Metapost: Super-grateful comments of the week
Guys, just a very quick thank you to everyone who contributed to my Kickstarter. I managed to blow through my goal and am really overwhelmed by everyone’s support. Now I guess I have a novel to write! Stay tuned!
But you don’t have to wait any longer for this week’s comment of the week!
“J. Jonah Jameson’s look of unrestrained glee is quite possibly the best thing ever. You can almost hear him shouting insanity in the background. ‘Yes, YES! Restrain this son of a bitch! Rough him up! Rip his goddamn arms off a little more! MAKE MORE RANDOM REFERENCES TO PLAYS, OH MY GOD YES’” –Tophat
Or for the runners up! Very funny
“So Weirdly didn’t invent a time machine. Instead, all he did was invent a fucking flying car.” –Scott P.
“But no, Weirdly in his awesome sneakers, steam-punk goggles, stylin’ stash and top-hat has to put up with douchemaster Slylock Fox, whose rudimentary knowledge of basic animal functions allow him to (probably literally) ferret out the idiotic petty criminals in his world who don’t know enough about their own anatomy and basic functionality to even conjure a semi-plausible alibi.” –geekwhisperer
“‘What happened to all that conflict?’ ‘Who knows? It melted away.’ Oh, man. That is just … that is a satisfying plot resolution. Josh, I hope you’re taking good notes.” –teddytoad
“Carolingian-era restauranteurs have a lot to learn about maximizing profit-per-square-foot.” –DaveyK
“Now that the Batman trilogy is concluded I believe it is time for Mark Trail to introduce us to Sheepman Begins.” –Shadow of the Hedgehog
“I know that newspaper deadlines make it difficult to make timely, relevant jokes about current events, but I still feel that Brad Anderson could have predicted when Election Day would occur.” –AndyL
“Who’d bug us at 8 AM? Don’t they know only people with jobs are up at this hour?” –Doctor Handsome
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Bill Peschel
July 27th, 2012 at 6:14 pm
You’re welcome, Josh. All you have to do is write a great, funny novel. No pressure!
Deena in OR
July 27th, 2012 at 6:18 pm
No, no pressure at all! Seriously, though. It’s an honor. Can’t wait to read it.
Jim North
July 27th, 2012 at 6:23 pm
PRESSURE PRESSURE PRESSURE PRESSURE PRESSURE PRESSURE
Oh, congrats on tha Kickstarter to Josh, and congrats to Tophat and all the floaters on their comments making the cut!
PS, PRESSURE PRESSURE PRESSURE PRESSURE PRESSURE PRESSURE
Ed Dravecky
July 27th, 2012 at 6:24 pm
All we ask in a novel is the crisp economical prose of James Joyce, the emotional resonance of Tom Clancy, the deep characterization of Pluggers, the techno-thriller excitement of Mitch Albom, and the complex plots of Love Is…
Dr. Weird
July 27th, 2012 at 6:40 pm
It should be a safe, comfortable read, covering classic themes, but also daring and experimental, challenging the reader as never before.
And it needs to be cooler. At least 20% cooler!
bourbon babe, unbuckled
July 27th, 2012 at 6:57 pm
@Ed Dravecky (#4): Don’t forget: “the edge-of-your-seat suspense of Avery and Mr. Brown”—or should that be “the stomach-dropping eroticism of Avery and Mr. Brown”?
And congrats, float-folk! Throw Sudafed!
Rana the Pedantic Wet Blanket
July 27th, 2012 at 6:58 pm
Congrats to the floaters!
Frank Lee Meidere
July 27th, 2012 at 7:06 pm
@Mr. O’Malley (#405): Ah. About 15 years past my time. Hope it was a nice ceremony. (Mine would have been better.)
Frank Lee Meidere
July 27th, 2012 at 7:16 pm
@Dale (#333): (1) Presumably he wears some kind of identifying feature making it possible for people to know that he’s a veteran, thereby giving him the chance to get pissed off at people recognising him as a vet.
(2) I’ll leave that one alone under Article 3, subsection II, paragraph iv of the Comics Curmudgeon Communications Act.
As for the story arc itself, however, it just frustrates me. “Support our troops” has become a commandment these days — one which I’m somewhat happy to see after watching the despicable way the Vietnam vets were treated back in the day (and they didn’t even have a choice in the matter). On the other hand, I’ve known quite a few people who have served in the military, both in the USA and in Canada, and while many are people I greatly admire, a lot of them joined simply because they liked guns, and although I can appreciate their sacrifice (or potential sacrifice), they still seem like little more than brutes.
This is the quandary Yeats faced when writing his poem “Easter 1916,” about the Irish uprising. As much as he admired the cause and the fighters, he knew some to be wonderful men, but others:
This other man I had dreamed
A drunken, vainglorious lout.
He had done most bitter wrong
To some who are near my heart,
But despite knowing this about the man, Yeats still enters him into the roll call of the honoured:
Yet I number him in the song;
He, too, has resigned his part
In the casual comedy;
He, too, has been changed in his turn,
Transformed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
It’s especially odd today because on the one hand we have Gil Thorp telling us that constantly thanking veterans is a pain in the ass (which I can quite easily see being true), but on the other hand we have Aunt Fritzi in Nancy wearing a very compelling t-shirt telling us to “Thank a veteran.”
It reminds me of two public service ad campaigns that ran in the Toronto subway in the mid-seventies. One year they had images of people in wheel chairs looking doleful with text telling us, “Please don’t look away.” The very next year the campaign showed people in wheel chairs looking doleful with text telling us, “Look at us.” I wanted to ask, “What happened? Did the first campaign work too well?”
And before I get any flack for insensitivity, bear in mind that my youngest son has severe cerebral palsy, can only walk (or rather “lurch”) short distances, and spends his life in a wheel chair. The advent of the computer and internet has been a godsend for him, as he gets to socialise online, using his feet to type. (Warning about the video: he has atrocious taste in loud music.)
I suppose what I’m saying is that each person is going to treat veterans according to his nature: some will show respect, others condemn them, and others basically ignore them. All the public service announcements in the world aren’t going to make someone who reviles veterans for fighting an “unjust war” suddenly turn around and treat them with respect. What these PSAs do, however, in telling us how we should treat them is to make our interactions suddenly unnatural. Those who want to show respect begin to feel like they’re taking part in a scripted response, and those who dislike anything to do with the military are going to feel even more resentment.
Geeze, I’m just getting myself in trouble today. I’ve dumped on Doonesbury, criticised PSAs about veterans, and early this morning posted a piece on why gun laws are pointless.
Honest — I’m not a right-wing bastard! Really!
I’m just a bastard.
Frank Lee Meidere
July 27th, 2012 at 7:30 pm
@Dr. Weird (#5): Has anyone yet mentioned the need for more clanking percussion as well? Like a bell of some kind? Maybe one from a farm animal? A cow perhaps?
bats :[
July 27th, 2012 at 7:33 pm
Re: Josh’s novel…and sex that would make Dingo blush!
(I had to mention this — Dingo’s CC t-shirt randomly popped up, and Mr. Brown appears to be moonlighting with him — does Avery know?!)
Uncle Lumpy
July 27th, 2012 at 7:39 pm
@bats :[ (#11):
PRESSURE PRESSURE PRESSURE PRESSURE
Poteet
July 27th, 2012 at 8:02 pm
Congratulations to Tophat and the other floaters! Yay!
Nehemiah Scudder
July 27th, 2012 at 8:29 pm
@Frank Lee Meidere (#9): “…had images of people in wheel chairs looking doleful with text telling us, “Please don’t look away.” The very next year the campaign showed people in wheel chairs looking doleful with text telling us, “Look at us.”
Typo? “Don’t look away” and “look at us” seem to be the same message.
// Maybe the idea of campaign A, whatever the actual slogan, was “don’t avert your eyes because we’re freaks” and campaign B was “don’t stare at us rudely because we are freaks”. Or something like that. PSAs are confusing at the best. To paraphrase Dr. Johnson, no-one but a blockhead ever wrote advertising except for money.
Nehemiah Scudder
July 27th, 2012 at 8:34 pm
@[Old Man] Muffaroo (#Y342): Sorry, those tiles will have to go. Pity. I’ll bet the “z” in bonzer was on a triple letter score, too, wasn’t it? And you had an s or blank to make the seven, and the whole thing had to hit some kind of double word score.
// That has to hurt.
odinthor
July 27th, 2012 at 8:39 pm
@Nehemiah Scudder (#14):
Didn’t Dr. Johnson also say that anyone who would read Mary Worth for the plot would hang himself?
Frank Lee Meidere
July 27th, 2012 at 8:42 pm
@Nehemiah Scudder (#14): D’oh. Yes. The one was essentially, “Don’t look at us,” and the other was, “Don’t look away.” The meaning was obviously as you said — however, when put into PSA sound bites, the result was less helpful than satirical. And as with any such campaign, it really only spoke to those already sensitive to the issue while annoying those not so sensitive to the issue.
Nehemiah Scudder
July 27th, 2012 at 8:48 pm
@odinthor (#16): If that isn’t on my favorite Mary Worth quotation site, Brainyquotes, it soon will be.
Nehemiah Scudder
July 27th, 2012 at 9:04 pm
@Frank Lee Meidere (#17): Well, not to belabor the point (too late?), but the slogans could have been as you said, kind of a progressive campaign.
Year one: don’t avert your oculars in disgust.
Year two, you can go beyond not actually averting, you can look at us. We’re just people.
Year three, go ahead and talk to us, we’re kinda bored anyway.
Year four, Friday? No, sorry, I’m busy. Is Saturday good for you?
// Maybe I should go into the PSA business. Profit!
Whom
July 27th, 2012 at 9:11 pm
@odinthor (#Y349):
Quite right. But feel free to objectify me to your heart’s content.
tallyHO
July 27th, 2012 at 9:20 pm
@ odinthor
Wah!?!
Yesterday’s thread?
That is sooooo yesterday.
(I’ll keep the hint in mind though.)
@Whom (#20):
danke shoen to you, too.
And a hearty congratulations to the COTW and all of the wunnerful Floatila of Floaters. Long may ye float! Which is the same sentiment I have for Wilbur. Dawn doesn’t know how lucky she is to have that goo(d) father.
Frank Lee Meidere
July 27th, 2012 at 9:32 pm
@Nehemiah Scudder (#19): Now see? This could actually work. It turns the entire procedure from a committee-approved “message” to a human interaction. Unfortunately, real human interactions are forbidden in PSAs. Well, actually, they’re not allowed in any kind of official communications.
Which reminds me — we’ve been doing archiving for a local museum, and some of the documents that passed through my hands recently were communications between government officials (MPPs mostly) concerning a new law granting pardons. (And by “new” I mean 1972 or thereabouts.) Many of these were from one MPP to another, others from an MPP to a parishioner (not “parishioner,” but the other thing — the one referring to the people who vote for people), and there were even a few from Trudeau himself.
Now mostly I was concentrating on photographing these things, recording the number, and then placing them in protective envelopes, but as the hours went by I began to realise something: I could understand what they were saying. Some of these documents were even official, multi-page reports discussing legal ramifications, and yet I knew what they were talking about.
Not only did I know what they were talking about, but they sounded like they’d been written by honest to god humans.
I’ve been suspecting for a while now that although we’ve always complained about the incomprehensibility of government writing, it’s become significantly worse over the past couple of decades. These documents essentially proved this.
Constituents! That’s the word. Not “parishioners” — constituents.
Geeze.
Artist formerly known as Ben
July 27th, 2012 at 9:54 pm
Congratulations to Tophat and the others on the float. At times like this I’m reminded of just what a smart crowd I’m hanging with here.
bourbon babe, unbuckled
July 27th, 2012 at 9:55 pm
@Deena in OR (#2): Oh, and hi, Deena in OR! Long time, no see—on CC, at least!
Ed Dravecky
July 27th, 2012 at 9:57 pm
queek: It’s corgis (and a few other folks) for the Olympics opening ceremonies.
everybody else: It’s James Bond and Queen Elizabeth (and corgis) for the Olympics opening ceremonies. (Yes, the actual Queen.)
Rocky Stoneaxe
July 27th, 2012 at 9:57 pm
I just discovered a new strip called Lio en Español. It’s like Lio — only funnier:
http://www.gocomics.com/espanol/lioespanol/2012/07/27
Congrats to this week’s winners!
Bullwinkle
July 27th, 2012 at 10:09 pm
@Rocky Stoneaxe (#26):
Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a booger out my nose!
Nothing up my sleeve. (Rips off sleeve then crams finger up nose)
[Crankshaft comes out the nose]
No doubt about it. I got to get me a new nose.
Rocky Stoneaxe
July 27th, 2012 at 10:10 pm
@Ed Dravecky (#25): When you mentioned James Bond and Corgis, I had a totally different image in my mind:
http://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2012/01/corgi-catalogue-artwork.html
Rocky Stoneaxe
July 27th, 2012 at 10:20 pm
@Bullwinkle (#27): Hokey smoke!
Poteet
July 27th, 2012 at 10:38 pm
@Jim North (#3): I have faith that Josh will be able to handle the pressure. After all, we’re talking about someone who has the fortitude to read GT, LOVE IS, and MARMADUKE every single day. A lesser brain would explode.
sporknpork
July 27th, 2012 at 11:15 pm
Great stuffs! Congrats to all!
And I’m really looking forward to that novel, Josh! Yays!
commodorejohn
July 27th, 2012 at 11:35 pm
@Frank Lee Meidere (#9): Hey, speaking of guns, y’ever going to post that third installment in the “Smoking Guns” series?
tallyHO
July 27th, 2012 at 11:55 pm
ok. I’m behind on reading the comics. I’ve only read the past two day’s worth on this site, with a couple of exceptions. (Broome-Hilda wore me out)
So, in Snuffy Smif:
Li’l Jughaid’s got some smarts about him. He’s turnin’ to run from that alien looking plant. Though, Loweezy does have the ho. That’ll do in a pinch.
(A bonus would be if one of the plants was shaped like Snuffy himself and if it was licking its alien chops in sublime, spacey satisfaction)
Funky Whateverdude:
So, only the dude at the end of the line did not grow a beard. Even Les’ daughter grew one? C’est la vie.
Pluggers:
someone commented underneath it with some snark, saying that instead of Bob Dole, they probably meant Thomas Dewey.
Let’s be honest here, it is a dog wearing a dress , filing its claws (not nails, claws). How old the dog is: irrelevant.
Slylock:
I’d never make fun of the way a kid draws. Fortunately, his “Max Mouse” looks like one bad rodent. Just what is he up to? Is he pretending to be from “A Clockwork Orange”?
Spider-Man:
Where forth art thou, lame superhero? Oh yeah. He’s on the roof, across the street from the theatre where Clown-9 is not.
Leave it to Webhead to make Clown-9 seem brilliant.
Non-Sequitor:
Sure, its funny until you realize the caveman is probably illiterate and I can’t blame him for being amazed by a sign with written language on it. He still doesn’t deserve to be eaten, but, c’est la chomp.
Six Chix:
Zinnng!
Is what I would have wrote and meant if it were funny. It took me too long to see where the glue came into play. Ironically, the joke doesn’t stick.
(this strip amazes me at its use of an unconventional joke telling methodology. It uses visuals. It adds some words, often sparingly. (<—oxymoronic, i know).
A, B and C. Maybe next time, go C, A and Booyah! Set it up differently, visually. Or call a cab. (i keed, i keed!)
Mark Trail:
While I’ve been hoping for a nod to classic Greek Literature with Rusty donning the dead bighorn and being devilly, I’ll settle for those two giant squirrels fighting him, mano a squirrel-o for the next five days.
It would be a tagteam match with the squirrels taking turns kicking Rusty and whapping him with their tails. And, one of them….
oh, please, Mr. Elrod, make it so. You’ve given us Rusty-sized squirrels. Don’t waste this opportunity to entertain!
Bullwinkle
July 27th, 2012 at 11:59 pm
@tallyHO (#33):
Hey, talloHO! Watch me scrape a cyst off my butt!
Nothing up my sleeve. (Rips sleeve off then scratches butt)
[Les Moore comes from the butt]
No doubt about it. I got to get me a new butt.
Frank Lee Meidere
July 28th, 2012 at 12:10 am
@commodorejohn (#32): I’ve been a bit out of it. Outside of CC I’ve been very inactive online. Sometimes this place really does keep you going. This post about gun laws is the first in quite a while. I think I’ll post that last smoking gun story in a couple of days. It’s not long — pretty simple, really.
Flounder
July 28th, 2012 at 12:12 am
@Bullwinkle (#34): Got some fan mail for you here.
Poteet
July 28th, 2012 at 12:15 am
MT — AEEII!! What happened to Cherry??!!
Poteet
July 28th, 2012 at 12:17 am
JP — The trout is thinking “Hey, assholes, you’re the ones who need exercise, not me!”
Poteet
July 28th, 2012 at 12:24 am
MW — Dawn: “GAME OF THRONES was better.” Wilbur: “Shut up.”
Bullwinkle
July 28th, 2012 at 12:39 am
@Poteet (#38): Ooh! Poteet! Such language from a remarkable delicate flower!
Hey! Wanna see me scrape a boil from my fun parts? You might get a glance of Brooke McEldowney.
And guess what? There’s nothing up my sleeve!
Droopy Says
July 28th, 2012 at 12:45 am
Spider-Bland: It’s been a good night for Peter Parker: no humiliation, no (audible) mockery, no need to make excuses for yet another abject failure. So, no, MJ, your husband isn’t disappointed. For him, the night has been a rousing success.
Creepy Les: Open your mouth, Les, and spoil the moment.
Jugs Parker: Was it good for you, too, Avarice? Is this why your college friend
scalled you “Flounder?”Mary Mirthless: Wilbur and Down are waiting for the first rush of panic to end. By that time the local sharks will be well-fed and it will be safe to plunge into the water. (Safe for the sharks, that is–can you imagine what devouring Wilbur would do to their cholesterol?)
Mock Trail: Cherry, even when Rusty is there he isn’t all there.
Pluggers: A Plugger’s ability to avoid yard work is limited only by his excuses.
tallyHO
July 28th, 2012 at 12:48 am
@Bullwinkle (#34):
Hola, Bullwinkle!
I thought you only made one guest appearance here. Imagine my surprise to see that you are sitting in on a snark session, today, right now.
Well, enjoy your stay.
In honor of your appearance:
_____________________________________
Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.
Nothing up my sleeve…
hunh. There is sumptin up there.
Lessee…squeekle skwibble THUNK!
Well, waddaya know! It’s a statuette of Comic Strip Superstar, Mary Worth!
What was she doing up there?
Oh that’s right, she’s a triple XL Olympian who’s been meddling since the bronze age!
Sigh.
That still doesn’t solve the problem of how I get that statuette of Ziggy outta my butt!
Bullwinkle
July 28th, 2012 at 12:53 am
@tallyHO (#42): That trick never works.
//That was originally my line. Squirrel swiped it and embraced it as his own.
tallyHO
July 28th, 2012 at 1:15 am
@Bullwinkle (#43):
//Yeah. I thought about making a dialogue instead of a monologue but I was trying to keep it “in character”. I could have allowed Squirrel to post the line but…
better safe than Ziggy.
Bullwinkle
July 28th, 2012 at 1:24 am
@tallyHO (#44): The trick is, and no one seems to be able to do it, is reading my lines without hearing the “Bullwinkle” voice. See, bet you can’t do it. Right? Well, if you’re waiting on me to say it, I won’t.
//I said that last sentence when Rocky asked me, “Bullwinkle, this ship is covered in rubies and look what’s written on the side! O-Mar Khay-yam. Bullwinkle, do you know what this is?”
tallyHO
July 28th, 2012 at 1:33 am
@Bullwinkle (#45):
Oh, Moose!
I know the trick.
Bullwinkle
July 28th, 2012 at 1:35 am
@tallyHO (#46): Jumping G. Horsefat!
Droopy Says
July 28th, 2012 at 2:10 am
Maybe we’re being unfair to Peter Parker. The last he saw of Asi9, the clown planned to wreak petty revenge on the cast of “Picture Defect.” There’s no way Parker can know that Hardly-Har-Har has suddenly forgot about the play and turned to robbery. For once Parker is doing something reasonable (a sure sign of failure in the Spiderverse).
Maggie the Cat
July 28th, 2012 at 2:11 am
Mary Worth- Of course they’re going down with the ship! Dawn’s life is not worth living without what’s-his-face and Wilbur is grief stricken over all the cruise ship food he isn’t going to get to eat.
Life is brutal.
RMMD- That’s awesome! There’s nothing like celebrating the death of an alcoholic friend by having an open bar and enabling all his friends.
tallyHO
July 28th, 2012 at 2:19 am
Amazing Spider-Man/ How Sweeeeeet Thooooouuuu
…waitasec. Where’s Spider-Man?!?
If you squint hard enough, you won’t miss him.
Apart or is it Togetherment 3G
Somewhere….oh….let’s say right in front of Tommie’s bosom:
The head of Salvador Dali pops up and says, “My Reality Rules This Strip!”
fini
Snuffy Smif
Remember that Twilight Zone when that kid could just think it and a person would disappear? Well, it seems like that hillbilly baby has The Shine.
Beetle Bailey
For a split second (and that’s all it take, doesn’t it?), I thought it was a Slylock Fox Puzzle.
Which of these Halftrack Poses is not the result of a Viagra Overdose?
The answer: All of them. The General has a problem.
Blondie
two weeks of this? he could have said the Olympics symbol of five rings reminds him of Five of One or Almost a Half Dozen of Another. He could be making a joke about the Metric system. He could be making Elmo set the world record for the time it takes for him to run home. Anything.
Blondie?
Bloooondiiiiieeeee?
Hi&Lois
I would make an elaborate patische to Thirsty’s antics, unseen and only allude to in the strip. However, I will go on a tangent and ask why is Hi so OCD that he is adjusting that picture? Tangent? Get it? Bwaaahhahahahaa!
eugh.
Mark Trail
Potato Chips and a Twinkie?
No wonder Rusty ran away to pursue his dream of spying on people…and on dead animals…and Fighting Squirrels in an Emmaculate Non-Emasculating Manner! Fight on, Young Rustbucket, fight on!
Mary Worth
Man, this homage to Michael Phelps, Olympian Swimmer, isn’t as funny today.
Perhaps if it was an homage to Old Olympia Beer or the Hamm’s Bear or…mmm…a ham sammich and mayo.
No. No. This is tragedy unfolding before our very…what’s that? Two giant Squirrels fighting some dude!?? Where’s my camera?!?
Slylock Fox For a split second I thought this was Funky Forwhatitsworth. I thought they got all Donner Party.
Thankfully, the double-vision was the strip’s fault. For a second there I was worried. Waitasec!
Hold the phone!
Grab the farm animals and shield their eyes!
Call Aunt Mabel from the top of the roof!
Tell her Uncle Milty is still passed out on the still!
Then get inside, pick up the phone and call the proper authorities!
Tell ‘em their manners are bad, not proper!
Then hang up the phone and adjust your ocular irregularities on that glistening, clean skeleton! Not one, but two! Hot double dang!
We just witnessed the aftermath of a feasting!
And, unlike the authorities, those Lions used utinsils, all proper-like!
tallyHO
July 28th, 2012 at 2:36 am
@Bullwinkle (#47):
Sorry for the lack of a witty come back, Moose. I was loaded for bear and before I knew it I shot my load! So I must take some time away from the keyboard. Forbearance and all that.
//by the way, I missed. That Sugar Bear is a wascilly one, hopped up on simple carbs and all.
I thought I had him dead to rights, then he clocked me with his left.
His paws are sooo soft though. It was like being mauled with love by a teddy bear, on a sugar high, kind of manically, really. I started giggling because it kind of tickled.
It’s been years since I was in a pillow fight and, by gum, that Little, Brown sugar bear provided a repast from the stresses of this long day. So I went from giggling to bellowing laughter.
That only made him madder. And, I kept a laffin’!
Oh well, my wits are at an end. Nary a whit of wit left because I’ve whittled it all away.
tallyHO
July 28th, 2012 at 2:59 am
@tallyHO (#51):
//And did I mention Sugar Bear’s silky smooth voice?
Man, when it comes to males and bears, I don’t swing that way. (Anyway, I’m sure that someone is already sweet on him. Not only his gal but probably also Yogi’s squeeze, Cindy Bear.) What I was typing? Oh yeah!
His voice! Oh my!
All he was saying in his singsongy dulcet tones was,
Take this, you rapscallion!
You’ll be less full of stuffing when I’m done!
This is for trying to maim me!
Don’tcha know no one can tame me!
This one is hitting my honey’s tree!
This one goes out to the one I love!
(Not that I’d hit her, mind you, dude!)
It is just I feel like standing up for
her any day of the week when a
bowl of tasty golden goodness can be
had and enjoyed by all who feel like
getting a pick me up during the long day!
Why the very fact that you couldn’t hit the side of a
barn proves my theory!
(Take this! Take that! And, this one is to shake up
your horsefat!)
Yes, you not shooting me says you didn’t start
your day off right, you weak, blurry-eyed, sorry excuse for
a hunter!
Now, I’ve been yakkin for way too long and after a long day of
chewing that scrumtous, deeee-licious Super Sugar Crisp, I think
I’ll let my Paws of Honey-clustered Justice do the talkin’!
//It was the way he said it, like the sounds of an opium dream involving marshmallows and melted chocolate.
He’s soooo dreamy! (for a cartoon cereal mascot, of course) And, his mauling tickles!
Ed Dravecky
July 28th, 2012 at 3:03 am
queek: Dang, the lawyers are fast. Try this link to corgis instead.
commodorejohn
July 28th, 2012 at 4:27 am
@Frank Lee Meidere (#35): Looking forward to it :)
(And yeah, sometimes you just gotta step back for a while.)
Baka Gaijin
July 28th, 2012 at 5:02 am
@Rocky Stoneaxe (#26): Thank you for bringing that strip to my attention. Lio in Español is sooo much funnier than the English language version.
Baka Gaijin
July 28th, 2012 at 5:10 am
OK. Lu Ann Powers has been gone, what, the gestation period of a spoiled wishy-washy WASP? When asked, she doesn’t elaborate on what she’s done all that time. I’m thinking three scenarios:
1. Lu Ann and Ruby went on a male stripper safari, having threesomes and orgies throughout the American Midwest.
2. Lu Ann and Ruby went on a male stripper killing safari, having threesomes and orgies ending in bloody stabbings at Motel 6′s across the American Midwest.
3. Nothing. Nothing at all.
I think we can all agree it had to be #3.
Baka Gaijin
July 28th, 2012 at 6:18 am
I do not understand today’s Dilbert. I’m not sure I want to understand today’s Dilbert.
Mr. O'Malley
July 28th, 2012 at 6:21 am
What’s with RMMD? Try as I might, I can only get the top 5% of the strip to load. Not to mention I see an egregious error in the blurb: “The star of Rex Morgan, M.D. is a principle-driven medical practitioner has a flawless knack for diagnosing illnesses and uncovering corruption and misconduct.” Plus there are factual errors too.
JP: That does appear to be a digital camera. I was wondering. Although you would get a much better picture on film. Or so says the girl at CVS who persuaded me to buy 20 rolls of film at a reduced price this afternoon. That must be about 3 for each of my cameras? … no, I don’t want to calculate it.
MW: What a pity we couldn’t get anyone to draw the “mad scene at the lifeboats”. I would have liked to see it.
The vet problem: a few years ago I met a one-legged man, and after talking to him for a while, I gathered he was a vet who had served in Vietnam. Then my wife asked: “Did you lose your leg in Nam?”. He replied: “No, I got out of Nam without a scratch. I lost my leg in a motorcycle accident.”
So then do you say: “Well, I’m sympathetic, but not as much so as if you had lost your leg in the global struggle against Communism.”?
Mr. O'Malley
July 28th, 2012 at 6:25 am
@Baka Gaijin (#57): If you were familiar with the backstory of Bluetooth, well I’m not sure you would be any better off, actually.
Baka Gaijin
July 28th, 2012 at 6:43 am
@Mr. O’Malley (#59): OK, Bluetooth. Now what about Dilbert’s inflatable ass?
By the way, does the CVS camera chick look like a principle in Judge Parker? Does she have an inflatable ass?
Mr. O'Malley
July 28th, 2012 at 7:41 am
@Baka Gaijin (#60): Now I’m wishing that I had persuaded the CVS camera chick (Stephany) to pose for a photo. She was rather slim though. No inflatable parts. Being an old guy, I’m hesitant to ask young women to pose for me, lest I be misunderstood.
Stephany at CVS tips me off on good deals on film. Maribel at Walgreens tips me off on good deals on developing, and puts gloves on when cutting the negatives. But I am still getting negatives with lots of scratches and fingerprints when someone else is working the photo counter.
Stephany says that CVS is now having films developed by Ansco, which is an old trademark, but I don’t know who owns it now. She was dubious about the results.
Everything you do nowadays requires more research!
Liam
July 28th, 2012 at 8:00 am
MW-The sheer idiocy of this storyline is filling me with such a rage that I cannot compose snark for it.
Geekwhisperer
July 28th, 2012 at 8:22 am
Well played floaters! Looking forward to my co-workers continuing to worry about my mental health as I break into seemingly random fits of laughter at my desk. (“He’s not right, that guy…”)
DebiDawg
July 28th, 2012 at 8:23 am
@Mr. O’Malley (#58): I used the zoom feature in Arizona Comics and the whole RMMD strip showed up – I was wondering what was going on there too…..
Vince M
July 28th, 2012 at 9:04 am
@Ed Dravecky (#53): Shoot, it looks like I’m never going to see 007 and Her Majesty together – serves me right for not wanting to sit through that opening ceremony.