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RUDE ROVER
The Christmas dog with no class! He sings and toots Jingle Bells.
INFLATABLE TREE
Who needs the hassle of a real Christmas tree?
FARTING SANTA
Go ahead and pull his finger!

I once knew some guys who ran this webpage that was sort of like a celebrity deathmatch...only, about 5 years before CDM. They paired of people like Zack Morris & Ferris Bueller. Batman vs. Superman (Batman won!)...the guys would do this running commentary about the "fight", and then have spectators vote on the outcome. I wish I could find their site again...it was neat-o.

Pah, Batman so wouldn't have won.

I didn't see what Maegan was thinking about, but I do believe that Batman could win, because he has a piece of Kryptonite, and he's a lot smarter.

He has a piece of kryptonite?
Really?

...My post WAS trying to be related to the original blog...in that those guys could have done what the webpage I mentioned does...have a blow-by-blow account, and then a vote.

Batman would TOO have won. Superman is an ALIEN.

Not to comic book guy, but Batman did win. Superman and Batman fought in Frank Millers: Dark Night Returns, Batman won by using some kryptonite...

There's no way Batman would win. Superman would just vaporize him from space - End of story. And I'm not a comic geek. Just a computer one.

"'midget' is considered a derogatory term. "

like so called "big people" who are in reality just plain FAT.

big btw is in dutch PIG
so maybe, just maybe big people are just that... pigs

BTW in dutch, the word Beasjt means "moron"....

Anyone fooled by that photoshopping diserves to be fooled. Bad bad job...

Alex, I would think that by about ten or so midgets, or short people, the lion would have had its eyes poked out, and maybe bleed to death over a few hours.

Mutton Jeff = Deaf.
Canary Wharf = dwarf.
Cardinal Wolsey = cerebral palsy.
Raspberry Ripple = cripple.
Rubber and plastic = spastic.
Tulips and roses = multiple sclerosis.
Bacon rind = blind.
Diet Pepsi = epilepsy.
Benny and the Jets = Tourettes.
Wasps and bees = amputee.
Haha--I'm going to have to remember these.

Yeah...

I think if you picked out one or two to sacrifice that the rest of the "vertically-challenged" could then take the lion...

Give him a little (NPI) something to snack on and then have a couple guys try to strangle him via suffocation. Combine this with another one giving his danglers a good yank (causing a roar of pain and making him exhale while doing so) and I'm pretty sure they could eventually give him a head-lock of death. So long as it was an uninjured person trying to strangle him and not a half-eaten one!

Oops...

I meant "suffocate him via strangulation" not vice versa...

Midget offensive???

Well, that's just political correctness gone mentally challenged!

Midget offensive??? - Peter

Why do I picture lots of little people climbing out of trenches and charging toward the enemy?

Charybdis

Thank you.

That exchange between Roger Ebert (medium-to-large movie critic) and Daniel Woodburn (small/little/midget/dwarf/short/diminutive actor) is profoundly unsatisfying, because, while saying that he finds the term "midget" offensive (without ever being too crystal-clear as to why), he never really explicitly states what his preferred term is when he needs to describe someone of small stature.

Until somebody clears that up for me, I'm stuck using cumbersome locutions like "someone of small stature."

Big Gary. I got the impression he uses "Little people"

Which to my ear seems worse than midget.

Dark Knight Returns, Dark Knight Returns II, Hush...Batman and Superman end up fighting all the time (DC has been doing books for a loooong time and often run out of ideas for things to do with their top two characters, so that's pretty much a default plot line). Batman almost always wins. He does have kryptonite--he has Lex Luthor's kryptonite ring, Superman deliberately gave it to him so that if he ever goes rogue due to mind control or such, he knows someone will be able to stop him. (Which is exactly what happened when Poison Ivy took control of Supes during the Hush storyline).

But that's just a convenient method, it's not the real reason Batman wins against Superman. The real reason is that Batman is a genius-level intellect who is ruthless enough to do anything short of killing to attain his goals; Superman is scientifically brilliant, but he's not a lateral thinker, and he's constantly hampered by his complicated moral code. (He sort of has to be--anyone with that much power had better have lots of self-restraint, for the good of the planet.)

That's the whole point--Superman is capable of vaporizing Batman from orbit, but he would never be able to bring himself to do it. He'd angst and hem and haw, and meanwhile Batman sneaks up behind him and judo-throws him into a teleportation matrix to a red-sun solar system or something similar. Heck, Batman once strapped a bomb to his body and told Superman that if he didn't give up, "someone" in the city would be blown to smithereens. A guy who's a big blue boyscout can't win against an obsessive-compulsive genius who's willing to gamble his own life to win. Who could, except for another ruthless obsessive-compulsive genius? (Prometheus or Luthor, for instance....)