I'll admit to stealing the Greyskull line from a friend. But now I can't not do it.
Gawd, I love Skelator. And you should be going with "For the honor of Grayskull," She-Ra.
You could also just put tape over its sensor.
Way to suck the whimsy right out of that, Ben.
Hey, it's something I'm good at. Ask M/tch.
And you should be going with "For the honor of Grayskull," She-Ra.
Sexist.
My favorite line for that is, 'The power of Greyskull compels you! The power of Greyskull compels you!'
"I realized" s/b "Fabulous secret powers were revealed to me"
Sexist.
Mostly I just wanted to use "She-Ra," which I use in real life all the time. Becks should choose the character she wants, of course.~
The smoke alarm in my last apartment went off reliably every time I made toast or turned the oven on to over 400 degrees. Naturally, the one time I had an honest-to-god trash fire in the apartment, not a peep.
He-Man was kinda hot in a dumb jock sort of way, but the father and son team in The Herculoids offered so much more for your Saturday morning animated scifi beefcake desires, if you ask me.
I wonder where He-Man and Skeletor work out.
Skeletor doesn't look that muscular to me.
11: dude you had a crush on Zandor?!? That's so... I don't even know what that is.
"Is it hot in here, or is it just me?"
"Yes, Zok, I agree with you!"
Musculor is another character entirely, you ignoramus.
12: You know they're juiced, right? Which reminds me....
Everyone has heard the famous He-Man quiz, right?
Question 1: what is the name of the man-at-arms who is allied to He-man?
Question 2: what is the name of the sorceress who is allied to He-man?
Is this another "Family Circus" moment?
Once, I was in a sorta-relationship that, for a variety of drama-related reasons, had to be concealed. In fact, it just so happened that only three others shared the secret. I couldn't stop reciting the He-Man monologue for that whole summer. Poor Colleen pretty much ended up as Orko.
Man-at-Arms's real name is Duncan, isn't it?
Question 1: what is the name of the man-at-arms who is allied to He-man?
Answer: "Man-at-Arms"
Question 2: what is the name of the sorceress who is allied to He-man?
Answer: "The Sorceress"
But mrh is correct that Man-at-arms is also known as Duncan
Wikipedia says mrh is right about Duncan.
The figure was originally just "man at arms." The point is: not a lot of creativity in the He-Man universe. I hope all good-hearted people can agree that Thundarr regins supreme among the 1980s Conan knock-offs.
I've never heard of Thundarr. I guess SB is going to deport me now.
Did someone say Family Circus?
14: it's all about the 2-for-the-price-of-one bonus, don't you see? And while Gloop and Gleep didn't look like much, you have to think they could get into the darndest places. IYKWIM.
(although now that I've had a chance to google on down memory lane, the Herculoid boys could both use a haircut, and maybe a more modern cut to their loincloths)
For years, I thought the awkwardly muscular bodies and poop-my-pants running style was because Ralph Bakshi had hired body-builders as his templates. I must've told this to fifty people. Via the link in 27, I learn that Bakshi did Mighty Mouse in the '80s, not He-Man. Damn it, now people'll think I'm a liar.
The point is: not a lot of creativity in the He-Man universe.
In an age of baroque frippery, it takes creativity to reduce things to the essentials.
In retrospect, The Herculoids was clearly beginner gay porn.
Would Igoo the rock ape be like a... bear, you'd say?
We had this problem. A tightly wrapped plastic bag around it will deal with the issue. The trick is remembering to take the bag off.
The Family Circus: all purpose parody substrate.
We had this problem. A tightly wrapped plastic bag around it will deal with the issue. The trick is remembering to take the bag off.
Klug's absolutely right. You will get all sorts of uncomfortable questions at the morgue if you omit the last step.
Would Igoo the rock ape be like a... bear, you'd say
No belly to speak of, but I could buy that. Certainly one hard monkey, at the least.
Things I did not know, from the Ralph Bakshi Wikipedia page:
1) He's still alive,
2) He was born in Palestine.
This, on the other hand, is no surprise:
When it was originally released, the film Coonskin was seen as being racist. During a showing at the Museum of Modern Art...[there were protesters], led by a young Al Sharpton, none of whom had seen the movie.
28 made me realize I was thinking of the wrong character as "Man-at-arms." I was thinking that was the name of the dude with the big metal fist. But that would have been too subtle.
Fisto! Another great example of He-Man creativity. Also, "Evil-Lyn": the evil woman.
Fisto? There was a Fisto? Okay, maybe ALL those shows were beginner gay porn.
I didn't like the He-Man cartoon but they had the best action figures. I mean, the one with the four faces that you could pick? The one that slimed? The one that smelled like a skunk? All awesome.
Still one of my favorite Youtube vids, Brokeback Snake Mountain.
Wasn't it here that I first saw The Nietzsche Family Circus?
Speaking of He-Man, did anyone else notice the Man Man song on the Nike commercials during Family Guy? That was surprising.
I have a cartoon from the NFC on my office door (Billy, with a pizza box, claims that all life is a dispute over taste and tasting) along with this dino comic. L4M3.
53: Did you render the hovertext with a post-it note?
What's it with everyone talking about Conan tonight?
Gawd, I love NFC. I just got the little girl talking to a bunch of baby bunnies and baby chicks, shouting "Die at the right time!"
Ben's "taste and tasting" comic, which just came up for me.
Oh, wait. I guess the comic that ben has could obviously be different. I didn't realize it paired random quotes with random quotations. Man, I'm dumb.
My friend used to have a cat named Grayskull. I've been meaning to come up with a LOLcat caption for this photo of the cat and his co-cat, Cheesecake.
63: I don't remember that happening in the year 1994.
1994 was the year of the doo doo da doo doo.
63: In was in February. Does that help?
Thundarr is where it's at.
Whoa! I totally remember that now. I loved that show.
In an age of baroque frippery
Ben, I try not to like you, but it's difficult.
I try not to like you
That's not very neighborly.
I begrudgingly like Ben's turn of phrase: "baroque frippery."
I am envious of his flippery, OKAY?
A metafilter user once created a user-specific markov-based generator of comments, now offline, called "genefilter". One of the texts that came up for user y6y6y6 was "I'm only hoping that you'll hate me so much that you'll lie awake in bed late and masturbate.". I have that hope regarding each and every one of you.
I was surprised that "frippery" has been used several times on Unfogged. "Baroque frippery," has not.
A friend of mine named his cat, "Battlecat." Isn't that better than Grayskull?
I've mentioned before that I think two good names for cats are Hermes Trismegistus and Finn MacCool. Earlier today I realized that a third such name is Palinurus.
Let's get to the meat of the issue. Which was the best: He-Man, Transformers, or GI Joe? I'm partial to Joe, though Megatron attracts me strangely.
You should name your cat "Fiddy," even though that's probably racist.
I wrote a lot of poetry about Palinurus during college.
Hermes Trismegistus is a fucking awesome cat name, but functionally it's just Hermes. I want twin males of one sort or another that I can call fat man and little boy.
83: I was thinking the other day that African-Canadians should be known as "Afradians," with the hard "a" (obv.), but that it might be racist.
functionally it's just Hermes
Or even Herm. It would work if you always called it by its full name, and yelled at people when they didn't, but not everyone is prepared for that kind of responsibility.
I own a diminutive female dog named "ben w-lfs-n", because it is a little bitch.
but functionally it's just Hermes.
The plan was to address him as Henri.
Armsmasher, I assume you've read The Unquiet Grave, a "word cycle" by Palinurus (aka Cyril Connolly)? (I think it's pretty dumb that it says "Cyril Connolly" on the jacket of the edition amazon's hawking; it was published pseudonymously. My edition at least waits until you look at the back cover to tell you that
.)Palinurus
is now known to be Cyril Connolly
I've mentioned before that I think two good names for cats are Hermes Trismegistus and Finn MacCool
The latter would be even better if you were to spell it Fionn mac Cumhaill -- always good for a few laughs at the receptionist's expense on visits to the vet.
Theophrastus Bombastus. von Hohenheim.
I think "Big McLargeHuge" would be a good name for a cat. Or "Doctor Octopus". Or "Venom".
But I LOL'ed at the idea of a real cat named "Battlecat".
90: I particularly enjoyed this review:
The author of this book should have been shot, November 4, 2006 By Harry Eagar (Maui) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME) It is difficult, though not quite impossible, to understand why this tedious piece of self-abuse should still be in print, and selling, after 60 years -- or indeed, why it was ever printed.'The Unquiet Grave' represents the final degradation of an idea that started out without merit, that the feeling artist is the moral arbiter of his society.
Fans think Connolly deep. 'Strewth, he was so shallow that he couldn't assign any greater significance to a world war with naziism than that it interfered with his contemplation of the beautiful task of being Cyril Connolly.
In any righteous age, he would have been disposed of as useless mouth when worthier people were dying of hunger.
My grandmother currently has two cats that she calls Snoopy and White Cat.
The latter would be even better if you were to spell it Fionn mac Cumhaill
Or just name the cat "CumHail". Or use that as your username on a message-board for single mothers or something, and then get offended when people don't realize it's a reference to your Celtic roots.
90: I haven't!
Incidentally, I bought a book for you this weekend.
"Battlecat" brings other good options to mind, such as "Omnicat" or "Hypnocat".
"This is Bradycat, and this is Tachyat."
"Battlecat" brings other good options to mind, such as "Omnicat" or "Hypnocat".
"This is Bradycat, and this is Tachycat."
"Cat" is quite a creative name in this age of something or othery.
Blackie Onassis was the name of a cat formerly of my acquaintance. As pet names go, I believe it is yet to be surpassed.
Theophrastus Bombastus. von Hohenheim.
("better known as Paracelsus") was right. It was Paracelsus who emerged from the fifteenth century (castrated by a hog, so they say, in his childhood) to proclaim that the object of alchemy was not at all the transmutation of base metals into gold, but the preparation of medicines, thus opening the way for the hospitalized perpetuation of accident which we triumphally prolong, enlarge upon, finance, respect, and enjoy today. 3:3'-diamino-4-4'-dihydroxyarsenobenzine dihydrochloride, writes Doctor Ehrlich (after 605 tries), thereby dismissing the notion that syphilis might be a visitation upon that pleasure which, in its perennial variety, had until now afforded the gratification of which only sin is capable. For unlike progressive revelation, the englightenment of total materialism burst with such vigor that there were hardly enough hands to pick up the pieces. Even Paracelsus was left behind (dead of injuries received in a drunken brawl); and once chemistry had established itself as true and legitimate son and heir, alchemy was turned out like a drunken parent, to stagger away, babbling phantasies to fewer and fewer ears, to less and less impressive derelicts of loneliness, while the child grew up serious, dignified, and eminently pleased with its own limitations, to indulge that parental memory with no doubt but that it had found what the old fool and his cronies were after all the time.
Frippery Rock could be a finishing school.
Frippery Bok could be a philosopher.
Froz and I had a cat in college named Protein.
Slippery Sock could be something found under Ben's bed.
Bitch could be the name of a white bear.
Lobofilho could be the name of a dog.
Ben, I was interested in alchemy and related things, Paracelsus as one slightly minor figure (such a great fucking name, though, unforgettable) for a while. The interest hasn't yet ended.
You looked that up. Well, Great fucking name, after all.
I had a friend in high school with a dog named "Shithead", pronounced "shuh-THEED".
You looked that up.
No, I read the passage I quoted earlier today. Or maybe it was yesterday. I can't remember that much. The Recognitions, p 132.
I admit that I looked up the particular page, since I didn't want to take too long relocating it.
Speaking of Bitch, what's the deal? Is she on a mission that nobody can talk about?
Also, can anyone recommend a decent biography of either Paracelsus or Humboldt?
116: The absence of B. confirms the presence of B.
110, 116: I am ascendant in her absence.
117: Oh, yeah, that'll fool the censors. She's fomenting revolution somewhere, I'm sure of it.
117: Damn you, apo. I was trying to be all cryptic and shit....ladies.
That's not where ladies come from, Stanley.
The absence of the ladies in ben's life confirms their presence.
The absence of my fist in your face confirms its presence.
No, I read the passage I quoted earlier today. Or maybe it was yesterday. I can't remember that much.
You quoted Paracelsus earlier? Maybe you did. I totally forgot. I wouldn't have been surprised, so I might have just smiled and said to myself, there you go, ben's quoting Paracelsus, why am I still surprised.
The absence of my fist in your face confirms its presence.
Use your words, Ned.
The passage I quoted in 105. Which I thought you were accusing me of having looked up after you gave his name. I'm so confused.
Oh ben, you've been confused by your own dangling modifier ("earlier today"), which you meant to modify "read" but which you then saw as modifying "quoted".
Have not. Parsimon ("You quoted Paracelsus earlier?") may have been, but may simply have thought, as would be understandable, that I meant I had quoted P; anyway, she was clearly talking about an earlier quotation, and it was to her that I was responding. HIBT? Only time will tell.
129: Ben, did I give his name before you posted 105? I'm not going to scroll up and down any more. I'm not accusing you of anything. I've got to go to bed.
You had definitely said "Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim", since I quoted that in 105. That's his name, oder? And it is also the beginning of the first sentence of the quotation that makes up the balance of 105 which, you will note, begins into middle things.
Quit bickering, bitches, and recommend to me a biography of Alexander von Humboldt. Or Paracelsus, if you must.
Ben, sir, I mentioned the guy's name at 92. That's all I know. I'm totally confused as well, but it's silly, and I'm going to bed. Good night.
Good lord. Parsimon, you were confused by the dangling modifier. Earlier today, Ben read the passage he quoted this evening. It was a big coincidence that you mentioned Paracelsus on the same day that Ben read a passage about him.
I did it all so that people would see how important it is not to let modifiers dangle.
becks, more trapeze posts and less cooking/home appliance/life or death situation posts please
Once had a cat named "Evinrude". Also three Coryodoras sp. aquarium catfish named Kirby, Eureka, and Hoover. And a wife into giving cutesy names.
Veering wildly into alchemy, there's lots of it in Neal Stephenson's remarkable and enormous Baroque Cycle novels. And plenty of masturbation too, so I thought it would fit right into this thread.
There is also lots of alchemy in Ægypt.
And lots of so-witty-they're-almost-cutesy names. Blackbury Jambs. Pierce Inverarity. Mike Mucho.
I haven't read Endless Things yet, so warn me if this thread is gonna have spoilers, and I'll avert my eyes.
Speaking of names, I have just gone to apostropher's own site for the first time, and am thus handed a reference for his nym.
So: bromidrosis
If you do the "By the power of Greyskull!" thing to a light socket instead of a smoke detector, you'll be able to get the lightning effect.
Enemy of Promise would be such a great name for that blog I'm too lazy to ever write.
I hope all good-hearted people can agree that Thundarr regins supreme among the 1980s Conan knock-offs.
Indisputably true, sir.
135: It's not a proper biography, but The Alchymist's Journal by Evan Connell is fun (or exasperating, depending on your taste for archaism) on the subject of Paracelsus. (Digression: Even if you don't care a whit for the whole Custer/Little Big Horn affair, Connell's Son of the Morning Star is one of the unsung classics: brilliant & thoroughly gripping.)
139 - I don't want to do a front-page trapeze post right now because my co-workers know I went so we can talk about it here. Tweedledopey, Tweedlesister, and I went trapezing this weekend! And now I feel it in every muscle in my body.
Tweedle did very well! I was laughably, terribly bad.
130 and so on:
dangling modifier
Right. Got it now.
Look! There's a squirrel!
150: Wow, cool. Trapeze looks ridiculously fun, but I don't do things that involve voluntary falling. No skydiving, no trapeze.
Even more fun: they wouldn't let me wear my glasses so I had to do it essentially blind. While I knew there was a net down there, I couldn't see it. And there's so much to think about! On my second attempt, I was paying so much attention to my feet that I...um...forgot to hold onto the bar, sending my flying face-first into the net.
I'd post it, but i am too sore to reach anything. I am using my thought controlled keyboard to type this ooh cookies! dammit erase erase backspace
I'm sure Becks would be happy to post it, if you sent it to her.
And I'm so glad to hear I'm not the only one sore today. I don't want to even think about raising my hands over my head.
Big McLargeHuge
Ned, it's nice to see another fan of Space Mutiny. Slab Squatthrust!
That wasn't a secret Becks: we shared it with the 8 other class members, the 3 instructors, the 3 fans, the shitzu or whatever yip dog that was. Soon, we share it with the masses!
Muhahahahaha.
Since it appears that I have no hope of preserving my dignity, I just ask that you post it in a way that helps me keep my psuedonymity.
of course. I think, much as you probably saw it, you are just a blur there. I have not actually seen the video yet. It may be less than spectacular. Any photo/video of me can be reproduced with my nymity released. Especially the ones where I am so spectacular that fireworks go off.
He's not kidding. He really did set off fireworks.
Of course, you only got the video of me flailing into the net and not me doing a backflip dismount.
