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Metapost: Hasta la vista, babies

We’re going on a long weekend trip to celebrate my birthday (that is, the anniversary of my actual birth, not of the birth of this blog), though we are not travelling to sunny Mexico, as this awesome graphic from faithful reader Joan might imply. New posts back on Tuesday, I promise.

To entertain yourself in my absence, check out this increasingly alarming series of graphics featuring my head from faithful reader jonnya:

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 13, 2006 at 12:30 pm and is filed under metaposts.

147 responses to “Metapost: Hasta la vista, babies”

DarkHorse02GT
July 13th, 2006 at 12:42 pm [Reply]

*Jealous of your vacation*

Oh… and uhhh, happy birthday!
philip
July 13th, 2006 at 12:50 pm [Reply]

Re: image # 3: Josh, your breasts have never looked perkier.
GotFuzzy
July 13th, 2006 at 12:54 pm [Reply]

Enjoy your vacation and enjoy your birthday. Happy belated Curmudgeon anniversary, too. And that’s some wild foobian blinking technology that jonnya applied to your head.
loudfan
July 13th, 2006 at 1:22 pm [Reply]

Here’s a very Curmudgeonly short story that ran in the SF Chronicle Sunday magazine’s summer fiction issue a few days ago: Theo the Cat
It’s about a cartoonist who has been drawing a Garfield-esque strip forever, and finally loses it.
Hogenmogen
July 13th, 2006 at 1:45 pm [Reply]

Thanx, Jonnya, I got a good laugh.
jonnya
July 13th, 2006 at 1:47 pm [Reply]

Happy vaca Josh. Thanks for being such a sport, allowing me to obsessively mess with your head and such. Moving on :

Today’s Family Circus – “literally” animated!

http://acebonestudios.com/pages/fc.html
Library Cat
July 13th, 2006 at 1:59 pm [Reply]

re #6

So that’s why Jeffy’s mouth is open! I get it now.
danzhallq
July 13th, 2006 at 2:10 pm [Reply]

# 6… brilliant!
Proteus
July 13th, 2006 at 2:29 pm [Reply]

Jonnya your FC was my biggest laugh of the day. Now please, pretty please do Mark Trail next! You’re a genius. Apparently with time on your talented hands, too.

Josh – hasta la proxima semana con juevos!
Moke
July 13th, 2006 at 2:56 pm [Reply]

Bwhahahaha! jonnya that was hilarious.
dale
July 13th, 2006 at 2:57 pm [Reply]

Am I alone in thinking that with the right hat and glasses, Josh could be Adam Savage from Mythbusters? The distinction would then be whether the issues are mythical, physical or metaphysical.
Occam
July 13th, 2006 at 2:57 pm [Reply]

#4 Loudfan: Thanks for the tip-off on the “Theo the Cat” story. Oh, if only “Garfield” would end on such a high note! The story was a good giggle.

I did get an unintentional laugh from the short story: Although the story is only a few pages long, the author cannot keep his cartoonist’s name straight (or else it’s a typo). In the opening paragraph it is “Randone”; a few paragraphs later it is “Nardone.”
Joan
July 13th, 2006 at 3:17 pm [Reply]

#11 Dale: I see it now that you point it out. Oh, the animated fun jonnya could have with that: exploding pants, hover crafts, rockets, severed toes in steel-toed boots.

I love the way the cactus-y flora pokes out of Josh’s sombrero like horns. I didn’t notice that until I was done with the image. So it was meant to be.
brendan
July 13th, 2006 at 3:25 pm [Reply]

I posted both acebonestudios animated circus and the “Theo” story to brendancalling. Hilarious stuff.
mooselet
July 13th, 2006 at 3:41 pm [Reply]

Happy Birthday, Josh. You look very good with breasts, which is scary. If you ever need a new career, cross dressing may be the way to go.
gnome de blog
July 13th, 2006 at 4:27 pm [Reply]

This time next year, Josh will be bigger than Britney Spears.
Library Cat
July 13th, 2006 at 5:08 pm [Reply]

Happy Birthday Josh! Have a good time at your strangely undisclosed vacation spot. Why is that? You’ve always told us before. Do you fear stalkeraldos now that your Internet fame has grown?

(Thank you to Dan B. for “Stalkeraldo”, there have been many suggestions for Aldo’s nickname but that is my favorite.)
Islamorada Girl
July 13th, 2006 at 5:19 pm [Reply]

Pedro Sez: Josh and Amber are stopping at South of the Border to buy an Elvis on Velvet for the big birthday!

Happy B-Day, Popeness!
Mibbitmaker
July 13th, 2006 at 5:21 pm [Reply]

And now for something completely different: Josh (with crazy eyes)

#6: …and that one could be the “Salad Days” sketch. It sure was the most alarming of all.
Mibbitmaker
July 13th, 2006 at 5:23 pm [Reply]

#19: I meant, “Josh’s head (with crazy eyes)” Ruins my joke a bit. Oh, well. And now for something completely different…
Mibbitmaker
July 13th, 2006 at 5:27 pm [Reply]

#20: I meant, “More zippers, mule!” I apologize for the confusion.
Sharkbait
July 13th, 2006 at 7:25 pm [Reply]

I like Josh’s head with the FBOFW blinking eyes. It makes him seem more real, somehow…

Jonnya’s artwork could be made into a great title banner for the Curmudgeon site.
lilybdcsa
July 13th, 2006 at 7:45 pm [Reply]

Happy Birthday, Josh!
jailbird
July 13th, 2006 at 10:55 pm [Reply]

Happy Birthday to you, Josh, but how am I going to get by until Tuesday without your witty commentary?
jonnya
July 14th, 2006 at 1:10 am [Reply]

I just want to thank everyone for all the good feedback I’ve been getting on this blog lately. What a bunch of sweethearts. I’m having all of you over for a dinner party someday. I swear.

For Mark Trail or Worse! Animated! :

http://acebonestudios.com/pages/mtfoob.html
Dub Not Dubya
July 14th, 2006 at 1:16 am [Reply]

#25 jonnya, that was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen! Bravo!
Tamara
July 14th, 2006 at 3:50 am [Reply]

Josh/Curm: Happy 2nd! Your blog makes me laugh at least as hard and as loud as The Daily Show and Colbert. No Zoloft needed here!

Jonnya: You have gone far beyond the realm of cool, or rad, or awesome … or whatever the whippersnappers are jivin’ to these days to indicate A-1 thumbs up.

I thank you both …
Old Fogeyette
July 14th, 2006 at 8:07 am [Reply]

Jonnya,

You are a genius! Great work!
Dennis Jimenez
July 14th, 2006 at 8:20 am [Reply]

6.14.2006

Pluggers – I have been mildly amused by the unmitigated lameness of this strip since the Curmudgeon got me to reading it a couple of weeks ago, but today they are desecrating the Dickey Betts and the Allman Brothers. There are some things this idiotic strip should just leave out of their pseudo-humor.
fluffytufts
July 14th, 2006 at 9:10 am [Reply]

Happy Birthday, Pope Josh – from the College of Cardinals over at the Curmudgeon Colony (known to the intelligentsia as the C.C.C.C.)
fluffytufts
July 14th, 2006 at 9:13 am [Reply]

Oh, and hola, I-girl!
dimestore lipstick
July 14th, 2006 at 9:20 am [Reply]

#29 Dennis

I had a problem with today’s (well, every day’s, really) panel, too.

That particular criterion doesn’t make you a Plugger–it makes you a baby-boomer. A Plugger may also be a boomer, but all boomers are not necessarily Pluggers. What a presumptuous over-generalization.
jailbird
July 14th, 2006 at 9:23 am [Reply]

The crazy eyes one that jonnya did reminds me of monty python’s flying circus. Too funny!
dex
July 14th, 2006 at 10:13 am [Reply]

Is Mary waving at Jeff? Her *thought bubble* of Jeff?!?!
She is, isn’t she?
Ahhhhh senility.
BassoGap
July 14th, 2006 at 10:13 am [Reply]

RMMD – Wow…we had hints, back when Troy and Rex were playing golf…but the Patti LaBelle hair in panel 2…I’d say it’s pretty clear he spends his weekends at The Birdcage.

PBS – House Specialty? Free-range pasta, lovingly, and freshly, stomped by your host. Trow on floor, woomun!
Islamorada Girl
July 14th, 2006 at 10:36 am [Reply]

Is Dr. Jeff’s head floating in a bubble above Mary Worth’s head because she decapitated him and buried the pieces in the rose garden?

Run, Stalkeraldo, run!
Anonymous
July 14th, 2006 at 11:42 am [Reply]

#34 Dex:
no, she’s not waving. That’s a subtle gesture showing A Stalker Lad exactly how much of him she and Jeff will enjoy when Jeff gets back.
Old Fogeyette
July 14th, 2006 at 1:46 pm [Reply]

Will somebody please explain today’s Bizarro to me? I just… don’t…get it.
lilybdcsa
July 14th, 2006 at 2:35 pm [Reply]

Apparently #4 killed everyone else in the line-up. So he must be the guilty one. Yeesh….stupid.
lilybdcsa
July 14th, 2006 at 2:35 pm [Reply]

Apparently #4 killed everyone else in the line-up. So he must be the guilty one. Yeesh….stupid comic.
lilybdcsa
July 14th, 2006 at 2:38 pm [Reply]

Okay…THAT was bizarre.
Hogenmogen
July 14th, 2006 at 2:38 pm [Reply]

38 – Fogeyette – I think #4 killed the other members of the lineup. Would have been better with knives, arrows, and WMD’s sticking out of their bloody bodies. Or, at least a little signs of a scuffle.
Hogenmogen
July 14th, 2006 at 2:40 pm [Reply]

I should backhandedly compliment Dan Piraro. Bizarro is usually better than that.
Anne
July 14th, 2006 at 3:23 pm [Reply]

[oops, I should have looked here before posting in the other thread... Still getting the hang of this!]

In Apt. 3-G, what about the kids? Lucy figures Ted wouldn’t even notice she’s gone, but didn’t she think the kids would notice?

Also, jonnya, your animations are so awesome! Mark Trail had me falling out of my chair!
Old Fogeyette
July 14th, 2006 at 5:00 pm [Reply]

Thanks for the explanation re Bizarro, folks. I had thought it might be something like that, but the comic is usually so good I thought I must be missing something.
lilybdcsa
July 14th, 2006 at 5:11 pm [Reply]

Re #25 — I couldn’t get that last animation to load. Is there something different about it than the others you’ve done, jonnya?
lilybdcsa
July 14th, 2006 at 5:15 pm [Reply]

ha ha ha!!! Nevermind! Got it finally. That was hiilarious. Truly inspired work.
Len
July 14th, 2006 at 9:14 pm [Reply]

#46 — Me too. MY computer asked me to manually load QuickTime at a cost of 29 bucks! No thanks.

Someone tell me what the animation was about?

(For what it’s worth, the “Josh with blinking/ crazy eyes” didn’t do more than show background screens on my computer, either. When I get some money, I guess I’ll have to upgrade…)
Len
July 14th, 2006 at 9:24 pm [Reply]

In “Watch Your Head,” young Miss Robin is not getting along with her Mom’s boyfriend, Nigel. But in an earlier strip, Mom mentions that Nigel is 25 and going to Law School. Robin is a college freshman — probably about age 17. Nigel is only 8 years older than her. Mom has been robbing the cradle, methinks!

http://www.comics.com/wash/watch/archive/watch-20060713.html

But Nigel (who was shown eating a peanut butter, jelly, and Froot Loops triple-decker earlier) brings ROTI for dinner? If Robin don’t want hers, can I have it? Yum, roti! East Indian spiced meat in a flatbread wrapper.
Len
July 14th, 2006 at 10:09 pm [Reply]

Better example from Friday…

http://www.comics.com/wash/watch/archive/watch-20060714.html
MossMoses
July 14th, 2006 at 11:06 pm [Reply]

Johnya, is there anyway you could photoshop Josh’s severed head into a Doc Jeff like decapitation bubble? Seeing our dear friend like that would help remind us how much we miss him.
Alex
July 15th, 2006 at 12:09 am [Reply]

Hmm. Did anyone notice that those yuccas are Joshua Trees in the background?
skulking on the outskirts
July 15th, 2006 at 1:15 am [Reply]

bring me the head of josh fruhlinger! happy b’day,
josh, and enjoy your (no doubt much needed) vaca-
tion.
jonnya
July 15th, 2006 at 6:07 am [Reply]

Great idea MossMoses. Mary Worth It! Animated!:

http://acebonestudios.com/quicktimes/Mary_Worth%20Comp%201.mov

BTW, I started a page to archive all the recent Curmudgeon inspired funny funnies I’ve been posting. It’s part of my own fledgling personal web site. However it’s not linked to the main navagation bar, so think of it as our special Crumudgeon exclusive! :

http://acebonestudios.com/pages/funny%20funnies.html
BigJoe
July 15th, 2006 at 7:04 am [Reply]

54 – Bah ha ha, that’s great! I especially liked the last thought bubble figure.

46 – You don’t need the professional version of QuickTime to view the animation. Just download the free version.
BigJoe
July 15th, 2006 at 7:06 am [Reply]

Shoot – the QuickTime reply was meant for #48, not #46.
Dave
July 15th, 2006 at 7:50 am [Reply]

If there is any justice in the world (and no IP lawyers), Josh will make a shirt that says “What say you Mary Worth?”
BassoGap
July 15th, 2006 at 9:48 am [Reply]

GF – Mmmm…steak cake. My favorite.

MT – The grizzly can’t figure out what Mark’s doing.

MW – Damn, this strip should be the featured artwork and dialogue for the new book “How to Fail at Comic Strip Writing for Dummies”. What say you, Mary Worth?

Luann – Somehow, Tiffany will come out of this as the victim, and Luann and Bernice will learn their lesson. I’m actually starting to miss the Brad/Toni/Dirk triangle. Bring back the perky MILF, I say!
lilybdcsa
July 15th, 2006 at 1:04 pm [Reply]

Actually, I think what Luann and her friend are doing to Tiffany is really mean. I’m starting to feel sorry for her.
Islamorada Girl
July 15th, 2006 at 2:22 pm [Reply]

Jonnya–Pure genius!
Marge
July 15th, 2006 at 3:29 pm [Reply]

Too bad Josh isn’t here to see that Saturday’s Prickly City has not one, but TWO grammatical errors. Don’t comic strips have editors and proofreaders?
Gocomics.com
jonnya
July 15th, 2006 at 4:52 pm [Reply]

Marge -

Someone’s editing PC somwhere along the line. Check out the Houston Chronicle’s version compared to Gocomics :

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2006/7/15&name=Prickly_City

http://www.gocomics.com/pricklycity/

Holy Mother of Murtha! It sort of explains one of the grammatical snafus. I don’t often read PC, but neither version is funny or logical. Is this often the case? Murtha? his spotlight was sooooo 2005. Given the given nature of right wing kvetching why would anybody be offended or surprised by a Murtha based “punchline” anyway? I mean don’t we hear simliar raggings on Rush L. type talk shows every day? It’s all fair game, right or left, but please, Stantis, Tinsley, make it somewhat entertaining. Or at least logical. Or at least artful. And gocomics shoudn’t censor this stuff, we should be able to see it in it’s full banality. Lefties can take it, and we all should be able to see “artists” like Stantis and Tinsley entirely uncensored so we can decide for ourselves how off or on base they really are….Do I have to go to the Cockpit now?

- Thanks I-girl, Fogeyette, Big J,, Tamara, Lilybdsca and the rest (…Here on Gilligian’s Isle….) Obviously I get a kick out of messing with the funnies and your positive feedback helps fuel the furnace. Much appreciated.
ahclem
July 15th, 2006 at 7:14 pm [Reply]

gocomics misspelled “than”, also (a pet peeve).
Aldo Stalker
July 15th, 2006 at 8:52 pm [Reply]

Oh snap! After a week of talking up America’s virtues in JP, Raju finally gets to the point… apparently we’re a country of the world’s biggest geeks!
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060715&name=Judge_Parker
Of course, any country with me as a citizen must be pretty geeky.
Tex LeBeauf
July 15th, 2006 at 10:26 pm [Reply]

I can’t wait for Tuesday to find out if anyone else thought that the bear was talking in today’s Mark Trail.
Dub Not Dubya
July 16th, 2006 at 1:11 am [Reply]

Sunday: Shot down by Mary Worth:

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060716&name=Mary_Worth

Man, that’s gotta hurt. How will Captain Stalkeroo ever recover?
Dub Not Dubya
July 16th, 2006 at 1:16 am [Reply]

Also, in a cameo appearance, Helen Hayes and Angela Lansbury are laughing at Captain Stalkeroo in panel three. His rage is just building and building…
Marion Delgado
July 16th, 2006 at 5:33 am [Reply]

BC Saturday is pretty special

———————————————————————-
Ant Skool

Teacher: What do you call a worker who crosses a picket line?
Johnny?

Johnny: Employed.
———————————————————————–

Maybe that ant is the Johnny Hart of antdom! I bet he is.
dimestore lipstick
July 16th, 2006 at 7:16 am [Reply]

It’s “Time For Timer” in Sally Forth this morning. Sally is whipping up a batch of “Sunshine on a Stick”.

Next, she’ll hanker for a hunk of (a slab–a slice–a chunk of) cheese.

And in Sunday’s FOOB: Another “old people don’t get technology” strip.
dimestore lipstick
July 16th, 2006 at 7:24 am [Reply]

Oops–almost forgot!
WARNING about the Timer Link–Not safe for work. Page also contains risqué photos.
BigJoe
July 16th, 2006 at 7:26 am [Reply]

MW: Yikes, Captain Stalkaroo leaves no doubt where this strip is headed with his closing statement today after being shot down by Mary. “You’ll see me around. I guarantee it!” To the surprise of no one, let the stalking begin.

One prediction, Mary will come outside one day in the near future and find her beloved rose bush trashed. Mark this post, I’ll be back to gloat when it happens.
Dave
July 16th, 2006 at 9:08 am [Reply]

It looks like MW has those garden shears ready in panel one, just in case. Maybe she figured out the anagram.
lilybdcsa
July 16th, 2006 at 9:27 am [Reply]

#65 I was wondering why the bear was shouting for help. Perhaps he can’t eat a photojournalist all by himself.
anonymous
July 16th, 2006 at 9:46 am [Reply]

FOOB: So this is what Liz left her interesting, independent single life for. To sit around the picnic table with the same old faces, gossiping about mean neighbors, ear infections, model trains, and housecleaning tips. She seems to be having a good time, back in the smothering dull bosom of her family, probably “enjoying her summer” immensely, per orders from the FOOB website.
lilybdcsa
July 16th, 2006 at 10:20 am [Reply]

FBOFW: If Elly is taking a photography class, why is she still having so much trouble taking pictures?
Chris
July 16th, 2006 at 1:09 pm [Reply]

Raju is really being put to the test by Abby…to see if he really “wants it” enough…”hey, Asian boy, if you want it, come and get it…Sam’s away, so Abby’ll play…let’s get bi-cultural…”
Marge
July 16th, 2006 at 1:10 pm [Reply]

62 – thanks for the link. The one with the 2 misspellings (then and it’s) is the one that was printed in the Atlanta paper. I’d be interested to know what went on behind the scenes on this one.
rich
July 16th, 2006 at 1:11 pm [Reply]

51: I like the term MossMoses came up with for Mary Worth’s strange new artistic device: “decapitation bubble.”

62: I give up. I’m totally baffled by this Prickly City. I could understand “taking its meds,” but “listening to its meds”? And assuming his idiotic typo (”then” for “than”) was corrected in the more recent version, it means the Congressman Murtha reference (instead of “the world”) was added afterwards. Either way, incoherent.

75: Notice that in the picture Ellie snapped, Mike Patterson seems to be wearing a lot of eye makeup, and possibly lipstick?
mtfan
July 16th, 2006 at 2:21 pm [Reply]

Word keeps spreading. Josh has a link on Found on the Web. 7/14 http://www.foundontheweb.org/
majolo
July 16th, 2006 at 4:38 pm [Reply]

So I’m intrigued by this Prickly City mystery (#62). From a casual Google, it seems that the Houston Chronicle is the only place I can find that has the Murtha version of this comic. Also, gocomics is the new name of ucomics, which is a branch of the Universal Press Syndicate, which is the syndicate that provides PC, so that version should be considered official. So what happened in the Chronicle? Did some editor actually change the comic to target Murtha (and correct spelling)? That seems pretty uncool. I smell a conspiracy!

Oh yeah, almost forgot, long time reader, first time poster, etc.
lilybdcsa
July 16th, 2006 at 4:43 pm [Reply]

The version in The Seattle Times has the mistakes fixed, but doesn’t add the Murtha line.

http://www.uclick.com/client/sea/prc/2006/07/15/index.html
lilybdcsa
July 16th, 2006 at 6:24 pm [Reply]

Maybe the Murtha version was the original and was written before mistake by the South Florida Sun Sentinel did their correction on the article they printed about Murtha speech on….oh, the heck with it. Details here http://mediamatters.org/items/200606290008
monkeyhawk
July 16th, 2006 at 9:40 pm [Reply]

The Murtha version is the only one that makes a modicum of sense, from a right wing-nut perspective.

The misspellings of “then” and “its” (fuck you, Margo, I’m quoting correctly, without fingers) seem like some wimpy back-up created either by the strip’s creator or staff or syndicate. Even the most conservative papers are coming to realize that Murtha knows what he’s been talking about.

I hope the curmudgeons’ discusson of the two versons leads some enterprising reporter to dig into the machinations that go on between cartoonists, syndicates, editors, etc.

There have been plenty of episodes when (usually) “Doonsberry” has been pulled from a paper or shifted to the editorial page. And while I think it’s a pretty pissant bitch, the Dagwood’s Sandwich Shop promotions seem to be inappropriate.
treedweller
July 16th, 2006 at 11:07 pm [Reply]

Today, Dagwood admits to being whipped (in a dream, granted, but still . . .). He should meet up with Ted Forth and Pa Patterson. They could form a support group.
jonnya
July 17th, 2006 at 4:42 am [Reply]

What Aldo Stalkerman see’s on his brealfast table :

http://acebonestudios.com/images/OpeningPancake_05_L.jpg
Scumbaggioni
July 17th, 2006 at 4:42 am [Reply]

Okay, I’m late to the party. ENJOY YOUR VACATION JOSHERS. WISH YOU WERE HERE.

Those animations are freaking hilarious. Love Mibbitmaker’s “Salad Days” reference. (I just *sniff* watched that episode *sniff* last night *sniff*)

Also thanks to Loudfan for the “Theo” link.

And to my fellow members of The Far-Reaching Commie-Rat Conspiracy, analyzing Prick Ly City; Stanis once took PETA to task for euthanizing animals that were going to be destroyed by the ASPCA, after giving them another chance at adoption.

He’s just that ****ing mental.

I haven’t been reading Maladroit Fillmore lately, but did catch the Sunday turdschmear. Interestingly enough, this is one MF that doesn’t have the usual asterisk denoting a flaky source for his delusional nonsense. If you’ve ever read Tinsley’s strips about “people who look like Osama bin Laden,” or seen his hooknosed caricature of Jon Stewart (fantasizing about sleeping with teenage boys, no less), you know he has no business lecturing anyone about bigotry.

Just to be fair and balanced (ha HA!), I’m gonna bitch about Doonesbury for a second. Mike, your daughter (with assists from BOTH mommies) has defied and belittled you at every turn. (Mike could join Dag, Ted, and Patterson in that support group Treedweller suggested.) Granted, the concept of the Attitudinal Jerk-Child And The Helpless Parent is a recurring theme in the strip, but…GROW A SPINE, YOU SIMPY PISS-ANT. Then you can help her grow one to match.

Monday’s Gasoline Alley (no Sunday strip this week?): this crap still enrages me on a day-to-day basis.

Yes, Slim: God heard your prayer and created a creek, just for you. He blew off all the people dying in wars on the other side of the planet and saved a sloppy butthole who let bears run off with his grandson then stopped his pursuit to steal a sandwich. You started this blazing inferno, you retard. You’re responsible for all the destruction and death that smells like barbeque. You think you’re safe now? God’s got plans for you, pork pockets. And it too will smell like barbeque.

But if God DID answer prayers,
TheMagicMel
July 17th, 2006 at 7:56 am [Reply]

Sunday’s Rose is Rose was about spiders, which I get, because they freak me out, too.

http://www.comics.com/comics/roseisrose/archive/roseisrose-20060716.html

In the 8th panel, though, on first read I totally saw that as Rose distracting the spider by lifting up her skirts. Kinky!

Also, I was watching Futurama last night & Fry stated: “There are guys in the background of Mary Worth comics who are more important than me.”

I don’t think I ever got that until I started reading this site, so, thank you Josh.
Marc
July 17th, 2006 at 8:12 am [Reply]

jonnya – Absolutely amazing

Sunday MW: Oh man, those old ladies look like they’re bigger meddlers than Mary herself. What I like most about the strip though is that someone of a different skin color is in it! Call the Charterstone police! Anything that represents the real world CANNOT be allowed! ;)
Hogenmogen
July 17th, 2006 at 8:34 am [Reply]

RMMD: Troy confesses to what we all already knew. I must admit that when he didnâ€™t cop up to it in his big heart-to-heart with Chesty, that maybe that wasnâ€™t where this story was going. But letâ€™s examine Troyâ€™s logic. Go to the police and lose my illegal medical practice, or donâ€™t but have some skank ho whack my wife and come for me. Or, option C: ask Rex for help.

Theyâ€™d make a great couple, though. Troy has the brains and actual knowledge of medicine beyond how to work a stethoscope. Rex has that fancy degree hanging in the office. Troy can accompany Rex on all his office visits and give diagnosis while Rex tries to look contemplative and nod his head while conceding something like â€œI concur.â€ Then Rex thinks â€œJRAâ€¦ What the hell? Just Reach Around? Is he giving me a hint? Jiggle Rear-end Apparatus?â€

Mary Worth: Aldo Pederast isnâ€™t giving up just yet. He reminds me of a rap song maybe 16 years ago from Positive K (if youâ€™re a Curtis â€œfanâ€, it would be a â€œrapâ€ song). Positive K and some rap chick did alternating lines:
Your man’s a headache, I’ll be your aspirin/All confusion, you know I’ll solve em
I got a man
You got a what?
How long you had that problem?
What’s your man got to do with me?
I got a man
I’m not tryin to hear that see
I got a man
What’s your man got to do with me?
I got a man
I’m not tryin to hear that
I got a man
Aiyyo baby put the dial numbers or your address
I got a man
I told ya I treat you right
I got a man
Aww c’mon now ain’t no future in frontin
I’m not havin it
C’mon Miss, oh we back on that again /Uhh, I’m not tryin to hear that see
I got a man
But your man ain’t me
Uhh, uhh, I got a man
You got a WHAT?
Uhh, uhh, uhh, I got a man
You got a WHAT?

I remembered the line â€œIf your man ainâ€™t treatinâ€™ ya like he usedta, I kick in like a turbo boosta!â€
http://www.songlyrics.com/song-lyrics/Positive+K/Miscellaneous/I+Got+A+Man/177537.html

Stalkeraldo = turbo booster. You go, rocket man. A doctor with a yacht is no match for mustachioed horticulturist with a summer sub-lease. Jeffâ€™s medical degree obviously will mean crap to the delicious Ms. Worth when you drop your bit about being an herbalist with the grace of a leaden weight.
Hogenmogen
July 17th, 2006 at 8:50 am [Reply]

83 – Monkeyhawk – I don’t see the Murtha reference as making sense even if I were a right wing nut. That was never Murtha’s position to the best of my knowlege. It might have made sense and maybe even a little humorous if it poked fun at some liberal extremist like Al Franken or Michael Moore that might actually have gone on record stating that position. If you’re looking for humor, of course the best way to achieve that would be to make fun of the French. So substitute “Jaques Chirac” for “Murtha” and you’d have a winner (if more than 2% of the American population could correctly identify Chirac as being PM of France, find France on a map, or know that PM would stand for Prime Minister in this case and not “night time”).
BigJoe
July 17th, 2006 at 9:21 am [Reply]

TDIET: I know this comment can be made just about every day, but today’s strip….arrgh….that does not happen every time. In fact it never ever happens!

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/tdiet.asp?date=20060717

Every motel I’ve stayed in has had a tiny closet, it wouldn’t even make sense for a business to use up that much space for closets.

It seems more like someone thought up an ironic situation (even though it doesn’t exist in real life) and the TDIET cartoonist doesn’t even care. I bet he’d be glad to use these two “real life” examples:

“Don’t ya hate when you finally give in and agree to go on a date Sunday night with the boring secretary in your office…..and then a movie star asks you to accompany her to the Oscars the very same night?”

“Ever notice…just after you’ve finished eating your fast food meal….the fancy restaurant next door starts giving away free gourmet meals? Oh yeah!”

I hate when those things happen.
Jocko
July 17th, 2006 at 10:24 am [Reply]

Woo Hoo, JP Mon. Nedy’s lookin Hawt.

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060717&name=Judge_Parker
Chet McCord, Wildlife Defender
July 17th, 2006 at 10:27 am [Reply]

Those giant motel closets are at the top of my list of aggravations, I tells ya. You know what else I hate? I hate it when my pet peeve is written up in TDIET before I have a chance to send it in– Oh, yeah!
Gracie287
July 17th, 2006 at 11:12 am [Reply]

10 bucks Lucy goes to Apt 3-G only to find Tommie and Ted in their bathrobes and all kinds of wacky misunderstandings commence!
2fs
July 17th, 2006 at 11:18 am [Reply]

#90 – True, Prickly City (PC!) makes no sense no matter which grammatically inept version you read – but I believe the reference (to America as nuke threat) refers not to any left-winger in particular but to citizen polls in Europe. I guess that means the “world gone off its meds” version makes the most sense…but isn’t it sort of a clinical definition of mental illness that if the world and reality disagrees with you, you think it’s the world and reality that’s nuts – not you? (Honest, I tried to clean all the mayo off me before posting this…)
treedweller
July 17th, 2006 at 11:26 am [Reply]

Ok, today (7/17) we have a coincidence of timing I can get behind.

First, we have Mallard Fillmore(anagram=Moll fled liar ram) pointing out how those damned treasonous lib’rals are always giving away military secrets fro no good reason.

Then, Candorville makes fun of crackpot conservatives who are convinced of Fillmore’s argument.

Oh, Yeah!
D.A. Pennington
July 17th, 2006 at 11:31 am [Reply]

FOOB: Okay Jeffrey, apparently you’re a little lacking in the brain cells dept.

When someone sez they’re working on something “personal” and the next word out of their mouth is “book” don’t be like
DUH! A BOOK!!!! Can I read it huh?
Can I, can I, canicanicanicanicanicanicani?!!?

Oy. Is Jeffrey the retarded help Mike’s magazine hires to run for coffee and make sure there is enough toilet paper in the men’s room or something?
treedweller
July 17th, 2006 at 11:34 am [Reply]

And now I’ve checked i with the serials (which I never used to do–curse you, Josh):

MW 7/16–why is that kid in the background of the penultimate panel two feet higher than MW and O Stalker Lad? Is he hovering, or walking on a large berm of some sort?

MT 7/17–So the rifle really does fire bullets (nice how the echoing reports get larger and more diffuse). Now, where is the mysterious tranquilizing device the rangers keep talking about? Just what will it take to knock this bear out?
BigJoe
July 17th, 2006 at 11:54 am [Reply]

MT – I do give Mark some credit, he must have been a helluva linebacker in his high school days. What an awesome open field tackle he makes in the first panel. I wonder if he ever played for Gil Thorp?

On the other hand, why didn’t they just shoot the obnoxiously loud tranquilizer gun in the first place instead of Mark making that mad dash and tackle and risk getting mauled by the bear? I take back the credit.
BassoGap
July 17th, 2006 at 11:56 am [Reply]

And why is Ranger Rick firing into the air? If he’s trying to scare the bear away from Mark, fire into the ground, so as not to launch bullets toward the campground we all know is on the other side of that hill. Why all the talk of using a tranquilizer dart last week, if that was a rifle Rick was carrying all along? Dart guns don’t go “pow”.

It’s a wounded bear, about to attack two people. Shoot it. I don’t care if you’re a ranger who wants to help care for the arrow wound. And neither would any vet.

Dammit…now I’m not listening to my meds, which keep whispering “Don’t read MT/MW/RM/GT…oh, yeah!”
tefflan
July 17th, 2006 at 12:09 pm [Reply]

07/17/06 Rex Morgan: Not only is Troy not a doctor, whatever “fountain of youth” drug he’s taking is wearing off. At the rate he’s going, he’ll be dead of old age in four more frames.

07/17/06 Mark Trail: “Okay honey, you can get up now. Hey, are you okay? Hey! Damn it. Rick, I told you to shoot the BEAR, you idiot!”
Badly_Computer_Animated_Boy
July 17th, 2006 at 12:26 pm [Reply]

99 & 100: Great points. Also, if Mark runs fast enough to save the stupid tourist, why didn’t he just say “gimme that”, grab the tranquilizer gun and run after the bear in the first place?
BigJoe
July 17th, 2006 at 12:28 pm [Reply]

101 – Actually, as hard as Mark hit her she probably has a broken spine.
tefflan
July 17th, 2006 at 12:42 pm [Reply]

#97, DA: Don’t worry about it. At the rate the schools in this country are going, no one will be able to read or write in about ten years, so the problem will solve itself.

“I was thinking about writing a book, duhhh…”
“Duh, really? You are sooooo smart…duhhh…”
Hogen mogen
July 17th, 2006 at 1:04 pm [Reply]

Foob: A book? What the heck iz dat? Can I downloawd one into my video iPod?
Yeah, anyway, Mike, I’m no novelist or anything, but it seems to me that if you have a plot line in your head, that an ending should sort of be there before you start writing the damn thing. If you want to know how it turns out, consult the outline that you wrote.
Truth be told, books about WWII vets becoming farmers in Alberta aren’t really going to fly off the shelf.
MaryAnnTheRest
July 17th, 2006 at 1:05 pm [Reply]

# 87: I love that Futurama line. A couple days ago, I caught this in a Simpsons rerun:

Bart (to Homer): Mom won’t let us read Hagar the Horrible.
Marge: I just don’t think it’s funny.

It’s the episode where Homer becomes a missionary to escape a PBS pledge drive.
D.A. Pennington
July 17th, 2006 at 1:46 pm [Reply]

FOOB: Excerpt from Mike’s novel

“So, how’s it going eh?” The Captain radioed his tailgunner.
“It’s going good eh. Awful cold up here. Did you bring your toque eh?” the tailgunner replied.
“Oh yeah eh. An my belly is nice and warm from that scapple and back bacon breakfast we had this morning eh.”
The tailgunner laughed a gutteral laugh and said, “Oh yeah, eh. Could go for some Molson right now eh, or that Mitagatakiwaki fire water eh.”
mere cog in the machine
July 17th, 2006 at 2:40 pm [Reply]

#105: Being unfortunate enough to have read several of Sissy Mike’s execrable FOOB letters, I don’t even care to imagine the sort of vapid, wordy tripe that would constitute a Patterson maiden novel ( and by “maiden” novel I do, in fact, fully intend to traduce Mikey’s masculinity). I can state with all honesty that I would rather toss Mary Worth’s salad – if you know what I mean – than be forced to read the would-be deepness of whiney Patterspeak.
I would, however, like to suggest a few titles:
‘Fall of the House of Foob’
‘April Eyre-head’
‘A Million Little Moustache Crumbs’
‘On the Roadside’
and for the kids: ‘James and the Giant Elly-Ass’
Dave
July 17th, 2006 at 3:08 pm [Reply]

One need not look to Prickly City’s misguided politics to find aggravation. It’s bad enough that the strip is such an obvious, but ultimately lame and unsuccessful, rip-off of Calvin and Hobbes — what with the characters jumping around on weird outcroppings while bantering philosophically. It’s practically plagiarism.
MossMoses
July 17th, 2006 at 3:08 pm [Reply]

101. “if Mark runs fast enough to save the stupid tourist”

That’s no tourist, that’s Kelly Welly. It seems she’s tired of being Mark Trail’s editor Bill Ellis’ trophy bimbo and has decided once again to behave stupidly around animals to have Mark Trail rescue her in the nick of time. This pattern recurrs with sickening regularity in Mark Trail. She blew off her outdoor fashion show assignment to be with Mark Trail. If Kelly Welly is not stepping on gators or getting right between mother and cub bears then she’s getting a closeup of an enraged grizzly bear with an arrow in his ass. Next time try the zoom lens from a safe distance, Kelly.

Prediction – upcoming amorous Kelly Wellyian embrace rejected by Mark Trail.
majolo
July 17th, 2006 at 3:33 pm [Reply]

MT: my theory is that Ranger Rick (and incidentally, my childhood pride in grade school was that I had a letter published in Ranger Rick magazine… an unnecessarily long, rambling letter about some butterfly that was well camouflaged) is shooting the dart gun, but shouting “pow.” This is the only way it really makes sense for the second two shots to be louder than the first, as we see from the font chosen.
AwfulArt
July 17th, 2006 at 9:57 pm [Reply]

Heat Index is 91 degrees & it’s almost 11:00 PM in steamy Jersey.. Have to agree with “Ink Pen”.. Feels like a Mug Full Of Rat Hair..!!
Chet McCord, Wildlife Defender
July 17th, 2006 at 10:42 pm [Reply]

Oof. Some of the longest summer nights I ever experienced were in central NJ.
mumbles
July 17th, 2006 at 11:41 pm [Reply]

FOOB: I can’t wait until Lovey cheerfully tells Saint Michael over Eastern European words of wisdom, perogies and a nice glass of tea about how she chose one of her kids to give to the Nazis. Now that book just writes itself.
Scumbaggioni
July 18th, 2006 at 3:51 am [Reply]

Luann: Ah, this is what I missed while we were waiting for Dirk to snap and kill Brad and/or Toni before committing suicide with a chainsaw: the girls screwing with that stuck-up *bleep* Tiffany. It’s so good to be back in the zone that I don’t even care what Brad’s doing at the fire department now that his toy-truck duet act is all broken up.

But because the groundwork was laid weeks ago (strip after strip featuring Brad stuffing his face), you know Brad’s shortly going to spiral into massive weight gain and total career failure because he’s lost the wind beneath his wings and we’re going to have to watch. (Oh God, I’ve read too many FOOBs.)

Jump Start visits territory already well traveled by Baby Blues:
(1) Have kids.
(2) Carry on about how they make your life a living hell.
(3) Make other peoples’ lives a living hell while carrying on about how your kids make your life a living hell.
(4) Have more kids as soon as possible.
And you wonder why I hate people.

Get Fuzzy: Dear God. I don’t know which is more disturbing: the utter poetry behind Bucky’s rubber-band eating fetish, or “Dr. Munch,” the stool-sample-requiring pet psychiatrist he’s talking to. I’ve seen more Hammer horror films than you’ve had bowel movements, and nothing prepared me for that geek. I hope he’s good for a couple of weeks’ worth of strips, I already like him almost as much as Rob’s dad.
Scumbaggioni
July 18th, 2006 at 5:16 am [Reply]

Speaking of FOOB: do they have books in Canada? April’s acting like she’s just seen fire for the first time. I’m expecting her to run outside, pick up a bone, slam it on the ground a few times, and hurl it into the sky.
Dennis Jimenez
July 18th, 2006 at 7:49 am [Reply]

7.18.2006

JP – Panel three – Sophie prepares to tell Neddy about her adversion to anal sex as Meat Loaf’s, “I Will Do Anything For Love,” plays softly in the background.
BigJoe
July 18th, 2006 at 8:03 am [Reply]

MT – Okay, all this time Mark thought the person taking photos was a guy? I could tell it was a chick every time she was shown. Mark really should wear his glasses when he’s tracking dangerous wounded animals.

Curtis – Oh no, the Flyspeck Island Chameleon got loose in the house! I didn’t see that one coming. I have a prediction. This is a longshot, but I predict that the chameleon will cause a huge commotion amongst his mom’s church group and play numerous jokes such as smashing cake in faces, spilling drinks, etc., and they will think Curtis did it. I know, I know, it’s a wild prediction, but I just have this strange feeling about it.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/curtis.asp?date=20060718
TheMagicMel
July 18th, 2006 at 8:07 am [Reply]

What is April wearing today?? In panel two it looks like she has one of those choker necklaces on that were popular in the late 80’s/early 90’s. She is so roadside.
BigJoe
July 18th, 2006 at 8:19 am [Reply]

MW: Aldo Stalker comes onto her stronger than a 25 cent bottle of cologne, and Mary’s comment is “I think he was interested in becoming more than friends.” Duh, ya think? Cripes, he practically proposed to her.

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060718&name=Mary_Worth

TDIET: Not as mind numbingly stupid as normal, but not exactly the most imaginative either. But the best part is the P.S. at the end, just in case you weren’t sure.

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060718&name=TDIE
BassoGap
July 18th, 2006 at 8:33 am [Reply]

TDIET — “Quite a number of wives across the USA?” Jeebus, I hope they all answer with a rousing “Get off your fat @$$ and get it yourself, bee-yotch!”

Scumbaggioni (#115) — Rob’s dad is one of the great peripheral comics characters…loved the line about “I like steak, I like cake” over the weekend. And even better, his reaction to Rob’s line, “I didn’t say steak AND cake.”

Today’s wager — every comment made in this blog entry will be repeated later, once Josh returns and writes a new one, by readers who didn’t visit here this morning.

Go Floyd!
fluffytufts
July 18th, 2006 at 9:18 am [Reply]

Dimestore @ #70:

Eeew.
Chris Opperman
July 18th, 2006 at 9:23 am [Reply]

I have to say two things about today’s comic strips:

1. FBOFW: If I was having a problem writing a book, I wouldn’t ask my mom to make an outline for me. Just because as an adult…well…that’s extremely lame. I didn’t even want my mom to help me with my book reports when I was a kid!

2. Cathy: Her husband is apparently now a eunuch and she is creepier than Chucky…AND his bride!

Either way, I hope your vacation rocks!

Chris
Dan B
July 18th, 2006 at 9:51 am [Reply]

MT: HOLY CRAP YOU’RE A WOMAN? I COULDN’T TELL UNTIL I TURNED YOU OVER! Dude can spot a licorice plant at 50 yards but can’t spot breasts from two feet? You suck, Mark Trail.
Badly_Computer_Animated_Boy
July 18th, 2006 at 9:56 am [Reply]

As Scumbaggioni mentioned at #116, April’s reaction (”WHOA! Like a real book? With pages an’ a story an’ everything?!!”) is a little strange considering that her brother is a writer and her mom owned a BOOKstore. She seems to be less impressed with her beloved brother finally beginning work on his lifelong dream than she is with the physical components that comprise a book, the novelty of which, you would think, should have worn off some time ago.
Chet McCord, Wildlife Defender
July 18th, 2006 at 10:07 am [Reply]

Yes, we suspected it before, but now we know it has happened: the emasculation of Irving. But let us not despair, he’s always been a dipwad.
Joan
July 18th, 2006 at 10:19 am [Reply]

I’m taking my comments on today’s Prickly City to the Forums.
Dji
July 18th, 2006 at 10:30 am [Reply]

PC today: apparently, punching people in the face is a right. Who knew?
D.A. Pennington
July 18th, 2006 at 11:05 am [Reply]

Top 10 FOOB Things Mike needs his mom to help him with.

#10: Write an outline for a book.
#9: Wipe properly when getting off the toilet.
#8: Spike the Klepforth’s drinking water with Ambien.
#7: “Tap a Tap a Tap a” on the keyboard instead of “Tink a Tink Ticky Tap”.
#6: Spike that brat widdle Robin’s formula with Drano.
#5: Write up a list of embarassing questions to ask Liz’s boyfriend when he comes over for dinner.
#4: Sneak rubbers from Dad’s drawer even though his pharmacist wife could get them discount.
#3: Go to Mitagicktaki and trade pox blankets for fire water.
#2: Screw with Dad’s train set in the basement.

#1: Blink SOS to our readers.
dre
July 18th, 2006 at 11:13 am [Reply]

i don’t know if it’s already been pointed out here, but i’ve just realized that jynn johnston is designing her layouts in FBOFW specifically to allow the placement of “blinkies” in her foobimation. i personally can’t stand the strip, but doesn’t that destroy what little, if any, legitimacy FBOFW had?
MossMoses
July 18th, 2006 at 11:33 am [Reply]

One might think Load Stalker and Mary Worth are compatible since stalking and meddling have a lot in common. One might also think a person who meddles for a living would be a bit more perceptive and pick up on some of the subtle hints that Aldo may be a sandwhich or two short of the full picnic:

1. He is hiding in the bushes watching her garden and looks like Wilford Brimley’s illegitimate bastard love child.

2. He makes strange comments about her similarity to his dead wife and other strange comments about her lovely hands.

3. He proposes dinner after just meeting the old hag and being told of her dear friend and after being shot down on that persists in proposing lunch.

4. He is stalking a haggard old meddling beldam.

5. He guarantees not to leave her alone.

Western Union could not have telegraphed the plot any better and Mary Worth “thinks” he wants to be more than friends. Nah, he’s just lonely.
BigJoe
July 18th, 2006 at 11:51 am [Reply]

#129 – Yeah, D.A., good job. I especially love #1.

#131 – Wait, you missed one sign that he’s insane:

6. He thinks she is hot.
Credentialing Curmudgeon
July 18th, 2006 at 11:55 am [Reply]

I’m going nuts over today’s RMMD! I work in a hospital, in the office that checks up on new doctors who want to start working here, and I can tell you that any reasonably competent hospital would have contacted the prison for a reference first, at which point they would have found out that the guy was DEAD. Not only is checking references kind of an obvious move, it’s also a required regulation if you want to keep your accreditation, which is what allows you to collect Medicare/Medicaid money (i.e., stay afloat).

Ahem. Sorry. Guess there’s such a thing as taking your work too seriously. Also such a thing as forgetting that it’s a comic strip.
Library Cat
July 18th, 2006 at 12:23 pm [Reply]

MW: Mary’s shirt changes from the cutoff baseball t-shirt style all the kids are wearing these days back to the all black sleeveless number from earlier in the day between panels. And why is Toby wearing a tweed suit to have cookies and lemonade or whatever that is in the garden? Is there a 30 degree temperature difference between their two chairs?

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mary.asp
Matt
July 18th, 2006 at 12:49 pm [Reply]

Happy birthday dude – can’t wait to see some new posts after your vacation. Hasta!

-Matt
Hogenmogen
July 18th, 2006 at 1:41 pm [Reply]

Oh the humorlessness observed in Foobville. April will read Mikeâ€™s book when it becomes a best seller, and sheâ€™s not being sarcastic when she says that. Do you know what would have been funnier â€“ or at all funny? If April WAS being sarcastic. Or, even better, if April said â€œIâ€™ll see it when it becomes a movie.â€ See, then you get the angle that she thinks the book will transcend the printed page and be made into a big budget silver screen deal plus the angle that kids today just donâ€™t read. How can I think of at least two alternative and better strips than Lynn Johnson and Iâ€™ve only worked at this for thirty seconds?

Foobville is the pinnacle of cartooning excellence in contrast to the vapid strips like Beetle, Wiz, BC, Hagar and the rest. Today I read them at breakfast and none left enough of an impression for me to remember by the time I walked to my car to go to work.

Mary Worth, you saucy tart, you spicy bint. Grrr. Swinginâ€™ those hips to and fro, captivating all the Charterstone menâ€™s eyes then pulling the â€œI got a manâ€ card out on them. You little tease. Taunt me no more, you temptress, you sly minx. Away, visions of your silver hair glistening in the moonlight! Be gone, ye angelic images wearing rubber corsets and a leather thong! Would that my mindâ€™s eye only be blinded shall I be rid of thee!
NJP
July 18th, 2006 at 1:50 pm [Reply]

If nothing else, the fact that the bear’s near victim was wearing a red long-sleeve shirt should have let Mark Trail know it was a woman, since that seems to be the standard issue attire for women in Lost Forest.
Hogenmogen
July 18th, 2006 at 2:02 pm [Reply]

120 – Joe – Yeah, that PS on TDIET is like having a little arrow on Garfield clearly identifying him as the title character. PS, They’ll do it every time!

Well, guess what, bonehead – last night my wife asked if I’d like something from the kitchen and I just said “No thanks.” I did not do it every time, so there! Take that! It’s just my little way of sticking it to the man.
Braniff
July 18th, 2006 at 2:06 pm [Reply]

106: I recall an old Mad Magazine edition which had a feature on acronyms. In that feature, PBS really stood for “Pretty Boring Stuff”. There was a picture of an advertisement for a 39-part series on the history of rocks, such as big rocks, small rocks and pebbles.

Mad Magazine and the creators of the Simpsons are right on target. I doubt that many of the fund-raisers at public broadcasters will never admit to agreeing with them.
MossMoses
July 18th, 2006 at 2:06 pm [Reply]

137:

Standard issue Mark Trail camera – Kodak Brownie
Standard issue Mark Trail shirt – Dickeys
Standard issue Mark Trail tent – canvas
Standard issue Mark Trail beverage – coffee
Standard issue Mark Trail bimbo – Kelly Welly
Hogenmogen
July 18th, 2006 at 2:23 pm [Reply]

I have no willpower and must succumb to watch the train wreck that is Maladroit Filmore.
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20060718&name=Mallard_Fillmore
First, isn’t Keller the guy who approved the outing of Valerie Plame? Isn’t Keller the guy who approved quoting the administration verbatim with no dissention on the lead up to the war? On reporting troop movements, didn’t the army invite the news to imbed themselves in to the troops? I recall watching live on Fox news the scene from the lead tank moving in to Bagdhad. Sounds like you only dislike the press when they don’t suit your ends, Mal.
Anonymous
July 18th, 2006 at 2:32 pm [Reply]

121 – Plus the fact that most men in that demographic don’t drink green tea. Geez.
Zorba.the.Geek
July 18th, 2006 at 4:20 pm [Reply]

#’s 106 and 139: And all along I thought “PBS” stood for Pearls Before Swine.
Minivet
July 18th, 2006 at 5:02 pm [Reply]

Green tea is, of course, an attempt to make TDIET a little more “current.” He would have better luck if he had looked out the window at any point since 1962.
AwfulArt
July 18th, 2006 at 6:47 pm [Reply]

Hey..!! A bunch of you out there are getting “PBS” mixed up with PMS.. “PBS” is the BEST..!! PMS is as follows:

13 Things PMS Stands For:

1. Pass My Shotgun

2. Psychotic Mood Shift

3. Perpetual Munching Spree

4 Puffy Mid-Section

5. People Make me Sick

6. Provide Me with Sweets

7. Pardon My Sobbing

8. Pimples May Surface

9. Pass My Sweat pants

10. Pissy Mood Syndrome

11. Plainly; Men Suck

12. Pack My Stuff

13. Potential Murder Suspect
Mibbitmaker
July 18th, 2006 at 7:03 pm [Reply]

(Back to my own computer now… meaning since last Saturday…)
un-PC: Well, if you won’t let us jail you for burning a piece of cloth, we at least reserve the right (wing) to an act of one-squiggle mob violence! Nixon, Reagan and North desecrated the Constitution, but, by gum, they didn’t hurt a flag!

FOOB: Elly’s comment in the last panel can be taken as a compliment. … it lacked subtlety.

Spiderman: Look forward to weeks more of redundant exposition.

Non Sequitur: A week of technophobia from Wiley. Sorry, lefties, but I think Mr. W is a….. Plugger!!!….

A3G: Uh, Tommie, I don’t think he’s talking to you here. Hmmm… too much time hanging with LuAnn, perhaps? Too bad…
Pendragon
July 18th, 2006 at 7:41 pm [Reply]

MT: Ranger Rick and Kelly Welly become “the perfect couple”. Hijinks do not ensue.

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