tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post1540810586800677146..comments2024-01-28T22:17:29.551-08:00Comments on Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: Number 2534: The cheesiest hero of allPappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-27467224327893799972021-07-06T08:16:45.152-07:002021-07-06T08:16:45.152-07:00Daniel, I admire those brave people who went where...Daniel, I admire those brave people who went where no one had been. I loved lost world stories, then found out that most places in the world had been visited. Watching pictures from the space station brings to earth (literally) places that may not have been seen before. They are right in front of our eyes. That reality more-or-less killed the "lost world" type story. Writers now can go to alternate universes to re-invent the lost worlds, but the old stories are still fun to read. How many times have I brought up Tarzan and all of those "lost" lands and cities in Africa?<br /><br />"Ixnay on the ottonray," is a line from <i>Young Frankenstein</i>...? I inkthay, that is. And here, as a child, I was more proficient with igpay atinlay than good ol' American. Ommay was not amused, and said to "knock it off." And I always obeyed my othermay. (I am also an iarlay.)<br /><br />Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-65387076259717151932021-06-28T04:12:33.725-07:002021-06-28T04:12:33.725-07:00I don't think that I ever fantasized about bei...I don't think that I ever fantasized about being an explorer, perhaps because I was implicitly informed by the culture that opportunities for exploration were vanishing. At the time of my birth, satellite imaging and LIDAR were not yet realities, but cartographers had left few places on land unvisited. The questions of exploratory cartography that now remain seem to be archaeologic. I doubt that a major system of caves is still undiscovered. <br /><br />Those cavemen spoke <i>Pig Latin</i>; that's close to <i>speaking backwards</i>. They were on the cusp of grasping <i>great magical power!</i>Daniel [oeconomist.com]https://www.blogger.com/profile/06763094285750736837noreply@blogger.com