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Posts by Allen Varney

So who turned out to be the Bride of Superman in that story?

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Don't think I've read that one.

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And certain bankers which sate in New York sent to Ben Graffis in Hollywood a writing which said, Money is tight in the land so let Poopy Panda up periscope and fire all bow tubes.

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It came to pass in the third quarter of the fiscal year that the Federal Reserve Board did raise the rediscount rate and money was tight in the land.

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To decide if something is expensive nowadays, I divide the price by 4 and see how that sounds to my 1970s ear.

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The Video Game Industries Very Dark Night — Georg's Blog The video gaming industry has had a brutal few years, with record layoffs affecting almost every company and many beloved studios and brands disappearing. At th...

"With all this in mind, the next 1-2 years look exceedingly dark, because there is not a single credible light (of growth) for the industry."

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"Reduce executive salaries" is, if nothing else, an indicator of sincere commitment to constructive change in a company's culture.

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That comic was still running 40 years later, as "Our Boarding House with Major Hoople."

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Mayer's later, fantastically inventive Sugar & Spike work is unduly neglected.

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Tunnels & Trolls Bundle Adventurer! Resurrected (for a second time!) from September 2018, this Tunnels & Trolls Bundle is one of two offers in progress featuring Ken St. Andre's trailblazing tabletop fantasy roleplaying game...

Those are both the same URL. The Tunnels & Trolls Bundle:
bundleofholding.com/presents/Tun...

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Look at Nemo's word balloon in Panel 1.

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Orson Welles said that was his favorite scene from all his films.

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Ooh, dibs on Sam Donaldson! I mean, if I were playing.

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That point is somewhere after you start having opinions about guillotines.

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I want to live in a world where all four of those Werners could have been the same guy.

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The alt text for the "My Unfamiliar" cover could have mentioned, "Also, a unicorn."

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I'm Wailin Wailin Wailin an' I'm fixin' to git flailin', so git ready fer a wailin' you ain't never seen before. There ain't no use in qualin' an' don't even think o' bailin,' cuz I'm Wailin an' I'll wail on you some more.

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Was there a story reason why Superman promised not to harm Hitler?

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A miraculous escape 🐰 🐶 #wildlife #Hare #hound
A miraculous escape 🐰 🐶 #wildlife #Hare #hound YouTube video by 家有小猫

Every ambitious composer of film soundtracks should score this amazing hare-and-hounds chase (via @kottke.org):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O60x...

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Silurian hypothesis - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siluria...

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Little Shop Of Horrors Mean Green Mother From Outer Space Director’s Cut Version
Little Shop Of Horrors Mean Green Mother From Outer Space Director’s Cut Version YouTube video by Augie

Yesterday's Gridogram puzzle (Sat 07 March) used my suggestion, "I'm just a mean green mother from outer space, and I'm bad." Here is the 1986 source of that quotation, "Little Shop of Horrors" (1986) in its Director's Cut version:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdz1...

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Every writer seems to start with comfortable fluency (not the same as skill!) in two or three aspects of the craft, and every other aspect is a struggle. I always felt comfortable writing dialogue and humor. Plot and characterization proved beyond my reach.

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This is the world liberals want!

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Gridogram - Find Today’s Hidden Quote in the Letter Grid Let the grid speak to you... Gridogram is a word game with a hidden quote to find each day. Trace words in the grid of letters to discover it.

I chose the quotation for today's Screen Time Saturday installment (2026-03-07) of the Gridogram puzzle by @gridogram.com :
www.gridogram.com

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DC Heroes Role Playing Game From the back of the box: "HERE'S ALL YOU NEED TO BE PART OF THE LEGEND The action is here, the easy -to-learn, infinitely expandable role playing system! Now, you can fight crime in the streets...

RPGgeek says Greg Gorden, Sam Lewis, and Brian Reid:
rpggeek.com/rpgitem/5094...

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I still recall one Conchy strip, a lovely text piece that began "The man resolved to climb the mountain" and ended "leaving him standing at the even horizon of his beginnings." Can't find it online.

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"I'm gonna put the Olmecs in ancient Mesopotamia!" Good, with you so far. "But would it be historically inaccurate to give them mounts?" Uhh... maybe swallowing a paraceratherium but straining at a gnat? (Also, have your Olmecs ride paraceratheriums.)

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Every Star Trek Next Generation script had lines like "We can't beam aboard their ship because TECH TECH TECH" and they had a consultant devise suitable contextual gibberish.

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David Ellison David Ellison

Paramount CEO David Ellison has a generic face, a template face. Describe him to a police sketch artist - "wide face, strong jaw, high forehead, thick lips" - and ten seconds after the sketch artist starts roughing in the outline, you'd say "That's him."
www.imdb.com/name/nm19111...

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Three of those guys are the same guy.

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