Metapost: Site layout problems
Hey kids, new comics in a bit (AAAAHHHH NOOOO THE MUSTACHE NOOOO) but just wanted you to know that I’ve fixed the problem that was causing layout wackiness on Internet Explorer (it was in one of the ads). If you are still seeing the layout all screwed up, try holding down the shift key and reloading the page. Sorry ’bout that!
Update: I think the problem with the ad is fixed and I am readding it to the site. If you see any more layout issues, please chime in on this thread.
Update II: God damn it. Took it back down.
Bombcar
May 1st, 2007 at 9:30 am
THE HORROR! THE HORROR!
It shall not be! Heaven save us!
Pelagius
May 1st, 2007 at 9:32 am
Go for it Liz! I think Anthony is the perfect match for you.
Speaking of horror – The EXTREME CLOSE UP on Rusty in today’s MT nearly made me regurgitate my peanut butter toast. Judging from Rusty’s distorted features, Mark needs to look into the radioactive waste being dumped in Lost Forest’s water supply.
On the other hand, it could just be an expression of shock permanently frozen into his doughy features. After all, Mark and Cherry just did the naasty in their one-room cabin/beehive. It isn’t like ol’ Rus has anywhere to hide from the shame, the shame…
Allie Cat
May 1st, 2007 at 9:34 am
Repost from previous thread – FOOB Monthly Letters are up on the FBOFW website – warning – Michael’s is alllll about his new novel.
Bleargh!
TurtleBoy
May 1st, 2007 at 9:37 am
It must be arranged so that Wagner’s Götterdämmerung plays on a Foob-related pageload.
TurtleBoy
May 1st, 2007 at 9:38 am
Oh, and…Mark T, if you’re lurking, never did we need a Foob-snarking installment of Lio more than we do now!
Mr. Coffee Nerves
May 1st, 2007 at 9:40 am
It’s not a problem with the ads, Josh. The intartubes is rejecting FOOB.
Soon Skynet will become aware and the orbiting nuclear missiles will rain down upon Canada to “save us.” Notice that we haven’t seen the dogs or the rabbit in a few days? Somehow the animals are always the first to know.
Jamus The Bartender
May 1st, 2007 at 9:45 am
FOOB: I’ll give some highlights about the FOOB letters for those with weak hearts and other pre-existing conditions,when the new comics are up.
Dingo
May 1st, 2007 at 9:46 am
George Orwell for 2007
Mark Trail: Little Brother is watching you.
FOOB: Each foob imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it with a garden hose enema.
Mary Worth: Every meddle when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a meddle but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
Dave
May 1st, 2007 at 9:47 am
I thought the last panel of today’s MT should have followed the last panel of Monday’s MT …
Holly
May 1st, 2007 at 9:48 am
NOOOO. OMG. NOT THE MUSTACHE NOOOOO. my thoughts exactly.
Dingo
May 1st, 2007 at 9:49 am
Damn! I missed this one.
FOOB: If you want a vision of the future for comics’ lovers, imagine Lynn Johnston’s boot stamping on a human face – forever.
TB Tabby
May 1st, 2007 at 9:51 am
FOOB is dead to me. I no longer read it. But there’s still plenty on the comics page for me to be disturbed by…
…today’s Beetle Bailey, for example. Geez, Sarge, leave something for his next of kin to bury!
Justafoob
May 1st, 2007 at 9:56 am
Don’t bother with the monthly letters, there is less than usual there.
Unless you want to go on a historical romp on with a seafaring lad…..
****VOMMMMMITTTTTTTTTT****
****HURLLLLLLLLL*****
****RETCH*****
Sorry, but thank god the strip is going into some sort of stasis field so we don’t have to read about Mike’s horror novel.
TurtleBoy
May 1st, 2007 at 9:58 am
Once the stasis sets in, will Mike P. forever be working on the same damned “new” novel, for all eternity?
andreavis
May 1st, 2007 at 9:59 am
To reiterate my hyperventilation from the previous thread, in re. FOOB: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUGH!!!!
I feel like SpongeBob, in the episode where Squidward tells him about the Hash Slinging Slasher:
AAA! AAA! AAA! (times infinity)
OMG, I need a drink and a Valium. Die, FOOB, die.
willethompson
May 1st, 2007 at 9:59 am
I think IE6 saw today’s FOOB and puked.
willethompson
May 1st, 2007 at 10:03 am
The only possible explanation for Red Greenback’s disappearance is that, like the dolphins upon hearing the approach of the Vogon Constructor Fleet, he saw today’s FOOB coming and left the planet.
D.A.Pennington
May 1st, 2007 at 10:04 am
Todays FOOB: I think I threw up in my mouth a little.
calico
May 1st, 2007 at 10:08 am
I think Chennux is taking a nap, as the IE flavor of CC tastes very good now. Whew.
MW – check out the huge rock in back of Mary and Vera in panel two – did they get lost in LoFo?
Perhaps that is the the entrance to the underground chamber where Mary regenerates her meddling cells at night.
Gabe
May 1st, 2007 at 10:09 am
For the record, I wasn’t having any issues. Which is crazy, because my work computer has a hard time viewing anything.
Mack
May 1st, 2007 at 10:11 am
12 – Given that Beetle’s kin consists of the cast of Hi & Lois, Trixi would probably just chime in with an adorable thought bubble no matter what the condition of his corpse was at the open-casket funeral.
Chet McCord, Wildlife Defender
May 1st, 2007 at 10:12 am
Oh come on, people. Why are you so upset? Does Lizardbreadth really deserve someone better than Anthony? I’d rather see her run off with Howard Erk, but short of that Anthony will have to suffice.
Justafoob
May 1st, 2007 at 10:14 am
#14 TurtleBoy said
My god, Mike is writing the Rhyme of the Foobian Mariner…
calico
May 1st, 2007 at 10:14 am
#22 – Aha moment – (sort of, like when Margo’s head bobbles)
Vera and Trixie need to engage in a thought-bubble duel. The winner gets some pie.
O’Fogeyette
May 1st, 2007 at 10:17 am
Three things. First, I hope you all appreciate my ending the last thread, even though it gave way to a probably short-lived metapost.
Second. I’m working my way slowly through the comics. Saw FOOB, felt a cold, relentless futility grip my bowels (maybe Chennux can warm them up), then read MW and realized that Mary actually is a kind of black hole of privacy invasion. No matter how hard you try to escape the pull of her gravity, the more you are sucked in. Eventually Vera will collapse into the black singularity, leaving only a few plucked personal details to eternally circle Mary’s inescapable meddle powers.
I have yet to read MT or DTGT, and don’t know if I have the strength for either.
Finally, I emailed Red Greenback to find out what’s up with him. I’ll let you know if I hear anything, or maybe my entreaties will just bring him back.
TurtleBoy
May 1st, 2007 at 10:21 am
#23 Justafoob: y’know, earlier I suggested Götterdämmerung for a Foobian soundtrack…but your comment suggests that maybe Der fliegende Holländer would be more appropriate. For Mike P., anyway.
Marissa
May 1st, 2007 at 10:23 am
Poor, poor Rusty. He’s already submitted to staying behind the camera and NEVER EVER in front of it.
Strange, the kid is all but sequestered in hermitic solitude yet still somehow understands how repulsive he appears to normal society. Rusty knows him some ugly… and I think that’s probably healthy.
Mal
May 1st, 2007 at 10:24 am
People still use Internet Explorer? That’s like driving your car without its windshield, doors, and hood.
willethompson
May 1st, 2007 at 10:27 am
#25 O’F – Did the same re: Red. Waiting for a response…
OK, so we know the FOOB ship is going down. But there’s lots of other great snark!
JP:“You like them young, don’t you Cedric?” Cedric, my friend, that is the sound of Abbey’s thighs creaking open. Abbey is flashing back to the time when she was wearing a flimsy burnoose and fingering a glass of Chateau Lafitte, waving a sign that said “I’M A WENDY’S BURGER – HOT AND JUICY!” between her knees only to hear her sham of a lawyer husband say that he needed to ‘attend to his briefs’ and HE WASN’T USING DOUBLE ENTENDERE!
I hear the sound of a grudge fuck on the horizon. “So, you like ‘em young, eh? Do the young ones know how to do this?” Abbey will ask as she slurps a coat hanger into her mouth and three seconds later spits out a Slinky.
You’re a big boy, Cedric, you need the firm flanks of an experienced equestrienne who will let YOU wear the spurs. Aunt Rachel can show you where she keeps the bridle. And don’t think Abbey didn’t notice your shibari skills in binding the punks. Just whisper ‘ligottage’ to Abbey – she knows THAT much French.
Galactic Emperor Chennux®™©
May 1st, 2007 at 10:31 am
ATTENTION EARTHERS! CONTROL/ALT/DELETE YOUR LOWER BOWELS! CHENNUX SPEAKS!
STILL USING IE? NO WONDER YOUR INTERNET TUBES ARE SO EASY TO MARGO WITH! HAHA!
ENJOY THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES! CHENNUX WILL ISSUE DEMANDS LATER! RIGHT NOW, IT’S LUNCH TIME AT GREENWICH+6.
END TRANSMISSION!
Proteus
May 1st, 2007 at 10:36 am
JP: Cedric, my man, one word. Over-sharing, OK? If I had a chauffeur who who carried a luger tell me his insanely jealous wife was stalking me because he left his last wife for her and that she’s young because he likes women about the age of my daughter because he’s afraid of growing old… well, I might start thinking about how many less spooky guys out there look good behind the wheel of my car. But maybe that’s why Abbey is haut and I’m naut.
calico
May 1st, 2007 at 10:36 am
#28 – Right now I have IE, Mozilla, Avant, and Opera in my bag of ones and zeros. I think I like them in this order so far, from nicest to peskiest/clumsiest, and this may vary a bit daily:
Mozilla
Avant
IE
Opera
Any others out there? Besides Netscape?
Professor Fate
May 1st, 2007 at 10:36 am
re FOOB: AHHHAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! No! NO! NO! !NO! Thar she blows! Thar she blows!
The mustasche off the port bow!
Well we knew this was coming – a massive galcier of stupid crushing all in it’s path – April’s face in the last pannel is enough to make one wish for the sweet release of death .
Montag
May 1st, 2007 at 10:39 am
#29 willethompson: “So, you like ‘em young, eh? Do the young ones know how to do this?†Abbey will ask as she slurps a coat hanger into her mouth and three seconds later spits out a Slinky.
Sweet!
Lynngineering
May 1st, 2007 at 10:43 am
Layout: On mac, firefox never had layout problems on this site …. so far…
JudeMorrigan
May 1st, 2007 at 10:45 am
From Mike’s monthly letter:
“My head is firmly wedged inside novel number two.”
Well, based on his first novel, his second is sure to be ass as well, so that sounds about right.
MossMoses
May 1st, 2007 at 10:46 am
“Rusty, you’re in charge”. What’s Cherry, chopped liver? This is the LoFo chain of command in Mark’s absence – Rusty, Andy, Cherry, Sassy, Doc. From the looks of Rusty, he has gotten into that contaminated pet food again. He was a pity adoption, no doubt. What is keeping Mark and Cherry from reproducing their own offspring? Since they don’t really have sex there is always in vitro.
Vera looks like Yao Ming in panel one. What a skewed perspective! The inevitable gutspew will reveal just how wicked and evil Von really is.
Red Greenback
May 1st, 2007 at 10:47 am
Hi kids!…Adventures in Winkerbeania the last coupla weeks.
TurtleBoy
May 1st, 2007 at 10:48 am
#32 calico: there’s also Safari, for the Mac-based among you.
Len
May 1st, 2007 at 10:52 am
On what planet do these kids live, that they can manage on an allowance of five dollars a week? I’m sure even Dennis the (not such a) Menace gets more spending money.
http://news.yahoo.com/comics/uclickcomics/20070430/cx_pr_uc/pr20070430
mere cog in the machine
May 1st, 2007 at 10:56 am
I’d like to see Mike’s novel reviewed by Dale Peck.
Trotzenbonnie
May 1st, 2007 at 10:59 am
Red Green(IS)back! Yeah!
From Winkerbeania…Is that a Wurlitzer crescendo I hear?
Galactic Emperor Chennux®™©
May 1st, 2007 at 11:00 am
ATTENTION EARTHERS! THE ONE CALLED RED GREENBACK HAS ESCAPED! A SHINY NEW DONKEY TO THE ONE WHO RETRIEVES HIM!
OH. THERE HE IS. BACK TO SNARKING, YOU! HAHA!
END TRANSMISSION!
ps – you had us worried, big guy
JudeMorrigan
May 1st, 2007 at 11:00 am
#40 – Sheesh, and then there were those of use who didn’t get an allowance at all growing up. Sorry, I’m not feeling much sympathy for the PreTeena kids here.
Gulielma
May 1st, 2007 at 11:07 am
FBoFW: Michael’s first novel ripped off–uh, was in the vein of–MacDonald’s “Fall on Your Knees” or Shield’s “The Stone Diaries”. Now he’s moved on to ripping off Patrick O’Brian.
Beetle Bailey: Ick. Can you say “Biohazard”?
Doonesbury: The Inquirer has a slug on today’s strip, noting that new strips will be back on May 7th
The Piranha Club: Is that another octopus joke?
Cathy: Aging reeks! The only answer is frustrating shopping for ineffective products! AAAACCKKKK!!!!!
Funky Winkerbean: Admitting the joke is crappy doesn’t help.
Baby Blues: Darryl will be Zoe’s coach in a new sport. Hilarity ensues.
Justafoob
May 1st, 2007 at 11:07 am
FBOFW jumped the shark when:
A) Apewill turned 16
B) Howard Erk got his titties twisted by Granthony
C) Mike married Deanna
D) Farley died a horrible death
or
E) The day the syndicate handed LJ a check and said, “You go girl”
Nina
May 1st, 2007 at 11:08 am
See how you were missed Red
TB Tabby
May 1st, 2007 at 11:31 am
45: Speaking of new sports, check out today’s Blondie. Still more interesting than sidehacking.
Guess where more information on cup stacking can be found?
Original Lee
May 1st, 2007 at 11:41 am
MW: I can’t believe that Vera’s thinking elbow has gone unremarked for so long. Her brain must be trying to find the exit now that her body has voluntarily entered the Meddlezone.
(THTI)FOOB: A slight repeat from yesterthread, but I hate how Lynn’s story arc is an eerie Canadian version of the Luke’n'Laura In Lurv 4Evah story arc from General Hospital. Even as a child forced to watch this soap with my grandmother, I was horrified that people actually thought it was romantic that Laura ended up marrying Luke. I don’t care what my grandmother thinks, it is STILL Wrong for Granthony to commit emotional adultery with Liz when his wife is pregnant with the child HE BEGGED HER to carry and then use the rescue-from-rape opportunity to line up Wife #2 before he’s even divorced from Wife #1. Sorry, Grandma, but it’s Wrong in Real Life, it’s Wrong on TV, and by God, it is Wrong in a comic strip.
AhClem
May 1st, 2007 at 11:48 am
#36 JudeMorrigan -
“My head is firmly wedged inside novel number two.â€
If you remove the word “novel”, it becomes the first truly accurate self-description Mike has ever uttered.
Rob H.
May 1st, 2007 at 11:49 am
Your destiny lies with Anthony, Lizard-breath. Obi-Wan knew this to be true.
True Fable
May 1st, 2007 at 2:01 pm
#38 Red Greenback: yay! We missed you, bud.
And we will understand if you choose not to give a full report on this “Adventures in Winkerbeania” business. We do not wish to be Winker Wankers.
Glad you’re here. Snark on!
AppleGirl
May 1st, 2007 at 2:11 pm
38 – Red Greenback – I’m glad to see you!
Poteet
May 1st, 2007 at 2:22 pm
# 36 — JudeMorrigan, thanks for the warning. Even for Michael, that’s almost beyond belief. I’ll have a bucket handy before I even try reading those letters.
# 38 — Red Greenback, welcome! We’re so glad to see you again!
# 43 — Awww, Your Imperial Excellency, that’s so nice of you.
Poteet
May 1st, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Josh, because your posts hit such a high standard every time, I thought you’d want to know that you put an extra “d” in “reading.” Given what the site is doing, however, I’m surprised you managed a coherent message. I’d just be ranting.
Vince M.
May 1st, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Bring Me the Head of Beetle Bailey.
Red Greenback
May 1st, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Red Greenbaby got back!!!…(I’m trying to re-acclimate with some sorta damn snark here). Winkerbeania as I understand it is a land of disease, despair, gabloits on the tookis, etc. Anyhoo, that’s pretty much the Cliff Notes of what I been going thru lately.
I haven’t been able to come up with any decent snarkin’ in the interim because you guys have been absolutely stellar! My shit would have come across like:
RMMD: sucks
JP: suques
MT: sucks locally/sucks globally
Marm: really big sucky suckness…and so on.
Anyhoo2-You folks have helped me through a very trying time. (That and seeing Stephen Hawking floating in zero g)
Joe Bftsplk
May 1st, 2007 at 8:54 pm
12 – Holy friggin’ Jeebus. That is the most astonishing comic strip I’ve ever seen.
48 – Come on now, Young, or whoever is drawing this thing. If Blondie were calling to him from another room or somewhere, her question would make sense. But she’s standing right there, watching the same TV that Dagwood is. How can she possibly mistake what is on the screen for either basketball or golf?
Wondering now whether “Jeebus” is supposed to be capitalized, or not.
Yul Tide
May 1st, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Prediction: Clambake takes the boys HOME, buggers the lot of them until they can’t WALK, thus REMEDYing both the coach’s problem as well as Clambake’s.
Red Greenback
May 1st, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Vince- bring me the chin of Edda Burber!