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38 responses to “Metapost: I’m not that desperate”

1. Beasley
   February 14th, 2006 at 9:58 am [Reply]

   This is a test to see is “the problem” has been “fixed”.

2. MotoMike
   February 14th, 2006 at 10:24 am [Reply]

   This is a test to ask …um, is it your story that you had Gitsum and Blogshub girls paying you to be on your site? (Thinking: … I’m in the wrong line of work.)

3. Mibbitmaker
   February 14th, 2006 at 11:14 am [Reply]

   Like I said on my post in the “quotation marks” thread, thanks, Josh. I figured it might be something like that.

   btw, my joke I tried to post earlier on the National Lampoon thread (posted here since nobody’ll likely check that thread anymore, including me) was that now a “cover”* for the Curmudgeon may say:

   “Read This Blog, or We’ll Shoot Snoopy!”

   with corresponding picture, of course.

   *(online, not like a real cover, as with a magazine from the ’70s… proper use of quotation marks! Called it!)

4. yellojkt
   February 14th, 2006 at 11:17 am [Reply]

   In the words of Microsoft developers: “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.” They just assume that everyone wants to shake down their best customers.

5. Zorba the Geek
   February 14th, 2006 at 11:55 am [Reply]

   For all of you men regretting the demise of the Mademoiselles Gitsum and Blogshub- you all probably spent too much time drooling (or whatever you were doing- ahem) and not enough time clicking on the ads to go to the sponsors’ websites. It’s all about the eyeballs, guys- if not enough people visit their websites through ads on this site, then they’ll go elsewhere. (Plus, clickthroughs garner Josh more money, I believe.) So, it’s all your fault, men, you fell down on the job.

6. kevin
   February 14th, 2006 at 2:22 pm [Reply]

   There are people who still use IE? The mind boggles. Have you tested in Lynx and Mosaic and Netscape 3 yet?

7. leathermessiah
   February 14th, 2006 at 2:30 pm [Reply]

   I miss the ladies in the sidebar. Also, the actual relevant links hiding way down at the bottom under the huge National Lampoon ad et al. makes me unhappy. Why are they not up top where they belong? And what happened to the bill-paying Gil Thorp panel? Grr! Sad.

8. Jim C.
   February 14th, 2006 at 2:34 pm [Reply]

   I don’t know if this is a bug or a feature, but is the “proud member of the” header supposed to be on the right side of the NLHN box up there? Or, is it supposed to be positioned directly above the NLHN box?

   (And if you [plural] don’t see it, I’m using OS X 10.4.4 and Safari 2.0.3)

9. gango4
   February 14th, 2006 at 2:36 pm [Reply]

   I sent you a penny, in a vain attempt to get my comment through.

   I had only wanted to say that I REALLY liked Pa’s “Jack Elrond for President” type button in the last panel of Tuesday’s Mark Trail.

   One cent probably covered it…

10. Josh
    February 14th, 2006 at 2:44 pm [Reply]

    Jim C. (#8) — That’s a bug that only appears to be happening right now on Safari. And no, I’m not letting the Safari bugs languish because I mock little-used browsers: Safari is actually what *I* use. But I am not smart enough to figure out how to fix the problem, and it’s a problem that doesn’t seem to harm the functionality of the site, so I’m letting it slide for the moment, until my HTML/CSS fairy godmother comes along and tells me what’s wrong.

    leathermessiah (#7) — Yeah, I am sad to see the Gil Thorp old folks go too, but the sidebar was getting really huge. As for the positioning of the non-ad stuff — it seems that when I signed my soul away to the NLHN, I neglected to notice that I had agreed to put ads “above the fold” (i.e., positioned such that they are visible without scrolling). This was my quick last-minute rearrange to get things in the way that they needed to be. I am trying to brainstorm a way to get the archives in particular in a more visible place. Most sites can use both left and right-hand columns for ads and navigation items, but because of the width of my cartoons, I’ve got to keep everything to the left. I’m cogitating on it.

    jf

11. Josh
    February 14th, 2006 at 2:52 pm [Reply]

    Hey, I managed to fix the problem with the “Proud member of” on Safari, anyway. I think I’m gonna rest on my laurels in that regard for a day or two.

    jf

12. Hank Kimbel
    February 14th, 2006 at 3:48 pm [Reply]

    I hope I can remember what I was going to say this morning. . .Oh yeah, Gil Thorp is like Jack Daniel’s to me. I need more than one shot, but too much gives me a hangover! DTGT!

13. Marc
    February 14th, 2006 at 5:05 pm [Reply]

    Extra Extra read all about it! Dolly is being a bitch. What else is new?

    “We should have heart shaped pancakes!”

    Why is grandma giving her a look of disgust? Is it because there are pancakes already made, and she’s cooking the last batch? Perhaps it is because it is such a good idea and she cant believe it did not come to mind. Or maybe Grandma doesnt like taking orders from a 5 year old.

    Adam at home is especially vile today.

    AND MISS BUXLEY TUESDAYS?!

    Wilbur has been exonerated…what an anti climactic ending. I wanted to see court drama!

14. 4thAce
    February 14th, 2006 at 5:16 pm [Reply]

    Maybe the heart-shaped pancakes could have eensie-weensie chocolate morsels, to represent birdshot.

15. Sassy_Rocks
    February 14th, 2006 at 5:46 pm [Reply]

    Good one, 4thAce – cotw material. On the bright side, it WAS a lawyer that Dick Cheney shot…

16. lilybdcsa
    February 14th, 2006 at 6:31 pm [Reply]

    Wilbur’s change of expression from morose pouting to simpering joy was a bit jarring.

17. thelonious_nick
    February 14th, 2006 at 7:43 pm [Reply]

    So not only do we no longer have the ladies in the sidebar, but to add insult to injury, they’ve been replaced by Jon Bon Jovi. !Que lastima! I need the Blogshub Girl back. Her love may have been like bad medicine, but she was definitely slippery when wet.

18. randomdude
    February 14th, 2006 at 7:44 pm [Reply]

    Funny, every time I post, Josh’s Paypal pays ME!

19. lilybdcsa
    February 14th, 2006 at 7:57 pm [Reply]

    Mmmm….Bon Jovi. I’m not complaining.

20. Zorba the Geek
    February 14th, 2006 at 8:29 pm [Reply]

    Jon Bon Jovi looks good to me, too. Hey, we ladies need some eye-candy, too!

21. mooselet
    February 14th, 2006 at 9:11 pm [Reply]

    #10 – see what happens when you sell your soul Josh? First no (DT)GT and the ads way at the top… what’s next? Where does it end Josh???

    And I’m not seeing Bon Jovi… did I miss him? Drat.

22. RichM
    February 14th, 2006 at 9:34 pm [Reply]

    Sassy_Rocks #15: A lawyer … with a heart!? I can see how that would have confused Darth Cheney.

23. dalton
    February 14th, 2006 at 10:45 pm [Reply]

    Ha ha! You use Safari!

24. lilybdcsa
    February 14th, 2006 at 10:51 pm [Reply]

    Safari is a very good browser. Better than IE or Netscape, that’s for sure.

25. ikkt!
    February 14th, 2006 at 11:07 pm [Reply]

    Perhaps a nice little link right below CotW to jump down to the archives in the sidebar?

    Nothing horribly glaring in (decent browser) Firefox on XP, though I’ve got a well-developed case of banner blindness anyway.

26. AwfulArt
    February 14th, 2006 at 11:25 pm [Reply]

    Christ… ” Jump Start” is talking about Jesus & his disciples on Valentines day.. Damn.. Sunday “Family Circle Jerk” talks about God’s telephone answering system.. What the hell is going on with all this God stuff. Valentibes day… Must be the infulence of Hart…..

27. Hank Kimbel
    February 15th, 2006 at 6:08 am [Reply]

    The girl in panel one of RMMD looks like she’s posing for a Playtex ad. Maybe she wants to be the next Gitsum girl.

28. anonymous
    February 15th, 2006 at 7:03 am [Reply]

    Let me be the first to point out that an anvil has fallen from the sky in today’s FBOFW. Not literally, but the suffering readers’ long-suspected notion that the ‘rents were going to retire, move into something smaller, and most likely sell the old Patterson homestead to Mike & Family seems to be coming to pass!

29. BigJoe
    February 15th, 2006 at 8:31 am [Reply]

    SM – Nice of MJ to bend over for no reason other than to give the audience a gratuitous cleavage shot. Although, once again with verbalizing punctuation. Lately they’ve been saying “!” a lot in this strip, but today she says “?”. There was discussion about how to pronounce “!” before (a gasp sound?), but how in the hell do you pronounce “?”?

    http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060215&name=Spiderman

30. Smitty Smedlap
    February 15th, 2006 at 9:01 am [Reply]

    Is it just me, or is the current (DT)GT storyline…umm….moderately interesting and perhaps even a little bit…unsucky?

31. Josh
    February 15th, 2006 at 9:19 am [Reply]

    ikkt, that’s a great idea. I’m gonna try it.

    jf

32. dlauthor
    February 15th, 2006 at 9:40 am [Reply]

    29: I think it sounds like “Urrr?”

    Me, I can’t wait for a Spidey character to vocalize a semicolon. Or, hey, why not, colonize a semi-vowel.

33. Sporktoast
    February 15th, 2006 at 10:07 am [Reply]

    Somebody over at the Something Awful forums had a great idea for improving Garfield: Delete his thought balloons.

34. Howard Erk
    February 15th, 2006 at 10:18 am [Reply]

    The Pattersons are going to retire to an alternative lifestyle when Elly goes back to school and becomes the big MILF (CILF?) on campus and winds up with a 20 yo boyfriend. Hillarity ensues when we find out that John has been filling the same boyfriend’s cavities for years and that April AND Liz have gone “roadside” with said boyfriend. Talk about all in the family. (Mike is going to write a Penthouse Forum letter exposing the whole affair)

35. Snorty Laugh Girl
    February 15th, 2006 at 11:13 am [Reply]

    On how to pronounce “?”…think Scooby Doo…

    that’s all I have to say about that…

36. BigJoe
    February 15th, 2006 at 11:40 am [Reply]

    #35 – I have to laugh because I know exactly what you mean.

37. Sassy_Rocks
    February 15th, 2006 at 12:54 pm [Reply]

    Isn’t it pronouced something like “Rooby Roo” or “Rye Raggy” in Scoobspeak? Dogs are incapable of pronouncing certain consonants in human speech but they are good at the vowel movements.

    Lucy can be Editor Ed’s young Kelly Wellian bimbo. After all, Cherry would never approve of her being the designated cookin’ ‘n cleanin’ LoFo sex slave…

38. King Folderol
    February 15th, 2006 at 1:25 pm [Reply]

    Luann – Yeah, Brad is a pretty badly drawn character. And, as bad as Luann’s lame storylines usually are, this neverending Brad story is making me long for the days of Luann pining for Aaron and trying to repel Gunther. But there’s something I love about the anger oozing out of every one of Brad’s pores. Look at the way those eyebrows are drawn in panel 3 today! It’s as if Brad can see his future of endless service jobs ahead of him. He can see himself in his mid 40s, bossing around a bunch of snots in paper hats and dumb uniforms, and it scares him silly.

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