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The Game Room
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Yes, but do you know what the Mad Magazine parody of Captain Marbles meant when he said “SHAZOOM?”

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I remember the parody, but, y’got me. What did SHAZOOM mean?

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Amazing! This came up in an old thread I started but had forgotten about – as is so often the case: check it out!

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Who drove the Thunderbolt Grease-slapper?

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With his Thunderbolt Grease-slapper he is on your tail,
He won’t quit because there ain’t no such word as fail
To Tom Slick! Tom Slick!

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Huh, I actually never thought about this, but guessing: Dr. Manhattan is Captain Atom (is that the right name? The Mighty Atom? Something with atom…), Rohrschach is The Question, Night Owl is Batman, and I’m blanking on both Sally Jupiter and Adrian Veidt, though the emphasis on ‘peak human’ regarding the latter makes me think of Captain America… Now off to google to see whether I at least got the names right.

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Correctamundo!

Under-dog’s girlfriend (full name).

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Sweet Polly Purebred.

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Sweet Polly Purebred. (Except I don’t remember Underdog’s name being hyphenated.)

Wow, it’s amazing the stuff I have stored in the nooks and crannies of my brain for decades without knowing it’s there.

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Mad Magazine.

Added:

What is a Brannock Device? (Hint: you have used one)

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Ain’t it amazing what Google and the internet have put into our hands to battle ignorance and misconstruction! You would think that with such power we could avoid seeing things like THIS!

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Hah! I happen to know this! it’s the thing for measuring your shoe size. I was friends with a guy who managed a shoe store.

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RivkahChaya, Thudlow Boink, both correct. (You both had “Sweet,” too, which would have been the tie breaker. Sorry, pistols at dawn.)

Thudlow’s probably right about no hyphen in the name, too. (Ever have one of those days where neither version looks right and the keyboard’s not cooperating, either?)

Tony Curtis’s name in “The Great Race.”

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Not reading anybody else’s

  1. Couldn’t begin to guess

  2. Some ancient king of Scandinavia/Britain?

  3. Aniseed

  4. 1/6 mile, 14 days.

  5. Shoot A Zap Approaching Magic

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I believe Captain Comet in Strange Adventures in the very early 1950s.

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I don’t recall except that O was Ox power of an ox. O was Ox power of another.

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Verily, verily, you are correct, and your knowledge of old comics is outstanding.

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Without looking anything up or reading other responses.

[spoiler]1. Don’t know

  1. Don’t know

  2. Black licorice. It’s a Greek liquor.

  3. I don’t know exactly on a furlong but I think it’s about forty feet. A fortnight is fourteen days.

  4. SHAZAM was the magic word spoken by Billy Batson to turn him into Captain Marvel. It was based on the names of past heroes, including Solomon, Hercules, Achilles (?), Zeus, maybe Alexander or Arthur (???), and Merlin.[/spoiler]

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Tony Curtis in The Great Race was The Great Leslie.

Osgood Z’Beard was in a MAD sketch, IIRC something to do with bowling.

ETA: Ouzo tastes like licorice, and it turns white when you put water in it.

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What are the following people known for:

  1. Norman Borlaug

  2. Phileas Fogg

  3. Jane Grey

  4. Charles Guiteau

  5. Jomo Kenyatta

  6. Felix Leiter

  7. Andre Norton

  8. Alexander Patch