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Post by TheLuckyOne on Jan 7, 2005 18:00:23 GMT -5
You are indeed correct, o duckish one. However, because this board has not had a single post yet today and I find that wrong on a moral level, I'm tossing in a bonus question for the hell of it. Whoever gets it won't get to ask the next "official" question (unless they get Duckie's too), but they can ask another bonus one if they like. Plus they'll have my own personal thumb's up; and really, isn't that the greatest gift of all?
Okay, let's give one to the comic geeks. While the X-Men are primarily a team of mutant superheroes, there have been a handful of non-mutant members over the years. Who was the first?
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Post by duckie on Jan 7, 2005 23:36:13 GMT -5
I'd be willing to hand off the baton to anyone who gets Drew's question correct, if mine has not been correctly answered by then... I don't want to be the one who kills the thread  |
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Post by Landatauron on Jan 8, 2005 15:29:07 GMT -5
Okay, let's give one to the comic geeks. While the X-Men are primarily a team of mutant superheroes, there have been a handful of non-mutant members over the years. Who was the first? I beleive that would be Calvin Rankin aka The Mimic. |
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Post by TheLuckyOne on Jan 8, 2005 20:41:42 GMT -5
It would indeed! When Calvin Rankin upset an experiment in his chemist father's lab and inhaled the strange gas that resulted, he soon found that his body automatically duplicated the knowledge, strength, speed, reflexes, and intelligence of the greatest of those around him. While this gave him great success in everything he did, it also made him incredibly arrogant, so when he happened to encounter the X-Men and duplicated their powers as well, he decided to defeat them to prove his superiority, taking on the identity of the Mimic! Swiftly defeated, he eventually joined the team for a mere 3 issues, before Stan Lee presumably realized that he made everyone else superfluous and wrote him out.
Next question? (And Duckie, I still want to hear the answer to yours...)
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Post by duckie on Jan 8, 2005 22:53:34 GMT -5
The answer to my question was +Live+. And what were the other names that REM had thought about, before making their final decision? I don't think we ever got the answer to your bonus question, Drew... I'd like to know...  |
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Post by TheLuckyOne on Jan 8, 2005 22:57:09 GMT -5
Twisted Kites -- which I think either Mike Mills or Peter Buck liked, but none of the others did -- and Cans of Pi-... um, pee-pee. Apparently because Michael Stipe just wanted something that would disgust people every time they heard it. Thank God someone talked him out of it. -D |
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Post by duckie on Jan 8, 2005 23:09:56 GMT -5
Then they could have been called C.O.P. and kept the meaning behind the acronym secret... ;D
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Post by Landatauron on Jan 9, 2005 2:29:06 GMT -5
Dang one problem with knowing the answers. Now I have to come up with a question. Ok........ for the Star Trek geeks.
Particle 010 is the Borg designation for what?
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Post by DocD83 on Jan 9, 2005 10:16:24 GMT -5
I'm gussing the Omega Molecule, only because I can't think of any other thing for which the Borg designation might have come up.
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Post by Landatauron on Jan 9, 2005 15:56:53 GMT -5
And your guess is indeed correct.
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Post by DocD83 on Jan 9, 2005 18:02:21 GMT -5
Yay! Now I have to think of something....
Star Trek trivia again: What was the object called that Scotty's ship ran into, causing him to suspend himself in a transporter beam for decades?
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Post by Magill on Jan 9, 2005 18:19:36 GMT -5
a Dyson sphere (aka a big metal shell surrounding a star)?
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Post by DocD83 on Jan 9, 2005 21:53:58 GMT -5
Bingo. Your turn.
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Post by Magill on Jan 10, 2005 10:47:14 GMT -5
Back to music: who were the members of the Travelling Wilburys?
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Post by Ms. Jellybean on Jan 10, 2005 18:03:43 GMT -5
Hahaha, thank God for my history teacher's recommendation...
Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, George Harrison, Roy Orbison, and Jeff Lynne.
That's what I get for being a Beatles/Tom Petty freak. I get to know lots of useless trivia.
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