oh Flea, not on. I hope you feel better soon.

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Neil Gaiman was at a roller derbybout in Eau Claire last night! he tweeter a photo of himself with the team!

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Alice/Mad Hatter

I gather that is the sub text of Tim Burton Alice, which is loosely based on Lewis Carrol version. Extremely loosely based. Have not seen it, so this is 2nd hand.

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Alice/Mad Hatter

Also, now that I think of it, text in SyFy Alice which had close to zero to do with the Lewis Carrol version.

But you are right that there nothing to suggest it in Carrol nor in most of the plays and films based on the Alice books.

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Once again, not 'shipping the pairs, necessarily.

I passed on using Moist Von Lipvig and Pump 19 from Pratchett's Going Postal due to its obscurity. But that pairing is one of my favorites.

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Well not a matter of shipping. But unless you are referring to the Burton or SyFy don't see where Alice/Hatter comes from. I assumed your pairs are intended to refer to cases where some sort of argument can be made? In canonical Alice, Alice has a really brief quarrelsome conversation with the Mad Hatter when crashing his tea party. Nothing at all that makes them a "pair". Unless your intention is to just make random pairs out of people who happen to both be in the same work. But then why are all your other pairs either canonical or people for which a decent argument can be made?

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I'd suggest Batman/Robin. But then I'd also suggest Milo/Otis. Ooh! Rosencrantz/Guildenstern! Nixon/Kissinger. Milkweed/monarch butterfly. ("Do you travel a lot?")

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Rosencrantz/Guildenstern

Using it! Good one.

Milkweed/monarch butterfly

That is so precious, I can hardly stand it. Do you travel alot? Awesome.

Typo, the pairings are no deeper than pop culture adjacent conversation starters. I could have used Alice and the White Rabbit, or the Queen of Hearts. (which might be better, now that I mention it) I didn't put that much thought into it.

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I can pick ones that are more likely to be identifiable by the demographic that shows up.

I've missed the context -- do you know anything at all about who's attending? In order to answer the yes/no ID questions people have to be reasonably knowledgeable about the characters or it's going to be an exercise in frustration. I feel like characters from cartoons & comics are a safer bet because even if you've never read/watched them, you know who Superman & Lois Lane are well enough to answer some basic questions about them.

Rosencrantz/Guildenstern

Again, I'm thinking of how many questions I'd have to ask of someone else familiar with the play before I'd come up with this. I realize the goal is to get people talking but... characters who are basically ciphers don't give you much to talk about.

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Okay, this is just cool. [link]

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