there are subtle nuances in every single one of those EXCELSIORS, I'll have you LOL

mh i tell you what right now i'm going to coin a new term that i think is going to be the talk of ilx in the future anytime one of us combatively picks apart a fellow poster's personality, and you are my inspiration: antagalyzing

― straight up now tell me will I be a fucking lump forever? (some dude), Wednesday, July 11, 2012 9:39 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

looking forward to analgazing other ilxors in the future

― dayo, Wednesday, July 11, 2012 10:21 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hah

u think you've been a part of every clusterfuck on ilx on a given day and then it turns out there are clusterfucks happening you didn't even know about

alexsf's "recipe" is lolzy on its own

― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Wednesday, July 11, 2012 9:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i thought that was the lol, and a good and satisfying lol it was too, until i scrolled down

I am pretty sure my inner goddess is going to get a leg cramp from this ceaseless meringue but that doesn't stop him.

He pulls my hips back and flips over my legs, twisting them 180 degrees. Then, he pulls back my head and folds my arms over my face. A sharp jolt snaps my hips into my shoulders and the transformation is complete. I am now a Volkswagen Beetle.

― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:08 (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― Smothered, Covered and Chunked!!! (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:32 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this week's Private Eye has Craig Brown doing a less funny version of Dan's post fwiw

Stand-up comedy thread?

― “Yes, I love the kinky fuckery." (a hoy hoy), Thursday, July 12, 2012

tosh.0 told a woman at his show that it would be funny if she was raped

― Mordy, Thursday, July 12, 2012

is that like some sort stand-up robot?

― “Yes, I love the kinky fuckery." (a hoy hoy), Thursday, July 12, 2012

stop messing around and put it on the blanket already

― lag∞n, Thursday, July 12, 2012 2:34 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

( from this amazing thread why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk? )

It puts the novels on its blanket

there's a great story in the charles schulz bio about johnston calling schulz (johnston being one of the few colleagues schulz admired) and mentioning to him that because her characters age she's going to have to do something soon about the dog, who is going to have to die, and schulz is really adamant that johnston not kill the dog because people don't want to read about dead dogs over breakfast (they just want to read about endlessly telescoping bleakness and cruelty i guess) and johnston says no i have to do this it's all right it'll be a big affecting arc and everything and schulz apparently says

IF YOU DO THIS
I AM GOING TO HAVE SNOOPY GET HIT BY A TRUCK
AND GO TO THE HOSPITAL
AND EVERYBODY WILL WORRY ABOUT SNOOPY
AND NO ONE WILL READ YOUR STUPID STORY

― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Thursday, July 12, 2012 5:37 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also apparently schulz calls her to congratulate her on reaching some kind of syndication milestone -- X number of papers carrying FBOFW -- which is a very high number by the standards of most comics but not a high number by the standards of peanuts, and schulz is very gracious and complimentary at first but then johnston says like "i'm catching up to you haha!" and schulz just says CALL ME WHEN YOU'RE IN THE LOUVRE and hangs up

― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Thursday, July 12, 2012 5:39 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

awesome

dammit I missed a post on that

weird guy

― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Thursday, July 12, 2012 5:39 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Makes him even more of a hero but there you go.

schulz is really adamant that johnston not kill the dog because people don't want to read about dead dogs over breakfast (they just want to read about endlessly telescoping bleakness and cruelty i guess)

hahahahahaha!

Genius post

Makes him even more of a hero but there you go

Reminds me of the Ray Bradbury moon landing story and equally as awesome.

AND EVERYBODY WILL WORRY ABOUT SNOOPY
AND NO ONE WILL READ YOUR STUPID STORY

chuck would have been a valuable poster imo

xpost -- on its own, that's a great My Chemical Romance lyric.

what is the other comic hes threatening w/snoopy hospitalization there

hint BOXCAR

i have no memory of that

on its own, that's a great My Chemical Romance lyric.

My Chemical Romance meets The Royal Guardsmen

http://i.imgur.com/Gd6BR.jpg

lol, all over the place tnite

Wasn't there a FBOFW where Liz was calling April a "retard" and her mom tells her to knock it off so she starts calling April a Boxcar instead? Last panel is Liz saying BOXCAR BOXCAR BOXCAR while April cries.

loll

Wasn't there a FBOFW where Liz was calling April a "retard" and her mom tells her to knock it off so she starts calling April a Boxcar instead? Last panel is Liz saying BOXCAR BOXCAR BOXCAR while April cries.

!

http://joshreads.com/images/12/01/i120105fbofw.gif

I was wondering if FBOFW was still recreating that old magic. Guess not.

For the next twenty-two months, the strip ran a roughly 50/50 mixture of re-runs of early strips, and re-workings of 1980s strips that featured the original artwork (sometimes slightly retouched) with new dialogue. On July 12, 2010, without fanfare, the strip quietly switched to straight re-runs of material from the 1980s.

BOXCAR

http://graceburrowes.com/WP/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/snoopy-crossed-arms.jpeg

CALL ME WHEN YOU'RE IN THE LOUVRE

i remember reading Farley's death. tbh it didn't leave a huge impression on me at the time, even at 11 it was not my favorite comic in the paper by far. but read something every day for enough years i guess and it gets permanently seared into your consciousness + personality so that even now there is a little bit of the pattersons in me

gross

i remember reading Farley's death. tbh it didn't leave a huge impression on me at the time, even at 11 it was not my favorite comic in the paper by far. but read something every day for enough years i guess and it gets permanently seared into your consciousness + personality so that even now there is a little bit of the pattersons in me

― Mordy, Friday, July 13, 2012 3:30 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gross

― mookieproof, Friday, July 13, 2012 3:31 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hey mordy take it to fear of death thread

http://catalog.fborfw.com/strips/07/fb050707.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSv-lKwOQvE

Boxcar!

fwiw abbott im 100% youre making the whole thing up, boxcar is the alzheimer grandpas catch phrase

thought it was post-stroke aphasia grandpa not alzheimer grandpa

the whole grandpa with aphasia thing was really weird to me because it happened months after my grandmother suffered the same thing

that actually makes more sense, i always thought it was alzheimers

I want Abbott's thing to be true; I like gags that resurface subtly

man no I am pretty sure I am not making that up

I'll admit more than anyone things can mutate in memory but I'm holding onto this one

it just doesnt seem possible

i would like it to be true

this will end up with me like Henry Darger, who made that giant novel in part because of a newspaper clipping he couldn't ever relocate, about a kidnapped baby

i don't see how Abbott's memory is implausible?

I was thinking today of the very first time I went to a business conference (where my employer flew me there and everything) – I was 22, and I had stupider ideas about boundaries/professionalism/etc, meaning I had basically no ideas about those things. They had us start out with '2 truths and a lie,' with everyone sharing to everyone in the room (~30 older and less inane people) and I said:
• My parents had an ostrich farm
• I wasn't born with a sense of smell
and because I knew those are outrageous I chose an obvious lie
• I have touched a unicorn
But when they were asked to guess the lie NO ONE guessed the unicorn one. When I had to reveal the lie I said, "The lie was that I touched a unicorn. [pause] Only a virgin can touch a unicorn." And the reaction was some of the worst, most palpably awkward silence...god. I have learned my lesson about being more bland with strangers but I still feel like I could never be put in front of a business conference.

― Team Safeword (Abbbottt), Thursday, 12 July 2012 23:21 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink