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Mister Edison? There's a Serbian-American fellow with a funny-looking electric supply system at the door. Claims to know more than you.
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How many of you know that there was a Mad Magazine TV Special in the 1970s? It's on YouTube here. It’s a half-hour show featuring animated adaptations of MAD materials. Included are some Don Martin cartoons, Spy vs. Spy, and The Oddfather, which takes up a good chunk of the special. Many sources say it never aired (it was supposed to be on ABC), but it did, in fact, get broadcast in syndication. More than few people told me they saw it on their local station. More information here. ABC backed out of airing it because the sponsors threatened to stop running ads on the network if they aired it. Apparently they don't appreciate all the times MAD made fun of their products. 
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cobalt impurity posted:I don't even get this one. Are conservatives pissed off at CFLs? To hear my parents talk about it, Obama's thirst to take away our guns is only matched by his hunger to take away all the good lightbulbs. There's more, but this isn't a political thread, so I'll leave it at that. Peter Parker is Bad At Both His Jobs       Peter's reaction mirrors my own.  
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Juliet Jones question: was the just-finished daily storyline the last time Eve was a regular? If so, I'm going to miss her.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Juliet Jones question: was the just-finished daily storyline the last time Eve was a regular? If so, I'm going to miss her. I'd be really surprised, but I'm speaking as somebody who doesn't know anything more about Juliet Jones than that it ran a long time and what I posted so far.
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Since nobody else has done it yet, I guess I'll post today's actual Nancy.
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Wanamingo posted:Since nobody else has done it yet, I guess I'll post today's actual Nancy. I think I prefer the other one.
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I'm SO ANGRY about technological progress!
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Wanamingo posted:Since nobody else has done it yet, I guess I'll post today's actual Nancy. God, it's amazing how easily and naturally the phrase "gently caress you, Gilchrist" has slipped into my vocabulary since this thread started exposing me to modern Nancy. Wanamingo posted:Six Chix That is possibly the most half-assed balloon placement I've seen in quite a while (plus the colorist messed up the balloon tail, so it looks like the woman in the pink blouse is holding a flesh-colored knife between her fingers).
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Sergio Aragones presents "Rufferto" Will try to post some Sergio comics. After Image Comics and Dark Horse took over publishing Groo the Wanderer, Sergio started doing a bonus comic featuring Groo's dog, Rufferto, in the back cover. Rufferto was based on Sergio's real life dog, and in the comic he served as the only living being that's loyal to the bumbling barbarian that is Groo. 
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Juliet Jones   How much money is a woman allowed to have before she's no longer decent?  Oh dear. This is about to be insufferably 50's, isn't it?    
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Aug 15, 2014 05:22
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I'm not positive the people saying the anti-cfl thing is anti-tech get it fully; it's not the tech, it's the GOVERNMENT mandated tech, and therefore evil.
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Emmy Lou Mandrake the Magician  The Phantom  Oh, Phantom, don't even pretend you weren't going to win. Classic Prince Valiant  
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Edit: That reminds me, I was really surprised to find out that the Canary Islands were named after dogs. You learn new things from the weirdest places. F Minus  Mary Worth  Are they finishing up a musical number? Rex Morgan MD  That's treason, Junie! Murdstone fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Aug 15, 2014 |
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Selachian posted:God, it's amazing how easily and naturally the phrase "gently caress you, Gilchrist" has slipped into my vocabulary since this thread started exposing me to modern Nancy. But I was reading it as 'here is an update to an overused trope!' and not a manchild whining, which is more likely to be what Gilchrist is doing, isn't it?
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Spiderdrake posted:I actually sort of thought it was a cute joke. Look at the scowl on the little man, and his clearly lettered EPA hat. It's basically a political cartoon. Only Gilchrist's sole political stance seems to be "This whole country's gone straight down the tubes, since Woodstock!" Oh, and the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 was introduced in the House during the Bush Administration. B-b-but OBAMAAAAAAA! 
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Julet Esqu posted:Peter Parker is Bad At Both His Jobs I love how I can drop in to this thread every thousand posts or so and nothing of interest will have happened in Spider-Man.
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GorfZaplen posted:Classic Prince Valiant Look at that last panel!
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth
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The mention of the MAD tv special made me remember that in the early 90s they made a Far Side TV special. I remember it as really disconcerting and weird, and not in a good way, like something that was just not meant to be. But that may have been because I was still a kid at the time and couldn't appreciate it. I looked it up on Wikipedia and apparently it won an award and they even made a sequel. Does anyone else remember this? Was it as offputting as I remember, or am I just remembering it with the terror-glasses of childhood?
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Jane's World What are you going to do? Balance Jane's checkbook or something? Paint the bathroom? Non Sequitur  Yes, terrifying. Heavenly Nostrils  Kliban  Interesting concept, I guess. 9 Chickweed Lane 8/15/2003  Whatever, Brooke. Zits  Kevin & Kell  Hey, the kid's got a bigger brain than both of you combined, what do you expect?  
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kith_groupie posted:The mention of the MAD tv special made me remember that in the early 90s they made a Far Side TV special. I remember it as really disconcerting and weird, and not in a good way, like something that was just not meant to be. But that may have been because I was still a kid at the time and couldn't appreciate it. I looked it up on Wikipedia and apparently it won an award and they even made a sequel. I was well into my twenties when it came on, and, yeah, “something that was just not meant to be” is about right. Which is not to say I didn’t enjoy it. What’s very funny in Larsen’s single panel comic becomes disturbing when stretched out over several minutes, given odd music and no dialog or narration. It’s up on Dailymotion if you want another look.
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Tina's Groove Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Mother Goose & Grimm  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro  Dilbert 
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CFL bulbs don't piss me off because THE GOVERNMENT. What pisses me off is that I've never had a CFL bulb that gave me the full advertised lifespan. Like incandescent bulbs, a lot of environmental variables go into shortening the lifespan, but the pro-CFL people said that the extra cost would be mitigated by extra life, and THAT'S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED FOR ME.  Skippy never had to worry about this crap. Broken limbs? Those are another matter. (May 27, 1927)  Peanuts (August 18, 1967)  If the Van Pelts had bought their ice cream sandwiches at Walmart, this would never have happened. Funky Winkerbean, in which it looks like Les is about to get his rear end kicked in his own fantasy.  Popeye's about to get throttled, too.  Rip Haywire is too busy being a granite-jawed stud to get flattened (again).  Out Our Way (June 24-25, 1925)  And that's how the kids invented Popeye. Unfortunately, King Features had better lawyers when they filed the infringement suit. 
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Manuel Calavera posted:Tina's Groove I'm not normally a big fan of this comic, but I have to give it kudos for a joke that works on an obvious level and on a subtle level without making a huge deal of the subtle level. Who painted The Scream?
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It's funnier if you imagine that the sound the diners make really is Munch, not "munch".
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Spy vs. Spy   I don't think I remember them doing "one Spy gets killed without the other knowing" gags, like the first one.
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Sometimes Nemi makes me embarassed for my younger self, times like this it just makes me feel nostalgic. Appreciate What You Have Comix. Pooch Café  Hey, you're just lucky the dating site even had a fish category. PoF doesn't even have one, and they did not respond to my emails despite the obvious irony. Ballard Street  I want to know where Andrew got all those darts. Most toy guns come with three, tops.
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Ham Shears points out plot holes. The Dinette Set knows what makes "fine dining" fine. 
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Hello! I hope your day is going well, I took today off!! Cul-de-sac This is a metaphor, I'm not sure of what, but it's totally a metaphor.  The Creeps Gramma no!  Poptropica  Heathcliff 
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The Creeps is a national treasure. And I've always pictured Skinny Creep as having Lemongrab's voice.
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TheWyrmDude posted:The Creeps is a national treasure. It really is. My favorite currently-running strip ITT by some margin.
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In the last few C&H posts I've noticed some plot strips mixed in there. Two Yukon ones in this latest batch, and there was one in the last post as well. Also yes, The Creeps is great.
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TheWyrmDude posted:The Creeps is a national treasure. And I've always pictured Skinny Creep as having Lemongrab's voice. I could see that. Fat Creep always sounds like Chris Griffin in my head.
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Fingerpori [Koivisto's car] [Koivisto's boat] Smaller bus companies seem to have this habit of naming their business (presumably) after the owner, often in the form of "Surname's auto" (auto being the common word in Finnish for cars of any kind). Koivisto is a common surname.  - Young people's public drinking of alcohol has become more and more common - My long drink! Because of how chaining words in genitive (possessive) form works in Finnish, "young people's drinking of alcohol" and "drinking young people's alcohol" are pronounced the same. Breaking it down: nuorten "young people (gen.)" alkoholin "alcohol (gen.)" juominen "drinking". The possession always refers to the next word or phrase (like in the English "'s" construct whereas "of" is reversed), so the whole thing could be seen as either "young people's alcohol + drinking of" or "young people's + alcohol drinking". The same thing applies to several previous Fingerpori puns. Fok_It  
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Roland Jones posted:Also yes, The Creeps is great. I didn't like it that much at first and now it's one of my favorites.
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It's burgin' time! 
