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dogma wrote:Most excellent.

Perhaps caption reading:

The Face of the Enemy

I was thinking more along the lines of:

"Behold the mighty beard of Jihad!"

I think that would go well with a bearded guinea pig.

Also, the good commander has now graces my desktop.

Well I know who to talk to if I ever need to blow up the "Big Apple" just ask "BaronIveagh".

Let's just say that if I ever indeed, went bad, I would be a veritable 'Napoleon of Crime".

BaronIveagh wrote:Let's just say that if I ever indeed, went bad, I would be a veritable 'Napoleon of Crime".

Hey Baron if you ever consider becoming a crimelord, would I be able to join your gang? Because a life full of drugs, booze, women, action, guns, traveling, adventure and physical activity sounds very appealing.

BaronIveagh wrote:Let's just say that if I ever indeed, went bad, I would be a veritable 'Napoleon of Crime".

Or you would just get shot at random by a friend/enemy/some dude. There's a reason supervillains don't actually exist.

... neither cheese, nor ShumaGorath have a clue who I was referring to, I'm guessing...

BaronIveagh wrote:... neither cheese, nor ShumaGorath have a clue who I was referring to, I'm guessing...

During his first year in jail, Shinburn hired other inmates to beat Worth up. Later Worth heard that Johnny Curtin, who was supposed to have taken care of his wife, had raped her. She had gone insane and been committed to an asylum. The children were in the care of his brother John in the United States.

Hope its not this guy!

The idea that Moriarty was based off Adam Worth originated in the 1940's, as a friend of a friend tale repeated by a reporter.

"He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. At the age of twenty-one he wrote A Treatise on the Binomial Theorem, which has had a European vogue. On the strength of it he won the mathematical chair at one of our smaller universities, and had, to all appearances, a most brilliant career before him.

But the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind. A criminal strain ran in his blood, which, instead of being modified, was increased and rendered infinitely more dangerous by his extraordinary mental powers. Dark rumours gathered round him in the University town, and eventually he was compelled to resign his chair and come down to London. He is the Napoleon of Crime, Watson, the organiser of half that is evil and nearly all that is undetected in this great city..."

Does not seem to me to me to be even a passing resemblance to Worth.

While Worth was a passable crime boss, he was hardly a genius.

Simon Newcomb is a far more likely specimen, though I suspect that much of the mastermind of evil was made up in it's entirety.

BaronIveagh wrote:The idea that Moriarty was based off Adam Worth originated in the 1940's, as a friend of a friend tale repeated by a reporter.

"He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. At the age of twenty-one he wrote A Treatise on the Binomial Theorem, which has had a European vogue. On the strength of it he won the mathematical chair at one of our smaller universities, and had, to all appearances, a most brilliant career before him.

But the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind. A criminal strain ran in his blood, which, instead of being modified, was increased and rendered infinitely more dangerous by his extraordinary mental powers. Dark rumours gathered round him in the University town, and eventually he was compelled to resign his chair and come down to London. He is the Napoleon of Crime, Watson, the organiser of half that is evil and nearly all that is undetected in this great city..."

Does not seem to me to me to be even a passing resemblance to Worth.

While Worth was a passable crime boss, he was hardly a genius.

Simon Newcomb is a far more likely specimen, though I suspect that much of the mastermind of evil was made up in it's entirety.

Or you would just get shot at random by a friend/enemy/some dude. There's a reason supervillains don't actually exist.

Read up on Jonathon Wild, then.

BaronIveagh wrote:The idea that Moriarty was based off Adam Worth originated in the 1940's, as a friend of a friend tale repeated by a reporter.

"He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. At the age of twenty-one he wrote A Treatise on the Binomial Theorem, which has had a European vogue. On the strength of it he won the mathematical chair at one of our smaller universities, and had, to all appearances, a most brilliant career before him.

But the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind. A criminal strain ran in his blood, which, instead of being modified, was increased and rendered infinitely more dangerous by his extraordinary mental powers. Dark rumours gathered round him in the University town, and eventually he was compelled to resign his chair and come down to London. He is the Napoleon of Crime, Watson, the organiser of half that is evil and nearly all that is undetected in this great city..."

Does not seem to me to me to be even a passing resemblance to Worth.

While Worth was a passable crime boss, he was hardly a genius.

Simon Newcomb is a far more likely specimen, though I suspect that much of the mastermind of evil was made up in it's entirety.

But you still didn't answer my question, would I be able to join your gang if you ever created one?

If you did, you'd never know you were in 'my' gang.

BaronIveagh wrote:If you did, you'd never know you were in 'my' gang.

Thats a really good way to lose control of it.

Simple cell structure. If one cell is compromised, the damage is limited because one group has no idea who the other groups are, or what they're doing. Makes it hard to take down.

BaronIveagh wrote:Simple cell structure. If one cell is compromised, the damage is limited because one group has no idea who the other groups are, or what they're doing. Makes it hard to take down.

Yes, but it also makes the concept of control moot. It's not your organization at that point. You would also need strong and commonly held ideological principles on which to base this, which is something hatin' the south doesn't really pull off too well.

Who needs control? I just want chaos. Or would, if I gave into that sort of urge.

"Some men just want to watch the world burn."

BaronIveagh wrote:Who needs control? I just want chaos. Or would, if I gave into that sort of urge.

"Some men just want to watch the world burn."

Or you would just get shot at random by a friend/enemy/some dude. There's a reason supervillains don't actually exist.

So Joseph Mengele, Vlad Tepes, Erzsébet Báthory, Nicolae Ceauşescu, François Duvalier, and Slobodan Milošević were all fictional?

BaronIveagh wrote:So Joseph Mengele, Vlad Tepes, Erzsébet Báthory, Nicolae Ceauşescu, François Duvalier, and Slobodan Milošević were all fictional?

Virtually all there were given power via political appointment or rank. About the only supervillain like that I can think of out of hand is doctor doom, and he's a gypsy sorcerer superscientist. It's also entirely disimilar from what you are proposing and none of them are what I would classify as a supervillain.

BaronIveagh wrote:Who needs control? I just want chaos. Or would, if I gave into that sort of urge.

"Some men just want to watch the world burn."

Is it just me or is BaronIveagh sounding more like the Joker from the "Dark Knight" every time he posts.

Is it just me or is BaronIveagh sounding more like the Joker from the "Dark Knight" every time he posts.

The difference being the joker never posted on toy forums about all the cool things he was going to do.

ShumaGorath wrote:

Is it just me or is BaronIveagh sounding more like the Joker from the "Dark Knight" every time he posts.

The difference being the joker never posted on toy forums about all the cool things he was going to do.

ShumaGorath wrote:

Is it just me or is BaronIveagh sounding more like the Joker from the "Dark Knight" every time he posts.

The difference being the joker never posted on toy forums about all the cool things he was going to do.

To be a total donkey-cave, I'm informed at one point in the comics, he did something very similar.

BaronIveagh wrote:

ShumaGorath wrote:

Is it just me or is BaronIveagh sounding more like the Joker from the "Dark Knight" every time he posts.

The difference being the joker never posted on toy forums about all the cool things he was going to do.

To be a total donkey-cave, I'm informed at one point in the comics, he did something very similar.

As a 60 year old villain if he never did something similar I would be surprised.

The point being that one man actually can set off a chain of events that leads to large scale mayhem.

According to BBC news this morning NY police have announced the arrest of a naturalized American Pakistani born man trying to fly to Dubai.

However it seems they think there was a bigger plot involved and are continuing with investigations.

*sigh* Never, EVER fly out of an airport in the state you're wanted in. Drive. Canada is an hour away and they wouldn't have been looking for him there.

BaronIveagh wrote:*sigh* Never, EVER fly out of an airport in the state you're wanted in. Drive. Canada is an hour away and they wouldn't have been looking for him there.

You also don't want to use fertilizer that wont blow up and firecrackers that can't penetrate the propane tanks. Can we stop acting like an armchair terrorist for a few minutes?

BaronIveagh wrote:*sigh* Never, EVER fly out of an airport in the state you're wanted in. Drive. Canada is an hour away and they wouldn't have been looking for him there.

I'm sure they had alerts on the border as well.
Pakistani. Yep.

Anyone notice the bomb was next to viacom. South Park...threats...mmm.