"Complete aside, but is it true that George Marshall was given the special title 'General of the Army' because otherwise he would have been called Marshal Marshall?"
-- Figserello
Read more…My co-worker's husband runs Online Action Figure Entertainment, a website dedicated to collecting action figures and offers reviews for them too.
The other day he got a really neat figure in the mail -- a homemade action figure from a U.S. Soldier in
Read more…"We're free! We're free! No! Wait! What's this? It's pulling us back in!"
Read more…"Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/03/09/julie-taymor-to-leave-spider-man-turn-off-the-dark-musical/ I know it's a mess, but I still want to see it. :)
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You're responsible for every kid going through a magic phase...thank you, Harry.
Read more…For those that haven't heard, Mattel announced a couple of weeks ago that they would be ending the Justice League Unlimited action figure line at the end of 2011. I stopped collecting the series a few years ago, but after a nine-year run, and probab
Read more…I don't expect to sleep much tonight since the campus is three blocks from my house. ;)
Read more…While looking at past discussions, I realized that I have been posting here for exactly one year. Before this, I was only at the Mister Silver Age form, which I still miss. I still am only here since I have neither the time or the knowledge of any ca
Read more…This is the kind of thing I think up when I've had very little sleep.
And sometimes, when I have had more sleep, I do it again.
Read more…"Your Majesty, would you like...your sceptre?"
Dooooo-doot, dooooo-doot! Dooooo-doot, dooooo-doot!"
(If you don't know what that's all about, see here and here.)
Anyhow, now that I've got that out of my system, let me ramble on a bit about my tho
Read more…I may have asked this question before on the old board, but I can't check it, so I apologize if I'm asking something for a second time.
I was thinking over the film Back to the Future, and I started thinking over what might happen if I, and my '01
Read more…A former student of mine.
http://www.dvidshub.net/news/67641/monster-chowkay?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4d8e68c452192d79%2C0
Call me "Dr. Erskine."
Read more…Don't know how many basketball fans we've got on the board but I thought I'd start a thread anyways. Growing up I loved basketball. I played from 5th to 8th grade. I wasn't any good but loved to play. Plus I was short.
The NCAA tournament is underw
Read more…Hi guys,
Someone posted a video on my Facebook page a while back -- possibly Travis? It was at least a year ago -- which showed all these people, including a marching band, following a signal back to a bar. It was an awesome song, but at the time I
Read more…Hey, all! I just wanted to let you know that my first novel has been published. It is available in ebook and print formats. It's a supernatural detective story set in Washington, DC with a nice dash of humor. Here is a synopsis, followed by links
Read more…The WWE released its DVD set of the 50 greatest wrestlers of all time. Now I know Hulk Hogan no longer works for the WWE but he was #23! The man who made pro wrestling the multimedia entity it is now! The reason why Vince McMahon is a billionaire! I
Read more…Without getting into the whole story, just saw a shirt for a 1-2 year old which had Iron Man and Captain America on it. The odd thing is that Iron Man is taking a punch at Cap, who is deflecting the punch with his shield.
Why would Marvel have a shir
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