From: The Great and Powerful Danny Sichel <eds7466@umoncton.ca>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [rec.arts.comics.misc] Re: Supeheroes and Liquid Nitrogen - Why?
Date: 19 Oct 1997 17:44:01 GMT

Subject: Re: Supeheroes and Liquid Nitrogen - Why?
From: Jim Smith <jamsmith@risc.usi.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc

  Hosun Scanty Lee <holee@primenet.com> wrote:
>
>
> Is it me, or are there just LOTS of trucks carrying nitrogen in comic
> books?
>
> I mean, EVERY TIME some big flaming-ass villain comes, some superguy
> cruises the highway and picks up a truck liquid nitrogen and just
> dumps on the bad guys.

> Do they sell liquid nitrogen by the bulk? I think I've seen perhaps one
> tanker in my entire life.

It's simple, Vorp.  Because superheroes are CONSTANTLY using the trucks
to beat baddies (effecitvely leaving their contents useless), the Liquid
Nitrogen Shipping Service NEVER makes a successful delivery.  They sit
around all day going "Did the shipment make it?"  "Nah, Captain Tights
needed it to stop the Ten-Arsed Man...we'll have to get another ready."

There's only one chemical supply warehouse in the whole Omniverse that
really NEEDS any liquid nitrogen...they just haven't gotten any since the
Heroic Age began.  They've been waiting darn-near ten or twenty years,
man...