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A little crack with your coffee?
One of the advantages of effectively living with other fen (Te and I reside in different apartments in the same building, but more often than not we're in one space) is that it becomes possible to carry on a three-way telephone conversation without having to pay an additional tithe to the local telcom warlords for the privilege.
This happened over the weekend when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
paragrapher, also known as Te's schoolyard chum Jeff (and sometimes his brother Sean, but I digress), called, and Te let me field the actual phone-to-ear duty for the CT end of the conversation.
Amongst other topics, comics crack of course made an appearance... in the form of hypothetical product-placement trademark (ab)use in the DCU.
Because, really, corporate America would almost certainly take advantage of all that name recognition to hawk whatever they were trying to push on consumers. For example, DCU shoppers would see:
paragrapher: ...Robin the Boy Wonderbread
buggery and thete1: *BUH?-face*
paragrapher: And those little blue men from Green Lantern comics would be used to sell ...Cheerioans
buggery and thete1: *snorgling*
paragrapher: G'nort is the best built-in product placement for a kids' cereal ever!
thete1: Hal Jordan rechargeable batteries!
buggery: Park-West camera products!
thete1: Zatanna's ginseng supplements!
buggery: ...wouldn't that be Zatanna's *gnesnig* supplements? [Yes, I said it out loud. No magic happened, though.]
paragrapher: Guy Gardner brand Douchebags!
buggery: *hurts things laughing* just. so. APPROPRIATE!
paragrapher: Martian Manhunter sandwich cremes -- green cookies with red filling
thete1: BEE HEE HEE
buggery: Mr. Mxyz-- Mxyzx-- Mxytp-- Mr. Mxy-keyboard-mash Alphabet Soup!
buggery: Te, are you *transcribing* this? [Hey, she was the one at a computer!]
thete1: *types madly*
Also, from the 'adult' personals section at the back of a recent issue of our local alternative weekly newspaper:
Sure, buddy. Vampirella-esque, YET stylish *and MATURE*. I almost can't decide if this is a man who reads not enough comics, or who reads too many... except, it's got to be the latter, or he wouldn't know Vampirella from Pamela Anderson. Similar interests? Any Heavy Metal-reading "babes" out there want to answer this guy's ad?
This happened over the weekend when
paragrapher, also known as Te's schoolyard chum Jeff (and sometimes his brother Sean, but I digress), called, and Te let me field the actual phone-to-ear duty for the CT end of the conversation.Amongst other topics, comics crack of course made an appearance... in the form of hypothetical product-placement trademark (ab)use in the DCU.
Because, really, corporate America would almost certainly take advantage of all that name recognition to hawk whatever they were trying to push on consumers. For example, DCU shoppers would see:
paragrapher: ...Robin the Boy Wonderbreadbuggery and thete1: *BUH?-face*paragrapher: And those little blue men from Green Lantern comics would be used to sell ...Cheerioansbuggery and thete1: *snorgling*paragrapher: G'nort is the best built-in product placement for a kids' cereal ever!thete1: Hal Jordan rechargeable batteries!buggery: Park-West camera products!thete1: Zatanna's ginseng supplements!buggery: ...wouldn't that be Zatanna's *gnesnig* supplements? [Yes, I said it out loud. No magic happened, though.]paragrapher: Guy Gardner brand Douchebags!buggery: *hurts things laughing* just. so. APPROPRIATE!paragrapher: Martian Manhunter sandwich cremes -- green cookies with red fillingthete1: BEE HEE HEEbuggery: Mr. Mxyz-- Mxyzx-- Mxytp-- Mr. Mxy-keyboard-mash Alphabet Soup!buggery: Te, are you *transcribing* this? [Hey, she was the one at a computer!]thete1: *types madly*Also, from the 'adult' personals section at the back of a recent issue of our local alternative weekly newspaper:
VAMPIRELLA
Stylish, mature WM seeking
Vampirella-type Goth F's to
share similar interests.
Sure, buddy. Vampirella-esque, YET stylish *and MATURE*. I almost can't decide if this is a man who reads not enough comics, or who reads too many... except, it's got to be the latter, or he wouldn't know Vampirella from Pamela Anderson. Similar interests? Any Heavy Metal-reading "babes" out there want to answer this guy's ad?
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