# Dopers posting from comic books **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 18, 2006, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-posting-from-comic-books/376946 "2006-10-18T15:21:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-posting-from-comic-books/376946/41 "2006-10-19T23:27:29Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] I dunno why you guys can’t live someplace **quiet**. :rolleyes: Here in Metroville, the only excitement I get is when Bob, Lucius & I go _bowling_! And half the time, Bob & Lucius don’t even show up! [/quote] Isn’t that the same Metroville that had the giant metal robot blasting the downtown area last week? ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-posting-from-comic-books/376946/42 "2006-10-19T23:49:31Z")
I was at the travel agent the other day, and they managed to talk me into buying a package holiday somewhere called “Earth-3”. Now on the face of it that sounds nice. I mean, a whole 'nother world? Cool! But somehow I have misgivings. That agent had a mighty funny expression. Does anyone know if I should be concerned? Should I maybe take out some extra travel insurance? ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-posting-from-comic-books/376946/43 "2006-10-19T23:51:22Z")
Please ignore my previous reply. That wasn’t me. It was an android of some kind, that looked _just like me_. I have no idea **where** it came from. Does anyone know anybody who’s good at eliminating robot doubles? ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-posting-from-comic-books/376946/44 "2006-10-19T23:52:40Z")
Never mind. This is the real me typing again. The robot double is destroyed. Do not be concerned, citizens. Go about your business. Ha! Ha ha! Ha ha ha! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-posting-from-comic-books/376946/45 "2006-10-20T00:51:05Z")
[QUOTE=rjung] Isn’t that the same Metroville that had the giant metal robot blasting the downtown area last week? [/QUOTE] I hadn’t noticed. I was bowling. Alone. ☹ Those guys…I gotta get more reliable friends. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-posting-from-comic-books/376946/46 "2006-10-20T01:44:45Z")
Maybe a new sport, other than bowling. Car’s back, by the way. Windshield’s bashed, but not too bad. I have insurance for it anyhow. Saw a guy wearing thirty foot stilts stalking Rt 6-W today. I got no idea what that was about. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-posting-from-comic-books/376946/47 "2006-10-20T01:49:25Z")
[QUOTE=E-Sabbath] Saw a guy wearing thirty foot stilts stalking Rt 6-W today. I got no idea what that was about. [/QUOTE] Used car sales event? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-posting-from-comic-books/376946/48 "2006-10-20T02:40:37Z")
I’m just glad I live on Earth-Prime where we don’t have to deal with this stuff. Hey, why’s that huge white wall coming this way? ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2006, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-posting-from-comic-books/376946/49 "2006-10-21T17:12:44Z")
The Mighty BLUE ONE puts in his 5 credits worth: [QUOTE=Subway Prophet] There was a rumored Joker sighting when I was in town, but traffic was so bad I didn’t get a chance to see anything. [/QUOTE] Reminds me of something I just learned this week. Mark Hamill will be playing the Joker in the upcoming BATmovie!!! :eek: 😕 _Use the **Farce** , Luke. Use the **Farce!** _ * * * True Blue Jack ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-posting-from-comic-books/376946/50 "2006-10-21T17:16:42Z")
[QUOTE=True Blue Jack] :eek: 😕 [/QUOTE] Why the confusion? Hamil provided Joker’s voice (and did a hell of a job) for the 90’s animated series. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-posting-from-comic-books/376946/51 "2006-10-21T17:26:37Z")
(Parenthetically, great! There’s a video of him doing the voice somewhere, and he’s got the body language down, too. Hamil’s got the experience, he’ll be a great Joker) Went to a convention in Rhode Island today. They got to clean up the place. Half of it’s bombed out, and the other half is full of hardshelled aliens. I thought they were cosplayers, but nope, alien invaders. Still, they only attack people in costumes, so it was cool. ---
**Author:** ![Subway\_Prophet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Subway\_Prophet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subway_Prophet)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-posting-from-comic-books/376946/52 "2006-10-21T17:44:09Z")
[QUOTE=True Blue Jack] Reminds me of something I just learned this week. Mark Hamill will be playing the Joker in the upcoming BATmovie!!! [/QUOTE] Oh jeez, not another Joker documentary. What is this, the History Channel? 😉 (I thought [Heath Ledger](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=382145) was [tapped for the part](http://imdb.com/title/tt0468569/).) ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-posting-from-comic-books/376946/53 "2006-10-21T17:51:13Z")
Speaking of the History Channel, could they quit playing Nazi marshall songs whenever they show footage of the Martians advancing? We get it. They’re bad. It’s a bit hard to forget their attacking our planet- the freeze rays, the heat rays, the shrink rays, the giant bugs, the giant robots. I really wish they’d devote more time to the development of our own interplanetary ships and the battles on Mars. I know what the Martians did to DC. I want to know more about what our troops did on the red planet. Just how much of that can still be classified? OTOH, I just can’t get enough of the footage of the dinosaurs. I’m as sorry as anybody else that the time viewer malfunctioned and all those people died. But, footage of live dinos is really something. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-posting-from-comic-books/376946/54 "2006-10-21T18:00:22Z")
Hey! The University just called. They thanked me for bringing in the BPRD and told me I have lifetime membership in the museum! This is fantastic because next month is The Ancient World-From Valusia To Stygia exhibit! The serpent cult items are supposed to be amazing up close. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2006, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-posting-from-comic-books/376946/55 "2006-10-21T18:17:34Z")
[QUOTE=Subway Prophet] Oh jeez, not another Joker documentary. What is this, the History Channel? 😉 (I thought [Heath Ledger](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=382145) was [tapped for the part](http://imdb.com/title/tt0468569/).) [/QUOTE] I dunno. I _enjoy_ the documentaries about the M-3 Stuart Tank of WW2 fame. _And_ the ones about hauntings. _And_ the ones about…_both…_ ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-posting-from-comic-books/376946/56 "2006-10-21T21:03:47Z")
Jeez. I don’t believe a word of this stuff. I’ll bet you all are doing exactly what I’m doing tonight- drinking a beer and watching “Storm Saxon” on TV. ---
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-posting-from-comic-books/376946/57 "2006-10-21T21:15:31Z")
[QUOTE=FisherQueen] Jeez. I don’t believe a word of this stuff. I’ll bet you all are doing exactly what I’m doing tonight- drinking a beer and watching “Storm Saxon” on TV. [/QUOTE] I would, but then this guy came on and harangued me for, like twenty minutes. I thought I’d been fired, but apparently it was some sort of Guy Fawkes special they aired early by mistake. A lot of media mistakes these days - Fate still doesn’t **sound** the same. I’m about to riot in the streets. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-posting-from-comic-books/376946/58 "2006-10-22T01:21:24Z")
The upcoming election? Eh. Smiler versus the other guy. Listen to Spider, folks. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. They’re all vicious assholes who wouldn’t know what to do with honesty if it pulled a bowel disruptor on 'em, made 'em shit their pants, then made 'em paint, ‘I will be honest from now on’ with their own fecal matter. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-posting-from-comic-books/376946/59 "2006-10-22T02:59:37Z")
I was a little disappointed that I didn’t get a full Ozymandias Grant from Veidtworks for my cloning trials, but Adrian said he understood my commitment to family and actually said “We can’t have anyone missing you.” What a swell guy… ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-posting-from-comic-books/376946/60 "2006-10-22T11:58:13Z")
[QUOTE=Subway Prophet] Oh jeez, not another Joker documentary. What is this, the History Channel? [/QUOTE] I like the Joker docs. They never tell the same story twice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-posting-from-comic-books/376946.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-posting-from-comic-books/376946.md?page=4)