yup. Bill Maher is on HBO, but thanks for the link! I can't tivo the daily show because it's on so many times in the week it crowds out everything else. I watched the real MTP interview and the Daily Show's editing isn't too much of a stretch from the actual experience of watching it. Yikes, I'll go get my bottle of tequila now and get started.
The effect of your hand controlling your foot's motion may seem mysterious, but the real mystery is: why is this fun? I don't know, but look at me doing it.
Teresa, Jeez, I can't believe you don't know that comics fans know *everything!*
My experience during my 8 years managing a comics store (1990-1997) was not unlike that of "Rob" form Nick Hornsby's _High Fidelity_--long hours with no customers and nothing to do but impress each other with our tremendous knowledge of comics, science fiction, music, philosophy, mountain dew, girls, movies, funyuns... pretty much all the important stuff. Oh, and deride customers for their bad taste in comics, we did a lot of that too.
I'm really scraping the walls of my brain, but I seem to recall that Marvel and DC would periodically--like every 7 or 8 years--come out with a book that used "Super hero" in the title. The talk around the store was that they did this to maintain their hold on the copyright, but I can't remember any actual titles or if our information was based upon anything more than conjecture.
I managed a comic store for about 8 years and it was common knowledge among us nerds that "super-hero" was a trademark jointly held by Marvel and DC.
I read the post at boing boing too and I guess I'm a little suprised that this isn't a commonly-held factoid. But then, I'm a little suprised that most people can't tell you the Silver Surfer's origin story. --snorts, pushes glasses up on nose, laughs at unnaturally high volume--
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