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[Victoria Waterfield]

Is it bad that I enjoyed Cathy when I was in grade school? It was right up there with Bloom County for me. Granted I was 11 and I didn't grasp most of what either strip contained... This is something about myself that has gone relatively unexamined.

Don't worry Hammish. The world will always need people who buy magazines about car stereos.

[colmore]

Garfield was one of my favorite cartoons as a first or second grader.  I justify this by 1) it was the 80s.  2) it was more varied and there were more characters and settings back then and 3) it is a very well drawn strip -- perhaps well xeroxed at points, but it's got appealing disney-esque classic cartooning chops.

Maybe Garfield is a metacartoon.  Extolling the virtues of being fat, lazy, and phoning it in, while being fat, lazy, and phoning it in.  I wouldn't be surprised if they started running "classic" Garfields on Mondays soon.  Would anyone care?

[V-Adore]

I also liked Garfield when I was very small, but I justified it by the fact that I was very small.

[theinevitable]

I also liked Garfield when I was very small, but I justified it by the fact that I was very small.

Even then, though, you knew it was wrong.

[AugustWest]

I wouldn't be surprised if they started running "classic" Garfields on Mondays soon.  Would anyone care?

Would anyone know?

[V-Adore]

Even then, though, you knew it was wrong.

By the time I was eight or nine, yeah, but before then I swear I was innocent!

Guilty confession: somewhere in this house is a lunchbox full of plastic Garfield figurines. (One of them is held together with a bandaid, emergency surgery following a tragic lawnmower accident.)

[wombat]

Now that you mention it, I am pretty sure I once owned a stuffed Garfield when I was a lot older than eight or nine.

Now instead I have a stuffed Joanna, Jeff Rowland's alcoholic zombie cat. I guess that means I'm all grown up?

[littlefallsmets]

The thing with Garfield is this:

The source material is bad... but some of the specials were quite rad and the Saturday Morning Cartoon was solid by the standards of Saturday morning fare.

So I have good memories of the Garf even though every time I read it in the paper, it's awful.

It is a strange mental contradiction but there we are.

[Doc]

My housemate has a disturbingly large collection of Garfield plush toys and collections. They're not displayed prominently in his room or anything, I just know there's a fairly large box in his cupboard and it's full to the brim. His taste is reasonable in most other matters, so I have to chalk this one up to blind nostalgia.

Re-runs of Garfield on mondays is such a fuck*ng perfect idea though.

[Dangermoose]

Garfield was one of my favorite cartoons as a first or second grader.  I justify this by 1) it was the 80s.  2) it was more varied and there were more characters and settings back then and 3) it is a very well drawn strip -- perhaps well xeroxed at points, but it's got appealing disney-esque classic cartooning chops.

Kids who like Garfield grow up to like Achewood.

Adults who like Garfield belong under a bus.

This is how my Daddy explained things to me, many years ago.

[jay-ell]

OK people, start making your own fakewoods.

Man, I miss the days when we all had time to do that kind of thing. 

Hey!  College kids!  Get out your photoshops and paintshops pro and amuse the rest of us old folks! 

You can study later. 

[lprkn]

Man, I miss the days when we all had time to do that kind of thing. 

Hey!  College kids!  Get out your photoshops and paintshops pro and amuse the rest of us old folks! 

You can study later. 

My 19-credit courseload precludes me from such frivolity, thank you. Hitting 'refresh' on TOUAMB multiple times throughout the day is an acceptable waste of time, however. My brain does need some frivolity, after all.

[V-Adore]

At OSU, I briefly had a roommate who was taking about a 25-hour schedule as a pre-vet. She moved out after about two weeks, and the weeks I knew her, I mostly saw her drinking. Bad Timez.

[littlefallsmets]

See, my favourite thing about college was the semesters where I was able to take as few credit hours as you possibly could while still counting as full-time.

It... explains my life, basically.

[lprkn]

I can be crazy sometimes, but not 25 credits crazy. I have had issues with grades in the past, issues that I am dealing with, but let's just say that my cumulative is not quite exemplary at this point.

Also, did the credit waiver form say:

Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye...

All hope abandon ye who enter here.

...because it should have.