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Metapost: grumbly grumbly tech stuff HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

To everyone who is experiencing technical difficulties on the site: it’s not you, it’s me. The server is kind of overloaded. Between you and me, the server has been overloaded for some time, because my traffic growth has outpaced it. Now the chickens have come home to roost, and it looks like an upgrade is in order — ’twill be more expensive, but should be more reliable. I will keep you posted, and sorry in the meantime. One specific thing that seems to be happening is that the site appears to time out when you post a comment, even if the comment really goes through; please check to see if it has gone through before you repost, as all the reloading and reposting and such isn’t helping matters.

In happier news, today is the third anniversary of the launch of this site! On July 11, 2004, I did something that I’d almost never do again, which is make fun of Non-Sequitur. When I started this blog, mostly for the amusement of myself and my family and friends, I had no idea that it would be come a widely-read site that would make me pretend Internet famous, forge community links among comics lovers, and crush server after server as it grew more popular. I would never have kept on with it if I didn’t know that you all enjoyed it (and enjoyed yourselves chatting on the site), so here’s to all of you! And thanks to faithful reader Mooncity, who reminded me of the date with this very nice cartoon.

UPDATE: OK, I think maybe I have fixed the commenting problems? Maybe? Lemme know if you are still encountering them. FIRST POSTs are still lame, though.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 12:19 pm and is filed under metaposts.

178 responses to “Metapost: grumbly grumbly tech stuff HAPPY BIRTHDAY!”

Allie Cat
July 11th, 2007 at 12:26 pm [Reply]

Happy 3rd Birthday!
zenvelo
July 11th, 2007 at 12:27 pm [Reply]

first? how will I know? my browser thingie just spins and spins….
gh
July 11th, 2007 at 12:31 pm [Reply]

Happy Third, Josh! Maybe that’s why everyhting comes through three times!
The Divine O’F
July 11th, 2007 at 12:36 pm [Reply]

Happy Anniversary, Josh! And thank you!

Please excuse this necropost:

I hardly know what to say about today’s comics, except that RMMD is so boring I don’t know why anybody bothers. Oh, wait. It’s June and her sweater puppies. Same problem with JP, and same answer, but it’s Abbey’s sweater puppies in that one. Let me tell you, there’s damned little here for straight women. The rest of the comics, for the second-day in a row, are all self-snarking. I’m very discouraged. I think I have lost my will to snark.
comics
July 11th, 2007 at 12:43 pm [Reply]

Not to sound pissy, but for the love of God, the last thing that should be occupying my ailing server’s precious resources is FIRST POSTs. They make baby Jesus cry even under the best of circumstances.

Josh
Poteet
July 11th, 2007 at 12:45 pm [Reply]

Thanks, Pope Josh, for making this all possible! And I gotta say, as a rural dialup person, that your site still loads MUCH faster and more easily than that of my nearest regional newspaper. And now, at the risk of incurring more copyright wrath…

Happy Birthday, CC!
Happy Birthday, CC!
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday,
Happy Birthday, CC!
Cody
July 11th, 2007 at 12:46 pm [Reply]

less meta more jokey pls.
andreavis
July 11th, 2007 at 12:47 pm [Reply]

Happy anniversary, Josh, and many snarking returns.
anne
July 11th, 2007 at 12:50 pm [Reply]

I will burn ur server resources to say “Happy Birthday!” God bless you, each and every one.
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
July 11th, 2007 at 12:53 pm [Reply]

IM IN UR SERVR
WISHIN U A HAPY BIRFDAI

Four threads in a few hours… is this some kind of record?
The Divine O’F
July 11th, 2007 at 12:55 pm [Reply]

Happy Anniversary, Josh! And thank you!

Please excuse this necropost:

I hardly know what to say about today’s comics, except that RMMD is so boring I don’t know why anybody bothers. Oh, wait. It’s June and her sweater puppies. Same problem with JP, and same answer, but it’s Abbey’s sweater puppies in that one. Let me tell you, there’s damned little here for straight women. The rest of the comics, for the second-day in a row, are all self-snarking. I’m very discouraged. I think I have lost my will to snark.

And… this will be my last post until the problem with the server has been resolved. I have clogged the bandwidth enough this morning.
Dean Booth
July 11th, 2007 at 1:07 pm [Reply]

Happy Birthday, Josh. Many happy returns!

I’ve got real work today, so no time to read yet. But here’s a quick take on today’s FC. Version 2 (link below the pic) is a MW/FC intersection.
Baldo Foob
July 11th, 2007 at 1:09 pm [Reply]

If you would allow the whole post to go through a feedreader, would you would slow down some site traffic?
Mamzelle Hepzibah
July 11th, 2007 at 1:09 pm [Reply]

Here’s a description of the typical 3-year-old from the seriesoftubes:

The 3-year-old is full of wonder and spends a lot of time watching, observing, and imitating. Their days are filled with busy exploration of their world…. Three-year-olds have very little memory for past events and do not understand “yesterday” and “tomorrow” the way adults do. They often repeat activities or may do and undo actions such as putting a puzzle together.

Also, the 3-year-old:

* talks so that 75 to 80 percent of his speech is understandable
* enjoys repeating words and sounds
* listens attentively to short stories and books
* likes familiar stories told without any changes in words
* able to tell simple stories from pictures or books
* enjoys singing and can carry a simple tune
* asks who, what, where, and why questions
* matches an object to a picture of that object
* can solve problems if they are simple, concrete, real, and immediate, and if wants to
* interested in similarities and differences
* can distinguish, match, and name colors
* interested in features of animals that make them unique

Is that about right?

Congratulations, Josh (and everyone)!
Mamzelle Hepzibah
July 11th, 2007 at 1:20 pm [Reply]

…almost forgot:

• develops a taller, thinner, adult-like appearance
• enjoys making others laugh and being silly
• spends a great deal of time watching and observing
• enjoys hearing stories about self

Amen!
AhClem
July 11th, 2007 at 1:23 pm [Reply]

Happy birthday, Josh! Your blog shares a birthday with my mother, and there are a lot of other similarities. She is 82, lives in Detroit, and gave me life, while your site is 3, lives in Baltimore, gives me good snark, and… well, I’m not sure where I was going with this, but HB, anyway!
Allison
July 11th, 2007 at 1:26 pm [Reply]

Happy anniversary! Finding your blog several months ago led me to (re-)start reading comics everyday. Thanks.
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
July 11th, 2007 at 1:27 pm [Reply]

Josh, does your server log the IPs and/or locations of pings, page views, &c.? ‘Cause I’m wondering why a site that has behaved so nicely for so long under similarly high loads would suddenly become so cripplingly bogged down, without any apparent increase in post volume. So being the conspiracy theorist that I am, I gotta wonder… are you getting an inordinate amount of traffic from “over the border,” if you know what I mean? “The Great White North”? “Outer Foobonia”? “Lynnsylvania”? Is this cyberterrorism at its most foul? ‘Cause if we stop posting, the foobs win!
Gabe
July 11th, 2007 at 1:30 pm [Reply]

Three years? Feel like I’ve only been reading for one…oh wait.

Congrats! Mudges! Buy stuff! Tip the website! Josh NEEDS MONEY. For the site. And for the good.

Seriously, give the guy money.
Darkefang
July 11th, 2007 at 1:32 pm [Reply]

Congrats on three years!
ralph
July 11th, 2007 at 1:34 pm [Reply]

Josh, I’m a relatively new fan, and I thank you for working so hard every day to give everyone great laughs. Humor saves lives! cheers and many happy returns to CC,
teenchy
July 11th, 2007 at 1:38 pm [Reply]

Happy anniversary, Josh, and thanks!

Curious as to why so little snark on Non Sequitur as there are several worthy targets besides Obviousman: Offshore Flo and Eddie with their awful Down Eastuh accents, the politically heavy-handed ele, relentless little Goth girl Danae to name a few.

My biggest question re the strip: Is Wiley a recovering lawyer? Did he get royally screwed in a divorce/libel/copyright suit at some point? Is/was he married to one or have one as a family member?
gh
July 11th, 2007 at 1:44 pm [Reply]

Happy third, Josh! In your honor, I’m taking the rest of the day off.
True Fable
July 11th, 2007 at 1:48 pm [Reply]

Happy Anniversary, Josh!

Cut the cake and spike the punch, and open the anniversary gift I got you. Let’s see: 50 is golden, 25 is silver, 3 is pedestrian wine….right?
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
July 11th, 2007 at 1:52 pm [Reply]

Happy Bloggiversary! (And happy 7/11! Can we get free slurpees today, or is that just an urban legend?)
Trilobite
July 11th, 2007 at 1:55 pm [Reply]

Happy Web-birthday! May there always be new servers to crush beneath the ever-growing mass of curmudgeonry!
True Fable
July 11th, 2007 at 2:06 pm [Reply]

This is a day teeming with remarkable noteworthy feats!

For you, Squid Countess!
Calico
July 11th, 2007 at 2:10 pm [Reply]

OHMYGODWEBROKEJOSH”SSERVER

Happy Birthday/Anniversary, Blog!

Please don’t ever sell out to You Tube, Burger King, Starbuck’s, etc.
TurtleBoy
July 11th, 2007 at 2:11 pm [Reply]

Congrats, Josh! What with all of that e-fame and e-power, we know that your server’s just been overloaded with sexy e-women sending you their e-underthings.
Gabe
July 11th, 2007 at 2:14 pm [Reply]

Pant-E’s?
pat
July 11th, 2007 at 2:21 pm [Reply]

In case you missed this very disturbing news: Joke Comprehension May Decrease With Age

ST. LOUIS — It’s no laughing matter: a new study suggests older adults have a harder time getting jokes as they age. The research indicates that because older adults may have greater difficulty with cognitive flexibility, abstract reasoning and short-term memory, they also have greater difficulty with tests of humor comprehension.

Researchers at Washington University tested about 40 healthy adults over age 65 and 40 undergraduate students with exercises in which they had to complete jokes and stories. Participants also had to choose the correct punch line for verbal jokes and select the funny ending to series of cartoon panels.

Findings were published earlier this month in the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.
Canaduck
July 11th, 2007 at 2:34 pm [Reply]

Happy anniversary to one of the best blogs out there!
Poppinjay
July 11th, 2007 at 2:49 pm [Reply]

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Chat Noir
July 11th, 2007 at 2:49 pm [Reply]

CC makes me happy. And, Josh, I don’t want to cheapen your victory, but I wholeheartedly urge you to go out and proclaim “It’s mah birthday and I’m saying it loud!”
Hogen Mogen
July 11th, 2007 at 2:51 pm [Reply]

#12 – Dean – you’re sick! You’re all sick! All of you who thought FC was incestuous are sick! It’s obviously about… wait… HOLY SH!T, IT IS ABOUT INCEST. THERE CAN BE NO OTHER EXPLANATION!!
Dr. Mad
July 11th, 2007 at 2:52 pm [Reply]

Re the declining ability to get jokes with advancing age: you did notice it was from St.Louis didn’t you? They are very nice, friendly, open and helpful people here but the age at which joke comprehension begins to decline might be as low as 30 for a lg. % of the population. Witness the fact that my sudents -mostly local [it's a Local University after all] -want me to teach a course in Texan because I once said some king or other was “Crazier than a rat in a coffee can.”
Dr. Mad
July 11th, 2007 at 2:53 pm [Reply]

Happy Anniversary, Josh. Ave atque vale! Re the declining ability to get jokes with advancing age: you did notice it was from St.Louis didn’t you? They are very nice, friendly, open and helpful people here but the age at which joke comprehension begins to decline might be as low as 30 for a lg. % of the population. Witness the fact that my sudents -mostly local [it's a Local University after all] -want me to teach a course in Texan because I once said some king or other was “Crazier than a rat in a coffee can.”
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
July 11th, 2007 at 2:55 pm [Reply]

I know you don’t like first posts, Josh, but what about posts like this one that have no purpose other than to test how quickly my comment shows up?

Well, the preview showed up in no more than one second, so let’s try posting it now.
Red Greenback
July 11th, 2007 at 2:55 pm [Reply]

Three is a magic number.
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
July 11th, 2007 at 2:55 pm [Reply]

Hey, that was quick! Hope it all goes smoothly now…
andreavis
July 11th, 2007 at 2:58 pm [Reply]

#24 TF: actually, the 3rd anniversary is leather. Pair that with some pedestrian wine, and a good time can be had by all.
Hogen Mogen
July 11th, 2007 at 2:59 pm [Reply]

I haven’t been around much, but did anyone else think it was really cool last Saturday when Marmaduke mauled a small child?
gh
July 11th, 2007 at 3:13 pm [Reply]

Josh, wow! My #3 comment finally came through! Making #23 superfluous. So nice it included a typo — that’s one the system could have kept!

SSB —

I got your message on the original post. Thanks again.

#31 pat

I fail to see the humor in that.
Howard Erk
July 11th, 2007 at 3:14 pm [Reply]

Gosh, let’s really slow Josh down and start posting crap we posted on yesterthreads.

I guess this blog is now out of its terrible twos and onto the sweet threes. FBOFW and FW are going to get a pass.

HA!
Mooncity
July 11th, 2007 at 3:20 pm [Reply]

#37. I am so stealing that rat in a coffee can phrase for my comic.
Justafoob
July 11th, 2007 at 3:20 pm [Reply]

Do you get a big party when you turn three?

You know, like a big bash they throw in Canadia when you get $25K(anucks) advance for your first ~~pile of crap~~ novel.
Dennis Jimenez
July 11th, 2007 at 3:25 pm [Reply]

Crazier than a shithouse (i.e. outhouse) rat is the verncular around t’ here.
Red Greenback
July 11th, 2007 at 3:27 pm [Reply]

Yester Fester Bester Tester.*
*Don Martin, people
The Divine O’F
July 11th, 2007 at 3:32 pm [Reply]

Holy cannoli! It all seems to be working again, lickety-split. Cool!
Red Greenback
July 11th, 2007 at 3:35 pm [Reply]

Was that “postmodern”—I gotta catch some “Z” s—Laters…
The Divine O’F
July 11th, 2007 at 3:36 pm [Reply]

And now, in honor of the third anniversary and the incredible expanding bandwidth, I just made a donation to the site. You can do the same–link is on the left side in the navigation stuff.
Brown-eyed Girl
July 11th, 2007 at 3:36 pm [Reply]

4 & 11 The Divine O’F. I know how you feel; somedays there just ain’t no snark there.

And yet, Josh always manages to find gold amid the dross. That’s why he’s the Pope. Josh, congratulations on three years of laughs.

I don’t want to suggest anything as soul-sucking or bandwidth draining as a public radio membership drive, but I think we should give what we can to Josh today to show our support and to help pay for our new server.

I’m off to do that right now.
Eleusis
July 11th, 2007 at 3:40 pm [Reply]

Happy Anniversary, Josh my sweet. Here’s to three more!
Mibbitmaker
July 11th, 2007 at 3:42 pm [Reply]

#31 (pat): That sure explains Lynn Johnston and Tom Batiuk!
Red Greenback
July 11th, 2007 at 3:43 pm [Reply]

Hi Divine O’F—I’m a man of humble means, but I’m putting what I can afford in to the tip jar. Hey! Was that Lester in “Curtis” t’other day?
gh
July 11th, 2007 at 3:46 pm [Reply]

The Divine O’F –

I saw the New Yorker cartoon “cheat sheet” too. Still got nothing on this week’s though. Unless it’s a giant ice sculpture. And after all our tweaking of the bird watchers, they went with the obvious –It’s a thongbird — for one of the choices? I’m sure it was discussed to death while I was gone, but that seemed too easy. Just hit the three word minimum. Maybe that’s the point.
scan
July 11th, 2007 at 3:50 pm [Reply]

I can’t wait until Obviousman attacks Aretha Franklin singing “Respect”

“Take Care TCB?”
“TC is Take Care, Woman! That makes you doubly redundant you stupid aviophobic cow!”
MossMoses
July 11th, 2007 at 3:51 pm [Reply]

“I don’t want to suggest anything as soul-sucking or bandwidth draining as a public radio membership drive”.

You haven’t heard Diane Rehm’s spasmodic dysphonic public radio pitch yet, have you?
Brown-eyed Girl
July 11th, 2007 at 3:55 pm [Reply]

I made my contribution, and I feel all happy with myself. My birthday’s in a couple of weeks, so I donated an amount equal to my soon-to-be age. It seemed like the synergistic thing to do.
Brown-eyed Girl
July 11th, 2007 at 4:01 pm [Reply]

58. MossMoses. I haven’t heard Diane Rhem’s melodious tones in years, which is another thing I can put on my gratitude list. She always aggravated me, even before her voice problems started. My ears hurt just remembering…
Lettuce
July 11th, 2007 at 4:01 pm [Reply]

RE: Three-Years-Old.

I’d agree with most of these assessments — the only thing I’d add from my personal experience with my own three-year-old is the “public grabbing of oneself, as much as possible.” Whether that carries over to this three-year-old website I’d suspect depends on your enjoyment of Shylock Fox….
Red Greenback
July 11th, 2007 at 4:03 pm [Reply]

“Let it go, Bob”
The Divine O’F
July 11th, 2007 at 4:04 pm [Reply]

gh and others re the New Yorker contest: I personally think we should keep trying with as high standards as we can maintain. After all, we’re the funniest snarkers on the intertubes and I can’t believe that if we continue our concerted effort we won’t eventually batter down the fortress door. Or some such metaphor. Or simile. Bottom line: let’s not dumb it down, but strive for excellence.
gh
July 11th, 2007 at 4:22 pm [Reply]

#63 The Divine O’F

I agree. I wonder if we tried to overwrite the caption though . . . [Dammit! Ours were funnier!]

Rather moot this week, because I have zero. Not even a starting point.

OK, I’m really out this time.
dale
July 11th, 2007 at 4:24 pm [Reply]

This is a bit late but -

100 in Foobish Hilarity (Got Fuzzy)
Was the word “abondonee?” It’s not easy to work on the screen and several of the horizontals were longer than I wanted to try copying.

FOOB moving – If April bought her bedroom furniture (I missed this part), why can’t she keep it? If it really won’t fit into the new house or is firmly attached to the old one, pay her for it: they have money in Canada and probably strong people who own trucks.
John C Fremont
July 11th, 2007 at 4:28 pm [Reply]

I just wanted to say Happy Third, Josh! Well, that and to say that June Morgan reeeaally likes her melba toast.

(I know, Anonymous beat me to the melba toast punch on the previous thread, but I just reeeaally wanted to say it anyway. Sorry, Anonymous!)
HBGlord
July 11th, 2007 at 4:44 pm [Reply]

Happy third birthday, CC (and congratulations to proud papa Josh)! This blog is almost old enough to go on a date with Bil Keane!
The Avocado Avenger
July 11th, 2007 at 4:47 pm [Reply]

I can’t believe Josh is 3. You don’t look a day over 1 1/2, Josh, honest.

#4 O’F – I’m actually kind of liking the recent RMMD storylines. Maybe it’s a relative thing, but the gaslighting of poor, befuddled Hugh is funny. The crackhouse semi-orphan is a hoot, too.
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
July 11th, 2007 at 4:51 pm [Reply]

You should have seen him when he was 1. People would be like, “What are ya, zero?”
Kip W
July 11th, 2007 at 4:54 pm [Reply]

Happy!
pelicolina
July 11th, 2007 at 5:16 pm [Reply]

I just happily discovered this site a little over a week ago, and I can’t stop checking it out. Congrats on your third birthday, it’s mine as well, but I am a few years older. Hope you see your 39th, too.

Our horoscope:
If Today is Your Birthday

Born July 11
It’s natural for you to express your more unique qualities, and for others to receive them well, in the year ahead. New adventures are in store. Your romantic and/or social life becomes deeper and more meaningful this year. Some intense experiences this year are “designed” to get you more in touch with your deepest needs and desires.

Hoo!
I Pity The Foob
July 11th, 2007 at 5:19 pm [Reply]

April did get to keep her bedroom furniture. According to Dee’s letter of July, they rented a truck from Gord to move it. We can all feel better now. Except me, for actually reading Dee’s letter.
I Pity The Foob
July 11th, 2007 at 5:20 pm [Reply]

Oh, and Happy Birthday!!!
Skullturf Q. Beavispants
July 11th, 2007 at 5:21 pm [Reply]

“I Pity the Foob.” Best screen name ever!
Lou Shumaker
July 11th, 2007 at 5:21 pm [Reply]

All right, I’ll empty my PayPal account for the cause, soon as I find my password.

I’m mentioning this, not to go all Bono on you, but to explain why a truck stop waitress would sneer at what I’m dropping in the kitty.

One suggestion that might reduce the server overload, I notice that you run five posts on your main page. What if you cut it to four? Or three? I head to your site through my RSS feed, so it makes no diff to me.
Kronkina
July 11th, 2007 at 5:22 pm [Reply]

Geez, you’d think Gord could let them use a truck for free…how long have they been friends?!
I Pity The Foob
July 11th, 2007 at 5:24 pm [Reply]

#74 Thanks! I kinda like yours, too—I laugh everytime I see it.
SnakeMcQuinn
July 11th, 2007 at 5:43 pm [Reply]

“I pity the Foob” is an awesome screen name. I may need to reinvent myself again. Sassy_Rocks was good while it lasted but there was the gender blender issue…Does anyone on this board still remember Moss Moses, the evil bird poacher? He smoked, drank, poached and mistreated his servile wife, although not necessarily in that order. He had the brilliant scheme of trapping Lucky the Goose with a fishing net to bring home for his cooking pot He looked pretty stupid when Mark Trail came to his front door and knocked him out with one punch, though…
Lynngineering
July 11th, 2007 at 5:52 pm [Reply]

congrats Josh.
3 years and I still can’t figure out the sweet spot for commenting to allow for enough hang time before you decide to move on to the next post, or meta-post, or six-degrees-off-of-the-comment-post. But I just learned to live with it. And anyway, it does keep one on their toes. It’s like being with someone who watches tvchannel-surfs with a hidden logic that perplexes… But, I guess..I’ve grown accustomed to your pace.

Which is more than I can say about FBOFW.
Kronkina
July 11th, 2007 at 5:59 pm [Reply]

There is a MossMoses on this board, isn’t there?
DaveyK
July 11th, 2007 at 6:10 pm [Reply]

Best site on the Internet, hands down. The only must-read every single day.

Happy 3rd Josh!
Plus a constant
July 11th, 2007 at 6:20 pm [Reply]

Happy 3rd! I think I’ve been reading this site for a year now, and it still cracks me up. Do you know how unusual that is on the Internet? Nothing stays this funny for that long. I suspect steroids.
AhClem
July 11th, 2007 at 6:21 pm [Reply]

Gill Throp, Traffic Coach
Three badly-drawn cars are stopped at an intersection. Driver 1 is behind another car at the front of the line, while Driver 2 is in the lane next to him. The light turns green, and nothing happens.

Driver 1, honking: “Cmon! Move your ass up there! The light doesn’t get any greener than that!”

Driver 2: “Ease up, friend! You think the light will never turn green again if you miss this one?”

Driver 1: “It’s a Margo-super-fricking-highway, buddy! If you want slow, go to a K-Mart checkout lane!”

Driver 2’s wife: “Let it go, Bob! How about if I blow you while we’re waiting?”

Well, it could happen that way.
fizzy logic
July 11th, 2007 at 6:24 pm [Reply]

I MADE U SUM CAKE
BUT I EATED IT

Happy Birthday Joshreads – many deserved kudos (kudos is almost a TDIET word, isn’t it?) to you for your site and the many, many hours of entertainment it has provided me. Always bringing teh funny. And all the funny curmudgeons and the great community you founded.
Jamus The Bartender
July 11th, 2007 at 6:26 pm [Reply]

Happy Three Year Anniversary Josh and assorted Curmudgeonites. And may your first child be a masculine child.
Yeah, it was about a year or so ago I discovered this site….and another six months before I thought to post anything. I think it was when Mary Worth went to ‘Nam. Mary kinda went downhill after that. Then Liz started stalking Paul the Mounted. Then my landlord sent me a notice to clean my apartment. That was NOT fun. Then my internet girlfriend left . I knew her pics were fake, but I liked her anyway. And now here we are. After many a Lynngineering, coma fantasy,many a primer, many a Chennux Firing Magmacannons, Spider Brick, Divine Ms O, etc, etc, and I apologize for any i’ve forgotten, ICH BIN EIN CURMUDGEONYANS.
Plus, we all know how to perform a “screen test” on a suspect to make his face look like an Aunt Jemima waffle with Mrs. Butterworth’s raspberry syrup. And place bets on the horses. And make “shopping trips” to evidence.
Here’s to three more happy years.
Jamus
Dingo
July 11th, 2007 at 6:33 pm [Reply]

Sorry it’s taken me so long to catch up. I haven’t even read all of the posts on here but just searched on my name. I was in Tempe, AZ on a job interview.

Skullturf, not only is Bob McGrath from the Ottawa area (from a farm south of town near Grand Ridge, actually) but his mother and my grandmother belonged to the same card club and were friends.

Six degrees, man. Six degrees.
Dingo
July 11th, 2007 at 6:38 pm [Reply]

Oh, it’s been awhile since I posted an image to raise the hackles on certain people but when I saw this earlier today I loved the moment of BOOM-chicka-BOW-wah that went through my head on the final panel. Something involving the next page having yellow stars in the whites of the other men’s eyes and the sounds of a “Cah-YOOGA” horn going off.

Forest Bears (NSFW)
Jamus The Bartender
July 11th, 2007 at 6:38 pm [Reply]

86. Oh, not only that Dingo, but during the late nineties, I lived with Bob McGrath’s niece when she was a student here. Before everyone goes all “oooooo”, it was a student co-operative called Lothlorien . Big house for hippies. Nice girl, we used to party a lot.
Dean Booth
July 11th, 2007 at 6:39 pm [Reply]

Welcome back, Dingo. Good luck on the job.

Pluggers: Fido Infidelis (mildly NSFW).
The Divine O’F
July 11th, 2007 at 6:47 pm [Reply]

Dingo! How was the job interview? I don’t need to ask how was Tempe, because I know it was even hotter than here, which is HOT!

Goodnight, Curminions, and thanks, Josh, for everything.
Wellsey
July 11th, 2007 at 6:51 pm [Reply]

Say what you will for the crappy “art” in Dick Tracy, but at least they move the story along quickly. They’ve written an entire storyline and nearly brought it to completion and we’re only two days out of Paris in Judge Parker! (Though it has been lavishly drawn and inked lately.)
Red Greenback
July 11th, 2007 at 6:57 pm [Reply]

Dingo: Hail Cah-YOOGA!, Hail Cah-YOOGA!, Hail and rain for EVAH!…(Deep FST reference)
Kate
July 11th, 2007 at 7:13 pm [Reply]

I find it fitting that for this blog’s third birthday, [necropost] June Morgan ate toast sexily [/necropost]. No better day to do it than this one.
PeteMoss
July 11th, 2007 at 7:23 pm [Reply]

Congratulations, Mr. Frushingerlinger, sir, on 3 years of curmudgeonly righteousness! I got on board April 06 and I think you’re on to something. I hope it’s not a cylce of debt, buddy. This stuff that you do here on the blog is allright and all, but what are you gonna do when you grow up, huh?

Just kidding. Please don’t grow up, Joshua. Keep up the fine, twisted, work you do so well.

Oh, by the way, this is what I like to call a tomorrowthread pre-post. It was meant for the next thread but I have cut and pasted it from the future and placed it here. To prove it, here’s my snark regarding tomorrow’s Funky Winkerbean:

Damn, this is depressing. This dialog has got to be five times more unpleasant than chemo.
PeteMoss
July 11th, 2007 at 7:30 pm [Reply]

Another tomorrowthread pre-post:

Dean Booth, you’ve done it again, you mad genius, you! You’ve managed to make that depressing Funky Winkerbean strip fun and mildly pornographic. Well done, sir.
Dean Booth
July 11th, 2007 at 7:32 pm [Reply]

#95. Thanks, Pete. I, too, have vistied the future, and it turns out that everyone is happy!
Uncle Lumpy
July 11th, 2007 at 7:41 pm [Reply]

Tomorrowthread post:

(DT)GT WTF? And what’s that head attached to?

9CL Oh, for the love of God won’t you give it an f’n rest?

C(MD) Aaaack!
Mooncattie
July 11th, 2007 at 7:48 pm [Reply]

Happy 3rd birthday from North of the Border! You shine out like a shaft of gold when all around is dark!

Being told “Ease up, friend” from a complete stranger at a Gail Martin concert….oooooh, them’s fighting words! Mind you, everybody knows she always holds back “Tarzana Nights” til the second encore, unless it’s a Casino venue, in which case it’s the sixth and last number, no encores, and get back to the craps, please. And don’t even think of requesting “My Carpet is Bear” from the Mark Trail soundtrack, since they screwed her on the royalties.
Anonymous
July 11th, 2007 at 8:07 pm [Reply]

Happy Birthday – I’ve been a daily reader since ALDO apeared in Mary Worth and I googled the strip – as I read the comics this a.m. over bacon and eggs I knew that Gil and Family Circus would totally be hot topics today. Now get a better server ’cause I was left with nothing to read on-line at work today… only tonight was I vindicated as you totally spoofed the “rock concert” and the fatherly pedophile…
Ukulele Ike
July 11th, 2007 at 8:12 pm [Reply]

91: That’s IT? That’s the storyline? It’s been brought to COMPLETION? Holy cats, that’s no “Flattop,” you know. It’s not even a “Mumbles.”

No, no, there’s got to be more. God knows it will suck, but there will definitely be more of this storyline before completion. Maybe Dick will have to dress up like the Baron’s granddaughter, next.

RMMD: “One order of white toast, please….with RELISH.”
Little Guy
July 11th, 2007 at 8:13 pm [Reply]

TomorrowThread

FOOB: John/Liz, just shut the (MARGO) up and let April be!
Poteet
July 11th, 2007 at 8:18 pm [Reply]

# 92 — Red, I raise my glass to Mr. Belvedere.

A brief tomorrowthread prepost synopsis:

MT — More birds.
GA — More basketball.
FW — More cancer.
RMMD — More sweater puppies.
STEVE CANYON — More action.
DT — More weirdness.
PIBGORN — More fairy torture.
(DT)GT — More aliens.
Foob — More simmering hate from CC.
Poteet
July 11th, 2007 at 8:20 pm [Reply]

# 102 — My comment is…huhh???
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
July 11th, 2007 at 8:20 pm [Reply]

I am going out of town on a job interview for a couple days, which means I must go to bed early tonight. So instead of waiting up for the 1 a.m. changeover at the Chron, I too will get in on this Fuuuuture Snark!

A3G: You tell her, Margo!

Archie: Sooooo close to a real joke, and yet so far. But Betty’s outfit makes up for it.

Curtis: Maybe now Curtis will realize what a [Margo] Michelle is and turn to Courtney… naaah. Derrick and “Onion” will join the “Peace” Corps first.

DT: “See, it was me disguised as your grandfather all along!” Next: IT WAS HIM ALL ALONG!

FC: This isn’t cute, it’s homicide-inducing.

JP: Yes, listen to the ethnic person! They are always the best source of wisdom! Haven’t you been reading (DT)GT?

MT: Sam’s gonna be in trouble when she catches Buzzard in the act.

Marmaduke: Ha ha! Big dog!

MC: Heh. I LOL’d at this one. Then again, I’m a ~~loser~~ ~~geek~~ guy like Norm.

Phantom: “Ghost-Who-Walks Sure Knows How To Take His Sweet Damn Time” –Old Jungle Saying

TDIET: They Did It Every Time… In 1958!
Poteet
July 11th, 2007 at 8:22 pm [Reply]

# 102 — Gee, I feel a little like Chennux, with that bold and all. I think I may have found myself a new motto. The next time someone says something to me that’s a little iffy, I’ll boom it out.
Poteet
July 11th, 2007 at 8:24 pm [Reply]

# 102 — Just to be quite clear, I didn’t write YOUR COMMENT IS AWAITING MODERATION. Somehow it appeared by itself. Wow.
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
July 11th, 2007 at 8:25 pm [Reply]

And some Fuuuuuture Snark for several strips at once:

9CL, BB, DtM, H&J, RMMD, S-M: Gaaaaaay.
Josh
July 11th, 2007 at 8:27 pm [Reply]

Poteet, the bold YOUR COMMENT IS AWAITING MODERATION meant … well, it meant what it said: your comment was awaiting moderation! This is how the new spam filter works: if it’s waiting in a moderation queue for me to approve, you’ll see it (with that note), but nobody else will. I’ve just approved it, so now we can all see it (without that note). Get it?

Josh
Poteet
July 11th, 2007 at 8:29 pm [Reply]

# 102 — And now it’s gone like a hallucination. I shall tiptoe away and shut up.
de lurker
July 11th, 2007 at 8:38 pm [Reply]

Just wanted to de-lurk to wish you a happy anniversary and tell you, indeed, I do enjoy your blog. Thank you!
Dano
July 11th, 2007 at 8:41 pm [Reply]

Three years old, huh? What’s that in Internet years, like 60?

Happy Birthday Josh board!
Josh
July 11th, 2007 at 8:45 pm [Reply]

PS re: awaiting moderation: I’ve just mucked about in the guts of the system to change the text so that it is now much more explicit about what’s going on; hopefully folks won’t be confused in the future.

Josh
Ribinin
July 11th, 2007 at 8:45 pm [Reply]

#108 Josh, thanks for the clarification. This place wouldn’t be nearly as much fun with only moderate snark!
fizzy logic
July 11th, 2007 at 8:46 pm [Reply]

Josh – SING TARZANA NIGHTS!
Poteet
July 11th, 2007 at 8:49 pm [Reply]

# 108 — Thanks, Josh, and sorry for the rambling. I do think that phrase has some interesting potential uses outside this site, though…
Red Greenback
July 11th, 2007 at 9:02 pm [Reply]

Moderation awaits no man! Sorry…couldn’t resist!
Anonymous
July 11th, 2007 at 9:07 pm [Reply]

104 SSB. Good luck on the interview.

SSB and everybody else — Great future snark!
The Spectacular Spider-Brick
July 11th, 2007 at 9:07 pm [Reply]

Poteet: I think that means Josh is afraid you’ll swear.
Lou Shumaker
July 11th, 2007 at 9:11 pm [Reply]

So, who’s first with the lyrics to Tarzana Nights?
Artist formerly known as Ben
July 11th, 2007 at 9:16 pm [Reply]

So here’s the deal Brookins. You got this guy next to a pickup. I dunno, make him a mountain lion or some fuckin’ thing. He’s got one eye out ‘cuz it’s not his truck. And here’s the kicker, he’s unzipped and taking a whiz on the back tire. Caption, you’re gonna love this: PLUGGER IP ADDRESS!

Oh, sorry, I’m on the wrong site.

Hi Josh. Happy anniversary. Sorry about the server glitches.
The Avocado Avenger
July 11th, 2007 at 9:18 pm [Reply]

#72 Pity – Dude, you risked yourself for our edification, and we are grateful. Someone needs to thank you with some baked goods or, perhaps, a casserole.

It worries me that I actually felt relief when I learned April didn’t lose the furniture she paid for.

Crankshaft – Who’s the guy on the right with the 80s jacket and his pinkie in the air? I can’t wait until Crankshaft humorously insults his sexuality, because intolerance is a laugh riot. Also, I admit to being a bit squicked at Batiuk’s use of the phrase “death of the party”, considering his current Cancer Cancerbean storyline.

MT: The waitress in the back of the first panel is a chameleon! Run!
Squid Countess
July 11th, 2007 at 9:22 pm [Reply]

Welcome back, Dingo. I had a friend who studied a physical science at Local University in Tempe, and he maintained that the climate was extremely reminiscent of a place of eternal torment at all times. But that’s why they pay you enough to run the a/c! Good luck to you.

True Fable I think you should head north from greater Roopville very early Saturday morning, pick me up in Knox-Vegas and we will take I-40 East over to WilleThompson’s house and proceed to poke him with a stick until he snarks. Or gives us buffalo wings. Or something. Come back , Wille!

Gil Thorp- What is with the hating on Carole King? I Feel the Earth Move is not a great song? Will you Still Love Me Tomorrow- not good? I’ve always thought Carole King was the Carole King of rock and roll.
Dingo
July 11th, 2007 at 9:24 pm [Reply]

Tarzana Nights

Tarzana Nights
Sip mimosas by the candlelights
See my man read me his lovin’ rights
Slip off my dress

Tarzana Nights
Three policeman beat a homeless man
Eatin’ food out of my garbage can
But I digress

Tarzana!
Reseda’s to the north
The Hills are to the west
Encino’s in the east
But the mountains south are what I love the best

Tarzana Nights
Carl’s Jr open ’til midnight
Got beef in my mouth under moonlight
And it’s my man

It’s my man

It’s my ma-a-an!
Josh
July 11th, 2007 at 9:31 pm [Reply]

#122 Squid Countess — don’t forget that she also wrote “One Fine Day”, perhaps the greatest Girl Group song of them all. Surely the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame would find issue with the idea that Carole King was not the “Rock and Roll Carole King”.

Josh
Poteet
July 11th, 2007 at 9:32 pm [Reply]

# 118 — Spectacular, if that were true, I think I might be flattered at being perceived as having the potential to make trouble:-). In any case, no matter what happens from now on when I post, I am going to keep quiet. It’s bad enough being computer-challenged without being so obvious.

(DT)GT — That braid, that braid! Finally a ‘do that takes my mind off Dawn in MW.
Dingo
July 11th, 2007 at 9:32 pm [Reply]

Divine O’F and Squidessa: The interview went very well. I met various people within the department and then gave a lecture to an ACTUAL group of students (unlike in Reno where the committee pretended to be students). I had them create an image in Photoshop for the 2008 Tempe Winter Olympics. So, now I’m waiting here back in Ottawa to find out if I get a call from Niagara Falls or one from Tempe OR if I’m going to be reapplying to work at Wal*Mart by next week. I love Niagara Falls; it looks exactly like here. It’s lushly green with water everywhere. Tempe would pay $25,000 more. For that money, I can fly to green. Just someone explain why it’s so difficult to find an apartment in Phoenix with a gas stove. I love to cook and if I have the curmudgeons over for bacon-wrapped barbecued shrimp skewers I want a goddamned gas stove.

And TJ in the kitchen.
Poteet
July 11th, 2007 at 9:37 pm [Reply]

And Chennux, I miss you
And I’m bein’ good
And I’d love to be with you
If only I could…
Red Greenback
July 11th, 2007 at 9:43 pm [Reply]

What’s Carole King got to do with the price of tea in China???
Poteet—thanks for yer condolences re: Mister Belvedere.
Trotzenbonnie
July 11th, 2007 at 9:58 pm [Reply]

And Carole King (with Gerry Goffin)wrote “Pleasant Valley Sunday” for the Monkees! For that alone I would adore her.
Zamboni_Rodeo
July 11th, 2007 at 10:04 pm [Reply]

Winnie Winkle, in the previous thread:

Thank you so much for the earworm. I have now spent the last twelve hours trying (unsuccessfully) to dislodge Glen Campbell’s “Southern Nights” from my brain. I bring it up again here in the hopes of sharing it with a few other ‘Mudges, so at least I won’t have to suffer alone.

Also, Josh, happy birthday and congrats! I came for the snark, but I stayed for the tuna casserole.
HBGlord
July 11th, 2007 at 10:04 pm [Reply]

#122, 124 — Squid Countess, Josh, i’m no geologist, but i concur that Carole King is the Carole King of rock! If i wasn’t shirking from my extracurricular work right now, i’d rave about her being one of the all-time great songwriters of the rock & roll era.

Gil Thorp, stick to what you know, which is, ah, er, um — li’l help here?
Jonathan Bogart
July 11th, 2007 at 10:08 pm [Reply]

The song title “Tarzana Nights” sounds like someone’s trying to piggyback on the massive cultural importance of John Sebastian’s 1974 LP The Tarzana Kid. Which kind of sort of fits in with the strip’s clothing and hairstyle choices, if you squint. Apparently the alien life forms who inhabit the strip have only been implanted with the cultural memories of the year their pod was seeded on earth.

As for trying to pin down its lyrics, “Southern Nights” and “Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting” are excellent choices, but for the real Gil Thorp Cheeseball Experience, our model should be 80s hair-balladeers Toto:

All I wanna do when I wake up in the morning is see your eyes
Tarzana, Tarzana
I never thought that a girl like you could ever care for me, Tarzana

All I wanna do in the middle of the evening is hold you tight
Tarzana, Tarzana
I didn’t know you were looking for more than I could ever be

Not quite a year since she went away, Tarzana
Now she’s gone and I have to say

Meet you all the way, meet you all the way, Tarzana
Meet you all the way, meet you all the way, Tarzana

Sorry ’bout that, but it’s been stuck in my head all day, and I figured why should I be the only one to suffer?
Lou Shumaker
July 11th, 2007 at 10:20 pm [Reply]

Dingo comes in first with a lively little number with some lovely lines. Is that based on any particular tune?

And I like Bogart’s try. It reminds me that a good candidate for parody would be that ’70s hit “O What A Night.” “Tarzana Nights” fits perfectly, although I didn’t see a disco ball on the RNRCK’s stage. Maybe she uses lasers now.
Jamus The Bartender
July 11th, 2007 at 10:29 pm [Reply]

Dick Tracy’s Crimestopper’s Textbook
Today’s Lesson: Dick Tries To Substitute For Galactic Emperor Chennux With Predictable Results

….* stumbles onto the bridge of the spaceship* Christ what kind of ship is this….place smells like potatoes….I like potatoes…but not this much….there’s gotta be a felony here someplace….Goddammit, why do I always get roped into these things….okay, where’s that f*cking radio….I think this is it…..
……* feedback* owww…okay, how hard can this be…* clears throat* OKAY…UM….THIS IS DETECTIVE RICHARD TRACY FILLING IN FOR THE ALMIGHTY GALACTIC EMPEROR CHINNUTS….* looks at cuecard* CHENNUX….THAT’S RIGHT….AND….UM….EVERYONE HERE’S GOTTA CONGRATULATE JOSH ON THREE YEARS OF SNARKING…..* is just ad-libbing now*…OR IT’S MAGMACANNON TIME……ALSO….SUPPORT YOUR POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND BE SURE TO BUY PLENTY OF TICKETS TO THE POLICEMAN’S BALL IN AUGUST….*throws down the radio mike in disgust* Oh, fuck this…..a fellah tries to do a favor for this Emperor guy…..”It’ll be fun…everyone misses Galactic Emperor Chennux…..” …..i’ll say this though….the Emperor has one hell of a fine spaceship. I bet I could take out every crackhouse, whorehouse, drug warehouse and outhouse in Chicagoland with this much firepower. Now if I could only figure out how to use it….I got lucky with the radio, but I think you need tentacles or something to run the weapons…..dammit, it smells awful…..wait…maybe this does it…
END TRANSMISSION

…………………..
CrabbyGenes
July 11th, 2007 at 10:33 pm [Reply]

Happy Birthday, Josh!

Guess what? SecretMargo is now in Japan! And thanks to you and your blog, we have been emailing each other to set up a place and time to get together. (Probably Friday the 20th. In Tokyo.).

We’ll keep you posted, and I’ll probably send in a photo of us at some point. Thanks for your help! And thanks for the great website!!
Uncle Lumpy
July 11th, 2007 at 10:34 pm [Reply]

#130, Z. Rodeo, #132 J. Bogart –

Re: earworms –

At chorus practice the other night, one of the sopranos (not those Sopranos) told me the earworm antidote — it’s the Old Spice jingle. Apparently it works because it doesn’t repeat fast enough to get stuck.

Click to listen if you don’t know it – yo ho!
Gadge Cubic, Mole Preener
July 11th, 2007 at 10:40 pm [Reply]

Congrats and happy burpday. As to Cody (way…way up there in the comments): I haven’t read to see whether anyone else ripped him a new one but – oh hell, I’ll assume you did and take it as read that he deserved it. How lame is it bitching about free entertainment? Start yr own blog…

Back to the shadows again…
Red Greenback
July 11th, 2007 at 10:46 pm [Reply]

“Monrovia Afternoon!” Hoo!!! Show us your TITS!..Hoo!!!
Obélix
July 11th, 2007 at 10:56 pm [Reply]

Happy Third, Josh! That’s 21 dog years, so Marmaduke, Edgar, the late Farley, Rover (of Red and), Daisy, and the rest of the Canine Curmudgeons would like to buy you your first legal drink. How does scotch and toilet water sound?
Citric
July 11th, 2007 at 10:59 pm [Reply]

Al Scaduto liked my TDIET idea, HOOOO! My life is partially complete (it’ll be completely complete when I see it)
Poteet
July 11th, 2007 at 11:08 pm [Reply]

# 131 — HBGlord, re your earlier Dave Mason observation, you made a good point re Gordon Lightfoot. My Mason-lyrics comment taught me a lesson, actually. Never should I look up and post the lyrics of certain 70s songs that I’m secretly fond of and warble in the shower, because if I examine the lyrics in the cold hard snarky light of CC, they will never work in the shower for me again:-).

# 134 — BWAHAHA! Dick, I mean Chennux, your efforts on our behalf are appreciated.

# 139 — Congratulations, Citric!
Doug Puthoff
July 11th, 2007 at 11:09 pm [Reply]

7-11: SF–Nyahh, they shouldn’t make an album. People will just illegally download. What they should do is produce a charity concert. Those are hot things right now. They can call it TED AID! They can show it on VH1 and NBC. They can ask for donations. The proceeds would go for getting Ted’s dad some male hormone treatments.
Poteet
July 11th, 2007 at 11:10 pm [Reply]

Sorry, that should have been # 140 for Citric. My bad.
butcherknifetotin'annie
July 11th, 2007 at 11:11 pm [Reply]

Happy third birthday, Comics Curmudgeon; don’t ever grow up.
Mibbitmaker
July 11th, 2007 at 11:13 pm [Reply]

Turdsday:

FOOB: Wow, funniest thing I’ve seen in FOOB for years, and in the 1st panel: “Good thing that tree fell on this place — your attic was full if squirrels!”

Edited out: “… one of ‘em was humpin’ the tree, too!” Ellie: “I know. He was from Mark Trail.” Actually, the punchline of the strip was funny, too. Between yesterday and today, could it be?… FOOB no longer awful??? ——–NAH!
Jym
July 11th, 2007 at 11:15 pm [Reply]

=v= (Josh): Synchronicity: I was dealt the “Happy Birthday Mister President” Aldomania T-shirt model when reading this entry. Woooo! 7/11 is a mighty powerful birthday number!
Doug Puthoff
July 11th, 2007 at 11:15 pm [Reply]

131 HB Glord. I think Gil is sticking to what it knows–goofiness. Consider how goofy this past year’s plotlines have been, this summer’s plots should be a surreal as Jay Ward cartoons–thought not as funny.

7-12: SF–Is it me, or does Hilary’s goth friend look disturbingly like Jimmy Darrock from “The Flintsones.”
Lynngineering
July 11th, 2007 at 11:15 pm [Reply]

I guess I was asking for it: Thinking about the three year span, I just went to look at the early CC posts (the archive of yesterthreads, is it: “yesterthreadi”?), and read some of the comments. Nice exchanges. Then slowly it dawns on me that a list of six or seven comments may have dates that are YEARS apart, the evidence of all that space-time mucking about that was initiated during the lead-up to the 1000 posting celebration. I think that’s a fitting statement to three years and the way initiatives start up here, community-wise…
Red Greenback
July 11th, 2007 at 11:16 pm [Reply]

Sorry. I just can’t let it go, Bob…”Barracuda!!!!”
Uncle Lumpy
July 11th, 2007 at 11:17 pm [Reply]

#145 Mibbitmaker –

Decades ago, I was visiting a friend in Cambridge MA who explained the rustling above his apartment as “squirrels.”

Squirrels — the landlord’s best friend.
Jym
July 11th, 2007 at 11:18 pm [Reply]

=134= DT (DT): Hey, Dick Tracy is stealin’ my material! Lousy cops, think they own the jernt.
Buck Ripsnort
July 11th, 2007 at 11:21 pm [Reply]

And over at http://www.francescoexplainsitall.blogspot.com , the Sally Forth scribe is polling the natives for the name of Hil’s new band. “Teenage Girl President” isn’t on the list, darn it. But I STRONGLY vote for Ted Forth to become their manager, like that creeepy guy on “The Partridge Family”. So go over there, demand it, and screw up somebody else’s bandwidth for a change.
Poteet
July 11th, 2007 at 11:23 pm [Reply]

I’m going to prove to myself that I do not actually have a biological need to see what Lynn is inflicting on us the night before the official infliction. Same for the other comics. Good night all. May flights of angels sing thee to thy snarks.
HBGlord
July 11th, 2007 at 11:24 pm [Reply]

#137 — Gadge, agreed. I tend to prefer my birthday cake with not quite so much piss on it.

#141 — Poteet, are you yesterthreading me? Actually you have my permission to foreverthread me, dear friend! And i hadn’t given thought to the Singing Mr. Mason until you earwormed his Lightfootian voice into my noggin! Old Spice jingle, do your stuff!

#147 — Yes, (DT)GT poured the flummox all over me once again! Yes, “goofy” fits the bill. Thanks for the assist, Doug.
Mibbitmaker
July 11th, 2007 at 11:31 pm [Reply]

7/12:

FW: The “Die” is cast.

A3G: That Ruby really brings out the breast (*ahem!* Sorry… Margo… 1st panel…..heh…) BEST in this strip. Maggie’s wisecracks are even better, too. “Jeez, I’d rather have Albert freakin’ Pinkham friggin’ Ryder harassing me than Minnie Pearl over there!”

MT: God, that kind of circular logic may just work on her! And him!: “By the way… y’wanna look at my private stuff over hea’, do ya?”

MW: Third panel: train going through a tunnel.
HajiTura Satana
July 11th, 2007 at 11:49 pm [Reply]

Attention: Red Greenback
I hate to laugh alone….
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/comics/king.htm?name=Zippy_the_Pinhead
Trotzenbonnie
July 11th, 2007 at 11:55 pm [Reply]

I was wondering what Ray Nagin has been doing lately….
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/comics/king.htm?name=Curtis
Red Greenback
July 11th, 2007 at 11:59 pm [Reply]

Happy three Joshua! I love this kid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldVc2tHCdLQ&mode=related&search=
I Pity The Foob
July 12th, 2007 at 12:05 am [Reply]

#121 Avenger: Glad to take one for the team.

By the way, I like your blog, being a dudette and all.
Dingo
July 12th, 2007 at 12:07 am [Reply]

“Your attic is full of squirrels.” If ever there were a phrase that adequately summed up Lynn Johnston, this would be it.
Moon Mullins
July 12th, 2007 at 12:12 am [Reply]

Will the new moderation filter allow me to say Happy Fucking Goddam Third Birthday?
Dingo
July 12th, 2007 at 12:15 am [Reply]

Thursday, July 12, chest hair alert: Dr. Drew Cory sits beside a window allowing the sweet breezes of Santa Royale to run through his chest hair like a set of well-manicured nails. Meanwhile, flat-chested doyen Vera “Pantyless” Shields is so flustered at Drew’s phone call, she holds a banana-colored Impulse 5 Hypersonic Wand to her cheek.
Red Greenback
July 12th, 2007 at 12:16 am [Reply]

This kid, too!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-B4sjUve3E&mode=related&search=
bats :[
July 12th, 2007 at 12:23 am [Reply]

FC: That smooth Billy…quite the idiot savant on the trumpet…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9545446@N07/?saved=1
Red Greenback
July 12th, 2007 at 12:23 am [Reply]

Check out Zack’s “Super Mario Brothers” Too.
Moon Mullins
July 12th, 2007 at 12:23 am [Reply]

Thurs Gil Thorp
Burt Lancaster displays his Stretch Armstrong skills, reaching nearly eight feet across a diner booth to pound Mel Gibson as The Man Without a Face. How long before Pearl Earrings and his girlfriend (soon to be known as Pearl Necklace) intervene?
Trotzenbonnie
July 12th, 2007 at 12:24 am [Reply]

FBOFW – Don’t worry, Elly. The mothball smell will be overpowered by the stench of decaying poisoned squirrel carcasses before long.
iburl
July 12th, 2007 at 12:37 am [Reply]

Dennis the Menace has, through some black art, defiled the family garden. Angry and fearful of his demon-spawn, and pushed again to the very brink of insanity, Mr. Mitchell screams and shakes with rage. enjoy.

Dennis the Menace
)via Boing Boing(

http://www.fantagraphics.com/blog/uploaded_images/Picture-2-792821.png
Skulking on the Outskirts
July 12th, 2007 at 12:50 am [Reply]

(Ahem) It’s long been my custom to call up my nearest and dearest on the phone upon the respective anniversaries of their natal days and ~~inflict upon them~~ serenade them with my personal rendition of the traditional song of my native land used to commemorate such august occaisions. And so–

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUU…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUU…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEEAAARR COMICS CURMUDGEON,
HAAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTHDAAAY TOOO YOUUUU!
Hey, just be glad you didn’t have to listen to it!
Happy b’day! (blows kiss)
Skulking on the Outskirts
July 12th, 2007 at 12:53 am [Reply]

AUUUGH! I misspelled ‘occasions’–bad spelling geek, bad spelling geek….(smacks fingers)
Dorianne
July 12th, 2007 at 1:00 am [Reply]

Ooh! Happy Birthday, Comics Curmudgeon!!!

Congratultions on THREE YEARS of snark! WOW!

And congratulations on fostering such a wonderful community of snarkers!

I don’t often get time to post or catch up on all the comments, but I read Josh’s posts regularly.

I don’t know what would I do without the Comics Curmudgeon. I never knew there were others, like me….

*sniff*
Gadge Cubic, Mole Preener
July 12th, 2007 at 1:02 am [Reply]

Today’s “Luann” sports TJ further proving his cheeseball cred by using the phrase “e-dress.”

You know, I’m having a hard time thinking of a context in which “e-mail” isn’t perfectly clear in meaning “e-mail address.” (”My e-mail is gadgecubic@notreally.com,” say…)

Do people who can legally drive, or possibly vote, but not drink, actually say “e-dress”? God I hope not.
dbp
July 12th, 2007 at 1:14 am [Reply]

Your comments on the first Non Sequitur fit well with the theme of this past week’s “Jump Start”, in which the cop’s mom (I’ve forgotten everyone’s name) shows just how annoying verbal corrections can be.

I’ll admit to also cringing inwardly when I hear ATM Machine or PIN number. Then again, where I live, people call ATMs “Tyme Machines”, which is another issue all together.
Spotted HØrse
July 12th, 2007 at 2:07 am [Reply]

Josh and Mudges:
Happy Annuh-versrah Baybay! Gotcha on mah mahhand!

Now I’ll spend hours of remorseful self-recrimination for foisting that awful tune on those who may remember it. Everybody: Old Spice Theme!
CrabbyGenes
July 12th, 2007 at 4:29 am [Reply]

Josh, I just noticed that the date and time under my name in my previous post (#135) is in royal blue rather than light blue. And I think it’s the only royal blue date and time in the entire thread!

What does this mean? That I’m in a different time zone? A different country? A different hemisphere?

Just idle curiosity.
CrabbyGenes
July 12th, 2007 at 4:30 am [Reply]

Wow, the comment I just posted, also!
Gadge Cubic, Mole Preener
July 12th, 2007 at 8:53 am [Reply]

CrabbyGenes: two guesses -

1) It means YOU’VE JUST WON ONE MILLION DOLLAH!

2) It’s a followed link (i.e., to your own website, by you).
leathermessiah
July 12th, 2007 at 9:41 pm [Reply]

My god, have I really been reading this site almost since its inception? I checked back in the archives and realized I started reading it in the beginning of August 2004. Crazy. Happy anniversary, JRTCSYDHT/CC. Thanks for the continued hilarity!

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