Matt Deckard
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Well... who is that character? is that from a comic?
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Mycroft... what is your avatar?
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Matt Deckard
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I knew I recognized.
Tell me more about the sandman.
Tell me more about the sandman.
Mycroft
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I here now. Sandman is a Golden Age of Comics hero, who is a regular rich buissness man. His real name is Wes(ley) Bernard Dobbs. He is trained in oriaental martial arts and his only weapon is his Gas Gun (shoots sleeping and/or truth serum gas). He wears a gas mask not only to hide his identity, but to sheild himself from the gas, which is symbolic that he is only human. Also, he get nightmares that so what predict his cases, and the horor of the world. Any other questions, post them and I am here. Also for some more info: http://my.execpc.com/~icicle/SANDMAN.html
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I'm glad you cleared that up. I was thinking it was William S. Burroughs, with a gas mask and a caulking gun. 
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Who is William S. Burroughs?
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Caulking gun! Yeah it does look like one...That made me laugh hard. Thanks, Retro Grouch.
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Sure, he is a plumber in his sparetime(Sandman).
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It looks like a caulking gun to me too.
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Enough with this cocking gun stuff, it is a sleeping/truth serum gas gun. OK.
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Mycroft said:
Hmmmm....I bet he has a hard time getting dates.
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He gets dates with the DA's dauhter.
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....the one in the blind school?
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He reminds me of this guy from the first Star Wars movie:
He reminds me of this guy from the first Star Wars movie:
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Terminix man?
What with all the realestate activity these days, he could make a killing doing termite work...;-)
What with all the realestate activity these days, he could make a killing doing termite work...;-)
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Sorry Mycroft. We are having fun at your expense.
It is an odd avitar though.
Sorry Mycroft. We are having fun at your expense.
It is an odd avitar though.
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William S. Burroughs...
...died in '97 at age 83- he was a very interesting character indeed- a drug abusing some-time homosexual, who accidentally shot his wife in the head.
A profuse writer- one of the original 'Beat' movement guys. He wrote a short movie screenplay called The Bladerunner- which is quite unrelated to the one we know. If you want a sampling of Burroughs, you should see David Cronenberg's 'The Naked Lunch' , which is an adaption of a novel and semi-semi-autibographical. He's actually one of my favourite writers.
He once said- 'I took heroin for six months, and damned if I could get addicted to it'. Author, poet and all-round weirdo.
He also put some of his work to music in the early '90s with The Disposable Heroes of HipHoprisy. Some of his novels: Junkie, The Soft Machine, The Naked Lunch...
He was always a smart dresser and wore a hat. not a gas mask.
BT.
...died in '97 at age 83- he was a very interesting character indeed- a drug abusing some-time homosexual, who accidentally shot his wife in the head.
A profuse writer- one of the original 'Beat' movement guys. He wrote a short movie screenplay called The Bladerunner- which is quite unrelated to the one we know. If you want a sampling of Burroughs, you should see David Cronenberg's 'The Naked Lunch' , which is an adaption of a novel and semi-semi-autibographical. He's actually one of my favourite writers.
He once said- 'I took heroin for six months, and damned if I could get addicted to it'. Author, poet and all-round weirdo.
He also put some of his work to music in the early '90s with The Disposable Heroes of HipHoprisy. Some of his novels: Junkie, The Soft Machine, The Naked Lunch...
He was always a smart dresser and wore a hat. not a gas mask.
BT.
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so the DA's daughter doesn't mind his gas.....wow she's a keeper
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MK said:
It is fine, I knew you joking, I was just informaing people about Sandman more, I like that you think its odd. (insert evil laugh)
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a lot of golden age heroes had gas
I'm a fan of the old Sandman also (not Kirby's yellow tights version). Many of my favorite characters from the 1930s and 1940s eschewed killing so knock-out gas was popular. The Green Hornet and Secret Agent X has gas guns and Doc Savage used glass capsules with the dope inside.
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I'm a fan of the old Sandman also (not Kirby's yellow tights version). Many of my favorite characters from the 1930s and 1940s eschewed killing so knock-out gas was popular. The Green Hornet and Secret Agent X has gas guns and Doc Savage used glass capsules with the dope inside.
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