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Hmm. Wouldn't have been a choice with my college freshman sweetheart. We used to read comics aloud to each other and compete for the most impressive sound effect reading. The, um, sound effects would then be used later during...well.
I guess you had to be there. It was a heckuva lot of fun, though!
Still miss that gal. She got married twice and had a kid, but not with me.
sigh.

I think they are all true.

But I'll guess that:
8. Spent a day in a medium security prison in Smyrna, Delaware

is not true

Well, they're all true except one.

No, it's true, I did spend a day in prison... as a visitor. As a junior at the University of Delaware, I took a Criminal Justice course, and one day we all went to the prison and interviewed some inmates.

Without a doubt, the prison was the scariest place I've ever been to in my life. I thanked God that we were separated from the inmates by thick metal bars because these guys acted like they wanted to rip off our arms at the shoulder!

I was pretty much a law-abiding person before the trip, and afterwards, even more so.

I assumed that it was for a visit and not as a requirement.

I don't think you had your bachelor party at Fenway, Cap. I mean, c'mon, you're a New Yorker !

Your reasoning is sound, C.K. I was born and raised in Long Island, NY, but believe it or not, I don't root for ANY of local pro sports teams. Check my profile: I'm a Boston Red Sox, Dallas Cowboys, and Dallas Mavericks fan.

So, my bachelor party in August 1999 was indeed a trip with three of my buddies to Fenway Park to watch my Red Sox take on the Anahiem Angels. Tim Wakefield started, got rocked (he had a tough year in 1999), but the Red Sox offense bailed him out. Jose Offerman hit an 2 RBI ground-rule double for the winning run.

My fiance (now wife) was very happy with this bachelor party as it did not involve ANY strippers.

I'd guess 7, that you still have all the Star Wars figures that you bought as a kid. I mean, if you lost just one figure then that'd make it false, after all.

WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Dude, the Mets rule, and the Islanders are one of hockey's greatest legacies.


okay, maybe not so much these days, but still

And for the record, I'm going to guess your real name made print.

They certainly ruled over my Red Sox in 1986.
Poor Bill Buckner. It's a shame he got painted as the goat when the blame really falls on Bob Stanley's shoulders (or pitching arm).

My real name appeared in "Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes" #330 (published in December 1985 and reprinting the issue where Jeckie kills Nemesis Kid) in the letter column.

My letter hypothesized that Daxamites had colonized Krypton.

BINGO! I mean, who the heck has kept all their 1970s Star Wars figures that they ORIGINALLY bought as a kid? Why do you think they're worth so much?

Okay, I.B., your turn again!

Hmm... I think I still have all mine. I'm missing accessories to almost all of them, and a number of them had their heads or limbs or something glued back on at some point, but I believe I have every figure released up through the first year of Return of the Jedi figures in some form or another. They're all buried in boxes at the parents, though.

Okay, let's see...

Anime is pretty popular in this part of the world, and while I'm not as addicted as some kids I know, I still watch it a lot. Which of these is my favorite?

a) Ruruoni Kenshin Samurai X)- about a samurai who became notorious as a killer; he becomes horrified at all the killing that he's caused and decides to lead a peaceful life
b) Fushigi Yugi (Curious Play) - two schoolgirls get sucked into a book where they meet up with a bunch of special warriors and have to help stop a war between two countries
c) El Hazard - The Alternative World - again, a bunch of kids get transported into a beautiful alternate world, where they quickly get swept up into a war between the Kingodm of Roshtaraia and the Bugrom Empire
d) Getbackers - two guys, one who has lightning powers and another who can create illusions, try to get rich quick by specializing in recovering lost items/people, hence the name
e) Gensomaden Saiyuki (Journey to the West) - a violent, "corrupt" monk, a monkey prince, a horny water demon and a guy with a pet dragon who can turn into a jeep go west to stop a powerful demon from getting revived
f) Ayashi No Ceres ( I have no idea what this is in English )- a mysterious power is awakened inside a young girl, who must escape from her uncle and grandfather who want to exploit said power for their own uses
g) Gatekeepers - a bunch of kids use their extra-dimensional powers to repel a bunch of invaders
h) Ranma 1/2 - Ranma is a boy who turns into a girl everytime he comes into contact with cold water. For added laughs, he has a violent fiancee, a dad who turns into a panda, an Amazon girl who keeps trying to marry him and a lot of other kooky characters who would fit right into Matter-Eater Lad: The Series.
i) Ghost in the Shell - haven't watched it much, but it's kinda about a futuristic world where cyborgs abound and people regularly get their brains transplanted into machine bodies
j) Pokemon - duh.

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I say Ranma 1/2

(I particularly love the conceopt of Ryoga the Lost Boy)

Also I don't know 6 of the choices

Ghost in the Shell.

I actually do not have a single clue about Anime (does "Battle of the Planets" count as Anime?), so I'm going with the Anime that sounds familiar to me.

Nope, and nope.

Ranma is pretty funny, but the fact that the story kinda goes nowhere after a while turns me off. But I do love how Ranma changes gender whenever he gets wet.

And while Ghost in the Shell looks promising, I've only watched one or two episodes so far, so I haven't really warmed up to it that much.

F as in Fun?

Nope. It was a bit too emotional and weird for my tastes.

Could it be Fushigi Yugi (Curious Play)?

Nope, but close! It's my second fave among all those listed! It's the only anime that I know of to have a narcissistic master swordsman who happens to be an emperor, a transvestite with the strength of a Daxamite, a heroine with the appetite of Validus, and a villain who tries to make said heroine lose her virginity so that she won't be able to use her special powers. Not to mention lots of others, and it's a very good balance of comedy, tragedy, action and characterization.

FYI, my fave is Samurai X. IMHO, everything that Curious Play does, Samurai does a bit better. The characters are more fully fleshed out, the story better written, and it's longest and most successful story arc ran for at least 40-50 episodes, and pretty much every kid in school I know who watches the series tuned in dutifully every night to watch the show was kept on the edge of his/her seat throughout the whole arc. It was THAT good.

But since I'll be gone for the next three weeks, I'll give the Q to Faraway since he came in closest. You're up!

Bump!


'Cause I want to know more about you kids...

I also sent Faraway Lad a PM to let him know he is up

"eh!. Wassat! yawn, noisy young whippersnappers"

Sorry guys been doing real world things for a bit.

Now then a question, a question, what can I ask.

Which of the following sports do I absolutely hate and will not watch unless forced to at gun point.

1) Football (soccer for those who refuse to join the rest of the world)

2) Cricket

3) Australian Rules Football

4) Tennis

5) Athletics

6) American Rules Football

7) Wrestling.

I say 7) Wrestling