The Freakin' Raptor's Freakin' Q&A
Hey Raptor do you decorate your house for the holidays?
Seasons Greetings
T. Hicks. - Iowa
Dear Thicks,
Absolutely I decorate my house. But instead of using Christmas lights
I hang up strings of Bob-ombs. (Actually, I hang up the strings of Bob-ombs
on my neighbors' houses. That's funny.) I like to deck my halls with
gasoline and light a match and watch them gleam. (Wait
I do that
to my neighbors' houses too. Also funny.) What do I do
oh yeah,
I decorate a Christmas tree but instead of buying a tree every year
I get Audrey II-that venus flytrap from Little Shop of Horrors-and put
her in my living room and decorate her all up with tinsel. Then every
morning when I get up I have to fight her just to get a cup of coffee.
And then, when people put gifts underneath the plant there's an outside
chance Audrey II will eat them (the people, not the presents,) and if
they do get the presents under there it's all the more fun for me to
get them out to open them. Let me tell you, nothing says "Merry
Christmas" more than having to fight your Christmas Venus Flytrap
just to get at a crappy fruitcake.
Happy Holidaze everybodys!-The Freakin' Raptor
E-mail your questions for the Freakin' Raptor to therollingstone50@hotmail.com.
Include the words "Dear Freakin' Raptor" in the heading.
Daily Kong
by Donkey Kong
Ah, the holidays! This is a time when people get together
with family and relive old memories while they make new ones.
There is something about the smell of a fresh cut pine
tree that takes me back to my days in the jungle primeval. There weren't
a lot of evergreens to be found there, but Dad always managed to beat
up some poor sap and steal his. One particular sucker, Griswald I believe
his name was, lost about three to us before we were attacked by a rabid
squirrel that had taken up residency inside the douglas fir. We saved
the Griswald's a painful sequence of injections that year and shortly
after we purchased an artificial tree. Those were good times.
I, as a columnist, and the rest of us at Tournament of
Doom News, want to wish our loyal readers happy holidays and lots and
lots of presents. If you can't buy love this year, at least you can
buy gift certificates. And, in the end, that's really what counts.
Top Five TOD
Gift Exchanges
1. The Flash gave Luke Skywalker a hand-crocheted lightsaber
cozy. Luke was touched and loved the elaborate stitch-work.
2. The Hulk gave Kool-Aid Man an envelope of lime-flavored
powder so that the two could be a matched green pair when they go prowling
for dates.
3. Conan the Barbarian was less than amused by the Barbie
Dream House he got from a bunch of soccer hooligans. "By Crom!
I asked for the Poolside Playset!" he was heard shouting to anyone
who would listen.
4. The Freakin' Raptor seemed very pleased with the terrified
steer an unknown someone slipped into his stocking.
5. The Predator left the party in a huff after the Power
Puff Girls wretched over the box of severed heads he gave them. "It
is great honor," he howled, "for my people to give such a
gift! They were from my personal collection of human news anchors."
Holy crap! Did I
miss an issue of
TDN Online!?
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RAMPAGE! KOOL-AID
MAN CRASHES PARTY
The Kool-Aid Man found himself the center of much disruption
at this year's annual Tournament of Doom Christmas Party.
According to attendees, the oversized fruity beverage was thoroughly enjoying
the company of his fellow TOD combatants early in the evening. "We
were having a great time reminiscing," said the Thing of the Fantastic
Four. "Nothing puts you more in the Christmas spirit than hearing
good ol' Kool-Aid Man bellow 'Oh yeah!' It makes you appreciate the special
moments you share with your friends and family around the holidays."
Yet events took a turn for the worse at around 8:00 that evening when
the Jolly Green Giant accidentally mistook the Kool-Aid Man for his own
oversized cup of holiday punch. After the Giant took a sip out of the
Kool-Aid Man, the large pitcher responded by kicking the Giant in the
chin. This startled the Giant, who abruptly dropped the Kool-Aid Man.
"Fortunately it was the Jolly Green Giant and not the Stay-Puft Marshmallow
Man," said the Thing. "If Kool-Aid Man had kicked the Marshmallow
Man in the chin his foot probably would have become stuck in the creamy
goo of his face. That would have meant the Kool-Aid Man would have been
dangling upside down from Stay-Puft's chin and all the Kool-Aid would
have spilled out of the Kool-Aid Man, which would not have been a good
thing."
Instead, the Kool-Aid Man fell to the ground, crashing through the first
floor of Elks Lodge and embedding himself in the basement. A woozy Kool-Aid
Man could not pull himself out of the crater he had just created for himself.
To complicate matters, the giant three-headed dog Cerebus mistook the
Kool-Aid Man for his food dish and began lapping up the remaining red
liquid in his container-like body.
"Hercules and I jumped to the rescue and wrestled Cerebus away from
the Kool-Aid Man," continued the Thing. "Unfortunately, while
we were distracting Cerebus with a chew toy, a couple Ewoks jumped into
the Kool-Aid Man and began serving up glasses of punch to party-goers."
The Thing and Hercules managed to shoo off the Ewoks and free the Kool-Aid
Man, but not before things took a turn for the worse. "We're not
sure who exactly is responsible, but we think a gremlin managed to spike
the Kool-Aid Man when we weren't looking," said the Thing.
Now standing on his own free will, the Kool-Aid Man began stumbling about
the basement game room. Eventually he lost his balance, crashing through
a number of pool tables and wiping out a support beam that brought a large
portion of the upper floor crashing downstairs.
"Once that Kool-Aid Man gets his momentum going, it's pretty hard
to stop him," remarked Hercules.
The Kool-Aid Man's rampage reached its peak when he crashed into downstairs
women's bathroom. A number of ladies attending the party were inside.
"I saw the Invisible Woman inside for an instant putting on some
make-up before she vanished," remembered the Thing. "Then I
saw She-Hulk and Rachel Kibler-Melby run out of the way of falling debris.
They were pretty mad about the whole episode. On top of that, we're still
looking for Ursula underneath the whole mess. Unfortunately, the Kool-Aid
Man didn't help matters when he finally came to a stop inside a toilet
stall."
A confused Kool-Aid Man spotted Wonder Woman, who had been adjusting her
tiara, by the mirror above the now-shattered and leaking sinks. "Ohhhhhhh
yeahhhhhhh," he inappropriately groaned.
A clearly offended Wonder Woman tossed her lasso around the Kool-Aid Man's
pitcher and pulled tight. His pitcher shattered, sending a tidal wave
of Kool-Aid and thousands of shards of glass cascading through the Elks
Lodge.
"We did manage to recollect most of the pieces the Kool-Aid Man to
help reassemble him in the re-generation machine," said the Thing.
"I did have the unfortunate task of pulling four rather large pieces
of glass out of Bowser's butt. But we couldn't get them all back because
the Raptor had already auctioned some off on eBay."
The Kool-Aid Man took it easy the rest of the night, making sure to stay
as far away as he could from Cerebus. "I think he's pretty embarrassed
about the whole episode," said the Thing.
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STITCH IN A STITCH
UNDER MISTLETOE
Stitch discovered the power of the mistletoe at this year's Tournament
of Doom Christmas Party but pushed his luck with the parasitic plant a
little too far.
Stitch initially stumbled under a sprig of mistletoe hung by TOD III winner
Storm. When Storm pointed at the ceiling, Stitch jumped up and ate the
berry-bearing plant. He was surprised upon returning to the ground when
Storm kissed him.
Sensing an opportunity, Stitch hacked the mistletoe back up, leapt to
the ceiling, and dangled the slobber-drenched mistletoe over Storm. Storm
obliged, hovered to the ceiling, and kissed the blue alien on the cheek.
His mind reeling with possibilities, Stitch began scurrying across the
ceiling from party-goer to party-goer as he lured each into a kiss. One-by-one,
Stitch extracted kisses from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Miss Piggy, Samus,
Britta Schaffmeyer, Smurfette, a chimpanzee, and ElastiGirl.
A turning point occurred when Stitch accidentally mistook Michelangelo
of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for She-Hulk. Not one to disappoint,
Michelangelo obliged an apologetic Stitch with a kiss.
Stitch now saw a whole new world of opportunity unfold before him. Dashing
quickly through the party, Stitch managed to coax kisses out of Snarf,
Optimus Prime, Dave Hunt, the Tasmanian Devil, and (impressively) the
Flash.
"Once I saw Stitch lay a big wet one on the Flash, I split,"
said TOD council member Eric Kerkove. "I'm not kissing no one at
no party."
A post-party poll indicated Stitch had kissed 63% of the party-goers by
the time he reached his last target. Unfortunately for the furry blue
alien, the outcome was not what he expected.
"I saw it all happen," said UB student Holly O. "Stitch
was hiding on a rafter when Blastoise walked underneath the mistletoe.
Stitch dropped down and demanded a kiss. That's when Blastoise puckered
up and fired a high-powered stream of water in Stitch's direction. It
blew Stitch straight through the brick wall. And on top of that, you know
how Stitch handles water."
A rescue team led by Willie the Groundskeeper found Stitch unconscious
across the street embedded in a green metal dumpster. "It took us
forty-five minutes to find him," said Willie. "We passed by
him a few times but thought he was just a fat opossum plastered against
the dumpster. We didn't recognize him because Blastoise's blast blasted
all the fur off his face."
Willie reported Stitch still clung to the mistletoe.
Pucker up!
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FREAKIN'
RAPTOR
CROSSES THE LINE
The
Freakin' Raptor finally crossed the line upon Santa Claus' arrival at
this year's TOD Christmas Party.
As part of the evening's musical program (which included a beautiful
rendition of "Silent Night" performed by General Grievous
and an indoor Christmas-themed fireworks display provide by the Tie-Fighter,)
Santa Claus appeared and passed out candy canes to the grateful party-goers.
Then things turned ugly in only the way the Tournament of Doom can turn
ugly.
"Santa Claus had just announced that everyone-including Darth Vader-had
made it onto the 'Nice' List that year. Everybody was happy. The Thundercats
even managed to douse Vader with a 2-gallon cooler full of eggnog and
Vader didn't mind. It was all very festive. But that's when the Freakin'
Raptor and his buddies walked in the backdoor."
The Freakin' Raptor and four other raptors entered the main hall of
the Elks Lodge and wanted to know what was happening. A stunned hush
spread over the crowd as party-goers one-by-one noticed the five raptors
casually eating the bloodied hind legs of a brown-furred ruminant mammal.
Santa stared ahead in horrified dread.
"What's the deal?" the Raptor asked through a mouthful of
meat.
"What are you eating?" asked a pale Mace Windu.
"Venison," replied the Raptor.
"Do you mean
deer?" Mace Windu fearfully asked.
"Of course," the Raptor confirmed.
"Where did you find those deer?" Sugar Bear asked.
The Raptor answered with the words no one wanted to hear. "On the
roof."
With those words Santa dropped his bag of toys. Looks of shock and disgust
crossed the faces of every party-goer.
"What's wrong," asked the Raptor. "Do you guys want some?
How about you Mr. Claus?"
"How embarrassing. The Tournament of Doom has sunk
to a new low," said an egg nog drenched Vader.
Shortly afterwards
one of the raptors spit up a small brown ball. It rolled across the
room, landing at the feet of the Incredible Hulk, where it glowed a
faint red. With that the Powerpuff Girls left the party in tears.
"That's when Santa Claus got really angry," said Corey H.
"Over a few long seconds he morphed from sheer mortification into
a jolly ball of fury. In a flash Santa used some sort of power like
the Force to grab Darth Vader's lightsaber, put his hand on his nose,
and POOF! vanished from the stage-only to reappear next to the raptors!
"At first the raptors we're shocked," continued Corey, "but
then Santa flicked on the lightsaber. Santa took a swipe at the Freakin'
Raptor but he barely dodged the blow. That's when the raptors changed
from shock to delight. They were ready to rumble with Jolly Ol' Saint
Nick, and did they ever go at it!"
The party turned to chaos as Santa began chasing the raptors around
the Elks Lodge with a lightsaber. Party-goers either scrambled to get
out of the way or to find the best seat to watch what could very well
have turned into the greatest fight in Tournament of Doom history. But
panic quickly spread throughout the room as some guests began to be
pushed around, and all kinds of fights broke out.
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