NET: Legion of Net.Heroes
RD Francis
trivial comics facts on the slightest provocation, and to blather on
incessantly about them for minutes on end (hours on end would work
too, but since most of my blathering is done via keyboard, I don't
think my fingers would hold up that long :-).
Note that, although my power is similar to Marvel Zombie Lad's, I am
not limited to Marvel comics; I can remember silly trivial information
from other company's books too. Thus, we can both join, as long as I
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R David Francis (Alternate addresses): rd...@osu.edu
osu-cis!francis
B:If you can't believe what you read in a comic book, what can you believe?
R:Oh, Bullwinkle! B:It's enough to destroy a young moose's faith.
James Davis Nicoll
now that I think about it, more correct. As the first, I
point out small errors which are, for the most part, incidental
to the discussion at hand. Ditto for the second, although the
range of topics is, ah, larger and may not have detectable
relevence (Eg: French Balloonists and Sandman) to any one
but me.
NPL/T
Pinkdex - TNG
My nom de comics has already been chosen for me (and it's all
Larry Niven's wife's taste in sweaters that is to blame*): FUZZY, with
the corresponding powers of, um, vagueness and ambiguity that confound
my enemies. Sort of, maybe.
(And of course, my evil alterego, DARK FUZZY.)
--
**(Connie Hirsch still: fu...@athena.mit.edu no longer: chi...@lotus.com)**
Oh life is a glorious cycle of song/ A medley of extemporanea
And love is a thing that can never go wrong/ And I am Marie of Roumania.
-Dorothy Parker
Mark A Nicol
non-spandex title, seems physically unable to buy an independant
book...
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Jonathan R. Ferro
of Lurker Lad. I think that this admission may keep me from being
regarded as a hero, however. :-S
P.S. Did I miss the post saying that someone was keeping a list of these?
--
Jon Ferro MIT Transportation Modelling Research Center (TMRC)
jf...@andrew.cmu.edu "We can hack it!"
SGNTR VRS VRSN 3.1B: Strppd nd cmprssd fr qckr trnsmssn! nfct yrs tdy!
U16...@uicvm.uic.edu
Lost-Cause Boy! Yes, the man who has EVERY issue of Hawk&Dove (3rd series)
still likes the Fantastic Four, and seems to be one of only a few Erik
Larsen fans? Who else has the determination to hold onto a sinking ship,
and yet not drown as he latches onto yet another? Woe and curses, I is lost.
Doug.
Steve Simmons
>As this is my first post in several weeks, I think I deserve the title
>of Lurker Lad. I think that this admission may keep me from being
>regarded as a hero, however. :-S
Hah! You're at least the second person to claim `lurker', and both
of you are disqualified by coming forward.
--
``He has has been an evil man and ours and the world's enemy, but in
Valhalla all earthly enmities are put aside, for all who go there, so
it is said, are soon united in common hatred of the catering staff.'
-- Tom Holt, "Who's Afraid Of Beowulf?"
David C. Tuttle
This guy's named Ferro, and wants to go by *another* "Lad" name? :-)
--
David C. Tuttle d...@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu
Software Systems Specialist Department of Biomathematics
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas, USA
SCAVENGER
>jf...@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan R. Ferro) writes:
>| As this is my first post in several weeks, I think I deserve the title
>| of Lurker Lad...
>
>This guy's named Ferro, and wants to go by *another* "Lad" name? :-)
>--
[|:-)
-------SCAVENGER
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If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can |kog...@ucsu.colorado.edu <-I.NET
get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson |
for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going|No matter where you go,
to make crack look like Sanka. - Dennis Miller| there you are."-Buckaroo Banzai
Doug Dawson
mean I get killed off soon?), I think I can qualify as Doubletalk Lad,
able to explain away blatant scientific errors, incredibly
out-of-character actions and unbelievable coincidences in a single
bound...(also known as Townhouse Arlik...)
Doug Dawson
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Victoria C Fike
>jf...@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan R. Ferro) writes:
>
>>As this is my first post in several weeks, I think I deserve the title
>>of Lurker Lad. I think that this admission may keep me from being
>>regarded as a hero, however. :-S
Y'know, there's only one way to solve this...
SLUGFEST!!!!!!
>Hah! You're at least the second person to claim `lurker', and both
>of you are disqualified by coming forward.
Nope. Y'see, our (or at least my) power involves mere net.invisibility. I can
disengage it when I choose...but normally I choose not to. That way, the net.
villains forget about me....until I strike! :-)
Tori (Lurking Girl)
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Victoria C. Fike | "For this fantastic night was billed
vc...@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu | As nothing less than the end of an age,
"And this is what it is to embark | A last crusade, a final outrage
upon a career of unlicensed plea- | In this day of flashing plumage..."
sure!"--Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd | --BOC, "Golden Age of Leather"
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Karthik P Sheka
Put me down as Kid Yesterdaze. My powers? I can think up of all the ways
the current storyline is not nearly as good as one from about 5 years ago.
As a side effect, I can think up ways in which a plot can be made better,
even years after it was finished. My powers are a bit erratic, and usually
work only on X-mutants.
--Karthik "Kid Yesterdaze"Sheka
Greg Schomburg
generally tend to be of the opinion that I have a certain propensity towards
employing a slightly disproportionatly large number of words than is
abslutely imperative to deliniate the particular topic about which I happen
to speaking at the particular time.
It is possible that I have other powers, but as of yet all encounters I have
engaged in with any representative of the criminal element have resulted, from
my very beginning obligatory 'come with me peacefully' speech, in the
alleged criminal in question falling asleep and I have not had the opportunity
to discover if this is, in fact, true.
--
greg schomburg If we shadows have offended,
schm...@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Think but this and all is mended,
sc...@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu That you have but slum'bred here
While these visions did appear. -W.S.
Viktor Haag
TOP SOIL BOY
The person who, when disgruntled with where a book is going (like the last
fifteen bezillion issues of any X-related title), takes out his collection of
the few issues he was fooled into buying, shreds them, and uses them to
COMPOST HIS ROSES!! (I have some lovely snapdragons that are growing healthily
out of Wolverine's "skeleton made of adamantium, the invulnerable metal".
Nothing is invulnerable to the dreaded Green Thumb Power of TOP SOIL BOY ....
--
Viktor Haag
| "We are not thugs. We are not fanatics.
veh...@crocus.uwaterloo.ca | We are vitamin supplements to justice."
| : a Selector
Doug Moran
>It would not be unrealistic to enter myself as Loquacious Lad (TM). People
>generally tend to be of the opinion that I have a certain propensity towards
>employing a slightly disproportionatly large number of words than is
>abslutely imperative to deliniate the particular topic about which I happen
>to speaking at the particular time.
>
>It is possible that I have other powers, but as of yet all encounters I have
>engaged in with any representative of the criminal element have resulted, from
>my very beginning obligatory 'come with me peacefully' speech, in the
>alleged criminal in question falling asleep and I have not had the opportunity
>to discover if this is, in fact, true.
Oh, for crying out loud! It is difficult for a person such as myself to
believe that a person of such obvious intelligence can delude
themselves into thinking that they, of all the erudite and indeed
over-educated people on this board, can generate a sufficient amount of
unique loquacious speech to earn themselves sole title to the sobriquet
Loquacious Lad. Clearly, given the amount of bombastic (and indeed
occasionaly alliterative) dialogue and diatribe that flow forth across
the phone lines on what we inadequately call "the net," it would be a
gross error in judgement to make such a claim. Do you not think that
anyone, given sufficient provocation, could generate a nearly unending
flow of vitriolic, content-free, overly-verbose sentences? Given the
history of this net, and the people on in, and taking into account the
existence of such groups as alt.flame, one cannot help but to conclude
that your premise is incorrect, and that the answer to my previously
stated question -- asked in a somewhat less than ironic tone, more in
sorrow than in anger -- is "yes."
--
Doug "Irony Man" Moran | "Smithers, hand me that ice-cream scoop."
do...@hal.com | "Ice cream scoop? But sir!"
{...}!hal.com!dougm | "Damn it Smithers, this isn't rocket science;
HaL Computer Systems | it's brain surgery!"
Dan'l DanehyOakes
>As this is my first post in several weeks, I think I deserve the title
>of Lurker Lad.
>Jon Ferro
Actually, your real name suggests a rather more obvious name. . .
Dan-El
(California Kid)
Jonathan D. Lyness
I am similar: sign me up as the Haunted One. I'm sort of like Pariah
from the _Crisis_ miniseries : I visit my local comic shop every week,
hoping to find that one of the mainstream books I once enjoyed is
returning to its former glory, but it is not to be, and the "death" of
every title saddens me immeasurably. Looking at the new titles each week
and remembering what they once were - from Spider-Man, to the X-books,
to the New Teen Titans - it is hard to look, but I must.
In comics-related discussions, I tend to angst a lot about the current
state of the market, probably making me rather boring during these
discussions (also like Pariah).
-jon :)
Benjamin R Pierce
>It would not be unrealistic to enter myself as Loquacious Lad (TM). People
>generally tend to be of the opinion that I have a certain propensity towards
>employing a slightly disproportionatly large number of words than is
>abslutely imperative to deliniate the particular topic about which I happen
>to speaking at the particular time.
>
>It is possible that I have other powers, but as of yet all encounters I have
>engaged in with any representative of the criminal element have resulted, from
>my very beginning obligatory 'come with me peacefully' speech, in the
>alleged criminal in question falling asleep and I have not had the opportunity
>to discover if this is, in fact, true.
However, it would behoove us to recall the decided similarity of your
exceptional ability (the talent to wax loquacious even in the most adverse
of encounters) to that of Jargon Boy, whose sesquipidilian prowess leaves
the typical rhetoritician bedazzled, and that of his arch-nemesis Thesaurus
Rex, whose power (talent, ability--see SKILL) is to find words synonymous
(similar, congruent--see LIKE) with the one in question. Hence the
astonishing conflagrations of verbal repartee which graced the multiple
volumes of the periodical entitled "JARGON BOY". However, as Jargon Boy
never actually applied for membership in our prestigious organization,
his doppleganger-like powers and formidable vocabulary pose no obstacle
to your speedy and expident admission.
--Marvel Zombie Lad
(aka Ben)
MSH...@psuvm.psu.edu
Sooper-Computer, waiting for the call...
He notices that he hasn't appeared on the rolls yet....
Can't jump in to the fighting without attributation....
Maybe next issue... *sigh*
Pseudo-Science Lad
David P. Murphy
>It would not be unrealistic to enter myself as Loquacious Lad (TM). People
>generally tend to be of the opinion that I have a certain propensity towards
>employing a slightly disproportionatly large number of words than is
>abslutely imperative to deliniate the particular topic about which I happen
>to speaking at the particular time.
>
>It is possible that I have other powers, but as of yet all encounters I have
>engaged in with any representative of the criminal element have resulted, from
>my very beginning obligatory 'come with me peacefully' speech, in the
>alleged criminal in question falling asleep and I have not had the opportunity
>to discover if this is, in fact, true.
>--
i think you'd better team up with Spelling Boy (tm) real soon now.
in fact, you should create a separate team, apart from LNH --- you need
Grammar Lass (tm) and Punctuation Kid (tm) to complement your abilities.
ok
dpm
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mur...@npri6.npri.com 602 Cameron St. Alexandria, VA 22314 (703) 683-9090
When every one is dead the Great Game is finished. Not before.
--- Hurree Babu, "Kim"
bam!
>>Manga Man is temporarily blinded by the overshaded figures, but his hardwired
>>powersuit, in a defensive move, rips the copy from his face and disintegrates
>>it in a few short shots. Manga man turns to face his adversaries...
>>"Baka. Now you've done it! I was going to let you off, but now you're for it!"
>>He presses a button on the laserdisc player on his armour, and suddenly the
>>air is filled with the entire, original soundtrack for AKIRA playing
>>subliminally. Completely overcome by the information overload (mostly trying to
>>work out the plot...), the Net.heroes cover their ears, but to no avail. Manga
>>Man attacks...
>Kid Yesterdaze is momently entraced by the music. He then frowns, "Not
>bad, but have you ever hear Sgt. Pepper's?" Not waiting for an answer, he
>starts shuffling through his satchel.....
It's night now, so Late-Night Lad comes alive, rubbing his
eyes and trying to remember...somehting important had happened...OH,
CRAP! He slept through a General Alarm! Comics-Snob Lad would chew him
out for sure. He knew he'd have to move double-time, so he hurredly
dressed and drank a quart of Mountain Dew Concentrate for instant
energy.
With astounding speed, Late-Night Lad whizzed down to the
scene of the conflict, only to find his teammates writhing under Manga
Man's sonic attack. Luckily for him, his caffeine buzz was so strong
that all he could hear was the whooshing in his ears.
Yelling "Robotech to the Rescue", he launched himself into the
fray, fists-a-flyin'.
Late-Night Lad
Late-Night Lad
Zeus
you should "chill at will" for a while. This line from Malibu will continue
after all the hype dies down. After all, these artists were the top guys at
Marvel. They were the reasons why Marvel Comics had sales going through the
fraggin' roof. All this hype about these guys can be expected. Maybe there is
a bit too much "flash and dash", but don't judge Image by just Youngblood.
Wait for the rest of the books to come out (Spawn, the Dragon, and Wild
C.A.T.S.) and we'll see. I do respect what you had to say though--you know
your stuff.
M. Mckenzie
St. Peter's College
M. McKenzie speaking of the LNH (Legion of Net Heroes) I propose you go
by :
Lie-FeldMan - a fighter for truth, justice and the 501-man himself - Liefeld.
His powers include, but are not limited to, ignoring bad art and writing,
through powerful psychotic flashbacks to the sixties... :)
Just a thought...
I can appreciate a man that swims against the current, even if it might
drown him!
Zeus
Elisabeth Riba
>M. McKenzie speaking of the LNH (Legion of Net Heroes) I propose you go
>by :
>Lie-FeldMan - a fighter for truth, justice and the 501-man himself - Liefeld.
>His powers include, but are not limited to, ignoring bad art and writing,
>through powerful psychotic flashbacks to the sixties... :)
>Just a thought...
>I can appreciate a man that swims against the current, even if it might
>drown him!
Would this be a hero or a villain <grin!> Either way, you may wish to
keep your distance from Comics-Snob-Boy...
And (Catalyst Lass smiles, and invokes her powers) if you like Rob
Liefield, did you ever read the Hawk & Dove miniseries? Not only is
it Liefield art, but it actually has a readable storyline...
--
--------------->Elisabeth Anne Riba * l...@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu<---------------
For every mad scientist who's had a convenient thunderstorm just on the night
his Great Work is finished and lying on the slab, there have been dozens who've
sat around aimlessly under the peaceful stars while Igor clocks up the overtime
Greg Schomburg
Such impudent bellicosity will not, by any means, be, in fact, tolerated to
any degree whatsoever. I need not specifically deliniate to an obviously
intelligent person such as yourself that I have, simply stated, promulgated
the previous claim to the insidious moniker of Loquacious Lad, therefore
perforeding your perfidious pandering regarding claim to the soriquet. You
have, in fact, abrogated any right to actual titular loquacity. I AM
Loquacious Lad.
If, however, you are of the deluded opinion that you can in some manner
uphold the awesome and enigmatic doctrines of loquacity, however, you may,
in actuality, offer challenge in the ancient manner of inter-legion duels.
Whether such a combat would have a deleterious effect on the perfunctory
title of the avatar of loquacity is as yet undetermined, but I simply must
confess that such an insidious degree of meretricious persiflage on the part
of yourself has, in fact, incited my state of arousal to a rather turgid state
of rage. I am, I simply must admit, overly inclined to purge your pernicious
presence with a prodigiuos performance of pugilism, promptly perambulating on
your profluent proboscis, prompting you to profess the profundity of my
appropriateness to the title of the primary practitionar of loquacity if you
insist on carrying your challenge out. Be warned! "Beware of entrance to a
quarrel, but being in,/ Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee" quotes
the bard, the progenitor of verbosity, although any sufficiently erudite
individual should be aware of the particular origin of this quotation.
hey, wake up!
Loquacious Lad
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