How To Defeat Superman (Still Unresolved)

I think I've said before that I've got three brothers, but I'll say it again.

I have three brothers. Thomas is 15, Isaac is 13, and Anthony is 10. Thomas is a bit nerdy like me, Isaac is a non-nerdy smooth dude, and Anthony is a colossal nerd, and proud of it, and I'm proud of him too. This evening, they had an Epic Argument regarding How To Defeat Superman.

Anthony: Who d'you think would win in a fight to the death: Superman or Thor?

Thomas: Nobody'd win. That'd be like a never-ending battle.

Me: Isn't Thor immortal cause he's a god?

Isaac: Superman's immortal too, cause in the cartoons they'd be shooting at him and the bullets just bounce off.

Me: Yeah, but that's cause he's the Man Of Steel and all that, but he can still die.

Anthony: Yeah. Superman's only weaknesses are Kryptonite and Magic.

Thomas: Magic? Superman lives in the real world, so there isn't any magic.

Anthony: Yeah! Superman's weaknesses are KRYPTONITE and MAGIC!

Isaac: There's no MAGIC!

Anthony: Uhuh! lego.com says that Superman's weaknesses are Kryptonite and Magic!

Isaac: OH MY GOSH.

Thomas: There isn't any magic, it's just Kryptonite.

Anthony: Lego.com does not lie.

At this point, I lost thread of the conversation because I was snort-laughing like a total loon, but apparently the conversation turned towards Wolverine and Juggernauts, and Anthony got frustrated and a sort of Civil War broke out. Anyway, later I came into my parent's room and Anthony was complaining to my dad about how Thomas and Isaac said that the Juggernauts aren't powerful enough and that in a battle between Thor and Superman, neither of them would win, and it'd go on forever. At this point, my mom left the room to go brush her teeth in a Cunning Escape from Listening To Anthony Talk About Juggernauts. About halfway through the conversation, my dad sent Anthony to get my kid sister Maisie to say Bedtime Prayers in another Cunning Escape from Listening To Anthony Talk About Juggernauts.

Talking Nerd with Anthony is a bit like watching one of those long movies that you sort of want to turn off, but don't because you want to see what happens next. For the past few weeks, he's been doing detective work into why Bowser kidnapped Princess Peach and interrogating everybody on their opinions. It's highly entertaining, but he has the lung capacity of a something I was going to say something clever but can't think of anything. Anyway, he is capable of talking about one thing for about a week without stopping to eat or use the WC. But it's all good fun.

Anthony's the biggest Superhero-Nerd out of the six of us. The way I see it, there are four different kinds of nerds: Superhero-Nerds, Fantasy-Nerds, Science-Fiction-Nerds, and Gamer-Nerds. Thomas is more of a Gamer-Nerd, Isaac will deny any affiliation of his with any Nerd-like Phenomenon, and Anthony is more of a Superhero-Nerd. Mary's just a bit of a Fantasy-Nerd and a Science-Fiction Nerd, but she's also more of a Classical-Literature-Nerd, which means she's smart and knows stuff about real things, so that classifies her as more of a Geek than a Nerd, which is Awesome for her. Maisie's not really any kind of Nerd, she's just Cute and Funny which is just as good. I'm mostly a Fantasy-Nerd, but I've been working on my Science-Fiction Nerdness by watching more Doctor Who and Star Trek, because it's Awesome.

Please don't think I'm using the word "nerd" in the negative sense. Being nerdly is one of the things we can all do together as a family. I know of a few families who are all singers or something like that. But come Advent, when my family tries to sing "O Come O Come, Emmanuel" together before dinner, we sound like the Von Crap Family Singers, so we had to find something else.

On a completely unrelated note, have you ever suddenly noticed that you're doing something weird? I just realized I'm trying to cram stuff in my bellybutton.

Anyway, must be going. Good night!