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From the comic strip that has brought you such classics as "Dead Dog", "Date Rape" and "Old Man Stroke", we now get this little gem of a nod to Little House on the Prarie:   So how about some predictions on what is going to happen next. I say that Michael goes back into the house and dies of smoke inhalation. The fire was started by a cigar that had been smoked by the curmudgeon that lives downstairs. Michael's mother goes batshit crazy and kills the neighbor, while the poor widow is forced to turn to a life of prostituting herself across other comic strips, eventually ending up in a rehab center in Doonesbury. What's your take?
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Dec 22, 2006 10:30
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Kathy Bates is hiding in the attic, threatening to burn the manuscript. 
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Dec 22, 2006 10:45
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They have to move back in with their parents allowing plots from the past 20 years to be recycled.
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Dec 22, 2006 10:47
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He jumps out the window, saving his manuscript but becoming a cripple.
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Dec 22, 2006 10:48
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He goes in, grabs the manuscript, and the house explodes in a FABLAAM fashion
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Dec 22, 2006 10:49
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Well, he certainly can't save the manuscript, unless it's poo poo. Maybe he'll save the manuscript at the price of most of the skin on his face and then it sucks and nobody likes it and he has to live as a poor cripple. Also the ghost dog comes back and makes fun of him.
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Dec 22, 2006 10:50
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Flyinglemur posted:From the comic strip that has brought you such classics as "Dead Dog", "Date Rape" and "Old Man Stroke", we now get this little gem of a nod to Little House on the Prarie: I would do the same thing as Mike because I'm also nuts about my life's work.
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Dec 22, 2006 10:51
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Shmorky posted:I would do the same thing as Mike because I'm also nuts about my life's work. But your life's work isn't a lovely novel, it's a lot more. Let this be a lesson to everyone: Back up offsite or you'll lose most of the skin on your face.
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Dec 22, 2006 10:53
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He goes unconscious from smoke inhalation. Cue lame "It's a Wonderful Life" ripoff plot.
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Dec 22, 2006 10:54
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Shmorky posted:I would do the same thing as Mike because I'm also nuts about my life's work. Shmorky if you have a fire in your attic i will send back all your cool drawings so you don't have to die trying to save some.
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Dec 22, 2006 10:55
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PvtJoker posted:Shmorky if you have a fire in your attic i will send back all your cool drawings so you don't have to die trying to save some. hey it's no skin off my face
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Dec 22, 2006 10:57
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He fails to get the manuscript back, but learns a valuable lesson, namely that his family is more important than all of his hopes and dreams. Either that or he becomes embittered by the manuscript's loss and leaves his wife and kids in order to pursue his writing, earning censure and envy.
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Dec 22, 2006 10:58
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THE CAT HATES MONDAYS, FOLKS oh wait, wrong comic v  v
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Dec 22, 2006 10:59
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He runs really fast, grabs it, and goes outside. A short while later the fire department arrives, and puts out a fire in the kitchen. Luckily the family had insurance, so the house can be repaired. Edit: His manuscript is a huge success and he goes on to be a famous writer.
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Dec 22, 2006 10:59
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He's going to die horribly. At his funeral, Liz will only be able to think about how much she secretly longs to be with Anthony and his horrible moustache. The Comics Curmudgeon lays down the all odds for anyone of a betting persuasion.
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Dec 22, 2006 10:59
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Shmorky posted:I would do the same thing as Mike because I'm also nuts about my life's work. I fully support your efforts and I'm not faulting Mike either. I'm just curious what wonderfully depressing issue the strip will be pursuing during this Holiday Season. Makes me think of that episode of Reno 911 where the guy was trying to convince the cops to go save his manuscript, which was just a ripoff of Frequency. Fake edit: Now I can't remember which movie it was, but I'm sure the next three posts will be the right one and "  e,f,b"s galore.
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Dec 22, 2006 11:00
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Leospeare posted:He's going to die horribly. At his funeral, Liz will only be able to think about how much she secretly longs to be with Anthony and his horrible moustache. Whoa...never heard of that site. Thanks. As a positive, we have a double spotting of the word Curmedgeon on the same page (not counting this one). That may be some kind of record.
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Dec 22, 2006 11:01
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Why, that's not comic at all. < >
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Dec 22, 2006 11:02
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He will find his manuscript in the attic, on fire. He will be so grief-stricken that he will throw himself upon it--thereby lighting himself on fire. He will crash through the smoke-damaged walls of the attic, and land at his childrens' feet on the cold ground below. The experience will cause his children to go insane. Robin will turn into a bisexual serial killer, but not before engaging a sexual relationship with his sister. He becomes a murderer when his mother finds out about him and his sister, and kicks him out of the house. He will end up having killed 23 prostitutes and the 2008 governor elect of Maine. Robin will ]] die at the hands Texas, when they bring Ol' Sparky out of retirement in 2010. Deanna will off herself with a 12 gague four years down the line on Christmas eve. The terror of that night will haunt her until she is forced to manually remove the thoughts from her head. The wife will get remarried to Michael's brother 4 months after the event. She becomes agorophobic, and completely dependant; thus, she marries Michael's brother for comfort and a source of income. Michael ends up sexually abusing Merrie, who then goes on to testify in favour of him in court. Michael's brother gets off scott-free; he and Merrie begin a relationship which leads to them eloping, and Michael's wife enters into prostitution and falls victim to her son's vicious murdering spree. The only to to come out of this experience unscathed will be the baby; their infant mind will not have been powerful enough to remember such a disaster. However; through an inexplicable (to them) calling, they will be driven to become a firefighter. The feelings will, of course, be influenced by their subconscious memory of their fallen father.
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Dec 22, 2006 11:02
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He'll brave the towering 2-story inferno only to get knocked out by a falling beam on the way out. The brave firefighter that rescues him wins his wife's heart. They split up, she remains happily involved with half the fire department while our hero, the husband, realizes his family's been holding him back all along. He finishes the novel in an offshoot strip. After all, what would you do if you had to earn a living wage writing comics?
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Dec 22, 2006 11:03
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Flyinglemur posted:I fully support your efforts and I'm not faulting Mike either. I'm just curious what wonderfully depressing issue the strip will be pursuing during this Holiday Season. Contact  (I think)On another note, I always thought that character was a girl...
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Dec 22, 2006 11:05
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Audhumla posted:Contact No, it was Frequency. He was describing it as a guy talking to his dad in the past and the cops/firefighters kept going "yeah, but is it anything NOT like "Frequency"?", because they wanted SOME reason to jump in the fire and get it.
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Dec 22, 2006 11:07
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The most disturbing FBOFW ever.    
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Dec 22, 2006 11:07
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Michael smelled the smoke, but he had already fallen asleep. As he rushed up to the attic to save his manuscript, it never occurred to him that he was the one in the attic, asleep and in need of saving. By the time Ellie and the kids awakened, the fire had already blocked off the stairs to the attic, rendering Michael out of the reach of any savior. As Michael ascended the stairs to the attic in his dream, they got lighter and lighter, and who was at his typewriter but Jesus himself? "Your life's work is finished, my son and now so must your life be," said Jesus with questionable phraseology. Michael felt at peace just as the roof collapsed, severing his spinal column and opening a hole in the roof through which an updraft carried his manuscript to a grieving Ellie, as a final reminder that he would rather die than spend one more night in bed with her.
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Dec 22, 2006 11:10
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Michael saying, "Holy poo poo, what the hell am I doing? I e-mailed my hotmail account a near-final draft my this manuscript last week in case I had a crash! I think I'll just recreate it from that point. But, I did have a lot rare MP3s and fetish porn on that laptop that would take forever to download again over dial-up. It'll only take a minute to get it."
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Dec 22, 2006 11:25
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I'll guess that Michael falls unconscious in the attic due to the smoke, but just when it looks like all is lost, Apri's dog shows up to pull him from the burning building. In a heart-wrenching series of strips, the dog will die due to over-exertion. But it's OK, because he was cloned or maybe he just screwed around in the neighborhood. Either way, they'll get a little tiny little puppy who looks exactly like the dog who died...who looks exactly like the last dog who died saving a family member in a heroic fashion.
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Dec 22, 2006 11:35
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Isn't Lynn Johnston planning to retire the strip soon? I seem to remember reading something with her where she said she had a set date where she was going to quit, I just can't remember if the year she gave was 2007 or 2009. I'm guessing he'll lose his manuscript, and learn a lesson about how people are more important than things, just in time for the holidays.
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Dec 22, 2006 12:25
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Maybe she'll kill off the entire cast, enraging fans but securing her place in comic history.
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Dec 22, 2006 12:30
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Deep Hurting posted:I'm guessing he'll lose his manuscript, and learn a lesson about how people are more important than things, just in time for the holidays. Yeah, but his family is already safe outside, unless they do something like go inside looking for him and the author finds some way to contrive a situation where it's either the family member or the manuscript.
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Dec 22, 2006 12:31
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MasterSlowPoke posted:Yeah, but his family is already safe outside, unless they do something like go inside looking for him and the author finds some way to contrive a situation where it's either the family member or the manuscript. I have to say, I think you've called it.
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Dec 22, 2006 12:32
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MasterSlowPoke posted:Yeah, but his family is already safe outside, unless they do something like go inside looking for him and the author finds some way to contrive a situation where it's either the family member or the manuscript. No, see, he'd be unable to save the manuscript but then he'd come outside after nearly dying and he'd see his wife and kids and be like, "This is the greatest gift of all." 
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Dec 22, 2006 12:32
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I desperately want this to end in a way that I don't expect. I don't really care what it is, but I just want something original, not something I could predict from the moment it started.
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Dec 22, 2006 14:00
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The paper has arrived here, and it is continuing in predictable fashion, with the firefighter arriving to dispense sage wisdom. Edit: Is that fireman blinking? That's not how it was in my newspaper. Edit2: holy poo poo, he's blinking on the official page even! Comics 2.0! Stitch fucked around with this message at 14:12 on Dec 22, 2006 |
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Dec 22, 2006 14:07
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Dec 22, 2006 14:08
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wait a second these comics aren't funny at all
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Dec 22, 2006 14:17
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Bob Morales posted:
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Dec 22, 2006 14:18
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Jamesface posted:That firefighter has the blandest look on his face. It's like instead of fighting the fire all he can think about is that he needs to pick up toilet paper on the way home. And how dry his eyes are getting... so dry. There he goes! Wait, she's blinking too! This is revolutionary!
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Dec 22, 2006 14:20
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Daddy Fantastic posted:wait a second these comics aren't funny at all Welcome to For Better Or For Worse
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Dec 22, 2006 14:21
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The situation is going to get worse and worse, until it seems hopeless for all involved, when it suddenly cuts to Michael reading the manuscript to Deanna, and it is revealed that everything we've read is actually a visualization of what Michael wrote.
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Dec 22, 2006 14:26
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I think the firefighter is a lesbian and a romance is about to be kindled.
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