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Post by RickW on Sept 6, 2009 10:05:58 GMT -5
I always loved the fact that they had Adam West play Batman in the TV show. At times there was a bit of a gut hanging out over the belt. Couldn't they have gotten some buff guy?
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Post by Fingerplucked on Sept 6, 2009 10:07:27 GMT -5
And, of course, it was wrapped around him multiple times, with bunches of excess fabric in both blue and red so there'd be enough of it to cover his adult hugeness. Kryptonian blankets stretch. A LOT. When Superman takes his suit off, it's only about the size of a small pair of speedos. 'Cept the cape, of course. That's where most of the original blanket went.
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Post by millring on Sept 6, 2009 10:11:23 GMT -5
Actually, I've heard most of these issues brought up before. I've been a studying Asupermanist for a long time. But the one I've never thought of until I read this guy's blog was this one...
He's right. So, do the boots fit under Clark Kent's wingtips? Are you kidding me?
And if they don't (fit under his shoes), can you imagine the havoc he must wreak when he's trying to slip skin-tight boots on in a hurry?! I mean, I hop around one-footed running into things just trying to put on regular non-skin-tight boots.
There must be a PILE of wrecked phone booths sitting in some Metropolis landfill.
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Post by millring on Sept 6, 2009 10:13:13 GMT -5
So, whereas (to expand on an old one) "bra" is singular... ...."panties" and "speedos" are plural?
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Post by millring on Sept 6, 2009 10:15:51 GMT -5
I always loved the fact that they had Adam West play Batman in the TV show. At times there was a bit of a gut hanging out over the belt. Couldn't they have gotten some buff guy? Or at least give him molded rubber like Michael Keaton got.
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Post by Fingerplucked on Sept 6, 2009 10:19:00 GMT -5
So, whereas (to expand on an old one) "bra" is singular... ...."panties" and "speedos" are plural? As are pants. And all three come in pairs. Yet they only fit over a single area, to contain a single thing (unless someone is counting front to back). But a bra is worn over a pair of boobs. And a pair of socks is for two feet, and is the only clothing that you can accidentally mismatch.
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Post by Fingerplucked on Sept 6, 2009 10:19:46 GMT -5
I always loved the fact that they had Adam West play Batman in the TV show. At times there was a bit of a gut hanging out over the belt. Couldn't they have gotten some buff guy? Or at least give him molded rubber like Michael Keaton got. Haven't you ever looked at his shorts?
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Post by millring on Sept 6, 2009 10:24:55 GMT -5
And a pair of socks is for two feet, and is the only clothing that you can accidentally mismatch. On the other hand, I am more likely to put t-shirts on backwards than I am to put socks on backwards. So I can mismatch socks as to pair, but I can mismatch a t-shirt, its front to my back. Life is very complex and demands complex answers.
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Post by Doug on Sept 6, 2009 10:30:46 GMT -5
And a pair of socks is for two feet, and is the only clothing that you can accidentally mismatch. On the other hand, I am more likely to put t-shirts on backwards than I am to put socks on backwards. So I can mismatch socks as to pair, but I can mismatch a t-shirt, its front to my back. Life is very complex and demands complex answers. No, life is simple and there are simple answers. GO NAKED and never have to worry about a mismatched sock or t-shirt. On Edit and second thought: That might not do much for the Super Hero image. ;D
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Post by Fingerplucked on Sept 6, 2009 10:45:27 GMT -5
Superman's Costume:1941 The origin of Superman's costume has been treated inconsistently in the chronicles, although there is virtually unanimous agreement among the texts that the costume is as indestructible as the Man of Steel himself. In Summer 1940, Superman describes his costume as "constructed of a cloth I invented myself which is immune to the most powerful forces!" By the early 1950s, however, the texts have begun to describe Superman's costume as having been fashioned by Martha Kent out of the colored blankets she and her husband found wrapped around the infant Superman when he arrived on Earth in a rocket from the doomed planet Krypton. At this point in the chronicles, numerous texts describe Superman's costume as having been fashioned from an inherently indestructible material from Krypton. Superman #112 offers this observation: Indestructible as time itself, Superman's costume, woven of a strange cloth from his native planet, Krypton, has aided him in unique ways, many times in the past! More recent texts, however, have greatly modified this position. Although Superman's costume is still described as having been fashioned from a fiber of Krypton, this cloth is now said to have acquired its indestructibility just as Superman acquired his super-powers - as the result of having been transported from the planet Krypton to the vastly different environment of Earth. According to Superman #146, Martha Kent was moved to fashion a super-playsuit for the infant Superman because the child was constantly destroying his store-bought clothes by engaging in various forms of super-powered play. Fortunately, the Kents had had the foresight to save the three blankets - one red, one blue, and one yellow - in which the infant Superman had been swathed when he arrived on Earth in his rocket. Because the blanket material was indestructible and therefore could not be cut by any scissors, the Kents unraveled some loose ends and then coaxed their super-powered infant into using the heat of his X-ray vision to cut the unraveled thread so that Martha Kent could use it to sew the Kryptonian blankets into a super-playsuit. Years later, Martha Kent unraveled the playsuit and rewove the thread into Superman's now-famous costume. According to one of the stories in Superman Annual #8 (1963), the young Superman used "strips of rubber padding" salvaged from the wreckage of his rocket to fashion a pair of bright red boots, while a yellow strap, also salvaged from the rocket, became his belt. Indestructible Superman's costume is, by all accounts, absolutely indestructible. Fire cannot burn it, the strongest shears cannot cut it, and neither bullets nor lightning can make a mark on it. Not even the force of six atomic bombs exploding inside it can do harm. (Superman #78, 1952) So long as it remains on Earth, or in some other environment where Superman would ordinarily have super-powers, Superman's costume retains its indestructibility. This remains true even if, for some reason, Superman has temporarily lost his powers. Similarly, the costume retains its indestructibility even if someone other than Superman wears it, rendering the wearer invulnerable to bullets and other weapons so long as the weapons strike the costume and not the wearer. According to the most recent explanation of Superman's powers, Superman derives his super-powers, in part, from the peculiar radiations of Earth's yellow sun. On planets revolving around a red sun, however, such as the planet Lexor, or the planet Krypton before it exploded, Superman has no super-powers. Similarly, on red-sun planets, Superman's costume loses its indestructibility and can be torn and damaged like any ordinary garment on Earth. If Superman's costume is ripped or damaged during a visit to a red-sun world - or during a visit to the bottle city of Kandor, where red-sun conditions prevail - Superman must take care to repair the damage before returning to Earth, where the costume will once again become indestructible and therefore impossible to cut and sew. www.kryptoncast.com/supermanfamily/costumehistory1.htm
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Post by millring on Sept 6, 2009 11:04:38 GMT -5
wow. Finally, a scientific answer.
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Post by Russell Letson on Sept 6, 2009 11:58:17 GMT -5
Geez, haven't these scholars every heard of nanotechnology and force fields? The suit also has its own computation engines (powered by a mix of available radiation and body heat), so Mr. S. doesn't have to worry about alterations or repairs, let alone hanging it up at night.
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Post by RickW on Sept 6, 2009 12:00:10 GMT -5
Actually, I think that's a cucumber stuff in the tights. No one can be THAT super.
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Post by HarmonEyes on Sept 6, 2009 12:04:33 GMT -5
Has anyone noticed how much more "buff" superman is as compared to the earlier years? At least way back when he looked somewhat realistic; now he just looks like a deformed freak on steroids.
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Post by millring on Sept 6, 2009 12:06:35 GMT -5
The suit also has its own computation engines Deodorant?
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Post by millring on Sept 6, 2009 12:11:23 GMT -5
Has anyone noticed how much more "buff" superman is as compared to the earlier years? At least way back when he looked somewhat realistic; now he just looks like a deformed freak on steroids. Superherodom went downhill when they stopped steroid testing. They oughta have congressional hearings.
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Post by Fingerplucked on Sept 6, 2009 12:23:39 GMT -5
Has anyone noticed how much more "buff" superman is as compared to the earlier years? At least way back when he looked somewhat realistic; now he just looks like a deformed freak on steroids. Those are Kryptonian implants. I tried to tell him he looked just fine without them, but you know how insecure he was about how he looked on film.
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Post by millring on Sept 6, 2009 12:54:46 GMT -5
Has anyone noticed how much more "buff" superman is as compared to the earlier years? At least way back when he looked somewhat realistic; now he just looks like a deformed freak on steroids. Those are Kryptonian implants. I tried to tell him he looked just fine without them, but you know how insecure he was about how he looked on film. I'm sorry, but I gotta fact-check you on that one. If the implants were Kryptonian they'd kill him.
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Post by TDR on Sept 6, 2009 13:09:46 GMT -5
The real mystery about Superman is not why he's buff or how he an Lois get it on.... but why the heck does he wear his underpants on the outside of his tights?
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Post by millring on Sept 6, 2009 13:12:58 GMT -5
The real mystery about Superman is not why he's buff or how he an Lois get it on.... but why the heck does he wear his underpants on the outside of his tights? Oh, that one's easy. The tights don't have belt loops.
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