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1. Sharkiedo
   December 5th, 2005 at 3:35 am [Reply]

   First…

2. blue indian
   December 5th, 2005 at 4:00 am [Reply]

   you just wanted to say first.. and CONGRATS!!! From a long time lurker..

3. lilybdcsa
   December 5th, 2005 at 4:29 am [Reply]

   You’ve also been nominated for anothe award. You should hear about it in a few days.

4. bubujin
   December 5th, 2005 at 5:52 am [Reply]

   Superbly excellent, Josh!

   Because I have no originality, allow me to parrot some appropriate responses based on several of today’s strips:

   “Wow, talk about being at the right place at the right time!” (Dagwood)

   But how do you do it? “…Because you’re such a STINKIN’ GENIUS!” (Big Nate)

   Yet pardon me if I refrain from voting as I am ignorant of the competition. After all, “(n)othing’s THAT funny.” (Shoe)

   Thanks for keeping it entertaining.

5. Robert Canipe, PhD
   December 5th, 2005 at 6:14 am [Reply]

   You currently have eleven–and the most–votes

6. mooselet
   December 5th, 2005 at 6:53 am [Reply]

   Will there be cash payments to your henceforth loyal readers for pushing you to the forefront of Weblog fame? No? Oh, well…. ok then, just checking.

   Congrats, mate!

7. Ces
   December 5th, 2005 at 7:13 am [Reply]

   Congratulations on the well-deserved huzzahs, Josh!

8. joeyjoejoe
   December 5th, 2005 at 8:18 am [Reply]

   I think what’s most disturbing about that last link is the contention that poorly dressed IT employees “beat off competition from the building industry.” That’s one way to win, I guess.

9. dalton
   December 5th, 2005 at 8:30 am [Reply]

   I hope you’re still visiting for Christmas, even though you’re famous now and all.

10. ISBN
    December 5th, 2005 at 8:52 am [Reply]

    WHOO HOOO! Will you remember us little people when you get big? Well, I mean, bigger…

    by the way, that is SO weird that they picked up your photo and used it. I think it would be fun if EVERYONE posted an embarrasing photo of themselves as kids–since peopel seem to like picking them up. :)

    Congrats! This is my favorite site to visit, and the first one I come to every morning. I have you linked from “my yahoo”

11. Chawunky
    December 5th, 2005 at 8:57 am [Reply]

    Huzzah!

12. Archivalist
    December 5th, 2005 at 9:27 am [Reply]

    I voted. So where’s my sticker?

13. Irina
    December 5th, 2005 at 9:31 am [Reply]

    Completely unrelated note …

    In my Sunday (12-4) Washington Post comic section, the color printing was off by about 2 inches in Family Circus. And only Family Circus.

    Which gave it the curious effect of making Daddy trudging home in the snow, and all the little Keane rugrats sitting hopefully atop their sled the appearance of being dead-grandpa transparent.

    Took me two or three takes to figure out it was a printing error, but for one fleeting and exciting moment, I thought everyone had died, and FC would have taken an entirely new twist.

    Just curious — this happen to any other WP readers?

    ps: congrats, Josh!!

14. Sourbelly
    December 5th, 2005 at 9:47 am [Reply]

    Well, I just voted for you, and you’re now ahead by one vote.

    You’re welcome.

15. TC the Brain Supreme
    December 5th, 2005 at 10:20 am [Reply]

    Maybe they thought you looked like Bill Gates?

    BTW, if you Image Google “imcoolernow” you get a devex.com link as well.

16. payola
    December 5th, 2005 at 10:41 am [Reply]

    It may be only December 5, but I‘m fairly certain that nothing over the next two and a half weeks is going to supplant this as the most disturbing Christmas-themed comic.

    Does anybody have Rev. Wildmon’s and James Dobson’s email addresses so I can send them The Cthulhu Circus?

17. Sid
    December 5th, 2005 at 11:03 am [Reply]

    So far you’re in the lead with 61 votes.

    Your blog really is the funniest out of all the choices. The others, except maybe for Achewood’s blogs, really aren’t all that great.

18. Moesy
    December 5th, 2005 at 11:14 am [Reply]

    I can’t see Coq au Vin without thinking of Mary Worthless. I saw this recipe at MSNBC & thought everyone would like to know how to make drunk Rita’s favorite dish:

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10285753/

19. Monkeys Uncle
    December 5th, 2005 at 11:47 am [Reply]

    Hey, comment of the week. Score!

    Thanks Josh.

20. Smokey Stover
    December 5th, 2005 at 1:26 pm [Reply]

    No. 15. That was very similar to one that was in the New Yorker in 2001. Santa’s line was “Stop avoiding me. I know when you are sleeping. I know when you’re awake.”

    http://tinyurl.com/7hneo

21. Smokey Stover
    December 5th, 2005 at 1:36 pm [Reply]

    Sorry, that was a response to number 16.

22. marky
    December 5th, 2005 at 1:50 pm [Reply]

    By the way, you’ve also been nominated for Nobel Prize. Watch your mail.

23. Bill
    December 5th, 2005 at 1:51 pm [Reply]

    Anyone who voluntarily posts a picture of themselves at an awkward age on the Internet deserves a vote. You, sir, have mine!

24. payola
    December 5th, 2005 at 2:06 pm [Reply]

    Smokey Stover:

    If you’re able to locate that New Yorker cartoon, perhaps you know where to find the brilliant Gahan Wilson Christmas effort from somewhere back in the mists of time: decidedly demented dad going after cowering family with one more hideous Christmas tie. I think it was published in Playboy.

25. Sassy_Rocks
    December 5th, 2005 at 2:18 pm [Reply]

    Josh, you’re sounding positively Wilbur Weston-like in your smug, shameless self promotion but unlike Wilbur Weston, your accolades are well earned.

    Does anyone have any idea what th’ hell became of the What Th’ Mark Trail messageboard? Speaking of Mark Trail, how should I interpret the wildly mixed messages I’m gettting from him about pet ownership. First he lets his dog out leashless to run around and poop while he chills in the motel room. The next day is a Sunday sermon about responsible pet ownership from the mouth of the same irresponsible owner. Andy could be out there humping a stray for all he knows. It comes off like Dick Cheney dissing a decorated ex-marine for being soft on terr’r, “do as I say, not as I do”.

26. ellcee
    December 5th, 2005 at 2:45 pm [Reply]

    Congratulations!

    LC

27. dimestore lipstick
    December 5th, 2005 at 2:59 pm [Reply]

    Thanks for the link. Crypto-evangelism is my new favorite buzzword.

    And congrats on your recent honors.
    Congrats, too, to Monkey’s Uncle for COTW.

    By the way…something called Jesus’ General is currently kicking you in the pants, Josh.

28. Marc
    December 5th, 2005 at 3:57 pm [Reply]

    I totally wish I was April Patterson! Dateloaf!

    Doesn’t everyone enjoy cleaning out their colons?

    Maybe Wendy could use a piece of it, she’s so full of shit, she could use a good cleaning.

29. stacy
    December 5th, 2005 at 4:09 pm [Reply]

    Irina:

    Yes, my WaPo had this amusing mistake in FC as well.

    Because the character’s faces are colored, but their eyes are just drawn, I thought – for a brief, shining moment – that Dolly had had a freak accident.

30. 'Anon'
    December 5th, 2005 at 4:46 pm [Reply]

    I wonder where the Keanes live? That ole ‘Bil’ would have to trudge 50 miles through the snow to get home? Do they not have a car?

31. Library Cat
    December 5th, 2005 at 5:12 pm [Reply]

    MW: Wilbur wonders what is causing all the breakups and divorces amoung his many readers. What the hell Wilbur? You do! Stop telling them to break up and get a divorce. You’d think the Irony Police would storm Charterstone and blow Wilbur’s head clean off.

    MT: What’s with the button-down shirt and tie on the desk attendant at Mark’s motel? Is he staying at the Hilton of the Swamp? I really doubt any motel that would let you keep a 200 lb. dog in their room has that strict of a dress code.

    Thank you for your time, I’m done ranting now.

32. Marc
    December 5th, 2005 at 5:44 pm [Reply]

    Introducing Mary Worth and Wilbur Westing!

    This unstoppable duo breaks up relationships!

    Mary first starts off meddling her ass off into other business, causing them to write to Dear Wendy.

    Dear Wendy tells them to divorce and the marriage is kaput.

    While these people try to recuperate, Mary then meddles and asks why? Because of you, you meddling bitch!

    These two people are the cause of today’s rapid divorces. Stay away from these rubble-rousers at all costs.

    Side effects may include:

    Being Cranky

    Thinking your clothes and furniture have changed colors (and shape)

    Platitude-itis (’nuff said)

    Soar throat from yelling at partner or friend

    Vomiting from dreadful advice

33. Adam-12
    December 5th, 2005 at 6:02 pm [Reply]

    Josh, you are the premier Comics Curmudgeon of our time. This is why you have become Pope Josh the Great!

    And never fear, I’ll do my best to make sure you get the most votes. As I work for a college, I’ll attempt to visit every computer lab on campus in the next few days and vote from every computer I can access. Nothing like a little ballot-box stuffing to keep busy! [Besides, you deserve to win anyway!]

34. VB
    December 5th, 2005 at 6:05 pm [Reply]

    Josh, excellent job! Long time reader, first time poster. I must admit I did not vote for you, simply because I love Achewood so much, but you’re definitely a close second. Keep it up!

35. 2fs
    December 5th, 2005 at 6:51 pm [Reply]

    Second place – to something intriguingly called “Jesus’ General”…whose fans either have quick clicking fingers or unauthorized divine assistance. Return to tooting your self-horn and getting a big head. Oh wait – that sounded bad.

36. Marc
    December 5th, 2005 at 7:33 pm [Reply]

    Josh, you’re in second place!

37. walt
    December 5th, 2005 at 8:10 pm [Reply]

    Apparently you can vote again after 24 hours hint hint…

38. Marc
    December 5th, 2005 at 8:26 pm [Reply]

    We can do it!!!

    Now, I’m thinking about Rosie the Riveter. ha

39. Beasley
    December 6th, 2005 at 12:18 am [Reply]

    The first time I remember engaging in snowball tossing as a sentient being was when I was in the Army (Ft. Ord). We would go up into the Carmel Highlands in a friends pickup truck when there was snow, load the bed then drive back down to Monterey Bay and pelt people on the streets (on the beach, etc) with snowballs. Back then you could do that sort of thing because it was considered to be universally funny by both the pelters and pelt-ees. Nowadays I bet you’d get your ass sued off if you dared to do something funny like that.

40. Mibbitmaker
    December 6th, 2005 at 1:20 am [Reply]

    Alittle late for 12/5, but…:

    Foxtrot: “Phat lip”?? Overused rap lingo is bad enough as it is (see:GT), but could we *at least* get it RIGHT?

    Curtis: The faux-arrogant use of “graphic novel” again. A gn is a book-length comic book, C. Where does he get his comics from, FW?

    FBOFW: Wouldn’t it be funny if April were actually typing, “Snort Grunt Fume Groan, grumble growl snivel mumble”?

41. Lor
    December 6th, 2005 at 1:21 am [Reply]

    You’ve engaged in snowball tossing as a non-sentient being, Beasley? Tell us more!

42. pinky
    December 6th, 2005 at 2:31 am [Reply]

    Beasley,
    As someone who currently lives on Ft. Ord, I can guarantee you a lawsuit. How else are we supposed to afford the California real estate?

43. walt
    December 6th, 2005 at 3:57 am [Reply]

    Well now yer fourth. I can understand why Jesus would be able to stuff the ballot box, being part of the Godhead and all, but this is a sham of a travesty of a mockery of 2 shams. I will activate my sleeper AOL accounts.

44. Beasley
    December 6th, 2005 at 9:23 am [Reply]

    re: #42

    Ft. Ord still exists?! I thought the base was shut down years ago! S’plain, please.

45. anonymous
    December 6th, 2005 at 9:35 am [Reply]

    Heh heh, he said horn self-tooting

46. pinky
    December 6th, 2005 at 10:32 am [Reply]

    Beasley,
    The base was shut down for the most part. There is still a small military presence here though. The California State University system bought Ford Ord in the 1990s to convert it into a school. I’m a grad student living in the old military housing off Schoonover.

47. beautifulatrocities
    December 6th, 2005 at 11:11 am [Reply]

    I’m sorry for anyone living in Fort Ord military housing. I was stationed at the Presidio of Monterey, but spent more time than I cared to at Planet Ord

48. Dilcue
    December 6th, 2005 at 5:29 pm [Reply]

    You got our votes big guy. Keep being a curmudgeon, and we’ll deliver our end of the bargain.

49. Steve H.
    December 6th, 2005 at 7:54 pm [Reply]

    Actually, you haven’t been getting any traffic from me. But thanks.

50. Chet McCord, Wildlife Defender
    December 6th, 2005 at 8:13 pm [Reply]

    Okay, so I went over to that mirth canal thing, and gave the CC a 10. Also gave the others (which I haven’t read) ratings of 1.

    Was I wrong to do this?

51. Jay Nickolba
    December 6th, 2005 at 10:36 pm [Reply]

    Not only were you mentioned in the NYTROB, but the word “curmudgeon” and variants like “curmudgeonry” appear throughout the rest of the article, in acknowledgment of your . . . curmudgeonry.

52. Kayjay
    December 8th, 2005 at 2:28 pm [Reply]

    Said photo has been reused for somewhat humiliating purposes at a Spanish-language Web log. All I can say is: the Internet is weird.

    Since it is linked straight to your jpg, you could alway pull the old switcheroo…rename the jpg you use in the original post and then upload an “imcoolernow.jpg” that actually says something like “I’m a thief” for the hotlinkers.

53. Josh Cohen
    December 9th, 2005 at 9:48 am [Reply]

    I’m the person who nominated you for the Weblog Awards, because as much as I like Day By Day, I think it’s getting a little overrated in just how good it is and I think you have an honest shot at beating it this year provided people actually come over here and read your blog, rather than just saying, “oh, look, Day By Day, I read that and all the other bloggers like it so I’ll vote for it”.

    So, best of luck. I voted for you already.

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