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    The Great Hero Showdown (First Round Voting Results Up!)

    127. Mack Bolan - The Executioner Mack Bolan was a Vietnam War hero whose family was killed by the mafia. He went on to seek vengeance on the mob and then took on terror organizations worldwide while affiliated with the Stony Man organization. Bolan has appeared in over 300 novels and The...
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    What's your favourite movie soundtracks?

    D'oh! I forgot that one. DM
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    The Great Hero Showdown (First Round Voting Results Up!)

    120. Max Rockatansky - The Road Warrior Mad Max Rockatansky was a police officer in the outback of Australia who killed a gang leader during a high speed pursuit. Te gang leader's brother kills his partner, then tracks down and kills Max's family. Max steals his police car and becomes a...
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    The Great Hero Showdown (First Round Voting Results Up!)

    117. The Wraith Jake is killed by a group of "road pirates" for sleeping with their leader's girlfriend, Keri. He comes back with a vengeance and an awesome car to kill the members of the gang. When he kills them , he leaves their bodies intact, but takes their eyes and their soul.
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    The Great Hero Showdown (First Round Voting Results Up!)

    115. Jack Bauer From Wikipedia: Bauer graduated with a bachelor's degree in English literature from UCLA, and a master's degree in criminology and law from UC Berkeley. After finishing university, he worked as a Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team member, and in the U.S. Army's elite...
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    The Great Hero Showdown (First Round Voting Results Up!)

    112. Sam Emerson Forced by his mother to move in with his grandfather in Sata Carla, the "murder capital of the world", a place where if "all the corpses were to stand up at once" there would be no room for the living, Sam Emerson is totally unprepared when he learns that his older brother...
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    The Great Hero Showdown (First Round Voting Results Up!)

    109. Paladin - The Man In Black A former cavalry officer during the US Civil War, this hero lived at the Hotel Carlton in Frisco. He loved the arts, fine food, brandy, cigars, fine clothes and beautiful women. He could quote Shelley, Socrates or Shakespeare when appropriate. He spoke several...
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    The Great Hero Showdown (First Round Voting Results Up!)

    108. Ralph Hinkley - The Greatest American Hero Ralph Hinley was a mild-mannered shoolteacher who was visited by aliens who gave him a suit that granted him superpowers. Unfortunately, he lost the instructions for the suit, which resulted in him learning its powers as he went along. When he...
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    Traveling Horror Stories

    When my wife and I left for our honeymoon, we drove from Winter Haven, FL to Ocala, FL and spent the night, then left Ocala headed for New Orleans. Mergin onto I-10, we were forced off the road by an inattentive motorist who entered the same lane we were entering. No contact, but close. Near...
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    Are you a better person?

    One of the things my father has always wanted more than anything else is for me to be "better" than him. He has worked and struggled for that end all of his life. Because of him, I have had better opportunities, have a much better education (he dropped out of school young) and have had more...
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    Looking for Lower Level Modules

    Since they had been irrevocably corrupted, killing them becomes the victory of sorts. You did FIND them. At any rate, that combat becomes important later in the adventure path (Heart of Nightfang Spire). DM
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    Tips on weeding out lousy players from your group

    Step One: The link is broken. Step Two: Definitely. Preserving everyone's enjoyment including and especially your own does not make you the bad guy. DM
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    The Great Hero Showdown (First Round Voting Results Up!)

    46. Speed Racer An 18 year old race car driver who fought bad guys and super spies with the help of his girlfriend, helicopter pilot Trixie, and the mysterious Racer X, Speed Racer, originally "Go Mifune", was the fastest hero on four wheels. He drove the Special Formula Mach 5 to many...
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    What's your favourite movie soundtracks?

    Hmmm... I like a lot of movie soundtracks. I love anything by Danny Elfman, but especially Edward Scissorhands. Rocky Horror Picture Show and Little Shop of Horrors are ones that I listen to frequently. Braveheart was awesome too. As a band director, last year my band (and everyone else's)...
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    The Great Hero Showdown (First Round Voting Results Up!)

    20. CuChulainn CuChulainn was the son of Conor MacNessa, King of Ulster. As a boy, his name was Setanta. Wielding his spear, the Gae Bolga, which supposedly never missed a target, he fought off an entire army all by himself when his army was incapacitated. Even with his death wound he...
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    For Baseball Fans - Outfield Collision

    I am a fan of the NY Mets (have been since I was old enough to be a fan of anything... blame it on my parents). They had an awful collision in the outfield last night. I can only hope these to players are okay (Mike Cameron and Carlos Beltran). Here is a link to the video. I have never seen...
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    Favorite Monty Python Quotes

    And now for something completely different... Shut your festering gob, you :):):)! Your type really makes me puke, you vacuous, coffee-nosed, maloderous, pervert!!! ...And Oliver has run himself over, what a great twit! SAY NO MORE!! DM
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    Great Villain Showdown: The Final Match! [The Winner is..]

    Easy. JOKER. Hands down. No contest. He is the embodiment of chaos. He lives only to cause as much mayhem as possible. Remember that Vader started life as a whiny little brat who took the easy way out and later changed course again when things were grim. DM
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    The Great Hero Showdown (First Round Voting Results Up!)

    3. Hong Kong Phooey For most of his life, he was the mild-mannered Penrod Pooch, who worked as the janitor in the local police station, but when trouble arose, he jumped into his file cabinet, changed into his crime-fighting gearslid down the attached chute and jumped into his Phooeymobile...
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    The Great Hero Showdown (First Round Voting Results Up!)

    2. Batman, the Dark Knight Batman is the alter-ego of Bruce Wayne who, as a child, witnessed the murder of his parents. He then set out to avenge their deaths by learning an amazing array of crime-fighting techniques. How many other heroes learned hunting from Australian Aborigines and...
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