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#130510 07/18/2004 3:49 PM
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What is the origin of the New York City nickname, Gotham? I can't seem to find it anywhere.




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#130512 07/19/2004 9:08 PM
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Isn't Gotham the city in which Superman lives? I may be mixing up the cartoon character though.


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Superman lives in Metropolis, it's Batman who lives in Gotham I think. Funny how there are no famous superheroes living in Spuzzum or Moosejaw.


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Funny how there are no famous superheroes living in Spuzzum or Moosejaw.

Well, my favorite superheroes live in Frostbite Falls, Minnesota. Doesn't the Caped Crusader live in Gotham City?


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Frostbite Falls

FWIW, the entire first season is out on DVD. We're laughing our way through it. Can't wait for the second: I think that's when the theme music changes (for the better).


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Hmmmm, wasn't there a cartoon set in the Yukon. The main character was a Mountie.


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Is it Rocky and Bullwinkle in Frostbite Falls??
and does anyone remember Adam Ant? I haven't tho't of him for years.


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>wasn't there a cartoon set in the Yukon. The main character was a Mountie.

Sgt. Preston of the Yukon (not a cartoon) was undoubtedly a point of reference for Dudley Do-right of the Mounties, part of the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon empire.
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http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/cnicholl/sgt_preston_of_the_yukon.htm



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Is it Rocky and Bullwinkle in Frostbite Falls?

You jest, n'est-ce pas?

http://members.shaw.ca/fffff/



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Spuzzum or Moosejaw.

So, where's Super Chicken from?


#130521 07/21/2004 12:10 PM
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I had no idea Adam Ant was a comic character. Man, that guy can't catch a break.


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Q: So, where's Super Chicken from?

A: According to a zip code displayer in one episode, Henry Cabot Henhouse III lives near Tujunga Canyon,


#130523 07/21/2004 1:35 PM
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I thought Adamant was the name of a porcelain urinal manufacturer in the UK.


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maus (well the author at any rate) lives in rego park, ny
(me too!)


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Adam Ant:

http://pub209.ezboard.com/banadamantmessageboard


But I seem to remember a cartoon strip called Atom Ant?




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Here's the 80s pop revere in comic form (as if he otherwise existed)
http://geocities.com/antlib12/tops1.html




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http://www.toonopedia.com/atomant.htm

I remember that guy... come to think of it, he reminds me a little of this guy...

http://www.insidejoke.tv/200111/gazoo.asp


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Metropolis, of course, where he works as a chicken sexer under the pseudonym Cluck Kent.



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Urinalysis is correct. Unless you are using steaming video, in which case I don't want to know any more!



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Urinalysis is correct.

Why? your hands are soaking in it ...

steaming video

I saw the best clams of Pismo Beach steamed and consumed ... ("You should go easy on the Tabasco, Fred ...")




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Atom Ant is the one I was thinking about not Adam.


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porcelain urinal manufacturer

I thought that was Sexauer.

"Sexauer? hell, we don't even get 15 minutes for lunch...."



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Hmmm. In Australia, United Urinals was started up by Trev's cousin Bruce in 1949. In the beginning he had nothing but a sheet of corrugated iron and his imagination ...


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In the beginning he had nothing but a sheet of corrugated iron and his imagination ...

Oh, do keep going, Pfranz. You've got a great opener for the Bulwer-Lytton contest!



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