Edited by author 12-31-2004 10:34 PM
Thanks, Mimi! I just sent $50 to Americares.
edit: Donate here

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Comments Page! Bonus points to anyone who guesses what song the title is from. And for once, Googling won't help you.

I was commenting elsewhere that these recent events make me once again grateful that I live in a place that is host to damn few natural disasters that can't be answered with extra sweaters and a few extra minutes driving. Either these kids are just plain thick, or they're in some kind of denial-constructing phase to protect their brains from nimisinunumcedititis-related* strokes... like the one Bill mentioned a few posts back. I hope for the former, but I rather suspect the latter.


*Semi-Latin neologism: Too-many-in-one-shot disorder.

I just watched that special on the La Palma tsunami like, last week or something. Because it's one of my special nightmares. In fact, I even had a good one about them a day or two before the actual one. "Good" meaning "damn big and scary like real life and not like my younger days when they were smaller and I thought I could ride it to safety".

I like how some sites and blogs are linking to a gallery where a tourist took pics from their balcony and it just looks all frothy and good fun coming up over the beach and grounds.... OMG, liek, tsunamis are totilly liek, the new avalanches! I SOOOOO wish we had those ya know, HERE!!!!! I have a boogie board and everything!!!!!!!

yeah

Bill: I don't know of any that 'match' donations, but then, I just stick to the recognised charities. Again, I've heard nothing but glowing reports about Americares - they have excellent leverage in turning a single donation into a helluva lot of supplies to help the greatest number of people.

Mr Mimi and I got some money from relatives for Christmas. We have noone to spend it on but ourselves. It's hardly going to hurt us to give what we can.

No one is talking about it?! Man, it's pretty much become a greeting up here.
"Tsunami, eh?"
"Jeezly cripes, yeah...."
I second the cheer to Mimi-- I wish I could afford to send more than I have (which is less than her).

And, in what will briefly seem a non-sequitur from Bill's latest posting:
The coasts of southern Ireland and south-western England will also take a beating, but by then the wave height will be down to about 30 feet (10 metres).
For perspective's sake, these pipsqueaks are exactly the size of the source of the recent trouble. The only Bruckheimer solution is to evacuate everywhere that might be effected, take lots of pictures of the more soluable land-marks, and cause the collapse at a known time.

Edited by author 12-31-2004 01:33 AM
edit: GO MIMI!
Let me redefine "best" charity:
Are there any that match your contribution, dollar for dollar? bOING bOING says that Microsoft matches, but there was no link and it didn't make it clear whether or not that was an employee-only program.
I want to give, but I want it to go where it's worth the most to the victims.

Bill:Has anyone contributed to the tsunami relief? Is there a "best" charity?
Me! I donated fifty bucks to the Australian Red Cross (which has raised 18 million so far. Ozzie ozzie ozzie!!). I chose the Aussie red cross because..well, I AM Australian, but they take donations from anyone in the world. The American Red Cross has a bad rap for mishandling 9/11 donations(another reason I chose the aussie one), but I've heard that Medecins sans Frontiers or Americares are good ones to use.

I won't fault you for not knowing about it--I've found it seriously weird that NO ONE talks about it. I really don't know what to make of it--numbed by an overwhelming tragedy, or merely disinterested in dead foreigners?
And some Americans STILL talk about 9/11 as if it was the worst thing in history.
It's the equal of 40 9/11s right now...and rising.

Jesus, I just found out about the tsunami thing (i don't really follow the news, as I find it too depressing.) This article says that the problem is not a lack of aid, but an inability to transport it: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/morefrom/...ke_041231042645&e=1

Probably the best thing the rich countries can do is to cancel these countries' debts (which should have been done before now anyway, because it was rich country companies and not natives who racked up the debts in the first place.)

I saw all the Liquid TV ones.

To totally change the topic...Has anyone contributed to the tsunami relief? Is there a "best" charity?
Christ, my brain couldn't handle it when there were "only" 10,000 dead. 120,000--and rising...This is long beyond a nightmare.

YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE HALF HOUR AEON OF FLUXNESS? Inadequate mortal, feast thine eyes upon the series of greatness: http://www.sadgeezer.com/aeon/ and http://www.pazsaz.com/aeonflux.html

Out of curiosity, where did you see the shorts? Did you see the one where she goes 12 minutes without dying and then goes to heaven?

What is the secret of the yeti? Do you know the Muffin Man?

There was an Aeon Flux half-hour cartoon? Was it any good? Is that where the 3rd pic at the top of the article is from? Can I ask another question???

If anyone's pining for winter decor, I've got about a two hundred square miles of knee-deep snow here I'm sure we could arrange to ship out. No one here remembers ordering it, and whoever dropped it of didn't leave the shipping label.

Found another article: http://www.mtv.com/shared/movies/features/a/aeonflux_sv_120304/

"Aeon Flux — exists in a futuristic, one-nation world where free thought is forbidden and the very idea of diversity is more than frowned upon, it's punishable by death."

How cool is THAT?!

But why is she making stealthy in a field of daisies? There are no daisies in the Fluxworld! There is only the jagged metal of post-apocalyptic dystopia. Unless it's some sort of garden in the sky for the ruling elite, where the masses are not allowed to set foot.

Edited by author 12-30-2004 03:16 PM
Yowzah - I got to be visitor 2000 at Gonte's site, woohoo!

Well that's my excitement for the day, besides the fact it is the last day of a very strange year (over this side of the globe at least).

Lav:
The link makes it unclear whether it's filmed in Germany, or a German film. I'm guessing (as it's late and I don't want to Google) that it's HOLLLLywood, as Bullwinkle would say. Which means that it'll have a Happy Ending.
Possibly they'll all come back from the dead after the final act, singing "Happy Ending" from PDJ Bach's "The Stoned Guest." And that one guy at the end's tooth will still get blown out and fall into that jar.
And the Tooth Fairy will give him a quarter!

"Hah? A love story with the main character getting killed every 5 minutes?"

Heh. Wouldn't that be cool, though?

All I have to say is, it better not have a happy ending! The happy ending is antithetical to the Aeon of Fluxness.

I just printed out the last couple of days of Comments to read on the long bus ride home, but just a quick question, cos I know y'all play games way more than I do:

Gerry wanted to see how I'd do at TyperShark, and I just finished my first game ending up at Level 20, with slightly more than 991,000 points. Do any of you know this game, and how many levels there are, or what the average points are? (It's at pop.cap.com, btw.) Considering that the only games I've ever played are Columns and Tetris--gee, can't tell I'm a girl at all, huh?--I just wanna know what I'm shooting for, as it were.

Bill, I hope you're over le mauvais problème d'estomac! I'm on day 4 of the same, and just am REALLY glad I get to go home and go to bed soon. :P

I just took another good look at the Almighty Super Peter Pan-esque Adam (with ugly dame holding action!) and Plastic Garbage Bag Hair Nitwit picture and realized that Nitwit doesn't have a nose.

I'm glad that Davey hasn't tried to rip off Harry Potter yet. One can only imagine Davey kicking Harry's ass in Quidditch and winning the heart of the pubescent Hermoine who'll cosplay as Sailor Moon in her spare time and cast spells while screaming cute phrases like "Android Fox Glittery Fuku Smash!".

I hope I didn't jinx that.

(Checks watch; wonders how long it'll be before Zef Photoshop-abuses this)

Dang, i was already making up schemes for the photoshops, then i read that. :P , Bill! Anyway, it'll be quite a bit. we moved to a new home, and it doesn't have phone line yet. so i can't get resource pics and such. (maybe i can collect them here at work and work on it at home, but first i have to settle the mess that my new room is)

Reading the last, a thought occurs: what are the chances of getting DVK interested in the works of Harlan Ellison? God know Ellison LOVES it when other people play in his sand-pile, it could prove an epic, Godzilla-esque battle of the egos. Loads of fun to watch if you're at the right distance... ;-)

Re my sister: she handles it with a lot of tears and the support of the parts of the family that give a damn. She really wanted to have children. Every time she found out she was pregnant she avoided anything that could put it at risk, and often lost it anyway. (Meanwhile, some of her friends were farrowing out "oops" after "oops.") What really had her furious was that, when she passed the danger point with her daughter, my father's wife called her, told her that she thought God had caused her to miscarry over and over, and then wanted my sister to name her upcoming daughter after her. WTF?!

Re Asperger's: I don't know whether this is an actual illness or just a label they've made up that's being applied to any maladjusted twit, like one of the girls who made the cake out of glue and crap. Labels come and go with the fashion: ADD, autism, etc. Hell, my nephew was once diagnosed with autism. It was bullshit, however - his parents treated him like an infant, so at age 3 he still acted like one. As soon as he went to school he started acting more like a normal kid, which would not have happened with a real autistic child. My point: I don't give too much value to fashionable labels like that.

I've known DVK longer and more in depth than anyone here. I helped manage a set of AOL file libraries in the late Cartoons Forum with him once. It was an incredible experience! He was always polite and acted willing and helpful - but some of the things he did... well, they show that friendliness was not the same as actually paying attention to what the hell you're doing. Before my friend and I joined the team he'd been managing things alone, and it took us months to sort out the mess he'd made. (I'm being careful what I say here. Nondisclosure agreements, don't'cha know. All I'm posting here was common knowledge on the forum, where people actually made a petition to get him out.)

As for his improving if he focused on one thing - nope. He used to be tightly focused on other things, like his STH and Sailor Moon stuff. He did somewhere in the teens of Sailor Moon comics, most of which are sadly lost now. And focus didn't improve quality none; he just spiraled around in tighter and tighter circles until he effectively disappeared up his own output port. In his Sailor Moon comics, for example, he wrote the creator in and had her praising Davey's work over that of everyone else and saying that he was a truer fan than those who called themselves fans. Those same people, BTW, had recently cast him out as a nutcake.

You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you...

Edited by author 12-28-2004 01:17 PM
Holy Crap, that was a busy couple of days. I wonder what the ego that (presumably) walks like a man would make of Marcie presuming to describe the majority of HIS sensations, or describing possibly unwelcome transformations....

I think the notion underlying "miscarriage=evil" is that GOD has judged the woman as unfit for motherhood, which is, of course, the woman's sole valid role. HISS! EVIL! Sez so in the Bibble! *sigh*

None of us are psychologists, but that could be a classic coping mechanism.

I got my Baby's First Psychologist Papers (a BA, which in latin translates into "Big Deal"), and it sounds good to me. Funny, this is the fourth mention of Asperger's I've run across on various fora since last friday. An autism whose time has come, it seems.

edit piaf-- For the benefit of those with sensible sytems of measure properly integrated into cooking; see quart, think litre, see pint, think 500ml, see cup, think 250ml. A tablespoon is 15ml, a teaspoon 5ml. Other math is your look-out ;-)

Bill:But aren't those people incredibly focused?
I dunno... obsessing about the SAME DAMN PLOT DEVICES and ignoring all pleas and threats to IMPROVE... PLEASE!!! for the last 7 years seems pretty focused to me. ;)
I guess when one's life is spent being ridiculed, openly AND quietly, by others.. it's not totally implausible to escape into a totally self-created world where everything you do is heroic and everything you think or say is hailed and worshipped as Holy Writ. None of us are psychologists, but that could be a classic coping mechanism.
Davey discovering the internet was probably an epiphany. The anonymity of the Net, combined with the lack of any Manners Police and the ability to flee the consequences of your actions (ie. log off), probably instilled in him a confidence he couldn't muster in real life.
Most people outgrow it by their twenties, tho'....:/

LaGrey:

aeon: "...it's bottom line a love story."
Hah? A love story with the main character getting killed every 5 minutes?

Mimi:

Hmm, Asperger's, interesting thought. But aren't those people incredibly focused? This guy can't even learn to spell "towards." He's clearly got some narcissism problems. He might be so egotistical that other people don't fully exist to him. They're there to either bask in his glory, or they're the as-bad-as-the-9/11-hijackers critics of his martyrdom.

I did laugh at that link you gave for his To-Do list. Yeah, like ANY of that's getting done. Whatever happened to that Night...whatever it was, with the gruesome murders?

Bill:without it occuring to his clueless lil' brain that people might find it tasteless or offensive. I imagine it's a trait that spills over into his personal life.
I think I've mentioned this before, but isn't that one of the symptoms of Asperger's? The total inability to discern and control your own social skills(or lack thereof)?
Clearly he has no idea when he's being an arse. He can be amiable enough when the conversation is very mild, but get him onto any specific topic and he starts hijacking it, steering it towards his own perceived expertise and only revealing further how ignorant and obnoxious he is.
His works might not suck SO much if he just did ONE at a TIME, not the three or more projects he's currently doing all at once.

Holy shazbot, the upcoming Aeon Flux movie looks like it might not be all that bad: http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.ht...04-12/03/13.30.film

'the deadline made me do it that way'

Looking over his site yesterday, I saw that he's recently used "I was pet-sitting for my parents" and "thanks to Mickey Dee's" as excuses. Since McDonalds was only working him 2 shifts a week last we heard, that one's suspect. And as for the first, I find it impossible to believe he hasn't lived at home his entire life. He'd know how much an apartment rents for if he didn't.
So, yeah, anything to get out of facing the fact that he's a hack.

The miscarriage thing seems to be like the gay thing--it's something that he just threw in there without it actually having any bearing on the plot, and without it occuring to his clueless lil' brain that people might find it tasteless or offensive. I imagine it's a trait that spills over into his personal life.

Edited by author 12-27-2004 08:03 PM
Well why does she even NEED to have lost a child to love an adopted child? It seems to be a stupid, pointless insert that will probably never be brought up again.

My best friend's sister just suffered through one, and I simply can't imagine how she's carrying on. Davey's such an ass.

It's good to see that whatever random interest DVK picks up still ends up in his comics, including an "overhawl" of his past works. Quick, someone send him some "How Not To Draw Man Shaped Boxes" books or something.

By the way, and I've been meaning to come in and post this for a couple days now.....

The day after I saw the postcard of the fishes feeding, we were flipping through TV and I had to stop when I saw the same exact scene on a show. I exclaim "Where the Ducks Walk on Fish!" and mom is looking at me like I'm insane and barking at me to change the channel (it's far grosser looking when they're in there squirming around and gaping at the camera *shudder*).

Edit: On an up note, someone shared the "Kitty Kristmas" page - http://www.fluffytails.ca/christmas.asp

I wonder if using mosquito netting over a two foot perimeter of the tree would deter this kind of nonsense. I hate to get a pet someday and have to switch to crappy satin dime store balls instead of my pretty, unique, irreplaceable ornaments :(

Aww. I'm sorry to hear about that, Negaduck. Your sister's gotta be a strong woman and I'm sure that her children have helped her more than she could ever imagine.

I can't understand why anyone would think of miscarriages as "evil" or why anyone would even think of using them as casual plot devices. Davey could have at least made Wendy--excuse me, "Copper's wife"--unable to conceive.

It kind of reminds me of an exercise I did in an acting class. I made up a character on the spot: a middle-aged woman in the 1920s who was unable to conceive. To make up for her infertility, she grew and nurtured a garden in her yard, and the flowers in turn symbolized her femininity (whee, two-for-one symbolism!).

Of course, Davey couldn't scrounge up any symbolism or deeper (and more sensitive) plot elements if he was given an in-depth manual written by Stan Lee. He doesn't have the maturity.

Edited by author 12-27-2004 04:52 PM
What is with DVK and concrit?
Everytime someone says anything about his art, like how about some backgrounds or his spelling/grammar, he comes out with 'the deadline made me do it that way'.
What f'ing deadlines... who is it that is screaming at him to publish his crap. Am I missing something vital here ? Does he have a publisher who imposses these 'deadlines'?
I know from the counter on his website that he does not have thousands of adoring fans, there are only about 10-20 regular readers. I bet most of them are from here anyway.

Edit: Can you tell the "miscarriage" comment pissed me off?
Admit it Davey, your art sucks. Don't blame it on non-existent, imagined events.

If miscarriages are as evil as abortions, then God has a lot to answer to my sister for. She had three miscarriages before she had her son, and another one or two before her daughter was born. Each one was murder on her, more for psychological reasons than physical pain. For this reason, the way Davey's using them as casual, unimportant plot elements... ugh. Let's just say I don't approve.

Re the nurse saving Serena (who had been partial-birth-aborted because, in the womb, she had a moon on her forehead and an odango hairdo!) by carrying her herself, I don't remember that part of the story. Wish I could say that of the whole horrid mess.

Edited by author 12-27-2004 04:09 PM
Could it be obvious? Being a blasted Bush whore, Davey's hinting at his "pro-life" stance. (Granted, miscarriages are nothing to tease about and are virtually uncontrollable, but I've known some people who've said that they're just as evil as abortions. I wouldn't be surprised if Davey feels the same way.)

Of course, it seems that he's been obsessed with this sort of thing for years. In SM:AK, Serena was aborted and then "miraculously" saved by a nurse who decided to have her implanted inside herself. And yes, the masses did complain.

Edited by author 12-27-2004 02:19 PM
Bill:What's with Davey's sudden obsession with miscarriages?

Maybe his mother expressed more than once that she wished HE had been one?

zing!

Negs:"You are about to become a beautiful and sexy vixen that no man will ignore." What she doesn't tell him is that few men want to sleep with a "woman" who will give them fleas instead of crabs, and will probably trigger every allergy in the world.
In Davey's World, it seems that ALL men lust after furry cosplayers. Strange little man.

"You are about to become a beautiful and sexy vixen that no man will ignore." What she doesn't tell him is that few men want to sleep with a "woman" who will give them fleas instead of crabs, and will probably trigger every allergy in the world. But, hey, it's worth it to risk brain damage to change gender to get any kind of attention from men. after all, don't all gay men really want to become women?

*head explodes*

I'm gonna go read my Omaha comics to heal my brain.

Edited by author 12-27-2004 12:43 PM
Mimi meant to point here on that second link. And why shouldn't her hair hang down like plastic? He draws it like it's a garbage bag anyway.

Note that the text on the awful Wendy drawing refers to her as "Copper's husband."

edit: What's with Davey's sudden obsession with miscarriages?

Ooh, one more... rather a good one, I think.
Could the mods be getting sick of his attention-whoring?
Davey begs for praise for his Pan ripoff. Mod finally replies, Davey not satisfied, mod gives a polite 'stfu and do something original' :D

Edited by author 12-27-2004 02:05 PM
Wow...Davey's a busy boy these days!
New Scarlet PI.
YES! We have Daveymatopoeia! *Audience Groans*
Scarlet's pitch: "You are TEH GAY!1 You will be attractive to men..gay OR straight... if you become a female furry."
Jim: "My mind springs instantly to using my homosexuality in a predatory sense. Sounds good, where's your zipper?"

This can only get more painful...

Recent droppings from the sketchbook
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/13012292/
Whatever that thing is that Adam is holding, it's too close to his crotch(a very SMOOTH piece of real estate, I notice) for my liking...
Yyyep, Adam is sitting hard on a steeple and showing absolutely no signs of pain. I call subtext and no returns!
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/13461447/
When Adam gets a makeover, all previous versions are OBSOLETE! Nitwit looks frankly scared at the horrific toothy maw Adam's flashing at her there.
That's Adam FLYING? Looks more like sliding to me. When one flies, one's hair tends to flip around in accordance with one's relative speed and wind, not hang straight down like it's made of plastic like Nitwit's is doing.
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/13520213/
Davey finds more ways to inflict his canon on the poor long-suffering RPers at Disney Echo. Wendy is now Copper Mystran's wife and therefore Adam's 'stepmother'. And looks nothing like the Wendy any Disney fan would recognise.
But hey, he seems to actually be reading the book!
The last picture is also described in Davey's Disneyecho Blog. Where noone seems to be interested.
On an Echo thread sharing one's favourite Disney songs:
My fave shows just what kind of a Disney fan I am: "Simple and Clean" form Kingdom Hearts :P
Yes, you're a REBEL!111, Davey. Say it again.
I bet just about everything he knows about Disney is whatever appears on SaveDisney or Kingdom Hearts.

There's another thread where the mods are posting articles about the Weinstein's departure from Miramax and Disney's search for new heads. Carol Koster(mod) rambles on about Catholic advocacy groups lobbying Disney for a redress of what they feel is continued blasphemy of their faith (so we know that the Kosters are Catholic now). Others post articles about other moves going on at Miramax, including Michael Moore's planned sequel to Farenheit 9/11. So far, mostly just posting articles for people to read. Then Davey comes out with this CUTTING one-liner:
Michael Moore is fat. And he doesn't eat enough carbs because several lobes in his brain has rotted out of his head. Some of the aforementioned lobes that fell off become some of his documentaries.

Okay, returning to the floor to laugh long and loud and clear now....

Edit: fixed that bum link, thanks Bill.

The cherry that Gonty's roleplaying characters are meeting resistence with is actually towards the entrance of the canal. It ain't in the middle of the damn thing.

I'll cut him some slack, though. Gonty isn't aware of that because he's a virgin. A lot of people (both experienced and otherwise) think it's right dab in the middle.

(Info from The-Clitoris.com--the best damned site for a woman, in my opinion.)

Davey has a HAREM, remember, Bill ;)

Vixen and Adam in one thread, Johnny Briz and Susan in another.
This is sick. Mickey and Minnie proved to the world that you can love without sex. How on earth is a Bluth ripoff tit-f***ing a mousie bimbo supposed to be an improvement on Mickey?

Hey, wait...
JB sighs with pleasure

Jonny Briz? I thought it was Adam Peter Panbell! Isn't it enough to switch tenses in every sentence without switching characters? Was Davey too sticky-palmed to remember which avatar was which?
(I could check to see if this happened more than once, but why don't YOU read that descent-into-hell again instead of me!)

JB sighs with pleasure as Susan slides twoard him, his member sliding into place...until it meets some resistance?

"....okay, who's sensing a theme here?"

Oh, oh, I got it! It's sliding! He likes sleds! He likes that old show "Sliders"! He likes White Castle greaseburgers! He likes stepping on banana peels!
It certainly couldn't be his sexual desires meeting resistance! Those don't happen when his pulse-pounding throbby fox dinky goes in! Those happen at "Hello"!

meanwhile, over in the Susan-Johnny bonk-fest:
JB sighs with pleasure as Susan slides twoard him, his member sliding into place...until it meets some resistance?

....okay, who's sensing a theme here? Anyone? 9_9

Holy fuggaroley. That is just... wow. One, not many virgins are all ecstatic when someone's abrading just-torn flesh. Two, that bit with the sperm-in-the-body-wherever is not erotic, it's nightmarish. Three, at long last, Davey-Kins can go fuck himself. Four, did he have to cream all over the wardrobe to transform it?

He's trying to comete with the beastiality-incest-pedophil brainexploder scene from SM:AK. However, this scene doesn't inspire quite the same level of horror and disgust.

O_o....
Christ, warn us before you do that again, Steve...
The ego is astonishing. He is now dictating what she looks like. Vixen slims down and her tits grow and... her pubic hair recedes? Isn't that kind of a contradition for a furry-lover like him?
I kinda feel sorry for Marcie. We know what she looks like... and HE knows what she looks like, yet he projects HAWT! Thin! and SEXI!!11 onto her. Yeah, really SENSITIVE, Davey....

Bill: It's gone?! It was there last time I looked. Farg.
I don't have that saved anywhere either... I know I posted it here sometime..

Mimi:

Am I searching wrong, or is your Urban Dictionary definition for Gonterman gone again?

Is someone using the Quality Control button to remove it? Someone in St Louis, maybe?

Edited by author 12-26-2004 05:38 PM
Good christ, that is SO what I never want to read again. Spew vomit gag.

But I stopped at this line: "He slips off of what appears to be a female version of himself which was once Vixen." It explains so much about him. I don't understand what the hell she was turning into anyway.

*shudder*

Bill - Santa may be real! I had a Mastersons sex dream Xmas Night! Granted, Santa seems to do things half assed if that was indeed a gift from the fat bastard, but still, better than nothing.

Yeah. Towels. FUNNY. Maybe I'll buy him a gift certificate, cut it into pieces and sprinkle it in a box with shredded magazines. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Dillweed.

Sorry about your box-and-towel torture and the lack of Mastersons.

Ahh, so I did find the right journal ;)

M3:

Yeah, I really posted it because I like hearing what others got, too.

Sorry about your box-and-towel torture and the lack of Mastersons.

Yeah, I would love to see someone Mist that entry, I was going too but my brain hurt after reading it.
There are just so many lines that beg to be mocked and taken out of context.
And yes, I agree with the virgin pedo love comment. I also love the way it turns into virgin-pedo-fuck yourself twoards the end. Vixen turns into a female Adam, is the world large enough for an ego this big ???

You're not a "total stranger" you are just a "technical stranger" and I like hearing what people got and gave. So hmpf.

But you are "just strange" ;)

Edited by author 12-26-2004 05:19 PM
Hey, Steve! One word:
YEEEAAARRGGHH!!!
Holy shotz! Porn by virgins! Fire in the hole, sperm in the ventricles! I was laughing at it until

GontermanD: Finally, her body undergoes similar youthfull changes as her face, and all of her body hair receeds and disappears, even her pubic hair vanishes

I guess it's not pedophilia if they turn into kids after you fuck'em!
(edit: Her face recedes and vanishes?!)

Note how much of it is Davey descibing how in awe Marcie is of him, putting words in her mouth in much the same way he's putting his "throbbing member into a large pulsing size" into her insane-in-the-membrane:

GontermanD: As she caresses Adam's sleeping face, her feelings twoard him only grow stronger, as affection grows to infatuation and then into love. In time, as Adam fills her vision, he's all she was thinking of, as if everything else was pushes aside. And the feeling only grew stronger.

I've described his works as "porn with the object of his masturbation being his ego." Now, it's quite literally that.

I'd love to post that excerpt on PoE, but then he'd know he was being watched. Also, I note from the timestamp on the post that this is how they spent their Christmas day. Depressing, really.

Thanks Mimi, those American measurements and ingredients really throw me sometimes.

I have added the nog recipe (plus translations) to my growing list. I hope to make some at some point, but I think I will skip the 'leave it in fridge for months' option.

There is new porn over in Gonterland, beware of DVK's seed, it has magical mystical tranforming powers.

Here it is for your enjoyment ???

GontermanD: We can continue it here: By now Vixen is showing off her full naked body to Adam and has worked his throbbing member into a large pulsing size, and she guides it into place. Adam's closed eyes and deep breaths turn wide open and a gasp as he enters you, not experiencing anything like this before.
LilMarcieMouse: Vixen moans as Adam enters her. The feel of his member sends a wave of pleasure throw her.
GontermanD: With a sigh, Adam pulls her closer and his member deeper, until he finds himself stuck about halfway, by some membrane or something inside her. He looks at Vixen with questioning eyes.
LilMarcieMouse: Vixen blushes abit. "My fist time" she whispers to him.
GontermanD: By now Vixen is lying on her back to the bed, with Adam on top halfway in. He looks at her and wonders if he should.....
LilMarcieMouse: Vixen give Adam a sly grin and her eyes tell him "Please do it". she nods her head, to let him know she is ready.
GontermanD: He pushes further, pressing his member deeper into the membrane...
LilMarcieMouse: Vixen grabs on to Adam tight. A small gabs escapes her lips. I small twinge of pain is felt which turns to pleasure.
GontermanD: As the membrane tears, Adam somehow feels Vixen's pain turn to pleasure, releasing a sigh as he slips all the way in. It sends a wave of pleasure that feeds back to Vixen and adds to her own which Adam picks up and it cycles from there.
LilMarcieMouse: Vixen kisses Adam passionately. Her hips moving fast, feeling him in her. Her body trembles.
GontermanD: In time Adam could hold it no more, he climaxes and launches his seed, he sends his climax through Vixen's already trembling body, making her orgasm as strong as electricity, pleasure overtakes her, and she arches back in extacy.
LilMarcieMouse: A big gasp comes from Vixen. The feel of Adams Cum was nothing like hse had ever felt. She climexs and her body trembles till she falls limp. A big smile crosses her face.
GontermanD: After what seems like an eternity of an orgy, Vixen's body relaxes, and falls limp, her eyes falling closed, and her mind spinning, with Adam's member still inside her. Adam can sense his seed inter her body, but not into the womb as it usually goes, but seeps into the bloodstream, and finally reaching her heart, which finally settles between the ventricles. As the seed arrives at the center of her soul, she starts to glow softly. Adam blinks, wondering what is going to happen.
LilMarcieMouse: Vixen lies still feeling a warmth in her heart. She is not sure what is happening to her.
GontermanD: Adam could feel the changes even before he can see them. He saw Vixen's body turn shaplier, slender, her waist shrink a bit to be noticed, and her breasts grow a full cup size. He can feel her legs grow more shaply and smooth around her.
LilMarcieMouse: Vixen opend her eyes and looks at her new chest then at Adam with puzzled look on her face.
GontermanD: Her mind is still in a fog, very warm and relaxed, and is still hard to think, as her face grows more feminine, and even a bit more youthfull, and her ears start to produce a sharp point, she can feel the change even though she can't and doesn't want to move her arms. She just laid there in a dream state with her eyes open.
LilMarcieMouse: Vixen closes her eyes again feeling her head spin in this fog. She knows a chage is happenig but wonders why it doesn't hurt and how it is happing.
GontermanD: Finally, her body undergoes similar youthfull changes as her face, and all of her body hair receeds and disappears, even her pubic hair vanishes, and Adam's member is coaxed out as her member somehow reforms itself. He slips off of what appears to be a female version of himself which was once Vixen. Meanwhile, she feels very light in body as well as in mind and somehow feels good over what is happening to her, it only makes the spinning in her head greater as she slipped further and further into the soft sensations.
LilMarcieMouse: The sention is almost erotic, Vixen smiles as she lies there. her mind is floating almost as if she were flying.
GontermanD: Adam looks her over, feeling her body with his hands, her legs, her sholders, her breasts, and her chin, marveling over what she become. "So this is what would happen if Peter actually had sex with Wendy," Adam softly muses to herself. "There's so little I know from reading that story." Meanwhile, Vixen's mind is giving way to her heart, what she feels and what she belives deep inside her. As her body starts to lift about an inch from the bed, her feelings grow stronger and stronger, until she starts to mutter them out in her sleep.
GontermanD: her dream-like trance, that is.
LilMarcieMouse: Vixen was feeling so much younger and light. her mind rolled with wonderful thoughts. she thought she felt her bodt leave the bed.
GontermanD: Adam put her ear a bit closer to Vixen's face, wondering what she was talking in her sleep. His hand somehow found their way to her back and bottom, which was just as shaply as the front and her skin was smooth and soft, almost like a baby's.
LilMarcieMouse: Vixen started dreaming of a wonderful place. were Fiaries and mermaids lived. in her dream she was flyng with Adam and Firestorm. "What a wonderful place this is'' She said to the dream Adam.
GontermanD: Adam smiled, knowing what she's dreaming about. He settled Vixen down and pulled a sheet over her, so she can dream away, not wanting to disturb her. He kept an thought about what Vixen was dreaming about, wondering what he could actually make in the real world, which was his dream before destiny brought him to this parralel universe. In time, he grew sleepy and lied down in the bed besides her, which was where he stayed until Vixen woke up.
GontermanD: The dream, still fresh and vivid in her mind, made her wonder for a moment what was real or imaginative. She opened her eyes, and looked at the sleeping Adam. Whatever feelings and affections twoard this elven young man she had was intensified, and her memories of what happened the night before came back to her.
LilMarcieMouse: Vixen crested Adams face. She had never meet anyone like him. Not even the Woodland elves. She thought of all that had happend. Her life had now changed yet again but it felt so right.
GontermanD: Her memories of the Woodland Elves were as vivid to her as the dream, more so than her memories with her normal family. It's almost as if her human self fell into a deep sleep and an elven Vixen woke up. As she caresses Adam's sleeping face, her feelings twoard him only grow stronger, as affection grows to infatuation and then into love. In time, as Adam fills her vision, he's all she was thinking of, as if everything else was pushes aside. And the feeling only grew stronger.
LilMarcieMouse: Vixen looks at Adam. Todd looks up at her to see love in her eyes. His tail wags. Vixen leans over and give Adam a sofe kiss on the lips.
GontermanD: Adam opens his eyes at the kiss, his light brown eyes seem to envelop Vixen from this close, and for a moment, she felt almost insignificant, but it only intensified what she was feeling past the point of mere love. It was even deeper than that. "Morning, Vixen," he said, his soft voice flows into her pointed ears and through her mind.
LilMarcieMouse: "Moring Love" she answered back. Smilling at him.
GontermanD: He pushed Vixen back, so he can look at her new body. "I'm surprised. I did this?" The voice only surged her feelings further.
LilMarcieMouse: "I think so. Isn't it wonderful?" she sat up on her knees showing off her body.
GontermanD: "Yeah, I can imagine," he said in his soothing sense-titilating voice. He muttered something about "explaining this to Mickey," but that part didn't bother her mind at this point, what she was focused on was the Center of her life.
LilMarcieMouse: Vixen laid back down and put her arms around Adam. She gave him a kiss on the cheek. she carested his chest.
GontermanD: "Well, I don't suppose you're hungry, Vix." Adam said (that voice agian). "Perhaps we should get dressed and find some breakfast."
LilMarcieMouse: "If you really want to" Vixen said know very well she only wanted to stay right there with him.


Marcie actually had to force herself from being on top of her Love. She stood up, showing her new assets, and looked over to where her clothes was. Whatever she was surprised to find them or not, but she now had a new wardrobe that fit her new figure and new fairie-based mind. Underwear and socks were replaced with tights of various colors, and there was a good assortment of dresses of varying levels of form-fitness, height of skirt, showing of skin, and what not. It included a few things Tink or Peter may wrear (if Peter was a girl, that is) as well as a Girl's School uniform, the wrench dress that came with her Merchant starter set, and off to the corner, the clothes she had on the last night, looking crumpled and pale as if some forgotten relic.

Steve: 'Half-and-half' is a strange American blend of half milk, half cream. There seem to be three basic types of 'cream' here - 'coffee' cream, half-and-half and 'whipping' cream.
Just use your regular cream, like you'd use in coffee. 'Whipping' cream is probably what we'd call thickened cream.

A quart is about 945 ml, or 4 cups.

1 quart half & half

What pray tell is this 'half & half' and what is a quart?

Oh dear lordy. I remember watching the Star Wars Xmess Special when it aired. I can remember some of the scenes, and it was truly stinkerriffic.

Must wash that outta my brain...

I'm Mister Cold meister, I'm Mister Snow

I'm off to find a little Christmas spirit.
Dang! I almost fotgot! Egg Nog recipe, as spoken by my father:
1 pint brandy
2 pints rum
1 quart half & half
1 pint whipping cream
1 cup sugar
12 egg yolks (time to make some meringue!)

Blend eggs and sugar until smooth, add booze slowly and constantly stirring (slow and steady avoids curdling). Add whipping cream-- don't stir too hard, or it turns into a dessert topping. The half/half can be left out until serving or just toss it in now. Store in the fridge, add nutmeg as you please. Technically perishable, but my brother kept some until May the previous batch.

"Able to Interact with Human Society" gift basket.

Dang if i don't want one too!! oh, wait, no, i don't >_<

Mimi: If it's 12:15 am, well, hell, why AREN'T you drinking?
If it;s 12:15 pm, then you're respectably out of morning and if you were having lunch at a pub who'd look twice?

Bill: SnowWorld is goodtech indeed. Far better than some sort of Strangelovian Pet Semetary deal. I though the latter was some sort of extremely well-composed joke when I heard of it the first time.

Davey: Here's hoping Kris Kringle brings you some sense of... man, what? Empathy? Reality? Perspective? Propriety? Maybe the whole "Able to Interact with Human Society" gift basket.

Mimi:
It's 5 o'clock somewhere!

Thanks for the POE link. There's some funny stuff there (on Davey's art: "It's markedly less awful, but that is like comparing horse shit to horse diarrhea.") And there's an interchange about Scarlett PI:

Some guy:
"I, however, would like to know if you ever actually met a normal gay person, or if all your understanding comes through TV shows."

Davey:
"To be honest, I've haven't really dwelved that deep into the subject. I just made a character who doesn't feel the need to show his alternative lifestyle on his sleeve, not out of fear but out of 'I have a life to live,' a character trait that can be easily found in any medium. That's it. I just wanted to make a story, not research a documentary."

Huh? Then what was the point of making him gay? It's like creating a character who's an Hasidic Jew who shaves his beard, uncovers his head and eats ham salad because "I have a life to live." If he's going to make another thinly disguised version of himself, just leave him that way.

Of course, if he wanted to research a documentary, he'd know that people don't get giant, ground-floor apartments for $25 a week.

Merry Christmas, everyone. I'll just be over here. Stressing. Because I've never entertained company before at xmas.

Is 12.15 too early in the day to start drinking?...;p

Negs, you right-on woman, you! (I sent you a spiritual gross ton of Brak shirts while reading your comments.)Actually I pretty much concur with everyone's comments re: "tolerance" herein--Kinsey 3/4 that I am--merely with the adjunct that I have a similar hangup about the term, "lifestyle." In the words of someone--possibly Kate Clinton, I don't have my Out There videos handy--"It's not about a lifestyle, it's about a life."

On second thought, that sounds suspiciously like an anti-abortion argument (hey, I need a change from all those "terror in Israel" side ads! Whoops...), so never mind.

Thanx for the Krautlink, Ernst! I know my German classmate Albrecht will get a big kick out of it. (This is the guy who often causes me to think, "I'm so glad there's finally another European in the class" until I remember that I am not in fact European [though I can fake it fairly well]--we just share a certain overeducated non-Yank'ish sensibility, I guess, as well as feline roommates.)

In the longago heartfelt words of Zonker Harris, joyeux noel, y'all. (Or rather, happy holidays, as we wild Cali liberals tend to preachily intone, with belated solstice greetings going out to our friends in the Southern Hemisphere.)

Hey, I'm Linky Claus! Here's a cool toy for all you swingin' cats, furry or otherwise.

Actually, the furry ones will likely not get a lot out of it.

Merry Ecks-mas, everyone! Be safe, don't eat yellow snow (if there is any where you live), and don't let your pets eat the white stuff off the tree--Pepper, stop that!!

Davey crap-strip: "The WORST part of Haliburton?" Gads, Davey, did you know that dissing Great Leader's Head Minion's company is a sin? And here I was thinking that he loved everything BushCo had to offer.

I'm off to find a little Christmas spirit. Wish I had an Ouija board handy, it'd make things easier...

Edited by author 12-24-2004 05:28 PM
Hey Ernst, could you repost that link you had to your teaching abroad website? I have a friend that wants to teach in Japan and I thought of you.
I live to serve.
http://lowcrats.com/Art/Ernst/korea7.htm
More seriously useful sites ici and la.

I dig how the Scarlett Thread degenerates in the interesting field of combat illustration. those PoE guys aren't that evil.

---

Also, now i can't get the image of a 'combat illustration' made by Davey, full of 'MACHINE GUN FIRE' 'BLOD SPATTERING!!' 'DEAD IQRI!' fx.

The Davey PoE thread:
http://friends.portalofevil.com/sfs.php?si=3&fi=000002101

(If that doesn't work, just go to the root site and do a search for Foxfire Studios)
The new stuff is a few weeks old by now, but still very funny.
Oh christ, the 'Disney is teh EVIL!11' factor has arrived. The Gontie Recycling of Tired old Ideas is complete.

Merry xmas everyone!
I am sending my greetings now as I will not get a chance to be online tomorrow.
Everyone give their pets a special hug and a box of food as a present. I heard another cat say that was the best thing you could give an animal.
I hope everyone has a safe and happy time.
Also eat and drink too much, if that tickles your fancy, it sure tickles mine.

Hey Ernst, could you repost that link you had to your teaching abroad website? I have a friend that wants to teach in Japan and I thought of you.

RE: Gonty. What's the joy in changing your gender if you're also changing your species? I could see being interested in trying out a penis for a day, but NOT if it's going to be in a frickin' fox suit. Fox Penis does not really interest me. On any level. What a weird little man he is.

Oh MAN, new PoE rants! *runs off to read frothing snarky fun*

Where exactly? I looked around POE and couldn't find the Gonty url. (I deleted the link over a year ago, long after it went dead)

And a Merry Christmas.

Edited by author 12-23-2004 11:52 PM
I just looove the spit-strings on her/his teeth. And the randomly pointing boobs.
My sister-in-law once had a boyfriend that was rather over-fond of the porno. She undertook a campaign of saying, very softly, "Marty Feldman," every time bosoms appeared on the TV. Broke the habit (the relationship foundered for entirely separate reasons).

Just to reiterate, yeah, I think you "choose" to be Gay the same way you choose to be left-handed. And you can "recruit" left-handers just as easily (ie, not at all). Right-wingers say it just to delegitimize Gays. In their fantasies, they wish that they could claim that you choose to born black or any other minority.

Weird Al: Yeah, great song! I have the video on DVD, with all the clips seen in Atomic Cafe, a great rental on atom-age paranoia.

Whoa! How'd this happen:

http://snowflakestudios.keenspace.com/spi/spi0015.png

I guess now he does post twice a week, but on Thursdays instead of Fridays. It's as yet unseen on Deviant (and should've stayed that way). And there are nipples! And I just looove the spit-strings on her/his teeth. And the randomly pointing boobs.

Edited by author 12-23-2004 06:48 PM
Merry Darkest Part of the Year! Sun didn't come up until 9:00 this morning! WHEEEEEE! Went down before 5:00! Hohoho!

Guess who gets to work Christmas night? My name becomes too apt.

On that note, I offer a couple of items I merely stumbled across:
realism and cynicism

[EDIT: Christmas at Ground Zero-- I'm looking forward to getting my up-coming nephew a Shetland Cockroach!)

Jeez, I want to rant and rave about DVK's complete lack of understanding of society. Unfortunately everyone else beat me to it and I am too good a mood anyway.

I will say that it looks like he has lived his life in a closet, be it a gay one or not. Sheltered doesn't even come close to describing the life he must have led so far.
Ignorant, homaphobic, small minded and bigoted. And I hate that f*ckin mouse he uses as an avatar!

Aah, not as good as I wanted but I feel released (a little)

Hey, Bill, just read your post on anti-Christmas music. I think (actually hope) that you'll like Weird Al's little Christmas song: Christmas at Ground Zero. It's a fun combination of atomic apocalytpic-ness and Yuletide cheer!

o/~ What a crazy fluke/We're gonna get nuked/On this jolly holiday... o/~

Urgh... so Davey's made one of his characters gay to counteract with the most awful mistake he made several years ago. Yep, he just wants to redeem himself!

"Log Cabin Republican." Tcch. Y'know, both the Repub's and Dem's are totally different from the Repub's and Dem's in Lincoln's time. In fact, if today's Rethuglicans were to meet Lincoln, I bet'cha they'd ostracize him from the party immediately. (And I bet Davey would draw/scribble/shit a comic about his legion of foxsuit andriods beating him up, too.)

Negaduck: I totally agree with you. It's my belief that people are born just the way they are (... and that Nature has a little hand in shaping them up as they go along. But the predetermined traits still remain.)

I read somewhere that hardly anyone is truly straight or gay; they just lean more towards one end of the sexuality spectrum, which would mean that most of the world's population is bisexual and that there are very few wholly straight or gay people.

Hey, I've met some bi people who were more attracted to men than women, and vice versa. Makes sense to me.

Mmm, 'tis rainy outside. Makes me wanna sleep.

w00t, got a reference on The News! Bill loves me!

Just dropping a note to stay News is still a key part of my regular web rotation...I don't come to quicktopic much, I think it's blocked when I'm checking over lunch at work...

"tolerance" implies to me that you just put up with something rather than accepting it or making any effort to understand
True, but in this real, nasty world, it may be the best we can hope for from certain sectors of society. Of course it should be about acceptance rather than just tolerance, but tolerance is better than nothing.
Didn't Mr Garrison give a rant abour tolerance vs acceptance/embracement once?

..and is 'embracement' even a word? O_o

Two things that get up my nose:

1) The idea that being gay (or bi) is a choice. Really, how many people, starting from ground zero, would choose an orientation that will result in people giving them shit and fighting in court for the right to discriminate against them? Straight people, can you just decide to become attracted to someone of your own gender? Nope. Gay people can't just choose to become oriented toward the opposite sex either. It don't work that way.

2) The word "tolerance." This is just my own little semantic thing, but "tolerance" implies to me that you just put up with something rather than accepting it or making any effort to understand. Yes, it's a step up from intolerance, but it's not the goal, IMO.

*reads Davey's latest GAY MANIFESTO*

Oh jebus... Oh yes, because the hook about Queer Eye is that NOTHING is made of the fact that they're gay 9_9
Uh-oh... he said the gay equivalent of the 'f' word - 'choice'.

Oh MAN, new PoE rants! *runs off to read frothing snarky fun*

http://www.deviantart.com/view/13411152/

Yes, Jim GoodGay is a "Log Cabin Republican" in Davey's tiny, tiny world. (And something that weird alien fursuits know, as they all read Andrew Sullivan's blog) LCR's are like 50s "Good Niggers" who knew when they should step off the sidewalk and let their white superiors strut by in sneering contempt. And it's a "lifestyle choice," just like how you choose to be born with birth defects! And which Gayocity IS!

"I wanted Jim to have a more realistic view on life in general, and that he's more than his gayness."

What do fags know about gayness? I'M DAVY I KNOW ALL!

"It is my hopes that Jim's character is in par with the current trend to make Homosexuality more toleratable--a move started with recent programs in the media like Queer Eye"

Oh Davey U R such a saint! Thinking of them poor FAGS now that you think its trendy!!! I'm SO glad that there's no HIDDEN MOTIVE! in your abruptly realized sensitivity to anyone who isn't exactly YOU YOU YOU!

"--as well as counter the reputation I got when one of my characters used the 'F' word while telling off Zoycite in Sailor Moon: American Kitsune."

Oh, sorry--it's really all ME ME MEEEEEE!

Yeah, the Queer Nation is now SO over the time you...Soybean in Sailor Moon: Something or Other. The WHOLE WORLD noticed that.
You fucking egotistical asswipe.

Oh, and "(I'm actually straight IRL, so LilMarcieMouse needn't worry ^-^)"
Hey, she won't worry! Not until you say you'd never fuck a beanbag chair!
(Yes, that was mean, but she won't read it. She'll just keep showing her "c***" to a virgin)

And--I'M ACTUALLY STRAIGHT IRL TWO!!! Which I just wanna say, as I linked to a guy who's straight, but wrote about homos, so I might get Gay Cooties!!!

Gourd, but Davey is a jerk.

Edited by author 12-22-2004 08:17 PM
Bill's Dream: Ick! ...and, boy, am I glad I'm not the only one whose brain does that to them.

Beef: One of our local merchants did up a shirt when the local beef producers were up in arms because the single critter we found with BSE (before it got run through the sausageotron) meant any Canadian beef was EVIL. Turns out we're just too dumb to keep quiet.

[Edit: was "...who's brain...". Time for another trip to Arby's-- I are whut I eats, apparently.]

Can I take a poop on a Styx album and have that put online

The obvious and predictable answer; It'd be funnier, and possibly look better than most of the stuff dere.

As the only follower of The Flakes, I'd like to let you all know about their exciting New Comic Strip! Oooh, my hedgerow is bustling just thinking about it!

http://snowflakestudios.keenspace.com/gr/gr15.jpg

Yes, they WILL accept anything! Note that the only "original" "content" is that Obi-Wan Deformi has a head well to the left of his left arm.
Seriously--WTF? Can I take a poop on a Styx album and have that put online by this site that-feeds-below-the-bottom-feeders?

Hmm. Porn? Do I even want to know?

No.

Edited by author 12-21-2004 11:08 PM
Hmm. Porn? Do I even want to know? And don't worry about offending me - I'm a 15-year RHPS veteran. Raunch doesn't faze me any more.

I just came back from the PDQ concert. I got to shake his hand, get his autograph on my PDQ book, and my father (oboe & english horn) took a photo of us. Oh, and the concert was wonderful too.

I am not going to post it as it is vulgar. The sort of thing a 15 year old boy would write. My main reason for not posting it is it contains the c-word and I do not wish to offend the ladies :)
It's hardly worth it, anyway.
Even when slapped with the C-word, I'm betting Davey just has Johnny's eyes WIDEN some more....

From Susan's urple prose about her forgotten past to the c-word in only two pages.

As for Niwit, I'm guessing her MBA will never be mentioned or utilised again in this story. 9_9

it is it contains the c-word and I do not wish to offend the ladies

For the purposes of this exchange, please think of me as a lady o_O Not so much the word as the context, really.

On the latest Gontput: Customised... skirt isn't scandalously short? Oh, wait, it's the SHOES! It's funny, the first time I looked, I thought, "Lookit that, he's managed to make her look somewhat ethnic." Second look... nope. Same old gontwork.

DVK on his motivation

I agree with what he says. If the world had more people like him, everyone would spend their time laughing their arses off and less time hating and killing each other.

There has also been an addition to the mouse porn. I am not going to post it as it is vulgar. The sort of thing a 15 year old boy would write. My main reason for not posting it is it contains the c-word and I do not wish to offend the ladies :)

Given Davey-chan's (at least) decade-long bizarre fascination for foxsuit girl androids, isn't it interesting that he's--sorry, ADAM's--shown no interest in Nitwit until she put on a fetish costume? He went straight from a bored "Yeah, nice resume at Community College" attitude to a bug-eyed Tex Avery full HUBBA-HUBBA! mode, only because of how she dresses.

Maybe DVK got a job at McDonalds not out of necessity, but because of his dress-up fetish? Maybe he has a thing for visors and aprons.

flowers are some Anime ref.

It's his bad rendering of a background screen, i'd say. the manga ones, used by regular artists, are sold on art stores (at least in Japan) and you cut and paste them to make backgrounds in a snap. of course, he wouldn't use one since it'd make the art look even worse in comparison.

I dig the crazy, insane, crosseyed look in Adam in the last panel.

Sheesh, give me a little credit, Bill.

Sorry, Fal-Chan, Negs--that was a joke that apparently only I got. Cuz, you see, Negs said she was going to a PDQ concert right before Fal-Chan said--
Oh, never mind.

I noticed this on the 1st view, but didn't mention it: Exactly how did she "customize" it? Since we never saw the original, even a bad artist* wouldn't mention it without putting in something that stood out. Did she add the Giant Floating Flowers Hologram Emitter?

(Note: I assume the flowers are some Anime ref. I'm old enough that my first thought was that just behind her was Goldie Hawn in a bikini and body paint on the set of "Laugh-In.")

*But, obviously, not a REALLY bad artist.

Argh... after five days of hectic shopping and running around, I gotsta looks through the many, many comments left in my absence.

Yes, Zefiel, there is a life out there... and I finally got a taste of it! It's a tad bitter and chunks are still left in my teeth... but life, life, I've found you at long last, I--holy shotz, a new Gonty strip! *proceeds to attach herself to the laptop for a good three hours*

"One"? Please, Steve. It's slept "wron."


Yeah, I saw that after I hit send and was to lazy to edit. Now I could say I did it on purpose. But that would be a lie ;) I just got a dose of Gonterspeeling and stuffed up.

It is good to see that it does not matter if he draws quickly or not. His art still sucks exactly the same.
The only thing that seems to change is the quality of his shading, it goes from bad to bloody aweful. I suppose it matches his spelling.

Yeah, I noticed how her English is deteriorating. It's starting to look like Quinaspeak to me.

Now we need to go back through the comments and find out who one Bill's competition

"One"? Please, Steve. It's slept "wron."

As there was only won entry, I lost. I thought that it'd be a Tinkerbell costume.

Hmm, is that a manly bulge on Adam in panel 1? Christ, I hope not.

Notice how the longer Nitwit stays in America, the more retarded her English gets? Another few weeks and she'll be saying "Goo goo."

Okay, sorry for the ill-chosen comparison--all my limited knowledge allowed me to grasp at the concert were Schickele's references to other well-known works. That being said, I've always thought Neil Innes never got enough credit how brilliant *his* work is, though a quick Googling gave me 109,000 Innes results and only 66,800 for PDQ Bach. Proving once again I have no idea what I'm talking about.

Still, we ask for a moment of silence at the the death of a shameless huckster/visionary:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/movies/19buchanan.html

Gont has a new Livewire up on DevArt.
So we finally get to see what NitSan is wrearing.

Now we need to go back through the comments and find out who one Bill's competition :(

No, I'm not spoof-posting under another screenname. Sheesh, give me a little credit, Bill.

I'm going to see PDQ Bach tomorrow night. There is the occasional benefit to have a father in the symphony. As for PDQ being like MST3K, not even close! More like Spike Jones.

Tuning my radio station to WTWP now. Hopefully that'll be the one station not playing Xmess music.

Speaking as the resident classical music snob, I wouldn't say PDQ bach is QUITE the same as MST3K - Peter Schickele composes all that stuff from SCRATCH, parodying every Baroque music convention along the way. The Best Brains mock existing material.
I would say PDQ Bach has more in common with the Rutles, or Tv shows like the Office. Played absolutely straight as though they ARE the real thing.

Hey, Bill, I've sent the latest postcard to folks any number of times, and it was always captioned as, "End of the Trail" on the reverse. A classic for all time (as well as perhaps a warning for tourists who arrive Out West unprepared for local sales taxes, which were almost 8% on my Xmas purchases yesterday--isn't that kind of a lot?)...

I was taken to a PDQ Bach concert at the SF Opera House once, but owing to my lack of education re: classical music, I only understood the broader references--my companion, a product of the British public school system, laughed his ass off throughout. Still, I can see an argument for PDQ's work being in the same vein as MST3K, which IMO can only be a good thing.

Ernst, I've heard that soaking in vinegar is supposed to get rid of cat pee smells (watch those side ads go wild now!), though if it's not a physiological problem avec la petite, I dunno how you can blame her for having such devotion in wanting to mark you as *hers,* hmmmm?

Good night everyone, and dream of fluffy kittens.
Funnily enough, the dream turned out to be a real fluffy kitten... PEEIN' ON MY LEGS!! What the hell? She seems to be doing it as a mark of affection, and we're not sure how to train her against it, other than making her mortally afraid of getting on the bed.

Add me as another PDQ Bach fan. I have the book and a few of the recordings. 'Iphegenia in Brooklyn' is one of my faves.

I thought that would be something you'd be into, O Slave of Killsy and Byron. Good stuff, good stuff. I ask because I got my father "The Short-Tempered Clavier" as part of his present and was thinking about other good PDQ stuff (like Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice) and it's always fun to talk to people who know what you're talking about when you mention The Seasonings or Iphigenia in Brooklyn. (^^)
I don't know who Kimmy Negs is, quite frankly. So I don't believe I could be him/her/it faking you out.
I have no idea why I'm still awake. Good night everyone, and dream of fluffy kittens.

Edited by author 12-19-2004 02:36 AM
Anyone else on here a fan of PDQ Bach?

Ooh ooh, me! Even have the 1977(ish) book! Have collectable box set sampler CD from 1992(ish)! Is very tired(ish)...going to bed, singing "Happy ENDing, Happy ENDing!"

edit: Hey, you're not just a psuedonymous Kimmy Negs faking us out, are you? Cuz that would be rude.

They're too shopped out to post.

Huh. so there's IS and advantage to earning minimium wage and not being able to afford gifts? ;)

PDQ Bach

Isn't he that dude who did semi classical sounding stuff, but with funny lyrics?

I finished all my shopping today, thank God for gift cards at bookstores.
Random question which is actually related to my statement: Anyone else on here a fan of PDQ Bach?

Last Saturday before Xmas, dude. They're too shopped out to post.
Gourd knows I'm almost too retailed out to post!

Woah, only one new message? does everyone have a life, or something?

Lautenberg Labs is hiring!

Looks more like they are cloning. Is it a prerequisite that all hirees have dyed hair and large frame glasses?

Edited by author 12-18-2004 02:13 AM
xbox system and then add is 20 games...you are paying way more than I am ...

And if you get it on credit like I did, you even pay 89% MORE! wooT!!

 $795?! Even in AUD, that's a lot! And you have to provide your own PC?

It is a lot, but I have wanted to make one for years, if you add up the cost of tools, supplies and time it is not too bad. I would never get around to cutting my own.
The PC is one I cannot really use for anything anyway, it would just sit in the garage and gather dust.

I look at it this way, if you put together a ps2 or xbox system and then add is 20 games, you are paying way more than I am and I get over 5000 games.

Edited by author 12-18-2004 01:09 AM
Lilly:
Netflix now accepts checks. $18 a month.
Me, I'm still unsure about resubbing.

edit: Gift subs still require a credit card. Of course. >:(

edit edit: Neflix just made my mind up for me. You used to be able to browse their entire library for free. Y'know, to see if they have what you want. Now, you can only see the top 6 matches.

GUY: Welcome to Blockbuster!
ME: Can you stop blocking the door so I can come in?
GUY: Sure--If you pay me $18 first!
ME: Umm, I just want to know what MST3K DVDs you have--
GUY: I can name 6, but after that, it costs $18!
ME: $18...To enter the store and see what you have.
GUY: Yep! Hey, where ya goin'?!

Okay, strangest Google ad yet: "Terrorist Name Search Complete tracking and reporting for Section 326 compliance. Free Trial"

Woo, free trial! Just like Netflix! Except that you can find out if your employees or customers are terrorists! Or at least terrorists so fucking dumb that they use their real names!

$795?! Even in AUD, that's a lot! And you have to provide your own PC?

Speaking of retro, I decided to buy myself a xmas present.
An arcade cabinet for my bedroom.
I have put a PC together with over 5000 retro arcade games on it.
I can't what for the cabinet to turn up, galaga here we come!

proving not for the first time that I'm just a gay man in a woman's body

Isn't that what DVK is trying to achieve?

Even if this *isn't* the brother with whom I spiritually celebrated Canada's World Cup win!

Man, I hope it's the same one! What have my parents told you that they didn't tell me?! [runs around in panicky circles until tipping over, hyperventilating]

Hmmmmm. All my ads are still for that movie y'all are talking about--with the big furry guy and little eyeball guy--and one about terror in that place my old boyfriend Josh used to live (hint: he's Jewish). There, at least I didn't make it any worse.

Glad to pass along the retro-eye-candy joy, Ernst! Even if this *isn't* the brother with whom I spiritually celebrated Canada's World Cup win!

And Bill, I can't wait for your Spamalot review. Every time it drives me crazy to think you live so close to NYC (didn't I harass you about this in IM before?), I remember that I'm probably about the same distance from SF, and I don't go *there* every weekend, and didn't even when I had wheels. (Though last night I flipped by Jeopardy, which I don't normally watch, and got every one of the Broadway questions right--proving not for the first time that I'm just a gay man in a woman's body.)

Edited by author 12-17-2004 02:55 PM
Elliptical with pointy ends (I'm sure there's another name for the shape, but if there is, I don't know it)

Footballoidal, or footballoidilateral, depending on context ;-) (edit: Rugbyspherical?)

felt like I was gonna throw up and had a monstrous headache all day.

My best trigger for that sort of thing is somewhat old cooking oil, either on the shelf at home too long or a long tour in the deep-fryer. I find that UNTIL I puke, the headache just grows and grows-- as The Tick said, it feels like my brain's having a baby.

Zef: Methinks he doth protest to much. Check him for probes! ;-)

Edited by author 12-17-2004 12:22 PM
I was ready to puke up everything I'd eaten in the past week.

Bill, do you remember when we all used to think that caffeine was the cause of the syndrom? plus, that shape could be a rhombus? is that spelled correctly?

a Reticulan name?!

man, i don't know what a Reticulan is, but i ain't no durn alien, that i can tell ya. 'cept when i'm eating 'cuz then i'm unna them H.R. Giger aliens. I dun wanna associate mah self with 'em humans, but that no mean i'm one of 'em greys, no lordy.

(plus maussan is a nutcase, IMO. he's taken proven fakes on TV as the real thing, and got all hyped up on a video that was blatantly CGed)

Re: latest tacky postcard:

Ah, yes, planet Earth, the way it was meant to be made. Elliptical with pointy ends (I'm sure there's another name for the shape, but if there is, I don't know it) and with a ring of condiments.

Blergh. I felt really crappy yesterday... felt like I was gonna throw up and had a monstrous headache all day. Then I found out that it was the soda I was drinking.

I'd been drinking fruit juices and water at the university; one sip of caffeinated soda yesterday and I was ready to puke up everything I'd eaten in the past week.

(Although that account is true, I just really wanna see what ads will show up on the left. *smilesmilesmirk*)

One scotch on ice and I am gone.

You, sir, are history's greatest monster. Unless it's some stanky blend like Ballantine's, then you're in the clear.

Bill: There were some pretty cool daylight disc pictures taken near Mexico City. Er... hey, isn't "Zefiel" a Reticulan name?!

I subscribe to the Charles Fort notion of these things-- there's SOME power that has access to our world, and it loves screwing with us. "I think today... rain of frogs. Tomorrow night I'll find some hick on a back road to wave a flying saucer at."

Edited by author 12-17-2004 12:23 AM
But first we have to stop the gas leaks in all the trailers :)

Edit: One scotch on ice and I am gone.

He makes the same point that I've made: Why do UFOs only appear to idiots? Why do they crash in remote areas, none of which are so remote that people can't witness said crash, none of which are so remote that the Gummint can't instantly send in the Men In Black to sweep up even the tiniest shred of physical evidence, and yet have the crashes become internet folklore overnight?
Why don't saucers crash in Brooklyn? Or anywhere else where people have WORKABLE CAMERAS?
Y'know, someday, they might invent some gadget that people carry around constantly to use to, I dunno, make phone calls or something, and that would also have a camera built in! If they ever do, we'll get provable UFO photos all the time!

I can't wait for 'Hip-hop star XZIBIT' to write a book.
Now that would be riveting reading!

The rapper theory on UFOs and ghosts. Yes, but only white people voted for Bush, so maybe it's really just about stupidity.

Yeah, "this gay guy" doesn't seem to be too concerned with irreversible brain damage. Hell, that never held Davey back, did it?

Edited by author 12-16-2004 04:40 PM
WOOP! WOOP! WOOP!

There is a new Scar strip on DevArt.
I was going to pick on his speeling, but DayBreak beat me to it.

Bummer Dude!

Edit: Anyone wanting to bet he doesn't change the typos?

OK, I'll have a go.

High-paying Clinton jobs for intellectuals.
High-paying Clinton jobs for intellectuals.
High-paying Clinton jobs for intellectuals.
High-paying Clinton jobs for intellectuals.

HOLY CRAP! The use of T3rr@r in what, 3 posts, and the adbar is CRAMMED with links to "related" topics!

Lets try this one, then-- high-paying jobs for intellectuals! High-paying jobs for intellectuals! High-paying jobs for intellectuals! C'mon, adbar!

The sad thing is, I have no idea if he was serious or not.

I am sure he was.
I read a lot of news groups and these sort of people can be found all over the place.
Kooks of the world unite!
There are some real wack jobs out there.

these monsters are terrorists
ponderponderponder.... You know, in a very technical sense, Gordy is right. Their stock in trade WAS producing a state of terror. Bit of a stretch with the accusation against Pixar, tho'.

Slow day at work? AND HOW!

Lily-- That link is going to make somebody's Christmas! My brother & his wife have a big Betty Page shrine in their dining room (artists, y'see), and there's several views of her they don't appear to have... yet!

Ah, psychics. I want to cry "hooey" with the rest of the sceptics, but for the detailed yet incredibly mundane precognitive dreams I infrequently have. Not much money in: "Within the next three months, a magazine with a green cover will be askew to the left on the shelf of the local 7-11. Brittany Spears will be followed by The Cult on the radio playing there." Maybe if I attribute the selections of the radio to Cheif Programmer of Evil, Osama bin Crystal of Monsters, Inc....

Man a live dinosaur!! i can't wait!! *eagerness*

From Snowflake Studios (which I think I'll just refer to as "The Flakes" from now on):

"Scarlet, PI will not be seen on Fridays for the rest of the month."

Yes, the guy who thinks he can make a living as a cartoonist or novelist can't keep up with a 2-strip-a-week deadline. Possibly it inteferes with that grueling 16 hours a week at Mickey D's. Your dedication to your dreams is an example to us all, DVK.

If I worked 2 days a week, I'd be updating all the time. Because I'd have nothing else to do.

I can't hold out much hope for the final product, simply because musical theatre is such a dodgy business anyway, let alone British-based shows having a go on this side of the pond

I'll let you know. My mom is a big Broadway fan, and she decided that she'd finally found a play that I'd be willing to see in Spamalot, independently of me asking her if she wanted to see it. (Though I also would've seen The Producers) We'll be going sometime early next year.

"these monsters are terrorists. although it is very implicit if you look between the lines you can see that the film promotes terrorism by saying it's acceptable to terrorise children. im in shock. pixar is definitely run by terrorist sympathisers. you can just tell. By Gordy."
-IMDB message board comment on Monsters Inc.

The sad thing is, I have no idea if he was serious or not.

Edited by author 12-15-2004 08:00 PM
I had thought about that.. however the most rad thing kids know around here (and being honest, that the comps will run) is age of empires II.

Family isn't too thrilled at adding games, tho, probably because of all the trash-talk involved with multiplayer gaming.

I was thinking (thread-jacking-action!) that i want to make the internet cafe i work at competitive and on par with 1st world ones. but i scarcely know about those. anyone has any ideas/ suggestions?

I do not know what you have in your cafe, but the ones over here do a lot of multi-player network gaming.

Dang, i hadn't noticed. it turns out having your monitor on 1280x1024 means LESS resolution afterall. :P 800x600 shows it just fine. and makes those pointy breasts sharper.

anyway, maybe it helps with hydrodinamics? and here waterheaters are usually on the back yard, so they could be prettier. once grandma's heater spew big tongues of fire, it was cool. of course, not so cool since it was in the back yard.

I was thinking (thread-jacking-action!) that i want to make the internet cafe i work at competitive and on par with 1st world ones. but i scarcely know about those. anyone has any ideas/ suggestions?

Am I the only person to notice that the water heater is 'ribbed for her pleasure'?
No, I noticed that too. Man, that's quite a large... oh, never mind. I don't have anything funny to say. (T.T)

Thanks for the Spamalot link, Bill--that article was awesome. I can't hold out much hope for the final product, simply because musical theatre is such a dodgy business anyway, let alone British-based shows having a go on this side of the pond (cf. Taboo tanking in NY after its London success), but given how much Sr. Idle's comedic output edified and illuminated my adolescence, I can only hope he and this venture romp straight to success.

(If nothing else, maybe then this can fund the Python DVD's being re-released with COMMENTARY, which was the main reason I borrowed my neighbor's copies [though it was nice to find that I'm still a dab hand with the Python trivia]). I curse whoever came up with the idea of accompanying commentary on DVD's, since now I want it on all of them! (This can be evidenced on the Amazon wishlist I started but was quickly overwhelmed by...still, life's not worth living 'til I gets me grubby paws on those commentary'd KiTH DVD's.)

For the record--as I also mentioned in those copious 'n stinky accompanying notes--I believe that postcard actually *is* of Bettie Page. I Googled a bit and only found this:

http://www.vintageviews.org/not-pc/glamour/glamour.html

which scarcely seems to be definitive, but as the owner of a kewl Japan-only Bettie Page book myself, I nevertheless stand by this assertion. And after having seen her actual (very normal) breasts, I can pretty much definitively report that's clearly just some fine 1950's hydraulics construction on that there bikini. Careful, you're gonna put someone's eye out!

Am I the only person to notice that the water heater is 'ribbed for her pleasure'?

The wig is askew because the antennae came unglued...

I'm more turned on by the Jetsonish water heater
Part of me gets cranky at the waste of material prettin' up an item which will hide in people's basements. A more vocal part of me mourns for an era when the aesthetics of most household items was carefully considered, and that didn't meant just strapping a TV onto it.

Man, who wouldn't want a water heater capable of 45 knots in rough seas?

Is it just me, or does the Hapa lady's hair look fake as well? Looks like the wig wasn't put on straight...

Personally, I'm more turned on by the Jetsonish water heater.

Oooooh... so sleekly strimmed...

Edited by author 12-15-2004 09:35 AM
That is the weirdest set of funbags I have seen for a long time.
Seconded.

You kids clearly aren't watching enough '50s Atomic Menace movies-- fairly standard items for the era, really. Something to do with the final days of streamlining.

I notice that one of those involved in the re-homelessing of the chap in Chicago is Tom Powers; clearly from the disgraced junior house of the Powers family, forced to leave Blightly after displaying Mojo too opening during the reign of Victoria. (Thinks- must adhere to stated theme!) Er... I imagine some of them must have gone to AUSTRALIA, too.

(edit: "Chigaco"?! Gotta lay off the breakfast smack....)

I suspect that she's a Fembot and those are actually gun muzzles.

There's "firm and pert," and then there's "isosceles triangles."
The plastic surgery industry should take note; I foresee a huge market in this. Where, I don't know... perhaps lonely high-school math teachers?

I didn't know tits came in those shapes.

There's "firm and pert," and then there's "isosceles triangles."
Although she might make the boys pay more attention in math class.

That is the weirdest set of funbags I have seen for a long time.
Seconded. That was more than moderately disturbing. I didn't know tits came in those shapes. My theory is that the Hapa Ho is really a man whose sex change operation didn't go too well.

It looks like she sharpens her nipples with a pencil sharpener

She could be a villainess in the next Bond movie!

M: "007, several of our agents have been killed by 2 stab wounds to the chest..."
007: "Sounds like the work of Haolly Badtitz!"

I just wonder how can it stick to the ceiling.

It's one of those 80s Garfieldesque stick-on-the-car-windows toys, in this case Grimm, from a then-funny comic strip.

The secret is Krazy Glued thumbtacks on the suction cups. Still up there after nearly 20 years.

The Hapa Ho gives new meaning to the term 'perky breasts'.
That is the weirdest set of funbags I have seen for a long time.
It looks like she sharpens her nipples with a pencil sharpener, or a file?

I just wonder how can it stick to the ceiling.

Edited by author 12-15-2004 12:55 AM
Killsy was merely pausing in her bath to watch Byron eat some Iams. She likes to keep a constant eye on her lil' bro, as he can be quite naughty at times.

edit: I kinda expected someone to comment on the Byron pic's leering dog walking on the ceiling, but I guess you all have a pretty clear idea of my condo's surreality by now.

Mimi:
Back when you were originally debating whether you would move Here or Mr Mimi would move There, I really wondered why you'd pick Here when it meant leaving your dream job. It's great to know you're going back to working with the Mouse. (Even if John Howard is just a Catholic Dubya)

Hey, I haven't been able to totally catch up herein, but I just wanted to say how glad I am that the book I bought in Sydney (note underlying theme!)--which was originally printed in the U.S. and sent to express my boundless esteem for the peerless comic stylings of my fine friend in Connecticut--is now being shared with one and all.

Because as you know, we here in Cali are all about Sharing the Love, mon. Death penalty cases notwithstanding.

As I think I told Bill in my copious accompanying notes, I've actually seen that stuffed Trigger up-close and personal. Why Mom and Dad took me as a tyke to the Roy Rogers Museum is anyone's guess, but it sure as hell was better than Trees of Mystery, where the giant Paul Bunyan tried to talk to me ("Hey, you, little girl in the blue dress...!") and hence left me emotionally maimed for life. But I'm better now, really I am.

PS: wasn't the Broome slaughterhouse postcard from somewhere in Australia, too? I sense an impending thematic takeover...

Mr Mimi and I are setting to move back to Sydney

Welcome back, just in time for Bush Fire season, if you move in the next month or two!

where I will be able to bemoan the delay in movies

*mumble*BitTorrent*mumble*

using my work computer to submit a resume for a much better job to a much preferable employer.

Good luck Ernst, hope you get the job.

Good luck with the job, Ernst!

Progress!

Ah, the grim frisson of joy, using my work computer to submit a resume for a much better job to a much preferable employer. [rubs hands, chuckles sinfully] What an age we live in!

Mr Mimi and I are setting to move back to Sydney (where I will be able to bemoan the delay in movies and getiing stiffed on DVD bonuses like Steve). After we get back and resettle, the acquisition of kits will come under discussion ;)

Killsy looks like she's turning survivalist. In the event of the apocalypse, she is set to hunker down in her hello kitty bunker with an old glove, a half-chewed box and a small RC car.

her expression says 'Don't even think about it, bud, I have firearms, too!' ;)

the last thing Byron "killed" was a wet fallen leaf. Which, over my objections, he et.

Cat grass, duuuude. Frankly, the expression on his face is very familiar: "I'm in a high place on a warm appliance and food is plentiful. What king or bishop can say better?" Cat toes is cute, and that's a whole mess of 'em!

Killsy's expression is familiar too: "Damn monkey interfers with meditation!"

Ah, but you should allow him to partake of the spoils of war! He exerts so much energy in defense of your life from the evils represented by such foreign objects as wet fallen leaves, you really ought to reward him!
Apparently my cat has decided that the Christmas tree is his enemy and he must pull it down. The last time I phoned my parents my mother had to leave periodically to rescue it/him. Cats are so vigilant in our defense!

I'll have you know that the last thing Byron "killed" was a wet fallen leaf. Which, over my objections, he et.

Edited by author 12-14-2004 01:19 AM
Awwww, kitties! Byron looks very pleased with himself. Did he finally kill... whatever it is he thinks deserves to die this week? So cute. Now I want to see my kitty. Less than a week to go, yeah!

And that Hello Kitty cat bed's been holding up pretty well.

Gyyaaawwww, them cat's precious, they is!

Byron has the face of a Puma to me.

The best Sonic fanfic on the Net? isn't that like being the best bassoonist in Tuskegee?

Well, I assume that the Net is the only real life GameMasterAnt has, so it matters a great deal to him.

He's got a bit of Davey in him, I see...

Raptavio come back with some witty retort to GameMasterAnchovies FanFic claim.

Heh. Well, good for you. (The best Sonic fanfic on the Net? isn't that like being the best bassoonist in Tuskegee? ie who gives a toss?)

What say you, techs? COULD he get a Linspire-equipped computer for under 300?

I did the math on new-egg and it came in at around 380, but the system would suck.

But anything is possible on Ebay.

You could probably pick up a decent system, second hand. I am having trouble with the prices however, everything on US sites semms so cheep when compared to what we pay over here.

But yes, $300 + Ebay + some computer knowledge should give you something you could use.

Well, i went here and did a quick estimate, with the lowest priced parts, and found that if you assemble it, a rather decent comp is $432.5 (plus a monitor, and give or take some 50 bucks due to compatibility, i just added the lowest priced stuff)

and about the OS, well, who can't use a copied version of Windows? isn't that far more rebellious against the man? i mean, i run a business, and we haven't licensed our software. er, forget that.

He wants a 'Linspire' machine?

At least it's not a... euphemism of some kind. I hope.

Any and all people who send me stuff will have something coming back as thanks
I imagine it will be crappy art, nonetheless.

He wants a 'Linspire' machine? Uh... Linspire is 90 bucks worth of SOFTWARE. An OS that... most of the big apps don't support.
What say you, techs? COULD he get a Linspire-equipped computer for under 300? All the ones I've seen have no monitor included and some don't have a HD and are recommended for libraries or net cafes. Yup, JUST what a REBEL! cartoonist like Davey needs.
Any Borders cards he'd get would go RIGHT into buying more Magic books. Bullshitter.

I think the New Davey's attitude is...
"If I get enough Borders Gift Cards, maybe I'll get an anatomy book."
...beg, beg, beg. Note the Xmas Wish List.

Jeez, you'd think that any guy desperate enough to beg online for Xmas gifts would set the prices for his "art" lower than "$20 to $35." I'd buy a Davey original if it was five bucks.
But you know what? I'll bet it wouldn't be an original, but something he Xeroxed of off Mom's business copier.

Edited by author 12-13-2004 01:57 AM
well, the reply seemed very much like the mild, new DVK, all 'maybe i could' :p i wish he'd get mad like before.

though the world doesn't let me down when it comes to insane stuff. let your kid work a real Forensic lab! (8+) great for the young CSI fan.

Ooh, someone named liltigre has done the worst thing possible--made some concrit to Davey's Xmas pic! And even worse than worst, suggests that he take a figure drawing course. Mimi says that he already HAS. That never leads to a positive outcome in a discussion with DVK.

(pauses to watch the cats have a mock battle)

...And that's prly how it's gonna look, yes? A big catfight. We'll see--is Davey's ego stronger than his New Meds?

(Note: I'll spot Davey his incorrect spelling of "brouhaha," as that's an uncommon word. But "showen," and AGAIN "twoard"? Didn't BBC correct him on the latter like a month ago?)

Davey's Deviant hits explode whenever he updates. Since I really doubt that he has that many actual fans, and the hits are more than we'd generate...D'ya think that we're not the only like-minded group watching him? That we've our BBC, and now they have their liltigre?

Is that Rowan Atkinson or am I going crazy?

No.
And if you were going crazy, all the words would think look bats flying eat monkey EAT MONKEY Doppler radar shift to red camel spiders right now.
And that's how you'd know! Because dog dog tim allen wrench wench EAT MONKEY JERRY VAN FINGER IN THE DYKE dog dog!
Glad I could help.
twitch

Holy Land USA as it was meant to be.

Is that Rowan Atkinson or am I going crazy? Wait, I already went crazy, and seeing Daveykins' bad use of a Barbie doll as a model didn't help matters. *shudders* I knew there was a reason I'd quit looking at Gonter-crap stuff.

Holy Land USA as it was meant to be.

i know. why'd anyone want to go to los angeles? i can get all my smog here in mexico city anyway.

i want to go to LA anyway soon

That's LA as in humid swampy Louisiana, not humid smoggy Los Angeles.

dangit! now i'll never see a stoned corythosaurus. (i want to go to LA anyway soon)

Ah, Das Goons-- Mein Hertz verlederhosen mit Spon!

Moving on to the various images under consideration: Is what Ms. Cementland wearing not the very dress from which Rorschach made his mask in the genre-shaking graphic novel The Watchmen? Given the Peterpanosis in his various online avatars, is anyone willing to bet that DVK isn't scraping his pennies into a pile to have his ears surgically altered? Take THAT, chubby transvestive Sailor Moonses! I'M a twisted freak when I'm NOT at conventions!

What the hell? I can't edit or delete my last comment! Here (I hope) is the fixed version:

Wow, I'm crushed. Apparently Monroe, LA's CementLand no longer exists.
Or they're too embarassed to admit that it does.

I also missed out on Holy Land USA here in CT when it was legal to go there.

Wow, I'm crushed. Apparently Monroe, LA's CementLand no longer exists.
Or they're too embarassed to admit that it does.

I also missed out on

For the Christmas listening/viewing pleasure in this house, we have on the one end 'Christmas Eve on Sesame Street' waiting to be opened up and watched - the classic episode where big Bird wants to find out how Santa gets down the chimney. Back when DAVID was alive!
And on the other hand, we have Mr Hankey's Christmas Classics and some Dr Dimento. And Goon Show, of course ;)

What is in the middle of the Roy Rogers card, is that a finger tip?

No, it's the hole for the record spindle, showing the card underneath. It's actually some ugly curtains. But you'll learn all about those tomorrow.

What is in the middle of the Roy Rogers card, is that a finger tip?

Edited by author 12-12-2004 11:05 PM
she looks like a polydactyl

Holy Schotz! You're right! Unless she has 2 middle fingers. Web toes and feet! FREAKY!

edit: Of course, 2 middle fingers could be useful, when you get cut off in traffic by more than one car...

Edited by author 12-12-2004 11:04 PM
Curse the 30 yr old gap! still, she looks like a polydactyl when up close. (left hand) no offense fo' masta B, yo.

Is that an alien death's head on her tummy?

the roswell autopsy video alien, you mean?

Edited by author 12-12-2004 11:02 PM
Just for you, Zef:
http://www.thoughtviper.com/images/new/wtp6c.jpg

edit: Up close, that dress is ...hypnotic. Is that an alien death's head on her tummy?

quickie color pic of Scar all decked out

Woah, that lower half would make a Barbie doll jealous. and Barbie could possibly stand and walk better than 'Scar'. The other side of the coin, the girl in the postcard= hotness! or maybe it's the small resolution in my monitor. still, there's possibly a good 30 year old gap between us now, so it might never meant to be.

That DVK-Adam-Pan is freaking me out too much. the expression! the expression!

http://members.optusnet.com.au/enchilada/nohands/nohands.html

Hooray for Orange Broder, he looks kinda like Tonto in Harry and Tonto, one of the best cat movies ever. (are there many cat-movies?)

Well, there goes any home of a peaceful sleep tonight. At least her leg was in the way.

NOTE JIM GOODLOWS EARS OH GAAAWD HES LIK THE PETRE PAN JUST LIKE ADAM PACBELL IS!!!!!!!
(stabs self in head to ease the pain--Ahhhh, puncture wounds, how refreshing!)

The bleach....O_<... it does NOTHING!!!

Um... what's Davey's(sorry-ADAM'S) left hand doing?
wow... Foxgirl bikini area, JUST what I want to see right before eating...

Merry Christmas and a OH MY GAAAAAAAAWD!!!"

Well it's good to see that the quality has remained the same!

Merry Christmas and a OH MY GAAAAAAAAWD!!!"

I initially thought that your fic was set on a 19th century sailing ship.

You know, the more I think about this, the better it pleases me. I can't begin to fathom why.

Why "Firefly"? Dunno-- it's the name of the class of ship the main characters get about on, but only the brain of Joss Whedon contains the true answer. Delicious, creative brain....

AHem. Thanks for the praise-- and for missing the insane screw-ups that my wife caught this morning. Four more chapters to come.

Ernst:
Why is it named Firefly? No offense, but that sounds less like "sci-fi epic" than it does "This week on Nature on PBS..."

Edited by author 12-12-2004 12:51 AM
Ernst:
I enjoyed your fic. After I kinda got the situation sorted out. (I've never heard of "Firefly." I initially thought that your fic was set on a 19th century sailing ship. The site I Googled assured me that there's "a big feature film set to be released April 22, 2004!")

The only character (to a Firefly tyro like me) who seems sketched out is Book. I know too little about the others to see the characterization that any fan would immediately recognize. But it has a good plot; I was engaged. And annoyed when it stopped without ending--the sure sign of a good story is when you want it to continue!

(edited for clarity)

At least Anthony can string a sentence together and actually sticks with a series. Ironically that someone supposedly 'inspired' by Davey ends up outstripping him in both skill and dedication.
Even if he DOES make himself the centre of attention much like someone we could name.

Davey and Raptavio do have something in common--neither can spell "kitsch."

And I see why Gamesmaster Ant likes Davey:

"Gonterman's foray into fanfiction, "Blood and Metal", actually inspired me to write my own fanfiction. To this day...my fics are considered some of the best on the net."

C'mon, dude, don't put yourself down! They're THE best in the UNIVERSE!

Edited by author 12-11-2004 08:23 PM
Speaking of idiots posting fanfic-- remember I said I'd have a go? I'm hiding behind YET ANOTHER nom de net over on fanfiction.net. Feel free to point and laugh.

(edit: so busy being self-depricating, I messed up the link)

Gonter-stuff was never taboo, he just hasn't said much lately ;)

But the thread, yes... Raptivo's being *sensitive* and baring his own shortcomings, that's a little weird ;).
Notice how Davey still doesn't answer Raptivo's question about his CURRENT attitude towards MSTing:
Well, I must confess to still being shell shocked over the whole concept. ....It was getting to the point where I dreaded even logging on because I knew people were looking at me not for conversation but just for MiSTing material, they even asked for my latest fanficts and stated that they wanted to MiST it, and it won't matter if I don't give them permission; "I'd say no, but you'd do it anyway," I'd say. "Yep," they replied. It's partially why I don't do fanficts anymore.
"Yep", is right. It gets publicly posted online, it's fair game. The Best Brains had to get broadcast permission and probably pay fees to mst every one of their movies for copyright reasons. But free online stuff doesn't have a leg to stand on.
Does he honestly think he has moved on so much that his stuff is MST-immune now? What planet does he live on?
MST material also includes original work, y'know, Gont!

"What's That Postcard?" Ummmmm, I'm gonna have to say it's fish eating bread. French bread, in fact. So they must be those commie-bastard-French fish.

I dunno if Gonty's still taboo right now, but there's an interesting thread going on between him and Raptavio. Raptavio sums up the allure of Gonterman very nicely.

Edited by author 12-11-2004 05:00 PM
"What's That Postcard" game: At first glance I thought it was an anaconda, but upon closer inspection it appears to be carp eating donuts, they must be American carp.

I am not going anywhere near 'sailor bubba', I am still trying to get over MF. I am now scared for life.

Edit: I keep thinking of Man-Faye as Man-Coone, seem appropriate.

some things are not meant to be teamed with large meaty hairy limbs. Spandex hotpants are not one of them.

I think that should be the first line of the bible. Frankly, most generally trim and attractive people of whatever gender should stay away from spandex, too. There's a VERY specific physical type that can get away with it. Ditto hip-huggers. I've seen professional athlete-type women made to look dumpy by those things.

I'd like to offer this guess in the "What's That Postcard" game: Mantago-Eating Carp, keeping the shores of Japan safe from the menace of mobile humanoid mushrooms.

Men dressing as female anime characters probably like to THINK it's all a big joke, but they still look really really bad.
some things are not meant to be teamed with large meaty hairy limbs. Spandex hotpants are not one of them.

I'm thinking it's a bit of a comment on how cosplayed is taken tho. most pretty girls who cosplay are very full of themselves.
As far as I can tell, it's actually just a pretty normal occurance for anime cons. I've never personally SEEN Sailor Bubba, but if anyone wants to risk possible blindness/sexual dysfunction you can google that one too. In any case, apparently the "hairy fat man in a revealing feminine costume" is a standard joke among cosplayers at this point. I don't know, I've never actually been to a con.

a nice satirical comment on what clothing's acceptable...

I'm thinking it's a bit of a comment on how cosplayed is taken tho. most pretty girls who cosplay are very full of themselves. I'm thinking it's something related to that, but i can't put my finger exactly on it, it's too early and i just awoke. maybe Mimi can.

that, or the guy lost a bet.

Man-Faye's OK ?? Ummm OK, well at least Gonty is static. The MF page I went to moved and played horrid, nasty music that made my ears bleed.

I played this great game of Whats That Song today.
I got 10/10 for Pink Floyd, go me!
You can put your own band into the upper right of the window.

Much better music than on the Man-Faye page, bad MF, bad.

Man-Faye? You people had me thinking that it was as bad as goat.cex, or however it's spelled. Man-Faye's actually pretty funny. It's just a clever Halloween costume, and a nice satirical comment on what clothing's acceptable for Hot Skinny Chix versus Hairy Chubby Dudes. Why, they could do an AfterSchool Special on that!

Someone tell Davey about it. Man-Faye's far less upsetting than Gonty ecstatically writhing around inside Scarlett, the girl fox thing.

I consider my mother to have an old fart name, Mary. I was surprised to see that it's not only in the current top 50, but was the number one with a bullet female name for 6 decades. And yet I can only think of 1 other Mary I've known.

Feel teh MAN-FAYE TRAUMA!!! >:)

oddly enough, my name was the second-most popular name of the 70's. Amy was REALLY uncommon in Australia when my parents named me... I think a few Amy babies had come out of the Americans working at Esso, where my dad worked.


But 'Bill' - oh yeah, 'William' and other traditional names like Joshua had a big resurgence in 90's yuppie babies. Helped that Di named her first kid Will, too ;)

Balkan sauce-- it's what everyone hosting a smart party is serving with their braized Archduke Ferdinands.

OK, I'll stop.

I did a google for Balkan Sauce, to find out what it is.
It came up with a German page so I got google to translate it.

I now know why you put it on braised horses hearts, check this out.

Halve red paprikas for the Balkans balkan-Sauce.
White skins and cores remove.
Paprikas on a grill rust put and on the highest rail approx.
10 minutes on stage 3 crickets,
until the skin throws black blisters.

Crickets and blisters, lovely.

OK, amphibians good, Man-Fayes bad. I'm always happy to learn through VICARIOUS experience. It makes for less ooowies (although fewer interesting, story-attached scars, too).

Man-Faye

That is just foul, sh*t, why did I have to put that into google. I should have listened to Fal-chan about the hurty eyes.

Ooowies

You know what cats is? Cats is CUTE! [Rushes around house screeching falsetto "Kawaii"s, which is rather alarming coming from a 250lb, 6'1" bearded man]

But infinitely less alarming than, oh, say, Man-Faye. And no, I'm not linking to it. It's an abomination and hurts my eyes.

Oh, and neko neko kawaaaaaaiiiii desu! Or something like that. I don't speak Japanese.

Cats is cute, but so is a smiley Axolotl, yeah!

You know what cats is? Cats is CUTE! [Rushes around house screeching falsetto "Kawaii"s, which is rather alarming coming from a 250lb, 6'1" bearded man]

Looks rather like our Hercule, who I imagine would eat chopped horse hearts with or without sauce given the chance. He tries enough other stuff that it less arguably food-like.

Mmmmm. Balkan sauce. Tastes just like mountains and tribal warfare!

I found something interesting, the story behind that tabby kitty you see standing up in so many photoshops/flash stuff.

It's heeeeah.

The Braised Hearts postcard, I've seen before. It's on the The Tacky Postcard Archive.
Doesn't make it any less foul....

Edited by author 12-10-2004 12:30 AM
Unless you put a string of them on a dead cow.

A dead cow hanging on a meathook in a slaughterhouse!

In Broome!

Is that one of your popular postcard subjects?

Broome is a remote coastal town in the far northwest of the country. Nowadays it's famous for its South Sea pearls.

But I daresay pearls do not make good tacky postcardage.

Unless you put a string of them on a dead cow.

I think that half baked guy has 'ME' on his hat so that when he catches his reflection in the mirror he doesn't scare the crap out of himself. I can think of no other reason, unless he is a brain damaged-booze headed-meat choping freak.

Braised chopped horses hearts ????? WTF

Well, they can hold the Balkan sauce, if that makes it too gross.
(Balkan sauce: liquified Croatians)

Braised chopped horses hearts ????? WTF.

Is that one of your popular postcard subjects?

Well I prefer to send pictures of fly blown sheep buts :-0

Edited by author 12-10-2004 12:09 AM
I don't know what'd be so bad about seeing all the cows hanging upside down, you see worse in a mexican market.

So I assume that fly-ridden bloody carcasses are a popular Mexican postcard subject? Sugar skulls are fine, but you guys are taking that "Day of the Dead" thing waaay too far!

Note to Mimi & Steve: That's Broome, Australia. Is that one of your popular postcard subjects?

haha, i dig the half baked dude in the slaughterhouse. I don't know what'd be so bad about seeing all the cows hanging upside down, you see worse in a mexican market.

It's life Jim...oh wait, you said Cohen, not Nimoy ;)

Either way, it sounds like a Leonard Cohen lyric.

"The Puerto Ricans have New York" does sound a mite more impressive than "The Puerto Ricans have Hartford."

No, i obsess over fun cartoons, as Rocko was. ^-^;; I also liked more the voice in spanish, though i was pleasantly surprised to see that it wasn't that different from Carlos'.

Yes, he am! Do you obsess over voice actors, too, Zef?

Maybe i'm confused, but isn't him the awesome voice of Rocko? the one with the modern life?

Possibly I'm remembering wrong, but I was under the impression that it was CT first. In the 1950s, CT was one big tobacco farm. Every Summer Puerto Ricans were shipped up here to harvest the crop as migrant workers, then shipped back. Bit by bit, more and more of them stayed. Then they began to spread to NY.

Hmm. All I know is that we've "claimed" New York. Maybe Dad knows more about how Puerto Ricans came to the States.

As Carlos Alazraqui said: "The Cubans have Miami, the Puerto Ricans have New York, the Mexicans have Arizona and California... The Argentinians are like, 'Hey, can we play with you guys?'" He's an Argentinian himself. ;) One of the best comedians in the world, I say!

hurting anybody while he's at it

Well, those tracts DO come close to being harmful..

...that people have their own beliefs, and, odd as they might seem to us, we must respect them, only being amused by those who don't like to.

Are suggesting that I respect Jack Chick? My second and I will meet you on the commons behind the Cathedral at dawn! I trust you will bring your own sword!

...ah, crap, you mean respect his right to hold loopy beliefs as long as he's not hurting anybody while he's at it, don't you? Nerts, you've got me over a barrel. Curse my centrist, broad-minded ways!

Fistlekits:
They have Puerto Ricans where you live too, Bill? Ha ha! That means the plan is coming to fruition... first the state of New York, now Connecticut!

Possibly I'm remembering wrong, but I was under the impression that it was CT first. In the 1950s, CT was one big tobacco farm. Every Summer Puerto Ricans were shipped up here to harvest the crop as migrant workers, then shipped back. Bit by bit, more and more of them stayed. Then they began to spread to NY.

Edited by author 12-09-2004 08:42 PM
See, i saved you Ink and further aggravation.

It's a little pride i have that all of us here have the presence of mind to know that people have their own beliefs, and, odd as they might seem to us, we must respect them, only being amused by those who don't like to. (hence i'm proud to talk to all you guys)

Good point, Zef.

Good thing I didn't start printing.

They don't see me passing out these sort of essays. But that sounds like a fantastic idea. I think I'll print out a few and put them in each of the stalls in the bathrooms on this floor right now. And I'll carry a few with me the next time I head out.

No. because then you'd be like them. and likely start a holy campus war.

On the way to the dining hall, I was stopped by a girl passing out these tiny pieces of folded paper. I shouldn't have taken it, because it said on the front: "Do You Know the Real Meaning of Christmas?"

And in tiny letters at the right bottom corner: "Hint: It's not Santa!"

I bet if I had told her that Christmas was shoved upon the masses by the Church in order to abolish the pagan Winter Solstice celebration and that in all chances Jesus was probably born in SPRING, her head probably would have exploded. (Surprisingly, these people included a phone number at the end of this little Jesus-pimping tract.)

I probably should have told her that I'm an agnostic. But then again, she'd probably beg me to go to her little cult meeting place or try to convert me right then and there.

*sigh* These people can have their religion and their beliefs, but I hate it when these Campus "Crusaders" for Christ go around advertising their little group.

They don't see me passing out these sort of essays. But that sounds like a fantastic idea. I think I'll print out a few and put them in each of the stalls in the bathrooms on this floor right now. And I'll carry a few with me the next time I head out.

Man, i sure wish i could solve my compy problems the same way ;)

Well the only way I could do it was by screwing my back up so I could not work. It is amazing how much money you can save when you spend all your time in bed.

I did go for the lowest cost Dell machine, with a few items like ram and HD upgraded. Came out rather cheap and I am very happy with it.

I solved the problem by buying a new laptop.

Man, i sure wish i could solve my compy problems the same way ;) our internet cafe's had the same comps by.. uh.. 4 years now?

isn't there a way to change the win drivers for the keyb so this doesn't happen?

I tried that, it is an external keyboard connected to a laptop. The only option I found on the net that was sure to work was putting something under the keycap so it could not be pressed.
I solved the problem by buying a new laptop.

The only key my cat seems to find with accuracy is the 'Power OFF Now' key.
I hate windows keyboards!

Bill had this same trouble a bit ago. isn't there a way to change the win drivers for the keyb so this doesn't happen?

Hercule hijacked the keyboard

I would have liked to see some context.. only to see if there weren't other hidden messages, ya know ;) nah, once my cat and my ex's cat typed to each other for a good solid 5 lines each. that was odd. i was all freaked out that night, afraid that my cat would suddenly demand to be 'taken to our leader'.

'Cats and keyboards'

The only key my cat seems to find with accuracy is the 'Power OFF Now' key.
I hate windows keyboards!

A bit OCurrentT, but given the latest from B-Toes, I thought the following exerpt from an email my wife sent me was interesting:

['][=],

Apparently Hercule hijacked the keyboard, and said with great deliberation "Mee Ow" as he typed. The Kitty Rosetta Stone is tantalizingly near at hand....

the writer typing out conversations he has in his head with game characters

Another one of DVK's sane minions then!

ernst:If we're doing it wrong, it's because our collective scholarship is insufficient. If he's doing it wrong, it's because he's content to insult an entire faith.
I think it's more that he simple doesn't CARE. Google suggests 'allah akbar' and it seems to be the form used by offical English-language Muslim sites. If I can find that out in 30 seconds, he REALLY doesn't care.

So does anyone know WTF is going on, I read about half a page before my gage reflex took over.
Me too, Steve. The majority of the mst comments seem to be a character trying to explain or justify what just happened, while the game characters all react in various clichéed ways.
When the mst consists of the writer typing out conversations he has in his head with game characters, I think Best Brains has cause to file a libel suit.

Edited by author 12-09-2004 03:52 PM
It's not so much MSTing as 'esplain wtf is going on!'
So does anyone know WTF is going on, I read about half a page before my gage reflex took over.
If this is what Anthony does to remove writers block then I do not want to read any of his works.

"hypogonadotropic hypogonadism" ahh, broken balls, that could explain a lot of things in this world! All we need to do is add a couple of T's and we could explain the Gontereffect.

Edited by author 12-09-2004 02:46 PM
Re: Akbar v. Ackbar
Far be it from me to defend the pork gontlet, but since we're transliterating from Arabic anyway, does it really... naw, screw it. If we're doing it wrong, it's because our collective scholarship is insufficient. If he's doing it wrong, it's because he's content to insult an entire faith. DVK:Islam=Jack Chick:Catholicism, but less devoted.

Edit: Apart from fixing the link-- I always liked the cut of Admiral Ackbar's jib. Ackbar: where Bill The Cat goes for reloads.

Probably because it's Davey-apporved 'n' all. And the theater has sixteen! characters in it.
It's Anthony and Davey surrounded by all their FAVWITE game characters. All the girls act like anime ditzes and Mario speaksa likea thisa.
It's not so much MSTing as 'esplain wtf is going on!' ;p

Sixteen characters in the MiSTing theater? Eesh. Three is enough. Four or five, maybe, if the MiSTer can avoid having them become too obtrusive. But sixteen? At one time? This is Jen White cringing after reading a few screens.

They have Puerto Ricans where you live too, Bill? Ha ha! That means the plan is coming to fruition... first the state of New York, now Connecticut! We will dominate the entire East Coast!... by around 2014 at the latest. (As soon as I'm done with my schoolwork, I'll get back to my plans to take over this pissant state that we call North Carolina. I'm a one-woman army, but it's the determination that counts! Right?)

During our conquest, please enjoy our fine, artery-clogging cuisine! Hope you like fried and mashed green bananas!

And I bet he misspelled the saying.

"Allah Akbar" means "God is Great" to the Muslims.
"Allah Ackbar" means "That Fish-Head Admiral RAWX!" to Star Wars fans.

Puerto Ricans aren't Americans? I've never thought that.

Well, they do have American citizenship, but I like to differentiate between the two sometimes. ;)

I could rephrase it and say that I'm half-Southern-half-Puerto Rican. Yeah, that might work better.

Puerto Ricans aren't Americans? I've never thought that.

On the other hand, I live in one the most liberal states, and all the Hispanics here are Puerto Rican. Maybe we don't think that because we're not a bunch of rascist shit-for-brains like in other parts of the country.
And we also don't generalize! ;)

Ah, yes, once again, anyone who disses Davey is the same as an Islamic terrorist.

Yes, it's Gonter-Man, All-'Merikan Hero! Insulting terrorists and comparing un-Gonterican people to them from the comfort of the front of his computer screen! An inspiration to us all! How lucky we are that he never volunteered for military service overseas and instead plopped his pasty white ass in a computer chair and made comments such as these!
And I bet he misspelled the saying.

Another mexican? *sulks* now i'm speshial no more! ;_; it's worse because it's a he >_<

Aww, Zef! No one could replace you. Besides, you two can exchange special sayings only found in Mexico and make us all feel excluded and ignorant!

Hey, if another helf-American-half-Puerto Rican found her way onto these comments, I can only imagine that we'll pal up immediately. ;)

Edited by author 12-09-2004 02:08 AM
Sorry to break the mood...
http://www.deviantart.com/view/13012169/
Jimmy's got some really mirror-symmetrical hair going on. And the ability to have a calm discussion with a disembodied HEAD only 3 minutes after meeting it.

edit: Remarkably...there seem to be no typos, or truly egregious errors in grammar.

edit edit: I'll keep this all in one post, in case everyone needs to continue to detoxify their Daveyness.

Spotted on one of his boards: Someone who knew him 10 years ago on AOL says Hi! and he says:
"It's been ages since I heard of someone from my AOHell years who doesn't want to cut off my head to the tune of Allah Ackbar."

Ah, yes, once again, anyone who disses Davey is the same as an Islamic terrorist. And note how the Old Friend posts several times the same day and then disappears, when the GonterSelf-Pity comes out full force.

"Allah Ackbar"--"IT'S A TRAP!"

edit edit edit: AND...
Here's a Davey-approved MiSTing of Scarlett v.1.
Not very funny. Probably because it's Davey-apporved 'n' all. And the theater has sixteen! characters in it.

She draws some neat penguins.

Another mexican? *sulks* now i'm speshial no more! ;_; it's worse because it's a he >_<

Here's another ingenius artist: http://scarlethawk.deviantart.com/

Hey, Zef, I got an email that explained a mystery on my hit counter. There's another reader in Mexico! I suggested that he come to the Comments. Maybe he will.

Yeah, 'Irrational Exuberance'... Yatta! is easier to remember ;)

Colin Mochrie is GOD! ;)

ooh, so that's why he is chosen for the 'mutations.

By yatta! do you mean Irrational Exuberance? that's awesome. almost as awesome as the original video of the song ;)

Colin Mochrie is GOD! ;)

I prefer the original UK version of Whose Line myself. Drew Carrey irritates me.
Unfortunately, now that they have THREE regulars (Colin, Ryan and Wayne Brady), the routines DO start to get a bit repetitive. More Greg Proops, I say!

Oh, you haven't seen fanimutation till you CANNOT get 'French Erotic Film' out of your head. The other two must-sees are 'Dash' and 'Yatta!'

"Whose Line Is It Anyway?"

A very funny show, I like the US version better.
Alas, I cannot watch it anymore, I think I overdosed as all the episodes now look the same.
Shame that, it was fun while it lasted though.

That was the weirdest flash shit I have seen for a while. I thought 'All Your Base Belong To Us' was weird, but that takes the prize! I still have a copy of AYBBTU, I must check it out again.

So that's all there's to it? i was thinking it was something highly amusing since he's on a lot of animutations. along with the owner of wendy's.

Zef: Colin's a Canadian actor who's made it big in the American version of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" He's a regular, along with Ryan Stiles and Wayne Brady.

I must say, watching the original (British) version of the show, I can tell that he's improved significantly at improv.

Ah, good ole albino blacksheep. I had kinda forgotten about animutations too.. on 56k you don't watch a lot of flash things. still, i've never understood what's the deal with this Colin guy?

There's another postcard in the book from the same bread company, and this one's subject, a Wholsum delivery man, is ear-to-ear smiles.
He's also a dwarf. Wholsum had issues.

Here's sumpin' to get your mind offa Mikey Boy-Lovin' Jackson:

Colin Mochrie vs. Jesus H. Christ

A must for Colin/silly Flash movie fans! :) I totally DIG the second part (especially the song! And that came from a Flemish--or Dutch, according to the credits--kid's TV show!)! I could have done without the "St3r3-O-Vision," though...

Yes, I am aware that those aren't the real lyrics. I even Googled them. But I still like the replacement lyrics:

Flying here in the clouds
And it wouldn't doubt a flood
Throw your almond in the loo
Ah, new Sega with a suit!
Slap me 'round, Olsen Clowns
Save the world with underpants!

Wow, he used to actually be kinda cute...

The site below is called "Michael Jackson's Poor Damn Face"

Wow, that was more than I needed to know about Monkey Boy.

The site below is called "Michael Jackson's Poor Damn Face"

http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Jackson.html

Careful! There's pictures!

All I'm getting are these Public Service Ads. *points nose in the air* How gauche.

I was getting Michael Jackson ads, at least you can point your nose in the air, he can't, he doesn't have one.

HaHaHa.

i wouldn't have replied, but i kinda wanted to point out that mine haven't changed from Peter Pan and neverland stuff.

All I'm getting are these Public Service Ads. *points nose in the air* How gauche.

Maybe, I think it would have been better to replace the sun logo on the pack with the Grim Reaper, or a sickle.

Hmm. *writes on hand to fiddle with photoshop later*

wonder what this discussion will do to the google ads?

 i wouldn't have replied, but i kinda wanted to point out that mine haven't changed from Peter Pan and neverland stuff. XP not even the autoclave talk helped. then again, we might find there's a 'Grim reahper' brand of bread, and that'd be so cool.

maybe it was the only take that turnt out correctly in the roll of film they were willing to spend.

Maybe, I think it would have been better to replace the sun logo on the pack with the Grim Reaper, or a sickle.

I wonder what this discussion will do to the google ads?

I mean, look at those kids, it looks like someone told them their dog got killed 10 seconds before the camera clicked.

I didn't question that.. maybe it was the only take that turnt out correctly in the roll of film they were willing to spend. ^-^

Well whoever gave the green light to that card had to be on something.
I mean, look at those kids, it looks like someone told them their dog got killed 10 seconds before the camera clicked.
Would you as a marketing person/company owner accept that ad for your products?

Well, i was halfway kidding. and mostly i meant, in america. like, was cocaine already being dusted and sold? that's kinda what i meant.

Hell, Aztecs always relied on magic mushies, smoking chocolate (kidding), and other kinda cactuses besides peyote. some of them were secrets guarded by the males of whole towns, killing outsiders to keep their junk secret.

Edited by author 12-08-2004 05:34 PM
Drug addictions as such did not exist until the inaugural jonesing on 19 September 1971. Prior to that point, it was possible for Professional Scientists to make the following diagnoses:

Reefer Madness
Heroin Fiendishness
Smack-Hound
Hop-Head
Bennie Buddie

Those found suffering these defects in the US were sterilized and placed in rest-homes until the passage
of the "Clean and Happy" act of 1949, at which point they were simply shot in the back of the head.

were even drug addictions back then?

There have always been drugs, hence addictions.
Be it coca leaves, pot, peyote, home made alcohol.

woah, what time is that postcard from? were even drug addictions back then?

Love the Happy bread kids in The News, go on kids smile, your face won't crack.

Wouldn't breakfast time at their house be fun. What did their dog die just before the photo was taken.

Great job there coke sniffing ad execs!

carrots and potatoes out of a beef stew, for instance.

see? meat's always the answer. :p

Diabetes' gene runs amok in my family, and damned if i am changing my diet when i'm diagnosed it. maybe until the 3rd or 4th coma. XP

Wow, thanks for the info, Fal-chan! That stinks that you and your mom have these unfortunate allergies. But you two must still whip up some tasty meals with your creative spice skillz ("skillz?" Oh, that was lame...
Try "m4d sp1c3 sk1llz" instead. (^^) And luckily it's possible to do an astonishing amount of good cooking using only non-starchy things.... and even more luckily I'm only mildly allergic to sugars, and not at all to starches, so I'm not as limited. Honestly, though, it's not all that hard to avoid starches: just avoid eating processed food as much as possible; otherwise it's easy enough to pick the carrots and potatoes out of a beef stew, for instance.

Wow, thanks for the info, Fal-chan! That stinks that you and your mom have these unfortunate allergies. But you two must still whip up some tasty meals with your creative spice skillz ("skillz?" Oh, that was lame...).

Bill: Don't worry about it. When I first heard about it, I thought that it was impossible, too. It was unfathomable to me that a person wouldn't be able to eat most of the foods that existed in the world and have the most complicated diets...

... until I remembered that there are women diagnosed with type 2 diabetes on my mom's side of the family.

Meh, it's not something that most people have heard of. As you said, it only affects a tiny percent of the population. I just happen to be related to one of those people, so I know about it. ^^

If I'd waited another 3 minutes before posting, I'd look that much less than an idiot.

Sorry, Fal-Chan. I should know that just because I haven't heard of something, it doesn't mean that it exists.

Edited by author 12-08-2004 12:55 AM
Try Googling "celiac disease."
Oh, and I can give you guys a nice run-down of things people with starch/sugar allergies can eat, if you want. My mother can't eat... well, much of anything, and I can't eat most refined sugars. Basically, my mother eats meats of various provenances, some green vegetables (nothing more starchy than, oh, onions), a few fruits (mostly berries), and dairy products (nothing with added sugar). One learns to be creative with spices.

A "starch allergy" that prevents people from eating "half the food in the world" sounds either like something that affects a remarkably microscopic percentage of the population, or an urban legend.

What could someone with a starch allegy eat?

I have no idea. I've been Googling it, but I can't find anything except an advertisment for the Irritable Bowel Syndrome diet book. They recommend people cutting starch from their diets.

Baste the slab in 2 liters of Coke?! Oh, you so just made that up!
Baste in MOUNTAIN DEW SYRUP! It's LiveWire Slabbe!
(Oops...that referred to "He Who Must Not Be Reffed," din't it?)

Splut-style cooking:
Take chicken strips, the kind already trimmed.
Put in bag with Shake'n'Bake.
Shake.
Place on cooking sheet. IMPORTANT: Put aluminum foil on the sheet first!
Bake.
When done, yell "And WE HAILPED!!"

Hmmm. I got this off FoodTV, but haven't tried it:

Get a load of pork flank, and soak it in salt water overnight. Apply dry barbeque spices to it (NO SAUCE! BAD!). Wrap it in foil, and slide into an over set for 225F. Cook for 10-12 hours, then devour con gusto-- the show suggested applying a sauce at this point and putting lumps of it onto a bun.

Apparently the length and temperature of cooking will dry out the water in the meat, but turns all the connective tissues between the muscles into gelatin, so it seems all juicy and delightful.

Science AND carnivoury. Manly cooking!

woah, woah, isn't that stereotypical amerikan food?

anyway, woohoo! meat!

it'd be more awesome if you gave recipes or stuff with ingredients a 3rd worldist has heard of

Take enough rib strips for everyone, I do not know what you call them over there, they are not pork but beef, about 1 1/2 to 2 feet long, little rib bones running every 1/2 to one inch along the slab.

Turn the slab over so that the meat side is facing down, cut the membrane away from the first rib bone, grab it with some kitchen towel and pull it off the slab, repeat for all slabs.

Get a large metal tray, lay in ribs and cover with Coke, about 2 litres should do 3 slabs. Only use real coke, not diet, vanilla or any other flavour.

Cover tray tightly with metal foil.

Place on BBQ and cover with lid, moderate oven would also work. Cook for 4 hours.

Carefully remove ribs from coke and place on hot grill, grill each side for about 2-4 minutes, until the edges start to caramelise.

Carefully place on plate, serve with hot cob of corn with butter, potato in the jacket with sourcream and chives.

Eat your meat!.

I'm trying to picture meat cut too thin for the purpose ...

It's pretty easy to do, keep the meat semi-frozen and use a sharp knife to cut the slices off. With the kiwi/onion it made it that soft there was no texture to the meat. Maybe that is how it is supposed to be, dunno. It was delicious, just a little strange as when you placed the meat in your mouth, it just sort of disolved. Next time I will cut it a bit thicker, so at least you can chew it once before you swallow!

Edited by author 12-07-2004 11:19 PM
slides for electron microscopes...

It's a microtome. ^-^ see, reading Crichton (the andromeda strain) helps.

what's wrong with Kiwi? kiwi's awwsome. now, it'd be more awesome if you gave recipes or stuff with ingredients a 3rd worldist has heard of ;)

Pornterman.. that's genius!

EEEE-YEW! Furry fruit! Actually, I had seen that variant of the recipe, but the one I linked to seemed more like the one in the recipe book found in Korea; the kiwi enzymes should soften the meat nicely, . I'm trying to picture meat cut too thin for the purpose without one of those deals used to prepare slides for electron microscopes... damn, can't recall the name.

Lookit this-- from Pornterman we turn to cooking tips! Who says we're obsessed?

Of course, marinated in bulgogi sauce

I made this a couple of months ago, the recipe I used had you marinade the meat in blended kiwi fruit and onion.
It was yummy but the cut of beef I used was to good(eye fillet) and I cut it to thin.

You are right about me never having any of the meat subsitutes prepared correctly. If I get the chance to try it sometime I will. It is not the sort of thing I would make/cook myself though. I like my meat ;-)

seitan arrr a meat substitute, that sounds almost as bad as the, IMHO, ultimate evil that is tofu.

That sounds like someone who's never had it prepared properly. Of course, marinated in bulgogi sauce, deep fried and covered in a tasty goo means a lot of the health benefits of the 'fu get counterbalanced. Seriously, tho', seitan in a stirfry with black bean sauce, yummy business. Bean curd rolls at a Dim Sum restaurant, covered in oyster sauce and crammed with tasty things a smart guy doesn't investigate too closely. There's a silken tofu chocolate pie recipe I've been meaning to try, too....

Oddly enough, until about six years ago, the thought of eating anything but flesh, non-green veg., and/or bread was very repellent.

Edited by author 12-07-2004 10:22 PM
Here is a weather map of my local area, I am located about 43KM north of the centre of the crosshair. The page updates by itself, if you leave it open you get a new frame to the loop every 10 minutes or so.

I hope that storm builds into something that cools us down, it is pretty warm here today!

Should Steve and I hold off before reporting what Sue is doing to Johnny in the X-forum? >:)....

That's exactly what I was thinking.
I'm sure it'll keep for a day or two, it's not like it is erotica or anything, more like something 2 crude twelve year olds put together. Tit job indeed!

Edited by author 12-07-2004 10:10 PM
Well, it was a Hospital-disinfectant-smelling breath of fresh air from all the Gontherology. ^-^
That is a damn good point, we should all take a time out and disinfect our brains before we launch back into Gonter-country.
especially Bill, he was getting a bit nutty there a few pages back ;)

Should Steve and I hold off before reporting what Sue is doing to Johnny in the X-forum? >:)....