Keep the "gays" and sex garbage in the MAX and Vertigo titles.
Also, reveal Northstar and the rest of the "gay characters as Skrulls or something and get rid of them all.

1) I saw your older story about what Joe Kelly had in store for the Zod character in his Superman run. What did he intend for the Ignition character? That character simply appeared during the Emperor Joker storyline and was simply never properly explained.

2) The recent Superman and the Ravers reveal you did made me think of the post-boot, pre-DNA LSH stories, and in particular the young time-lost Lori Morning, who acquired the HERO Dial. I would love to know what had been planned for this character, who seemingly vanished the instant DnA picked up the title.

Not necessarily Urban Legends, but questions nonetheless.

Moly being another name for the magical psychoactive root "Mandrake." So... someone thought it was holy before Billy Batson starting swearing by it.

I'm sure the characters appearances on Superfriends had a lot to do with the phrases popular use as well as the later Seinfeld episode and certainly the "Bizarro White House" sketch.

Of course, it would have to show up in comics at least prior to It's A Wonderful Life, but it's a possibility...

Wow. They really weren't being subtle. And thank you for proving I wasn't crazy for remembering that log scene.

I kid you not.

First and foremost Rictor was created as a strait character. Louise Simonson (his creator and longtime New Mutants and X-Factor writer) and Fabian Nicieza both tended to use him as a “bad boy” love interest for their female characters. He was in a relationship with Wolfsbane in New Mutants, and his affection for Boomer was a running theme used by both writers. There wasn’t the slightest bit of ambiguity about him. Loeb just came in and decided to make a character with an established history of heterosexuality gay out of the blue because he could. That’s a no-no. Hulkling and Wiccan work because they were created as gay characters. Karma’s being gay worked because she was always ambiguous. Rictor... not so much.

Then there’s Shatterstar. I’m having trouble writing all the ways this is a problem. Is it the hair? Is it the clothes? Maybe it’s just the Freddie Mercury vibe he gives off. Him being gay seems more like an inside joke that got out of hand. The former Marvel intern that commented a few posts up confirms this for me. It’s the same kind of thing as S&M Batwoman. More of a joke than an actual character development.

Thankfully PAD had Ric and Rahn sleep together on panel, so his character has moved past this silliness. I had a good long laugh at Madrox’s “Wouldn’t Shatterstar get jealous?” dig. PAD seems to see it as an old joke, and is doing more to develop Rictor’s character than anyone since his creation.

I’m not sure what can be done with old Shatterstar. He just needs to stay in limbo until someone can either; 1. Have a gay character that looks like that not be a joke or 2. Find a way to have a character that looks like that not be gay. We might have to wait a loooooong time.

X-Force was in big trouble reader-wise. Marvel went manga with X-Force because (a) they were too stubborn to admit that they had watered down the line too much and this major X-book had become a minor one, and (b) manga-influenced art had done really well for Uncanny under Joe Madureira.

It didn't last long because the X-office eventually relaunched X-Man, X-Force and Generation X as "one year later" titles that put X-Force back to its original idea, be it with Pete Wisdom standing in for Cable as the team's "badass" leader.

Mid-19th century versions of "Oh where oh where has my little dog gone" proves that sausages/frankfurters were thought to be made of the little canines. The connection is even clearer when vendors began to call them dogs, including at Yale University -- where in 1895 their paper The Record reports: "they contentedly munched hot dogs during the whole service."

CSI: New York also delved into the origin of hot dogs last season, explaining that "red hot frankfurters" was tougher to say than "red hot dogs," which got shortened to "hot dogs" over time.

Zwilling also credits the popularity of kibbitzer to comics, though the Yiddish term (meaning something close to teaser or jokester) was well in use before that.

ball-and-chain (as slang for a wife)
Dumb Doora
dumbbell (as slang for a stupid person)
nobody home
you said it
the cat's pajamas
hard-boiled
hot dog
dogs (as slang for feet)
you tell him
drug-store cowboy
twenty-three skidoo (possibly)
horsefeathers
heebie-jeebies
hotsy-totsy
yard-bird
time's a wastin'

...all from the output of T.A. Dorgan and Billy "Barney Google" deBeck. (The book credits these attributions to various dictionaries; I haven't checked them out myself, so make of it what you will.)