Poor Gene has probably been sleeping with headphones on since he was a toddler.
― pplains, Friday, 9 August 2013 02:56 (ten years ago) link
haha it took me like a full minute to understand that joke
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 9 August 2013 03:10 (ten years ago) link
WAIT imma vote today!! I just found this!!
― dale cthulhu (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 9 August 2013 12:09 (ten years ago) link
a few months late to the game, but what on earth happened to:
Toothpaste for DinnerPearls Beforeo SwineGet FuzzyFoxTrotNonSequiter
― dale cthulhu (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 9 August 2013 12:25 (ten years ago) link
Get Fuzzy and Foxtrot are on the list. I thought about Pearls when I was working on my ballot last night, but it definitely wouldn't have made my top 40.
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Friday, 9 August 2013 12:29 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/OfUu2sy.gif
― pplains, Friday, 9 August 2013 14:23 (ten years ago) link
Arlo is constantly craving sexual congress from his wife Janis.
― pplains, Friday, 9 August 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link
It's a better schtick than "ACK! I'll be late for work!"
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Friday, 9 August 2013 15:08 (ten years ago) link
Fuck, that reminds me, I didn't put Cathy on my "worst strips" ballot.
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Friday, 9 August 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
ACK!
― pplains, Friday, 9 August 2013 15:58 (ten years ago) link
SUBMIT'D
― dale cthulhu (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 12 August 2013 14:36 (ten years ago) link
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Monday, 12 August 2013 14:39 (ten years ago) link
guys it's ok just go shopping
― dale cthulhu (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 12 August 2013 17:22 (ten years ago) link
but don't eat chocolates or you'll get fat, ACK!
really, the only thing keeping Cathy from being the absolute fucking worst is the existence of Pluggers
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Monday, 12 August 2013 17:26 (ten years ago) link
idk Pluggers but I am having a hard time imagining something more embarrassing and reductive than Cathy
― dale cthulhu (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 12 August 2013 22:55 (ten years ago) link
The art in Pluggers is 10K better than Cathy.
― pplains, Monday, 12 August 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link
http://www.gocomics.com/pluggers/
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Monday, 12 August 2013 23:47 (ten years ago) link
America’s first interactive, reader-participation comic -- Pluggers chronicles the hardworking people the world depends on. They represent the 80 percent of humanity who unceremoniously keep plugging along -- balancing work, play and family life.
Is the POV sort of Mallard Fillmore + Stockholm Syndrome, or is it more apolitical?
― cops on horse (WilliamC), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 00:16 (ten years ago) link
Oh man, you might actually be right about Pluggers.
― dale cthulhu (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 12:01 (ten years ago) link
I've been away from ILX for a while, can I still vote in this poll, or is it closed?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 13:24 (ten years ago) link
I just read through two weeks of Pluggers strips and I am pretty sure I want to die
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 13:36 (ten years ago) link
Whenever I read Pluggers I am pretty sure I want to kill
― no one should be offended by the lyrics in this song (stevie), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 13:40 (ten years ago) link
never said I wasn't taking some pluggers out with me
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 13:41 (ten years ago) link
― Tuomas, Wednesday, August 14, 2013 2:24 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Still open, I believe.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 13:44 (ten years ago) link
Still open, Tuomas, please vote!
― Mordy , Wednesday, 14 August 2013 15:33 (ten years ago) link
def think ilx should send in their fake pluggers and see if any of them get printed ("you know you're a plugger when you search in vain for the punchline to a comic strip" etc)
but as pplains sez, the artwork is far more accomplished than Cathy...or Dilbert
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 15:49 (ten years ago) link
there's no denying that the artwork is more accomplished but in some ways that makes it worse, because someone is spending effort on drawing these painfully banal scenes into the lives of boring retirees
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link
nothing but love for the gritty AARP realism of Pluggers
― I tweeted too much and I am in jail. (crüt), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
Maybe it is Stockholm Syndrome - Pluggers just doesn't get much of a rise out of me.
"Pluggers wear suspenders so they can keep a claw hammer hooked into their belt loop." Well ok then. It's like passing by a billboard for the Precious Moments chapel. I just keep moving right along.
― pplains, Wednesday, 14 August 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
Pluggers are those people who posted images of themselves about being in "the 47%" that were like "I have three jobs and raise 5 kids and make my own clothes just so you can sit on your ass in your nice welfare mansion" but somewhat less vitriolic and political.
― Kissin' Cloacas (Viceroy), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 21:07 (ten years ago) link
I'm proud of my terrible life!
― Kissin' Cloacas (Viceroy), Wednesday, 14 August 2013 21:08 (ten years ago) link
titling this "golf" means i only now noticed it
― blinded by aggro (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 15 August 2013 04:56 (ten years ago) link
shit is voting still open?? I didn't see the nom thread get updated!!
― i too went to college (silby), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 01:42 (ten years ago) link
still open - please vote!
we have a little over 10 ballots atm. i'd love to end up w/ 20+.
― Mordy , Tuesday, 20 August 2013 01:46 (ten years ago) link
maybe u should bump the nom thread
― i too went to college (silby), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 01:50 (ten years ago) link
http://www.gocomics.com/pluggers/2013/08/16
always thought this plugger character looked like Roger Ebert
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 01:51 (ten years ago) link
http://www.gocomics.com/pluggers/2013/07/30
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 20 August 2013 01:53 (ten years ago) link
seems relevant
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
so uh is there a deadline?
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 22:47 (ten years ago) link
I think I'll be ready to do rollout in Oct so lets make the hard deadline the end of Sept. plz get ur ballots in!!!!
― Mordy , Tuesday, 3 September 2013 23:36 (ten years ago) link
on related note, my first cul de sac collection just arrived by post
nice feature about flook at tcj today.
― fit and working again, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 16:07 (ten years ago) link
i have 16 ballots in - i want to start rollout next week. can we get 4 more to make it an even 20??
― Mordy , Saturday, 28 September 2013 23:14 (ten years ago) link
ok fine I'll do a ballot.
― Viceroy, Sunday, 29 September 2013 00:09 (ten years ago) link
me too! should i get it in tonight?
― Jean-Claude Brand Ambassador (some dude), Sunday, 29 September 2013 00:22 (ten years ago) link
yes plz!
― Mordy , Sunday, 29 September 2013 00:28 (ten years ago) link
I will vote tomorrow, or not at all.
― i too went to college (silby), Sunday, 29 September 2013 01:56 (ten years ago) link
voted!
did anyone get to the full top 40? i gave up at 20, i don't know if there actually are that many good comics. too many candidates for the 5 worst list, though.
― Jean-Claude Brand Ambassador (some dude), Sunday, 29 September 2013 12:05 (ten years ago) link
I think i did forty
― erect, sporadic, notorious, genitals (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 29 September 2013 14:52 (ten years ago) link