How to be a superhero

[Ashles]

By using these books you too can be a superhero.

It's an amusing article and I wasn't sure whether to put it in Humour or here, but it seems that people don't visit Humour a great deal, and the books themselves are apparantly hoping to be taken seriously, so I'm posting here.

 

[jmercer]

Oh, that's priceless - thanks for sharing, Ashles!

 

[eri]

I love the description of the Yellow Bamboo website videos.

By the tone, I would think they aren't meant to be taken seriously.

 

[Ashles]

By the tone, I would think they aren't meant to be taken seriously.

The funny thing is the books and website really are serious.

Certainly Yellow Bamboo and Practical Psychic Self-Defence are meant to be taken seriously. Which just makes it funnier.

 

[thaiboxerken]

This guy has no respect for the beliefs of other people.


Which is awesome!!

 

[Ducky]

Sorry folks, the only real way to be a superhero is to have your spine enfused with titanium.

Or possibly Atomantium, but that guy's a pansy.

 

[Nex]

Or possibly Atomantium, but that guy's a pansy.

< g33k >

Excuse me, but I believe that would be Adamantium.

< /g33k >

 

[Ducky]

< g33k >

Excuse me, but I believe that would be Adamantium.

< /g33k >

Nice. My geek fiance did the same thing.

 

[ungoliant]

personally, i got my superpowers from a spacesuit i was given by aliens.

 

[c4ts]

I got mine from a heavy metal band.

 

[Hawk one]

I prefer Adrian Veidt's course on how to be a super-hero.

 

[thaiboxerken]

The really sad thing is that there are people that actually persue these courses to attain these superpowers.

 

[c4ts]

The really sad thing is that there are people that actually persue these courses to attain these superpowers.

Sadder still are the people who write them.

 

[Bronze Dog]

Sadder still are the people who write them.

Naw, they're not sad: They've got lots of money to happy them up.

But slightly more seriously: I wonder if there's any way to determine the proportion of deluded nutbars to money-grubbers to dual-type woos.

 

[rjh01]

But slightly more seriously: I wonder if there's any way to determine the proportion of deluded nutbars to money-grubbers to dual-type woos.'

In a thread somewhere else, a certain person came up with the idea of looking in a bookshop and looking at how much shelf space is given over to the different types of books. The idea is that shelf space = sales. You can also look in newsagents for magazines.

 

[RandFan]

I wonder what it's like to be a superhero
I wonder where I'd go if I could fly around downtown
from some other planet, I'd get this funky high on yellow sun
boy I bet my friends will all be....stunned.......they're stunned
yeah

--Matchbox 20