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Gryphon
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Jul-12-16, 06:55 PM (EDT) |
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"This is greatness."
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Today I've run across the best news story I think I may ever have seen, topping even the one about the Girl Scouts trying to fight off a robbery that I turned into a Laura Kinney-and-the-Girl Guides mini-story for UF. To parody the style of shithead clickbait sites everywhere, "A guy went in to rob his local kebab shop. You won't believe what happened next!" (Seriously, in this case that headline style actually fits, because anything else would be a spoiler. Watch the video clip, too. It is epic. :) That guy deserves to have a shop in New Avalon or Port Jeradar or someplace. Or maybe Gotham. He's got the stones to have a shop in Gotham. --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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ebony14
Member since Jul-11-11
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Jul-13-16, 10:08 AM (EDT) |
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2. "RE: This is greatness."
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I am reminded of the issue of the original G.I. Joe comic that introduced Snake Eyes' teacher, where the portly Japanese man running the lunch counter refuses to panic when a panicky robber waves a gun at him, choosing rather to lecture the young man on how to hold the semiautomatic, before disarming him and paying him to take the gun off his hands. ("I'll give you $50 for it. It's a better offer than the man with the Uzi behind his newspaper will give you." *gestures at Snake Eyes*) Ebony the Black Dragon "Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard." |
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ebony14
Member since Jul-11-11
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Jul-14-16, 03:52 PM (EDT) |
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4. "RE: This is greatness."
In response to message #3
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>>I am reminded of the issue of the original G.I. Joe comic that >>introduced Snake Eyes' teacher, where the portly Japanese man running >>the lunch counter refuses to panic when a panicky robber waves a gun >>at him, choosing rather to lecture the young man on how to hold the >>semiautomatic, before disarming him and paying him to take the gun off >>his hands. ("I'll give you $50 for it. It's a better offer than the >>man with the Uzi behind his newspaper will give you." *gestures at >>Snake Eyes*) >> > >Thank you for reminding me of that. Every time I read Fulcrum of Fate >4, I knew Leonard's disarming trick was reminiscent of something in >comics. I just couldn't place the exact scene. >Despite the "Everything's better with ninja!" element of that story, it remains some of my favorite of Larry Hama's work. Though a line from the Joes' adventure in Springfield (Crimson Guard central) is still my favorite of all of the series: "Mister, this is a Colt 1911 .45 semiautomatic. It makes an entry wound the size of a quarter and an exit wound the size of a chicken pot pie." Ebony the Black Dragon "Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard." |
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