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Ashles
21st September 2005, 10:04 AM
By using these books (http://www.thewavemag.com/printarticle.php?articleid=24363) you too can be a superhero.
It's an amusing article and I wasn't sure whether to put it in Humour or here, but it seems that people don't visit Humour a great deal, and the books themselves are apparantly hoping to be taken seriously, so I'm posting here.
jmercer
21st September 2005, 10:09 AM
Oh, that's priceless - thanks for sharing, Ashles! :D
eri
21st September 2005, 10:11 AM
I love the description of the Yellow Bamboo website videos.
By the tone, I would think they aren't meant to be taken seriously. :)
Ashles
21st September 2005, 10:40 AM
Originally posted by eri
By the tone, I would think they aren't meant to be taken seriously. :)
The funny thing is the books and website really are serious.
Certainly Yellow Bamboo and Practical Psychic Self-Defence are meant to be taken seriously. Which just makes it funnier.
thaiboxerken
30th September 2005, 09:38 PM
This guy has no respect for the beliefs of other people.
Which is awesome!!
Ducky
1st October 2005, 02:55 PM
Sorry folks, the only real way to be a superhero is to have your spine enfused with titanium.
Or possibly Atomantium, but that guy's a pansy.
Nex
1st October 2005, 03:45 PM
Or possibly Atomantium, but that guy's a pansy.
< g33k >
Excuse me, but I believe that would be Adamantium.
< /g33k >
Ducky
1st October 2005, 03:48 PM
< g33k >
Excuse me, but I believe that would be Adamantium.
< /g33k >
Nice. My geek fiance did the same thing.:D
ungoliant
2nd October 2005, 08:15 PM
personally, i got my superpowers from a spacesuit i was given by aliens.
c4ts
2nd October 2005, 08:45 PM
I got mine from a heavy metal band.
Hawk one
2nd October 2005, 09:01 PM
I prefer Adrian Veidt's course on how to be a super-hero. :D
thaiboxerken
2nd October 2005, 09:09 PM
The really sad thing is that there are people that actually persue these courses to attain these superpowers.
c4ts
2nd October 2005, 09:35 PM
The really sad thing is that there are people that actually persue these courses to attain these superpowers.
Sadder still are the people who write them.
Bronze Dog
2nd October 2005, 09:41 PM
Sadder still are the people who write them.
Naw, they're not sad: They've got lots of money to happy them up. ;)
But slightly more seriously: I wonder if there's any way to determine the proportion of deluded nutbars to money-grubbers to dual-type woos.
rjh01
2nd October 2005, 09:57 PM
But slightly more seriously: I wonder if there's any way to determine the proportion of deluded nutbars to money-grubbers to dual-type woos.'
In a thread somewhere else, a certain person came up with the idea of looking in a bookshop and looking at how much shelf space is given over to the different types of books. The idea is that shelf space = sales. You can also look in newsagents for magazines.
RandFan
3rd October 2005, 07:34 AM
I wonder what it's like to be a superhero
I wonder where I'd go if I could fly around downtown
from some other planet, I'd get this funky high on yellow sun
boy I bet my friends will all be....stunned.......they're stunned
yeah
--Matchbox 20
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