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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 22, 2023 20:50:35 GMT -5
Top twelve Image comics ? I feel it’ll be wrestling-themed. Only problem is, everyone’s lists will look the same, as most here will pick the five issues of Valiant’s Battlemania as their top five. Not even Top 10. The 14 volumes of Tiger Mask would come well before the WWF or WCW turned up. Then, there is the House of Raging Women storyline, in Love & Rockets, and the spin-off miniseries Whoa, Nellie; that FF issue where Thing fights a wrestler, the X-Men issue with Beast vs Unus the Untouchable, the Marvel Two-in One issues with Tigra and Titania (part of Project Pegasus), that Captain America story where he investigates a murder at a pro wrestling show, Superman & Antonino Rocca, Batman vs the Hooded Hangman (Detective #355), Unlimited Class Wrestling in The Thing, Crying Freeman's wrestling storyline, The whole run of Mexican Santo comics........ Nope, no Battlemania! Definitely no Warrior vs Santa Claus!
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Post by Rags on Nov 23, 2023 0:26:54 GMT -5
Here's an aerial view of one of my two neighbourhoods in the caribbean, taken by a blimp....if I need a dip it's less than a minute walk away. The other one has more green with lots of fruit trees but the blimp didn't cruise by there. The ocean behind the hills is a few miles away and is a convergence of the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean sea.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 23, 2023 6:56:03 GMT -5
Here's an aerial view of one of my two neighbourhoods in the caribbean, taken by a blimp....if I need a dip it's less than a minute walk away. The other one has more green with lots of fruit trees but the blimp didn't cruise by there. The ocean behind the hills is a few miles away and is a convergence of the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean sea.
Did you move there or is it a vacation spot ?
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 23, 2023 15:36:02 GMT -5
You are very clearly a number of hours early. Have you been imbibing in holiday cheer? Here in what should be the Atlantic Time Zone, Thanksgiving Eve arrived hours ago, but yes, I have indeed imbibed... mildly, of course. Don't abuse of things like moderation!
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Post by Rags on Nov 23, 2023 16:07:33 GMT -5
Did you move there or is it a vacation spot ?
I have dual residency so it's my current stomping ground.
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Post by berkley on Nov 23, 2023 19:49:58 GMT -5
Is there an equivalent feast in your calendar, Confessor ? I know that the Canadians have a Thanksgiving in October, but wondered if you chaps do anything like it. Ummm... not really. The closest we have is probably Harvest Festival, which is celebrated in churches in September or October. Though that's not something which is celebrated in the same widespread way as Thanksgiving is in the U.S., with parties at peoples homes or with family gatherings. But it does have a somewhat similar purpose of giving thanks for a bountiful harvest, I guess. The festival that we have in November, which you guys don't, is Guy Fawkes Night on the 5th. Where we let off fireworks and build a big bonfire to remember when Fawkes and his gang tried to blow up Parliament in 1605 (and wish somebody would have another go soon!).
We actually had that when I was growing up in Newfoundland, but it wasn't called Guy Fawkes, just "Bonfire Night". I think I read somewhere that it's really a survival of an ancient pagan religious festival that the Guy Fawkes incident became associated with only later. Regardless, I wonder if it survived in any other sub-regions in North America or the Carribean that were colonised by the British? We're the only ones I've ever heard of doing it but it wouldn't surprise me if there were other places I don't know about.
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Post by Confessor on Nov 24, 2023 6:29:44 GMT -5
Ummm... not really. The closest we have is probably Harvest Festival, which is celebrated in churches in September or October. Though that's not something which is celebrated in the same widespread way as Thanksgiving is in the U.S., with parties at peoples homes or with family gatherings. But it does have a somewhat similar purpose of giving thanks for a bountiful harvest, I guess. The festival that we have in November, which you guys don't, is Guy Fawkes Night on the 5th. Where we let off fireworks and build a big bonfire to remember when Fawkes and his gang tried to blow up Parliament in 1605 (and wish somebody would have another go soon!). We actually had that when I was growing up in Newfoundland, but it wasn't called Guy Fawkes, just "Bonfire Night". I think I read somewhere that it's really a survival of an ancient pagan religious festival that the Guy Fawkes incident became associated with only later. Regardless, I wonder if it survived in any other sub-regions in North America or the Carribean that were colonised by the British? We're the only ones I've ever heard of doing it but it wouldn't surprise me if there were other places I don't know about.
I think it was just exported to Colonial countries like Canada, Australia and New Zealand by British settlers, which is why you would remember it from Newfoundland. I've never heard of it being an earlier pagan festival that the celebration of the thwarting of the Gunpowder Plot was grafted into, though I suppose it's possible. But the first Guy Fawkes Night celebrations occurred by the Royal command of James I on 5th November 1605 (the year of the plot).
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 24, 2023 10:58:20 GMT -5
Saturday I had my nose pressed against the window waiting for the notice of this years CCF Christmas. I got a lump of coal , like always.
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 24, 2023 11:01:19 GMT -5
Saturday I had my nose pressed against the window waiting for the notice of this years CCF Christmas. I got a lump of coal , like always. What Earth are you living on, dude? Saturday is tomorrow!?!
Cei-U! I summon the befuddlemet!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 24, 2023 12:18:21 GMT -5
So Mother Nature dumped about a foot and a half of snow on us last night. Had to throw the truck in to 4 wheel-drive low for the first time to get my wife and I to our offices this morning. Soooo much snow!
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 24, 2023 13:01:57 GMT -5
Saturday I had my nose pressed against the window waiting for the notice of this years CCF Christmas. I got a lump of coal , like always. What Earth are you living on, dude? Saturday is tomorrow!?!
Cei-U! I summon the befuddlemet!
I thought I told you that I acquired the time stone .
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Post by driver1980 on Nov 24, 2023 13:32:03 GMT -5
What Earth are you living on, dude? Saturday is tomorrow!?!
Cei-U! I summon the befuddlemet!
I thought I told you that I acquired the time stone . You’ve borrowed some time-bending powers from Hulk Hogan. I seriously wish I was joking, but this is an actual quote from Hogan’s second autobiography: "If I say I wrestled four hundred days a year, it's no exaggeration. My years were actually longer than 365 days. There were times when I'd fly back and forth to Japan twice a week just to wrestle. Now it was nothing to wrestle in Madison Square Garden one day, then fly all the way to the Egg Dome in Tokyo the same day, 'cause you'd gain fourteen hours, and then fly back to the West Coast and so on ... So I could wrestle in Japan today and then fly back across the International Date Line and land in another town yesterday. I was constantly adding days to my years!"
What a joke. Even if you “gained” days when you crossed the International Date Line, you’d “lose” days when you travelled back. The above is impossible, perhaps even for Superman and the Flash.
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Post by driver1980 on Nov 24, 2023 13:34:24 GMT -5
So Mother Nature dumped about a foot and a half of snow on us last night. Had to throw the truck in to 4 wheel-drive low for the first time to get my wife and I to our offices this morning. Soooo much snow! Wow. Not sure I’ve ever seen that here in the UK.
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Post by Confessor on Nov 24, 2023 20:14:21 GMT -5
So Mother Nature dumped about a foot and a half of snow on us last night. Had to throw the truck in to 4 wheel-drive low for the first time to get my wife and I to our offices this morning. Soooo much snow! Wow. Not sure I’ve ever seen that here in the UK. I've definitely seen a two or three feet of snow in my time in the UK. Not often mind, and mostly back in the 70s or 80s. But there was a winter in south Buckinghamshire about 9 or 10 years ago where it went down to -9°C and we had a good couple of feet of snow. My damn toilet froze!!
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 24, 2023 21:49:53 GMT -5
Wow. Not sure I’ve ever seen that here in the UK. I've definitely seen a two or three feet of snow in my time in the UK. Not often mind, and mostly back in the 70s or 80s. But there was a winter in south Buckinghamshire about 9 or 10 years ago where it went down to -9°C and we had a good couple of feet of snow. My damn toilet froze!! In the Midwest, we call that a Tuesday, in January. In the Winter of 1978, during the month of January, my school district did not have a complete week of school for the entire month. We had a minimum of one snow day per week, and had two days, in at least one week. That was then followed up, near Easter, with an ice storm that cut power to my hometown for most of a week. Luckily, we had a gas stove and a fireplace and we just huddled under blankets, in front of the fire, listened to the radio, and read and played board games. Normally, under the state's education rules, we were allotted a certain number of snow days, for the year. After that, we were supposed to make up any extra days, at the end of the school year. So many school districts in Illinois used so many days, between the winter and the ice storm (about half to 2/3 of the state had at least some power outages) that we would have been in school for half the summer. The state legislature didn't have the money to fund such a thing and voted a snow amnesty, and the time was forgiven. Of course, that reminds me of The Great Storm.......
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