Overdue realisations: Are you a dummy?

[Fast Learner]

I'm with you on Boston Legal, I groove on him there, too. But that started post Free Enterprise. A movie all geeks should see.

 

[Zander]

I could have mentioned this in my starting post...

I had been playing Basic & 1E D&D for over a year before I realised that the ampersand in the logo was a stylised dragon.

 

[Storm Raven]

Along those latter lines, I had a similar epiphany a few months ago. Was looking through an old yearbook and saw an inscription from a girl that I really liked but was too shy to ask out (and didn't think she liked me). The inscription, which included her phone number and a heart (!), couldn't have been more blatant. "It's been awesome getting to know you this year, I really hope to see you this summer, here's my phone number, call me!"

More than two decades later I read it again. God what a moron! Carrie, you were so beautiful!

And you call youirself Fast Learner.

 

[Macbeth]

I'm with you on Boston Legal, I groove on him there, too. But that started post Free Enterprise. A movie all geeks should see.

Heck, forget about the TV shows, just listen to his music. Has Been is a suprisingly decent CD, if you can put up with some spoken word. Self-referential humor too...

 

[Fast Learner]

And you call youirself Fast Learner.

Nickname selected solely for the irony.

 

[Villano]

Watching the reruns of Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends on Toon Disney, I realized that Firestar's secret identity was designed to look like Mary Jane.

Speaking of cartoons, while I knew Super Friends' Black Vulcan was based on Black Lightning, I never noticed that Samurai and his wind powers were supposed to be Red Tornado until an interview with someone from DC pointed it out.

Lastly, the TV series Jake & The Fatman was inspired by the Nero Wolfe mystery novels, with the fat, older, smart detective teamed with a younger, good-looking legman who does all the physical work.

 

[RC Hagy]

I thought of that and maybe that's the official line, but water doesn't stretch (though it does expand/contract).

Also, Dr Doom doesn't fit the elemental schema.

The Chinese (others in asia?) recognise (astrologically speaking that is) Metal as an element in its own right.


Hagy
Massachusetts

 

[Particle_Man]

I didn't know Warhammer 40 000 could be played on the computer. When they talked about moving all those forces, AND real time combat, I asked aloud how they could move all those minuratures in real time.

There was a long pause, and then they explained it to me. One of my friends said that during the pause he had some sort of animatronics fantasty where one could have little minuratures moving in real time on the tabletop.