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« on: March 31, 2005, 10:08:18 am »
okay, i really want this. but i don't get the timeline.

i've always assumed that ray and beef were mid-to-upper-20s. 25, 26, 27. right? he's wearing that kennedys shirt in like highschool, i thought. you know, like i did.

but that means he went to elementary school in the mid-to-late eighties, right? and that means his school was throwing away basically brand-new computers, since the IIc came out in 1984. maybe it was just the nature of public schooling, but i was using various forms of apple IIs well into middle school--at least 1993.

unless beef is like 17, this makes no sense. right? right.

good lord, i've thought about this too much. can i have the painting just for effort now?
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« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2005, 02:43:34 pm »
Can't answer to the timeline, but the school wasn't throwing away old computers:

It was Dob Hendricks who privately financed the $5 it took to purchase the CPU, monochrome monitor, and power supply from the volunteer van driver who was relieving the school of obsolete equipment...

'S hot. And I don't mean like an Athlon.
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« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2005, 03:42:32 pm »
What it means is, you must accept either:

a) cats age differently than humans
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b) it is a fictional character which doesn't actually exist
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« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2005, 05:05:06 pm »
Also there is that one Serializer comic where he gets his computer by trading Showbiz his hat and bike.
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« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2005, 06:07:55 pm »
Quote from: "side_show"

b) it is a fictional character which doesn't actually exist



Noooooo!!!!
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« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2005, 07:03:47 pm »
Also, Onstad drinks Bud Lite?  Ewww...
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« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2005, 07:15:40 pm »
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Also, Onstad drinks Bud Lite?  Ewww...


from a can, no less.

on the other hand, there is something very pleasing about the idea of making one's living by drinking bud light from a can and painting outside in california, you know?
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« Reply #7 on: April 04, 2005, 03:13:35 pm »
what is this bud lite of which you speak? i have no clue where you're getting this.
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« Reply #8 on: April 04, 2005, 04:38:58 pm »
One of the photos that Onstad uploaded to ebay showing the painting shows a can of Bud Lite in front of it (for scale, maybe?) and I was just commenting that I never would have pegged Onstad as someone who would drink Bud Lite from a can.
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« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2005, 03:05:09 pm »
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It was Dob Hendricks who privately financed the $5 it took to purchase the CPU, monochrome monitor, and power supply from the volunteer van driver who was relieving the school of obsolete equipment...


Roast Beef got a raw deal. My first computer was an Apple //c as well, and mine had a color monitor. Applesoft Basic, represent!!
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