From the sick and wrong file
 

If I had to guess, the Hellfire Club will be there, but not with Mastermind, because they just had him in this last movie (albiet as a combo of one of those Genosha mutates). Shi'ar and Starjammers are out. Jean Grey won't die two movies in a row, so she'll live after whatever trial they put her through. I bet she'll destroy a city or an island or something somewhere, and the rest of the movie will be trying to get Jean to come out of the Phoenix.

From the sick and wrong file
 

Wasn't Dark Phoenix one of Paigow's socks? Or was it one of mine?!?

Lush Life
 

Atticus: Fortunately, I'll be able to get to and from work in a really fucking sweet car. I urge any inner city school with secured, covered parking to contact me to discuss terms. Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got a date to bang a model on a pile of cash.


You're my new hero.

X Freaks
 

I wonder which characters that were important to the comix will end up on the editing room floor. A few I can imagine are:

1) Longshot -- strange concept, would be glad if he didn't show,
2) The Sentinels -- an odd lot, a little too matrixy
3) The Brood -- Alien meets the starjammers
4) The new Storm (with the mohawk!). I always wanted to be the new storm.

Lush Life
 

I too have imagined how mine would go:

Journalist: What are you going to do with money?

LessinSF: Spend it on drugs and hookers.

Lottery Employee: Thank you all. See you next Wednesday.

Too Cute
 

I just ordered a dozen of these - http://www.cafeshops.com/lawtalkers.6032190 - for fufu

The next big thing in pets is a
 

Cockroach??

http://www.msnbc.com/news/915408.asp?0cv=CB20 (an article.)

The next big thing in pets is a
 

Well well well, once again I feel validated as a Man out of my time. Or in this case approximately a couple of decades ahead of my time, because as a young co-ed, back in my college daze, my roomate and I kept a bevy...er...bridle(?) of cockroaches as pets. We raised them from youngins in our dorm room in an empty tropicana orange juice bottle, feeding them homemade sugar paste and cracker crumbs, until one day, while we were at class.....well, while we sleeping off a hangover, the R.A. from our floor sent the exterminator in and he euthanised the poor sweet little bastards.

The experience left me scarred for life. Sometimes when I am in backalleys in Seattle trying to score some smack to help me deal with the mental pain of this trauma that haunts my days and keeps my nights sleepless, I'll see the undomesticated roaches scatter beneath the garbage dumpster and for a moment, a brief surrealistically dreamy moment I think I see Fido. Usually the sound of the rubber hose hitting the ground after slipping from my arm brings me back to reality.

Not to revive a tired thread, but
 

Here's a short article from cnn/money on tipping, along with a handy tipping chart from the "Emily Post Institute" (who knew?).

Snippets: we tip to avoid social disapproval, and 56.7% of respondents in a survey hate the tip jar at Starbucks.

http://money.cnn.com/2003/05/15/comm...hadi/index.htm

Cockroaches
 

Who are you kidding? There are no cockroaches in Seattle - slugs maybe - mosquitos everywhere - but all the cockroaches are in California.
:disbelief

Too Cute
 

Hey, Less. I'm touched by your thoughtfulness however, unless the teddy bear is useful in that it dispenses a stiff gin & tonic feel free to send it to TM - he loves cute, cuddly, fluffy wuffy stuffed animals. :D

Too Cute
 

He should have ordered 15. He would have gotten a discount.

Lush Life
 

It's come to my attention that my little scenario failed to script out the questions from the media outlets most likely to attend. Thus:

Telemundo reporter: ¿Cómo usted utilizará su dinero nuevo para luchar para las derechas de sus hermanos y hermanas hispánicos?

Atticus: Thank you for asking me that important question. As the newest member of this country's smallest minority, I sympathize with the struggles of all oppressed peoples, and I hear their cries. I give them every assurance that I will continue to patronize their restaurants and family-owned franchises. For example, I will almost certainly fuel my flying motorcar at gas stations owned by Iranians. And I will aggressively recruit hillbillies to perform the menial tasks required around my vast industrial empire.

Mandarin television reporter: {Excited gibberish.}

Atticus: I'm sorry, I don't speak {air quotes} "Chinese."

Cockroaches
 

Wrong-o. The cockroaches - at least the flying three-inch tree roaches - are right here in Texas. Trust me - if there was any way to ship them to California, I would have figured it out by now.

-T(eww.)L

Cockroaches
 

Ack. 3 inch hummers? I guess you guys have quality over quantity. However, I did see quite a few of the "large" variety when I was in Hawaii. Dive bombers. Right at your head. Scary for a tourist in "paradise."
I don't even want to know what NY roaches are like. Do they talk?
:what?: