Random thoughts

[Michael K. Eidson]

I think you mean that Popeye looks like Asterix
There's a bit of a reverse situation here when it comes to popeye. Honestly I can't tell you anything about popeye except the spinach thing. I'm not even sure if he's a comic book character or a tv-show character. The only reason I know of the guy is because of American pop-culture.

Popeye has been around since at least 1929. He's had his own comic strip and tv show. Not sure about comic book, but I think that too. Asterix was created, according to Wikipedia, in 1959. So I think it fair to say that if either character looks like the other, Asterix looks like Popeye.

On second look, they do seem to have a similar art style, I guess.

But Asterix (with potion) would kick Popeye's ass.

I guess that would depend on who wrote the mash-up. But I can't recall any time that Popeye was beaten once he'd eaten his spinach.

 

[Chessie]

Ah, that's the one I was thinking of, not Duck Tales. Tail Spin was awesome.

I always loved the intro scene where Baloo's plane slides sideways into rocky mountain pass.

 

[Ban]

Popeye has been around since at least 1929. He's had his own comic strip and tv show. Not sure about comic book, but I think that too. Asterix was created, according to Wikipedia, in 1959. So I think it fair to say that if either character looks like the other, Asterix looks like Popeye.

Don't apply your Popeye-supporting logic to my asterix-loving feelings. Asterix has been around since the Roman times, I know so because the comic book told me.

Checkmate

 

[Michael K. Eidson]

Don't apply your Popeye-supporting logic to my asterix-loving feelings. Asterix has been around since the Roman times, I know so because the comic book told me.

Checkmate

Sorry, you have to do better than that. Popeye was in ancient Greece for the first Olympic games in 776 BC, where he beat up Hercules.

http://popeye.wikia.com/wiki/Popeye_Meets_Hercules

 

[Ban]

Sorry, you have to do better than that. Popeye was in ancient Greece for the first Olympic games in 776 BC, where he beat up Hercules.

Popeye Meets Hercules | Popeye the Sailorpedia | Fandom powered by Wikia

Oooh, that's some very good research you did there. I suppose you got me there.

But as your signature says: "The truth doesn't matter. What people believe matters." and I believe that Asterix is an immortal being of divine Gaulishness predating anything even tangentially related to Popeye.



where did I put those sunglasses again?

Nevermind, found them

 

[CupofJoe]

One of the things I like [nay... love] about Asterix is that that each language edition is different. I have ALL the original Asterix books and some of them in several languages [I'm not such a fan of the "new" Asterix tales]. For the English language versions the Translators put in new jokes that would work in English but retained the feel of the French language jokes. And some of the jokes are very subtle if you don't know France when the story was written. Store keepers or Roman Soldiers are actually French or European politicians. There is a book that explains them all. I'd hope that the Dutch or Swahili or Welsh versions would have similar tinkering to suit their language.

 

[La Volpe]

I always loved the intro scene where Baloo's plane slides sideways into rocky mountain pass.

Ah, good times.

I guess that would depend on who wrote the mash-up. But I can't recall any time that Popeye was beaten once he'd eaten his spinach.

I was under the impression that Asterix gained speed through the potion as well, but now I can't manage to find any sources for that (Banten, you recall anything about speed?). So maybe I'm remembering incorrectly. Anyway, on further inspection, if strength is the only thing these two have going for them, then it'd be a pretty well-matched fight that could go either way, I'd think.

 

[Ban]

One of the things I like [nay... love] about Asterix is that that each language edition is different. I have ALL the original Asterix books and some of them in several languages [I'm not such a fan of the "new" Asterix tales]. For the English language versions the Translators put in new jokes that would work in English but retained the feel of the French language jokes. And some of the jokes are very subtle if you don't know France when the story was written. Store keepers or Roman Soldiers are actually French or European politicians. There is a book that explains them all. I'd hope that the Dutch or Swahili or Welsh versions would have similar tinkering to suit their language.

It amazes me how they managed to fit these comics into so many languages. I don't remember the political names you mentioned to have been changed for Dutch, but a few others were. The chief abraracourcix was changed to heroix because the whole world play with "a bras raccoursis" doesn't work in Dutch. The smith of the village Cetautomix was changed for the Dutch audience to Hoefnix. Hoef is the Dutch word for Hoof and the phrase "ik hoef niks" means I need nothing. I think some of the belgian names in Asterix and the Belgians were also changed quite a bit to sound more like flemish/dutch sayings. Overall, most of the jokes hit even as a kid so I assume that the translating work was done very well.

I was under the impression that Asterix gained speed through the potion as well, but now I can't manage to find any sources for that (Banten, you recall anything about speed?). So maybe I'm remembering incorrectly. Anyway, on further inspection, if strength is the only thing these two have going for them, then it'd be a pretty well-matched fight that could go either way, I'd think.

I'm pretty sure he gained superspeed as well and depending on the specific issue they'd become nearly invulnerable as well. To be fair I don't think Uderzo and Goscinny really cared too much about what the limitations were to their powers. Whatever looks good on paper and fits the story.

 

[Garren Jacobsen]

So, I got a new baby. She's pretty cute. That's two babies now. Time to play man defense!

 

[Michael K. Eidson]

So, I got a new baby. She's pretty cute. That's two babies now. Time to play man defense!

I think a proper response here would be: "Congrats!"

 

[DragonOfTheAerie]

I just thought of a sudden vision of a genie trapped in a beer bottle stuck in the mud of the bank of some river in the Deep South. Story seed?

 

[FifthView]

I just thought of a sudden vision of a genie trapped in a beer bottle stuck in the mud of the bank of some river in the Deep South. Story seed?

Make the MC a drunk frat boy on Spring Break who finds it.

 

[CupofJoe]

I just thought of a sudden vision of a genie trapped in a beer bottle stuck in the mud of the bank of some river in the Deep South. Story seed?

A bit of synchronicity going on here...
In a week or two's time it is the 13th birthday of the daughter of a friend and we have been asked to collect beer bottles, 50 in total. The daughter wants to put a messages in each one and throw them into the sea on her birthday. Just to see what happens to them. There is a lot of earnest debate as to when in the tides she should do the deed to get best dispersal.

 

[Garren Jacobsen]

Went to work yesterday. Saw a bare assed homeless man in my parking garage. Didn't register until I had walked into the building that the homeless man was bare assed. Eye bleach hasn't worked. I need an obliviator.

 

[Ban]

Went to work yesterday. Saw a bare assed homeless man in my parking garage. Didn't register until I had walked into the building that the homeless man was bare assed. Eye bleach hasn't worked. I need an obliviator.

Just look at a few dozen more bare asses. By the time you've seen about 30 you'll have forgotten all about that homeless man's ass.


Ofcourse that memory will now be replaced by a bunch of other asses, butt still.

 

[DragonOfTheAerie]

butt still.

Hee hee hee...*smirk*

 

[Ban]

Hee hee hee...*smirk*

I was hoping someone would notice

 

[DragonOfTheAerie]

So I'm drawing again after dropping it for over a month.

Me: *looking at drawing* Her proportions are off!
Me: *looking in mirror* MY proportions are off!

 

[Garren Jacobsen]

butt still.

 

[Garren Jacobsen]

Rogue 1 is the second best Star Wars movie.