Metapost: IMPORTANT NOTE TO THOSE UPSET ABOUT MISSING COMMENTS
When I posted my previous metapost about moving servers, I said this:
Hopefully all will go smoothly, but comments you post here and in the forum during the transition period might not make it over.
Perhaps I should have been clearer. This does not mean that I will be capriciously removing comments or forum posts during the transition. This is an unavoidable part of the server transition process. Basically, to make the switch, I had to copy the entire site, comments and all, to the new server; once I did that, I needed to switch the domain information so that joshreads.com points to the proper server. But it takes 24-48 hours for that domain information to percolate across the Internet, so for a brief period, your Internet service provider may have been pointing you to the old site. If you made any comments or forum posts on the old site after the copy, they will be lost. Perhaps I should have made it clearer in my original post, but I didn’t think I had to. If you have further questions, e-mail me.
Derelict
September 4th, 2006 at 3:43 pm
Maybe you should offer a copy of “How To Rede Gude” by Alfred E. Newman as part of the transition.
Bombcar
September 4th, 2006 at 3:51 pm
Less jabbing about servers and more commentary!
Anyway, where can I find A3G online?
Lisa
September 4th, 2006 at 3:51 pm
Actually, I’m sort of glad my inane comment didn’t make it over.
I am, however, not glad that instead of a corpse, we get an intervention in today’s Mary Worth. Sheesh. I was really counting on a corpse…
DCBirdblaster
September 4th, 2006 at 4:01 pm
A few people here have pointed out ComicAlert.com is a very good source for online comics. I’ve tried it out, and it’s okay, but it just redirects you to either the Seattle Times or Houston chronicle. I like Houston Chronicle the best for me. A3G is available at Houston Chronicle or Washington Post.
AppleGirl
September 4th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
Thank you, Josh, for spending your entire holiday weekend moving this site to a more reliable server. I know everyone who comes here regularly appreciates it. I also know it’s a lot of repetitive, tedious work to move an entire website.
As James Schend says: ““Now I know why they call it Labor Day!â€
A3G – Wow, Tommie sure is anxious to hurry over to Ted’s apartment! She’s all: “I can’t wait to see it!” I know what she means. Hey, I can’t wait to see it, either!
And I can’t wait to see what outfit she changes into. Perhaps Tommie will come through for us yet. Since Mary Worth let us down in the Bettie Page leopard costume-with-a-whip department. In the saddest, sorriest way possible.
gg
September 4th, 2006 at 4:15 pm
#2, as #4 pointed out, Houston Chronicle has plenty of comics, including A3-G, and the URL is http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComics.mpl.
#3, I’m with you. An intervention group is fairly lame (well, in comics at least. I’m sure in real life they’re not). However, all hope is not lost. This intervention could lead to a corpse! Or even several!
AwfulArt
September 4th, 2006 at 4:16 pm
Gotta love the Labor Day >gay
gg
September 4th, 2006 at 4:16 pm
(Here’s hoping this won’t end up as a double post…)
#2, as #4 pointed out, Houston Chronicle has plenty of comics, including A3-G, and the URL is http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComics.mpl.
#3, I’m with you. An intervention group is fairly lame (well, in comics at least. I’m sure in real life they’re not). However, all hope is not lost. This intervention could lead to a corpse! Or even several!
AwfulArt
September 4th, 2006 at 4:21 pm
My post didn’t work.. What up?? Try again..
Gotta love the Labor Day gay referral in todays “OOTGP” *.. Maybe someone can post a link to it..I doesn’t know how.. Can’t even post properly..!!
*Out of the Gene Pool..
TwoClubs
September 4th, 2006 at 4:42 pm
Honestly, Josh; I don’t know why you put up with us!
Kenny
September 4th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
#7 I totally agree! I see the intervention turning into an homicidal-orgy of epic proportions.
yellojkt
September 4th, 2006 at 5:08 pm
Intervention? Looks more like a bukkake gang-bang is in Mary’s future.
Prehumous
September 4th, 2006 at 5:25 pm
Yellojkt, that’s just nasty.
Summerhouse
September 4th, 2006 at 5:36 pm
In today’s A3G where Ted says his apartment is a fixer-upper like him, or something to that effect, and Tommie responds, “Then I’m sure to love it!”…that’s actually some pretty good flirting on her part, isn’t it? Isn’t it? Oh, God. Am I pathetic?
Josh – This is what you needed to say about the whole server change thing: The internet is a series of TUBES, people! It’s not a truck you can just dump your comments on for me to drive to the new server. I successfully sent an internet, and I told you I sent it, but it might take 48 hours for that internet to come completely out of the tube. In the meantime, if you send an internet, there’s a chance it could go down the wrong tube. If your internet goes down the wrong tube, it’s nothing personal. Do not be upset. It’s just the capricious nature of the tubes themselves.
Fuzzy
September 4th, 2006 at 6:26 pm
Today’s Mary Worth = LAAAAAME.
Uncle Lumpy
September 4th, 2006 at 6:34 pm
#13 Summerhouse -
Thank goodness you explained that! I was just about to send an internet myself, but I was afraid it might not get there for a few days because yours was in the way. So I didn’t – and I’m better for it!
Mibbitmaker
September 4th, 2006 at 6:35 pm
I was going by the update on the last thread, but my post got there fine, just not right away, so no prob here. And I think it was the old page I originally had posted to, but did get on the new one.
Anyway…
MW: I have a prediction as to how this could end up better than it looks. Of course, we’ll get a week or 2 of lame platitudin’, but it’ll lead to a dejected Aldo biding by the whole thing, but unconvincingly. A couple strips later, Aldo offs himself. He’ll be his own broken swan.
Uncle Lumpy
September 4th, 2006 at 6:45 pm
MW Festival o’ Prediction: Intervention “works” (two weeks), but Aldo despondent over lost love/wife; hits sauce (two weeks). Mary, conflicted, meddles; Aldo recovers immediately (two weeks), then immediately (two weeks) moves away. Sends gift of swans.
Just in time for A Very Special Charterstone Christmas!
monkeyhawk
September 4th, 2006 at 6:54 pm
For a while there, I was a contender for COTW when I expressed shock at the news report that Aldo Kelrast’s story line was, according to MW’s creator, gonna take another 60 days.
Sic transit gloria.
Anyway, we’ve got about 45 days left of Aldomania, which means the intervention is due for some plot twists, dontcha think?
Now we have Mary’s neighbors collected in her apartment, ready to read the riot act at someone whose intrusion in other people’s lives has become intollerable. People are assembled and ready to say stuff like, “You’re pushy and unwelcome, you don’t take no for an answer, and you persist on imposing yourself into the personal matters of your neighbors, oblivious that your self-serving, self-righteous, smugness is unwelcome and hated.”
If there is a god, the intervention will turn on Mary.
Uncle Lumpy
September 4th, 2006 at 7:01 pm
#18 monkeyhawk -
Ohpleaseohpleaseohplease!
Von Zeppelin
September 4th, 2006 at 7:17 pm
If Mary or Toby or whoever know all about interventions, why didn’t they do one for Whatshername who broke the damned swans? (I had not yet developed my MW obsession when that arc was in progress.) Anyway, aren’t interventions supposed to be under the direction of a skilled professional, lest they do more harm than good?
Oh, right. Professor Chinbeard, the leading authority on everything, is present. Also the little bald Dear Abby guy. So this should go well.
Citric
September 4th, 2006 at 7:23 pm
The only way this can redeem itself is if Aldo snaps and murders Chinbeard and possibly Toby before Mary breaks a swan over his head.
dadzilla
September 4th, 2006 at 7:28 pm
I am missing two posts that disappeared during the “transition.” I have called that one guy on the internet and he said they won’t even “open a case” until the posts have been missing for 48 hours. In the meantime, I urge anyone who sees two posts, one of 2 lines and the other a 4 liner to contact me immediately. I miss them and I don’t want to find them in some shallow grave in some crappy Asian Golden Shower chatroom.
James Schend
September 4th, 2006 at 7:35 pm
Imagine if this had happened a few years ago, when DNS servers waited a couple hours between refreshes instead of 5 minutes like that do now. Now a DNS change takes maybe 4-6 hours to circulate across the whole Internet, back then it was 48-72+. People’s heads would have exploded.
JonO
September 4th, 2006 at 7:50 pm
Shouldn’t an intervention be comprised of one’s friends and loved ones, so at the crucial moment his granddaughter or nephew can stare up into Kelrast’s eyes and say “Grampy Aldo? When you stalk it makes me sad inside” or something?
Instead we get “Aldo, my name is Beardy von Beardlington. You don’t know me, but it hurts when I see you stalking Mary; it hurts deep inside where I used to keep my beliefs in Santa and the Rightness of the American Police Action in Korea.”
Least. Effective. Intervention. EVER.
Weasel Boy
September 4th, 2006 at 8:02 pm
My comment was lost, but I didn’t mind. It wasn’t that funny.
ChristianPinko
September 4th, 2006 at 8:03 pm
#15 Uncle Lumpy -
More information on the Internet can be found on the Internet.
Mibbitmaker
September 4th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
I just thought of a new prediction: Being that these aren’t Aldo’s loved ones, as an intervention should indeed have, that said “intervention” will be comprised of rights and lefts.
….8,9,10LLLLLOSER: ALDO BY K.O.!
MossMoses
September 4th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
Why did Mark Trail go back to the cabin in Lost Forest
to blab with Doc and Cherry when Molly’s life is in
danger? The ever impotent and incompetent Sargeant
Rawhide isn’t pursuing the bearicidal, chicken kickin’
beekeeper, that’s for sure. Law enforcement in LoFo is strictly a donut snarfing, buck passing front for Mark Trail’s fists of vigilante justice. Molly’s a little like Casper the Friendly Ghost. Golly, she just wants to make friends. When the other animals see her their legs run one way and upper body the other as they hysterically scream, “A b-b-b-bear “!
If Aldo knows what’s good for him he will run away from that intervention as fast as he can before he is bludgeoned to death will dull platitudes.
Summerhouse
September 4th, 2006 at 8:39 pm
Mark Trail – Poor Molly; she’s probably wondering where nature keeps the baloney sandwiches and Cheetos. And what about the social rejection she’s experiencing? That sort of thing scars a bear. Maybe she won’t be able to french-kiss Buck anymore, once they are reunited. He’ll lean in, but all she’ll see is the frightened faces of the small animals who ran from her, and Buck will get nothing but a face full of paw.
Cornwhacker
September 4th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
I hope we see more Mark Trail strips from Molly’s POV. I like her a lot more than any of the human characters.
18– I remember liking that comment, Monkeyhawk, and I won’t take my brief glory for granted. However, let that be a lesson to you: no matter how slow Mary Worth may seem, Judge Parker is always slower! In 45 days, Charterstone will be saying goodbye to Aldo, but Raju will still be out shopping for shoes to go with his new outfit.
Keats Hart Loren
September 4th, 2006 at 9:55 pm
LMAO@”Tubes!”
Poteet
September 4th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
#14 — Summerhouse, thank you for explaining the Internet to me. Finally I understand. Tubes, yes, I can see it. Many tubes. Tubes going everywhere in all directions. Tubes with minds of their own, that giggle when they shoot important stuff into spam folders and spam into regular inboxes. Josh has been working to discipline the tubes and make them do good things. Thank you, Josh.
2fs
September 4th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
Whenever I hear that “series of tubes” thing, I think of Brazil (and Robert DeNiro in a cap with a very long bill). Oh – and either the server switch is to blame for the loss of my altered foobness…or the Foob Powers-That-Be have very long arms… Anyway, regarding the central panel of Sunday’s FBOFW: here’s what everyone’s favorite dentist is really thinking in that central panel. And lest that not be clear, here’s our favorite, Finger Quotin’ Margo, to annoy you with inappropriate figures of speech. In other news, I’m working on a song whose chorus is “work it like a claw/ and call me Randy.” It’s a bossa nova. There will be a special guest appearance from The Phantom with a cheesy imitation baritone saxophone solo.
jailbird
September 4th, 2006 at 11:21 pm
First, Josh, you da bomb! Never forget that.
Second, I wouldn’t give up on Mary Worth yet! Maybe the intervention isn’t going to work and he’ll keep pestering Mary for another round… and then Toby will suggest a new plan – giving Aldo a pair of concrete shoes and taking him for a swim in the Charterstone pool.
I can hope, can’t I?
David
September 5th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
My two oblivious comments:
1.) Josh, did you delete my comment on the weekend where I said Mary Worth makes me hard? ‘Cause it ain’t there any more!!! Censorship doesn’t look good on you, my friend. . .
2.) Anybody else think Aldo looks like Captain Kangaroo? Anybody?
‘Cause I think he does!
dadzilla
September 5th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
David # 36….to avoid the censors re: your “hard” statement….try “non-flaccid.” As to Aldo looking like Capt Kangaroo….Most of us think he looks like John Madden.
Merdz
September 5th, 2006 at 6:46 pm
Some of you people need to spend less time bitching, for real.
Amy
September 6th, 2006 at 7:57 am
#9 –so glad to know that when a strip throws in some gratuitous (and of course, unfunny) anti-gay crap, we can count on you to praise it, AwfulArt.
Aside from the slam against gay men, who are clearly the major force exploiting the retail-working masses, OOTGP sucked Sunday for the same reason it always sucks: PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS YELLING! EVEN WHEN THEY’RE JUST QUIETLY CHATTING! THE STRIP IS ENTIRELY POPULATED BY DRILL SERGEANTS! WHO TALK LIKE THIS! NO WONDER IT’S HOMOPHOBIC!