Shortpacked! by David Willis

Discussion (57) ¬

1. 
   Trae Dorn

   September 22, 2010 at 12:02 am | # | Reply

   Wow. Going back to Adam West for the joke.
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   Jen Aside

   September 22, 2010 at 12:03 am | # | Reply

   Ahh… truth is awfuler than fiction =(

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     Bryy Miller

     September 23, 2010 at 11:58 pm | # | Reply

     Seriously, this is what our tax dollars go towards? A gimmicky, tacky name?
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   RaijinK

   September 22, 2010 at 12:05 am | # | Reply

   They’re just as well-off. It would have only worked on bat-sharks.

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     Trae Dorn

     September 22, 2010 at 12:16 am | # | Reply

     You tell that to Batman right now! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0UJaprpxrk

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       loneislander

       September 23, 2010 at 12:53 am | # | Reply

       Holy Sardines! A classic. watching it now, I’m starting to question why Batman would need Manta-Ray repellent though since to my knowledge they mainly each plankton and don’t have bards like sting-rays do.

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         Stugol

         August 15, 2011 at 11:12 am | # | Reply

         Do they have any sort of poet?
       • 
         lightsabermario

         March 31, 2012 at 8:03 pm | # | Reply

         Steve Irwin could have used it.

         Too soon?

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           Lukkai

           November 5, 2012 at 5:57 pm | # | Reply

           Not necessarily.

           Wrong species though.
4. 
   palaeomerus

   September 22, 2010 at 12:14 am | # | Reply

   Doesn’t that spell….Batmak?

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     JesseJane

     September 22, 2010 at 12:40 am | # | Reply

     Everyone knows the brass can’t spell.
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     David Herbert

     September 22, 2010 at 3:00 am | # | Reply

     Yes, but Batman is too awesome to not be in the name.
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     Kamino Neko

     September 22, 2010 at 6:05 am | # | Reply

     Deliberately created acronyms get really creative. The k is silent, so it’s not used. The vocalized N is what’s used.
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     Mollyscribbles

     September 22, 2010 at 8:51 am | # | Reply

     It’s just as reasonable as every school that talks about the three ‘R’s that are really one R, a W, and an A.

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       Wazza

       July 9, 2011 at 2:06 am | # | Reply

       the guy who coined that one was illiterate…
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     Jeff

     September 22, 2010 at 9:57 am | # | Reply

     It was named by the same guy that came up with M.A.S.K. (Mobile Armored Strike Kommand).

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       Gwalla

       September 23, 2010 at 12:03 pm | # | Reply

       Damn, beat me to it.
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     zepherdossier

     September 22, 2010 at 1:20 pm | # | Reply

     that being the case, we should come up with acronyms composed entirely of silent letters.

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       Cy Reb, Jr.

       September 22, 2010 at 6:46 pm | # | Reply

       A daunting task. Just what words actually start with silent vowels, and are there any that don’t also have an alternate spelling without those silent vowels? I mean, “aether” doesn’t work, and “oesophagus” is never used.

       …um, “Wrought Oesophagal Knob,” or W.O.K.
5. 
   hobotron

   September 22, 2010 at 12:16 am | # | Reply

   Well, they would probably still be in trouble since they’d still be in the blast radius. XD
6. 
   TheAlucinaut

   September 22, 2010 at 12:43 am | # | Reply

   SOME DAYS YOU JUST CAN’T GET RID OF A BOMB

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4v1hAnfy1I

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     No0ne

     September 22, 2010 at 3:23 am | # | Reply

     In that video is it just me or does it seem like the marching band, lady with a baby carriage and the nuns are stalking Batman?
7. 
   fangrider

   September 22, 2010 at 12:45 am | # | Reply

   its actually BAT MAN-AK

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     sean martin

     September 22, 2010 at 6:18 am | # | Reply

     Batman’s from Arkansas?

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       BriGuy

       September 22, 2010 at 1:40 pm | # | Reply

       No, he’s from Alaska.
8. 
   Krosov

   September 22, 2010 at 1:01 am | # | Reply

   Even without shark repellent, he’s tougher than he seems♪

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     Foxeyes13

     September 22, 2010 at 7:49 am | # | Reply

     Other heroes often ask, “Why is he always the top cat?”
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   hectoruno

   September 22, 2010 at 1:03 am | # | Reply

   Do they have the clear folding bullet proof shield? That was my favorite. I think in one of the cartoons Batman just punched all the sharks in the nose.

   data storage solution
10. 
    Cinder

    September 22, 2010 at 1:14 am | # | Reply

    Something’s wrong! It’s not showing up! T.T

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      Cinder

      September 22, 2010 at 1:15 am | # | Reply

      Oh, I see it now! XD
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    No0ne

    September 22, 2010 at 3:23 am | # | Reply

    I want to see the 60s Batman meet up the modern Batman, and the 1939 Batman… They should team up to beat the Jokers from their respective eras, who are also teamed up. That would make for an epic comic book series. We should call DC Comics and tell them to do that.

    • 
      singingdragon

      September 22, 2010 at 3:49 am | # | Reply

      I’m honestly surprised they haven’t done that already.
    • 
      TexasNinjaBuzzard

      September 22, 2010 at 4:32 am | # | Reply

      …I punch him again, and I swear another forty teeth fall out of his mouth.
    • 
      Rob aka Mediancat

      September 22, 2010 at 6:41 am | # | Reply

      Superman: The Man of Steel #37, set during Zero Hour, had Superman meeting up with a dozen or so different incarnations of Batman, from the 1939 version to the Frank Miller version, all written and drawn in their original style. No Jokers showed up, but they got it halfway, anyway.

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        Gwalla

        September 23, 2010 at 12:09 pm | # | Reply

        That was honestly the best part of Zero Hour.

        (The best thing to come out of Zero Hour was the Jack Knight Starman)
    • 
      Thomas Wrobel

      September 22, 2010 at 8:03 am | # | Reply

      Not exactly like that, but Planetary had a cross over where you saw batman’s from various fictions and era’s.
      (I frelling love planetary http://www.rateoholic.co.uk/main/Rateoholic_Frame.html#!DisplayReview=640)
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      Alan / Falcon

      September 22, 2010 at 11:11 am | # | Reply

      How about Batman vs. Batman vs. Batman?

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlCXo_Cl8EA

      Share & Enjoy!
12. 
    Sparrowsabre7

    September 22, 2010 at 6:37 am | # | Reply

    It’s actually “Shark-repellent Bat Spray” get it right please =P

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      Wizard

      September 22, 2010 at 12:11 pm | # | Reply

      Nice to know it wasn’t just me thinking that. As I recall, they had a whole rack of assorted Bat Sprays, although I’m not sure what any of the others were.

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        Faceful of Kitchen

        September 23, 2010 at 1:24 am | # | Reply

        The other 3 were barracuda, whale and manta ray. I actually had an image of the Oceanic Repellent Bat-Sprays rack as my Facebook pic for a while (because I am a nerd), and thus it is forever burned into my brain.

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          hobotron

          September 23, 2010 at 3:55 am | # | Reply

          Haha, nice. The only one I could remember off the top of my head was the Barracuda one.
13. 
    Zakrael

    September 22, 2010 at 6:39 am | # | Reply

    No bat-shark repellent? Next you’ll be telling me they don’t have a bat-credit card!

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      theMarc

      September 23, 2010 at 12:00 pm | # | Reply

      THEY GAVE HIM A BAT CREDIT CARD!?!?!?

      *goes on wild rampage*
14. 
    MrGBH

    September 22, 2010 at 8:25 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if Batman still carries that around with him, just in case.

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      begbert2

      September 22, 2010 at 10:42 am | # | Reply

      Batman is Prepared.
15. 
    Zudarkness

    September 22, 2010 at 9:52 am | # | Reply

    Damn Navy for not inventing shark repellent when they were suppose to. Quit relying on Bruce Wayne for everything
16. 
    begbert2

    September 22, 2010 at 10:43 am | # | Reply

    Shouldn’t there be 16 ‘na’s?

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      Trae Dorn

      September 22, 2010 at 11:38 am | # | Reply

      Eh — it just depends where in the music phrase you start from.
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    Twiggy

    September 22, 2010 at 11:05 am | # | Reply

    Wasn’t it ROBOT-Shark-Repellent Bat-Spray, anyway? I don’t think it’d work on regular-type sharks.

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      Faceful of Kitchen

      September 23, 2010 at 1:28 am | # | Reply

      Nope, it was an actual shark that Joker had trained to attack Batman and filled with explosives. Because if there’s one thing that show prided itself on, it was its intense hyper-realism.
18. 
    Joe

    September 22, 2010 at 11:44 am | # | Reply

    Fun fact: Nobody ever actually says “Batman” in that theme song. It’s the trumpets playing a trick.

    • 
      ColdFusion

      September 22, 2010 at 12:50 pm | # | Reply

      Adam West said that, but the show’s composer says otherwise. Snopes al rescate!
    • 
      captainswift

      September 23, 2010 at 12:49 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah, that’s one of those “little known facts” that isn’t true. Like the bit about duck quacks not echoing.
19. 
    DYlogger

    September 22, 2010 at 4:13 pm | # | Reply

    Damn. I miss the Batman jokes. Willis, keep them coming when you get back to the regular comics, will ya?
20. 
    David

    September 22, 2010 at 7:24 pm | # | Reply

    And so I reach the end of the archives. What a wild ride.

    *Whipcrack* Off to google-reader with you!
21. 
    Gwalla

    September 23, 2010 at 12:12 pm | # | Reply

    Every soldier will also be issued a Remote Observation/Ballistic Interception aNdroid, or R.O.B.I.N.