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   danny burstein to Adam H. Kerman   
   Re: comic characters, was: Sonya Massey,   
   29 Jul 24 21:46:35   
   
   From: dannyb@panix.com   
      
   In  "Adam H. Kerman"  writes:   
      
   >danny burstein  wrote:   
      
   >>>. . .   
      
   >>Meanwhile, what's Doctor "the Hulk" Banner's   
   >>first name again?   
      
   >That's an Actor's Guild thing. No two Hulks may have the same first   
   >name.   
      
   >>(hint: he had one in the original comic series   
   >>which was changed for tv, then back again.   
      
   >It went from Bruce to Bruce David to David Bruce and now I'm dizzy. I   
   >think the middle name was a retcon too.   
      
   >>Immortalized in a Mad Magazine satire...)   
      
   Bruce in the original comics to David in the Bill Bixby tv series.   
      
   Mad Magazin satire shows the tv producers   
   discussing the program, and then saying (rot-13):   
      
   Gurl'er qvfphffvat gur fubj naq bar   
   bs gurz fnlf gurl pna'g hfr gur svefg   
   anzr bs "Oehpr" orpnhfr vg fbhaqf gbb   
   rssvzvangr.   
   Fb gurl nterr ba Qnivq.   
   Va gur onpxtebhaq gurer'f gi pbirentr bs   
   gur Bylzcvpf, jvgu gur naabhapre fnlvat   
   fbzrguvat yvxr "naq abj Oehpr Wraare unf   
   whfg jba uvf gragu Bylzcvp zrqny.  Oehpr   
   Wraare vf gur hygvzngr va znyr fgeratgu!"   
      
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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