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32 responses to “Metapost: MERCH GUIDE!”

1. Dingo
   October 10th, 2007 at 2:48 pm [Reply]

   Sweet Jesus. We needed a guide? We have we become?

2. gh
   October 10th, 2007 at 2:51 pm [Reply]

   Just too cool, Josh! I’ve always wanted to see the original references to some of the earlier gems. Now all in one place!

3. Uncle Lumpy
   October 10th, 2007 at 2:55 pm [Reply]

   #1 Dingo –

   It’s not for us; it’s for future generations.

   Won’t somebody think of the children?

4. bats :[
   October 10th, 2007 at 3:03 pm [Reply]

   Yes, I think we needed a guide; I’ve only been hanging around here since the end of June or so, and I’ve been hesitant to buy some of this swell swag because I’ve never been quite sure what the source is. My fears have been allayed.

   (Meanwhile, do you think anybody really submits a caption to the NYCC and then spends $49.95 to have his/her caption incorporated into a print of the cartoon? How much of an egotist do you have to be?)
   http://www.thenewyorkerstore.com/personalized_captions.asp?BAC-TNYS06_CAPBAN2&link_id=captionit

5. Dennis Jimenez
   October 10th, 2007 at 3:04 pm [Reply]

   Children, children of the corn, children of the crap, children of the lesser crap.

6. AhClem
   October 10th, 2007 at 3:08 pm [Reply]

   Thank you, Josh. I stumbled onto (over?) this place towards the tail end of last summer’s Aldomania, so I wasn’t familiar with some of the earlier references.

7. SecretMargo
   October 10th, 2007 at 3:09 pm [Reply]

   This is cool.

   Perhaps those logos not designed by Josh should have that noted? (Gail Martin = Dingo, etc.) That would be my only suggestion.

   Besides a Mariolator shirt. Time to learn photoshop?

8. srah
   October 10th, 2007 at 3:13 pm [Reply]

   Awesome. That will save future ‘mudges all of the painstaking searching that I had to do (or… god forbid… asking in the comments and getting outed as a n00b!)

9. Krazy Kat
   October 10th, 2007 at 3:16 pm [Reply]

   Of all the glory, “Roadside” remains a classic. Simple, yet it encapsulates all Canadian foobery in one jive word.

10. Gabe
    October 10th, 2007 at 3:22 pm [Reply]

    I just laughed my ass off at the ridiculous description. I can’t imagine stumbling on that page without thinking “Whadda bunch of loons.”

11. HBGlord
    October 10th, 2007 at 3:23 pm [Reply]

    Josh, this is an essential resource — thanks! Now excuse me for momentarily being all 20th century and whatnot, but will we ever see The Comics Curmudgeon: The Book?

12. SecretMargo
    October 10th, 2007 at 3:27 pm [Reply]

    7: Moi
    

    Time to learn photoshop?

    That was directed at myself, not Josh or any of the other photoshop whizzes who’ve created designs instead of just whining about about wanting them, as I have. Sorry for the inadvertent snottiness.

13. Cris
    October 10th, 2007 at 3:37 pm [Reply]

    Thank you! I know I’m often reluctant to explain my jokes, so it’s really nice that you could do it for your own. And knowing the background makes them funny.

14. Sans Sense
    October 10th, 2007 at 3:40 pm [Reply]

    Dear NYCC,

    Is it too late to cancel my $49.95 for my personalized cartoon?

15. MS
    October 10th, 2007 at 3:41 pm [Reply]

    Thanks from those of us who haven’t been here long enough to know the origins (but have been here long enough to care waaaaay too much..)

16. Lambo
    October 10th, 2007 at 3:42 pm [Reply]

    On behalf of future readers, thank you! I found my way here this summer, and it took me a week to get through all of the archive to get the merch jokes. It was especially surreal, since I went thru them backwards, from most recent to first post.

17. Muffaroo [good ol\' Kip W]
    October 10th, 2007 at 3:45 pm [Reply]

    Wow, cheap enlightenment! I reach! Thanks ever so.

18. Bootsy
    October 10th, 2007 at 3:48 pm [Reply]

    I loved the quizzical looks I got at Jazz Fest this year in my pink Mark Trail licorice t shirt!

19. The Spectacular Spider-Brick
    October 10th, 2007 at 3:49 pm [Reply]

    Now I know. And knowing is half the battle. The other half, of course, is violence.

20. Josh
    October 10th, 2007 at 3:50 pm [Reply]

    #7 SecretMargo — You’re quite right; I’ve gone back and added credit where due. It’s all from memory, though I’m close to positive I’m right about my attributions (please, let me know if I’m not, though).

    Anyhting that isn’t credited to a faithful reader was cobbled together by me from royalty-free clip art and doofy fonts.

    Josh

21. Dingo
    October 10th, 2007 at 3:51 pm [Reply]

    SecretMargo, the Gail Martin shirt is actually done in Illustrator.

22. Muffaroo [good ol' Kip W]
    October 10th, 2007 at 3:52 pm [Reply]

    Ol’ Muffaroo checks his post carefully and previews before sending. (”There we go! Every word is perfect! Especially my name!!”)

    Ah, but just before he hits SEND, some mad backslasher sneaks in and puts a reverse slasheroonie in ol’ Muff’s oh-so-precious nom de snarque. (”Margo Saturn Fucking Boxcar… it did it again!”)

    thanks and a tip of the Hatlo hat to Kip\\\\\ W

23. jules
    October 10th, 2007 at 6:32 pm [Reply]

    Thank you so much for this guide…”More information about licorice” was before my time here at the Comics Curmudgeon, but I had developed a theory that the line came from Slylock Fox. Who else would say something so demented? Why, Mark Trail, that’s who! Fortunately, I have been set straight, and Mark won’t have to break out the Right Fist o’ Justice on my sorry behind.

24. Maughta
    October 10th, 2007 at 6:44 pm [Reply]

    Now I feel old. Pass me my Metamucil! Where’s my Gretchen? *whimper*

25. Calico
    October 10th, 2007 at 6:54 pm [Reply]

    #305 yesterthread –
    Oh Sh*t, now I’m gonna have Mark Trail, Lynn Johnston, Stephen Harper, the ghost of Pierre Elliot Trudeau, the New England and Quebec Maple Syrup Boards, AND the NY Parks Dept. after my ass.

    Back to the Linnaeus chronicles for me! : )

26. Seaweed
    October 10th, 2007 at 7:01 pm [Reply]

    I never post, but I’ve been around this site long enough to remember the origins of Every. One. of These.

    Wow. I can’t commit to a box of cereal I bought last week, but I keep coming back to the Curmudgeon…..thanks, Josh!

27. Groovymarlin
    October 10th, 2007 at 7:32 pm [Reply]

    Is it just me? I don’t see any video. It says “We’re sorry, no videos were found.” :-(

28. Loppie Scaduto
    October 10th, 2007 at 8:18 pm [Reply]

    26 Seaweed sez: I never post, but I’ve been around this site long enough to remember the origins of Every. One. of These.

    [sheepishly tips his Hatlo Hat] You’n'me both.

    Humbling, ain’t it?

29. Sherm
    October 10th, 2007 at 11:48 pm [Reply]

    Ah, Aldomania. For me, the 60s ended that day in 2006.

30. mir777
    October 11th, 2007 at 8:38 am [Reply]

    Aw, thanks! Pathetic newbies like myself do need the background!

31. MDtoMN
    October 13th, 2007 at 10:42 pm [Reply]

    Thanks! As a lurker for the last 6 months, a lot of this hadn’t made sense. I would like to lodge one complaint – it seems impossible to get a “Roadside” shirt for men. I need one for the local bars, and I don’t have the bod to pull of the tank. Help a Baltimore brother out.

32. Hank Ketchum's Ghost
    October 15th, 2007 at 12:09 am [Reply]

    Now if somebody could only explain to me why he’s often called “Granthony”. . .

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