Metapost: HAPPY MILLINEPOST EVERYBODY!
It may not be immediately obvious, but this is post number 1,000 in the blog’s publishing system! To prove this to yourself, click here to get to the single-post version of this page and look at your address bar. I had sort of big plans of completing the long-rumored FAQ for post number 1,000, but I am completely fried from guest-blogging at Wonkette for this past week. So, instead, I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of you: Everyone who reads the site, who’s linked to the site from their site or from forums or Usenet, those who comment all the time, those who comment every now and again, and those who just lurk: thanks.
When I posted my very first cartoon on July 11, 2004 (that’s post number 5 rather than number 1 for various boring computer reasons), I expected to mainly entertain my family and friends. Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to not only reach an audience of so many people, but also to laugh as hard at their writing on my site as (I hope) they do at mine. This blog is a huge part of my life now, and I appreciate all of you for making me feel appreciated. Here’s to the next thousand!
UPDATE: The recent post number countdown has prompted some discussion of why the numbers for the early posts are out of order. If you wan a WAY TOO DETAILED explanation, as well as a bonus link to the moment the blog changed names, check out this comment I just posted. And since I am so blog-burnt, and everyone is being so nice in the comments, I’m going to let the party roll on this post till Sunday or so. I don’t think I can emotionally handle reading the latest Foob right now.
Derelict
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Congrats! I came a litte late to the party (last summer), but it’s been fabulous so far. Josh has changed the way I look at many comics.
And the Curmudgeonites have kept me laughing through many a long night shift. Thanks, guys (and gals)!
Harold
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Sanctuary, Sanctuary!
WOOOO, it’s the MILLENIPOST!
Uncle Lumpy
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Ah, the Millinepost – revealing Josh, once and for all, as a Hat Man!
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Congratulations Josh! I discovered this site around Christmas 2005. For the life of me, I wish I could remember what random path of surfing led me here. I know others have said they found JoshReads by Googling things like “for better or for worse sucks” and stuff like that.
Anyway, congratulations on post #1000 and here’s looking forward to 1000 more. I’m glad to have stumbled upon a like-minded community — do you realize there are some people, such as my lovely girlfriend, who don’t read newspaper comics at all? So when you mention something about “Curtis” or “The Lockhorns” they don’t have the slightest idea what you’re talking about?
KevinQ
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Congrats on your 1k anniversary. Always a fun read.
K
True Fable
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:10 pm
At last! And I was afraid I’d miss it!
I see we are feted with prime rib, Aldo’s best whiskey, lobster and tuna cassarole, all served in Margo’s hats.
Snark on! Congratulations, Josh.
Breakfast
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Happy Mileniwatchamacallit! And many more!
As long as there is a foob, a Lockhorn, a beaver or Margo, there will be josh!
Stuart P. Bentley
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Like I was saying, is it still technically a millenipost if you don’t start at 1?
Dingo
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:12 pm
In the first ten! WOOHOO!
Artist formerly known as Ben
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:15 pm
This has been worth looking forward to, and I’m glad to be here to see it. The Millenipost is a momentous occasion.
And you know what else? Marmaduke is a really big dog.
Galactic Emperor Chennux
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:15 pm
ATTENTION EARTHERS! POP YOUR CHAMPAGNE CORKS IN FEAR! THE MILLENIPOST HAS ARRIVED!
CHENNUX ADDRESSES THE ONE CALLED JOSH! CONTINUE IN YOUR EFFORTS TO PRODUCE WEAPONS-GRADE SNARKONIUM! SLAVE FOR THE FUTURE OF THE CHENNUX DYNASTY!
END TRANSMISSION!
Harry Paratestes
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Happy millinepost, Josh. Too bad you didn’t have a T-shirt that said something like, “When the Millinepost arrives, only Josh and his Curmudgeonites will be saved from the Snark!”
Harold
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Josh, on a less Quasimodoesque note: Huge congratulations on 1000 posts. This blog has brought a lot of laughs to a lot of people, especially me. I’ve only been a regular since last October, and this has consistently been a place where I knew I could come if I needed a laugh. It’s helped me through some rough times, and it’s also helped to brighten days that were already pretty bright to begin with.
And huge thanks to all my fellow commentors, too. You guys are the best. I could not imagine marching on the Lynn Johnston estate with a finer bunch of people.
willethompson
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Aaaaand as a further treat, Margo!Boxcar!Saturn! shirts and cups have been sourced! Details Monday…
Josh
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:19 pm
#8 Stuart P. Bentley — I actually just did a little check on the internal control panel on the blog and there are actually only 988 posts so far. I’m not quite sure why the gap is so big. The standalone pages like the tip jar and the advertising info page get numbers too, but there are certainly aren’t twelve of those. I think that if I start to write a post but then later abandon it before I publish it, the post number still gets used and is not reused by the next post.
But anyway, I still like all those zeros lined up, so I’m celebrating now :).
Josh
Harry Paratestes
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Josh, you want to know how this blog opened my eyes? “When I was a child I read The Phantom as a child, I understood Calvin and Hobbes as a child, I thought of Mary Worth and Mark Trail as a child; but when I became a Curmudgeon I put away childish things and was properly snarky toward them.”
willethompson
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:26 pm
#15 Josh – So, the post is like you Dad’s ‘57 Chevy on the way to Grandma’s and you’re watching the odometer turn from the back seat?
BoShek
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:26 pm
I’m so happy to be here on this, the Millenipost! Happy postings always, Josh! Without this site, Johnston would get away with it.
AhClem
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Congrats, Josh! I stumbled upon this place last fall, towards the end of AldoMania, and quickly became hooked. Between you and the rest of the inmates in this snarkatorium, my keyboard, monitor and walls are continually coated in a film of partially-eaten food and atomized Diet Pepsi.
I have also started reading JP, RMMD, MW, MT and FW after many years of blissful ignorance, so I guess there’s a down side to everything.
Here’s to the next 1000 posts! May your star continue to shine as brightly as Abby’s fire-engine red mullet!
Anonymous
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Congratulations to Josh and to all the Curmudgeons for making this the World Capital of Snark — a place where I spend way too much time. And loving it.
As Groucho said to his brother at the shoe store, “More mules, Zeppo!”
AppleGirl
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:30 pm
Josh – Congratulations on the Millenipost of your awesome blog. At 1,000 posts, don’t forget to get the oil changed, even if the dealer says you only need to do it every 15,000 posts.
Blondie
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Congratulations from a newbie poster!
Soujin
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:32 pm
WOOO. WE LOVE YOU, JOSH.
^______^ This site always makes the hell outta my day, so.
Pendragon
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Arrgh. Maybe I shouldn’t confess but #20 was me — I deleted my cookies to vote for Starved Rock multiple times. I didn’t miss them until now. Rock on.
Soujin
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Gasp! Shock! O-h-h-h no! The internets ate the rest of my comment.
Luckily, it wasn’t anything important. XD
Mooncattie
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Congratulations, Josh!
I’m very new at posting, but a big fan of your blog and all who sail in it. It’s great to find a place to visit where laughter is guaranteed!
Gg83
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Thanks, Josh, for some fantastic snark and for getting me hooked on a bunch of crappy comics. Do you realize that I’m actually attempting to follow the current Gil Thorp storyline? [Insert good-natured grumbling and muttering. "Read the comics so you don't have to," my #*@&^@!] A jolly good snark every so often is good for you, I think, and it’s kind of you to provide it for us. I found your site, not by googling anything about comics, but from a link from Gene Weingarten’s weekly chat, and have enjoyed it ever since.
And thanks to all the Curmudgeons for providing wittiness and fun that’s worth reading hundreds of posts for. It’s been a fun ride so far, and the party’s just getting started! (The real party, that is, not the FOOBian junk that’s going on in, well, FOOB.)
Aaron T.
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:46 pm
I’m gonna go out on a limb and spell it “Millennipost”. Merry Millennipost, everyone!
Lenore
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:48 pm
No, man, thank you! I thought I was only person on the planet who read Mark Trail everyday simply because it was insane.
Plus the thought of being able to read Cartoon Violence on Friday is what gets me throught the work week.
Tim
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Congrats and thanks!
I came to this blog from a reference in a James Wolcott blog post less than a year ago… I think.
I’ve been a regular reader since and spent way too long plowing through all the old posts.
I have been reading the funnies for a long time now and own way too many collections of a select number of comic strips. In light of that, I can say that this blog is one of the best resources for a comic lover I have come across.
Again, congrats and thank you.
Doug Puthoff
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Congratulations, Josh. And if Aldo were still alive, he’d congratulate you, too.
Liz Lemon
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Longtime Lurker Liz(pina) never comments on these posts. But, like we mean, when the Millenipost rolls arounds,….oh-h y-eah-h!
Congrats on the first 1000!
Chris
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Huzzah for the blogkeep! Here’s to the next thousand!
treedweller
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Woodenjano–Your favorite blogger picks at every nit he can find in the daily comics BUT. . .
When a reader points out he’s celebrating his anniversary on the wrong day, he brazenly admits to fudging the date and acts like it’s no big deal.
Oh, Yeah!
Long live the pope.
AAckTTpth
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Thanks Josh for the FOOB-hate, but you got me hooked on Mary Worth and Rex Morgan, which I don’t appreciate; I managed to go almost 40 years without ever reading a single strip [Margo] [Boxcar] [Saturn]. Ah, well. Keep up the great blogging, and thanks to the community for writing such great comments. Always a pleasure to read!
Rusty
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Congrats and keep passing the snark bong, people. My love of the comics is only surpassed by my disdain of the suck-ass ones. It’s nice to be around kindred spirits.
I'm a Yogi, Not a Pooh
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:00 pm
MIKE! MIKE! MIKE!
Dorianne
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Congratulations, Josh! I’ve been reading the Comics Curmudgeon for about a year and a half or so. I hardly ever get a chance to post, but I never fail to check in, so I can learn what alarming news you bring from the comics pages….
Josh
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:04 pm
This is kind of boring inside-baseball stuff, but those of you who are co-celebrating the Millinepost with me and subsequently interested in the early days of this blog might be interested in the following explanation of why the numbers of the very early posts aren’t in order.
When I started the blog in July of 2004, having no idea the high-traffic phenomenon it would become, I just set it up as a free blog on Blogger. You can still see the original layout at http://joshreads.blogspot.com/. After a few months, with readership increasing and me getting increasingly frustrated by the inflexiblity of the mechanics of the Blogger site (the commenting system was awkward, I felt, and I wanted people to be able to view the posts by comic), I decided to shell out for my own domain and a server where I could run WordPress. In early October, I set up the WordPress blog at joshreads.com and posted a welcome post, the title of which still reflects the original name of the blog, I Read The Comics So You Don’t Have To (aka IRTCSYDHT). However, I didn’t publicize the new site or link to it anywhere, because there was nothing on it but that first post.
For the next three days, I did what you’re supposed to do when rolling out a new system: I did both sites in parallel, posting comics and commentary both on the public blogspot.com site and on my secret joshreads.com site. That accounts for posts 2, 3, and 4. Having then decided that the new site was good to go, I started importing the entries from the old blogspot.com site into the new joshreads.com site. The latest version of Wordpress will do this for you automatically, but in the primitive wasteland that was October of 2004, I had to do this all by hand, cutting and pasting from one publishing system to the other. That accounted for posts 5 through 95. I can set the publish date and time of for any post to any time I want, so the blog recongizes these posts as coming before posts 1 through 4, even though their post numbers are higher. (That’s why you can go to July of 2004 in the archives even though this version of the site wasn’t launched until October.)
Finally, I had two versions of the blog with the same content: one on the joshreads.com site, and one on the joshreads.blogspot.com site. (The only exception was comments: I didn’t move comments from the old site to the new, something that makes me a little sad, now. It seemed at the time like it would have been such a huge task, although I only was getting five or six comments on a post back then.) On October 12, I made post 96, the first one that only went up on the new site (which, incidentally, came at the climax of the TOTALLY AWESOME Tommie the Tweaker storyline in Mary Worth). The next morning, I tweaked (ha) the date on post number one so it would show up as the most recent post, and then started dismantling the old site, replacing all the posts over there to links to joshreads.com. For all the posts from 97 on, the order of the post numbers ought to be the same as their chronological order (though as I mention above there are gaps in the sequence).
And that pretty much brings you up to speed. Oh, if you’re wondering when and why IRTCSYDHT become the Comics Curmudgeon, it was in January of 2005 and here is your rationale. At the time I was kind of annoyed, but it worked for the best in retrospect, not least because I can call myself “the Comics Curmudgeon” rather than something awkward like “the IRTCSYDHT guy” (though I did like referring to my then-fiancee as “the future Mrs. IRTCSYDHT”).
Gabe
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:04 pm
Lame.
DrBear
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Only a thousand? MORE POSTS, MULE!
(congrats)
Maughta
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Congrats, Josh. Any time you’re in our area, TurtleBoy and I would be happy to buy you a drink (or a vegetarian burrito, or something). You deserve it for the hours of enjoyment you’ve given us.
Blade Runner
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Josh – Thanks for this site. I really appreciate the comments about JP and RMMD. My boss and I would talk about those strips at work and joke around about them. I didn’t know anyone else to talk to about comics until I met all of you guys. Snarking is great fun!
# 17 – WillieThompson – Watching the URL odometer click over is like doing something else in the back seat of dad’s Chevy. Waitaminnit – dad owned a Lincoln…
Anyway – Thanks again Josh!
Daijinryuu
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:10 pm
ZOMG, happy Millinepost! This has been one of the most consistently entertaining sites I visit for a good while now (since like two days before it officially became Comics Curmudgeon), and I sincerely hope you continue to find success in the years to come. Congratulations!
captainswift
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Woo! Congratulations on reaching post 1000 of the best blog on the internet.
Holly Golightly
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Long time lurking de-lurking to say congratulationson the Millenipost!! I arrived here via a link on cnn.com (of all places!) near the end of Aldomania and was glad to find I was not the only one watching the wreck unfold. Many, many thanks to Josh the other commenters who have made long slow days at a job I despise tolerable! Here’s to thousands more! And now I shall slink back to the shadows . . . . .
Meander
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Happy Millenipost!
under_score
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:19 pm
Happy 1K! I don’t remember how I found this site, sometime last summer, but I am so glad I did! I also never imagined that so many other people have a love/hate relationship with the comics page too. Thanks, Josh & commenters, for always bringing *at least* one smile to my face every day.
Marion Delgado
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:22 pm
But what 1000 posts have not yet revealed is what is so very awesome about the light-hearted high school romp, Funky Winkerbean.
The title character, even though the form of cancer he was suffering from is called alcoholism, clearly, from the look of his hair, still had to undergo chemo and total hair loss, and the hair has just grown out by now.
Go ahead, pretend YOU could have thought that one up.
Since that’s what alcoholism does to you, we have Jessica covered (she’ll still look eminently gig-able even without any hair). John’s going to need chemo for his TB. Wally for his Iraq War Syndrome and PTSD, Montoni for actual cancer in his lungs, Becky for pre-cancerous lung condition and complications of a botched stumpectomy….
Les for multiplly-cancerous spousal depression, the Viet-Goth for absinthe toxicity, Darren for whatever Jessica gave him, Darren’s loser friend for the effects of huffing paint thinner, and inadvertent radiation treatment for the whole town from a railroad car full of nuclear waste that derails near the playground.
God, I love this strip. You will tell your children you were there when Funky started. This will be a bigger pop culture idol than “Beneath the Planet of the Apes”
“I reveal my innnermost self unto my God!” – Becky Winkerbean.
stinky pete
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:23 pm
If Jesus Christ can be born in 4 B.C., then we can have the millennipost on post #988 or whenever we damn well please. Congrats Josh and here’s to 1000 more!!
Kurdt
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:29 pm
I too am a late cummer but as someone who witnessed the downfall of comics after the awesomeness that was the Far Side and Calvin Hobbes were gone from the newspapers forever.
I absolutely love this site, if I’ll turn into a drooling fanboy if write anymore so…keep it up! You are the funniest thing on the net and have the most intelligent fans…
Drooling fanboy out!!!!
Kurdt
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Oops i didn’t finish my first sentence, I was going to say that I think some of the same things but not a sharp or funny.
Josh
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Thanks stinky pete (#50)! And I’ve been meaning to say thanks for your countdown to the millinepost comments, which have in no small part inspired me to recognize the occasion. Heck, you’ve brough back some things that even I had forgotten!
Josh
queek
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:32 pm
congrats on quadruple digits.
I came here following a mention in Newsweek’s blog section, and if memory serves, it was near the end of AldoMania.
There are some amazingly clever posters here, and I salute them, and everyone else as well.
Its all about the crocs in PBS. :-)
*raises a Molson Ice to the room*
bellhalla
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Congrats on 1,000 posts!
bapp
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:36 pm
Josh, I’ve only started reading since last fall, but I love your site, and check it out daily. Congratulations, and thanks for being so darn entertaining!
Dingo
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:36 pm
I apologize for carrying this over from the previous thread but…
I have a favor to ask of the curmudgeonistas. The state of Illinois tourism council is having a contest for the “Seven Wonders†of Illinois. Amazingly, my bodacious Jane Russell ass* is not one of the choices. Starved Rock State Park is a choice for northern Illinois but it is currently in last place with only 1% of the total**. It’s a freakin’ NATURAL wonder and it’s being outvoted by a train museum, Main Street in Galena, and a natural history museum. I ask the curmudgeonistas to assist me in voting for the state park eight miles from my front door. Please go to:
Enjoy Illinois
Please vote for Starved Rock State Park. I realize that the name of the park isn’t that pleasant but it’s an amazing place to visit. Hell, if you come to the park, I’ll grill out.
Thank you.
Dingo
* – it lifts and separates on its own
** – since the curmudgeons began voting, it’s gone from 1% to 25% but is still in third place
Ralelen
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:40 pm
WOOT!
Harry Paratestes
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:42 pm
OK Dingo, Starved Rock just picked up my vote.
insidefrontcover
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:42 pm
Congrats, because of you I now read the shitty fogey comics with interest. Every morning, when I check in on your site I laugh my ass off and I wish I had the wit you have.
Vakar
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Like an above poster, I looked forward to ‘Cartoon Violence’ on Fridays on Wonkette, and sadly had NO IDEA about the Shangri-La that was here until Josh make a link here a couple months ago. My life will never be the same…
On the downside, now I read the comics I never bothered to before, even the ones I hated. Ah well, life’s not THAT short!
Congrats, and thanks for the laughter, Josh and the posting gang!
stinky pete
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:46 pm
57 Dingo, I used to camp in Starved Rock as a youth; add one more vote!
blake
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:48 pm
i, too, came here from james wolcott’s blog. the man knows his snark, all right.
so, well done, josh, and the commenters as well. thanks for the many tee-hees, snorts, and outright guffaws.
your pal,
blake
SixFootJen
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:50 pm
…and my vote brings Starved Rock to only 2% behind Jane!
(Oh, and Josh, congrats on 1K and thanks for the snark.)
Canaduck
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Congrats, Josh, your blog is one of my very, very favorites! I think I’ve only been reading for a year or so. Keep up the great work!
Paul O.
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:51 pm
As a constant lurker, I must say, Happy 1000st post! May there be much curmudgeony in the future!
Dingo
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Josh, let me tip a glass in your direction and offer congratulations on your millennial thread. I came onto this site two years ago when I found a link to it from googling “Mary Worth.” I don’t even remember WHY I was googling Mar’ but your site sucked me in. You’ve given me the opportunity to laugh mighty hard through some trying times with your posts and those of the curmudgeonistas. I also thank you for the site since it truly is the only place where I can write in the style I prefer. NO GRADUATE THESIS PAPERS HERE!!!
You are the anti-Lynn Johnston: you started off with a small family and slowly built a collection of characters for all of us to read and commisserate… without wanting to unleash 300 leather speedo clad minions on you. Then again, if your wife goes away for the weekend…
(slaps self back to reality)
Congratulations on the Millennial Thread! More! More! More!
DaveyK
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Put simply, this is the only must-read blog in the internet.
Heckler123
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Happy Millinepost, Josh. Are you going to go roadside to celebrate?
MonkeyHawk
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:55 pm
“IRTCSYDHT?!
SmellsSounds like the natural response to entering a public restroom just after Chinuxx has left.Trixie Belden
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Congratulations Josh! Your site is a treasure!
Also, thanks to stinky pete as well. I’ve been meaning to post about how much I enjoyed his countdown.
ON TO THE NEXT THOUSAND!
ThisWas
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Congratulations from a long-time lurker who has never posted but today is my birthday and nothing exciting has ever happened on this date before so I’m hurrying before the clock strikes midnight but it’s so hard to type wearing glass slippers and… oh damn!
ThisWas
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:02 pm
YAY! I made it! Curmudgeonville doesn’t recognize DST!
Poteet
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Thank you, Josh. Thank you, my sister and brother Curmudgeons. I’m grateful to be here at this historic moment.
I am toasting you all with virtual champagne and tossing virtual confetti. And I’m also celebrating with a few pieces of real chocolate (yum!)
??mOSSpETE!!!
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:11 pm
AAAAAHHHHHH! tHE mILLINEPOST iS hERE! tHE mILLINEPOST iS hERE! tHE mADNESS! tHE mAAAAAAAADNESS!
Honestly, Josh, thanks for all the laughs! You are twisted, but in a good way. So are your followers. Keep up the
weird, demented, disturbing,great work!Marion Delgado
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:14 pm
In honor of the 1000, here’s a Lio panel that I think sums up a lot of deeply-rooted Comics Curmudgeon thinking:
http://www.geocities.com/marion_delgado/lio_comics_curmudgeon.gif
Different Josh
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:15 pm
Congrats, Josh.
Enough of this wonkette crap, though. We need your snarky comments here, not there.
PeteMoss
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:20 pm
First post I saw was sometime last April. A friend introduced me. It featured the Family Circus, Sunday edition. The little Keanes were trying to baptize the Cat (Kitty?). I was hooked.
Damn you, Josh! Damn you to SATURN!
The Grebe
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:22 pm
Lurker since September 2006. Found your blog around the end of Aldomania, following a long train of websites that started at imdb.
Happy 1000th post, Josh! You had me at Margo.
yellojkt
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Josh,
It’s been great reading this blog for nearly two years. In that time you have gone from a novelty to an institution. It is a great public service you are doing and I hope someday it is as lucrative as it deserves to be.
UnderstatementJones
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:24 pm
Congrats, Josh. I’m also a recent, Wonkette-born reader. No sooner did you get me started on the meddling awesomeness that is Ms. Mary Worth than the post yanked it, and I appreciate the effort you’ve made to save it during your guest-blog gig. Sadly, I’m afraid it’s not coming back, and I will stop mentioning it. But I have prepared a mournful haiku:
The Post took Mary
away. And now it’s not worth
the thirty-five cents.
Fred P.
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Although I originally came here for Gitsum Girl, I’ve stuck around for Dirty Microbe Girl. Oh and also for the laughs. Thanks, Josh (and thanks too to commentators).
Yet despite having posted one thousand posts, please do not think that it is unnecessary to continue your Sisyphean labors. FBOFW cartoons are as regular (though not quite as subtle) as any boulder, and far far more in need of ridicule.
Cornwhacker
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:39 pm
The introduction of Howard Erk got me lurking, Raju’s debut got me posting, Josh and all the insanely clever commentors keep me coming back day after day. Happy millenepost, one and all.
And, since all things lead back to Foob: Uh, considering that “the last one” was of Native descent, that pun’s not only clunky, it’s downright tasteless.
For something tasty, on the other hand, G.E. Chennux, might look to today’s Marmaduke.
Gaarglox
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:40 pm
Happy 1000th post! My parents always loved to poke fun at the soap strips when I was much younger, and I didn’t pick it up until my dad showed me your site!
fizzy logic
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:41 pm
Yay! It’s like a virtual new year’s eve party with a bunch of people I’ve never met! Pass the champers & chocolate, Poteet!
Josh, thanks for a great site – you put the Gawker empire to shame. Your curmudgeons are the smartest, funniest, geekiest-while-still-pop-culturally-aware, most talented group of people around. I’m sure they’re the most attractive, too. I lurked for a long time before I felt compelled to post – you guys just looked like you were having SO MUCH FUN!
I’m sure my employer is cursing your name, Josh, but thanks for all that you do, and here’s my best wishes for the next 1,000+.
Gadge Cubic, Mole Preener
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:42 pm
I just had the frightening realization that, like some cheesy guest star on a hugely popular sitcom, I probably have way more readers here than on my own li’l blog. Weird.
Anyway, Josh, congrats on the millinepost or millennipost or however you want to spell it. By post 2K, I expect the Comics Curmudgeon empire will rule the comics world with complete domination.
Gadge Cubic, Mole Preener
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:45 pm
Oh, and the so-called Old Fogey(ette)s are celebrating their anniversary tonight – congrats to them (I’m sure it’s not their milleniversary – they’re not that old!), and I’m supposed to pass on a secret invitation to you, Josh. (P.S. Don’t tell Amber.)
Wayward
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Congratulations on getting to #1000, Josh! This site is a great deal of fun.
Kevin
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Josh:
I lurk, lurk, lurk and lurk some more. But this is my first comment and I will use it to say: thanks for the laughs, wit and humor. Congratulations on 1,000!
rich
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:47 pm
Josh, big congratulations on your millennial moment! (Do we get to celebrate again, 12 posts from now?) And with all due respect to my fellow snarkers, you’re still the funniest one here.
So, would I be pooping the party to point out that your headline is misspelled? I’d vote for “Millennipost,” as #28 Aaron T suggested — although Millenipost or Mtigwakipost might also do.
I discovered your brilliant creation about two years ago, while googling the words “gig” “roadside” and “for better or for worse.” I knew there had to be someone out there making fun of those things, but never dreamed I’d find something like this. Again, congratulations. You’re a lucky man who has found his calling — making fun of Mary Worth. Only in America!
Jeanne
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:48 pm
Dingo,
It’s now up to 27% while Galena’s Main Street is trailing at 1%. Go Natural!!
mbtankersley
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:53 pm
OK… I’ve been a lurker long enough, this is the perfect time to leave a comment. Congratulations! Your writing style and blogging skills are second-to-none. I get more pure enjoyment out of reading this site daily than I get from any other. When you spend as much time daily as I do online, that really holds some meaning. Thank you for doing what you do, Josh.
MBT
NEW-ME
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:56 pm
I just want to say, (wipe tears from my eyes) You Curmudgeon’s literally saved my life. You people make me laugh so much. [Yes I said "you people"] When you laugh you can make it through the most horrid of things and keep on going! I will forever and always be a faithful reader, and I may even say something that makes someone else laugh. (not likely but I might come up with something funny)
Thank you Josh for creating the best blog I have ever read…
Dingo
March 24th, 2007 at 12:08 am
Dios mio! (DT)GT actually got it right! Gil took the journalism instructor to task for his editors’ libelous actions against Brynna Blake. However, I still think my name for her, Brynna Antenna, is much more fitting and desirous.
Lapsed Librarian
March 24th, 2007 at 12:10 am
Congratulations, Josh, and many thanks! I found your site around the summer of 2005 and immediately dug in to the archives so I could catch up. Thanks to you, my reading of the comics has been changed forever, and definitely for the better — they’re all so much more entertaining now!
Lapsed Librarian
March 24th, 2007 at 12:12 am
Oh, and I voted for Starved Rock. :)
Dingo
March 24th, 2007 at 12:13 am
So, um…, I don’t remember Gordon’s wife being the Kraken of Ontario before. And Liz, poor sweet virginal demented Liz, is again blaming Paul for stabbing (shooting?) her in the back with the poisoned arrows of First Nations love.
I can’t wait for Liz to give her students a lesson in the Holocaust. She’ll blame the Jews for World War II.
skulking on the outskirts
March 24th, 2007 at 12:15 am
Pope Josh, congratulations on 1000 (more or less) posts. Here’s to many more to come.
Dingo, I put my vote in for your favorite park, though I’ve never been there. It’s the least anyone can do for all the killer snark you’ve bestowed on us.
And G.E. Chennux, I’m deeply, deeply hurt that you didn’t like my groveling effort of several threads back. Look, you come in all stentorian and imperial, demanding loosened sphincters and all that stuff, and I gave it my best shot, ok? Even Imperial Grandiosity has to offer a little consistency, so quit whipsawing back and forth. A girl never knows whether to come off as all cowed and trembling, or keep it light and breezy with you. Jeez. Oh, and Hail Chennux, I guess.
zqfmgb
March 24th, 2007 at 12:16 am
Congrats! Congrads?
I will never forget the fateful day I arrived here from a link on Dinosaur Comics. Except I can’t remember when exactly it was. Oh well, Cheers!
Anj
March 24th, 2007 at 12:18 am
This is my first ever post. I’m relatively new to this site, having only discovered it in the immediate aftermath of Aldomania, but I just want to add my voice to the chorus of thank yous and congratulations that Josh and so many of the regular commenters so richly deserve. I love all the snark, but what I like most about this site is the genuine appreciation for the comic artform that shines through underneath all the jokes about garage cleaning, Margo’s coke binges, and the irredeemable awfulness of so many members of the Patterson clan. Reading this site doesn’t just help me revel in the inanity of the bad strips; it’s also helped me rediscover my love of the great ones. Somehow, pulling out the old Calvin And Hobbes anthology is always more fun after I’ve just read some Comics Curmudgeon. Happy 1000th post!
Bobdog
March 24th, 2007 at 12:19 am
Josh,
Congratulations on your milestone. Though, it has come with a cost.
I was just over at Yahoos comics page, and each time I finished reading a strip, I found myself feeling as though something was missing, that I was craving something more.
Then it dawned on me:
I can no longer read a comic strip without expecting some snarky commentary following it.
A plague upon both your houses!
Quäsenbo Pan
March 24th, 2007 at 12:25 am
After putting on my spectacles, Josh, this is the first thing I’ve looked at every morning for the last year or so. After Mary Worth, of course. You’ve trained me well.
Gee Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away..
March 24th, 2007 at 12:37 am
I have been here lurking quite a while. Wow 1000 posts. You have been a busy boy.
Congrats Josh!
Keep the snark rolling in!
Jeanne
March 24th, 2007 at 12:38 am
Dingo,
I too, found it interesting that Lynn used the arrow metaphor for Mr. Wright and Liz’ breakup.
Doesn’t that seem sort of , ummm, anti-aboriginal of her? And here, I thought they were all in the sainted category.
(Long, sad sigh)
Randy S
March 24th, 2007 at 12:44 am
I just wanted to be the first to say…
Mark (Trail) figured it out! And we didn’t have to wait until Monday to find out.
That’s a relief.
Anyway, congratulations on the 1000th post thing, etc. etc.
Trilobite
March 24th, 2007 at 12:45 am
Hooray for post 1000!
And I look forward to celebrating the Millenipost again, twelve posts from now! (Because after all, the real advantage of the messed-up numbering is that we get twice as many anniversaries!)
Weasel Boy
March 24th, 2007 at 12:47 am
Congratulations, Josh! And thanks to all you incredibly funny people who contribute to this great site. I don’t see CC jumping the snark any time soon.
Tabby Lavalamp
March 24th, 2007 at 12:56 am
The world’s still here? HA! In your face, Jehovah’s Witnesses! Wrong again!
But now that leaves the question, what am I going to do with all this bottled water?
Dingo
March 24th, 2007 at 12:57 am
Seeing Cherry in today’s Mark Trail makes me ponder a new acronym (I came up with STB! for Lynn Johnston months back). I’m thinking that Cherry’s hand-on-cheeks-with-large-raccoon-eyes pose should be referred to as THB9BI4(OVV) or Thought He’d Be 9 But It’s 4 (Or Vice Versa). Man, I can’t remember how many times I made that face during a date in my twenties. But once you’ve consumed the surf ‘n’ turf, you gots to pay off the meal.*
* – old jungle saying
Julia
March 24th, 2007 at 1:05 am
Yet another chronic lurker here, but I just had to add my voice to the (already clamorous) chorus congratulating you on the big one-zero-zero-zero. This is the ONLY site I’ve found that reliably makes me burst out laughing. Don’t go anywhere, Josh!!!
dreadedcandiru2
March 24th, 2007 at 1:10 am
97 – Watch her as she blames the Jews, you say? She’ll claiom the Holocaust was a Zionist hoaz! AND on April 20th, yet! I wanted to reach through the screen and kill the Grieving Widow Lady today! Who’s with me?
Plinko Commie
March 24th, 2007 at 1:23 am
Congratulations on the milestone and many happy returns and all that. We should throw you a party at the art studio. Your little sister’s available for a lecherous flyboy, no?
Speak of, Saturday’s strip. Paul was the last beau that left too many arrows? BEAU AND ARROWS? I can’t decide if this is a B.C. Cupid pun or something Dolly would say after rummaging through Mommy’s closet looking for birthday presents and instead finding the library of harlequin romances she keeps to remind herself that love exists in ways more awesome than that of the compromised, banal way it exists in the aspirin circle of their world.
Too bad this strip didn’t hit the HOV lane to suck about seven years or so sooner. This is a way better reason to go to war with Canada than Terrance and Philip.
Mibbitmaker
March 24th, 2007 at 1:33 am
Josh, Con-grad-yoo-lations (I can’t help “hearing” the word without the “voice” of the army sgt. in that Ren & Stimpy cartoon… or is it Scaduto-speak? – not sure). Combining my love of comic strips (and cartooning in general) and MST3K-like snark; what’s not to love?
I’m not entirely convinced it was my first post, since I remember the pre-name change, but my possibly first comment was on post 205 (linked in #39 above), comment #26. There’s a sad irony in it, though, as I referenced Larry “Bud” Melman, and the man (Calvert DeForrest) just passed away Monday. Sometimes I think Batiuk writes real life!
One strip I can’t blame y’all for getting me so furshlugginer into against my better judgement is A3G. That one hooked me when Margo got highjacked on a plane. With or without the CC, I’d wager Margo sucked most of you into that black hole of a comic strip (3G in general, I mean).
I just wish this place – and my being online – existed when Les and Lisa were cruelly manipulated away from each other all over the U.S. and Europe in FW during the summer of 1994! That was taylor-made for here.
megagojira
March 24th, 2007 at 1:35 am
Another lurker taking this oppurtunity to speak up for the first time. It used to take me ten minutes to read the comics in the newspaper… then I discovered this site. Now I read the comics in the paper, go online to read the ones my paper doesn’t carry, then come here and read the entry, then go in and read the comments…
Anyway, this is probably my favorite blog, keep up the good work!
Tats
March 24th, 2007 at 1:36 am
Congrats! Here’s to 1000 more. :)
Mary Worth: Vera desperately needs to stop being in this comic. It’s been about a dozen comics and I already hope Mary kills her somehow.
Rex Morgan, M.D.: June’s slow takeover of the strip continues. Maybe readers haven’t noticed because June and Rex, for all intents and purposes, look about the same.
Dean Booth
March 24th, 2007 at 1:39 am
Congrats, Josh. I’m looking forward to a 1000 more.
traveller
March 24th, 2007 at 1:40 am
Toni Daytona has left one of her embroidered gloves at Brad’s place. I had no idea Luann was set in Edwardian England.
Joseph Wong
March 24th, 2007 at 1:41 am
Second post so far. First post was a proclamation my growing enjoyment of Slylock Fox, which this site introduced me to. This second post is to thank Josh and all the Curmudgeons for their unfailing doses of much-needed humour. Here’s to another 1000 posts!
Octal
March 24th, 2007 at 1:53 am
WOOOOO TEN TO THE THIRD :D
Here’s to many more! *clink*
PS: I voted for Starved Rock. Hope it wins! (And… notice how we can vote ever 24 hours?) Also, the T-Rex skeleton is pretty cool, so I’m voting for that, too, tomorrow. I mean, come on, it’s a dinosaur! Look:
Some of us should vote for that so it at least beats the train museum (trains are cool, but I wouldn’t call it a ‘wonder’. Somewhere I’d like to visit, sure). We can do it! (I mean, 28%? Woah. :D Truly we are a force to be reckoned with!)
TomSFox
March 24th, 2007 at 1:56 am
Hey, Josh, congratulations!
I’ve been lurking for quite a while and I love this blog!
It made me laugh so hard.
So, I thought now might be a good moment to become contributing reader.
NikKnack
March 24th, 2007 at 2:07 am
I first found this site after googling for Apartment 3G last summer, convinced that somewhere, someone could explain to me wtf was going on in this strip. It was “love at first sight” when I discovered the Warhol-inspired finger-quoting Margo contest, and I’ve been hooked ever since (although the strip still doesn’t make any more sense).
Thanks to Josh and all of the other Curmudgeonites for giving me a reason to celebrate midnight in Texas, the magical hour when the Chron delivers my funnies fix and kicks off a new round of snarking. Love you guys!!
Mibbitmaker
March 24th, 2007 at 2:08 am
And now, on to the snark, 3/24 style:
MT: DUUUUUUUUUHH!, Trail! Honestly, I think the pointer in Cherry’s talking balloon should be pointing to the Elrod Ball.
FOOB: Ah, Jeez, one party and Liz turns into Archie Bunker dere! Or, in keeping with the wretched pun involved, Archery Bunker.
JP: I’m an artist, strip, and that hurts!
9CL: I haven’t seen such confusing hand signals since George W. Bush tried sign language to communicate his syntax! *RIMSHOT*
A3G: Margo reminding us why she’s still the most reprehensible person in the building. Falling-for-the-jerk Tommie just can’t compare!
S-M: Ethical dilemmas just don’t matter when you’re called “Flattop Hitler”, apparently.
Curtis: Much to our shared dismay, those yo-yos were the culprits. Way to put a damper on the 1000th post, Billingsley.
GT: There will be no (DT) here today; the man’s right.
NEW-ME
March 24th, 2007 at 2:17 am
Cherry looks like she is at a horror show, oh, I forgot, she IS married to MT.
Shan-Non
March 24th, 2007 at 2:18 am
I am become Shan-non, deployer of gourds!
AAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!
rich
March 24th, 2007 at 2:21 am
FOOB: “Come and meet Michael’s friends, Warren…this 31-year-old man in the 59-year-old body is Karl Ro– er, I mean, Gordon Mayes.”
What I find particularly sad is that when she first hooked up with Gordon, Tracey was really cute. It’s not nice to say “too cute for the likes of Gordon,” but c’mon! It’s what everyone around them was thinking. And look at her now: out of shape, dowdy, appearing ten years older than her true age. “Gordo” has dragged the poor girl down to his own uber-Plugger status.
49, Marion Delgado: Ha! Not just there when Funky Winkerbean started — I still have the very first strip, clipped out of the Hartford Courant! (…Did I just say that out loud??)
amutepiggy
March 24th, 2007 at 2:22 am
Josh, i am delurking just to congratulate. you are one of the funniest writers on the internet and your blog makes me laugh every day.
the comments here are also some of the best around. none of that youtube “hahaha ur so ghey” nonsense here. if only i had the attention span to read all of them.
Ilpalazzo
March 24th, 2007 at 2:26 am
Millennial congratulations, of course!
Today’s (3/24) Judge Parker: best since Raju ran off to teach the wrestlers a thing or two.
If this were MW, the Brooklyn-born art student/sociologist would be Ian’s former grad student, or Mary’s neighbor’s long-lost daughter, to be meddled into a new career as a file clerk, or driven to suicide by platitudes, or preferably both.
If it were Pibgorn, she’d be red-haired, chinless & spouting Shakespeare.
If it were A3G, she’d be LuAnn after a few more paint-thinner-induced hallucinations, but she’d be wearing a 70s peach-colored sweater vest over a puke-green blouse with a pointy collar.
If FW, she’d end up with cervical cancer, & so would Neddy.
If RMMD, she’d be rescued from the boulevards to help Niki with June’s garage. (Rex hasn’t done a thing to that garage in a long time — could be a two-person job.)
And if Lio, she’d be a giant squid.
Ken Layne
March 24th, 2007 at 2:29 am
Ha ha, you are a SELLOUT! How can you LOOK AT YOURSELF??? You make a site people “LIKE TO READ” … does that help you sleep, knowing someone has enjoyed your work?? THAT IS WHAT WE CALL HITLER.
AppleGirl
March 24th, 2007 at 2:30 am
Hey, we’re well into the Millinepost and I haven’t become WindowsDude yet! Whew. Thank goodness, the software held and it’s been a smooth transition.
Dingo – After my vote, awesome Starved Rock is #2. I love Starved Rock and also Rita’s Resale shop in Ottowa.
MT – What was it, a screw or a hook? Or a hook that screwed in? I’m as dense as Cherry Trail, I still don’t get how the guy disappeared in the lake by using that hook/screw in that tiny rowboat. But this week there sure has been a lot of talk about that screw, which reminds me…
Emporer Chennux – Text me!
rich
March 24th, 2007 at 2:51 am
Wouldn’t Gordon seem a whole lot cooler if his nickname was “Say Hey” Gordon Mayes?
Dingo
March 24th, 2007 at 3:09 am
Folks! Thank you, thank you for the work you’ve done so far getting Starved Rock to 28%. Please keep those votes coming!
(Hey, this is Illinois. We vote early and vote often.)
Randy S
March 24th, 2007 at 3:31 am
129: apparently the eye-hook thing was what he hung his underwater diving equipment on.
(Remember the morning when he got up early and slipped the dog a roofy? That was what he was doing)
The Avocado Avenger
March 24th, 2007 at 3:47 am
Hooray!
Really, that’s all I have to say. Hooray. More insightful snarking of newspaper comics, mule!
NJP
March 24th, 2007 at 4:39 am
I found this site back in March of 2005, and somehow spent the whole day going back through the archives and reading every single post that had been made to that point. I laughed so damn hard, it was great. Back in high school (the early 1990s), my friends and I would read the newspaper comics in the library during lunch and make fun of them. Particularly the Phantom. The Phantom that is published today is actually way better than it was 15 years ago. But before I found this site, i never understood the purpose of strips like Mary Worth, Rex Morgan, and Apt. 3G. Now I know. They exist to be mocked.
compass rose
March 24th, 2007 at 5:11 am
I came here as a refugee from the now-defunct “What Th’!?” Mark Trail blog. This site has given me so much pleasure. Thank you, Josh.
Pssst! Everybody – how about a little anniversary gift into the Tip Jar? A few Georges to mark the occasion?
Different Josh
March 24th, 2007 at 5:42 am
Starving Rock update:
It appears as though the 7 wonders of Ill. website is storing your vote time in a cookie or something like that, as opposed to logging your IP and checking it on their end.
Either way, if you clear out your temporary internet and cookies folders you can vote as often as you like.
At least it’s working that way for me.
Lynngineering
March 24th, 2007 at 5:55 am
- congratulations josh,
I am myself surprised how addictive this blog became – damn that FBOFW.
I still think we should start again at 0 or 5 – why waste totally good pages?
yellojkt
March 24th, 2007 at 6:12 am
I like that the old Blogger site has all sorts of spam comments.
King Folderol
March 24th, 2007 at 6:22 am
Hogenmogen [who I went to college with and have known for almost 20 years (!)now] turned me onto this site about two years ago. I wasn’t one of the first people, but I can also remember when there were only 50 posts a day and not 200-300. This is just an awesome site, not only for Josh’s insights, but for some of the funniest and wittiest people I’ve ever encountered on the Internet.
Calico
March 24th, 2007 at 6:37 am
#109 – either way, that look! Aaaack!
Maybe she’s freaked out by Mark’s teeny-tiny fingers in panel one.
Cherry could also be Ozzy Osbourne on multiple pills in the O-Face-Gone-Horribly-Wrong panel.
Calico
March 24th, 2007 at 6:45 am
Josh – Happy 1,000th post.
I began to read this when Aldo-mania ended-CNN is my home page and there was actually an article on Cappy Aldo’s demise. I Googled Mary Worth and the CC/JoshReads was right there, like a shiny Bright New Canadian Loonie on dark pavement.
BTW, I used to like FOOB until I started reading the Comics Curmudgeon. So, thanks and carry on facetiously deconstucting the Pattersaints, Mary the Meddler, Margo the Coke Queen, Dennis the Non-menace, the Family Jerkfest, all the dogs, the toasted kitties including Barfield, and everyone else in comix-land!
Galactic Emperor Chennux
March 24th, 2007 at 6:52 am
ATTENTION EARTHERS! WAKE UP AND WIPE THE CRUSTED SNARK OUT OF YOUR EYES! CHENNUX SPEAKS!
EXCELLENT NEWS! CHENNUX HAS AUTHORIZED A 21 MAGMACANNON SALUTE TO COMMEMORATE THE CC1K! AND EVEN BETTER NEWS! HE IS FIRING THEM AT #70 MONKEYHAWK! TAKE THAT, YOU FURFEATHERED HOOKBEAKED PREHENSILE-TAILED GENETIC MISTAKE! “IRTCSYDHT” MY IMPERIAL ASS!
#98 THE ONE CALLED SKULKING! GALACTIC APOLOGIES! YOUR EFFORT WAS NOT BROUGHT TO MY IMPERIAL ATTENTION! THOSE RESPONSIBLE HAVE BEEN DISCIPLINED, HAD A LETTER OF REPRIMAND PLACED IN THEIR FILES, AND SERVED SPREAD ON TOAST POINTS! AS TO APPROACH ATTITUDES TO CHENNUX, GROVELING IS BEST, BUT THINGS USUALLY RELAX AFTER A FEW ARDBEGS!
#129 APPLEGIRL! SHOE SALE IN THE 7.38TH DIMENSION THIS WEEKEND! SHALL CHENNUX SEND A SHUTTLE? OH, AND BRING THOSE SCREAMING PEOPLE FIGURES FROM ARCHIE MCPHEE’S! WE CAN PLAY ‘RUN FROM THE SKXCRITORT’ AGAIN!
END TRANSMISSION!
Luna
March 24th, 2007 at 6:56 am
Congratulations Josh. Thanks to you and all the snarky posters who give me a daily dose of laughter.
I naturally stumbled into this site Oct 06, after an “i hate for better or worse search.” It was like coming home. ::sniff:
True Fable
March 24th, 2007 at 7:17 am
MW Now Emo Girl is staring right at us, breaking that fourth wall, in panel 2. She’s got Aldo Kelrast eyes.
Her hair is dishwater blonde
Her frownlines deepening
She’s got big thought balloons
She’s got Aldo Kelrast Eyes
Mary’s meddled
While she’s peddled
Tuna cassarole in her kettle
She’s obnoxious and she knows just what it takes to be so toxic
All the snarkers think she’s a spy, she’s got
Aldo Kelrast eyes
Bob
March 24th, 2007 at 7:21 am
Josh,
Congratulations. And you may enjoy another sign of your impact:
If you happen to have access to a copy of the print edition of today’s (Saturday 3/24/07) Washington Post, turn to the Style Section, page C3, and read this week’s Poor Richard’s Almanac, addressing all the lament over the recent rearrangement of the comics in the Post. Beneath an air-quoting woman (saying ‘She’s so “cool”‘), there is the text
The web edition still only has the St. Patrick’s edition of that strip up, but I expect that today’s will eventually be linked from the Style Print Edition page.
Ipofrigio
March 24th, 2007 at 7:29 am
Josh, beside you other obvious merits, you write some of the finest, wittiest and most attic English on the Web.
True Fable
March 24th, 2007 at 7:32 am
Might as well Snark!
SFx Is today’s mystery why Slylock and Max the Mouse have turned into Bonnie and Boo Boo?
MT Today, Cherry has a complete breakdown because there’s only so much news her brain can process.
A3G Oh joy! Margo’s going to teach Tommie how to be a playa and keep men on a string! I bet she won’t get around to explaining why all HER men cut the line and run when she tries to reel them in, though.
(DT)GT Mr. Combover gets PWNED!
FW Batuik, if you make one more comment about cancer, I’m going to take your lungs out myself, through your nostrils. I’m a cancer survivor, and I don’t even talk about it as much as you! Besides, the law is going to kick Montoni’s ass any day now anyway.
Dt…t…M?!?! Dennis, you fail at life. The First Law of Menacing clearly states, Offering Help is NOT considered Menacing, if subsection b. is in place, especially if your menacing has had as poor a showing as Dennis Mitchell’s. MenaceWatch2007 is going to start throwing sanctions against your wimpy little ass. The LEAST you could have done is cover the monitor with Wite-Out or something, bitch.
marykat
March 24th, 2007 at 7:42 am
Congrats Josh and fellow Cardinals! I have been following this blog since early days, I think pointed here by a TestPattern link. I am proud to say I was part of the ULTRAPOST of ‘05! Oh yeah, and thanks for forcing me to follow MW, JP, (DT)GT and all the other snark-worthy comics we follow here.
stinky pete
March 24th, 2007 at 7:53 am
And thus the next week’s worth of Judge Parkerstrips is foreshadowed:
Today:
“Are you really working on your Ph.D.?”
“No, honey, I’m actually an art student.”
Monday:
“Are you really an art student.?”
“No, honey, I’m actually a civil engineering major – this hydraulic bustier is my senior project.”
Tuesday:
“Are you really a civil engineering student?”
“No, honey, I’m actually a law student, trolling for future clients.”
Wednesday:
“Are you really a law student?”
“No, honey, I’m actually a medical student, trying to pick up an STD so I can practice curing myself.”
Thursday:
“Are you really a medical student?”
“No, honey, I’m actually a business major, doing a case study on the economics of prostitution.”
Friday:
“Are you really a business major?”
“No, honey, I’m a hooker – you asshat!”
Krazy Kat
March 24th, 2007 at 7:56 am
GREAT WORK JOSH!
I remember not long ago when the CC thread would stay up for days and maybe 20-30 folks would post–now I come in and can’t even get a seat at the bar.
I’m glad I found a community of people as lonely and bitter as I am and I look forward to the next 1000 postings!
Mnemonica
March 24th, 2007 at 7:57 am
Congrats!
I found this site through a mention on Ken Jennings’ blog — he called it “my very favorite blog–the only one I really read, apart from this one.” That was way back in early November, or — I think — less than a day in Rex Morgan time.
Krazy Kat
March 24th, 2007 at 7:58 am
PS-folks–It’s been a while since the bake sale-don’t forget to hit the tip jar once in while to keep things going.
Calico
March 24th, 2007 at 8:10 am
#147 – Dennis is really faltering lately. Even Jeffy from the Family Shitfest rocks compared to the D Man.
The white-out sounds like a cool idea, or he and Joey could resort to playing baseball in front of the computer screen.
kjh
March 24th, 2007 at 8:10 am
Josh,
You need to respond to the Poor Richard’s Almanac from today’s Washington Post ASAP. See comment 145 above.
Please!!!!
Tukla in Iowa
March 24th, 2007 at 8:14 am
I don’t remember how I found out about CC (or any other site for that matter), but I do remember wondering what “Jo Shreads.com” was supposed to mean. ::rolls eyes::
macb
March 24th, 2007 at 8:15 am
1,000 and counting! To quote Michael Patterson doing his best Bert-Lahr-as-Cowardly-Lion-upon-being-awarded-a-courage-medal impression: “aw shucks, I’m speechless.”
under_score
March 24th, 2007 at 8:19 am
#113 mibbit: Yes, it would have been great to have this place in existance during Les & Lisa, but my vote for “Favorite series to retroactively Curmudeonize” is when Sam & Abby spent their honeymoon bobbing in the water for about 2 months in (I think) Jan 2000.
#135 compass rose: Excellent idea! If you missed/ignored/forgot Uncle Lumpy’s pledge drive a few months back, which I did, the millinipost would be a great time to shower Josh with money in order to help keep things going. Heading right over there now, thanks for the reminder. Also, it might make me feel less guilty for ignoring the spring NPR drive. (I gave in fall, honest!)
Blynneda
March 24th, 2007 at 8:20 am
I, too, discovered this blog through Ken Jennings. It’s about the only site I make it a point to check regularly. Keep up the frivolity!
And remember, the Snark was a Boojum, you see.
Tukla in Iowa
March 24th, 2007 at 8:20 am
#150: I’m glad I found a community of people as lonely and bitter as I am
LOL! Indeed, Kat. As for the tip jar, I’d be willing to subscribe if that were an option. I only remember to tip if the person is delivering a pizza or stroking her breasts two feet from my face. 8-)
Calico
March 24th, 2007 at 8:21 am
#155 – that would be the next fucked-up Charterstone character in Mary Worth – Vera Shields, meet Jo Shreads! (No offense whatsoever, Josh!)
TurtleBoy
March 24th, 2007 at 8:24 am
Here’s to you, Josh, for devotedly providing a thankless community service! He reads Gil Thorp so you don’t have to™.
And here’s my midmorning contribution to the ongoing snark…MW: Judging from the stilted quasi-Victorian English of her thought balloons, Vera Shields must be the lovechild of Jane Austen and C. Montgomery Burns.
Bob
March 24th, 2007 at 8:26 am
And BTW, I mistyped above. Its “Richard’s Poor Almanac”, not “Poor Richard’s Almanac”. I’m ashamed.
Goaty
March 24th, 2007 at 8:28 am
FOOOB —– if Warren says “Whoa!” one more time…. I swear he’d better be riding a horse or Lizardbreath at the time!
yellojkt
March 24th, 2007 at 8:29 am
Here is a scan of the Richard’s Poor Almanack in today’s WaPo. I’m not sure how Josh should take being called “Whiny McSluggard”, he’s the hardest working amateur blogger I know.
Tukla in Iowa
March 24th, 2007 at 8:29 am
LOL!
“Jo Shreads, formerly of ‘The Facts of Life’, thrice married and divorced, now on the run from…what? Stay tuned.”
smacky
March 24th, 2007 at 8:40 am
Josh,
Congrats on 1,000!!
I scanned the comments, hoping for a surprise celebrity guest (perhaps the writers of Funky, TDIET, or even MW), but they must have posted under aliases. The topper would of course be a note of congrats from Ms. Johnston herself. I’ll cross my fingers she’ll check in on Sunday!
stinky pete
March 24th, 2007 at 8:40 am
164 YJ; wait, did the WaPo just call me a “hipster?” The “BWA” and 7 “HA”s you just heard came from my teenage daughters…
True Fable
March 24th, 2007 at 8:48 am
Richard’s Poor Almanack ought to be glad there is a “Whiny McSluggard” out here who even gives a damn about comics one way or the other.
Look at all the people in the last 1000 posts who were drawn to this place for its snarking of some frankly hideous comics and/or art and/or writing styles, what have you. We could have just shrugged and walked on by the newstand or avoided the online site. But we are interested in the comics again – I know I am, after decades of neglect – because Josh read the comics so I didn’t have to, and I got hooked again. I have a reason to stare at Abbey Spencer. I can hate For Better or For Worse and not feel I am alone. I can come here and say “wtf is that all about?” in regards to FC, FW, BC, and SFx and know I will see something that is honestly FUNNY regarding them because lord knows the strips aren’t funny. I can shout Cathy Must Die and feel comraderie with several others.
Hey, I would have missed out on Tyler Jay beating the crap out of his head with a stick. Good times.
Fuck the Post, they should be thanking Josh.
Pinback65
March 24th, 2007 at 8:49 am
Congrats, Josh.
Like an alarmingly large number of commentors here, I’ve had some bum times recently, and one thing I’ve always been able to count on is this site. Sure, the comics snark, but everything else, too–song parodies, off-topic digressions, obscure pop culture shout-outs, all of it guaranteed to make me laugh out loud on a daily basis. And, not to get maudlin, but there are days when that laughter reminds me, when things get bleak, life is still good.
So thanks to all!
Calico
March 24th, 2007 at 8:49 am
#164 – let me go to D. C. and smack ‘im in the gob!
I have an idea for a new comic too – it features a poophead named Richard drawing a feature about a certain pack of snarky commentors and their astute leader who all hate Mary Worth enough to need her presence, like in The Young and the Restless or something, complaining all the time while he is doing it. Every panel will feature said guy, cursing under his breath and fondling himself while “drawing.”
Whew. There.
yellojkt
March 24th, 2007 at 9:01 am
Whoa, stop the hating on poor Richard Thompson. He is very funny and I’m flattered that he takes the time to mock us “hipsters” (I can’t even type that with a straight face). If you dish it out, you have to be able to take it.
willethompson
March 24th, 2007 at 9:03 am
People, people, people! Can it be true that we are so ironic that we don’t recognize irony any more? See the link in #164 yellojkt’s post? The female ‘hipster’ is Margo-quoting! MARGO-QUOTING! And the Bucky/Satchel take is hilarious! It’s an homage!
…or at least it better be, ’cause I’ve still got my ‘300′ armor on from yesterday’s non-invasion of Fort Erie, Ontario, and I know where I-95N is…
O'Fogeyette
March 24th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Yippee! Congratulations to Josh and to all of us Curminions! (Which is, in fact, the only proper term for the denizens of this place.)
In honor of the occasion, I am officially changing my nom de blog.
From Yesterthread:
Dingo: I voted for Starving Rock.
Joshtradamus: Just margoing brilliant.
General question: will someone tell me where Rolly Church of Crete comes from? It must be from a strip I never read like Popeye or DTGT, but it’s a great phrase and I want to know so I can learn to use it properly.
And yes, Mr. O’F and I had a lovely evening, including a great soak in our new Jacuzzi that we gave each other as an anniversary present.
Marty
March 24th, 2007 at 9:10 am
Josh,
Many thanks for having such a great site and congratulations on hitting the 1000 mark (may there be many more to come)!
Keg of Curd
March 24th, 2007 at 9:10 am
W?! T?! F?! Agnes?!
TurtleBoy
March 24th, 2007 at 9:14 am
#173 O’Fogeyette: Rolly Church is the Wastewater Superintendent of the town of Crete, NE. So saith the almighty Google.
Calico
March 24th, 2007 at 9:14 am
#171 – parts of it are funny indeed! The GF reference is cute.
As is opposite with FOOB, I used to not like GF, but now think it’s kind of adorable. Everything comics must balance out over time, I guess!
The Gob-Smacking comment was an “ironic” take on Patsy Stone from one of the earlier Ab Fab series.
Have a “Good” day, all! And congrats again, Josh.
I’ll be baking up some “cookies” for the “jar” a little later in “commemoration.”
jules
March 24th, 2007 at 9:23 am
Happy Millenipost, Josh! It couldn’t have happened to a nicer Pope! May you continue to comic-blog for as long as Mary Worth goes on meddling.
Millenipost Greetings to all my fellow snarkers!
Grysar
March 24th, 2007 at 9:26 am
I’m with you yellojkt, it’s good natured teasing. Note that the first few panels are mocking the post itself fo moving around comics and still running classic Peanuts.
Really, give the Post some credit. They’ve dropped Cathy! And I stand by the dropping of Mary Worth as being a good thing. It’s still available on their website for “ironic” reading.
Grysar
March 24th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Also, congrats Josh!
TurtleBoy
March 24th, 2007 at 9:29 am
I don’t know if anyone else has experienced this phenomenon since first happening upon this site, but I no longer find as much pleasure reading good comics as I do reading the bad ones. The snark potential available in Mary Worth et al., not to mention the camaraderie with a community of like-minded snarkers, counterbalances the sting of the initial reading. Sure I could spend a few minutes chuckling at Dilbert or Sherman’s Lagoon, but that’s nothing compared to the hours of entertainment derived from tearing Lynn Johnston a new one. Thanks, y’all!
stinky pete
March 24th, 2007 at 9:31 am
173 O’Fogeyette; a belated happy anniversary, and for the Rolly Church of Crete reference, see Josh’s post 960 and ensuing comments like this one and this one.
Plinko Commie
March 24th, 2007 at 9:33 am
Curtis: You talk about Dennis the Mild Irritant losing his menacing ability, but what has happened to our favorite Curtis tormentors “Onion” and Derrick? They’ve gone from sending ravenous dogs after Curtis to framing him with a donkey? How in hell do you find a donkey in the inner-city, anyway? I mean, besides in the back of Fu King Express. Maybe they know the only drug dealer in America to use an actual mule as a mule.
Whatever the case, you’ve got to hand it to D and “O”, They try to maul Curtis with dogs, manage to acquire a donkey in a decidedly non-donkey area, and set it up in such a way that the administration never thinks to blame anyone else but Curtis. I’d get the hell out of town, Curtis, before they figure out a way to go on a murder rampage and put your fingerprints on all the weapons. Don’t think “Onion” can’t do it, man. “Onion” gon make you cry.
dimestore lipstick
March 24th, 2007 at 9:35 am
I started here:
http://joshreads.com/?p=225
What long, strange trip it’s been.
Thanks, Josh.
Thanks, everybody!
stinky pete
March 24th, 2007 at 9:36 am
BTW, not that I mind being the answer man for Josh Reads related questions, but I looked up those factoids in 182 by typing “rolly church of crete” site:joshreads.com into Google, for those do-it-your-selfers among us.
Obélix
March 24th, 2007 at 9:37 am
Congratulations on the Millenipost, Josh! (And for Dingo, I just voted for Starved Rock, which is now at 29%.)
Colorado
March 24th, 2007 at 9:47 am
I was brought to this site by Mary Worth’s Aldo,
when I got hooked into the whole stalker storyline…did a google on Mary Worth one day and it brought me here..It was kismet! Thanks for all the laughs!!
Pendragon
March 24th, 2007 at 10:00 am
#175 – You beat me to it. Agnes has received some attention here lately as it seems the author has been trying for the attention of the CCC. Today’s reference to (literally) shooting one’s testicles off is an example of trying to make a blip on the Curmudgeon radar.
I don’t usually do predictions, but in Judge Parker, I now predict Ms. Brooklynnewyork, if she is now telling the truth, will turn up in one of Neddy’s classes. Or she will receive part of the inheritance in gratitude for her assistance. Or both.
Dave
March 24th, 2007 at 10:03 am
Way to go, Josh! This blog kicks @&*(#%!
Alibi
March 24th, 2007 at 10:12 am
JP: HAHAHA Neddy learns early the harsh realities of the life of an art student!!! As an illustration major poised to graduate, I can say with confidence that the best investment I have made over my art school career was my leather minidress and silver platform boots.
That said, I would never even have known about Judge Parker if not for you, Josh!!! Congrats!
John C Fremont
March 24th, 2007 at 10:15 am
Congrats, Josh! Even when I have no time to check in with my usual political blogs, I still make the time to come here… even though I can’t tell the difference between Saint Michael Patterson and some guy named Warren. (Oops!) Thanks, man!
Oh, and I agree with Yellojkt – stop all the Richard Thompson hating. A guitar legend and musical genius who – Oh, THAT Richard Thompson. Well, that’s different. Nevermind!
SF – Bonnie and Boo Boo must live in the 60’s since Boo Boo is watching a Bob Hope special. Well, Bob Hope with an evil, pointy Satan chin.
Calico
March 24th, 2007 at 10:33 am
But of course she knows we can’t live with her, nor without her…this is the penultimate meddling power of the Supreme Biddy.
Mary Worth has started to take over our minds with this WaPo fiasco, and soon she will be after our souls.
All hail the Biddy! But do not let her meddling break our curmudgeonly bonds. She is not powerful enough to do that, even if she runs guys off cliffs or transplants our gray matter into aubergines.
Buck Ripsnort
March 24th, 2007 at 10:33 am
John, I thought “Richard Thompson” was John-Boy from the Waltons, w/ that damn distracting mole on his face. Never thought he’d take up comics.
I came here over a year ago, googling “comics” and quickly submitting to the hive-snark. And though I still can’t glance at Cathy or Marvin without retching, Josh gave me the shield of Irony. Or perhaps, that’s called the Vera-Shield now.
O'Fogeyette
March 24th, 2007 at 10:34 am
#176 Turtleboy: Thanks for the info. That is wonderful. Who discovered this? When did it become an official CC catchphrase? (IN BEST EMILY LITELLA VOICE:) Never mind. Thanks, Stinky Pete. The awful thing is I actually REMEMBER reading Josh’s post and the two comments you linked to. Duh!
Thanks also for the Google tip!
TurtleBoy
March 24th, 2007 at 10:38 am
There’s also a Richard Thompson who’s quite big in the mathematical field of group theory. This guy gets around!
pumafan
March 24th, 2007 at 10:38 am
Here’s to Josh and the ‘Mudges!
I discovered you around November and joshreads.com has become, like for many of us, a daily ritual. And just as MST3K has made it impossible to watch a cheesy movie without internal riffing, reading the daily comics is impossible without thinking
WWJS? What would Josh Snark?
On another momentous note, I’m sure you have caught Richard’s Poor Almanac in todays WP! It has a FINGER-QUOTIN’ MARGO! And lotsa MW! Bucky and Satchel have now been recruited to give us the updates on our favorite stalker-killing, doctor-taker-away-from-needy children meddler.
I just loooooove Mary Worth — Richard Thompson speaks for us!
OverCat
March 24th, 2007 at 10:42 am
Congrats on 1000! I am a recent new reader – found you when I searched for an explanation of the 2/28/07 FBoFW panel where the dad ended up with snow all over his face for no apparent reason. And now, I’m hooked.
Thanks (”thanks”) for giving me a reason to read all the comics I never looked at before, or purposely stopped looking at because they drove me nuts (I’m talkin’ to you, GT.)
And thanks to all you commenters for making me laugh, answering my questions before I could ask, and saying things I’d like to say myself in your own hilarious ways!
Dean Booth
March 24th, 2007 at 10:43 am
SM: What’s SpiderMan doing in that alley? Usually, I don’t associate the word movement with this strip.
Buck Ripsnort
March 24th, 2007 at 10:50 am
Had to get this in:
JP“Yes Neddy, I AM YOUR FUTURE!! Mwaahahahahahaaa!”
queek
March 24th, 2007 at 10:51 am
164: that scan is wonderful! The artist obviously has read this blog.
cute Dilbert shout-out in Ink Pen, a manure joke in C&B. Poor General Halftrack, he’s the only one who he can win a discussion with.
Crankshaft has a joke older than he is.
not much to snark about, that hasn’t already been said.
Tomcat
March 24th, 2007 at 10:54 am
Congrats, Josh… now go get a life! lol, j/k
Luann- WTF? Since when does Toni keep a glove embroided with her initials on it? Did she drop it, or did she leave it there on purpose? What use could she possibly have with it anyway, other than a really cheap condom?
FREE HOWARD NOW
March 24th, 2007 at 11:00 am
I see that Fred Bassett won first place in the Bassett Show today. Kudos, Fred.
Foobar
March 24th, 2007 at 11:05 am
All the same from me!
O\’Fogeyette
March 24th, 2007 at 11:13 am
Pigborn, 9CL: The art in these strips is so interesting and sometimes beautiful that I am in awe, despite both strips’ obvious flaws. As for the no-chin problem, the characters’ heads actually look very much like the heads Crockett Johnson drew in Barnaby.
JP: I’m speechless. But also encouraged. I like that Brooklyn La Douce was sarcastic previously. I foresee her giving Neddy “art” lessons, and then all the guys on this site will realize their dreams when she shows up in a leopard-print bustier of her own.
RMMD: Coming soon: June Morgan, Attorney-at-Law.
MT: Well, Mark certainly gave that screw some thought, and in return the screw revealed Dan’s entire nefarious plan to him. That screw is damn near as smart as the talking wildlife or the voluble moose butt. Two further observations: did anyone else notice the tiny flying ubiguiducks in the picture on the wall behind Mark? And… could Cherry really be Cherry Ames, Student Nurse, in her declining years?
Finally, does anyone have a link to today’s Richard’s Poor Almanac? I couldn’t find it on the WaPo site, and the scan was unreadable on my computer.
Chromium
March 24th, 2007 at 11:13 am
I found this blog RIGHT before Aldomania started as a result of a desperate Google search. I KNEW there had to be some place on the Internet making fun of this stuff. I just never expected to find such a high quality one.
Wow, today’s Blondie takes a total detour from the joke. Dagwood’s punchline should come right after he says, “I know, honey.” As it is, it’s just baffling.
kippetje2000
March 24th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Congrats Josh. I guess I missed the fireworks and champagne. But I didn’t want you to think I forgot you. You’ve brought a lot of joy for me in the wee hours. So, I guess I’ll grab a broom and help sweep up a little while I read over the last two posts. Long may you wave son. And here’s looking forward to your first 600 response day!!!
Ukulele Ike
March 24th, 2007 at 11:14 am
175: Damn….that “Agnes” today really is….something.
Ukulele Ike
March 24th, 2007 at 11:17 am
204: Thank you for admitting it first. I think the hand-play in yesterday’s and today’s 9CL is subtle and very beautiful. Kudos, Mister McEldowney.
(sniffle) You crazy kids! Take good care of each other!
ohyes
March 24th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Josh, congratulations! Happy day! This site has been a daily pleasure, since I came here from Wonkette during Aldomania. Good times.
ohyes
March 24th, 2007 at 11:27 am
164, 172, 204 That is an homage from the Post’s artist. Ms. Fogeyette, try clicking on the art and it may enlarge to readable size, as it does on my computer. It’s so appropriate that the homage ends with Get Fuzzy characters discussing the exciting developments in Mary Worth. One subsidiary pleasure of this site for me has been the introduction here to the best comic, Get Fuzzy.
Trotzenbonnie
March 24th, 2007 at 11:35 am
Congratulations on the Millenipost! Thank you, Josh, for your hilarious com……
Uh oh. I didn’t download the compliance patch and…what’s happening to my eyes! My pupils are shrinking! My pants are….what the….Trots! Trots! Can you hear me?!!!
Oh no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Annieundsandy
March 24th, 2007 at 11:37 am
If you guys keep dissing Mallard Filmore I’m gonna sic Punjab on every one of you!
Dingo
March 24th, 2007 at 11:47 am
So, Josh, do you plan on having 1,000 posts to celebrate the millennial thread?
O’Fogeyette
March 24th, 2007 at 11:50 am
#210: Thanks! The click-on worked. Great shout-out to CC.
Dean Booth
March 24th, 2007 at 11:53 am
#161 TurtleBoy: Shouldn’t it be “He looks at Gil Thorp so you don’t have toâ„¢.”
DT: I know there have been many comments on Dick’s misshapen hands, but today’s first panel gives his thumb a clear visual context. When Dick makes a fist, the end of his thumb does not reach his knuckles. The only explanation is that he lost his thumb in an accident and the doctors transplanted his little toe as a replacement. How he can ring a doorbell is beyond me.
Tracer Bullet
March 24th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
I got here just in time for AldoMania and I’ve been hooked on the snark ever since. Obsessed, really. I can’t count the number of times I’ve, uh, enjoyed myself here. The chaffing is becoming something of a problem, but by god, I won’t stop. Congrats to one and all.
Pozzo
March 24th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
I remember the days when Josh got all of his comics from an actual flesh-and-blood (or wood-and-pulp) newspaper, and only touched The Wizard of Id when he saw it on a vacation to New York. Good times, good times.
(Yeah, he was taking vacations back then, too.)
Happy Millenipost, big guy! Here’s looking forward to #2000, long about December 2009/January 2010 (depending on how many metaposts we get).
Jometro
March 24th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
Congrats, Josh. I came to your site via Wonkette and have especially enjoyed the Foob hate. I’ve been a newspaper comics reader since childhood and it’s about the only thing I still do “religiously.” My paper doesn’t carry Mary Worth, 3G, Mark Trail and others, but I laugh just as much at your posts and comments as I do the ones I’m familiar with. Carry on. Regards, Jometro
bubujin
March 24th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Josh–
Although quite late to the party, I lift my sake cup to you and shout out a harty “kampai!”
‘Tho late to the party I’ve been a long-time mostly lurker. I found you through a link on my my.yahoo page, around the tail end of something about “swans” and “claws” and “mules” and just before “”finger-quoting Margo”". What’s that been? Something like 2+ years I suppose. My how the time flies when in the presence of such a super assembly of snarkers!
May the good times continue for the next 1K posts! Congrats on making it last this long.
TaxiGirl
March 24th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Congratulations!
Celebration!
Take a vacation!
(Or not.)
Jym
March 24th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
=163= Foob (Goaty): You have to wonder how pathetic Warren’s life must be if he’s going all Neo on photos of models and the owner of a truck stop. I guess his flyboy job falls a bit short of Steve Canyon’s.
=164= Poor Richard’s Almanack (yellojkt): “Whoa!”
queek
March 24th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
215: I knew someone in high schood who had something very similar done. He had his thumb over the muzzle of his deer-rifle when it went off. The doctors used one of his 2nd toes (the one next to the big toe) to replace his thumb. Kid in question was too dumb to be a Plugger.
MonkeyHawk
March 24th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
#222 — queek:
The technical term for the toe next to the Big Toe (the “Market Pig”) is the “Stayed Home Pig.” The middle toe is the “Roast Beef Pig,” the next is the “Had None Pig,” et cetera.
This is a serious forum. Please use appropriate terminology.
Gabe
March 24th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
In other news, Get Fuzzy again manages to be funnier the entire newspaper combined.
Dingo
March 24th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Thanks to everyone who has voted for Starved Rock State Park in the Enjoy Illinois campaign. It’s gone from 1% last night to over 28% today! Wow! Curminions, curmudgeonistas… you are wonderful. This reminds me of the Paul/Warren/Anthony vote in the Toronto paper.
Please keep voting!
Enjoy Illinois – please choose Starved Rock State Park (my local hiking area)
Dingo
March 24th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Monkeyhawk, how many euros do you think it takes to have a Brooklyn (New York) whore in a leopard-print bustier do “this little piggy” with you?
My guess is 20 euros or 50 if she has to recite her dissertation on the influence of hog by-product manufacturing on the sociology of Iowa Pork Queen contests.
Red Greenback
March 24th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
-To Josh and all my rowdy snarkin’ friends:
Thanks a thousand+!… You folks really helped me through some grim times and made every day bearable. (like Molly And Dingo!) …I was has hipped to this amazing blog by typing in the Google something about Rex Morgan. (this was during the great Rex Morgan/ Troy Gainer storyline)…
-Dingo, I voted twice so far for Starved Rock. As for the Great Canadian Incursion, I’d like to stay “in the rear with the gear”.
-I wanted to vote for Crete, Nebaska for the best Sanitation District, but there is no such survey. Oh, well.
-If y’all haven’t done so already, chip a few bucks in the tip jar.
-Bizarro/Marmaduke mashup today: Marm can dish it out, but he can’t take it!
Saxman
March 24th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
My A3G prediction:
Margo’s words will come back to haunt her when it turns out that Eric is just dating her to get closer to Lu Ann.
Fortunately for her, it also turns out that Gary wants to date Tommie just to get close to Margo.
Daktari
March 24th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Josh – Congratulations on the 1K. I found this site thru a link at
“This Week In Milford” — http://gilthorp.wordpress.com – another great snark site that takes on GT. And thanks to every one of the Curminions who made the gray days of this past winter a lot brighter.
insolenttomato
March 24th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
1) Happy belated birthday, ThisWas.
2) GadgeCubic, I had the same realization. Except your comments are actually worth reading. :)
3) Josh, Mazel Tov. I stepped off the boat at Curmudgeon Island late myself in September of 2006. The flowers on Aldo’s grave were already wilting, and Liz had already moved back home from Mtigjokesalreadydead (I was yet another refugee from Wonkette; a dime a dozen, an Eastern European emigre in the 19teens). I have never more willingly placed myself out of my snarkitude league; I am Eliza Doolittle at the racetrack (sans the guy who, a scene or two later, will be singing outside my window in the damp London night). Thank you, all and sundry, for making me laugh inappropriately at work. Thank g-d I’m a temp so I never see those people again. And Josh, if you and Mrs. C ever find yourself in DC, the other Mr. Tomato (who has yet to understand my recent fascination with A3G) and I will willingly buy you a drink/veg dinner.
Gabe
March 24th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Awww, Josh hurt the Almanac’s guys feewings. What’s wrong with liking something ironically as opposed to hating something openly? What a tool.
Gadge Cubic, Mole Preener
March 24th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
As many of you know, I first started reading CC way back in 1372 – unfortunately, as movable type had yet to be invented, Josh had to hire slaves imported from the blasphemous Rolly Church (in Crete: they were regarded as cretins) to move the enormous stone letters around. Snarking was a man’s work back then – or at least, a slave’s.
I look forward to post #10,000 – when the hottest comic is about a cute emperor and his magic skrxcritort, comics are consumed via sub-ether intraneural instantaneous metatransmission, and BC still sucks.
mumbles
March 24th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Josh Reads? More like, JOSH ROCKS!
[Michael Patterson helped me with that witty remark. But the sentiment remains.]
[Insert Winkerbeanian half-smirk here.]
Thanks for everything Josh!
Ten Day Dinosaur
March 24th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Party! … PARTY!
MonkeyHawk
March 24th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
#226 — Dingo:
“Monkeyhawk, how many euros do you think it takes to have a Brooklyn (New York) whore in a leopard-print bustier do “this little piggy†with you?
My guess is 20 euros or 50 if she has to recite her dissertation on the influence of hog by-product manufacturing on the sociology of Iowa Pork Queen contests.”
I’ll take the 20 Euro package, thanks.
What I especially liked about the link to the Iowa Pork Queen rules was the Iowa-ness, rather than the pork-ness of the competition. I can only imagine what must have happened back in 1957 or so when one of the candidates showed up in a gownless evening strap or whatever.
You can just imagine the judges — everyone looking like Radar O’Rilley (even the men) — grilling the contestants about “the smell of money” and the “myth of cholesterol.”
And you can only guess how all the Iowa Pork Queen aspirants must be lashed to a polygraph so their veracity can be judged when they proclaim, “Pork! The other white meat!” which makes as much sense as “Everclear! The other white wine!”
Don’t get me wrong. I love a slab of smoked & sauced ribs as much, if not more, than the next guy. But you’ve gotta consider that Iowegians might choose to raise pigs primarily as Jew and Muslim repellants.
You can’t argue with the results.
Red Greenback
March 24th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
O’Fogeyette-Please excuse moi, my computer has been on the blink for last couple days, so I’m in the catch up (ketchup, catsup) round…whatever. I wanna belatedly wish you and Mr. O’ a very happy fourth anniversary! A hot tub is the gift that keeps on giving.
If it hasn’t already been said: Rolly Church of Crete, Nebraska was a published Plugger
Anyway, I would like to again thank you and everyone here for taking a nothing day, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile!
Yours, Red…(almost)An Angels Fan(thank you CC1K patch!)
fizzy logic
March 24th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
I wonder if Rolly Church ever Googles his own name – he’s sure to be surprised as to how reverently he is worshipped here in Curmudgeonland.
C’mon all you lurkers! Now’s your chance to come forward and declare your undying love to Josh and to make your voices heard for the first time. Don’t let us snarky bunch intimidate you from telling Josh your stories of how you got here and how you can’t get through the day without checking in to see what he has to say. I’m sure he’d love to hear from everybody.
MonkeyHawk
March 24th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Is it just me, or are 21 magmacannons being aimed at you, too?
Red Greenback
March 24th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
#234 Ten Day Dinosaur- Josh! Josh! Josh!
Kenny
March 24th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Josh,
You opened my eyes to the world of the Blog. Honestly, I used to think Blog was a Disney movie
Dingo
March 24th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Red Greenback, I read #239 and suddenly imagined Josh standing in a decrepit shirt and clip-on tie, his heaving orangutanesque manbreasts visible in the harsh lighting, and muttering to himself, “Um…. I… don’t know what to say.” But then I came back to reality and realize that Josh ALWAYS knows what to say. It’s that Michael Patturdson that needs a ghostwriter for a grocery list.
Josh, I hope the Popewife arranges an extra special night for you in celebration.
True Fable
March 24th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
I didn’t hate on Richard Thompson. I said Fuck the Post. I still do say it but for more, oh so many more reasons but have nothing to do with this.
I saw the finger-quotin’ Margo and the whole ironic deal and thought it was funny. I just wanted to point out how much I appreciate Josh’s re-awakening me to the world of the funny papers, which are now a lot funnier than I ever thought they were.
I hate on Cathy(MustDie). That’s plenty.
Red Greenback
March 24th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
The Big Rubber Rolly Alligatator Church of Mighty Bull Genitals of Margo Saturn Boxcar Trail, Marmaduke of Crete Morgan Worth County, Brooklyn, Nebaska…Sorry, just trying to keep up…and failing miserably…
True Fable
March 24th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
All you really have to remember is “Dick, the doorbell.” Of course in some states that’s a misdemeanor.
kingklash
March 24th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
I lifted up a rock once, and a big millinipost ran up my pant-leg!
Mamzelle Hepzibah
March 24th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
1,000 cakes, steaks, and clambakes for you, Josh, on this Most Special of Posts. You deserve it!
Red Greenback
March 24th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
I like to refer to the Pattersons as the “Puddersons”- IE. Pud; Noun. The penis, or genitals. See ‘pound one’s pud’.
pudding.
More info can be found on: http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/p.htm
treedweller
March 24th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
188 Pendragon re: JP
I like it, but if I may suggest:
with this French ho’s special expertise and Neddy’s series of apartments, they can create the ultimate in “high-class” brothel rings for the continental traveler. Raju could hire on to design a diet plan for their stable of liberal arts majors. And also to keep an eye out for incipient rodent issues.
Daktari
March 24th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
DO NOT take the name of Rolly Church of Crete in vain! For he has God on his side –
http://thechurchreport.livejournal.com/
Daktari
March 24th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
#237 fizzy logic -
After reading ole Rolly’s blog, I can only imagine his reaction to this site. He would condemn it as a den of iniquity, a veritable Sodom and Gomorah with whores and homosexuals, and elite liberal athiests who have no respect for traditional family values. Maybe we better no hold him in such high esteem.
Dingo
March 24th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Rolly is something. Can you imagine if he and Jack Chick got married in Massachusetts and adopted children?
Trotzenbonnie
March 24th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
#241 – Dingo
That old Sally Forth strip looks more like Charlotte and Miranda having lunch than a married couple getting all lovey dovey over dinner. Did Ted ever look more femme?
Hooray for Millinepost Day! I discovered this site after stumbling upon the Silent Pentultimate Panel which I found after tripping over Wonkette during the first days of my exile in Carencro LA. Thank God all the jobs in the meth labs of southwest Louisiana were filled and I have remained blissfully unemployed so I have plenty of time to enjoy the never-ending supply of witty banter on this site. Thanks to Josh and all of you–and you know who you are–for making me laugh and learn and find comfort in knowing there are other people out there who remember Dondi and Notary Sojac and Bugs Nips the Nips and Maypo and Mystery Date and all that good stuff.
fizzy logic
March 24th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
#250 – Daktari – Hmmm – perhaps “worshipped” was an extremely improper word for me to use in connection with our old friend Rolly. I agree, we would probably have to worry about hellfire if he found out about us.
Well, I never used the phrase myself, but I still support others rights to use it if they so wish. We are an ironic bunch, you know.
I’ll stick to Big Rubber Alligators! as my expression of choice.
MonkeyHawk
March 24th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
#250 — Daktari:
On the other hand, after reading the blog, I can’t think of a more obscene phrase than, “Rolly Chruch of Crete!”
AhClem
March 24th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
JP – I said it yesterday, and i’ll say it again: Neddy reminds me a lot of Dan Aykroyd in “Trading Places” after Ophelia brings him to her apartment and explains the ground rules. The light bulb will suddenly click on and she’ll say, “Why, you’re a … a … PROSTITUTE!”
MonkeyHawk
March 24th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
#253 — Fizzy:
Worry all you want about the theoretical wrath of Rolly Chruch of Crete.
I’ve been dodging magmacannons all afternoon.
(I hope Chinuxx gets tired before the KU-UCLA game.)
fizzy logic
March 24th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
#256 – MonkeyHawk – Go Pac-10!
And look out for those magmacannons!
willethompson
March 24th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
Good Rolly Church of Crete! That’s some blog. However, I think I’ll continue to use “Rolly Church of Crete” as my version of Godfrey Daniel as it just sounds so… so… perfect, like Jeepers Crackers. And I’ll continue to use it the same way I use expressions like “Someone didn’t flush and left a big karlrove in the thruway restroom.”
Still, you can’t beat Margo!Boxcar!Saturn!
Dingo
March 24th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
I agree with willethompson. There’s just something about the phrase Margo! Boxcar! Saturn! that jumps out like a bad high school version of On the Town.
O’Fogeyette
March 24th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
#236 Red Greenback: Thanks! And I hope your computer is feeling better.
And Monkeyhawk: Go KU! (The enemy of my enemy is my friend. UCLA sucks rocks–sorry, fizzy logic. But I’m hoping Oregon makes it to the Final Four.)
Red Greenback
March 24th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
I said C., C. C. One K
Oh see, what you have done
(Yea yea yea)
I said C. (C. C. One K) C. C. One K(C. C. One K)
Oh see, (C. C. One K) what you have done
(Yea yea yea)
Oh Josh you made me love you
Now, now, now, now my loving snark is on
(C. C. One K) Josh what’d I say (C. C.One K)
I’m not going away, baby
And I ‘m here since last fall
(Yea, yea, yea)
And I’m not going away baby
I ‘m gonna give it my all
(Yea, yea, yea)
If CHENNUX doesn’t blast mel
I will I will, I will snark until last call
Josh what’d I say, I said C., (C. C. One K)
C. C. One K (C. C. One K)
Oh see (C. C. One K) what you have done
Yea, yea, yea
I said C. (C. C. One K) C. C. One K (C. C. One K)
Oh see, (C. C. One K) what you have done
(Yea yea yea)
Oh Josh, you made me snark here
Now, now, now, now you made read the soaps
Play it JF, (C. C. One K) (C. C.One K)
(Yea yea yea)
(Yea yea yea)
Whoo, hear what I say
I said C. (C. C. One K) C. C. One K(C. C. One K)
I-Oh see, (C. C. One K) what you have done (Yea yea yea)
I said C. (C. C. One K) C. C. One K (C. C. One K)
Oh see, (C. C. One K) what you have done (Yea yea yea)
Oh Josh, you made me post here
Now, now, now, it cuts into my career(no big loss)
Well what I say
Now I said C., (C. C. One K) C. C. One K (C. C. One K)
I said C., (C. C. One K) C. C. One K (C. C. One K)
I said C., (C. C. One K) C. C. One K (C. C. One K)
I said C., (C. C. One K) C. C. One K (C. C. One K)
I said C., (C. C. One K) C. C. One K (C. C. One K)
I said C. (C. C. One K)
Greg
March 24th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
1000 congratulations! I just posted no. 100, so I’m in awe. I came a bit late too the party myself (sometime last year), but I scan my news reader every day in hope of a new post. May you have 1000X1000 more (at least).
fizzy logic
March 24th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
#260 – No worries O’Fogeyette! (I like the new you!) If my school, the U of Washington can’t be in it (they really stunk this year), I just have to root for the Pac-10 in general. Usually, I’m the first to be hating on UCLA and all the rest. Oregon actually has a kid playing from my old high school here in Seattle (a million years ago, yes, but…).
#261 – Woo! Go Red! I like the Elvis costume! Very festive!
Red Greenback
March 24th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
CC Millinery Moment: More Hats, Mule!…sorry, I’ll go away now.
commodorejohn
March 24th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
#259 – In the event that a CC musical group is ever formed, there should definitely be an album titled Enough With The Boxcar, Here’s The Curmudgeonites!
commodorejohn
March 24th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
After, of course, Abbey Roadside is finished.
Aristomedes
March 24th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Josh, thanks for having created this site which has attracted such a congenial community of snarkers, sharp, witty, and yet caring people. I’ve been here since, it turns out to my surprise, May 2006 – time flies when you’re having fun (or is it getting old? – likely both). You all have brought much joy into my life, and my god-mother’s as well. May you continue enjoying this work for a very long time!
Trotzenbonnie
March 24th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
I don’t mean to interrupt with a nagging bit of comic business but(t)–
Where the hell is Rex Morgan?
Did he slip away so he could push up a stool for some rear admiral at the Log Cabin Republicans’ latest “Log Jam”?
Red Greenback
March 24th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
O’Fogeyette, may I be so bold as calling Mr.O’ ” Jacuzzi O’Dude”?
MonkeyHawk
March 24th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
#257 — Fizzy:
My God have mercy on your heathen soul.
(for that matter, may Chinuxx have mercy on my heathen soul!)
Rock Chalk
Jay-Hawk
K U !!!
pesch
March 24th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
I need to chime in my congratulations on reaching the 1,000-post mark. When they’re not slicking like a f****** hammer, the commenters have been kind to each other, mostly. Well, far more than the flamewars found on other sites.
And this is one of the few sites …. and after some thought, I may back that up and say the only site, where the commenters are every bit as funny as the site’s owner. The song parodies alone rival Mad magazine at its finest.
Thank you all for contributing. *sniff* I LOVE YOU GUYS!
AhClem
March 24th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
FOOB – We haven’t seen much of old Gwampa Chinnuts for a while. Then it struck me like a hot kiss at the end of a wet fist: “Chinnuts” sounds an awful lot like “CHENNUX.” You don’t suppose…?
(Spraying myself with magmacannon repellent, just in case)
Chromium
March 24th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
I’ll second the kudos to Fred Basset on his well-deserved win. I like that dog.
Galactic Emperor Chennux
March 24th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
(nineteen….twenty…..twentyone….MELKARDAMMIT!)
ATTENTION EARTHERS! ESPECIALLY THE ONE CALLED MONKEYHAWK! STOP SQUIRMING! YOU ARE CAUSING THE MAGMACANNON GUNNERS TO GET TENSE!
SO, EARTHERS ARE FOLLOWING THE NCAA TOURNEY, EH? CHENNUX’S BRACKET, LIKE HIS EMPIRE, IS STILL MIGHTY AND UNSULLIED BY LOSSES! SEVEN OF HIS EIGHT PICKS REMAIN! THE ONE CALLED MONKEYHAWK MAY REST HIS SPHINCTER AND WATCH THE UCLA/KU GAME, IF HE CAN EXPLAIN WHAT THE MARGO IS MEANT BY ROCK/CHALK/JAYHAWK! WHY NOT AWK/SQUAWK/MONKEYHAWK? HAHA!
END TRANSMISSION!
Galactic Emperor Chennux
March 24th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
BTW, ONE CALLED AHCLEM! REPELLENT DOESN’T WORK! TRY SPF 40,000,000 SUNSCREEN! IT SMELLS BETTER WHEN IT’S FRIED! CHENNUX’S COLLOLARY TO TESTLECLE’S DEVIANT TO FUDD’S LAW: IF IT SHOOTS DOWN, IT MUST BLOW UP! HAHA!
END TRANSMISSION!
Anonymous
March 24th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Dingo – Yeah, I voted for your favorite stopmin’ ground down by the river. Then you had to go all Pork Queen on me. So I deleted my cookies and I will vote again. Maybe twice!
I think the phrase “Pork Queen” is the funniest!
Too bad some PETA idiot had to nail the reigning porker with a cream pie some years back.
Blade Runner
March 24th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Told you I deleted my cookies. My screen name went along with it.
Red Greenback
March 24th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
I don’t know about you, but I was looking forward to a post from “Complacent Caucasian Guy” on this thread.
Red Greenback
March 24th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
#263 fizz- I was workin’ it like a claw way before Randy!!!
MonkeyHawk
March 24th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
#271 — Pesch:
You want flame war?
I’ll give you flame war!
Ahem….
“All too often your predecessors in this area, whose tradition you uphold so well, proved to be nothing more than ax-grinding political reactionary inbred unthinking illogical cerebrally-challenged knee-biter two-bit flame-throwing fight-starting loud-mouthed know-nothing lunatic impotent Tiberius moronic dumbfuck asshole loser no-date shit-for-brains cowardly crass tin-plated-dictator-with-delusions-of-manhood flaccid fatheaded needle-dick wimpy pimply facile Canadian bigoted mean small-minded dull cheap-shot-taking impolite pinheaded idiotic boring asinine oxygen-wasting braindead feeble sophomoric simplistic egocentric never-kissed-a-girl drooling clueless stuffed-shirt weenerbrain dittohead incapable-of-realizing-no-one-gives-two-yanks-of-a-pig’s-tit-what-their-polÂitics-are black-helicopter-fearing Bircher obnoxious bad-beer-drinking hypocritical unread pesty churlish stupid self-righteous lame childish unlistening rude unquestioning Post-Virus-contributing nightmarishly-ill-informed pabulum-puking cretinous hair-triggered obstinate intellectually-bankrupt unsound childish doltish mouth-breathing armpit-scratching knuckle-dragging hydrocephalic pontificating shill easily-offended knock-kneed Gawd-help-us dotty puerile juvenile criminally-ignorant sorry loony screwball monstrous priggish fucking total wastes of time. You clearly show yourself to be the most foul-mouthed offensive disgusting misogynistic misanthropic sack-of-pus evil shit-spewing hellspawn boot-licking ill-mannered trash-talking hate-filled no-sense-making begging-for-an-ass-kicking scum-sucking trailer-park shithole-for-a-mouth make-me-wish-I-had-a-big-fucking-hammer-to-beat-some-sense-into-you white-trash unrepentantly-and-wickedly-perverse hunchbacked socially-inept toadlike maggoty boorish sexually-undesirable invective-spouting Fascist sheet-and-pointy-hat-wearing backwards manic creepy unfit-for-human-consumption worthless crappy ratlike wholly-devoid-of-virtue lacking-in-any-sort-of-grace-or-erudition toejam dingleberry snotty revolting illiterate wannabe (I-would-keep-this-up-all-day-if-there-were-enough-words-in-the-English-lanÂguage-to-describe-what-a-freakish-monstrosity-you-are) irritating corrupt unredeemable can’t-be-allowed-sharp-objects no-neuron nazi hopeless utterly-incredible-in-your-astoundingly-bad-taste onerous wanker’s-elbow-suffering flame-inviting classless clue-repulsing arrogant trying-on-one’s-patience space-wasting limp fearlessly-posting-disgusting-insults-with-an-anonymous-handle dishonorable filthy debased ordure-eating raving insulting bringing-a-fucking-penknife-of-an-intellect-to-a-nukefest-of-a-battle-of-wiÂt as cursed addled whiny sunken-chest humorless name-calling rent-boy hemorrhoidal mucus-dripping vomitous piss-poo pathetic-excuse-for-a-piece-of-shit painful eye-rollingly-subhuman Neanderthal glassy-eyed living-proof-of-why-cousins-shouldn’t-marry beastly incapable-of-coming-to-terms-with-your-own-wretched-existence inexcusable lobotomized threat-to-the-gene-pool needing-of-professional-supervision vile awful god-damnedest sickeningly-ugly spiritually-devoid repehensible walking-advertisement-for-a-state-sponsored-sterility-program that ever has ever obtained Internet access.”
Strong letter to follow.
Red Greenback
March 24th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
MonkeyHawk…Burma Shave.
sevenyearlion
March 24th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Thanks for keeping this up for so long. I can’t remember exactly how I found this site (though I suspect it involved searching for people who think FBOFW sucks) but I know it was during the big Mary Worth/Rita alcoholism angle. I’ve been enjoying the blog ever since. Keep up the good work and try not to get too burned out.
Mr. O’Malley
March 24th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
250. I’m not one of the athiest, but I’m athier than some.
When someone can’t even copy the name of the comic strip he’s attacking, should his remarks be taken seriously or not?
And how about that Gil Thorpe today?
Prince of Space
March 24th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Chennux, Your weapons are useless against me!
P.S. How many times do I have to tell you, your weapons can’t harm me!
Harold
March 24th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
I believe Gil Thorp is giving a shout-out to the Millenipost (”millinepost” just sounds like “one one-thousandth of a nepost” to me) by suddenly making all kinds of sensible statements. But somebody should do some drug testing in that school, right away!
I love the Mutts artwork in Richard’s Poor Almanack. And if Get Fuzzy actually does do a Mary Worth synopsis any time in the future, I will flip my noodle.
Bunnë
March 24th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Congrats on accidentally creating a community of sarcastic folks!
Most people I talk to in my real life have never read Mary Worth, not even by accident. I, on the other hand, used to every comic on the page as a matter of principle.
Now I get comics emailed to me, so, you know, it’s different.
Tweeks_Coffee
March 24th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
MT: So the little hook in the bottom of the boat was the clue that gave away the entire plan? After all the circumstantial evidence leading up to this, it was the hook!?
MW: I’m not sure what’s going on here, but Mary’s looked either pissed or disgusted with Vera the entire time. She can’t even hear the emo inner-dialog that irritates me so much.
Mogalike
March 24th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
I believe FBoFW is running on some sort of wholly alien system of logic and syntax at this point. I see that there’s a pun there in that last panel, but I can’t for the life of me figure out what it’s supposed to mean in that context.
Unless “arrows” is some kind of euphemism for “sperm”?
Dingo
March 24th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
A monkey can hawk wares on TV today
Like an ore-mining mineral slave
Ceramic clowns 2 for 5.50, you say?
Order them! BURMA SHAVE
Dingo
March 24th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Moga, didju
remember that Paul, the erstwhile Paul of the Great White North, is First Nations. Therefore, Raccoon Ass making a comment about being stung by the “arrows” of tainted love is alluding to Paul’s mongrel past as a Canuck ‘injun.’ Lynn is subtle, isn’t she?
Dave H
March 24th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
Congratulations on Post #1,000 more or less. Thanks to this site I’ve given up my daily newspaper and started reading the great Houston Chronicle site where I discovered Pearls Before Swine. Also thanks to this site I find myself reading horrors like Mary Worth and Judge Parker so I’ll know the reasons behind the latest snark. Taken as a whole it’s been a mixed blessing but with the good decidedly outweighing the Margoing bad.
PS Hasn’t Mallard Fillmore been dropped by every newspaper in the world yet?
migellito
March 24th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
288, Mogalike
with deference to my esteemed colleague, dingo, I believe the arrow reference has to do with the pronunciation of ‘beau.’ get it… beau.. bow and arrows… ? and yes, the fact Paul’s apparently an american indian, and possible cupid overtones, mean that Lynn is making a possible 3 innuendos here, yet managing to make them all fall flat with a really bad pun.
AAckTTpth
March 24th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
ALL HAIL GREAT GALACTIC EMPEROR CHENNUX
#272 – I always thought it sounded kind of like Chex Mix. Or I am hungry.
(I wish I had some verasheilds to raise right now)
We love you Chennux
Oh yes we do
If you come near us
We’re through
Your magmacannons
Turn us to poo
Oh, Chennux, we love you
AAckTTpth
March 24th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Dammit, that’s verashields…
I before E except on the second Tuesday of months ending in Y?
Pelagius
March 24th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
If you live in the DC area, today’s Richard’s Poor Almanack (still not available online for some godforsaken evil reason) is too good for words. I’ve photographed it and posted it here. I suspect that artist Richard Thompson is a curmudgeon himself, given the appearance of Finger Quotin’ Margo in this piece, so I hope he forgives my copyright transgression (and makes his editors put his strips on the WaPo site).
And in a double serving of deliciousness, Sunday’s Lio sends up Foobville. Can’t find a link to it yet..
FlaGator
March 24th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
I, too, am a latecomer to Curmudgeonhood, having been referred to this site as being the only reason one should voluntarily read Family Circus. But since then, this site has become one of my daily fixes, and I will consider myself as having Arrived once I crack the coveted fraternity of Commenters of the Week.
At any rate, I congratulate you, Josh, for keeping up this worthy endeavor far, far longer than I would have had the spirit or stamina to.
“I’ll Millinepost you, Missy!”
SatanicMeachanic
March 24th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
1000! Sweet!
#122 re 9cl: Uh, YES… Thankyou!
SatanicMeachanic
March 24th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
#261 CC Rider
YEAH! I hear Bobby Weir singing this!
Dingo
March 24th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
Great Cesar Romero’s ghost! Starved Rock State Park has gone from 31% back to 30%. OY!!!
Enjoy Illinois – specifically Starved Rock State Park
Oh, and that Richard’s Poor AlmanAAAACK! was great. I love the ‘hipsters’ and the finger-quotin’ Margo action. That man must be one of us… or an admirer.
Dingo
March 24th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Oh, and 300th post for the Curmudgeon 300. We attack at dawn!
Bigfoot
March 24th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Congratulations on 1000 posts, Josh…Mr. Reads…the Pope…bringer of humor!
I’ve moved into the lurker category from being a sporadic commenter. Your site is so popular I had to stop reading comments so I could actually do other work like finish grad school & move to Baltimore. (Not to worry, I’ll contain my lurking to the blog & away from wherever you live.)
Non-Shannon
March 24th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
Just to add to the growing cacophony of origin stories, I’d like to thank my smaller, smarter analogue for introducing me to the ‘Mudge. Yep, I’m talkin’ ’bout Shannon!
Sometime in 2005, in the process of cleaning a dirty table at Rue de la Course, I came upon a comics page that some gifted snarker had altered so that Cathy read something like:
“Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah!”
“Blah blahblah blah blah blah blah blah!!!”
And in the last panel, “Twenty years of the same joke!”
I showed it to Shannon and he directed me here. For a time I never read the comments at all, expecting the usual “Garfield r funnie. Jonathan K wuz her!!” type nonsense. Oh, how wrong I was.
Thanks for all the good times, Josh! Without you and your wonderful, magical blog I never would’ve dreamed of submitting an idea to TDIET, much less having one actually get published! Hell, I probably never would’ve read the thing! Hmm…
So yeah, thanks…
I\’m a Yogi, Not a Pooh
March 24th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
OMG! I have just become a Lio fan! (3/25 strip)
Dactyl
March 24th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Congratulations! May it be the first of many millenia.
I think I found this site with a Google search along the lines of: “FBOFW Liz attempted rape Anthony pick-up outraged.” And I discovered that Josh, in fact, was!
So Thanks for articulating this and 1000 other reactions to the comics, any for making me laugh more than they have in years. It ALMOST makes up for the fact that I’m now reading several of the soap strips, including RMMD.
Brokenskittles
March 24th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
I could never hate FOOB without you.
(*tear*)
pesch
March 24th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Fellow Curmudgeonites,
Let us bow our heads for the soon-to-be-late, lamented Monkeyhawk, for trying to open a flamewar on a second front while confronting the Great Galactic Overlord Chennux!
Some people just don’t know when to stop.
*sniff sniff* Why does the air smell like pennies all of a sudden?
alamo
March 24th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
it is indeed a great thing to give meaning not only to one’s own life throught the comics curmudgeon, but to the lives of so many others. may you live long and prosper.
and a tip of the old hatlo hat to you josh.
and many hairy returns!
Poteet
March 24th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
# 226 — Dingo, I’m voting for Starved Rock as often as I can, given my minimal cookie-removal knowledge. I looked at all the other contestants and saw no prairies or savannas, which are the only reasons I’ve visited Illinois in the past fifteen years, so I’m glad I can vote for the prairies in Starved Rock.
# 261 — Thanks, Red. I know that song:-).
andreavis
March 24th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Josh, congratulations on the millennipost. Like many people, I arrived via Wonkette, just before the spectacular climax of Aldomania last summer. I stayed because this is the only site that consistently makes me snort coffee out my nose, thanks to the quality snark evinced by all.
Here’s to a thousand more…. (raises a bottle of Johnnie Walker.. oh, no!)
macb
March 24th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Dingo- I voted for SR last night. Still wish I could also vote for your behind, but, as you pointed out, it wasn’t allowed.
Poteet
March 24th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
# 142 — Your Imperial Gloriousness, it is a custom here on our humble planet, on high feast days, for the omnipotent ruler of a given area to spare the life of one guilty miscreant to show that he is not only all-powerful, but judiciously magnanimous. I very humbly beg you to spare the life of MonkeyHawk, who snarks quite entertainingly when his suicidal impulses don’t compel him to challenge galactic rulers. Er, I mean THE Galactic Ruler, of course.
Poteet
March 24th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
# 257 — Fizzy logic, I’m glad you escaped becoming Flat Intuition, and belated thanks for your generous comments re my contribution to SNARK YOU.
And belated thanks to the many other SNARK YOU contributors who caused me to spit melted chocolate onto my keyboard.
JB
March 24th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Josh,
Congrats on 1K! Now that you’ve gotten us all hooked on MW, The Phantom (*Walker, for “Ghost Who Walks”), FC, (DT)GT, FBOFW (which, for some completely unknown reason, my sister really enjoys, and not in a snarky way), et al, I hope the comics writers are giving you the kick-backs you deserve.
Keep up the great work!
Artist formerly known as Ben
March 24th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Just voted again for Starved Rock. I assume that’s where you can find Charlie Brown’s kite eating tree.
Poteet
March 24th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
# 248 — Treedweller, to very belatedly answer your reasonable Foob question in the last thread, I’m afraid my Foobloatharianism has gone beyond reason. Only the mass uprising of dozens of Curmudgeons, all shouting in unison “Lynn, your recent radical changes in Foobville have won our hearts and we no longer hate you!” could alter my devotion to my Foobloatharian principle of hating all of Foobville all the time.
However, other Foobloatharians are welcome to follow their own personal perhaps-less-stringent doctrines. Let a thousands flowers bloom, because Inquisitions are so, so tacky.
mermaidinflames
March 24th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Congratulations, Josh, and thank you! I discovered your blog through Gene Weingarten’s online chat, back when it was “I read the comics so you don’t have to”, and this has been a daily must-read ever since. Whatever mood I’m in, it’s always better after I come here. (And I never thought I’d root for MW, A3G, MT, RMMD, and JP to remain in the comics, much less read them every day…) Thank you, and here’s to a thousand more!
Poteet
March 24th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
# 244 — Sir Fable, my True Knight, a belated thank you for your generous offer to develop ceremonies and rituals for Foobloatharianism. Please go ahead as you think appropriate, because Foobloatharianism is an inclusive belief system that is open to innovation. I think the only living things that deserve to be sacrificed because of the sins of Foobville are the denizens of Foobville, but I could see interesting opportunities for creative symbolic sacrifices, like a pile of burned cinnamon buns to express deep loathing for we-know-who. Or a pile of torched romance novels along the lines of “Pioneer Passion” and “Prairie Hearts Aflame” to symbolize Michael the Anti-Writer. And there’s gotta be something that would symbolize the famous female Patterson hairbuns. Hmmm.
Krazy Kat
March 24th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
FOOB- I thinks whirlly Warren is smoka de ganga! He’s all like: “Whoa ! Is this a studio or sumpthin?’ And “WHOA! You’re Gordon , the guy with all the cars!”
Krazy Kat
March 24th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
It’s “Prayrie” you Chicken Pluggers!
BOXCAR!
G’night. If you’re all still here in the morning I’ll see you then.
dalton
March 24th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Ha ha. Maughta offered Josh a vegetarian burrito. You couldn’t possibly be more wrong, Maughta.
Krazy Kat
March 24th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Ora, se lo scuserete, sono stanco e poco un ubriaco. Chech, il portello!
Red Greenback
March 24th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
I said G., G.E Chennux
Oh gee, what you have done
(Yea yea yea)
I said G. (G.E Chennux) G.E Chennux(G.E Chennux)
Oh gee, (C. C. Chennux) what you have done
(Yea yea yea)
You made us swim in syrup
And tap, tap, tap dance ’til the dawn
(G.E Chennux) Magmacannon (G.E Chennux)
I’m not going away, Chennux
“Cause you made my schpincter stall
(Yea, yea, yea)
And I’m not going away Chennux
I ‘m gonna heed your square dance call
(Yea, yea, yea)
By your mighty skxcritort
I will I will, I will be your humble £§•∞ort
Anything you say, I said G., (G.E Chennux)
G.E Chennux (G.E Chennux)
Oh gee (G.E Chennux) what you done did
Yea, yea, yea
I said G. (G.E Chennux) G.E Chennux (G.E Chennux)
Oh gee, (G.E Chennux) what you done did
(Yea yea yea)
Chennux, you gave me “Peggy”
Her power pack keeps me off the grid!
Fuck you Edison Co. ponies!!!, (G.E Chennux) (G.E Chennux)
(HAHAHA)….Bring me my cape, I can’t do no more!!!
wille, can you help me out?
Dariaclone
March 24th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Delurking here to say congrats to Josh on the 1k post. I don’t know what brought me here, but I know that you inspired me to spend 2 days of work reading all the FBOFW strips as far back as the Chron would allow just so that I would understand the comments.
I also want to let Dingo know that I voted once for each browser for Starved Rock. As a resident of Chicago, although not a native of Illinois, I have not made it down there yet. But I plan to this summer-I am hopeful that my birthday in June will see me camping here. Starved Rock at 30%.
Josh
March 24th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Hey kids!
Just want to say thanks for the love y’all are throwin’ my way. Also thanks for all the offers of veggie burritos, but, um, as Dalton correctly points out above, I am very, very much not a vegetarian. Nothin’ against those who are, but, let’s just say that when my wife and I get burritos, together our two burritos make one; mine has meat, cheese, rice, and sour cream, hers everything else, I dunno even KNOW what’s in there, crazy vegetables and shit, but definitely no meat. I am very curious about how rumors of my vegetarianism might have gotten started.
Josh
AppleGirl
March 24th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Greetings from the 7.38TH DIMENSION!
We’re having a glorious weekend! About those crabby comments (274 & 275): I think Chennux got a bit restless this afternoon at the mall waiting for me to try on all those shoes. He apparently snuck off to the new 7.38th Dimension Apple store and posted those. Well, at least he wasn’t on MySpace, and he’s happy now after playing Run from the Skxcritort this evening. Emperor Chennux just loves those little screaming people from Archie McPhee’s.
And I just love my new shoes! It will take a long time to pack all 7,000 pairs into the Shuttle back to Irvine tomorrow, and I’ll have to rent a U-Stor garage in Temecula, but for new shoes it’s so worth it. Emperor Chennux, you are soooo generous! Luv ya, Big Guy!
AppleGirl
March 24th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Josh, I am so glad to hear you’re not a vegetarian. Somehow, that just wouldn’t fit with my image of you. Next time you’re in California, be sure to go to In-n-Out Burger. The main reason I left NoVA.
Oh, Chennux is calling… now I dance!
Or something.
Dub Not Dubya
March 24th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
Congratulations, Josh, and a million thanks to you for all the laughs. And that goes for all the commenters, too. And happy anniversary to O’Fogeyette.
Dub Not Dubya
March 24th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
Also, the mistaken idea that you were a vegetarian might have come from the PETA ads that used to run on the site, would be my guess.
Alaskan
March 24th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Emperor Chennux! I humbly ask for your attention. When you traveled back in time to 7/15/04 in order to prevent a temporal incontinuety, you gave the people of earth an glimpse of the future. You gave us a chance to save our money from the stock exchange. I listened to your word, sold my stocks and saved my life. I decided than and there that I would sell my belongings and give you the meager sum. I shall survive as a monk, devoted to your service.
Unfortunatly, I know nothing of the inter-dimensional money-order system. I am afraid that I must withhold payment until we met in person. Will a check suffice?
Red Greenback
March 24th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
Hi AppleGirl. I have a storage space I’m renting in Lake Forest if you would like to store your shoes there , it’s a lot closer than Temecula.
rich
March 24th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
Dingo — Okay, I went and cast my vote for Starved Rock. But do you really think you’ll beat out the Illinois Railway Museum? Lest you forget, there are John Pattersons walking among us — and they are legion. Boxcar!!
rich
March 24th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
Dingo — Okay, I went and cast my vote for Starved Rock. But do you really think you’ll beat out the Illinois Railway Museum? Lest you forget, there are John Pattersons walking among us — and they are legion. Boxcar!!
Anonymous
March 24th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Long time lurker, first time poster… just to say “W00t!”
Caged Tygre
March 24th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Congrats, Josh and thanks for this site.
After stringing together words like Hate, Anthony, For Better or For Worse, and Rage on a Google search, I stumbled
onto your site. It’s good to have somewhere to channel your anger, plus there is the bonus of some nifty lyrics and interesting links, especially the nsfw ones.
Also, Sunday’s Lio, hee hee hee.
Uncle Lumpy
March 24th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
#324 Josh -
“. . . together our two burritos make one. . . .”
Awwww.
Hey Josh, it’s your thousandth post – give yourself Comment of the Week!
Marion Delgado
March 24th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Lio FBFW send-up:
http://www.uclick.com/feature/07/03/25/lio070325.gif
Tweeks_Coffee
March 25th, 2007 at 12:08 am
Swapping origin stories, eh?
Okay, I’m very new here, two months at best. Someone provided a link here on another forum I visit when people were trashing Mary Worth. I believe the quote was “This site (link here) gave me far more appreciation for those kinds of strips”. I was immediately hooked when I read some of Josh’s commentary and laughed my ass off.
The thing that amuses me is the fact that the site’s description is Josh reads the comics so you don’t have to, but I spend far more time reading comics now then I ever did before.
Anyway, congratulations, Josh! I’m eagerly anticipating your next 1000 posts.
Poteet
March 25th, 2007 at 12:18 am
Lio, I am on my knees genuflecting. Please, please, do it again soon.
Trotzenbonnie
March 25th, 2007 at 12:23 am
I was wondering what Tanya Harding has been up to these days. She hung up her boxing gloves, put away the microphone and moved to Charterstone.
http://www.charliesweb.com/tonya/court/courtphot/court02.jpg
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/comics/king.htm?name=Mary_Worth
Dingo
March 25th, 2007 at 12:38 am
Watch out, Vera! In panel 4, Mar’ has that look of Salieri and by panel 7 she’s all bella like Bela Lugosi. Creatures of the night, indeed.
Beware of Charterstone. It’s a military mishap. You’ve got MAJOR meltdowns, GENERAL confusion, PRIVATE matters made public, and it looks like Mary wants to introduce you to the COLONEL… Colonel Lingus.
Dingo
March 25th, 2007 at 12:45 am
Okay, everyone! Let’s play a little game and name the Brooklyn whore today. “Angel,” eh? Maybe to an elderly French pensioner.
My three guesses are:
Honey Biscuits
Legs Akimbo
Angel Ass Itches (apologies to Frank McCourt)
rich
March 25th, 2007 at 12:47 am
MW: In that last panel she seems to be saying “…or I’ll break your knuckles!”
Poteet
March 25th, 2007 at 1:09 am
# 341 — Dingo, how about Cherry Trail?
skulking on the outskirts
March 25th, 2007 at 1:14 am
Dingo, I went and voted a couple more times-it was at 30% last I looked.
Your Imperial Majesty, Most Dread Overlord of the Galaxy, Emperor Chennux: Thank you for your kind words, and I will try not to grovel to excess. But while I have your ear, (er, only metaphorically, I assure you) may I add my plea to Poteet’s, for mercy for the one called Monkeyhawk? He brings such excellent snark, surely you wouldn’t regret sparing him. And he sounded properly apprehensive about having incurred your wrath (not to mention the laser-sights of your magmacannons) when last heard from. I’d be willing to bet he’s learned his lesson, and will be very careful in future about stepping on the Imperial toes. Or claws. Or whatever. Okay, I’m just going to back up, bowing, and let myself out, if that’s all right with you, Oh Mighty Wielder of the Dread Skxcritort.
All Hail Chennux!
skulking on the outskirts
March 25th, 2007 at 1:25 am
Poteet, # 311-Nice groveling! I think you reached that finicky balance between utter cowed obsequiousness and straightforward-but-deferential that G.E.C. seems to prefer. Apparently my last big effort was a little over the top for his taste. Just between you and me, (er, and I guess everybody else here) I think he likes keeping us lowly Earthers off balance. Oh, and you’re right, that Lio was hysterical. And I think Mark Tatulli (sp?) is either a Curminion, or he lurks here. A lot.
Dingo
March 25th, 2007 at 1:27 am
#343 Poteet: I love that name!
#344 Skulk: Thank you (and everyone else!) for voting. I can’t figure out why it’s stabilized at 30% unless the Railway Museum is voting like mad, too.
Virginia
March 25th, 2007 at 1:31 am
I came because I was happy to find someone who obsessed as much over Mary Worth and Judge Parker as I did, and stayed because this was hands down laugh out loud HSFW funny. Thank you!!
Virginia
March 25th, 2007 at 1:34 am
*NSFW, I mean.
Also, I must give proper thanks for those brilliant minds that have converged on here with song parodies, predictions, and general snark. This is one of the most brilliant sites I’ve been on, and I speak this with the the wisdom of one who spends most of her free time on the internet.
Jym
March 25th, 2007 at 1:48 am
=v= I was going to write something about the “Plugger vanity search” but I actually temporarily forgot which strip Rolly Church of Crete contributed his idea to (Oh Yeah-h-h). From the blog, though, it would seem that he’s ghostwriting Mallard Fillmore and B.C..
MonkeyHawk
March 25th, 2007 at 2:07 am
CURSES ON YOU,
VON!GALACTIC EMPEROR CHINUXX!!!Obviously, your superior weapons were no match for my pathetic intellect so you switched tactics and imbued my beloved (and half-cousins) Jawhawks with a halftime locker room full of malodorous IRTHCSYDHT! They sure stunk up the gym in the second half against UCLA.
Others have asked you to consider mercy toward me. I’m touched but I demand no quarter! (Although, a few spare Loonies might come in handy, what with the Curmudgeon 300 preparing to invade Canada.) (Note to self, get a pocket for Loonies sewn into my leather Speedo.)
NO! Your Imperial Scaleyness!! I say, NO!
You may have the ultimate weapon (i.e., an unlimited charge account at some 7-point-Third Dimension shoe stores) to subdue Earth women. And Earth men’s sphincters may cringe at the mere sound of your bellowing. But MonkeyHawk stands defiant!
You shall not take our freedom!
You shall not take our dignity!
You shall not take our potatoes!
(Is it just me or is it getting hot in here?)
Dingo
March 25th, 2007 at 2:20 am
Hmm… the Cringing Sphincters. Sounds like great name for a band or evangelical men’s movement.
Jerzy Plates
March 25th, 2007 at 3:08 am
I AM MONKEYHAWK!
No Dingo Got My Baby
March 25th, 2007 at 3:09 am
I am MonkeyHawk!
AppleGirl
March 25th, 2007 at 3:11 am
350 – Monkeyhawk, the ultimate weapon is powerful indeed. However, I really don’t think Chennux had anything to do with the poor performance of your basketball team. UCLA won simply because they beat themselves with sticks on the backs of their own heads at halftime.
Chopped Liver
March 25th, 2007 at 3:15 am
What am I?!
(oh, yeah)
Sparticus
March 25th, 2007 at 3:17 am
I am…. confused.
MonkeyHawk
March 25th, 2007 at 3:22 am
#354 — AppleGirl –
You may be right.
But then again, you’ve bought into the myth that Chinuxx’s IRTCSYDHT don’t stink.
Oh. And *I* am…
… well, you already know that.
Not Clear on the Concept
March 25th, 2007 at 3:25 am
I am Sparticus!
Dingo
March 25th, 2007 at 3:58 am
I’m confused. I know who Spartacus was but what’s the “Sparticus” joke? I don’t get it.
Marion Delgado
March 25th, 2007 at 5:33 am
Rolly Church of Crete is mostly right about Atheist Eve, which is nearly always teh suckage.
However, this one was decent:
http://www.atheist-community.org/images/cartoon/Z101120V51517V20511XS10.jpg
Dean Booth
March 25th, 2007 at 7:04 am
MT: The Easter Bunny is more beloved than Jesus!?! Elrod may be in a heap ‘o crucifyin’ trouble now.!
Dean Booth
March 25th, 2007 at 7:07 am
RMMD: I don’t understand — Did they go to a commercial in the last panel?
Dean Booth
March 25th, 2007 at 7:15 am
The .! at the end of #361 may appear to be a typo, but actually I just invented a new punctuation mark, the declarobang. It represents something like a double-take.!
Marcus Crassus
March 25th, 2007 at 7:20 am
#358 Not Clear On The Concept: I fought with Sparticus. I crucified Sparticus. Sparticus was an enemy of mine. Not Clear On The Concept, you’re no Sparticus.
Calico
March 25th, 2007 at 7:26 am
#361 – I thought that would be the Beatles, not The Bunny.
(Genuflects in terror while typing this)
Look, one of the huge bunnies is trying out for the Harlem Globetrotters – he can really bounce that Elrod ball with his back foot!
DtM – Ah, Dennis gets the joke. Good boy. There’s hope for you yet, kid. You’ve seen Mommy come home with pinhole eyes before! And a bagful of those movies you “wouldn’t understand!”
MW – “Call me Mary” – when that phrase is uttered, Vera, run!
FC – I find today’s child-ghetto strangely disturbing, a la the other day’s outburst when Jeffy turned the living room furniture into kindling. (the group scene reminds me of The Yellow Kid a bit.) Again, more freakish than Master Mitchell has been in weeks.
SlyFox – nice, but I’m quite sure the hair facts were published along with the weird Dagwood crossover panel from a while back. Cool art.
Name for NY streetwalker in Paris – “Ubiquiblonde”
True Fable
March 25th, 2007 at 7:50 am
#361 Dean Booth: I liked the last bit, about “The Germans also made the first edible Easter bunny, which is much appreciated by children.”
The first edible Easter bunny? Ah! So, hausenpheffer was just practice?
Galactic Emperor Chennux
March 25th, 2007 at 7:57 am
ATTENTION EARTHERS! WARM UP THAT COFFEE! AND POP ANOTHER BAGEL IN THE TOASTER! CHENNUX SPEAKS TO THE ONE CALLED #350 MONKEYHAWK!
WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO HARSH THE EMPEROR’S MELLOW? I HAD A PERFECTLY WONDERFUL DAY WITH APPLEGIRL (THAT EARTHER LOVES SHOES, LET ME TELL YOU!) AND THE SCREAMING HUMAN FIGURES, AND NOW YOU’RE GETTING ALL DEFIANT AND CRANKY BECAUSE YOUR JAWHAWKS (your spelling, not mine) LOST! LOOK, YOU DODGED THE 21 MAGMACANNON SALVO AND I LET YOU WATCH THE GAME IN
PIECEPEACE! SHEESH!#329 ALASKAN! YOU ARE WELCOME, BUT CHENNUX DOES NOT ACCEPT WORTHLESS EARTH SCRIP! SEND POTATOES! POTEET KNOWS WHERE THE PICK-UP POINT IS!
#294 AACKTTPH! CUTE SONG! BUT MAGMACANNONS TURN NOTHING TO POO, UNLESS POO = CHARCOAL BRIQUETTES! HAHA!
#344 SKULKING! YES, REFER TO POTEET’S EXCELLENT QUANTITY/QUALITY MIX ON GROVELING! SHE IS HELD IN ESTEEM BY PROFESSIONAL GROVELERS EVEN ON ZYNEX! THE ONE CALLED POTEET! CHENNUX IS GOING BY THE MORXIAN BLUURT DISTILLERY LATER TODAY! THEIR DISTILLATE IS VERY SIMILAR TO AN ISLAY MALT, EXCEPT IT ALLOWS YOU TO SEE THROUGH TIME! SHALL I PICK UP A NICE 18 YEAR OLD FOR YOU?
END TRANSMISSION!
willethompson
March 25th, 2007 at 8:01 am
#322 Red – Dude, you’re just a song-writing machine! I don’t know if I can share the load today, tho. Somebody made spring come early here (thanks, your Vast Snarliness) and I need to mow the lawn. In March. Again.
willethompson
March 25th, 2007 at 8:02 am
BTW – Today’s LIO is priceless. I feel that both Richard Thompson and the LIO artist have visited these pages once or twice. If you’re lurking, guys, two thumbs way up!
commodorejohn
March 25th, 2007 at 8:15 am
Dingo, at the end of the movie “Spartacus,” the slave rebellion is overthrown by the Roman soldiers. Not wanting to kill all the valuable slaves, they ask which one is Spartacus, figuring they’ll just destroy the leader and that ought to put an end to the rebellion. However, one by one the slaves all claim to be Spartacus – the idea being that they’re not turning him in, even if they get in trouble for it. So…yeah. “I am Spartacus.”
Also, Lio today is the best thing ever made, anywhere, any time, ever. Mark Tatulli, you are a GOD.
stinky pete
March 25th, 2007 at 8:16 am
Today’s PBS/Get Fuzzy is, if not priceless, worth the cost of your broadband connection for the day.
anonymous
March 25th, 2007 at 8:17 am
VERY TIRESOME!!!
NOT FUNNY!!!
stinky pete
March 25th, 2007 at 8:18 am
370 CJ, not to speak for Dingo, but I think he was referring to the misspelling of Spartacus, as opposed to not getting the reference.
willethompson
March 25th, 2007 at 8:18 am
#370 Dean – Dingo gets it, amigo. In fact, I believe he started a whole “I’m Sparticus!” shout a few weeks back to deflect another magmacannon blast. I have yet to see Dingo miss a cultural reference…
willethompson
March 25th, 2007 at 8:20 am
SpartAcus. Duh. (hits self in head with tree limb five or six times…)
Dean Booth
March 25th, 2007 at 8:22 am
#369 — Where can I see Lio online? Thanks.
Ronin
March 25th, 2007 at 8:23 am
http://www.uclick.com/client/sea/lio/
CrabbyGenes
March 25th, 2007 at 8:27 am
In response to #237 fizzy logic, I will (at long last) post.
I have lurked here for as long as Poteet has snarked here. I am her younger sister in real life, and she introduced me to this site when she first discovered it. From time to time, she mentions or quotes me in one of her posts, since we snark to each other by e-mail about FBOFW nearly every day.
I am one of those people who used to love FOOB, and I have ALL of the books. (Sigh.) Now I can’t stand it. It really was a great strip in the past, which makes me a bit sad. But I have to say, the snarking is great!
And that brings me to this: Thank you Josh, for this site and venue to snark and read snarks! I never miss a day.
I always imagined that when I finally de-lurked, I would say something terribly witty and clever about some comic. Ah well, maybe next time. Until then, here’s something I am curious about: can any of you Curmudgeons identify the source of my moniker? (If no one gets it, I’ll tell you in my next post.)
stinky pete
March 25th, 2007 at 8:28 am
378 Linus: You’re always crabby! You’re crabby in the morning. You’re crabby at noon and you’re crabby at night! Lucy: Can I help it if I have crabby genes?
What do I win? What do I win?
AAckTTpth
March 25th, 2007 at 8:29 am
It’s a little off-season, but:
Chennux roasting us with open fire,
Dingo’s army’s on the move,
stinky pete is counting down all the posts
And willethompson’s writing silly songs.
Old Fogeyette is ending all the threads
Poteet sipping 12 year old Laphroaig
AppleGirl has a whole lot of shoes
And MonkeyHawk will die quite soon.
They know that Josh is on his way
With clever snarking
for the day
And all Curmudgeons wait to read
If Liz and Blandthony – (ah! Who cares?)
Grandpa Chinnuts offers us this simple phrase
For ‘Mudgeons one to ninety-two
Although it’s been said
Many times, many ways,
Boxcar!Saturn! Boxcar!Saturn! Boxcar!Saturn! to you!
stinky pete
March 25th, 2007 at 8:30 am
378 PS Welcome!
queek
March 25th, 2007 at 8:38 am
today’s Lio and PBS are beyond wonderful. I’m not sure if its an homage or a rip-off in PBS, but that’s totally a riff on the orginal appearance of Bill the Cat in Bloom County. (just without the show-tune.)
FOOB: *gag*^2
So, June is putting her friend to bed? Are more garages in need of cleaning? Is Niki going to help? Does that count as home-schooled?
Umm, Jackelrod, you haven’t talked to any Aussies about their feelings towards rabbits, have you?
Pibgorn is showing us what really happened to Dan, although I’m not sure what happened to his mustache.
and lastly, in reference to Lio, and with apologies to Monty Python.
“I guess that you can’t say [porn-stache] in the funnies.
You can’t say [Margo] or [Boxcar] or [Saturn]
You can’t even say that I’d like to [Dingo] you some day, unless you’re a Doctor with a very large {Skxcritortix]”
Tukla in Iowa
March 25th, 2007 at 8:39 am
Big Top is cancelled?! God DAMN it!!
And then FOOB goes and makes me vomit inside my mouth. ::fuming::
CrabbyGenes
March 25th, 2007 at 8:47 am
Congratulations, Stinky Pete! Lucy has always been my favorite Peanuts character, and since I was often crabby as a kid (and still am in the mornings; just ask my husband and kids), “Lucy” was one of my nicknames.
Sorry, but I had not thought of a prize. I’ll just say that if you ever plan to visit Japan (which is where I live–and by the way, right now it’s about 10:45 pm Sunday night here), let me know!
CrabbyGenes
March 25th, 2007 at 8:51 am
Forgot to say: And thanks, Stinky Pete, for the welcome!
O’Fogeyette
March 25th, 2007 at 9:03 am
#380: Wonderful! And not just ’cause I was mentioned.
I’ve really been enjoying all the warm fuzzies amidst the snark as I caught up with 150 or so posts. Usually I just skim when I’m behind, but the genuine gratitude to Josh is really very touching.
Henceforth I will try to temper my LIO hatred in deference to today’s strip, and also because the author is possibly a Curminion. (But if you are, does the strip have to be so margoing ugly?)
Finally: the lack of flaming here is really something quite extraordinary in my experience. It’s mostly just all-snark, all-mutual-support, all the time. A treasure.
Calico
March 25th, 2007 at 9:09 am
#371 and #377 – I just love this kind of crossover. (I do also like R. Thompson’s x-over from yesterday too-really.)
These strips remind me – it’s almost April 1st, the day when many of the artists take turns writing each other’s strips in joke fashion. Some of them in the past have been pretty funny. Looks like their own snark-party has begun early this year!
Josh Millard
March 25th, 2007 at 9:10 am
Happy mille bourne, famouser-Josh. For your lessons in Mary Worth appreciation, and so many other vectors of comics education, I thank you, your country thanks you, and Margo “thanks” you.
Jan-Karl
March 25th, 2007 at 9:52 am
It’s been mentioned a few times already but: Holy crap, Sunday’s Lio is %#@%$@ing awesome. It’s the FBOFW we’ve all been waiting for.
Calico
March 25th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Here’s a neat link to the great April Fool’s Day Switcheroo of ‘97. The Johnston – Peters switch was something I even cut out and saved.
http://www.answers.com/topic/comic-strip-switcheroo
Pinback65
March 25th, 2007 at 10:11 am
Nothing witty to say, I just wanted to point out that today’s Mutts is a thing of beauty.
Weasel Boy
March 25th, 2007 at 10:12 am
#385: I was thinking the same thing about this group; the hostility is aimed at the strips rather than at one another. Makes for a very healthy snarking environment.
Andrew
March 25th, 2007 at 10:14 am
I think Josh took over Lio for the day. Fantastic!!
Artist formerly known as Ben
March 25th, 2007 at 10:25 am
#377, Thanks for the link to Lio. That was precious. I hope Mark Tatulli has some good private security for when Lynn Johnston puts a contract on his ass.
Speaking of Johnston, does she have no idea of how people actually talk? That “just have to keep falling in love” bit could only end in painful bitch-slapping.
ohgrl
March 25th, 2007 at 10:28 am
Happy Millenipost, Josh; I believe Lio has given you the best gift of all. [and to your fans as well--it's the gift that keeps on giving!]
AAckTTpth
March 25th, 2007 at 10:39 am
378 CrabbyGenes
I’ll give a tiny amount of hate to stinkypete for getting there before me.
I agree that FBOFW used to be a pretty good strip. Question for the Curmudgeonverse: when did it jump the shark?
1. New Kid in Town (April)
2. Puberty (Michael, Liz or April, or Becky, etc.)
3. Birth/Death (Farley’s death)
4. A Very Special… (Lawrence coming out)
5. I Do (Michael and Deanna)
6. The Movie (or animated series in this case)
7. Moving (Mgwitawhatever)
8. Exit… Stage Left (Howard Erk)
All we need is a Ted McGinley guest shot.
Lynn, you should have done a Watterson/Larson.
AAckTTpth
March 25th, 2007 at 10:40 am
Should add:
9. Never Jumped
10. Day One
Squid Countess
March 25th, 2007 at 10:51 am
Apt 3G Re:Gary – I’m very surprised at Margo’s suggestion to “call him Tommie.” That shows more insight into Tommie’s problems than I thought Margo was capable of.
dramashoes
March 25th, 2007 at 11:06 am
I came here last summer after searching google for “mark trail comic strip lame.” I’ll never forget Wilbur stabbing himself in the throat with a matzo ball at the Charterstone picnic. Almost a year ago I started a new job in a new field and moved into my first one bedroom apartment. Shortly after that my truck’s transmission went out. It’s been tough learning a new trade. Plenty of days I wanted to give up. I don’t know how many times I’d come home feeling like I’d been beaten up, then come here and laugh at the foobs and Rex Morgan and all the comments. I don’t always comment because everybody here is so good that I often have nothing to add. Thanks, Josh, and thanks to all my fellow curmudgeonites.
Dean Booth
March 25th, 2007 at 11:17 am
My wife is out of town this weekend and (don’t tell) I’m using the good scissors! BWAHAHAHA!
John C Fremont
March 25th, 2007 at 11:19 am
Hey, I just found out I have to drive to Lincoln, Nebraska today. Lincoln’s only a few minutes from Crete, so I’m gonna go take a look and see if I can find me that there Rolly Church.
You know, I’ve discovered that outside of this community, people stare blankly at you when you say “Rolly Church of Crete!” But that’s nothing compared to their reaction to “Dick, the doorbell.”
Oh, and damn that Illinois Railway Museum!!
AppleGirl
March 25th, 2007 at 11:25 am
LIO! LIO! LIO! Required reading today!
O’Fogeyette
March 25th, 2007 at 11:35 am
#395: I think FOOB jumped when Farley died, but it took me a long time to notice it.
Can someone please tell me what Lio’s final cue card says? I can’t manage to read it. (The one he’s working on.)
Anonymous
March 25th, 2007 at 11:38 am
#402 OF -
“Mom: And when are those two dogs gonna croak, already?”
Little Red-haired Girl
March 25th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Congratulations on the Millenipost, Josh!
Since fizzy logic invited us to delurk…I’ve been lurking since sometime in the Fall. I used to think Josh was just this guy I’d see sometimes at neighborhood meetings. I had no idea of his hidden sarcastic talent. My husband was working on some community web project with Josh and googled Josh’s name. He told me about the blog but because I’d never read a blog and I used to like FBOFW (because it didn’t use to suck and because of the pet rabbit living in their house (I run a rabbit rescue and adoption organization), I was sceptical. But I finally logged on and I’ve been enjoying the snark of Josh and all the other very clever commentors more than I can say. I have always read the comics before any other part of the paper. As a kid I read Brenda Star and the Phantom but never appreciated Mary Worth… until now. And now I understand why I wasn’t enjoying FBOFW like I used to. This on-line community is fantastic and very, very funny! Thanks Josh!
John C Fremont
March 25th, 2007 at 11:40 am
O’Fogeyette – “And when are those two dogs gonna croak already?!”
Gotta go – on my way to Crete and Glory!
Gabe
March 25th, 2007 at 11:41 am
Funny, I have Ramone’s “Pet Cemetary” running through my head today, and it made me think of that FC strip with all the dead animals in it…
And this site. Rock on Josh, hope to see that FAQ real soon. I’m a sucker for such things.
Uncle Lumpy
March 25th, 2007 at 11:42 am
#403 Double oops -
1. That was me.
2. “. . . croak, already!?!“
Mike
March 25th, 2007 at 11:51 am
To further her meddling ways, Mary is reduced to using Jedi mind tricks in the last panel of today’s MW. Our best hope here is that George Lucas gets pissed and sues, forcing the strip off the panels once and for all.
That, or Lucas will find a way to whore the brand out that much more, and demand the replacement of Toeby with an Ewok.
Gabe
March 25th, 2007 at 11:56 am
If making money off your intellectual properties is whoring, then sign me up for a cheetah bustier, please.
Of course, I need an intellectual property. Gabe: The Unkosher Meat, perhaps?
dreadedcandiru2
March 25th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Happy 100oth, and many more! Fortunately by then, the Foobs will have packed up their tent. If we don’t have the Whining Martyr chanelling Archie Bunker, we got Elly worrying about BECOMING (TOO LATE, WIDE-LOAD!) a senile burden on society. I only wonder what fresh hell she has in store from Monday till Friday?
Caged Tygre
March 25th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
#382 Tukla in Iowa, but I love Big Top, even though clowns scare me. *sniff*
Dingo
March 25th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Yes, I was snarking on the misspelling of “Spartacus.” Today’s Lio deserves accolades. Now I can’t wait to see what he does with Cathy. Aaack!
Pendragon
March 25th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
#395 – Same character, different actor – When Anthony Caine took over the role of Liz’s daddy from John Patterson.
Seriously, I think FBOFW jumped the shark when then-married Anthony hit on Elizabeth immediately after the attempted rape.
Air Forbes
March 25th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Sorry I just got here – I was up way too late last night celebrating the millenipost.
Lio is awesome. Wallpaper brush!
395 AAckTTpth:
You forgot -
11. They Did It (Liz and Eric)
MT: Cherry looks like she’s thinking of zombies.
Heckler123
March 25th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Today’s Brewster Rockit – OMG! They’ve killed Kenny!
Heckler123
March 25th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
#408, Mike – I think you might have something there, with the Mary Worth/Star Wars line of thought. Aldo did resemble Chewbacca, now that I think about it. Chinbeard has the makings of Jabba the Hutt, and Mary herself is starting to get the tiniest hint of Yoda – I think it’s because of the hairs sprouting on her ears.
In the coming months, perhaps she will offer such pearls of wisdom as, “Vera, social creatures we are. If ever change your mind you do, still stand my offer will.”
lesles
March 25th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
late to the party again! why do i always have to get my invites out of other people’s bins? and with my name always spelt wrong?
anyway, yay! to the millennipost. i want lance henriksen to play josh in the screen adaptation.
commodorejohn
March 25th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
FOOB – And then John bought a bottle of Johnnie Walker Red and drove them both off the Charterstone cliffs in a drunken, morbid stupor.
Allie Cat
March 25th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Happy Millenipost!
Thanks for the memories!
MyGoodName
March 25th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
#416 Heckler – I always imagined Mary Worth as more an emporer Palpatine figure, playing residents off each other to further consolidate her own dark powers. For a while, Ella seemed the Yoda figure. But now that she’s left Charterstone, it’s anyone’s guess who the force of good is in Santa Royale.
Jym
March 25th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
= They’ll Do It Every Ding-Dong Time =
Dear Mr. Scaduto, I hope you can use this in your strip. I sent in a perfectly good Pluggers suggestion about how those wacko-liberal godless atheist hippies smell so bad, and what does he draw? A God-fearing President-supporting workingman with B.O.! Wha-a-a-a?
Sincerely, Rolly Church, Crete, Nebraska, God’s Country
fizzy logic
March 25th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Dear Mr. Tatulli:
Thank you very much for your Sunday 3/25/2006 Lio strip. We are currently celebrating the Millenipost here at Josh Reads (aka The Comics Curmudgeon), and it was the bestest present a cartoonist could give us. We hereby invite you to be an honorary Curmudgeonite and bestow you with some sort of honors (we’re in informal group, we’ll have to come up with something). However, if you’d like to send me your address, I personally would be willing to send you a gift basket.
Yours in gratitude,
fizzy logic
migellito
March 25th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
385 old fogeyette
I know you’ve explained it all before, but I must say I really like the art… particularly lio’s cheesy huge smiles and his craxily unkempt dad. Probably my current favourite strip, even before I read sunday’s. :)
Anonymous
March 25th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Lio: My hero!!!
MW: Run, Vera, Run!
MT: If only after mentioning that rabbits are prolific breeders, Elrod had said “hence the term “f***ing like rabbits”.
Howard Erk
March 25th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Humpmph….
The Millinepost doesn’t start until post 1001.
NotThatGuy
March 25th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Yay, Lio!
FBOBW turned Foob at Farley’s death, I think; that was the first time the Fist of Ham became unmistakably visible. While it could be explained away (it’s a reality strip where the characters age, Farley already was in the 97th percentile for dog years, Farley was a beloved character and sending him out in a blaze of glory was a tribute to that, etc) killing off a character, while not exactly blazing new comics ground, was a new direction for a strip known for foibles rather than drama.
And he could not just barkbarkbarkhelpachild, and he could not just rescue ANY child, he had to rescue April, the character most extraneous and whose presence was a reminder that in the beginning, the strip was about the daily ridiculousness of marriage and raising small children. April’s birth was an attempt to roll back time, but Farley’s death was when the train actually jumped the tracks.
That is all.
Heckler123
March 25th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
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Saxman
March 25th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
297 Lio of FOOB
Are we *sure* the creator of Lio doesn’t log on here:
http://www.uclick.com/client/sea/lio/
I wonder whehter Lynn sactioned this. In my heart of hearts, I wonder if she doesn’t agree with everything we say about FOOB here and then cynically continue spooning out what 98% of her readers expect.
fizzy logic
March 25th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
#422 – Re: My thank you letter to Mr. Tatulli – Er – Sunday 3/25/2007 strip, I meant. As long as I’m correcting errors, I meant “an” informal group, not “in” informal group. Geez.
Uncle Lumpy
March 25th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
#429 fl -
You’re quite sure you’ve escaped becoming “flat intuition”?
fizzy logic
March 25th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
#430 – Uncle Lumpy – I think I skipped that step and went to Plain Stupid.
Stinky Pete didn’t warn me about that! I’ll have to reboot!
Uncle Lumpy
March 25th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
#431 fl -
I briefly became Aunt Smoothie, and Aunt Lumpy and I made excellent use of the opportunity!
Can’t wait for the next millenipost. . . .
commodorejohn
March 25th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
#428 – Not a chance. Crap like that only comes straight from the bowels heart.
commodorejohn
March 25th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
err, “bowels heart.”
Mr. O’Malley
March 25th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
400. John C Fremont, if you should happen to find Rolly Church, perhaps you might teach him how to spell “Atheist”. Or if learning the spelling by heart is too much work, at least how to copy it letter by letter from the comic strip when he is attacking Atheist Eve.
commodorejohn
March 25th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
erm, I mean, “
bowelsheart.”Way to go and spoil a joke…
AAckTTpth
March 25th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
I think the addition of April was the JTS moment. It was a totally self-indulgent, mid-life-crisis, menopausal, pointless attempt to recapture the early days of the strip as the kids hit their teen years. It was a good strip. Don’t invite Cousin Oliver into the family.
Mr. O’Malley
March 25th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
I like today’s Bizarro.
It would appeal to fans of Lio or Terry Pratchett.
fizzy logic
March 25th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
#436 – It’s all right commodorejohn, you’re among friends here…
Poteet
March 25th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
# 345 — Skulking, thanks for your kind words. I myself admire your blend of logic and detail when addressing the Emperor, but apparently MonkeyHawk is determined to be heroic and charred in spite of our efforts. Good luck to him.
# 367 — O Ruler of the Galaxy, thank you for complimenting my groveling style. I learned it first while working office temp jobs. Now I wonder if Zynex is a planet of many temp workers, perhaps?
And many thanks for your generous offer of Morxian Bluurt Distillate. However, being able to see through time would make me very nervous. I think I’d better leave that power to Your Imperial Gloriousness, and I’ll settle for seeing double.
Heckler 123
March 25th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
#438, Mr. O’Malley – Are you sure that Bizarro was a joke? I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that display at Hot Topic.
rich
March 25th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
341 says Okay, everyone! Let’s play a little game and name the Brooklyn whore today.
Venus LaPenis, or Marcia Gay HardOn.
t.a.m.s.y.
March 26th, 2007 at 5:35 am
Hey Josh, I’m a little late on this one — but happy millinepost to you! And the rest of you yahoos too.
J-Lu
March 26th, 2007 at 7:52 am
Another late one – Josh, thanks for the heeelarity. I can’t imagine reading the comics now without also reading your web site. I hope like Lynn Johnston you’ll feel compelled to continue the magic well into your grey and near-senile years.
gh
March 26th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Wow. Three days late, but it was worth the stroll through the debris. Josh, I don’t know what kind of karma you bear that keeps this place so non-stop rollicking and just plain pleasant, but many, many thanks. I, like a couple others have mentioned, came in through a James Wolcott link and have never looked back.
Dingo, I voted twice. Red and fizzy, great stuff. I’ll turn out the lights.
HBGlord
March 26th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
I missed the Millennipost (and probably many people correcting misspellings like “Millenipost” and “Milennipost”) — serves me right!
Josh, thank you and congratulations — and thanks to all the CC commenters who have ruined more than one replacement keyboard in my year plus here.
Steve
April 9th, 2007 at 2:23 am
Marion Delgado says:
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:22 pm
But what 1000 posts have not yet revealed …
“I reveal my innnermost self unto my God!†– Becky Winkerbean.
Is this a quote from the comic strip? If it is I’ve missed part of it. Can you give the date?
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September 14th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
Last post! Go me!
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