But even in the strangest of situations, Barry seldom lost his composure, and faced his role as a lightning rod for Silver Age lunacy with remarkable acceptance and equanimity. A perfect example is one of his most famous quotes:
"I've got the strangest feeling I'm being turned into a puppet."
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"I've got the strangest feeling...
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He works in a lab. He talks to himself. About comics books. While drinking milk. With a straw. All this you know before you even see him. What more could they do, put him in a bow-tie?
"I've got the strangest feeling...
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The second you let down your guard, BANG! You're the center of a paranoid delusion about inanimate objects, specifically, the traveling staircases from many a surrealist joke book ("A traveling staircase goes into a bar, and when the watch melted, the chicken died.")
"I've got the strangest feeling...
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I sure hope Barry has Josh Bernstein's number; now, that's a Brave & the Bold issue I want to see!
"I've got the strangest feeling...
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Now, that is one classy swipe.
"I've got the strangest feeling...
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Who knew that Barry had given the FFA (um... that's...Flash Fans of America, for you kiddies) its slogan, "If you can't fit a keyhole, make it fit you"?
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Hey, if someone who dated Iris West didn't know what being turned into a puppet felt like, who would???
And here I thought *I* was the comic blogger most likely to make a Hokusai refrence...
That...that WAS a classy swipe.
Oh Barry. You did indeed have some rather peculiar adventures. I always liked how they used to make your head gigantic. They couldn't do that with Hal Jordan. He ALWAYS had a swelled head!
Haw!
Yeah, but in revenge, Hal caused BARRY to have a swelled head -- literally! :-)
But is that his right or left back pocket...?
I believe one and all must glance at it.
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