General NON-Comics Discussions (484)
It's Hippo Time Again!!!
I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
Don't want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
I don't think Santa Claus will
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"12 Days of Christmas" parody - need help
I'm racking my brain trying to find information somewhere on the 'Net about a parody version of "12 Days of Christmas", but I'm not having any luck. I'm hoping someone can help me out. I can't recall who performed the song, and here are the few thi
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MERRY CHRISTMAS!
From all of me to all of you:
MERRY CHRISTMAS and
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Ya poor dopes.
And let's take a moment to remember the greatest moment of 2010:
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Soda !
This is meant as a thead relating to " soda pop " , in the more general sense...Basically , non-alcoholic beverages , and not so much coffee , either , tho I'm not excluding it .
Personally , I do drink alcohol , tho quite lightly/pretty infrequent
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Brave New Worlds - An Anthology
Brave New Worlds, edited by John Joseph Adams, is a book that I picked up recently and have started reading. It's meant to be a collection of dystopian stories. I'll let you know what I think of each story as I go through them.
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Coffee!
Since there's a beer and soda thread, I decided to start a coffee thread. I think there's quite a few of us that enjoy this hot (sometimes cold) beverage.
I have a Keurig coffee maker which is great for a single guy. There's not an abundance of cof
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No Snow tonight!
I thought that, since much of the country is under one kind of weather advisory or another this week, that it might be easier for people to post if they're not having any snow.
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"I'm Not Going To Do the Thing I'm Doing Right Now"
Yesterday, I was amused at a couple of interviews, one in sports and the other in entertainment, in which the interviewee immediately contradicted themselves by saying they were going to do something and then doing the exact opposite. Tom Coughlin,
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Balloons I Saw at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
1)Snoopy 2)Some pumpkins 3)Kermit the Frog 4)The Wimpy Kid Diarist 5)Ice-skating Ronald McDonald 6)Uncle Sam 7)Sailor Mickey Mouse 8)A basketball 9)A football (American) 10)Spongebob Squarepants 11)Some colorful spheres 12)A pirate 13)A c
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If I Was the Sports Czar
If I was the king of sports for a day:
Major League Baseball would add instant replay for calls on the bases, though not balls and strikes
Major League Baseball would add a second wild card and have them play a best-of-three (which I'm happy to hear i
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A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz reading club
My copy hits my doorstep today and I think I'll start it tonight. If you would like to read along with me, grab a copy and do so!
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Shock Godzilla report
Most of us, watching Godzilla or Gamera films, have always assumed Godzilla, Gamera and those other monsters really had it in for each other. But it turns out it's not so.
All those battles were really arranged by promoters. And they fixed the resu
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Troubleshooting Help
O.K., gang, I'm experiencing another problem with getting my column to "press". This time, with the art.
The way it always worked before was, when I added art to my draft, I clicked on the icon in the toolbar marked "Insert Image".
Then I'd get
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9/11, Nine Years Ago
Over on the old board, several people offered their memories and observations about the day:
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