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

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

the po-facedness of managerial movers and shakers is a constant sadness to me

constant delight to me tbh

well, depends on yr mood. it's not like i ever want to "rise" to managerial level but knowing that i'm too flip for it to ever happen irks a little bit. dunno why. something about Kafka being a painfully accurate observer of organisations or something.

also after managing to find a corner to hide in for a few years i'm getting more exposed to the bracing crosswinds of office politics lately and oh god what is wrong with people?

they want not to have to care about office politics, ie scrabble ahead

i dunno man, the big dogs seem to be just as scrappy from what i've seen.

lol "shitting up" the "lols" thread

i'd rather be scrappy on the richer side tbh, but how to get there while maintaining a four-hour per day ilx presence? big questions, nobody comin up with anythin for me

ps lols thread w&t shot at this stage imo

yeah i know hence square quotes

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.

― Team Safeword (Abbbottt), Thursday, July 12, 2012 11:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

hahahaha there may have been a time in the BOXCAR era of ILX when I was splicing grandpa's BOXCAR rant into a lot of other FBOFW comics.

Where are the animated boxcars?

And here, I'll save you all a wiseass GIS. Talking about the animated FBOFW boxcars.

http://dinakelberman.com/simpsons%20gifs/train.gif

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/14939626.jpg

I have a boxcar mug

Josh was selling them for awhile. Also tshirts

btw this is the second time this week i have seen someone use the phrase "square quotes" on ilx. they are called "scare quotes." not "square quotes."

But for all intensive purposes, you know what they're talking about.