Current Poll

[Spriggan]

haha this is probaly one of your best Fell  

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

  Is that appropiate? I'm one of those "long time readers, first time posters." But I must say that the current number of votes is the oddest I've seen in a poll yet. Is there any such explanation for this on anyone's part?

[Spriggan]

First off thanks for reading Gemm .  I was wondering that myself so I checked our site statistics and on moday and tuesday we got over 4,200 hits on monday alone.  So I'm wondering if Fell or Tage got a link posted on another site.  Last time we had this flux a friend at www.toriyamaworld.com posted a link for a few days.

Hum just found out that SublimeTimes a part of Sublimedirectorys.com  had us as the top site of the week.  www.sublimedirectory.com/stimes/

[Fellfrosch]

TWG has been making the rounds of a lot of blogs recently; Sublime Directory is the largest so far, and the only one who's readers have participated in the poll. So thank you, all you Sublime Times people out there! Feel free to stick around and click doughnut-related radio buttons.

By the way, Gemm, I'd like to add that you're truly outrageous. Truly, truly, truly outrageous.

[Tage]

We have long-time readers, first-time posters? Wow, and here I thought the world at large was ignoring our humble little forum.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Outrageous huh? Well hey, thats compliment enough for me. Thank you Fell. ...wonder why Fell called me that. Oh well. And Tage, I read the articles more than I do the forum, but I'll try to get around to the forums more   So ya, I guess that makes sense, even though I must say, "it doesn't." Anywho, thanks for the answer.

[stacer]

Gemm, were you kidding about not being sure why Fell said you were truly outrageous? It's hard to tell with text. If you truly don't know, he's referring to the Gem (or was it Jemm?) cartoon from the mid-80s, the girl with pink hair that had a band. Man, I loved that cartoon. It was on right after Thundercats, which was another fav. The Gem theme went "Gem! Truly outrageous..." etc. Can't really remember the rest, or at least, I won't admit to it.

[Fellfrosch]

I bet yesterdayland.com has it somewhere. At the very least, you could find out about the series. Remember, though, that Jem wasn't just a girl with a band--she was an 80s business woman who used a magic/alien/cybernetic (I don't know) ring to transform into her secret alter ego as rock star. I'm embarrassed to know that much about the show...

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

OHh....how about that. I don't think I was around for that...ummm ok then. Sure.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Fell, uh... we're ALL embarassed you know that much..

[Fellfrosch]

Don't deny that you were singing the theme song in your head. I know...

[stacer]

Come to think of it, Fell, I do remember the business woman with a magic ring thing. She was cool. And, of course, you can't forget the black and green haired girl band who were always trying to beat Jem and her band. I even had a sticker book, like the Barbie ones in which you can change their outfits etc. It's like a glorified coloring book--a coloring book for the sophisticated 5th grader.

Ah, those were the days, looking forward to Jem after school, imagining *I* could be her. Or that when I grew up I'd live on another planet like the Thundercats. Or find a magic sword like She-Ra. Oh yeah, man. But I refuse to acknowledge that I knew anything about GI Joe or He-Man--that was boy stuff.

[Fellfrosch]

I never imagined that I was Jem, thank goodness, but I always got to be Panthro when we played Thudercats. For some reason, though, the games of Thundercats were always ruined because I'd spend the whole time trying to figure out why everyone else wasn't clamoring to be Panthro as well--I mean, he's obviously the best one, so what was wrong with all of these people?

We'd usually end up playing Go-Bots instead, and I'd be Loco because he was one of the only ones I owned, and because I thought the name was funny. There was this one kid who always wanted to be two Go-Bots, and he'd spend the whole time switching into one persona and then asking where the other one was. No one ever answered him, the little geek. I always used to think that breakdancing and beatboxing were invented by kids trying to emulate the sound and motion of Go-bots transforming, but I suppose we may never know.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I was strictly a Star Wars man. Ok, yes, it was aldultrated slightly by GI Joe and Transformers, but never GoBots or Thunder Cats. We, like everyone, argued about who got to be luke. Until I realized that although he didn't use the Force, Han Solo was infinitely cooler, and got the girl anyway. Suddenly there were no conflicts.

[Fellfrosch]

We usually solved that problem by saying that Han Solo got a lightsaber too. And Leia always had a sister.