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

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.

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.

― I DIED, Friday, July 13, 2012 4:32 AM (2 hours ago)

ok if the April/'retard'/BOXCAR strip was your doing, you better find that shit

xpost -- Irregardless.

haha this is an interesting twist re boxcar

The editorial staff I work with has this bad habit of using smart-quotes on their word processing software. When their stories get published online, those smart-quotes turn into little diamonds and question marks. I send out a reminder email about every six weeks, telling them to turn that shit off, but they never do.

Maybe I should call regular punctuation "square quotes" and they'll get the idea of what I'm talking about.

I think most intelligent publishing software recognized some time ago that people copy and paste from Word prodigiously and fix that shit

I think most [blink]intelligent[/blink] publishing software recognized some time ago that people copy and paste from Word prodigiously and fix that shit

yup

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."

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, July 13, 2012 10:14 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

― pplains, Friday, July 13, 2012 10:28 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, this is kind've not a big deal. you should of left it alone, dude.

intense

pplains & s1ocki: pro-language decay

this is literally a tempest in a teapot, guys

thought it was a subtle zing, at least on NV's part

pplains & s1ocki: pro-language decay

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, July 13, 2012 10:40 AM (27 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

your kidding.

No, Morbs is right. However, it's easy to look back on a grammatical mistake when hindsight's 50/50.

pplains & s1ocki: pro-language decay

― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Friday, July 13, 2012 10:40 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Pretty sure that sentence requires punctuation at the end.

still wouldn't be a sentence w/o a verb iirc

NV knew what he was doing, he was just rifting on that topic

"never listen to your children cuz all they ever talk about is candy or magic the gathering" - scott seward

― scott seward, Thursday, July 12, 2012 10:09 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

From the Fear of Death thread:

well, death is easy to treat. just get plenty of bed rest. cure's the hard part.

― contenderizer, Thursday, July 12, 2012

i did know what i was doing, honest. happy to play fast and loose with the language and really can't abide grammar pedantry but my internal pedant is on point 99 pro cent of the time.

"pro cent"?

nvm completely misread that post my bad

That's people who are in favour of 50 Cent.

but all he does is whine about being shot...!

I mean, they could be all "THE EXPENDABLES 2, STARRING A POTTED CACTUS" and my response would be "kudos, that is a bold casting choice, I knew a potted cactus was a rising star"

― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Friday, July 13, 2012 2:42 PM (1 minute ago)

instead they gave us Randy Couture whining about his ugly-ass ears

― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Friday, July 13, 2012 2:43 PM (37 seconds ago)

from At what age did you lose your virginity?

depressing to realise how little my answer to this has changed over the years

― i read like cookie monster eats (darraghmac), Friday, July 13, 2012 8:20 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

isn't that how time works?

― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Friday, July 13, 2012 10:08 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hush i'm trying for a sad bill murray vibe

― i read like cookie monster eats (darraghmac), Friday, July 13, 2012 10:12 AM (Yesterday)

So my high school friend who performs as "Tammy Pescatelli" had an interaction with an audience member in Jacksonville, FL the other night; Tammy chided her for sitting in the front row and fucking around on her phone for the whole show, and after some back and forth which included the woman saying, "I'm not actually blonde" and Tammy replying, "No kidding! Who did you think you were fooling," the woman threw a full glass of wine at her head. Luckily she was able to duck, but despite a room full of people willing to make statements, police who were called to the show refused to arrest her. WTF?

― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Saturday, July 14, 2012 2:16 AM (19 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm filing this away in the always-growing file titled "Jacksonville Is A Shithole".

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, July 14, 2012 2:20 AM (19 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Feel like Dan Clowes may be best known for many books, most likely Ghost World, and I really wish more people knew & loved David Boring.

― Team Safeword (Abbbottt), Monday, 16 July 2012 05:50 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

comic books arent books

― calum-y maybe (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 July 2012 06:17 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

solid burn, well-argued

― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Monday, 16 July 2012 06:47 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

noted author of hipster puppies upholds literary values

― Ward Fowler, Monday, 16 July 2012 10:01 (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

WHINEY OTM

"lol you wrote hipster puppies" is no lol

kind of is if the author of hipster puppies is laying down some hardman literary partitioning?

otm

i mean for someone so conversant with this website and a coiner of many of its memes, whiney's remarkably un-self-aware in this way?

so wait whiney got banned from ilx and was SO bored that he ended up getting a book deal? i'm impressed. i just googled hipster puppies. congrats, whiney! book looks funny.

xp lack of self-awareness + hardline opinions = quality posting

now i want whiney to be my literary agent. i'll bet he'd be an awesome one!

http://i.imgur.com/hkppV.png

well there ya go

caption otm

yeah From Hell is really his masterpiece