A Couple of Unrelated Thoughts

I haven't read Aquaman yet, but Absorbascon has, and regards it as... Gibberish!

Unrelated to that, hubby-Eric and I watched Mythbusters' attempt to bust a myth about Buddy Ebsen's Tin Woodman makeup on The Wizard of Oz. As hubby-Eric's page says: "After two weeks filming, however, Ebsen found that he suddenly couldn't breathe one night, and was rushed to a hospital and put in an iron lung. He had developed a reaction to the aluminum dust used to tint his face silver. (At the time, aluminum dust was erroneously thought to be safe to breathe.)"

Mythbuster's chose to bust this myth using a completely different method of applying the aluminum dust. Namely, they made it into a paste and painted their volunteer. This is how the aluminum dust was successfully applied to Jack Haley (who took over the part after Ebsen got sick). The way they applied it to Buddy Ebsen was as a powder, without any liquid. They powdered his face with it. Repeatedly. And Ebsen got VERY sick from breathing the dust. In the Mythbusters episode, the volunteer never breathed it in the quantities that Ebsen did as his face was being powdered, because they carefully never got any powder into the air. In other words, Mythbusters completely and utterly failed to bust this one, because they didn't bother to properly do their research.

And besides, as hubby-Eric pointed out, this isn't the big Wizard of Oz myth. The big one is the stupid rumor about a hanging man (it's not a person, it's a BIRD flapping its wings). They could've done much better busting that one than poorly attempting to bust something that no one disputes.