Welllllllllllll...I see your point, but....Mary Jane never had her own series as Jimmy did. Holy Crow, that title lasted longer than most hero comics --- with over 160 issues.

Also, Kirby used the "Jimmy Olsen, Superman's Pal" book as an important part of the Fourth World stuff.

And it wasn't just monsters that accounted for Jimmy's transformations. While sime might want to see him clixed as a werewolf, turtle boy or human porcupine...I'm guessing at least as many, myself included, would want to see him as Elastic Lad.

That. Is. Sweet.

I used to be a camp counselor at a YMCA. We happened to have a large area in the back of the Y where there was a shelter, fire pit, field and woods. We had sleepovers at the end of every two week session and we'd (I'D) do a campfire.

The left over X-mas trees from the previous winter's sale were on the other side of the building and had spent since December drying out.

When the fire was going for a while, I'd back the kids up and throw a tree on the fire and make 30 foot flames.

Once I got bold (male (stupid)) and put two on at once. The fire department showed up.

Try it sometime.

I know so much about Superman history that I don't know what this "Fourth World" thing is, so maybe I'm not the best person to debate this issue. haha!

Gentlemen....grab a rope.

Have you ever heard that song:

You're just too good to be true
Can't take my eyes off of you?

Did someone get their picante sauce from NEW YORK CITY!!??

For our bigger fires, we did have to let the fire department know so they wouldn't come flying out every time we did it. Pine does give a good hot burn, that's for sure. If you'd get some oak in there, the darn thing would go for days.

Oak reeks like old dog crap. Thanks, no.

Beech, if you can get it is a nice in-between.

Anyone else who is clearly a pyromaniac like us can feel free to jump in anytime.

Are you sure you aren't thinking of piss elm? That was the tree that we would always stay away from. I don't remember oak having the bad smell. It's been years for me though.

Just saw the new thread, and wanted to mark it for when I get back into Clix.

We had a small-ish pile of brush accumulated inn the back yard that we wanted to burn down. My daughter was all for it, right up until I actually lit the thing. Then she freaked out and yelled for me to stop the fire, because the smoke was going to pollute the air and Mother Nature was going to be mad at me.

I found it funny that she was all for the fire, but the smoke was an unforeseen byproduct for her and she didn't like that part one little bit.

Oh, yeah. It was oak.

I've never heard of piss elm.

I grew up in a town called Elmhurst and lost two HUGE trees from our front yard to Dutch Elm. Sad.

I've had similar experiences with the children that I teach when I told them that the chicken nuggets that they eat at McDogfood and the animal from the Chicken Little story are one and the same. (Where the hell did they think CHICKEN nuggets were coming from?)

I've seen classrooms for toddlers doing The Rainforest as their theme. The Earth Day people indoctrinate them EARLY these days.

Yes they do. She is very aware of environmental issues. We went to the park the other day to fly kites, and she went about picking up the cans and water bottles that were littering the field before we got the kites into the air.

Should have thrown her Barbies on the fire, as well, and then explained that the plastic they're made of is also ticking Mother Nature off. Then again, we all wish we could see awful little displays of parenthood like this from time to time.

Oh and I'm here. Sick as a dog, but here.