Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly Kill This Thread XI: The Seventh 24-Hour Thread

Another thing on the radio yesterday was a documentary on the makers of Wallace and Gromit. They were influenced by Ray Harryhausen. So, with that and the mention of the Hydra, it's only a matter of time before Jason and the Argonauts gets a play.

Why not, the Argonauts were interesting.

Their ship, the Argo, shares its name with Supergirl's hometown.

My cousin always confuses Argo with Fargo

As much as i like classical mythology, it's really all about the Harryhausen effects such as the animated skeletons. I could watch 90 minutes of that really.

Much like the last three Star Wars film are memorable because of the light sabre fights. 90 minutes of that would have been an improvement.

Who knew they'd be so dynamic after Alec Guiness' classic duel.

Special effects can certainly make a mediocre movie watchable.

I'm reminded that after decades of quality acting in great films and being at the pinnacle of respect for his craft, it took Star Wars to make Alec Guinness really wealthy.

I sure could use a tall, cold Guinness right now.

I'm more a fan of Bass than Guinness.


Last summer, our choir had its end-of-the-year party at the English-style pub where we normally have such things. Their draft mechanism wasn't working, so they didn't have any of their drafts, which included both the aforementioned. I ended up getting a bottle of Old Rasputin Imperial Stout. Someone asked if there was a lighter version of it. I joked, "Yes, it's called Anastasia."

...and were there any laughs?


All about that Bass, 'bout that Bass, no Guinness...

I giggled a bit at Rocky's joke.

My fellow choristers also liked it, especially the lead tenor, who has a very similar sense of humor to mine.

The humor here in the Philippines often consists of teasing one another mercilessly. It takes time to develop a sense of what is fair game, what is not, and when the timing is right - even if everyone else laughs, the target might think you went too far

Though a lot of my friends would appreciate the humor on LW, none of them are Legion fans. As I was telling Indy today, other than on LW, I know very few people who are at all familiar with the Legion.

I lent my Legion comics to a total of 6 people from high school onwards. At least two still look back on the Postboot Legion fondly.

There was no way that I could ask the question without it sounding cheeky. I was just curious. The punchline is a really well known historical figure, but sometimes you get a group of people that don't know what you're talking about.

The next joke is usually themed with Westerns, to match the tumbleweed going past.



And that people are considerate enough to think on those terms, says a lot about the genuine niceness of LW. Just ignore the cries of the emotionally crushed victims behind us



I find that more people know about films, TV shows and sometimes cartoons than the comics. I've a few acquaintance that read comics, but it's through another hobby. So my own Legion reading remains a bit under the radar.

Lend them? To people who may not treat them as treasures? Gah!

Oh, I should clarify, when I said here I meat in the Philippines. I will go edit my post to make that clear.

Actually, that was the way I read it, Ibby. So, there' must be something about my post.

Let's just chalk it up to the time difference and the grogginess that comes with staying up to wait for the New Year, thothy

Well, we need as many excuses as we can get Ibby

It's always good to have excuses to stay the same, thothy

Success!

I feel delightfully complacent congratulations, thothy!

Success Rice was the first brand sold in a boil-in bag.

And was not the sister of Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state as I first thought.

Someone with one of those names that are just made for disaster.

Like my cousin Temperance Kins. We have to keep him chained up on New Year's eve. Most weekends too, actually...