Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly Kill This Thread VI: The 24-Hour Version, Part II

I remember stating that I didn't like some celebrity or other once and the person to whom I was speaking asked "You don't? He's gay!"

Apparently, if one is gay, then one must like all gay celebrities.

It can't have been Liberace. He won a libel suit against a British newspaper that called him gay.

If one is gay, one has to like...Rupert Everett?

About a year ago, my mom texted me "Kevin Kline is straight!"

I wrote back "I know. He's married to Phoebe Cates."

Her reply: "I never knew!"

Phoebe Cates will always be best known for her emerging-from-the-swimming-pool scene in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and her "Dead-Dad-stuck-in-the-chimney-dressed-like-Santa-Claus" story in "Gremlins."

No wonder she retired young.

yeah, but she made quite an impression on those of us straight guys who were young teens back then...

I should like Gremlins a lot more than I do, considering how much I generally dislike "the holidays."

And, Kent, apparently one straight guy who was in his early 30s at the time, who my mother thought was gay.

Years ago I was with some friends to play D&D and were waiting for the last guy to show up. Half of us were gay, half were straight. I had just gotten a compliation cd that featured a kd lang song I liked and I was telling them about the cd. It was around the time kd came out. So when we mentioned her coming out, one of the straight guys goes "kd lang is gay!!!???!!!!" And we were like "um... yeah." So then my friend Tom says that the person who he was surprised to find out that she was gay was Lily Tomlin. And both of the straight guys go "Lily Tomlin is gay!!!??!!!?"

I think if Gaydar had a Wiki page, I'd be on the list of people in the section titled "Worst Gaydar Ever."

Years ago, a coworker told me she'd never have guessed I was gay. I wonder if she was expecting me to wear a dress or something.

But... penguins already have formal wear built right in!

The penguin joke killed Virginia Madsen's character in the Altman film A Prairie Home Companion.

One of my classmates made a penguin sculpture in ceramics class.

The Penguin is one of my least favorite Bat-villains. He was fine as a mid-20th century villain, but to me doesn't fit the post-1970 Batman.

I think the Penguin is fine in his role as a fencer and middleman between the Bat-villains and other cities' villains such as Flash's Rogues.

When I was in grade school in Ecuador, the local brand of ice cream was called Pinguino -- Spanish for "Penguin." I particularly liked their chocolate dixie cups and ice cream sandwiches.

one thing I miss about my home turf was the regional convenience store chain Stewarts (not to be confused with the niche soda brand), which had its own line of dairy goods as well, including some really amazing ice creams. Adirondack Bear Paw was a favorite: Vanilla with caramel swirls and chunks of chocolate.

Caramelization is the removal of water from a sugar, proceeding to isomerization and polymerization of the sugars into various high-molecular-weight compounds. Compounds such as difructose anhydride may be created from the monosaccharides after water loss. Fragmentation reactions result in low-molecular-weight compounds that may be volatile and may contribute to flavor. Polymerization reactions lead to larger-molecular-weight compounds that contribute to the dark-brown color.

Suzanne Vega's "Caramel" is an awesome song that helped get me through the mid-late 90s.

Adding milk to sugar to create caramels is an example of a process called the Maillard Reaction. The latter is distinguished from caramelization because it involves amino acids (such as found in milk, or meat when it's browned to enhance flavor) rather than sugars.

There is a bronze sculpture in Boston's Public Garden representing Mrs. Mallard with her ducklings Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack and Quack from Robert McCloskey's Make Way for Ducklings.

Haven't seen any ducks around the worksite, but on Monday there was a huge "V" of what looked like Canadian Geese, flying South. Maybe they were doing some last-minute shopping before heading down to the Gulf Coast...?

"Duck Soup" is generally considered to be the best Marx Brothers movie.

Gummo Marx was part of the Marx Brothers vaudeville act, but left the act when he was drafted in World War I. After the war, he went into the raincoat business. He never appeared in any of the Marx Brothers movies. He did run a theatrical agency with Zeppo and later became a solo agent. He represented his brother Groucho and others. Apparently he did not have contracts with most of those he represented, but operated under the idea that if they liked what he did for them, they would continue to use his services. He also worked on the TV show Life of Riley.