This might be a bit off-topic
Even incorporating lurking time I'm not what you'd call an enduring B3tard, but I think I've ascertained that a good number of the miscreants and fabricators herein are a) about my age and b) about my level of geekiness, so I'm going to assume that everyone remembers Thundercats. For those of you who don't know, the bad guy was called Mumm-Ra the (this is the important bit) EVER-LIVING.

This always struck me as a bit unfair. His mantra was "As long as evil exists... MUMM-RA LIVES!!!" (try to employ a bit of imagination here if you don't remember it, I can't make it sound quite as scary as I remember it being when I was eight). How, exactly, were the Thundercats supposed to wipe out ALL the evil in the world? This was the Eighties! Synth-pop was everywhere! Transvision Vamp were kicking about with their terrible ear abuse!

You knew where you were with Transformers; robots fight, good robots try to kill bad robots with big laser guns, even if it never happened in the cartoons. The comics, with hindsight, were pretty brutal. Even in He-Man there was the hope that eventually he'd kick Skeletor's head in and bring peace and lasting bordeom to Eternia. But the Thundercats were fucked! Come to think of it, since the cartoon ended we've had Tony Blair, Oasis, Cristiano Ronaldo and Michael McIntyre; fooking LOADS of evil. Mumm-Ra must still be around, which means the Thundercats lost. Now I'm depressed.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 12:37, 14 replies)

Thinking about it
That whole Thundercats thing was just fucking weird... Half people half cats fighting a mummy... I bet the writing room for that show had complementary acid tabs along with the donuts and coffee.

And why didn't they just burn the fucker? Mummies burn. They used to use mummies as kindling in Egypt for a good long while, what with the lack of wood over there. One petrol bomb and they could've been smoking cigars and drinking cocktails on the beach for the rest of their lives.

Stupid fuckers.
( SpankyHanky, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 13:04, closed)

Why did none of this occur to us when we were kids?
We'd have made a bloody fortune in the supernatural bad guy vanquishing business. If Venkman et al hadn't got there first.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 13:06, closed)

And Dogtanian seemed absolutely
plausible. I remember thinking everyone in olde times was actually a walking talking dog at one stage.
( SpankyHanky, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 13:13, closed)

Damn you
Now I've got the theme tune in my head
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 13:18, closed)

woofwoofwoof woofwoof woofwoof woofwoofwoof woofwoofwoof woofwoof
(danceswithferrets is leaking sanity, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 20:00, closed)

I think you mean...
Woofwoofwoofwoofwoofwoofwoof woofwoofwoofwoofwoofwoofwoofwoof.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Wed 17 Feb 2010, 18:13, closed)

If only there were some kind of associated message forum on the internet where you could put off-topic posts.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 13:07, closed)

That's crazy talk fool

(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Tue 16 Feb 2010, 13:09, closed)

I NO!

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 13:10, closed)

What?
The QOTW is about Mums. It doesn't say "your Mum" (although I'm sure many people have) or even "someone's Mum", just "Mums". Mumm-Ra counts /end pedantry
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 13:13, closed)

That's so tenuous it hurts my nutsack.
www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/

Edit: truth be told, you'd probably get more conversation with a post like this over there than you will here. That said, it's unusually quiet today.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 13:18, closed)

To be honest
I haven't ventured into OffTopic yet (please see admission of Noobiness above). I thank you for the recommendation. Thing is, my Mum is brilliant, and I have no stories to tell of her. Hence the obvious alternative; a slightly weird 80's cartoon featuring a mummy. You'd have done the same.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 13:31, closed)

*waves at noob*
Come over to OffTopic, its fun and full of sweets and moonbeams*

*The following statement may be a lie.
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Tue 16 Feb 2010, 13:38, closed)

I ventured
You owe me sweets

Moonbeams optional
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 13:40, closed)