silverscarcat: Really, I want the man to write an autobiography. he is... He's the only teacher I had in college that I respected from day one. Anyone who EVER had his class agrees on that. Josh in CharlotteNC: to be fair, schools screw up pretty much every subject - by killing off the interesting parts and turning it all into dry facts to be memorized or repetitive formulas to be followed repeatedly. Christopher Best: I'm sorry you had such bad professors... silverscarcat: To make a legendary hero interesting, take one of the more well known ones, flip their gender and fill in what you can't remember about their legend with disaster and you'll have an interesting story right there. XP BTW, why is it that Hercules is presented as a 10 foot tall giant anyway? Every rendition, well, besides live-action like Kevin Sorbo, has him as 10 feet tall that I've seen. Most people barely get up to his chest. dennis deems: he is? Christopher Best: I liked the Marvel Portrayal of Herc from about 4-5 years ago... I also don't know why I capitalized Portrayal there dennis deems: i've only ever seen him portrayed normal stature silverscarcat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLv8Wj_M10g - Case in point about Hercules being a giant. (voiced by Kevin Sorbo) Christopher Best: Too much coding... new MarvelPortrayal("Hercules").... dennis deems: LOL you should pass in an enum instead of a String. bad Christopher Best: Actually it's C++ so I shouldn't be calling new to begin with. :P Leigh Beadon: plus the MarvelPortrayal constructor doesn't take any arguments, it just randomly polls a public domain fiction api dennis deems: nice!! Christopher Best: lol well played