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"Freedom Fries" for the idioteratiI don't know, it seems to me the best way to spot an American who is a blithering idiot was to overhear them order "Freedom Fries".
And now a word about our economy
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Sounds quite like D&D...
I remember a D&D board game. You had the little player figures, dice (Neo: LOTS OF DICE), and the fun part, a Dungeon Master
I don't know, but this sounds like your typical board-playable RPG.
As an off-topic side note, I also remember the Spy vs Spy board game, we had lots of fun with that one (not that it's related, just a thought) -
Re:heights? scary!
On the subject of pissing your pants, imagine the great honor bestowed to the first dog to mark this structure as it's territory.
And on another fine note, here's something else to view on a friday.
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MAD Magazine #174, July '76 (50 cents, cheap)
I knew I remembered reading about this somewhere back in my mis-spent youth. Turns out that way back in July '76, MAD Magazine's Al Jaffee did a piece on "MAD's Solutions to Big City Parking Problems", which included several variations on this idea.
Concepts such as the "Curbside Multi-Level Parking Elevator Facility" and "Multi-Leveled Lazy Susan High Speed Parking Facility" show that once again, the usual gang of idiots leads the way. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a scan of the piece, just the cover from that issue. -
They should do the "Mad" version
This was done by Mad Magazine in 1979.
About the only thing I remember from it is (to the tune of Barry Manilow's I Write the Songs):
"I am Frodo... and I've got the RRRIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNGGGGG!!!!"
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$3 bill worked okThe three dollar bill with Alfred E. Neuman worked fine for a while. It lead to a run on that particular issue of MAD:
We [Mad magazine] had published a three-dollar bill with Alfred's, instead of some President's, picture, on it. It was not a stat of any U.S. denomination bill. It was a Bob Clarke "simple" rendering of one. It lacked etched details, machined scrolls and all of the accouterments of a genuine bill. But it was, however, freakishly being recognized as a one-dollar bill by the newly-introduced, relatively primitive, technically unsophisticated change machines...
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Missing Something...Hmm, what is missing in the article is the way Japanese and American society diverged on the subject of comic books due to the intervention of the State. Back in the 1950's (the time of the Cold War, the Korean War, Joe McCarthy and the like) American comic books were being squarely aimed at older teenagers and young adults. They were becoming very popular and experiencing tremendous growth. Popular titles dealt with War, Crime, Horror and Science Fiction.
What happened? Well, a status seeking psychologist by the name of Frederick Wertham wrote a book called Seduction of the Inncoent and the Senate Subcommitee on juvenile deliquancy decided to hold hearings. Certain comic book companies were practically blacklisted (E. C. Comics ended up with only Mad Magazine being available, and even that was often watched by the F.B.I.). It was a bad time to be a comic artist or writer.
The effects of this assault on comics as an art form can still be felt today in the United States, and as far as I can tell a similar crackdown did not occur in Japan at any point in recent history. (At any rate, I haven't read anything in the history of manga that would suggest it.)
