I’m tempted to start another GD thread just to hear your joke, Poly. We should be due for another Episcopal Church debate in mid-October, so I’ll try to be patient!
It kills me, the obsession that so many people have with the 1920’s SDR.
The 1820’s had their own, suitable and highly stylized death rays. Of course it took a team of 12 horses to move them, and being coal fired the reload time was measured in hours. I don’t know if the 1820’s is the golden age of death rays, it may in fact be the 1920’s. Try to imagine the wheels turning in the head of a young supervillian as he sees the 1822 (generally regarded as the best year) model in the Sears catalog.
And what about the new models that will be coming out? I’m looking forward to the 2020 style death ray, with its improved accuracy.
OK, I had gone away for a while, being too busy doing other things like work and get myself enrolled in the massage therapy program at CCSN and things to get on the 'net at all, let alone spend hours here at the SDMB.
So, I come back, and lo, the 1920’s style death ray has come, been overused and become passe before I ever even had a chance to use one.
BTW, I never did think that “jumped the shark” had actually jumped the shark. I think it’s a perfectly useful phrase for something that has reached the critical moment when we know it’s time has passed.
Anyhoo, since there seem to be quite a few people who are swearing off the use of 1920’s S.D.R.'s, the price on them has gone waaaayyyyy down, so I’m stockpiling them.
Once nobody else is using them anymore…
What if we used sting rays? It wouldn’t kill anyone, just stun them - hopefully long enough that this fag will pass.
Whoa!! That’s supposed to be FAD!!!
AAAAAARGH!
hits head on desk
WACK-WACK-WACK-WACK
Oh NO! Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor. Seven seems to be beating the dead horsie!
I have yet to open a 1920’s Style Death Ray thread that I have not laughed out loud. And thanks to some pertinent safety advice, I now know not to stick a fork in a 1920’s style Death Ray.
Ahem:
Only one portion of its anatomy, it would appear. 
1920’s style death rays make the baby Jesus cry.
Ah, there’s 1920s Style Death Ray.
Catchphrase, catchphrase!
OG SMAH!!!
Porr dead hosies make Bosda cry!
<whimper>
Say…you don’t suppose…it couldn’t be …a…PONY?
BOO-HOO-HOO-HOO!
Bosda, Bosda – I never knew you had a pantyhose fetish. Or is it garden hoses you lust after?
And no, you may NOT have a pony till you put all your toys away.
I am going to pit everyone who uses this term,
1920’s Death Ray is stupid. Lame. Cliche’d. Why do people keep using it? Surely people on this board are not that vapid, are not this empty headed to keep using this phrase on this board anymore.
Get a life and grow up.
It’s “1920’s style Death Ray.”
I like your version better then mine-- reminds me of the comic book version of the Hulk.
It’s even better when you run all the letters together:
OGSMAH!!!
1920’s style “Death Rays” are good for burning your dog.
Sombody set up us the 1920 style ray death.