The Old Hack

Let's see. Susan is going to bring Justin. At that moment, Justin happens to be in the company of Luke and due to a verbal miscommunication brings him along. Ashley is initially alone but near the entrance to the Verres home she spots a hurt puppy, picks it up and brings it along. Soon after, Good Tom and his girlfriend dramatically enter through a window, intending to save the puppy. That is when Sarah arrives, but speaking of puppies, Larry has attached himself to her and she hasn't had the heart to tell him to go away. Both are being shadowed by a suspicious Rich who believes that something conspiracious is going on.
Meanwhile, Tensaided has decided to close early that day. Seeing that Rich is trailing Sarah and Larry, he suspects that Rich is up to no good and follows him to lay down the decahedronic law on him. However, George had just then decided to rent the latest Jason D. Poit movie and spotted Tensaided close the place early. He promptly gives chase, hoping to make Tensaided reopen the store a moment. But as it happens, Greg and Dex spots the cavalcade and attach themselves to its rear end because Greg is worried about what is going on.
This is when Twilight Sparkle rings the doorbell to the Verres place, looking for Tara and Andrea. (Shut up. The other side has griffins, right? Then it has unicorns, too. By my mandate.) A somewhat bewildered Grace opens the door for her at which point practically everybody else arrives...
Cue Marx Brothers stateroom scene.

Yeah, we reacted much the same way when they spoke of moving to Canada if the healthcare thing passed.

I did like it when gay marriage was legalised all over the US and some people were like, "That's it. I'm moving to Canada," and the Canadians were like, "Uh..."

That was basically how I felt about our last election here in Denmark.

Let's see. Susan is going to bring Justin. At that moment, Justin happens to be in the company of Luke and due to a verbal miscommunication brings him along. Ashley is initially alone but near the entrance to the Verres home she spots a hurt puppy, picks it up and brings it along. Soon after, Good Tom and his girlfriend dramatically enter through a window, intending to save the puppy. That is when Sarah arrives, but speaking of puppies, Larry has attached himself to her and she hasn't had the heart to tell him to go away. Both are being shadowed by a suspicious Rich who believes that something conspiracious is going on.
Meanwhile, Tensaided has decided to close early that day. Seeing that Rich is trailing Sarah and Larry, he suspects that Rich is up to no good and follows him to lay down the decahedronic law on him. However, George had just then decided to rent the latest Jason D. Poit movie and spotted Tensaided close the place early. He promptly gives chase, hoping to make Tensaided reopen the store a moment. But as it happens, Greg and Dex spots the cavalcade and attach themselves to its rear end because Greg is worried about what is going on.
This is when Twilight Sparkle rings the doorbell to the Verres place, looking for Tara and Andrea. (Shut up. The other side has griffins, right? Then it has unicorns, too. By my mandate.) A somewhat bewildered Grace opens the door for her at which point practically everybody else arrives...
Cue Marx Brothers stateroom scene.

Oi!  Take it to the Sad thread or something!  ;-)
 
So this girl walks up to another girl and says "Hey, have you heard of the Bechdel Test?" 
And the other girl says, "Yeah, my boyfriend was telling me about it the other day!"

It's not the technical name.  It's the potential for interesting stories and moments of awesome.
You should read some of DC's John Constantine comics some time, especially the very first late-80s Jamie Delano issues if you can find them.  I'm not a fan of horror but these were something I couldn't stop reading either.
I read and like Grrl Power also.  I tend to think Dave errs on the side of too much explanation, but then I would, I suppose. 
I look at it as an internal consistency thing, which may or may not be the same thing you're talking about.  I'm not worried about the number of rules the system establishes or how they may conflict with the Real World as long as a good-faith effort is made to be true to them.

I have my limits too, for how far a universe can depart reality before it ceases to be interesting to me.  I will nitpick continuity errors or particularly bad violations of common sense, which actually make me pretty nit-picky myself. 
It's strange.  In the pre-crisis 80s Marvel set a very constrained setting for themselves.  Their heroes were "super" but had very hard limits set on how powerful they were on an absolute scale.  The Earth-1 Superman could take a morning jog around the local galactic spiral arm before heading to work.  With Phoenix, especially Dark Phoenix, Marvel tried to reach for the sort of transcendence that DC enjoyed, while DC's post-Crisis heroes came out with very Marvel-like upper limits on their powers. 

If John Byrne hadn't penciled in a planet of aparagus-people orbiting the star Dark Phoenix drove to supernova (the planet was NOT in Chris Cleremont's script), who knows what might have happened?  But he did and Phoenix' fate was sealed by order of Marvel's Editor in Chief.  She had to die.
I don't think so.  After...what?  25, 26 years at the time?...the DC Universe just needed a good defragging is all.  And they had another small comics company's line to integrate.  I think DC also wanted to make some politically correct changes to their universe as well.
The Psycho Pirate survived the Crisis remembering everything that was and everything that happened.  That's why the he was in a mental institution.  The enormity of it all broke his mind.

Well, I've heard three different amusing answers through the years, so maybe come back and read them when your funnybone is back online?
 
1) "The same color as the chameleon on the other side of the mirror."
2) "What chameleon?"
3) "Seems clear to me!"

I'll take the first version.
 

But now we need even more supply depots to keep the additional supply depots supplied.

For me this thread just became self-demonstrating.
"Additional supply depots required."

Give it time. We're still only at the midjinks.

I understand.  I live in Florida, and even I think of the place as something of a hoax.

Reminds me of how the movie An American Werewolf In London put their own twist on a standard movie-credit disclaimer by stating that "any similarity to actual persons, living, dead, or undead, is purely coincidental."  Or the CDC disaster planning that included "Zombie Attacks."  Or, on the flip side, the fact that Motorola started specifying that taking their modems off the planet voids their warranty*.  I can definitely see a page on a web site with options to check that included "Monsters" as a joke.
*That one was actually added for a good reason.  ;-)

Maybe a series of "You're Always Covered" adds? 
"My house got stomped flat by a monster!"
"That was actually a tornado, but even if it was a monster you'd still be covered."

Seconded on Girl Genius...

$Girl_Genius++;

I have for a while now felt that the 60s should properly be termed the Stoner Age.

Ah yes. The Hoisters.
Then again, if you really want to see the Foglios and their crew cut loose on science (or rather, SCIENCE!), I can only highly recommend the Girl Genius webcomic. It is absolutely brilliant. Mind you, its archive is HUGE by now so be warned: anyone who goes to look may not return for days. Or weeks.

In an issue of Xxxenophile, Phil Foglio posits an intriguing alternative to Bernoulli's principle as to why aircraft can fly, and it sort of involves "bouncing"...

I have for a while now felt that the 60s should properly be termed the Stoner Age.

"Ew!"

"I was referring to the extent the law of the immortals is holding me back."

"Then say that!"

Is it too late to visit the theory that Voltaire hasn't reset in over 200 year either? Because he's certainly sounding like he's become bored and frustrated.

It's Boing, not Boeing.

Only tangentially on topic, but http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook.php?id=757 is a nifty case of Boing! having an ID of 757, which has nothing to do with aviation (it does, in fact, fall between 756 and 758).