Re: Black Adams Powers

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:41:14 -0700, Denny Colt
<phdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jul 30, 10:25 am, Peter Bruells <p...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Denny Colt <phdun...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Second, we never see him discover the word (though he hints at what
the word was when he asks her to tell Cap that he's "sorry").

Uh, is "sorry" supposedly the magic word? This strikes me as pretty
stupid idea (though strangely fitting for a 10-year old), unless it
comes with a "means it clause". And even then it'd be a close call,
even for someone like Hitler.

I think the point was that he changed it to something that Adam would
never say, or if he did, he'd only get around to saying it when he
truly *was* sorry. I thought it was kinda clever. If that's really the
case. I didn't notice it - some astute readers here did and as far as
I know it hasn't been confirmed anywhere, but it seems to be the case.

It's the one word The Fonz has trouble saying. The idiocy of using it
though is that it can be used in so many contexts, both positive and
negative, that doesn't involve the speaker being truly sorry.

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Lilith
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