|
Darthemed posted:
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 13:11
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 20, 2024 10:24 |
|
|
Rhymes with Orange Pros and Cons 
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 15:52
|
|
|
From Ces' Medium Large Blog: Ted Forth’s Recipe for Holiday Meat Topiaries 1. Google recipe for meatballs. Write down those instructions and ingredients. 2. Roll large meatball for the base. Realize you rolled it too large and used up half the ground beef. Consider making a Meat Bowling Ball instead. Stick three fingers into it. Be mildly disturbed by how pleasurable that is. Understand you’ve made a terrible mistake when your partner catches you rolling a strike in the hallway with the carpet you kept promising to vacuum the last four months. Let cat or dog lick off dust. 3. Roll middle meatball for torso (if opting to make Meat Snowmen) or to allow twisting movement should you want to create the topiaries from The Shining (in which case make sure to place Lego Minifies nearby as victims). 4. Place third, smallest meatball on top. Wonder how you are going to get all three meatballs to stay connected. Jam a toothpick through the top meatball, making a screaming noise as you do while spraying marinara sauce from the hole because somehow it’s taken you seven hours to reach this point in the preparation and you’ve lost your mind. 5. Use any leftover meat to make a meat ring around your finger. Pretend you’ve married Lord Sausage, the character from the classic Rankin-Bass special Rudolph and Frosty’s Chicago Layover that everyone keeps telling you never aired and in fact never existed. 6. Watch as no one eats your meat topiaries because you forgot to cook them. Take the tray into your bedroom, give each a little monocle by bending paper clips, and pretend to lecture high society on your bed as you enjoy your holiday mix of Egg Nog and Jägermeister called “Jäg Nog.”  ...enjoy your holiday mix of Egg Nog and Jägermeister called “Jäg Nog.”...I love his humor.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 15:54
|
|
|
It's important to set realistic goals for yourself. Ballard Street.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 16:11
|
|
|
Arlo and Janis Arlo and Janis Classic (Sept. 30, 1994)  . . . 
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 16:14
|
|
|
Tina's Groove Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro  Dilbert 
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 16:24
|
|
|
Intelligent Life Take It From the Tinkersons  Viivi & Wagner 
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 16:51
|
|
|
This story line really pisses me off. Shesh Lynn, let him have his toy. It's his little mid-life crisis. You can afford it and it makes him happy. Someone in this relationship deserves to be happy. gently caress, she reminds me of my mother-in-law...
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 17:37
|
|
|
Lowen SoDium posted:This story line really pisses me off. Shesh Lynn, let him have his toy. It's his little mid-life crisis. You can afford it and it makes him happy. Someone in this relationship deserves to be happy. Of course, on the flip side, the other cliché consequence of a mid-life crisis is an affair and, well.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 17:41
|
|
|
gleebster posted:Scots are, supposedly, close with their money, that is to say, tightfisted, stingy, mean, etc. Julet Esqu posted:Radio Patrol F Minus  That dog.  He's just doing the best he can. Mary Worth  Who cares? You're single, he's single, you're adults. Go. Rex Morgan MD  This whole storyline is just a psa, isn't it? Secret Agent X-9  Apartment 3-G  "Party on, Professor."
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 19:17
|
|
|
Pop Team Epic Honey Come Chatka  
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 19:50
|
|
|
A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:cross edit  This didn't get the love it deserves.Or this!
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 20:01
|
|
|
For the life of me, I never could enjoy this cartoon. I always wanted someone sensible in there to bitch slap those kids.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 20:08
|
|
It's burgin' time! 
|
I heart bacon posted:For the life of me, I never could enjoy this cartoon. I always wanted someone sensible in there to bitch slap those kids. I feel like you were missing the point. Incidentally, this is all on topic because The Boondocks is a newspaper strip! Pretty remarkable, because there's not many successful adaptions of those, aside from like, Garfield.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 20:13
|
|
|
I liked the Dilbert animated cartoon, but I guess I was a kid and didn't realize how terrible it was.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 20:16
|
|
|
It was set during the much more tolerable nerd-surreal stage rather than the modern nerd-superiority.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 20:24
|
|
|
WickedHate posted:I feel like you were missing the point. Somehow I sensed that someone would post something like this. What point was I missing? What deep point was going on here? WickedHate posted:is a newspaper strip! Oh, so it's ummm.... good... now?
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 20:27
|
|
|
I heart bacon posted:Somehow I sensed that someone would post something like this. What point was I missing? What deep point was going on here? You don't have to be politically attuned to be invested in the messages of the show, but if your complaint is "the kid's are annoying" you're not paying attention to the right things. You're not supposed to take Riley seriously.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 21:06
|
|
|
goatface posted:It was set during the much more tolerable nerd-surreal stage rather than the modern nerd-superiority. IIRC Adams was also not given that much input over the show which probably helped.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 21:13
|
|
|
It's All Right Chief Dharma As far as I can tell this has nothing to do with the second half.  ...Which in my opinion, does not require translation.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 21:19
|
|
|
Shugojin posted:IIRC Adams was also not given that much input over the show which probably helped. I hoped as much.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 21:38
|
|
|
Yeah, from watching it on Hulu a few years back, I'd say the Dilbert cartoon is decent. A little bland, but not too bad. Better than any of the Garfield cartoons, at least. Or Baby Blues (probably).Johnny Walker posted:Apartment 3-G Batman and Robin  Calvin and Hobbes    Ripley's 
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 21:50
|
|
|
Am I misremembering Bizarro as being good? I don't remember it always being full of "These people are bad because they are doing an inconsequential thing I don't like"
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 21:52
|
|
|
Darthemed posted:Batman and Robin So back then Batman was a dope who only survived run-ins with criminals because they came up with complicated reasons to keep him alive. I like it.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 21:53
|
|
|
Some Guy TT posted:So back then Batman was a dope who only survived run-ins with criminals because they came up with complicated reasons to keep him alive. I like it. That's a pretty common trope in any heroic action genre.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 21:56
|
|
|
Luann *snores gently* The Amazing Spider-Man  Presumably this is the part where Ronan sees MJ and falls in love and kidnaps her away to become his... well, whatever the equivalent of "Queen" is in the Accusing business. Sally Forth  The Heart of Juliet Jones 
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 22:12
|
|
|
King Aroo (November 17, 1951) Nancy (January 1, 1944)  Wash Tubbs (August 31, 1929)  Gasoline Alley (September 29, 1923)  Lil' Abner (May 29, 1937)  Barney Google (September 30, 1922)  Alley Oop (December 30, 1933) 
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 22:13
|
|
|
Julet Esqu posted:The Amazing Spider-Man Uh oh, will MJ survive Ronan's Cosmic Fart?
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 22:17
|
|
|
It'd be a lot easier to sympathize with Wash Tubbs' situation if he weren't such a dumb-rear end.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 22:22
|
|
|
I heart bacon posted:For the life of me, I never could enjoy this cartoon. I always wanted someone sensible in there to bitch slap those kids. Every Boondocks episode I saw had some funny gags but horrible comedic timing throughout.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 23:09
|
|
|
treasureplane posted:Nancy (January 1, 1944) it's like this is the only strip gilchrist ever read of old nancy before writing new nancy
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 23:12
|
|
|
Woebin posted:Isn't this literally a joke from Life of Brian? Here it's just Joseph being sarcastic about how teenagers sleep in a lot.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 23:12
|
|
|
Darthemed posted:Ripley's http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/229739.stm posted:Geoff Smith, 37, beat the European record of 101 days - set by his mother - at midnight on Monday.  Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (click for huge)  And He Did. (October, 1915)  Bluey! Guess If They Are Married! (August, 1915, click for big)  Illustrated Comical Joke (1916)  Outbursts of Everett True (February, 1916)  The Gay Thirties (March, 1935, click for big))  They'll Do It Every Time (February, 1940, click for big)  Mopsy (August, 1940)  Tweedy (September, 1956, click for big)  Jaf (1969)  Feiffer (1970, click for big)  This one hurts.  A rare Sunday Andy Capp (November, 1970, click for big)  Wee Pals (December, 1970, click for big)  Richard's Poor Almanac (click for big)  Dick Tracy (September, 2009, click for big) 
Slammy fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Dec 10, 2016 |
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 23:28
|
|
|
Slammy posted:Dick Tracy (September, 2009, click for big) Why on earth did he rehire you???
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 23:33
|
|
|
Slammy posted:Richard's Poor Almanac (click for big) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkSa17TqljM Mine was old enough not to include "Boot Scootin' Boogie."
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2016 23:50
|
|
|
Shugojin posted:IIRC Adams was also not given that much input over the show which probably helped. He had more control then you probably think. Here's some 'behind the scenes' stuff from the DVD pack. Don't ask how I got these. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAx93enoxT4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2BXBLYA0ss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CtoNSNw9iw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hnz1rRI0DY
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2016 00:03
|
|
|
WickedHate posted:That's a pretty common trope in any heroic action genre. Oh sure. But the Batman we know today is this ultimate bad-rear end who can kill Superman just by being super-duper smart. It's always funny looking at these older versions who are just so incredibly mortal by comparison. Especially since Bob Kane always talks about the character as if he's had a single unified consistent interpretation ever since the thirties. quote:Dilbert chat OK, so at the risk of whipping up a hornet's next...why exactly is it so inconceivable that Scott Adams can be a douchebag yet also create something that is funny and good? Dilbert is hardly perfect but hell, neither is Calvin and Hobbes. Even if it's lapsed into mediocrity in recent years Dilbert does manage to be consistently funny, especially compared to the competition these days. Dilbert and Bizarro both strike me, in this thread anyway, as being comics people try really hard to hate even when it requires being willfully dense as to the intended punchline.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2016 00:59
|
|
|
Some Guy TT posted:OK, so at the risk of whipping up a hornet's next...why exactly is it so inconceivable that Scott Adams can be a douchebag yet also create something that is funny and good? Dilbert is hardly perfect but hell, neither is Calvin and Hobbes. Even if it's lapsed into mediocrity in recent years Dilbert does manage to be consistently funny, especially compared to the competition these days. Dilbert and Bizarro both strike me, in this thread anyway, as being comics people try really hard to hate even when it requires being willfully dense as to the intended punchline. As someone who read Dilbert books as a little kid, I would say it hasn't been funny or good for a while. When the Recession hit in 2008, the strip's theme took a hard left turn from "stuff at work can be kinda silly" to "EVERYTHING YOU DO IS A WORTHLESS WASTE OF TIME!! AAAAAHH!" See if you can spot the difference:  1997  2009
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2016 01:17
|
|
|
Dr. Dos posted:Am I misremembering Bizarro as being good? I don't remember it always being full of "These people are bad because they are doing an inconsequential thing I don't like"
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2016 01:28
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 20, 2024 10:24 |
|
|
Optimism in general took a pretty big kick in the nuts after the Great Recession, so I'm not really following that Adams is a worse writer for acknowledging that. I mean it probably has a lot to do with why he's so insufferable now- the guy was preaching doom and gloom when everyone else doubled down on hope and change, and the Obama years have vindicated his position. Adams' blog posts were regularly featured on political websites for most of the election because he was one of the few people who got it. Now granted Adams was probably right by accident but when the entire political professional class managed to be wrong on purpose...yeah, I just don't see Adams is supposed to come out worse for that. Mind, I'm well aware of the stupid stuff like that theory where gravity is all matter doubling, or the Dilbert shaped house he lives in. I just don't remember anybody being all that harsh on him until his political opinions started to go against the popular grain.
|
|
#
?
Dec 11, 2016 01:30
|
|