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As much as the mind recoils, that was pretty close to the original Lee/Kirby pitch, wasn't it? The core appeal of the team was that they were superheroes with a bickering-family setup and defined personalities, a formula that got copied by most notably the X-Men (who added the soap operatic...

They could theoretically be the same death, if whoever was running the !Manhattan Project was very cavalier about the President's mental health.

“As per the most recent round of negotiations, Ukraine will give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for inheriting the former Soviet Union’s qualification for the knock-out stage of the World Cup…”

Top 5 Funniest Presidential Deaths: 5. 4. 3. John Connally 2. Harry Truman 1. Strom Thurmond Dishonorable Mention (Unfunny Death): Marion Zioncheck

Credit to @Indicus for sharing this one on Discord:

You wouldn't believe how hard it was to find something for this With all votes counted, our winner has been constructed as @Steve Brinson with his list The Commanding Heights! Comiserations to the losers, who will now be made to build a gigantic statue of him in North Dakota. Go get your...

Leaders of the UK (post-American occupation) 1950 - 1951: Field Marshal Peter Kemp 1951 - 1955: Kim Philby 1955 - 1958: Jack Jones 1958 - 1964: William Warbey 1964 - 1975: Rab Butler 1975 - 1979: Robert Carr 1979 - 1979: Janet Young, Baroness Young 1979 - 1979: Henry Plumb 1979 - 1981: John...

April Fools! I moved the start of the contest to the next day! (This is absolutely 100% the real reason and I did not forget.) The rules are simple; I give a prompt, and you have until 9:00pm on the last day of the month (or whenever I remember to post the announcement on that day) to post a...

There’s a lot going on here, but I think the highlight might throwing Dr Robotnik into the sea of characters-that-are-the-same here. That hedgehog really deserves his ego. “Rule of thumb, Horus: you can’t kill the messiah.”

Entries are now closed! The poll will soon be constructed out of a steel-concrete mix, spanning a mighty gorge of votes, and doomed to collapse thanks to critical flaws created by the natural breaking-down of this metaphor.

Just a few hours left to finish up! @Mumby, your list will not be counted if the “list” bit isn’t done before the deadline.

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Part of me was worried that was going too far, but I didn't have the strength to cut it. Don't worry! While this list's universe is in many ways grimly stuck in an internal 1970s, that also means Britannica Online's editors are paid, so they cleared this one up sharpish. However that does also...

Yeah, I only realised midway through what I could be implying and after that the rest of the thing just flowed. I see why this is such a popular TL format now--it's fun to lean into "this source is crap" and give yourself permission to break the rules! Economically healthy and stable...

This was my entry for last month's HoS List Challenge! This month's challenge is themed around Grand Projects, the link is in my sig, and there's still about a week left to get your entry in! Shorting England By The Pound Chancellors of the Exchequer: 1970-1973: Iain Macleod (Conservative)...

The Square Meatball Premiers of the Union of Sovereign States: 1991-2022: Mikhail Gorbachev (Union of Socialist Democrats) def 1991: (majority) Yegor Ligachyov (Communist), Aron Atabek (We Turks), Alexander Barkashov (National Unity Front), Valeriya Novodvorskaya (Future of Democracy) def 1996...

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Extremely high levels of British Journalist here. This acts as a fun way to introduce a character--we get, by design and in a reasonable way, just enough info to see the murky shapes of everything we don't know.

rip bozo Microparty AH like this is always fun to see--there's a lot that looks different with a little tinkering on the margins--and while your last Respect list was fun, this one is probably more realistic.

Finally got around to actually reading Workers Spatula. Insane stuff, very funny when I could work out what it was actually talking about, but the real highlight is figuring out which one of the three or four writers wrote whichever article. Felt a lot like reading a very longrunning groupchat.