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Re: Club Name discussion
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:04:37 GMT
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On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 20:35:57 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman)
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> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve Bliss) writes:
> > On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 09:04:02 GMT, ba-lego@cinnamon.com (Todd Lehman)
> > wrote:
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> > > PNLTC is unpronounceable no matter how you look at it, so that's OK; no one
> > > is going to bastardize (mispronounce) the name. But when you have a name
> > > with a vowel surrounded by consonants, someone will always try to make it
> > > into a word and say it aloud. If they're lucky, they get it right. :)
> >
> > Mxptlk (sp?)
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> Hey, was he the little alien arch-enemy of Superman on the old Super Friends
> cartoon show who would disappear back to his home planet if you tricked him
> into saying his own name?
I'd assume so. He came from the comic books originally. I didn't know
he ever rubbed elbows with Wendy and Super Marv (or was it the Wonder
Twins?).
He had to say his name *backwards*. 'say' isn't completely accurate --
Superman got rid of him once by getting him to type his name backwards.
Steve
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| Steve Bliss wrote in message <36c9eac8.8833898@lu...et.com>... (...) Friends (...) him (...) Wonder Twins, usually with either Superman or Batman and Robin around too. It still plays on Cartoon Network in the afternoons. It being "Superfriends." (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Hey, was he the little alien arch-enemy of Superman on the old Super Friends cartoon show who would disappear back to his home planet if you tricked him into saying his own name? --Todd (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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