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would they get to shoot back?

Only at Heather Mills McCartney.

Is she still going by Mills McCartney or has she gone back to just Mills even if the divorce is not final?

(A question is probably not the best thing to post to get the last post)

dodging bullets on the ice, she hasn't had a chance to answer.

Shooting at figure skaters - new Olympic sport.

reminds me of my ideas to spice up the Winter Olympics: Biathalon participants don't just have to shoot at targwets, they have to avoid being shot from pillboxes along the route.

And then there's bungi-luge...

Ohmygod!

Gramps's new computer doesn't like have an auto-reply feature so Gram asked Uncle Geek B. Quank to write a new program or some junk like that to replace the old Auto-Replies.

It'll debute right after Mr. Cobalt gives Gramps his copies of the other passwords...

Have you guys met Uncle Geeky yet? He's kinda like different... But WE love him.

Oh and Bungi-Luge sounds like fun...

Uncle Geek sounds like an Uncle Feter wannabe.

"Did I ever tell you about my uncle Geeky?"

I am reminded of Gabe Kaplan.

I'm not. who is he?

He was the teacher/main character on a 70s sitcom called "Welcome Back, Kotter," which is probably best remembered for launching John Travolta to stardom.

Kaplan's trademark was a slew of bad jokes, that all began with, "Did I ever tell you about my uncle..." These uncles were clearly fictional, as he had at least one uncle joke/story per episode over 3-4 years.

Gabe Kaplan now does hosting duty on one of those poker show.

Funny that Travola only registered over here as a result of Saturday Night Fever. Then (thankfully) he never really bothered us again for many years.

That flick came out either during WB,K or immediately right after. It was basically a very similar character: Brooklyn lower class Italian-American. The only difference was the movie character had potential/talent, while his sitcom character was clearly not destined for any sort of success.

Even over here, after those efforts plus Grease, he kinda went away for many years as well, only occassionally popping up in second-rate flicks and a SHF sequel in the 80s.

So we have Quentin Tarantino to blame for the resurgence of Mr. Travolta.

among other things.

SNF was during the WBK run. Travolta left the show about mid-way through because he was now "too big a star" for the likes of them.

I'd forgotten that.

And I had forgotten that you forgot that.

I'd forgoteen that we'd ever discussed the finer points of Welcome Back, Kotter. Perhaps because we never finished out post-modernist analysis of how Happy Days symbolized the dynmaics of how popular culture was perceived to have undermined the nuclear family in 1950s Cold War America.

Yes, such as Brian Michael Brainless and his oh-so-self-consciously "clever" dialogue that makes all the characters sound alike.

And BiMBo* also has a 70s pop culture fetish, so we have a totally smooth segue. Am I good or what?


*This nickname coined by Set.

Makes me glad I am not familiar with that person's work.

And yes, Stealth, you are not only good... you are the best.

In the words of Tina Turner You're simply the best, better than all the rest
Better than anyone, anyone I've ever met

Well...Bendis did bring us the doggie-style BMWF action in "Alias", y'know.

Hey, just sayin'....

Kent, Quis, thank you both.

Lardy, I read some issue summaries of Brainless's earlier, allegedly better works, and apparently they have stuff like a female character forced to watch other women being tortured. I wouldn't read that even if someone offered to pay me. Combined with She-Ultron and She-Carnage and Tigra's beating (I hate Tigra but I wouldn't wish that atrocity on any female character), it leads me to the conclusion that Brainless must always compare other women to his mother and find something lacking.