Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly Kill This Thread XXXII - I Don't Feel Any Older

Is that the Bendiboot Legion or us?

Self-deprecating humor!

Humour that keeps your feet on the ground.

Prevents one's head from getting too big

Probably a vital consideration for the presumed Brainy-head-on-a-hose character from Future State.

Or for Hector Hammond.

Weirdly, that was going to be my post. Looks like someone's been spending their lockdown on Titan.

Quick! What am I thinking?

I'm a shameless hussy.

<wonders if one can be a true hussy and be ashamed of one's hussitude>

Ashamed? Moi? Perish the thought! (Slips back into the old pink bikini.)

Good point, are there any shameFUL hussies?

If they are, they've probably had Catholic upbringings.

(I had a Catholic upbringing, so I can make jokes like that.)

So can I.

Catholic guilt is a new term I've encountered, and I can so relate to it.

On a lighter note, my favorite Bananarama song is "Love In the First Degree." That's the one that goes, "Guilty, guilty, guilty as a girl can be."

I admit it!

Many decades ago, admission to movie theaters was only a dime! And they had lots of goodies before the main feature -- a cartoon, a newsreel, a 15-minute comedy short...

I remember my parents telling me to pretend I was 7, instead of 8, so we could get a discount at the cinema...

Cahiers du Cinema is a long-running French movie journal that has been highly influential all over the world.

When I was in Barcelona as a student, we were making fun of the French students and the French stereotype that they love to complain. Someone suggested we buy snacks and recommended baguettes... I said, oh no, you'll trigger our French friends...

... and indeed one of them started ranting about the tasteless baguettes in Spain...

LOL Great story, Ibby.

I'm something of a bread obsessive, always on the lookout for the best bread, and I can vouch for the superiority of a properly-made baguette.

Thanks, Fanfie :-)

My boyfriend is also very picky about bread. For most things (peanut butter, milk, mustard) he doesn't care - but when it comes to bread it has to be white bread.

And I agree... the quality difference between a good baguette and a bad baguette is really stark.

Stark was the name of a Ben Elton novel combining environmental themes with a main plot thread from When Worlds Collide.

Eric John Stark is the hero of a number of awesome "sword and planet" romances by Leigh Brackett.

Brackett's The Long Tomorrow was enjoyable enough that I started looking out for others in the SF Masterworks series I hadn't read.

Having read her draft of the Empire Strikes Back, she gets some criticism from the likes of Lucas that smacks somewhere between jealousy and attempts to assign credit unduly elsewhere.