General NON-Comics Discussions (471)
Original DEAR ABBY , R. I. P.
www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Pauline-Phillips-writer-Dear-Abby-dies-4204387.php
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BTW , one of the letter - and the answer - in that first column will make your jaw positively DROP !
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Neville
Odd thought, but would anyone else like to see J.K. Rowling do a Sir Apropos Of Nothing rewriting of the Potter books starring Neville Longbottom?
Or am I just odd?
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Meteor Threats and Other Massive events
Today's big news of the near miss of a massive Asteroid, coupled with the unrelated meteor explosion over Russia makes me wonder if any one is taking note over at Marvel?
Where are the Avengers?
Why didn't they respond?
Why couldn't the FF have ste
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Dungeons & Dragons
Anybody play D&D? Played D&D?
My comic shop hosts D&D encounters every Wednesday. The newest session is starting up soon. I've never played D&D in my life but have been curious about it. Tonight was character creation. I sat down with one of the D
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Great News Inside Folks!
A bit of a dramatic title, but there you go. That was what used to appear on my comics as a kid when the run was ending, or when it was been merged with another equally struggling weekly comic,
I haven't been here for some time, so my apologies to
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For those concerned about December 21, 2012
Relax, I've been given the inside info ;)
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A Spider-Man lunchbox for Christmas?
Some of you have seen the post on facebook, but I want to share this with the whole darn tootin' Cave.
A little background: my girlfriend Tracy and I have known each other for seven years, and living together for six years (My mother would have sai
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Where Did You Go Today?
A thread to record notable (or not) places you've visited or events you've attended.
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Hurricane Sandy
If there is anyone who visits the board who has been affected by the hurricane, may God keep you and your loved ones safe.
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Cricket
With England about to start their campaign against India, in India, does anyone rate their chances of winning even one test?
I have a feeling this could be the only post on this subject. By the way, yes its strange, me being Scottish and all but I e
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Electoral Observations
NOT encouraging arguments about the candidates/parties/issues connected with the upcoming US presidential election , let's make comments about stuff ~ um , whatever ~ connected to it !!!!!!!!!
Really , I would , seriously , keep " giving one's opin
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Roy Lichtenstein Exhibit
I especially like National Gallery curator Harry Cooper’s assessment of the comic book panels Lichtenstein swiped: “He’s always making these alterations. He did it because he felt these things could be improved ... they weren't quite art, but he coul
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Travel tips, suggestions and other nonsense
I was going to post a thread specific to a trip I'm leaving for tomorrow. Instead I thought it might be good to post an all encompassing thread so we can discuss any travel questions we might have.
I'm leaving for Houston, Texas tomorrow. I will be
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Gladiator!
I just happened upon an old edition of Phillip Wylie's Gladiator -- a 1930 novel that was one of the inspirations for Superman. (It's the 1957 Avon edition... and I got it for $1.50!) I'll be reading it soon, and I'll let you know what I think!
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A Story for Halloween
A STORY FOR HALLOWEEN
by Luke Blanchard
I have hated my mother for a while. I’m forty, unmarried, and live with her. She is overweight, bad-tempered, and very demanding. In recent years she has increasingly come to resemble – please pardon the cli
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Ventures reissues
In UGLY THINGS 60s-oriented music magazine/deluxe fanzine recently , which I bought when I bought the stuff I mentioned on the " Genre Magazines ' thread , there was an ad for the company re-releasing 10 Ventures albums from the 60s on CD and colored
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Eleven years ago, today.
Not to be a buzzkill, but -- weirdly -- this site is very much a part of my memories of Sept 11, 2001.
I live in the Central timezone, so by the time I got into work, things had already started happening. We didn't have a TV in the office (we wound
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