE: QUIZ TO DETERMINE WHICH MEMBER OF THE CHRISTIAN HOLY TRINITY YOU ARE, IF YOU ARE ONE 1. My favorite food is: (a) manna (b) figs (c) I don’t eat 2. On the weekend, I like to relax by: (a) smiting the children of Israel with …
“Commissioner Gordon.” “Evening, Bruce!” “Let’s keep it formal, if you don’t mind.” “Er, all right. What brings you around, Br…Batman?” “It’s the Joker.” “Terrible business. Any clues yet?” “Oh, I’ve already caught him. He’s locked down back at the Batcave.” “Oh! Excellent. That’s good news. I expect we’ll have him …
PAGE ONE (eight panels). Panel 1. KING CLAUDIUS, a devious look on his face, pours poison in one of the cups with one hand while twirling his mustache with the other. CLAUDIUS: NOW THE KING DRINKS TO HAMLET! COME, BEGIN…AND YOU JUDGES, BEAR A WARY EYE. Panel 2. HAMLET and …
LARGEST FINANCIAL COMPENSATIONS I HAVE RECEIVED FOR WRITING THIS BLOG 1. $280,750 from Henry Kissinger: for keeping my mouth shut 2. $55,000 from Paragon Electrical Sex-Novelties of Daegu, South Korea: for dropping the lawsuit 3. $1,000 per week for the duration of the blog from Raymond “Benzino” Scott: for continuing …
Recently, a number of seemingly unconnected cultural conversations took place which seemed to me to have a common thread running through them. While I don’t necessarily think they add up to any grand indictment of the Way We Live Today (I’m always distrustful of anyone who cherry-picks a few isolated …
Superman! Superior man! A man who’s better than the other men If you are a man and you think you’re great, you might be right But you’re definitely not as good as Super Man! Batman! Man of bats! A man who is dressed like a bat and that makes him …
ALTERNATE INSTITUTIONS SEN. JOSEPH McCARTHY HAD CONSIDERED CLAIMING WERE HEAVILY INFILTRATED BY COMMUNISTS BEFORE SETTLING ON THE ARMY, THE STATE DEPARTMENT AND HOLLYWOOD 1. The National Forest Service 2. Ventriloquists 3. The cement industry 4. The Idaho Department of Weights & Measures 5. Bozeman, MT LITTLE-KNOWN ROMAN GODS 1. Capitata …
Dealing with the death of famous people is an emotionally thorny proposition. No matter how much you might have cared for their work, you didn’t really know them, and it seems almost intrusive to mourn them the way you would a friend or a family member. And, of course, death comes …
MON-EL’S BIGGEST COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE THOUSAND YEARS HE SPENT IN THE PHANTOM ZONE 1. No cable 2. General Zod wouldn’t stop telling that one story about how he first decided to become an astronaut 3. Friday Night Fish Surprise was just Mrs. Pal-El’s Fish Sticks with sprig of parsley 4. …
“So! Yu-dan! You have the guts to show your face around here!” “Yes, Li Bai. I have done much thinking.” “And what have you decided? To face your shame! To be a man! Or to run away, again, like a coward?” “I feel no shame, Li Bai. I know I …
Harken, she who is called ‘Sue’! Conan has no need of your foolish tonics and potions. Is this the way of civilization? Are all the men here so weak and womanly that they must anoint their steel with herbs and magics in order to please their women-folk? Bah! A pox …
ATLANTIS. First of all, it’s Atlantis. Not Atlantis City. The minute you guys open your mouths and say “Atlantis City”, we know you’re just some fish-gilled, gawking tourist from Lemuria or something. Second, we don’t have gambling here. That’s Atlantic City. METROPOLIS. There’s more to see here than fucking Superman, …
As part of our ongoing dedication to preserving our nation’s cultural ephemera, LP dot com is pleased to present captions from rejected New Yorker cartoons, 1920-present. “Rodney, for God’s sake, control your Negroes.” “Prepare a standard sodomy clause, Miss Scunthorpe.” “It’s sort of a cook-out, only with horsemeat and machineguns.” “Oh, it …
