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John Byrne
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Posted: 27 November 2006 at 7:20am | IP Logged | 1  

Okay, I forthwith call a moritorium on postings of all covers, panels, pages, etc that have become "naughty" since they were first published. No more shots of inappropriately placed logs or Batman and Robin uttering homo-erotic dialog.

GROW UP.

Beavis and Butt-head are NOT good role models.

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Paul Gibney
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Posted: 27 November 2006 at 11:22am | IP Logged | 2  

I would suggest it's not even 'simpler' times; just DIFFERENT times.  Context is everything.
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David Whiteley
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Posted: 27 November 2006 at 11:23am | IP Logged | 3  

Either way, thanks for the moratorium.
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Juan Jose Colin Arciniega
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Posted: 27 November 2006 at 11:28am | IP Logged | 4  

Seems just and reasonable to me! I don't like those graphs!
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Posted: 27 November 2006 at 12:18pm | IP Logged | 5  

Does this include covers that have come to seem exponentially more stupid over time too? Like the one where Saturn's rings, having blown up Saturn, and are now hovering around Earth and all the spaceheroes are shooting at it with their rocket ships?

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Posted: 27 November 2006 at 12:29pm | IP Logged | 6  

 I agree absolutely. I'm sick and tired of crap humor like Jackass. Look, look. I'm eating a snow cone with urine on it! Oh look, now I'm shoving a toy car up my arse.

  I'm so glad this rule is in effect because I'm sick of drawings humiliating the friends that I grew up with.  I'm sure Batman wouldn't approve if he knew about this.  

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Posted: 27 November 2006 at 12:34pm | IP Logged | 7  

I'm sure Batman wouldn't approve if he knew about
this.  

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You think he doesn't?
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Posted: 27 November 2006 at 12:39pm | IP Logged | 8  

Does this include covers that have come to seem exponentially more stupid over time too? Like the one where Saturn's rings, having blown up Saturn, and are now hovering around Earth and all the spaceheroes are shooting at it with their rocket ships?

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Not as phrased, but perhaps it should. I have long been tired of our condescending tendencies to judge the Past by the standards of the Present -- and of course find that it is the Past that is wanting!

A week or so ago, I picked up a book called "Regrettable Food". It's all about some of the bizarre concoctions that came along after the privations of WW2. It's liberally illustrated, and one of those was an ad painting for A&P, from the mid-Fifties. It showed housewives (in their flaring skirts with full white petticoats, white gloves and, of course, hats) heading into the store to shop, leaving their toddlers and babies lined up on the sidewalk in their strollers. Of course, the attitude of the book's author was to point at these stupid women. How crazy could they be to leave their kids unattended like that. My thought was to look at our own society, and feel sad that such times have slipped so far away.

Often, when we point and laugh, we should realize that it's not the Past that's messed up!

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Darren Taylor
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Posted: 27 November 2006 at 12:50pm | IP Logged | 9  

As a Father, this rings very true to me...I recall that I wouldn't think twice as a child going out after lunch and not coming back home until Dinner time. I'd wander far and wide!

These days, I wont let my similarly aged daughter, any further than the local swing park and I expect her to "check-in" if she changes her where abouts!

I shudder now to think about the loss of freedoms for our children.

-Darren
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Roger A Ott II
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Posted: 27 November 2006 at 1:15pm | IP Logged | 10  

My girlfriend's son is constantly amazed when I tell him of some of the things we were allowed to do without the blink of an eye just 20 years ago.

I wonder what it will be like in another 20 years?

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Stan Lomisceau
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Posted: 27 November 2006 at 1:24pm | IP Logged | 11  

thank you mr byrne for this rule. i have always bothered by this and am glad now to see that it will not come onto this board anymore and do jokes in that way. it is like fart jokes. i am not 17 anymore, farts are not so funny now! batman and robin have not been gay and it is not funny to say this unless you are still a teenager,
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I wonder what it will be like in another 20 years?

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-Instead of shaking hands when greeting a person, you punch them in the face.

-When using a host's toilet you crap next to it, instead of in it.

-'Hello' has been changed to 'Blow it out your ass.'

 



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