Polite Dissent

6 Responses to “ One More For Animal Man ”

1. Princess Edamame
   November 23rd, 2009 at 1:26 pm
   

   Um, aren’t fractured and broken the same?

   But that isn’t what drove me to comment. It was this: Did anyone else start singing, to the tune of They Might Be Giants’ “Particle Man”: “Animal Man, Animal Man, does whatever an animal can…”

2. Jason
   November 23rd, 2009 at 6:00 pm
   

   The writer was probably trying to convey three ribs actually broken apart and two just cracked.

3. JockM
   November 23rd, 2009 at 10:44 pm
   

   Everytime I hear about Animal Man it gets conflated with Manamal in my mind. Though I would dearly love to see the “Manamal: The Musical!” as envisioned in The Tick…

4. Mike Blake
   November 24th, 2009 at 1:40 am
   

   Yes, the howler is self-evident. Reminds me of the people who think a
   “compound fracture” means the bone is broken in two places.

5. Alberto
   November 25th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
   

   He fractured three and broke two… The error is that the writer forgot about the one he split, the three other he cracked, the four he got parted in two, the one that had its integrity compromised.

6. Braystreet
   November 30th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
   

   Random thought, can Animal Man get food poisoning four times if he eats from Sonic and then takes on the attributes of a cow?

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