tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post7818357402567900479..comments2024-03-28T18:40:59.101+00:00Comments on CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: IF I HAD A HAMMER... (I DO, I DO! I'VE GOT TWO!)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-72485853553242960262017-07-13T01:31:59.289+01:002017-07-13T01:31:59.289+01:00"No - I'm Sparked-icus!" Can't r..."No - I'm Sparked-icus!" Can't recall if I've told this purportedly true story before, but one of Kirk Douglas's sons was a singer who did a night club act. One night he was singing his heart out, but the audience were chatting amongst themselves and not paying him the attention he felt he deserved. So he stopped singing and said something like "Look, I'm here trying to entertain you and you're disrespecting me by not listening. Do you know who I am? I'm Kirk Douglas's son." There was silence for a second, and then a voice from a corner piped up "No, I'm Kirk Douglas's son!" Then another and another, etc., from all around the room - "No, I'm Kirk Douglas's son!" That's supposed to be a true story, but if it isn't, it ought to be.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-77811990791531030862017-07-12T23:27:23.512+01:002017-07-12T23:27:23.512+01:00Just remembered, my parents confiscated the metal ...Just remembered, my parents confiscated the metal sword off me for stabbing the element of the electric fire and blowing the fuses! If the sword had not had a wooden handle, I would have electrocuted myself!<br />I was very nearly "SPARKED-ICUS"!!John Pitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08035300858247327343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-86344273577282772242017-07-12T01:55:08.659+01:002017-07-12T01:55:08.659+01:00Never had a Roman outfit, JP, but I've got a c...Never had a Roman outfit, JP, but I've got a collectors' item action figure of a Roman soldier who looks just like Russell Crowe. It doesn't say that on the box though, because it's an unauthorised likeness.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-8195192587639954212017-07-12T00:36:55.177+01:002017-07-12T00:36:55.177+01:00In the early sixties, our Teacher recommended that...In the early sixties, our Teacher recommended that we went to the cinema to watch "Ben Hur", so I pestered my Mother to take me! - This led to my next fad - Roman soldiers and that following Christmas I got a real metal ( aluminium? ) Roman outfit to wear as well!John Pitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08035300858247327343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-40004441115302588392017-07-11T14:11:31.594+01:002017-07-11T14:11:31.594+01:00Why couldn't you have lived in my neighbourhoo...Why couldn't you have lived in my neighbourhood, JP? We'd have had a lot of fun playing comics and TV heroes. (I also used to play at The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - and Time Tunnel.) Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-49044729473028287652017-07-11T13:59:58.594+01:002017-07-11T13:59:58.594+01:00Naturally we would play at Batman & Robin, but...Naturally we would play at Batman & Robin, but, as they were the only Super-Heroes on the screen in the sixties, we never bothered with anyone else. A few years earlier though we would play "knights in armour", balaclavas as chainmail, ( I actually had a grey, plastic knights outfit ) and the 3/4 Mustekeers, complete with a cowboy hat and our mac fastened with one top button around our neck as a cloak!John Pitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08035300858247327343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-2787506784654118222017-07-11T10:52:02.083+01:002017-07-11T10:52:02.083+01:00Well, how do you know that's not exactly what ...Well, how do you know that's not exactly what happened, CJ? Maybe the inscription was Norse, but as Blake speaks and reads English, that's the way he (and the readers) saw it. (Remember, he was Thor all along anyway.)<br /><br />The ABC cinema in Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street where I saw Reeves' first Superman movie and Keaton's first Batman film (10 years apart) is now a concert venue, but the doorway and foyer look pretty much the same. When I acquired a replacement Superman The Movie poster (exclusive to Scotland) a couple or so years back, I stood in the doorway with it, to re-associate it with the place I'd bought my original in January '79. What's that, Nurse - time for my medicine? Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-84738471864209532392017-07-11T03:21:42.279+01:002017-07-11T03:21:42.279+01:00It's just daft that an ancient Norse hammer wo...It's just daft that an ancient Norse hammer would have English instructions written on it but even modern Marvel draws Thor's hammer that way. The words should be written as runes or something which magically enable the reader to understand...I don't know, they can do anything in comics.<br /><br />But I can sympathize with you re-creating that childhood moment - in my town centre there's a building that was once a cinema (I saw Star Wars, Sinbad & The Eye Of The Tiger and various other films there) and I pass it on my way to Tesco. I sometimes stand by the front doors to "re-create" the days when I was standing in line to see a film - it's always in the early morning when I do this so nobody is around to see me. My first ever film, When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth, was viewed at a different cinema which has since been demolished and is now an empty plaza so if I stand in the plaza I'm on the same spot as my first film experience :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com