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marshmallow creep posted:My friend, may I introduce you to the works of Hugo Award nominated author Chuck Tingle? Chuck Tingle's next release: Fisted In The Butt By The Truck That Delivered My Copy Of This Book.
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AlbieQuirky posted:That's half the plot of Season Two of Slings and Arrows. richard nixon said that
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Chuck Tingle's next release: Fisted In The Butt By The Truck That Delivered My Copy Of This Book. Pounded in the butt by Amazon's book delivery drones
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Pounded in the butt by Amazon's book delivery drones Oh, is Tingle the showrunner for next season of Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams? Real appropriate, the more I think about it.
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AlbieQuirky posted:That's half the plot of Season Two of Slings and Arrows. Jesus christ, somebody else watched Slings and Arrows?
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Poor Miserable Gurgi posted:Jesus christ, somebody else watched Slings and Arrows? It's a very popular show with the theatre set.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:It's a very popular show with the theatre set. Well yeah. It was required viewing in my undergrad Arts Management class. Other theatre people in the wild just seem rare.
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Poor Miserable Gurgi posted:Well yeah. It was required viewing in my undergrad Arts Management class. Other theatre people in the wild just seem rare. we're out there, and we're vaguely employable
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trapped mouse posted:we're out there, and we're vaguely employable I know all of my knots and I'm really good at the different moods colored lights convey. If you need a sailor or a lamp salesman, I'm your guy.
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My terminal degree in arts and crafts finally landed me a job with benefits, and I feel so vindicated.
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Poor Miserable Gurgi posted:My terminal degree in arts and crafts finally landed me a job with benefits, and I feel so vindicated. 
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Nice "comic", Randall!
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Zil posted:So what book would be like getting fisted by a truck. Asking for a friend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUhMLg-WCnI&t=94s
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Can't believe I read that whole thing and it didn't goatkcd at the end.
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cannot even tell you what the gently caress happened in 1881 these idiots were writing about
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To be honest a lot had happened. Some highlights: Wikipedia posted:June 26 – War of the Pacific – Battle of Sangrar: Peruvian and Chilean forces battle to a draw.
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Most folks couldn't even tell you what happened in 1981, even if they lived through it. Our collective understanding of history is ridiculously low. Hence this excellent comic, which is pinned up on the wall of like every history professor ever. 
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Apr 11, 2018 17:35
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So much better a comic.
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1981 is when raiders of the lost ark came out
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1981 is when I was conceived.
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gently caress all y'all, I was stoned for most of 1981 so I remember almost nothing (16 year old so what?)
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Horrible Lurkbeast posted:To be honest a lot had happened.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:1981 is when I was conceived. hot
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The comic does mention Garfield
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I did not realize Garfield was such a popular president at the time that they'd describe his death with rolling waves of grief covering the land.
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Ccs posted:I did not realize Garfield was such a popular president at the time that they'd describe his death with rolling waves of grief covering the land. People like cats, what can I say?
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Ccs posted:I did not realize Garfield was such a popular president at the time that they'd describe his death with rolling waves of grief covering the land. He was dying for weeks. It was a big deal as a lot of people made attempts to save his life including Alexander Graham Bell who tried to get the bullet out with his new invention of a metal detector. You don't have to be super popular president for people to get upset at the idea that the country's leader is dying a slow, painful death. The assassination was also a major scandal which lead to significant reforms to the political system in order to reduce corruption. The person who shot Garfield worked on his campaign and felt he was owed a job (typically the minor campaign functionaries got jobs like a local postmaster which in the 19th century had plenty of room for making money). The Conkling guy mentioned in passing in the quote was a big proponent of the patronage system where these political favors would be handed out after each election and was at the center of the controversies around it. And in the end, the assassination is nothing more than a trivia question today. The significant shift in how the US government functioned isn't even worth mentioning unless you're studying the gilded age.
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The best fact about the guy who assassinated President Garfield, Charles Guiteau, was that he was such a weirdo that he joined a sex cult and couldn't get laid. His nickname there was "Charles Get-out."
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I believe he felt owed a justice of the peace job, specifically. Imagine killing the president for that.
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muscles like this! posted:The best fact about the guy who assassinated President Garfield, Charles Guiteau, was that he was such a weirdo that he joined a sex cult and couldn't get laid. His nickname there was "Charles Get-out." I didn't know that. That's pretty good. I knew that he was too poor to afford the gun that he used to kill the president. He wanted the one with pearl handles because it was going to "go in a museum" but he could only afford the one with wood grips. The gun store owner took pity on him and let him have the pearl grips for the same price as the wood. The pistol has since been lost. The Moon Monster posted:I believe he felt owed a justice of the peace job, specifically. Imagine killing the president for that. As I recall, he wanted to be the ambassador to Vienna, but would have settled for France.
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marshmallow creep posted:I knew that he was too poor to afford the gun that he used to kill the president. He wanted the one with pearl handles because it was going to "go in a museum" but he could only afford the one with wood grips. The gun store owner took pity on him and let him have the pearl grips for the same price as the wood. The pistol has since been lost. Its genuinely kind of impressive that this man managed to gently caress up in every way possible except one.
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I think there's a Dollop podcast about that story (the assassination and the guy who did it etc). I'd find it and link but effort. Oh okay, here it is: http://thedollop.net/wp/episode-48-dollop/
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and here's the live video.
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Was hoping for live video of the Garfield assassination. Link did not deliver.  e: Oh, wait, it was right there. Can't believe I missed it. 
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1stGear posted:Its genuinely kind of impressive that this man managed to gently caress up in every way possible except one. Wild theory: he only meant to threaten the president, and it went off by mistake?
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Nope, he wrote about it in length in his diary and he stalked the prez on multiple occasions until he gathered his courage. Like, it's hard to find an assassin more determined then Guiteau.
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I've mentioned that the 'lone nut' used to be the best kind of assassin, since their motives don't have to make sense from an outside perspective, they work alone so there's less opportunity to track them via accomplices, friends and organisations, and they aren't necessarily afraid of being caught. Though nowadays they're all posting what used to be their private diary entries as extremely public screeds on the internet at every possible opportunity and can be spotted miles off.
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"Dear subscribers, today I've decided that Vienna is the place for me and if that ungrateful Garfield can't see this then his replacement will!" *Displaying the pistol as if it's QVC* "Please like and subscribe!"
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marshmallow creep posted:As I recall, he wanted to be the ambassador to Vienna, but would have settled for France. Huh, I've had multiple teachers say it was justice of the peace but all the info I can find online does indeed say ambassador.
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