Loading ...I woke up this morning to what I though must have been another hurricane. Seems hurricane Cleto had struck. A whole roll of toilet paper had been stredded and strewn from one end of the apartment to another. Such a disaster had Cleto’s name written all over it, but of course I couldn’t prove it. At least not until he came padding into the bathroom to beg for his morning meal, little bits of toilet tissue trailing from between his claws.
What a little shit.
Sometimes, I think of things for no apparent reason. Tonight, I was thinking of the man in the iron mask. Now, wouldn’t a thing like an iron mask give you a bad back or a crick in the neck or something? 
I mean, its not a lightweight aluminum alloy mask, its iron for fuck’s sake. How did he even lift his head up? Maybe he didn’t, maybe he had to drag his head along the floor like some hyper-hunchback. That could be why he was in such a bad mood all the time.
That, and not being able to wash his hair or behind his ears. I’ll bet his head itched something fierce.
Anyway this are the vast intellectual matters I’m given to pondering on occasion. I’m a real intellectual powerhouse, I am.
Well at least I know what callipygian means.
Buy me a beer!
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I like the idea of the iron mask being so heavy that it had to be dragged across the floor. One of the Legion of Super Heroes had an iron mask. Ferro Lad. He could also turn his whole body to iron, which is not so super because iron isn’t very bendy. He could move when he was iron, which led me to believe that perhaps he wasn’t totally made of iron. Maybe just the unbendy parts of him like his forearm or the tip of his toe. Surely his elbows and waist and hips and knees couldn’t be iron or he couldn’t bend.
But then again, he is a made up comic book character and the man in the iron mask was a real live person.
Or was he?
Once again, Richard the Previous exposes his uber-geekdom to the masses.
And there’s also Iron-Man. You’d think he’d have a little trouble moving too. I think I’d rather be aluminum alloy man. Fiberglass man. No.. not fiberglass. I’m allergic to that stuff, i’d end up with perpetual hives.
aluminum alloy it is.
Aluminum Alloy Man! AA Man! Aluminium Alloy Man to the readers in England.
I think though, his largest problem would be the gales of laughter from his fellow super heroes and super villains alike. His secret weapon could be that the villains just fall on the floor laughing and he takes them off to jail.
Does anyone know why the batman series needed a Joker AND a Riddler. I mean, isn’t a riddle just a joke in the form of a question? Or do they mean the more esoteric form of riddle, like the riddle of the Sphinx(ter)? In which case, why didn’t the Riddler dress more solemnly?
I think the more pressing question is why the Riddler’s secret identity is Edward Nigma. Were his parents trying to make him a super villain (not that riddling is a super power — the power to annoy your friends — What walks on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, drives around town in a car for a while, lies down for a nap, then has a lovely dinner and perhaps some ice wine, and then does some other things? Answer that, traveler!)
I would italicize trying if I knew how.
But to answer your question, Joker came first and started as a psychotic killer, but then became a lovely little prankster who robbed banks. The Riddler just riddled. Or maybe the people at DC just forgot they already had a Joker when the Riddler was introduced.
Italics are done like this
And thank you for your explanation. And for your riddle. I’ll get back to you that. I am not familiar with this strange world of cars, nice dinners and ice wine. I feel lucky when I have toilet paper.
Ah, the italics mystery is cleared up. I want to do control i, (or apple i) but that doesn’t seem to work. It is probably some arcane thing that only uber geeks know. Oops. Not you of course. Heh. Heh.
And when you put it that way, it makes me feel like a heel (like they used to do in 1940s cartoons, a thought balloon and the heel of a shoe — they don’t write cartoons like that anymore!)
New Riddle — “What makes a person feel lucky to have toilet paper?”
Or maybe that is just a question.
I’m lucky to have toilet paper because when I pee, I dont have to drip dry and have any remaining urine run down my leg when I stand up. The italics are made with an i inbetween two of these: < this one, and the one that goes in the opposite direction.
I tremble as I try to use italics. Will it work? I won\’t know until I post.
Dare I hit the \”submit comment\” button?
Um. I see that I can start italics, but I don’t know how to stop it.
Oh well. Excess is never too much.
Now this is ridiculous! I can’t have everything in italics from now on. how do I stop it?
I can see whenever you use italics, I\’m going to have to come in and stop them for you.
Now you’ve made the whole rest of the blog italics richard… sigh. what have you done?
But your comment is also in italics! What have I done? Is it my first miracle? Have I made the entirety of Shattered Prayer become Italicized!
Dont EVER do that again.
Though we’ll count it as your first miracle.
I am chastized. In a saintly way.
And I have learned my lesson.
No, you haven\’t learned your lesson because you obviously haven\’t learned to close an italics tag. I should have been clearer in my instructions. At the END of the word you want to italicise, put the bracket, then a / then the i, then the closing bracket. you can also use em instead of i.
Now who is being unclear. At the end of the word you want to italicize put the . . . put the what!?
I assume you mean that little i symbol. I am tempted to try it again, but I said I had learned my lesson.
The code messed up my post, I corrected it. I should upload a plugin for a better comments editor, but I’m too lazy. then you could make comments to your hearts content using wisiwig
Ah wisiwig. Those were the days. Wysiwyg. Now Microsoft has changed from what you see is what you get to Wysiwwwytsadttsae, or rather, what you see is what we want you to see and don’t try to see anything else.
And on that note, I had probably head off to bed lest I turn the Shattered Prayer bold or underlined or even superscript!
I guess its back to the space-vampires for me, then.