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Started by Savonarola, August 06, 2009, 11:34:45 AM

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Syt

#60
August 07, 2009, 02:12:00 PM
Btw, there's only proper way of portraiting G.I. Joe.







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Neil

#61
August 07, 2009, 02:13:18 PM
BTW:  Was I the only kid in the world who thought that ninjas were faggoty?  I had a hard time being impressed by Snake Eyes and Stormshadow when everyone else was packing heat.
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Valmy

#62
August 07, 2009, 02:15:50 PM
Was I the only kid in the world who did not understand why they always had to have token chicks in boys toy lines and token boys in girls toy lines?

It was just weird how every single team of good guys and every single team of bad guys always had exactly one chick.
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Syt

#63
August 07, 2009, 02:16:42 PM
Quote from: Valmy on August 07, 2009, 02:15:50 PM
Was I the only kid in the world who did not understand why they always had to have token chicks in boys toy lines and token boys in girls toy lines?

Porn mustache FTW!
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Savonarola

#64
August 07, 2009, 02:18:32 PM
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Caliga

#65
August 07, 2009, 02:20:37 PM
I had that game :yeah:
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Savonarola

#66
August 07, 2009, 02:21:24 PM
Quote from: Valmy on August 07, 2009, 02:15:50 PM
Was I the only kid in the world who did not understand why they always had to have token chicks in boys toy lines and token boys in girls toy lines?

It was just weird how every single team of good guys and every single team of bad guys always had exactly one chick.

In the 1970s Title IX was applied to super hero teams in the landmark case Diana Prince vs. Justice League of America.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Eddie Teach

#67
August 07, 2009, 02:23:48 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on August 07, 2009, 02:21:24 PM
In the 1970s Title IX was applied to super hero teams in the landmark case Diana Prince vs. Justice League of America.

I'm going to preempt Tim by remarking on what an awesome post this was. :thumbsup:
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Syt

#68
August 07, 2009, 02:24:59 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on August 07, 2009, 02:18:32 PM

:lol:

Awesome

I was always befuddled by how he held that disk. No one I knew was able to duplicate holding a disk that way.
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—Stephen Jay Gould

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Syt

#69
August 07, 2009, 02:26:49 PM
Quote from: Caliga on August 07, 2009, 02:20:37 PM
I had that game :yeah:

G.I. Joe wasn't known in Germany (unlike He-Man, Transformers, M.A.S.K.). I only had this toy courtesy of my sister's trip to the PX with her husband:


But almost everyone with a C64/128 had the video game.  :pirate :nerd:
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Tonitrus

#70
August 07, 2009, 03:22:20 PM
GI Joe violence was like A-Team violence:  Lots of shooting where no one gets hit, followed by a fist fight.

And every plane shot down had an ejection, and every vehicle destroyed had the occupants jumping to safety.

Vince

#71
August 07, 2009, 04:44:22 PM
Quote from: Valmy on August 07, 2009, 12:02:59 PM
Quote from: Caliga on August 07, 2009, 11:35:17 AM
Well, that's just ridiculous.  I can't believe a GI Joe movie would contain an excessive amount of violence.

I do find that hard to believe.  I cannot recall anybody actually getting hurt in a GI Joe cartoon.

Duke got speared in the chest in the cartoon movie  :ph34r:

Tonitrus

#72
August 07, 2009, 04:52:02 PM
Quote from: Vince on August 07, 2009, 04:44:22 PM
Quote from: Valmy on August 07, 2009, 12:02:59 PM
Quote from: Caliga on August 07, 2009, 11:35:17 AM
Well, that's just ridiculous.  I can't believe a GI Joe movie would contain an excessive amount of violence.

I do find that hard to believe.  I cannot recall anybody actually getting hurt in a GI Joe cartoon.

Duke got speared in the chest in the cartoon movie  :ph34r:

Yes, and the reaction at the time was "ZOMG...REAL VIOLENCE IN A GIJOE!"

Sophie Scholl

#73
August 07, 2009, 05:54:32 PM
Quote from: Valmy on August 07, 2009, 02:15:50 PM
It was just weird how every single team of good guys and every single team of bad guys always had exactly one chick.
The Baroness, Lady Jay, and Scarlett were all featured pretty heavily in the early good cartoons before the switch to USA Network.
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#74
August 07, 2009, 06:06:28 PM
The early G.I. Joe comic book series from Marvel was awesome, especially the run drawn by Mike Zeck.
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