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Post by Jimmers Nice Guy on Jul 20, 2019 11:07:09 GMT -8
Reading Archies Double Digest #15 and feeling pretty nostalgic. I picked up some Archie digests many years ago but was drawn more to Harveys and Richie Rich more. Some of those later RR digests are tough to find. I'm having a devil of a time completing those digest runs. I really like when I come across non Archie digests in the wild,or Archie superhero ones.The DC eighties ones and and once and a while a Marvel pop up-but the Harveys are tough!I think I have a small stack of Little Dot.The Dennis the Menace pop up sometimes too,but always in rough shape.I have a few suitcases of the Archies from folks that know I like comics dropping them off
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Post by Stu on Jul 20, 2019 13:12:20 GMT -8
Oh. I probably misread the context of Fiddy's statement. I was thinking you meant "coot". You're likely right, though. "Can't" is mostly used by intellectual windbags and those suffering delusions of self-importance to exact control over others. Speaking or thinking "can't" as a reference to self is akin to admitting failure or inadequacy. I didn't realize speakers native to the UK viewed the word similarly. I wish language and communication wasn't so darned complicated. Reminds me of that old joke: What's a four letter word ending in "nt" that means a particular type of woman?
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Post by steveinthecity on Jul 20, 2019 15:10:46 GMT -8
Oh. I probably misread the context of Fiddy's statement. I was thinking you meant "coot". You're likely right, though. "Can't" is mostly used by intellectual windbags and those suffering delusions of self-importance to exact control over others. Speaking or thinking "can't" as a reference to self is akin to admitting failure or inadequacy. I didn't realize speakers native to the UK viewed the word similarly. I wish language and communication wasn't so darned complicated. Reminds me of that old joke: What's a four letter word ending in "nt" that means a particular type of woman? I forgot about that one! It's one of those "clean" jokes that'll still get you in trouble if someone's Mom overhears it.
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Post by Stu on Jul 20, 2019 15:39:10 GMT -8
Reminds me of that old joke: What's a four letter word ending in "nt" that means a particular type of woman? I forgot about that one! It's one of those "clean" jokes that'll still get you in trouble if someone's Mom overhears it. What's a four letter word ending in "k" that means intercourse?
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Post by steveinthecity on Jul 20, 2019 16:18:13 GMT -8
I forgot about that one! It's one of those "clean" jokes that'll still get you in trouble if someone's Mom overhears it. What's a four letter word ending in "k" that means intercourse? That joke also brings back memories of 6th grade. We were reading "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, and the teacher was going around the room having each student read outloud a portion of the text. Near the end, one student read the line " He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards". The room was silent for 4-5 seconds and then erupted with laughter and nervous giggles. The teacher said something akin to "simmer down", but never offered an explanation of the word or it's meaning in that sentence. Edit: Why I remember this but not the Capitol of South Dakota or the majority of elements in the Periodic table is something I've just learned to accept about myself.
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Post by Stu on Jul 20, 2019 16:37:06 GMT -8
Reminds me of that old joke: What's a four letter word ending in "nt" that means a particular type of woman? I forgot about that one! It's one of those "clean" jokes that'll still get you in trouble if someone's Mom overhears it. Theres an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where they (or he?) typo the word "aunt" in an obituary
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Post by 50 Fiddy on Jul 20, 2019 16:47:48 GMT -8
I picked up some Archie digests many years ago but was drawn more to Harveys and Richie Rich more. Some of those later RR digests are tough to find. I'm having a devil of a time completing those digest runs. I really like when I come across non Archie digests in the wild,or Archie superhero ones.The DC eighties ones and and once and a while a Marvel pop up-but the Harveys are tough!I think I have a small stack of Little Dot.The Dennis the Menace pop up sometimes too,but always in rough shape.I have a few suitcases of the Archies from folks that know I like comics dropping them off The digest books are pretty cool. I've been picking some up when I can. I bought a large lot a few years ago that had early Archie digests and several DC/Funny Animal digests. I tried reading them but I couldn't find my reading glasses to read the small print. I does bring back memories of the good ol' days just flipping through the books.
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Post by Jimmers Nice Guy on Jul 20, 2019 18:22:14 GMT -8
I went and pulled out a stack of digest(shocking,I went and got something done,found stuff ) but no Richies.Lots of Dennis the Menace and what I remembers as Little Dot were Little Lulu Golden Digests.
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Post by steveinthecity on Jul 20, 2019 19:09:08 GMT -8
I forgot about that one! It's one of those "clean" jokes that'll still get you in trouble if someone's Mom overhears it. Theres an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where they (or he?) typo the word "aunt" in an obituary That's pretty hilarious as long as it doesn't happen to anyone I know. I probably shouldn't have admitted that.
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Post by Bats on Jul 21, 2019 0:14:03 GMT -8
What's a four letter word ending in "k" that means intercourse? That joke also brings back memories of 6th grade. We were reading "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, and the teacher was going around the room having each student read outloud a portion of the text. Near the end, one student read the line "He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards". The room was silent for 4-5 seconds and then erupted with laughter and nervous giggles. The teacher said something akin to "simmer down", but never offered an explanation of the word or it's meaning in that sentence. Edit: Why I remember this but not the Capitol of South Dakota or the majority of elements in the Periodic table is something I've just learned to accept about myself.
¬12 year old Bats
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Post by Ditch Fahrenheit on Jul 28, 2019 9:55:52 GMT -8
This guy is funny...possibly insane...but still funny.
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Post by Jimmers Nice Guy on Jul 28, 2019 11:02:02 GMT -8
I hae some stamps lying around,I really must write that person a letter,start a correspondence. I'll make the return address to where I get my parcels,not my house though.
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Post by Stu on Jul 28, 2019 16:34:06 GMT -8
This guy is funny...possibly insane...but still funny. I agree with one of those
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Post by Siggy's Tar Dust® on Jul 28, 2019 17:15:21 GMT -8
You know, he's right about DC. Why are they shelling out all that money when they dig Kane up and put him back on the payroll after convincing him it's still the 1930's?
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Post by Ditch Fahrenheit on Jul 31, 2019 18:09:43 GMT -8
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