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Freddie Mercury? 😜 That has to ruin the mood of the comic.

That is so funny.

Isn’t Queen one of your all-time favourite bands? Another One Bites the Dust? And if you play it backwards? Complete gibberish, but the high hat sounds cool. God bless the Christian right for wanting to protect me from backwards messages. They probably should have paid more attention to the forward messages from the lesser known punk bands that absorbed my early teen years.

Dave wrote: "Freddie Mercury? 😜 That has to ruin the mood of the comic.

That is so funny.

Isn’t Queen one of your all-time favourite bands? Another One Bites the Dust? And if you play it backwards? Complete g..."

I am not even going to answer that, me and Queen are NOT mates! ;-) But no worries, it didn't threw me off at all, it's just something that kept popping in my head, like always noticing all the V men have a moustache...WHY? Lol

ehum...NOBODY listens to music backwards, that always confused me, why would they check records and that way??!!!

No answer required. We stand in awe of the eccentric genius.

I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouch, Scaramouch, will you do the Fandango!

Thunderbolts and lightning, very, very frightening me
Galileo, Galileo
Galileo, Galileo
Galileo, Figaro - magnifico

English and Italian with syncopation abounding. What other band has ever pulled that off?

You mean the porn-staches? Has to be an inside joke from Kirkman. Perhaps an offbeat tribute to Tom Selleck?

Looking for subliminal messaging in all forms of teenage entertainment was a hallmark of the Christian right in the 70s. Poor impressionable teenagers easily led astray with little will of their own. The Christian right was desperately trying to win back ground lost in the social revolution of the 60s.

Everyone should have, instead, worked together to excise the demon known as…Disco. That was horrible played forwards and backwards.

Dave wrote: "No answer required. We stand in awe of the eccentric genius.

I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouch, Scaramouch, will you do the Fandango!

Thunderbolts and lightning, very, very frighteni..."

NOOOO! Don't do that to me! Torture! ;-)

Yes! The porn-staches, exactly! I wanted to link a video of a song about moustache but of course is not allowed anymore. I loveme some Tom Selleck, one of the few moustache I can tolerate. It might me...but none of the Viltrumites are endearing with those facial hairs.

We'll have to disagree, I have nothing against Disco :-D

I didn’t do that. Freddie Mercury did. 😂

I believe you can still put links in reviews (I linked to some YouTube vidoes in my review of Edward Tulane) and messages.

Do you really love Tom Selleck?



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You should have seen my attempts at a mustachio. Embarrassingly bad!

You are much more open minded than me. I could have done without the disco of the late 70s and early 80s. It and arena rock dominated the roller skating rinks.

Not to be pushy, but..,

Hurry up and finish!!!

I want to talk about what happens. You will know “what” when you read it.

Dave wrote: "I didn’t do that. Freddie Mercury did. 😂

I believe you can still put links in reviews (I linked to some YouTube vidoes in my review of Edward Tulane) and messages.

Do you really love Tom Selleck?..."

You are so right, you're not the culprit! :-D My dad really liked Radio Gaga, so did I too :-)

I tried to put the link and I got a red message saying that for safety reason links to external sites were not allowed anymore :-( I may need a recap crash course in all HTML GR, be my mentor! ;-)

*spitting my tea* what was THAT?? Is it...glitter?? Is he a vampire? What's with all that tan?? I liked him, I didn't love him! I never saw him without clothes on either...what's with the muscles? Was he a sex symbol? Not to me, anyway, for me he was either in funny movies, thrillers or Magnum, that's all...I think I'm scarred for life now! :-O

What can I say...disco and my dad, the connection is too sweet for me, in small doses of course :-) We didn't have skating rinks...at least not that I know of, and my parents wouldn't let me go anyway. Bah.

I know I know, I hear you. I want to finish too, give me days of 48h hours, please! I am already quite shocked by something that DID NOT happen.

My dad liked the Oak Ridge Boys. *shudder* I did not.

For “safety reasons”? That’s an Amazon euphemism if there ever was one. Amazon started as a really cool idea. Now, it’s just another global corporation with no soul. Shame on you Bezos.

Yes, Goodreads started blocking external links in public threads a couple of months ago. My cynicism suggests it had nothing to do with safety although there are “bot” accounts on Goodreads. However, if a Goodreads user is not savvy enough to spot one of the bot or hijacked accounts then I would highly recommend they disconnect from the internet. For safety reasons.

The internet is full of useful (and less than useful) information and dangerous chaos. We are still about 20 years from governments figuring out how to effectively regulate (and tax) the chaos.

One of my all-time favourite movie lines from Sir Anthony Hopkins (in one of my all-time favourite movies):



You can still use “internal” links if you want to point people to a book or review on Goodreads. And you can still use external links in your reviews and your mail messages.

I feel much safer.

Goodreads is a little less funny to afford me the comfort and security of internet safety. Thank you Jesus Bezos.

I’m sure that your HTML knowledge is more than sufficient.

That IS super-SMEXY Tom Selleck doing the Edward Cullen long before the brooding Robert Pattinson was born.

I bet you like him more now. He’s so haaaaawt. 😜

I think that’s photoshopped. Tom Selleck was indeed a sex symbol, but the sex symbols of the 70s/80s were not leanly muscular yet. Either girlishly handsome and roguish; or uber-beefcakes like Schwarzenegger, Lundgren and Stallone. Tom Selleck was at the dying end of the macho sex symbols of previous generations.

Was Tom Selleck in a funny movie? I remember him very well from Magnum PI. I watched it for the Ferrari.

Sorry about the scarring. 🥲 If it makes you feel any better, at least you were spared the glittery hairbush under the Jockey underwear.

No roller skating rinks where you grew up??? What did the tweens do? TV wasn’t that great yet and arcades and malls were a couple of years away. I’m so sorry.

Less work. More reading. I would suggest less sleep, but you already don’t sleep enough.

Dave wrote: "My dad liked the Oak Ridge Boys. *shudder* I did not.

For “safety reasons”? That’s an Amazon euphemism if there ever was one. Amazon started as a really cool idea. Now, it’s just another global co..."

I have no idea about the music of Oak Ridge Boys, sorry! I hardly ever disliked anything from my father's collection, really. Mostly soundtracks. And he paid for the our first records without ever judging what we wanted or why, I loved going to the big record store with him :-)

I will blame only GR and Amazon at the moment, I just think the changes are stupid and unnecessary, we're all capable of deciding if we want to click on something or not. Anyway, for the level of contribution I am offering right now it doesn't really change much...I will have to ask you for all those internal links and stuff, I just hear a wooosh sound over my head right now ahaha!! You always have the funniest gifs, I want to do that again too! After I get those days of 48h of course :-D

I am scarred! I am almost scared! I did not expect that and no, don't really find it smexy, I'm relieved it's photoshopped as I thought, please no more mention of any glittery bushy action, I might throw up! LOL!

Well yes, he was in the remake of Trois hommes et un couffin, 3 men and a baby? Both movies were blockbusters, I think I liked the original version more but the American remake was also hilarious! Oh how I loved Magnum PI...sigh...I might not think the same way now, let's keep my little child memories!! Yes, the Ferrari! I really liked Higgins too...

Oh lord...we didn't have malls either, Dave, we didn't revolve around arcades and malls, those came pretty recently. I am not sure we had arcades? I wouldn't know, not much of a social life. I really liked our tv to be honest :-D

I agree, I do not sleep enough...I think that's officially impossible since I got kids...

We have a somewhat long drive in front of us from Vegas to Salt Lake City (not quite as long as Orlando to Knoxville). I will introduce you to the Oak Ridge Boys. 😂 I hope we can still be friends afterwards.

Your father is awesome!

My parents never directly paid for any of my records (then tapes then CDs). Neither of them would even go to the record store with me (for which I was very grateful as I entered my teen years).

I couldn’t agree with you more about the clicking.

Nothing goes over your head when you decide to commit. You just don’t have the time or energy to be supersilly on GR right now.

I don’t know if those 48 hour days are coming. 🤔 I’m sorry.

Glitter Bush! I compleyely understand the nausea. Sorry. I think. 😂 I saw that gif and had to share.

Did you know that I never watched Three Men and a Baby? I didn’t even know there was a French original. I might have watched that. Those were my university years and I watched mainly foreign (to the U.S.) films (with subtitles). I was sickeningly pretentious.

Something very nostalgic and comforting about 70s/80s TV shows. Only one TV so the whole family gathered to watch. (Now, everyone has their heads buried in their own phones or tablets.)

No democratic process. We watched what my father wanted to watch. Unless there was too much violence or sexuality and then my mother would say my father’s name in a high pitched voice and the channel would immediately change or the TV would go off. My mother’s threshold of tolerance was a bit low. Some episodes of Magnum PI (and Love Boat) were turned off.

I liked Higgins. Very stodgy Brit which was the basis for my perception of the British until I started watching Dr. Who and Benny Hill.

But after the Ferrari (308?), I liked TC and his helicopter.

No roller skating rinks? No malls? No arcades? Ummmm…I’m feeling bad now. I was not social either, but those places were almost as mandatory as schools. I think my mother would take me, screaming and kicking, “Go make friends, David.” I already preferred reading.

*smile* Lack of sleep is part of the 25-year installment pricing for having children. Hold on. Just a few more years. Then, you begin to worry because they are not in the next room sleeping/texting.