From a medication insert:
But if you need instructions on how to use instructions, how are you going to follow the instructions for the instructions?
Category: Entertainment
Working around the censors
I saw a truck this morning with a license plate that read:
After I tried to puzzle it out for a bit, I suddenly realized…
It’s pig latin.
I had a good laugh after that!
Proto-Autobots
I found this ad from 1972 while looking through old comic books. At first I just found it interesting in a proto-Transformers sort of way, but then I looked more closely at it:
It actually uses the phrasing, “more (car) than meets the eye!”
A little scripting humor
After updating some links, the following dialogue occurred to me:
Sallah: Indy, why does the web… move?
Indiana: Give me the URL.
(The location looks like a Python script)
Indiana: Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?
Sallah. ASP. Very dangerous. You go first.
(Actually, I have to credit Katie for the Python reference. The first and last lines just popped into my head, though.)
Super-Spawn: Rogues
While working on my Flash site last night, I noticed something interesting: several of the Flash’s classic Rogues Gallery have children.
The Trickster was the first: he discovered he had a 12-year-old son by an ex-girlfriend. (Neither Billy nor his mother has appeared since this story, which was part of 1998’s “New Year’s Evil” event.)
The Weather Wizard was next. Early in his run on the book, Geoff Johns introduced an ex-girlfriend of Wally’s who had an infant son with lightning-based powers. He turned out to be the result of a rebound one-night stand with the Weather Wizard (in his civilian ID, of course) just after she and Wally had broken up.
And now, with Identity Crisis, Captain Boomerang has a long-lost adult or teenaged son… who looks like he’ll be taking over the “family business.” Who his mother is remains to be revealed, though the next issue of either IC or The Flash seems likely.
Sad Holidays?
No photo, but we saw this sign on a bus:
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
NOT IN SERVICE
Hopefully not an omen…
Pinning down Identity Crisis
With the Top‘s history featuring prominently in the current Flash tie-in to Identity Crisis, I realized it’s possible to narrow down just when the flashbacks in IC take place. I’m not very familiar with the satellite-era Justice League, but I have tracked down, read and, yes, catalogued the entire Barry Allen run of The Flash.
In Identity Crisis #2, Green Arrow states that it was a few months after Iris died. Iris died in Flash vol.1 #275, and the storyline wasn’t really resolved until #284, when Barry trapped her killer on the wrong side of a time machine. In Flash vol.2 #215, Barry writes about an event that took place a week after the Top’s ghost was excorcised from Barry’s father. That storyline ran from #297 (the car crash in which Henry Allen’s heart stopped) to #303 (getting rid of the Top). Since this was clearly after the *ahem* incident, we can narrow it down to taking place between Flash #284 and Flash #297.
(This has got to have been the most fanboyish post I’ve made here…)