LeFalcon opines that it’s time to retire the tagline which has been on the masthead of this site for some months now: “Los Thunderlads are here to change the world! Or at least to talk a heck of a lot about it!”
I agree with him about that, but disagree with his suggestion that we ought to return to the old tagline, “Los Thunderlads are laying down some cable.” So, if anyone has any ideas, please tell me about them in the comments.
In case 
the black and white diagram of a tagline above is too boring for you, here’s a color picture of kids playing tag. They’re kind of in a line, I suppose.
acilius
believer1
lefalcon
losthunderlads
vthunderlad
Panther Red 
cymast
/ February 19, 2009Wow, am I the first to comment?
Er, that’s not my suggested tagline, BTW . .
I am fond of the current tagline, but if you must change it, how about
Acilius generously shares his Great Wealth of Knowledge.
or
How did you find us??
or
“The planet Ishtar circles the star Bel.” -Ian Summers
Now that we’re on subject, what’s the deal with “Panther Red”? (That could be a tagline too.)
acilius
/ February 19, 2009Gosh, I’d hate for it to be “Acilius generously shares his Great Wealth of Knowledge.” “How did you find us??” would be appropriate. The Ishtar one is okay with me, I guess. I’ve never known what the deal was with “Panther Red,” that was LeFalcon’s idea. It had something to do with a soft drink from the 80s, if I understood him correctly.
cymast
/ February 19, 2009OK how about
“Acilius hates this tagline: ‘Acilius generously shares his Great Wealth of Knowledge.’ “
acilius
/ February 19, 2009Well, that’s the best we’ve come up with so far.
lefalcon
/ February 19, 2009I’ve narrowed it down to two solid candidates. We’ll each cast a vote for either 1. or 2. … and then go with the one commanding fewer votes.
1. DIE, LOSER!
2. Hey asshole, your mother drives an eight-year-old Pontiac!
I vote for 2. Wait: I’ve changed to 1.
cymast
/ February 20, 2009I vote for 2. Being that Acilius and the rest of the Thunderlads have abstained, it looks like we have a tie.
So back to the drawing board.
acilius
/ February 20, 2009Is that first one German? Der Lose, Die Loser?
cymast
/ February 20, 2009Acilius- what was it that Hilter said when he looked in the mirror again? Now that’s a tagline!
acilius
/ February 20, 2009I don’t remember anything about that. My first thought was “You heilin’ me? You heilin’ me? I don’t see anybody else here. Who the fuck you heilin’, if you’re not heilin’ me?”
cymast
/ February 20, 2009It was awhile back in an email discussion about how Hitler wasn’t Aryan and so should’ve exterminated himself. You wrote that’s maybe was happened right before he offed himself- he looked in the mirror and exclaimed . . something like “I’ve found him!” but in German.
acilius
/ February 20, 2009“Ich hab’ ihn gefunden!”
Gee, that sounds interesting. And strangely similar to the TAXI DRIVER scene. He draws a gun on his reflection at the end of that.
cymast
/ February 20, 2009That’s probably it- I remember the “Ich”!
acilius
/ February 20, 2009It’s interesting that both focus on Hitler as a suicide, rather than on any of the other things he was.
acilius
/ February 20, 2009I was stuck on an obviously unsuitable idea, a list of various topics often addressed here. Something like “Politics- Old MTV Videos- Ukulele Playing- Things People Have Done to Bananas- Magazine Articles”- but the list would be too long. It also reminded me of something, but I couldn’t pin down what.
It finally came to me. The opening of IN SEARCH OF. Labels like that appeared on the screen during its opening sequence. “Extraterrestrials— Magic & Witchcraft— Lost Civilizations—” etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dhhEqM-m2M
So maybe we could do something based on the show’s disclaimer:
“This series presents information based in part on theory and conjecture. The producer’s purpose is to suggest some possible explanations, but not necessarily the only ones, to the mysteries we will examine.”
cymast
/ February 20, 2009Bingo! (The affirmative exclamation, not the dog or game.) As long as we include “Great Wealth of Knowledge” somewhere in there . .
acilius
/ February 20, 2009Let’s see…
“This blog presents information based in part on theory and conjecture. The bloggers’ intention is to suggest a Great Wealth of Knowledge, not all of it true, or relevant to the mysteries we will examine.”
cymast
/ February 20, 2009That has my vote!
Wow, I actually voted today . . twice.
acilius
/ February 20, 2009Maybe we could try something like this:
“This blog presents information based in part on theory and conjecture. The bloggers’ purpose is to simulate a Great Wealth of Knowledge, not all of it real, or relevant to the mysteries we will examine.”
cymast
/ February 20, 2009That’s better than “cran-” doncha think?
lefalcon
/ February 21, 2009Vthunderlad has done a beautiful job with the masthead. I love its every aspect.
cymast
/ February 21, 2009I think I get it now- “Ocean Spray”?
believer1
/ February 21, 2009I was going to sigest
3 Guys 2 Girls 1 Blog
cymast
/ February 21, 2009hmmm . . a gender thing.
“3 Guys 2 Girls 1 Blog” sounds like the title of a movie.
acilius
/ February 21, 2009That new masthead is great! The photo is perfect.
“3 Guys 2 Girls 1 Blog” is growing on me, I think we should add it to the rotation of taglines. “Cran-” is definitely better than anything I came up with. Much shorter, much less dependent on familiarity with IN SEARCH OF…
believer1
/ February 25, 2009i love movies so thanks
cymast
/ February 25, 2009I love kittens!
acilius
/ February 26, 2009So do I!