FFF Results Post #124—780 Verbal

On Friday afternoon, participating CR readers were asked to "Name Five Words You Learned As A Kid From Comic Books or Comics-Related Publications And Where You Learned Them." Here are the results.

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Tom Spurgeon

1. Nascent -- X-Men
2. Farshimmelt -- MAD
3. Eldritch -- Avengers
4. Verily -- Thor
5. Excelsior -- Bullpen Bulletins

suggested by Charles Hatfield

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Eric Reynolds

1. amok - Hulk
2. puny - Hulk
3. exorcism - Crusaders
4. snikt - X-Men
5. Mxyzptlk - Superman

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Nat Gertler

Fussbudget - Peanuts
Atlantean - The Defenders
Aaugh - Peanuts
Remuneration - Omega the Unknown
Overly-eight - Peanuts

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Grant Goggans

1. rendezvous - that Wonder Woman book & record set where she fights Mars, god of war
2. borscht - Gold Key's Bullwinkle
3. materializing - The World's Greatest Super Heroes newspaper strip
4. SALT: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks - Cracked
5. chocklit - Archie

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Vito Delsante

1. mutant (X-men)
2. telekinesis (X-men)
3. philanthropist (Batman)
4. gaijin (X-men...notice the trend in my childhood reading habits)
5. scion (This was either from Thor or a similarly "regal" comic that I'm forgetting)

I also learned more than a few Russian, German and Scottish "conversational phrases" thanks to the X-Men.

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James Bucky Carter

All from The X-Men (or being curious about their names or powers):
Juggernaught
Colossus
Rogue
Magneto
Telekinesis

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Ian Sampson

Discombobulated -- Calvin & Hobbes
Prehensile -- X-men
Barnacle -- Tintin
Psyche -- X-men
Prognosticate -- Asterix & Obelix

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Gus Mastrapa's Mom

My mom tells the story that she won a spelling bee because she learned to spell "alibi" from reading Superman.

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Michael Grabowski

1. bigot -- Stan's Soapbox
2. fershlugginer -- Stan's Soapbox
3. nullifier -- Fantastic Four
4. potzrebie -- Mad
5. penultimate -- Cerebus

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Evan Dorkin

1. Buffoon - Fantastic Four
2. Furshlugginer - Mad
3. Voluminous - Thor
4. Dummkopf - Captain America
5. Naysayer - Stan Lee bullpen blathering

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