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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 7, 2016 14:49:08 GMT -5
Excelsior is not an uncommon expression outside of comics. In fact, it's the official motto for New York State people outside of the New England area tho (the vast majority of the US), have no idea other than comics fans know Stan Lee says it in bullpen bulletins. Excelsior, once a trademark like Xerox, also refers to the shaved wood/shredded paper used to stuff packaging before bubble wrap or styrofoam peanuts. Cei-U! I give my age away! |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 7, 2016 14:52:14 GMT -5
people outside of the New England area tho (the vast majority of the US), have no idea other than comics fans know Stan Lee says it in bullpen bulletins. Excelsior, once a trademark like Xerox, also refers to the shaved wood/shredded paper used to stuff packaging before bubble wrap or styrofoam peanuts. Cei-U! I give my age away! It's a major award! |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 7, 2016 14:53:20 GMT -5
Good one! Perhaps obscure even to comic fans is the Baldy, which was basically the same thing form the Superman office during the Triangle era (maybe a bit before, too). |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jan 7, 2016 14:54:56 GMT -5
Excelsior, once a trademark like Xerox, also refers to the shaved wood/shredded paper used to stuff packaging before bubble wrap or styrofoam peanuts. Cei-U! I give my age away! It's a major award! "Fra-gee-lay. It must be Italian." |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Jan 7, 2016 14:55:23 GMT -5
people outside of the New England area tho (the vast majority of the US), have no idea other than comics fans know Stan Lee says it in bullpen bulletins. Excelsior, once a trademark like Xerox, also refers to the shaved wood/shredded paper used to stuff packaging before bubble wrap or styrofoam peanuts. Cei-U! I give my age away! Excelsior just has countless uses outside comics! Many sports team use it, movies, politicians, a lot of advertising as it's just a very common latin locution meaning "steping up" of "go higher"... Even Al Gore used to say it so much that the Simpsons did a whole episode of parodying him with that! |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jan 7, 2016 14:56:50 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure that "headlights" is fairly common. Not PC, of course, but not unheard of. Yeah, I suppose it is. But because I am 12, I could not resist adding it.  Well, it's not an unusual preoccupation, even after you hit 13. |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Jan 7, 2016 15:02:15 GMT -5
Headlights Bondage/decapitation panels Injury-to-eye Tentacled eyeball Seduction of the Innocent/Used in SOTI Parade of Pleasure Acid-in-face Lingerie panels Woman melted alive My favorite: Plastic Man forced to smoke marijuana Since the Bunuel movie from 1929, injury-to-eye has been a very common way of describing movies in the explotation circuits  Never saw "Parade of pleasure", but I wish I had, it's very evocative! |
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Post by Mormel on Jan 7, 2016 15:11:01 GMT -5
Ooh, death's head hawk moth, those are pretty neat. I hope to encounter a live one in the wild one day.
(Apparently, those critters make a high pitched screeching noise when threatened, adding to the eerieness)
2 more phrases:
Stuffed in the fridge
SMvsFL (Spider-Man vs Firelord)
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jan 7, 2016 15:29:55 GMT -5
Ooh, death's head hawk moth, those are pretty neat. I hope to encounter a live one in the wild one day. (Apparently, those critters make a high pitched screeching noise when threatened, adding to the eerieness) 2 more phrases: Stuffed in the fridge SMvsFL (Spider-Man vs Firelord) Or just "fridged". |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jan 7, 2016 15:59:46 GMT -5
Wolverines are weasels, not rodents. And "serval" is not a "made up" word. It's a species of African hunting cat. Cei-U! I summon the zoology lesson! Luckily, I ALSO consider weasels large, smelly rats. (And I figure they're taxonomically similar, right?) But the serval is way more badass than the Wolverine. And Wolverine's classic costume looks more like a serval! Cool! |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Jan 7, 2016 16:02:04 GMT -5
Never saw "Parade of pleasure", but I wish I had, it's very evocative! Sorry to get your hopes (or anything else  ) up, but "Parade of Pleasure" was a 1955 book by Geoffrey Wagner that condemned the immorality not just of comic books, but virtually all of American popular culture (movies, radio, television, magazines, etc.) in much the same alarmist fashion that Wertham had used with "Seduction of the Innocent." Salvador Dali had some involvement with the Bunuel film you cited, Un Chien Andalou, yes? Speaking of film, "pre-Code" has an older usage among film buffs, denoting the far more permissive era of movie-making before the Hayes Code came into effect in 1934. Like the Comics Code, it proscribed various types of subject matter deemed immoral from appearing on screen. |
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Post by Mormel on Jan 7, 2016 16:10:57 GMT -5
Wolverines are weasels, not rodents. And "serval" is not a "made up" word. It's a species of African hunting cat. Cei-U! I summon the zoology lesson! Luckily, I ALSO consider weasels large, smelly rats. (And I figure they're taxonomically similar, right?) But the serval is way more badass than the Wolverine. And Wolverine's classic costume looks more like a serval! Cool! Different orders. Weasels and wolverines belong to the family of mustelids which, along with cats, dogs, and bears make up the taxonomical order Carnivora; rats and mice belong to the order Rodentia, which includes voles, squirrels, porcupines, beavers (but not rabbits and hares, somewhat surprisingly!). And I also think servals are pretty awesome. Funny that the French translators would pick another animal for Logan to represent. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jan 7, 2016 16:13:13 GMT -5
Ok, fair enough.
BUT IT STILL LOOKS LIKE A BIG 'OL RAT TO ME!
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Post by Mormel on Jan 7, 2016 16:16:04 GMT -5
Ok, fair enough. BUT IT STILL LOOKS LIKE A BIG 'OL RAT TO ME! heh heh, and Logan moreso. Especially when he's shirtless. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 7, 2016 16:31:39 GMT -5
Luckily, I ALSO consider weasels large, smelly rats. (And I figure they're taxonomically similar, right?) But the serval is way more badass than the Wolverine. And Wolverine's classic costume looks more like a serval! Cool! Different orders. Weasels and wolverines belong to the family of mustelids which, along with cats, dogs, and bears make up the taxonomical order Carnivora; rats and mice belong to the order Rodentia, which includes voles, squirrels, porcupines, beavers (but not rabbits and hares, somewhat surprisingly!). And I also think servals are pretty awesome. Funny that the French translators would pick another animal for Logan to represent. Well, they had good reasons: even neglecting the small detail that Logan had a yellow costume and not a brown one, the word "wolverine"'s most common translation is "glouton". But "glouton" is mostly used to describe a person who eats all the time, and evokes the image of a rotund and rather inoffensive character; definitely not a name for a feisty super-hero. Another name for the wolverine is "carcajou", mostly used in Canada. That sounds more badass because of the two "k" sounds in it, but... Serval sounds so much better to describe a guy dressed in yellow, with claws, and with long ears to boot!  |
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) up, but "Parade of Pleasure" was a 1955 book by Geoffrey Wagner that condemned the immorality not just of comic books, but virtually all of American popular culture (movies, radio, television, magazines, etc.) in much the same alarmist fashion that Wertham had used with "Seduction of the Innocent."
