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>>The late Harlan Ellison said anyone still obsessively fascinated by comics after they pass age 9 is an idiot.

I guess that would depend on the definition of “obsessively fascinated”, because I know a lot of people who are obsessively fascinated with sports on TV and they shout at it like the TV can hear and tell the coach what he is doing wrong.

One of the funniest things I ever heard was that sports on TV is like Dungeons and Dragons for people with no imagination.

15 posted on 07/21/2018 2:46:38 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)

I don’t follow comics and I don’t follow sports (but my wonderful wife follows baseball so I keep up due to her).

My brain filters everything through politics (as I heard Pat Buchanan’s sister say once). I say for debates and elections and demographic analysis of results—THIS is my sports event.

21 posted on 07/21/2018 3:01:26 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud , non citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)

I agree with Harlan Ellison. You've described another species of idiot. There's no shortage of idiocy floating around in popular culture (which is grown in a petri dish).

32 posted on 07/21/2018 3:23:30 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)

One of the funniest things I ever heard was that sports on TV is like Dungeons and Dragons for people with no imagination.

LOL!!!! I just started playing Dungeons & Dragons.

With a good DM running a game it can become a hella tough boot camp obstacle course for your mind.

52 posted on 07/21/2018 4:21:55 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain ("Progressivism" is as every kind of evil: it can never create, only corrupt and destroy.)

One of the funniest things I ever heard was that sports on TV is like Dungeons and Dragons for people with no imagination.

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True, unfortunately ... most people in the US today grew up without anything to encourage the use of imagination. Story telling is only effective now when everything is spelled out, demonstrated, shown down to the minutest detail, even then the stories often fail.