The Comics Curmudgeon

64 responses to “Metapost: Movin’ on”

1. Luban
   November 3rd, 2005 at 3:58 pm [Reply]

   1?

2. Luban
   November 3rd, 2005 at 4:00 pm [Reply]

   (But who gets to be #1 on the new site!)

3. David
   November 3rd, 2005 at 4:02 pm [Reply]

   #1 on a post like this just ain’t as exciting, is it, Luban?

4. beasley
   November 3rd, 2005 at 4:13 pm [Reply]

   4?

5. Mibbitmaker
   November 3rd, 2005 at 7:25 pm [Reply]

   I finally get back here after falling a week behind, and this is what happens. I think my head actually Margo-bobbled when I read this one (well, not really, but it’d've been cool).

6. Sheila
   November 3rd, 2005 at 7:57 pm [Reply]

   JOSH! Stop FIDDLING! It was fine just how it was, honest. Let us stay put long enough to start bitching, eh?

7. comics
   November 3rd, 2005 at 9:26 pm [Reply]

   Shiela, don’t worry, nothing will change about the look of the site, just the company that hosts it. But the site has to be moved from one computer to another, and for a few days the Internet won’t know which computer the address “joshreads.com” should point to. That’s all! No more tweaks to the look of the site! I promise!

   jf

8. Mibbitmaker
   November 4th, 2005 at 2:41 am [Reply]

   The internet won’t know which computer to point to (to paraphrase). How very Lu Ann of it. (hmmm… I keep getting stuck on A3G references here for some reason…)

9. moe
   November 4th, 2005 at 3:23 am [Reply]

   how can you do this to us, just as Liz meets Mr. Wright in “For Better or Worse???”

10. Jimmy
    November 4th, 2005 at 11:13 am [Reply]

    Mrs. Hand looks like a younger Mary Worth: same hairstyle, same eyes… creeeeepy.

    Good luck with your new host! Or whatever all that computer stuff is all about.

11. Sassy_Rocks
    November 4th, 2005 at 11:49 am [Reply]

    Mrs. Hand is a dead ringer for a younger version of that meddlesome, old, biddy hag. One clue to her youth is that she’s wearing a rubber ducky shirt. Maybe the surname is indicative of their failed marriage and Mr. Hand’s new predilection as he ignores his lonely wife’s carnal wants ‘n needs.

    Lizardbreath is the starstruck, tragic figure in the Saintly Patterson family. Her romances always fail through no fault of her own. Part of her tragic problem is her impetuous nature. Now she wants to give officer Do-Wright her phone number after just meeting him. This is after being stalked and assaulted two months ago. Did it occur to her that Do-Wright’s behavior is aberrant? He drove 800 km to meet her based on nothing more than a 4×6 glossy. To stalk is to track prey or quarry. By that definition, he’s a stalker.

12. Nom du Jour
    November 4th, 2005 at 1:01 pm [Reply]

    Lizardbreath is the starstruck, tragic figure in the Saintly Patterson family. Her romances always fail through no fault of her own. Part of her tragic problem is her impetuous nature. Now she wants to give officer Do-Wright her phone number after just meeting him. This is after being stalked and assaulted two months ago. Did it occur to her that Do-Wright’s behavior is aberrant? He drove 800 km to meet her based on nothing more than a 4×6 glossy. To stalk is to track prey or quarry. By that definition, he’s a stalker.

    Yes, but he is a stalker with Pope Elly’s blessing. She can size up a person and tell their true self. Just look at the people around her and the people she hires. OK, forget Kortney, she is the direct spawn of the devil and slipped through a crack in Elly’s Saintdar.

    In all matters Saintly, Pope Elly is infallible.

13. Jocko
    November 4th, 2005 at 1:58 pm [Reply]

    LOL
    Mr Hand

    http://i20.ebayimg.com/02/i/05/4d/ee/17_1_b.JPG

14. Sassy_Rocks
    November 4th, 2005 at 2:24 pm [Reply]

    Kourtney, Satan’s spawn evil terr’ist cheque forger, was hired by Saint Elly’s partner, wasn’t she? I think her Saintly infallibility is still intact but one has to wonder about her gullibility. Give her a place to crash for the night and you have full rights to her saintly but starstruck daughter, even two months after she was sexually assaulted.

15. Nom du Jour
    November 4th, 2005 at 2:31 pm [Reply]

    Give her a place to crash for the night and you have full rights to her saintly but starstruck daughter, even two months after she was sexually assaulted.

    Oh, but he is so kind and gentle and will not do anything that will upset the Saints. And boy will he Dudley Do Liz Wright. She won’t be the only person in Mtigawsioo…oooooo……OOOOOOOOO seeing stars.

    Unfortunately, Anthony will be paying a visit there and will wrestle Officer Wright to the ground and shoot him with the officer’s service revolver. No one, and I mean No one messes with Anthony’s girl.

16. Nealbar
    November 4th, 2005 at 3:20 pm [Reply]

    Since sainthood has been bestowed on Elly, I just had to look up what she is the patron saint of. Omigod, wouldn’t you know that Saint Ellen (Helena, Constantine’s mother) is the patron saint of difficult marriages and divorced people. Look out Lizardbreath, I see a hard life ahead. Thinking maybe you should jump on the nearest iceberg and end it all now.

17. La Belle
    November 4th, 2005 at 4:04 pm [Reply]

    I just have to say I burst out laughing at today’s Get Fuzzy.

    http://comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/getfuzzy-20051104.html

18. Howard Erk
    November 4th, 2005 at 4:14 pm [Reply]

    I just have to say I burst out laughing at today’s Get Fuzzy.

    http://comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/archive/getfuzzy-20051104.html

    Then you must just bust a gut bone laughing when you read Garfield everyday.

19. Lisa
    November 4th, 2005 at 4:54 pm [Reply]

    Elly’s in the background singing:

    once you have found him, never let him goooooooooooooo.

    Elly’s such a pimp.

20. Monkeys Uncle
    November 4th, 2005 at 4:54 pm [Reply]

    Is Lizardbreath still saintly? I thought she had a live in boyfirend when she was at Nip and Piss University. I was almost certain that nut had been cracked…

21. Zorba the Geek
    November 4th, 2005 at 5:01 pm [Reply]

    Monkey’s Uncle- you’re right, Liz lived with a guy while at the University. She could still be a saint, though. Not all saints were virgins (not by a long shot). Some lived decidedly, shall we say, ungodly lives, before becoming saints. (See? There’s hope for us all. *cough, cough*)

22. Islamorada Girl
    November 4th, 2005 at 6:13 pm [Reply]

    After today’s Mary Worth, we can finally say:

    “TALK TO THE HAND!”

    I can’t believe I just typed that.

    Mrs. Hand looks like Faith Hill.

23. Chet McCord, Wildlife Defender
    November 4th, 2005 at 8:20 pm [Reply]

    Given the possibility that this post could be lost forever on the old server, I am employing isometrics.

24. Marc
    November 4th, 2005 at 9:10 pm [Reply]

    Josh, I found this. I believe you could make a pretty penny selling your blog in the future:

    My blog is worth $147,344.94.How much is your blog worth?

25. Marc
    November 4th, 2005 at 9:11 pm [Reply]

    And by My, it means Yours, Joshreads.com

26. mumbles
    November 5th, 2005 at 12:12 am [Reply]

    Mount Foob question – what the hell is a mishomis? (Dudley DoWright mentions his mishomis in 11/5 strip) Was that something explained during that three week lecture Elly did that I summarily ignored?

27. hacky
    November 5th, 2005 at 12:32 am [Reply]

    (DT) GT: I never even heard of this strip until I found this site and dammit, I’m just hooked. Say what you will about it, but at least it moves along! The story jumps around so much that sometimes the three panels are set in three different locations. I just reviewed the last week’s worth of strips in one sitting and I’m dizzy! I still don’t even know which character is “Gil Thorp”. I also can’t figure out why the flame-headed dude seems to be wearing big round clip-on earrings…on both ears…

28. Occam
    November 5th, 2005 at 5:01 am [Reply]

    #26: Mumbles

    “Mishomis” means “grandfather” in Ojibway. No, neither Elly nor the cartoonist bothered to explain the word. But then, this is Mt. Foob, you know.

29. RichM
    November 5th, 2005 at 6:25 am [Reply]

    How about A3G-inspired curmudgeon gear: a “Cards first, food later” visor?

30. el duende
    November 5th, 2005 at 7:03 am [Reply]

    http://www.fborfw.com/char_pgs/mtigwaki/index.php?page=dictionary

    maybe if you had done your fborfw homework we wouldn’t have to explain everything to you. honestly, do you really have anything better to do than wallow for an hour a day in saint lynn’s smarmy dreck? i didn’t think so…

31. Nom du Jour
    November 5th, 2005 at 9:04 am [Reply]

    You know if the folks over at the fooberverse just started a blog and RSS feed, boy would we be able to wallow all the time in FBOFW!! I have minutes each day I could spend with a service like that.

    Man do they need to get up to speed.

32. Marc
    November 5th, 2005 at 9:54 am [Reply]

    Gear: How about a shot or wine glass that says “Rita was here” etched in it.

33. Dave
    November 5th, 2005 at 10:21 am [Reply]

    Does anyone else think that today’s FW would be much better if the caption in the first panel had “woman” on the end of it?

34. WinnieWinkle
    November 5th, 2005 at 10:33 am [Reply]

    MW: I see the workaholic’s wife is sporting an odd shirt with but a SINGLE duck on it in today’s strip. Not quite the pair of swans Mary got from Jack on their wedding [insert shudder here] night.

35. Sassy_Rocks
    November 5th, 2005 at 7:00 pm [Reply]

    It’s a bath toy rubber ducky shirt, crafted with pride by forced Chinese prison labor.

36. ellcee
    November 6th, 2005 at 12:05 pm [Reply]

    My blog is worth $0.00 :(

    All that time spent writing FBoFW “FoeFic” for nothing! “Behind the Facade,” “Who Killed Elly Patterson?” and now, “To Love a Mountie” — all for naught!

    *sob*

    LC

37. Swimmy
    November 6th, 2005 at 4:19 pm [Reply]

    I demand someone discuss today’s Foxtrot! Especially since I cannot find the Riemann sum of x^2 from 0 to 47 anywhere in the nerd search! (It’s 34607.66…)

38. Not a mathematician
    November 6th, 2005 at 4:55 pm [Reply]

    Re #37
    I read the equation as the sum of the squares from 0 to 47 (i.e. 0+1+4+9+16+25+…) With that you get 35720, which is in the nerd search. I find it comforting to know that I am not the only nerd with spare time today.

39. Marc
    November 6th, 2005 at 8:04 pm [Reply]

    Yeah I was confused about the duck on Jane’s shirt. Do Moy and Giella love writing: “Jane hand reads…” You could just say “Jane reads.” Oh Mary Worth comic strip how you make my head ache about 40 something women with shirts meants for teenage girls…

40. apostate
    November 6th, 2005 at 8:37 pm [Reply]

    37:
    You’re thinking of the definite integral. The expression in the nerd search is just a regular series.

    If you wanted to express the definite integral as a Riemann sum, it’d be something like:

    limit n approaches infinity
    sum of i = 0 to n
    (47/n) (47*i/n)^2

41. Swimmy
    November 6th, 2005 at 9:37 pm [Reply]

    Ah! I lose my nerd badge. Thanks, though.

42. mooselet
    November 6th, 2005 at 9:59 pm [Reply]

    Since when did Dudley Do-Wright become Mtigiwannahackaloogie tribesperson? Isn’t his name Paul? I didn’t get the impression he was a Native back when Elly was pimping Liz out. No doubt there will be much backstory which will never be explained in the strips.

    Just went to Mt. Foob website to confirm my facts, and did you know Liz didn’t make it home for Thanksgiving? Hey, wait, we haven’t even had Turkey Day yet… wow, Liz must be psychic!! Lynn if you’re gonna write these silly newsletters can you keep them from predicting future events?? Is that too much to ask???

    :::grumble, grumble, grumble:::

43. weiser
    November 6th, 2005 at 10:20 pm [Reply]

    I think Thanksgiving in Canda is in October

44. Dave
    November 6th, 2005 at 10:22 pm [Reply]

    Mooselet: Thanksgiving is on a different day in Canada than in the States (second Monday in October). This year, it was Oct 10. See, e.g., http://www.kidsturncentral.com/holidays/thanksgiving.htm

45. Dave
    November 6th, 2005 at 10:23 pm [Reply]

    Weiser beat me, but I like to think that my post was value-added. Unlike this one. :-)

46. mumbles
    November 6th, 2005 at 10:45 pm [Reply]

    Reading the FBOFW website, it looks like the Moustache Man is out of Lizardbreath’s life….for now. And it sounds like April is a ho, sneakin’ some between classes.

47. Occam
    November 7th, 2005 at 2:41 am [Reply]

    #37 Swimmy:

    The solution, such as it is, to the “Foxtrot” Nerd number search can be found at:

    http://homepage.mac.com/billamend/images/nerdsearch.jpg

48. mooselet
    November 7th, 2005 at 7:12 am [Reply]

    There I go, being US-centric again… bad, bad, bad mooselet! You’d think I would know better.

    Why can’t Lynn educate the masses about this rather than 3 weeks of Elly Visits Mtigiwannahackaloogie???

    Thanks, all, for setting me straight. I take some of my mean comments back, Lynn! But only some!

49. Dennis Jimenez
    November 7th, 2005 at 9:14 am [Reply]

    I know the “quotes” tick off Josh, so here’s my take on the latest FBOFW in my best adolesent fashion – Liz better “bone-up” on her “reverse cowgirl” if she thinks she’s gonna be of “service” to the Royal Canadian “Mounted” Police….

50. Lulu
    November 7th, 2005 at 9:40 am [Reply]

    #30: Wow. I mean…wow. Everyone has talked about Mt. Foob forevah, but I’d never actually been there. Un-flippin’-believable. But, oddly, I know I will go back. Like a bad car wreck I can not turn away.

51. rich
    November 7th, 2005 at 10:28 am [Reply]

    Since this post could be lost forever, I’ll use the opportunity to comment on Gasoline Alley. I’m both relieved and appalled that the old lady isn’t really dead. Maybe she asked for it, ripping off a gangster, but the bloody way she was gunned down in the Sept. 27 strip (archived at http://comicspage.com ) was pretty shocking. It was probably the most violent image I’ve seen in a daily comic since Dick Tracy incinerated that bunch of hippie killers in ‘67. So it was not only gratuitously violent and a jarring shift in tone, but a cheat as well!

52. Adouble
    November 7th, 2005 at 10:30 am [Reply]

    I thought today’s PBS was about as funny as any in recent memory. And to make that claim less contentious, pretend I’m like that dude from “Memento” and I can’t really remember many strips.

53. rich
    November 7th, 2005 at 10:42 am [Reply]

    Ah, Gil Thorp, Gil Thorp! What is it about?? A troubled romance, the geography cheating scandal, Brick’s disqualification, Brick’s redemption, Flamehead’s love life, that steroid guy who showed up back in town – all of these and less than the sum of the whole? What a strange, skittish strip: jumping from one half-baked scene to another with such exaggerated drama and Lynchian dialogue! I no longer care if Gil Thorp is “good” or “bad”, it has a folk-art integrity that defies simple classification.

    I grew up reading it in the Hartford Courant in its Jack Berrill days, a typical, reliable serial strip with a very loyal readership. I wonder how the old-time fans back home, who’ve been following it for 45 years, have reacted to this new, tripped-out incarnation?

54. Pha-Q
    November 7th, 2005 at 12:40 pm [Reply]

    Todays Non-Sequitor stole the “joke” from countless Ziggy strips.

55. Sassy_Rocks
    November 7th, 2005 at 12:57 pm [Reply]

    Iris Beedie really has a unique perspective on divorce, since her ne-erdowell son’s drug dealing behavior is a direct result of their failed marriage. I think he got the naivete and blatant stupidity straight from Mom, either that or he really wanted to be caught. Tommy showed up on the campus of University of California Santa Royale with a brown paper lunch bag of “stuff”, approaching all passersby with a dubious drug sales pitch. Why not just run an ad in the Santa Royale Sentinel? That might be more discrete. To Tommy’s credit, he did give Mary Worth a good contact buzz through the hvac…

56. dimestore lipstick
    November 7th, 2005 at 1:13 pm [Reply]

    #54, Pha-Q

    The technical term for this is “cribbing a Ziggy”.

    http://bigalscomicblog.blogspot.com/2005/05/ziggy-en-espanol.html

57. Pha-Q
    November 7th, 2005 at 1:19 pm [Reply]

    # 56 Thanks. I did not know that there was such a thing. I also wonder why it has a name. It can’t happen that much can it? I mean who would want to rip off Ziggy? I spelled Sequitur wrong.

58. Library Cat
    November 7th, 2005 at 3:53 pm [Reply]

    On Slate.com there is an excellent slide show on Calvin and Hobbes:

    http://www.slate.com/id/2129373/?nav=fo

    The first comic strip featured might make you pause for a moment though…..

    A3G: I like Margo’s mother.

    MT: Have we been talking about woodpeckers? I don’t remember that.

59. Dennis Jimenez
    November 7th, 2005 at 3:59 pm [Reply]

    http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28582

60. Marc
    November 7th, 2005 at 6:24 pm [Reply]

    Pha-Q u finally got what your name means. Ha! Okay now to business:

    SF: Yes, Ted, Ice cream is supposed to be liquid, you are smart, and you take good care of your forlorned cat. Let’s see the Forth’s drag out this weeks saga and up with a puddle of “Lasagna 1/8/05″ and “Chic noodle soup 6/15/05″ on their kitchen floor. Look on the bright side Forths, getting a new fridge is less expensive than your freeloading cat.

    I could totally see then shopping for a fridge in a Sunday strip and Ted wants one with a TV and Sally says something ironic or true…

61. Marc
    November 7th, 2005 at 6:26 pm [Reply]

    I finally got what your name means**** sorry about that.

    OH i almost forgot.

    FC: Dolly, if Daddy runs ‘outta blood you die a horrible death and Mommy lives off of Daddy’s menial salary as a cartoonist and welfare.

62. Anonymous
    November 7th, 2005 at 6:58 pm [Reply]

    Hey Marc…Yeah its all about phonetics.

63. Monkeys Uncle
    November 7th, 2005 at 7:24 pm [Reply]

    Hey, speaking of woodpeckers I think its been too long since I mentioned secret agent Teddy Salad on this site. Time for walkies…

    And now for something completely different.

64. Monkeys Uncle
    November 7th, 2005 at 9:34 pm [Reply]

    Ahem.

    I have been advised that I should apologize for the unsolicited Monty Python reference earlier this evening.

    So, I should like to offer my sincere apologizes to all the Curmudgeons. I can only blame Makers Mark(tm). The first name in bourbons, at my address. I would also like to thank the Academy and all the fans who………..

All the cool kids…

…buy Comics Curmudgeon merchandise!

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