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[Drygioni]

Philistines

[madhatte]

I am from the Northwest, and yet time served in the military sneakily inserted such southernisms as "Bouttagonna" and "Usedtacould" into my lexicon.  It simultaneously shames and amuses me.  Further, it shocks my fellow northwesterners, who speak with a predominately "Starbucks" dialect.  Riling them brings me a twinge of glee.

[linnea]

Whoa, alt-text is now functional on AssBar. Onstad posted beneath today's today's Friday Facts by Philippe.

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I have to stop reading AssBar, because the AssBar commentary is about 9 million rungs below YouTube commenters and I swear that brain cells commit suicide each time I click on an Achewood comic and absentmindedly scroll down. Jesus. Every time I read it I'm sorry that I expended the effort. Some fug posted Calvin and Hobbes pornographic furry fanfic. Thanks a lot, asshole. I could have gone the rest of my life without knowing that crap like that exists. I should have realized that no matter how low the bar is set, some goon is going to come through and deliberately post shit.

[Nabubrush]

I've never seen this Assetbar dingus, but from the way it is described, I am stunned that anyone has enough spare time to check it out, especially more than once.

[linnea]

I've never seen this Assetbar dingus, but from the way it is described, I am stunned that anyone has enough spare time to check it out, especially more than once.

Well, it doesn't take too much effort. Hover your penis over the comic to read the alt-text, and accidentally click, and you're there.

[RMJ12345]

I have become fond of "might could" and "might should," although I really couldn't tell you why. As filler words, they seem to have a certain grace and meaning-broadening that "fixing to" and similar don't quite for me.

I thought I would say that since reading this, I have begun to notice that the more Southern of my friends say this constantly. I never noticed it before, and it's charming.

[linnea]

Has someone already remarked that there are a lot of the strips in the archive that have been colored by Onstad?  Do you think he colorized them as part of the subscriber archives? Has anyone here paid for the subscriber archives? I bet they're really good. I'm going to subscribe and get myself another t-shirt as soon as I get a real job. It's lookin' good because I have an interview with the place I really, REALLY wanna work on September 5.

[gloomba]

Has someone already remarked that there are a lot of the strips in the archive that have been colored by Onstad?

Really?  Which ones?

Do you think he colorized them as part of the subscriber archives? Has anyone here paid for the subscriber archives? I bet they're really good. I'm going to subscribe and get myself another t-shirt as soon as I get a real job. It's lookin' good because I have an interview with the place I really, REALLY wanna work on September 5.

I saw the stuff on serializer.net back when it was... on serializer.net, and it was okay, but there wasn't that much there and it was rarely updated, so I didn't feel like I was getting much for my subscription money (a large portion of it was Nate Small stuff, too, which never grabbed me).  Getting it all at once for $12 might be worth it (though it seems a little pricey to me), but I wouldn't want to pay for it now to get the same stuff I already paid for before.  It seems a little weird to ask for subscriptions to content that will never be updated, but, you know, whatever.

[linnea]

Really?  Which ones?

I saw the stuff on serializer.net back when it was... on serializer.net, and it was okay, but there wasn't that much there and it was rarely updated, so I didn't feel like I was getting much for my subscription money (a large portion of it was Nate Small stuff, too, which never grabbed me).  Getting it all at once for $12 might be worth it (though it seems a little pricey to me), but I wouldn't want to pay for it now to get the same stuff I already paid for before.  It seems a little weird to ask for subscriptions to content that will never be updated, but, you know, whatever.

I was reading through some of the '02 archives and there were a lot of colorized strips there that I did not remember being colorized before. I also had the Serializer subscription back in the day.

[jay-ell]

You know what's awesome? 

Reading four month's worth of thread at a single sitting.  This thread is more hilarious than I could have hoped for. 

I vaguely remember being sort of pissed when 'stad came out with the "discuss" links, etc, but never checked it out 'til today.  All I have to say is: Yikes. 

Also, I would like to point out that when we came over to Plagiarist, Jough and I were in talks with Onstad and offered him merchandising links and such, and he told us in no uncertain terms that he wanted nothing whatsoever to do with us.  Didn't even want the URL.  "Never let me know where to find it" was his comment to me when I approached him about bringing the community elsewhere.  And we never did.  When he found us, he did so on his own.  And then he was a dickhead. 

So, I figure if he's actually reading this AssBar crap, he deserves whatever he gets. 

[linnea]

You know what's awesome? 

Reading four month's worth of thread at a single sitting.  This thread is more hilarious than I could have hoped for. 

I vaguely remember being sort of pissed when 'stad came out with the "discuss" links, etc, but never checked it out 'til today.  All I have to say is: Yikes. 

Also, I would like to point out that when we came over to Plagiarist, Jough and I were in talks with Onstad and offered him merchandising links and such, and he told us in no uncertain terms that he wanted nothing whatsoever to do with us.  Didn't even want the URL.  "Never let me know where to find it" was his comment to me when I approached him about bringing the community elsewhere.  And we never did.  When he found us, he did so on his own.  And then he was a dickhead. 

So, I figure if he's actually reading this AssBar crap, he deserves whatever he gets. 

The shit on there is so embarrassing. Any vaguely critical comments I made about any strip were immediately blocked as "lame" and then ten million rabid fanboys just start sputtering. It's a total waste of time.

[Nabubrush]

Hmmm. Yeah, I ain't stunned. It's not surprising to me that he didn't want anything to do with it, and it also isn't surprising that he can't resist looking in now and again. That poor bastard.

[AugustWest]

That poor bastard.

Yeah.  That poor poor extremely talented bastard.  When he gets tired of making a living sufficient to support himself in the wilds of Northern California by being a humorist on the internet, he has to put up with the fawning comments of dozens of devoted fans.  If he's feeling really masochistic he can stop by here and search around (in this vast sea of accolades) for a slightly critical post or an exercise in sarcastic humorous hyperbole.

I pity the poor tormented wretch. 

[jay-ell]

On the few occasions I chatted with him over AIM, he reminded me of a guy I dated in college named Burke.  (Well, it's his last name, but it's what everyone calls him.)  Nobody could believe I even spoke to him, let alone went out with him, because he was basically a dick to people at every opportunity.  But he was really clever about it, and seemed incredibly witty and well-read, so I struck up a conversation with him at a party once and it turned out he was basically a nice person who was socially awkward and lonely and insecure, and used his sarcastic wit as a defense mechanism -- pick on someone else before they pick on you. 

But we got to be good friends and eventually started dating (Pedro was trying to "find himself," apparently he thought he should start by looking in the B-cups of every co-ed in his building).  He turned out to be a really sweet, attentive, and devoted boyfriend -- even though he knew I wasn't interested for the long haul.  He was five years older than me, and he was good friends with Pedro, so he basically considered himself in the role of "keeping me warm" for him, which my feminist half instinctively rails against, but in actuality turned out to be a lot of fun.  I don't know what he was so insecure about.  I mean, his cock was huge. 

So essentially what I am saying, here, is that if Onstad were confident in his brilliance, he probably wouldn't need us to tell him how great he is.  But he isn't, so he does.  Not that I'm criticizing.  After all, why the hell do you think I come here?  If I were any more insecure, I'd print out y'all's responses to my posts and hang them on my wall. 

[Doc]

I've always thought we as a board might be too hung up on this subject.