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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 8, 2023 7:43:03 GMT -5
As I mentioned over on Facebook, I've begun the odious task of getting rid of books in my overabundant collection of same in order to make room on the shelves for all those Essentials and Showcases that Greg Hatcher left me in his will. It hasn't been easy. I've had to be ruthlessly unsentimental, letting go of tomes dating clear back to my college days. There will also be a bunch of TPBs going bye-bye because I have the original comics and can no longer afford the luxury of multiple versions of the same stories. It kinda sucks but facts is facts: short of moving to a bigger apartment and buying more bookcases, something has to give. Doesn't make it any less traumatic, though.
Cei-U! [terrible Jonathan Harris impression] Oh, the pain... the pain! [/terrible Jonathan Harris impression]
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Post by tartanphantom on Feb 8, 2023 8:54:33 GMT -5
Indeed.
Zippy wishes you many happy returns, MDG!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2023 8:59:56 GMT -5
As I mentioned over on Facebook, I've begun the odious task of getting rid of books in my overabundant collection of same in order to make room on the shelves for all those Essentials and Showcases that Greg Hatcher left me in his will. It hasn't been easy. I've had to be ruthlessly unsentimental, letting go of tomes dating clear back to my college days. There will also be a bunch of TPBs going bye-bye because I have the original comics and can no longer afford the luxury of multiple versions of the same stories. It kinda sucks but facts is facts: short of moving to a bigger apartment and buying more bookcases, something has to give. Doesn't make it any less traumatic, though. Cei-U! [terrible Jonathan Harris impression] Oh, the pain... the pain! [/terrible Jonathan Harris impression] I understand you entirely. I live in a one-bedroom flat, and there are times I have to think about what goes. I mean, no way on God’s green earth am I parting with the Hachette volume of The Untold Legend of the Batman. But, you know, maybe that Essential X-Factor, which I haven’t read in a while, can go. Which it did.
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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 8, 2023 9:31:59 GMT -5
"Essential X-Factor" is an oxymoron, like "military intelligence," "jumbo shrimp," and "business ethics."
Cei-U! I channel George Carlin!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2023 9:33:53 GMT -5
"Essential X-Factor" is an oxymoron, like "military intelligence," "jumbo shrimp," and "business ethics." Cei-U! I channel George Carlin! Well, it was cheap at a jumble sale. On a slightly related note, when Showcase did a Booster Gold volume, it felt like a sign of the apocalypse. I have nothing against Booster Gold, but that line represented black and white reprints of Silver Age stuff, so doing b/w reprints of a modern age character seemed odd.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 8, 2023 10:01:57 GMT -5
Cei-U's dilemma reminds me waaaay back in 2008 when my boys were begging to play Halo 3, I had to go through my comics for money to buy them Halo 3 and a Xbox 360. Thankfully that was when Deadpool and Harley were rising in popularity and there were a lot of one-shots and one off books of theirs that I knew I would never read again and was able to easily raise the $400 I needed without selling anything I would really miss. Though I wished I'd held on to New Mutants #98 just because of what it is now worth compared to what paltry amount I sold it for than. What ya gonna do? :shrugs:
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 8, 2023 12:24:17 GMT -5
"Essential X-Factor" is an oxymoron, like "military intelligence," "jumbo shrimp," and "business ethics." Cei-U! I channel George Carlin! You know, back in the Dark Ages, when I graduated from the Univ of Illinois, George Will was our commencement speaker. In the course of his boring speech, he used the term "oxymoron," then proceeded to explain what it meant...... to a gathering of college graduates, recipients of Masters Degrees and PhDs and such. Of course, I don't know why I opted to attend the mass ceremony, at the Assembly Hall, since we didn't actually receive our degree certificates there. As it was, I had to return to campus a week later for the real ceremony: my commissioning as a Naval Officer. I mean, I had hunted down an actual Eisenhower Silver Dollar, not a Susan B Anthony, for my first salute! Then my grandmother took us out to eat at a nice restaurant and I was petrified of getting anything on my "choker whites." Didn't stop me from having a steak, though.
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Post by MWGallaher on Feb 8, 2023 13:15:03 GMT -5
Most people that think they know what an oxymoron is don't really know what an oxymoron is--that is, they know a definition they think they understand, but they don't know why the term exists other than as the subject of lame "humor".
It took me a while of hating every time I'd see someone share some "oxymorons" they thought were funny before I bothered to think and research enough to understand and appreciate them.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2023 13:21:15 GMT -5
I was watching some youtube videos about the Euphrates river drying up and strange sounds coming from it. In the Book of Revelations, it's mentioned that there are several fallen angels detained there, and a prophecy about them being released at some point (when the 6th Angel blows his trumpet) and destroying a lot of people.
Anyone know why a dying river makes strange sounds? Like wailing?
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Post by Calidore on Feb 8, 2023 14:16:49 GMT -5
I was watching some youtube videos about the Euphrates river drying up and strange sounds coming from it. In the Book of Revelations, it's mentioned that there are several fallen angels detained there, and a prophecy about them being released at some point (when the 6th Angel blows his trumpet) and destroying a lot of people.
Anyone know why a dying river makes strange sounds? Like wailing?
Just because it's YouTube, my first question would be, were those sounds actually recorded live with the river footage or were they overdubbed from some other source to make a juicy clickbait video?
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 8, 2023 15:53:04 GMT -5
Maybe the Euphrates is actually the Cocytus?
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 8, 2023 19:17:26 GMT -5
Maybe it likes interpretive jazz?
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 8, 2023 19:18:22 GMT -5
ps I stopped reading the Book of Revelations after peeking at the ending. Ruined the whole book for me.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Feb 8, 2023 21:42:28 GMT -5
ps I stopped reading the Book of Revelations after peeking at the ending. Ruined the whole book for me. NO SPOILERS!!!!
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Post by berkley on Feb 9, 2023 1:39:31 GMT -5
ps I stopped reading the Book of Revelations after peeking at the ending. Ruined the whole book for me.
I wonder if the next modern English translation will change the title to "The Big Reveal" .
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