So I'm at the local Canadian Tire (sort of a hardware + auto parts store) and notice a bin of cheapo DVDs. Flipped through them for a minute and I see a familiar face - Mark's avatar.

Three DVD set with the last 19 episodes of Ultraman for $3.99.

Thanks Mark !

Not just a "sort of hardware plus auto parts store" but Canadian black hole if you will. At least, according to most wives anyways. Husbands who enter are not seen for a very, very long time again.

Good point. Around here (central Ontario) we have Princess Auto, which has taken over the "black hole" role, but in most other areas Canadian Tire is probably the place.

If you wanted to build a sixty foot tall killer robot you could probably get all the parts and tools you needed with one trip to Princess Auto. It's our version of a craft store

Agreed. I love Princess Auto but the nearest one is $40.00 dollar bridge toll away.

You mean, like ULTRA MAN???

I haven
I watched the set I bought. I think I need to do shrooms to enjoy it, and I don't even know where to get those.

*scribbles prescription and mails to Mark*

Cool! I didn't even know those were available via script.

I've never actually tried them. Will you talk me down if it doesn't go well and I go fetal under the coffee table, afraid of one of the monsters in Ultra Man?

>>Will you talk me down if it doesn't go well and I go fetal under the coffee table

Wonder what medic8r's voice sounds like in a square room ?

Dude, you're freakin' me out!

Wait. Pete's the math whiz, but isn't "cubed" a square squared?

I don't know if my math terminology is correct, but that there's funny either way.

I think a squared square would be a hypercube.

x^2 = x*x

(x^2)^2 = x^2 * x^2

x^2 * x^2 = x^4

x^4 = hypercube

Agreed.

Yeah, I knew that wasn't the definition of cubed, though I admit I DID fall asleep in Algebra and avoided anything further. I guess I was trying too hard for the joke.

The point is, JP is a square. And that there is funny.

(Did I divert it back to him yet?)

I think the point is hypercubes are cool, but don't make very good movies.

Mark,
Those particular little mushrooms grow everywhere here. Backyards, golf course, everywhere. For a while there, they had their own little seasonal tourist trade where people were coming from all over (mostly Quebec for some reason) to pick them. That is until the RCMP cracked down on it.

I've never tried them either but some of my funniest moments have been watching my friends who did. Although, I don't recommend it. Well.....unless I can watch.

For what it's worth, my initial impression is that the Ultraman DVDs would pair very well with 'shrooms. Sort of "Thunderbirds meets Godzilla meets the Three Stooges". The theme music alone was worth the $$.

Now that even vampires use martial arts moves when fighting it's nice to see some good 'ol high school wrestling moves. It helps that Ultraman is the same size as the monsters.

The show kind of glosses over how the Science Patrol guy changes into Ultraman inside a ship or structure without blowing the walls out.