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If I can come up with the money, I'd like an XL (that's Yankee XL).

Go ahead and put me down for one.

Well, I'm supposed to be writing a pamphlet on verb tenses, but I just cant get into in, so I'm here, stalling.

Iss not gud.

 

I was disappointed. I think with it being a 3 part series, there wasn't enough time to develop the story. Oddly, I thought the characters were developed. It's fairly predictable, but I did like the last page, sentimental ol' me...

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I liked it a lot, but I agree that 3 issues was just not enough. It felt rushed.

Which line is that Mark? I just picked up the issue today.

 

Spoilers.

 

So anyone who thought it might be Nergal can lay that noton to rest as our mystery Chas doesn't know why Angie's blood tastes like John's. And speaking of mystery Chas, his ass whupping scene was probably my favorite in this issue. That was cool.

 

Is that the line you mean Mark? "Those who are my friends nobody touches. And my foes no one but I!"

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Actually, I took that as a sign that it was Nergal. He wants to know why her blood tastes like John's, and therefore, his own.

¡feliz cumpleaños, Keeya! :D

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What she said, Keeyah!

I love Internet

It's so smart, entertainig

and the sex is great!

Ahh! Things picked up there...had a 1 1/2 hour long session with someone. Oop! There's another one! Gotta go!

BWAH! Tele-Crom almost made me choke on my coffee there, player.

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What is best in life?

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to travel their internet at a high speed!

I, too, am at work. I love my job (writing tutor at Stark State College of Technology). Since it's the first week we're open, I'm also dicking around on the internet. Yesterday I was on the internet for abouy 8 hours, because no one came in for tutoring. Booya!

These slow times won't last, so I'll enjoy them while I can.

Go and look at this now. Seriously. It's not Hasselhoff porn, I promise.

 

Worst. Idea. Ever.

 

Christ, I think 'Lord Chit's African Adventure: The Movie' would have been a more edifying prospect...

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Have you noticed that, in the last 10-15 years or so, Stan Lee has done more to hurt comic books and animation than Fredric Wertham? I say we vote him of the island.

So much for us comic book readers not ever getting laid.

And John even shows a bit of his humanitarian - non asshole - side even in this video clip.

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Which side is that, then?

To misquote SNL:

We should "come up with a nickname for [John Constantine]that only we use, so we can identify each other in a strange town or something. Alright, ideas?

What about . . .Brocktoon?

In a lighter note:

This comes from IMDB.com quoted from WENN news:

Britney's New Hebrew Tattoo

 

 

Britney Spears is taking her secret Kabbalah lessons seriously - she's had a Hebrew symbol tattooed on the back of her neck. The pop superstar, who has dabbled with the mystical offshoot of Judaism after being introduced to it by pal Madonna, seems to be getting serious about all things Kabbalah. Her new Hebrew symbol, which represents "the power of healing," is one of two new tattoos Britney has had inked on her - the other is a personal symbol of her love for new husband Kevin Federline. She explains, "I have pink dice on my left wrist. It's something me and my husband we did together. He has blue dice, I have pink dice."

Now my question is this:

Aren't Jews forbidden to get Tattoos? and if so, what the hell is a "Hebrew Tattoo"? Argh! I hate people!

So, then we're all in agreement as how we pronounce the "Constan-" portion, right? Kone-stain, that's how you all pronounce it, right?

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I thought it was "[over-used word]-stain-teen". Ha! "[over-used word]-Stain"!

BURP! (excuse me)

I just read half of this and it's brilliant!

 

The only downside is that it ends on a cliffhanger and the final volume hasn't even come out in France yet so we'll be waiting a while for the resolution of the tale. Still, glad you're digging it.

 

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Bah! Just finished it, and that ending was great! I'm going to have to buy this! (I do most of my graphic novel reading at Borders, or as I like to call it, the "Jaynova Reading Library".) I loved the white party scene!

We all know it is pronounced "Kon-Stan-Tyne", but some of us may adopt the "Kon-Stan-Teen" pronunciation, even though it's wrong. So, how do you say it?

Reading this thread got me thinking bout what I can remember and Iv'e just realised I can remember what I did a week ago today. Seriously I can't! I must have gone to work like normal and but the day must have been so dull and ordinary that nothing stuck in my mind.

 

That is bloody freaky.

 

Yet I can still remember tons of useless shit.

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Yeah. I have trouble remembering what I did last week, but I remember the old McDonald's rap (the one that listed the entire menu). I don't even eat at McDonalds!

Give us the link, homes, we'll pump you up a bit.

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Actually, I don't want my score pumped. I'm looking for a pure rating.

BTW: 53 voters, I'm up to 6.1! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

What's the format?

I recomment the Beatles' "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number), because it doesn't get enough radio play. When I would eat at Pizza Hut (back when I was a teen) I would always play this on the jukebox. I always said I would play this song 20 times in a row, just to see how many people leave.

He's been a patient listener, a non-judgemental confidante and marvelous paperweight.

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Funny, that's what people say about me!

5:36 PM...Snowed in (damn midwest weather).  Played LOTR: The Third Age for 5hours (!) with the missus.  Now we're watching Star Wars.

 

Edits:  I posted my Avatar Pic on Hot or Not....most people are rating me a 2.  :icon_cry:

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Thanks for the support all. I'm at 4.4 with 32 people voting.

Johny Carson died. :icon_cry:

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/fc?d=tmpl&cf=fc&i...t=johnny_carson

Late-Night King Johnny Carson Dies at 79

 

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By LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer

 

LOS ANGELES - Johnny Carson (news), the "Tonight Show" host who served America a smooth nightcap of celebrity banter, droll comedy and heartland charm for 30 years, died Sunday. He was 79. NBC said Carson died of emphysema at his Malibu home.

 

 

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"Mr. Carson passed away peacefully early Sunday morning," his nephew, Jeff Sotzing, told The Associated Press. "He was surrounded by his family, whose loss will be immeasurable."

 

 

The boyish-looking Nebraska native with the disarming grin, who survived every attempt to topple him from his late-night talk show throne, was a star who managed never to distance himself from his audience.

 

 

His wealth, the adoration of his guests — particularly the many young comics whose careers he launched — the wry tales of multiple divorces: Carson's air of modesty made it all serve to enhance his bedtime intimacy with viewers.

 

 

"Heeeeere's Johnny!" was the booming announcement from sidekick Ed McMahon that ushered Carson out to the stage. Then the formula: the topical monologue, the guests, the broadly played skits such as "Carnac the Magnificent."

 

 

But America never tired of him; Carson went out on top when he retired in May 1992.

 

 

McMahon said Sunday that Carson was "like a brother to me."

 

 

"Our 34 years of working together, plus the 12 years since then, created a friendship which was professional, family-like and one of respect and great admiration," McMahon said in a statement. "When we ended our run on 'The Tonight Show' and my professional life continued, whenever a big career decision needed to be made, I always got the OK from 'the boss.'"

 

 

Carson's personal life could not match the perfection of his career. Carson was married four times, divorced three. In 1991, one of his three sons, 39-year-old Ricky, was killed in a car accident.

 

 

Nearly all of Carson's professional life was spent in television, from his postwar start at Nebraska stations in the late 1940s to his three decades with NBC's "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson."

 

 

Carson choose to let "Tonight" stand as his career zenith and his finale, withdrawing into a quiet retirement that suited his private nature and refusing involvement in other show business projects.

 

 

In 1993, he explained his absence from the limelight.

 

 

"I have an ego like anybody else," Carson told The Washington Post, "but I don't need to be stoked by going before the public all the time."

 

 

Carson spent his retirement years sailing, traveling and socializing with a few close friends including media mogul Barry Diller and NBC executive Bob Wright. He simply refused to be wooed back on stage.

 

 

"I just let the work speak for itself," he told Esquire magazine in 2002.

 

 

Carson did find an outlet for his creativity: He wrote short humor pieces for The New Yorker magazine, including "Recently Discovered Childhood Letters to Santa," which purported to give the youthful wish lists of William Buckley, Don Rickles and others.

 

 

Carson made his debut as "Tonight" host in October 1962 and quickly won over audiences. He even made headlines with such clever ploys as the 1969 on-show marriage of eccentric singer Tiny Tim to Miss Vicki, which won the show its biggest-ever ratings.

 

 

 

 

 

The wedding and other noteworthy moments from the show were collected into a yearly "Tonight" anniversary special.

 

In 1972, "Tonight" moved from New York to Burbank. Growing respect for Carson's consistency and staying power, along with four consecutive Emmy Awards, came his way in the late 1970s.

 

His quickness and his ability to handle an audience were impressive. When his jokes missed their target, the smooth Carson won over a groaning studio audience with a clever look or sly, self-deprecating remark.

 

Politics provided monologue fodder for him as he skewered lawmakers of every stripe, mirroring the mood of voters. His Watergate jabs at President Nixon were seen as cementing Nixon's fall from office in 1974.

 

He made presidential history again in July 1988 when he had then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton (news - web sites) on his show a few days after Clinton came under widespread ridicule for a boring speech at the Democratic National Convention. Clinton traded quips with Carson and played "Summertime" on the saxophone in what was hailed as a stunning comeback.

 

Competing networks tried a variety of formats and hosts to challenge Carson, but never managed to best "Tonight."

 

There was the occasional battle with NBC: In 1967, for instance, Carson walked out for several weeks until the network managed to lure him back with a contract that reportedly gave him $1 million-plus yearly.

 

In 1980, after more walkout threats, the show was scaled back from 90 minutes to an hour. Carson also eased his schedule by cutting back on his work days; a number of substitute hosts filled in, including Joan Rivers, Jerry Lewis and Jay Leno, Carson's eventual successor.

 

Rivers was one of the countless comedians whose careers took off after they were on Carson's show. After she rocked the audience with her jokes in that 1965 appearance, he remarked, "God, you're funny. You're going to be a star."

 

"If Johnny hadn't made the choice to put me on his show, I might still be in Greenwich Village as the oldest living undiscovered female comic," she recalled in an Associated Press interview 20 years later. She tried her own talk show in 1986, quickly becoming one of the many challengers who could not budge Carson.

 

In the '80s, Carson was reportedly the highest-paid performer in television history with a $5 million "Tonight" show salary alone. His Carson Productions created and sold pilots to NBC, including "TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes." Carson himself made occasional cameo appearances on other TV series.

 

He also performed in Las Vegas and Atlantic City, N.J., and was host of the Academy Awards (news - web sites) five times in the '70s and '80s.

 

Carson's graceful exit from "Tonight" did not avoid a messy, bitter tug-of-war between Leno and fellow comedian David Letterman to take over his throne. Leno took over on May 25, 1992, becoming the fourth man to hold the job after Steve Allen, Jack Paar and Carson. Letterman landed on rival CBS.

 

Born in Corning, Iowa, and raised in nearby Norfolk, Neb., Carson started his show business career at age 14 as the magician "The Great Carsoni."

 

After World War II service in the Navy, he took a series of jobs in local radio and TV in Nebraska before starting at KNXT-TV in Los Angeles in 1950.

 

There he started a sketch comedy show, "Carson's Cellar," which ran from 1951-53 and attracted attention from Hollywood. A staff writing job for "The Red Skelton Show" followed.

 

The program provided Carson with a lucky break: When Skelton was injured backstage, Carson took the comedian's place in front of the cameras.

 

Producers tried to find the right program for the up-and-coming comic, trying him out as host of the quiz show "Earn Your Vacation" (1954), the variety show "The Johnny Carson Show" (1955-56), the game show "Who Do You Trust?" (1957-62).

 

A few acting roles came Carson's way, including one on "Playhouse 90" in 1957, and he did a pilot in 1960 for a prime-time series, "Johnny Come Lately," that never made it onto a network schedule.

 

In 1958, Carson sat in for "Tonight Show" host Paar. When Paar left the show four years later, Carson was NBC's choice as his replacement.

 

After his retirement, Carson took on the role of Malibu-based retiree with apparent ease. An avid tennis fan, he was still playing a vigorous game in his 70s.

 

He and his wife, Alexis, traveled frequently. The pair met on the Malibu beach in the early 1980s; he was 61 when they married in June 1987, she was in her 30s.

 

Carson's first wife was his childhood sweetheart, Jody, the mother of his three sons. They married in 1949 and split in 1963. He married Joanne Copeland Carson that same year, but divorced nine years later. His third marriage, to Joanna Holland Carson, took place in 1972. They divorced in 1985.

 

On the occasion of Carson's 70th birthday, former "Tonight" bandleader Doc Severinsen, who toured with musicians from the show, said he was constantly reminded of Carson's enduring popularity.

 

"Every place we go people ask `How is he? Where is he? What is he doing? Tell him how much we miss him.' It doesn't surprise me," Severinsen said.

 

Carson won a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 1992, with the first President Bush (news - web sites) saying, "With decency and style he's made America laugh and think." In 1993, he was celebrated by the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors for career achievement.

 

His nephew said there will be no memorial service.

 

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AP Writer Jeff Wilson contributed to this report.

Shit that's harsh man. I'm no expert but I wouldn't say that your unattractive.

 

What does it matter anyway? Most people are morons whose opinion I wouldn't value.

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I figure that I scored so low because I wasn't wearing my Bling.