Code Of Doc Savage.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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“Let me strive, every moment of my life, to make myself better and better, to the best of my ability, that all may profit by it. Let me think of the right, and lend all my assistance to those who need it, with no regard for anything but justice. Let me take what comes with a smile, without loss of courage. Let me be considerate of my country, of my fellow citizens and my associates in everything I say and do. Let me do right to all, and wrong no man.”

Funny, even though he was a fictional charator in the 1930’s-40’s, it’s still a darn fine code.

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THE TOP TEN REASONS YOU MIGHT BE A DOC SAVAGE FAN
by Nick Pollotta
(with apologies to Lester Dent)
10. You only ride in cars on the running boards.
9. Whenever you’re happy, there’s a weird trilling noise.
8. You keep the car keys at the bottom of a piranha tank.
7. You’re disappointed when elevators don’t start suddenly traveling sideways at 90 miles per hour.
6. You’ve nicknamed your VW Bug, “Helldiver”.
5. Listening to a bull fiddle play in a philharmonic orchestra makes you want to duck for cover.
4. You refer to the toolshed in the backyard as your Fortress of Solitude.
3. You flatly refuse to have more than five friends.
2. You consider Buckaroo Banzai your illegitimate son.
And the top reason you might be a Doc Savage fan is…

  1. You spend every waking moment fixing those damn ripped shirts!
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I’m not sure where it fits into the code, but Doc had some pretty skeevy ideas about free will.

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I prefer the code of Wyld Stallyns.

1 Party on, dudes!

2 Be excellent to each other!

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I’ll be superalgamated!

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<GLARES SUSPICIOUSLY AT BMalion> I’ll just bet you will be!</GLARES>

I once saw a wooden packing crate, with the words “Hidalgo Trading Company” stenciled onto it.

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Pipe down shyster!

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“Mona, you’re a brick.”

(Can’t believe that quote from the movie is still stored in memory somewhere)

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#1 can’t be right – it doesn’t leave any timre for mentally extracting square and cube roots.

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<minor threadshit>
Am I the only one who misread this as the Code of Dan Savage? I was expecting a slightly different discussion.
</minor threadshit>

Should I be worried that I already abide by one of the top ten and didn’t even know who Doc Savage was before this thread?

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Were you raised by scientists?

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So how do you make YOUR trilling noise?
:smiley:

ETA: they’re not piranhas, they’re sharks with friggin’ lasers on their heads.

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i never wanted any tats, i am now reconsidering.

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Respectfully submitted for your approval.

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Also, there’s no mental or character fault that can’t be solved by science.

…and by “science,” of course, I mean “a Leucotome and a steady hand.”

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Let’s review what the author, Lester Dent thought up:

Radio garage door-opener

Telephone answering machine

Machine pistols

Force-fields

Teleportation (?)

What else?

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I remember reading DocNovels back when I was in high school. I remember his high speed car chases where the speedometer was pushing - and sometime exceeded - a blazing fast 70 mph.

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And don’t forget his trimotor airplane, which could go over 200 mph!

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And his amazing dirigable!

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Try standing on the running board at 70, Mister Smart Guy.