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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #30 on: February 13, 2004, 12:36:00 am »
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I guess one of those imponderables would be how do you prank call some cavemen? Maybe Ray could give a letter to that big turtle and he could carry it to BC. That would be funny. How ironic is it that the one shamelessly Christian cartoon is set a few million years before Christ? Also, I don't remember it always being that way....was it?


No, it wasn't. At least according to Cho

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Original: Last Panel. Ralph swears off booze and drugs, and decides to be a Born-again Christian. Ralph is baptized by Johnny Hart's BC characters. Ralph yells, "I'M CLEAR!" My syndicate really flipped out on this one. My syndicate is Creators Syndicate. It syndicates my strip, Liberty Meadows AND Johnny Hart's strip, BC. For those out there who don't know about Johnny Hart and his strip, ol' Johnny is a hardcore Born-again Christian. He became a Born-again about 10 years ago. His strip, BC, was once a very funny strip in its hey days, but drastically changed to preachy fire and brimstone Jesus strip when Hart was reborn. Anyway, Johnny Hart is Creators Syndicate's most vital cartoonist, and I'm not. The President of Creators Syndicate came down on me hard. He simply refused to run my BC spoofing strip, unless I changed it. I, of course being young, dumb, and full of sperm, didn't back down. I told 'em to go to Hell with Johnny. Well, my syndicate in not so many words then said that it was willing to let Liberty Meadows lose newspapers rather than offend Johnny Hart (cash cow). They said that it will run a completely blank strip for that day. I, of course, blinked and backed down. I replaced the BC characters with Will B. Dunn (Kudzu) and the country preacher from Snuffy Smith comic strip. The moral of this story is "Don't screw with Jesus"."
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #31 on: February 13, 2004, 01:22:57 am »
BC was hella funny in it's early days, but Hart ran out of ideas long before he became preachy.

Doonesbury was totally awesome too in the first run.  But Trudeau took about a year off, and when Doonesbury returned the characters had aged about 10 years (they were perpetual college students for the first run of about 6-8 years) and it has sucked virtually from that point forward.

~Paul
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #32 on: February 13, 2004, 01:43:09 am »
Sacred cow killing...

I think most people agree that Peanuts is the best cartoon evah!!  Totally impressive 50 year run.  No one wants to admit though that it sort of blew chunks the last 15-20 years or so.

Most deserving of a call from Ray Luann.

Honerable mention Nancy.  Not because it's bad; I mean it's bad alright, but did you know it has a serious cult following?

this is interesting too, a card game based on Nancy which includes this paragraph "Ernie Bushmiller's comic strip "Nancy" is a landmark achievement: A Comic so simply drawn it can be reduced to the size of a postage stamp and still be legible; an approach so formulaic as to become the very definition of the "gag-strip"; a sense of humor so obscure, so mute, so without malice as to allow faithful readers to march through whole decades of art and story without ever once cracking a smile."


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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #33 on: February 13, 2004, 02:04:25 am »
I think I'm going to have to agree with Onstad on this one.

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Comic strips suck, they suck so hard. They suck in the worst, most shameful way. Comic strips are such incredible formulaic garbage, with a few excellent exceptions that I will not list here.
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #34 on: February 13, 2004, 02:43:11 am »
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I think I'm going to have to agree with Onstad on this one.

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Comic strips suck, they suck so hard. They suck in the worst, most shameful way. Comic strips are such incredible formulaic garbage, with a few excellent exceptions that I will not list here.


Sadly, as with so many other things, it wasn't always so.

~Paul
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #35 on: February 13, 2004, 03:06:13 am »
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Why the hate for Doonsbury?


because everyone here thinks they are superior to all forms of popular culture.

of course i love all you guys, but dammit it's true.
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #36 on: February 13, 2004, 03:10:29 am »
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Why the hate for Doonsbury?


because everyone here thinks they are superior to all forms of popular culture.

of course i love all you guys, but dammit it's true.


You should see my Winamp playlist and/or my bookshelf. But at least I can play You Don't Know Jack.
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #37 on: February 13, 2004, 03:12:49 am »
What is this "Popular Culture" you speak of?  Must be beneath me.  Plebians.
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #38 on: February 13, 2004, 03:27:23 am »
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Why the hate for Doonsbury?


because everyone here thinks they are superior to all forms of popular culture.

of course i love all you guys, but dammit it's true.


Oh so not true.  Wait'll you get my mixdisc.  It's got The Dixie Chicks on it 'fr fucks sake.

Country and Western music is like Comics.  Like Onstad says, "it sucks in the worst, most shameful way. It's such incredible formulaic garbage, with a few excellent exceptions that I will not list here."  Well except I just listed one here.

~Paul
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #39 on: February 13, 2004, 03:33:36 am »
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Why the hate for Doonsbury?


because everyone here thinks they are superior to all forms of popular culture.

of course i love all you guys, but dammit it's true.


Oh so not true.  Wait'll you get my mixdisc.  It's got The Dixie Chicks on it 'fr fucks sake.

~Paul


Hey, didn't your post mention Hey Ya not two seconds ago? ..I had a comment to tie the thoughts together, so I clicked back in.. of course, the link I wanted to link isn't available today (I viewed it yesterday though; it does exist!), so I will just mention it:

Charlie Brown doing Hey Ya.  
best thing evah!
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #40 on: February 13, 2004, 03:36:54 am »
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Hey, didn't your post mention Hey Ya not two seconds ago? ..I had a comment to tie the thoughts together, so I clicked back in.. of course, the link I wanted to link isn't available today (I viewed it yesterday though; it does exist!), so I will just mention it:

Charlie Brown doing Hey Ya.  
best thing evah!


Well it did, but I thought of something more interesting to say more relevant to my love of pop culture.  But I was going to repost it, but now you've gone and blown it.

~Paul
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #41 on: February 13, 2004, 03:42:57 am »
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Country and Western music is like Comics.  Like Onstad says, "it sucks in the worst, most shameful way. It's such incredible formulaic garbage, with a few excellent exceptions that I will not list here."  Well except I just listed one here.

~Paul


I'll list a few.

George Jones
Hank Williams (Sr.!)
Patsy Cline
Bill Monroe
Bob Wills
Steve Earle
Grandpa Jones

OK, maybe not Grandpa Jones.
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #42 on: February 13, 2004, 03:46:45 am »
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Country and Western music is like Comics.  Like Onstad says, "it sucks in the worst, most shameful way. It's such incredible formulaic garbage, with a few excellent exceptions that I will not list here."  Well except I just listed one here.

~Paul


I'll list a few.

George Jones
Hank Williams (Sr.!)
Patsy Cline
Bill Monroe
Bob Wills
Steve Earle
Grandpa Jones

OK, maybe not Grandpa Jones.


I picked up a Grandpa Jones CD at the pawn shop.  I had no idea there were so many songs about hunting dogs.

~Paul
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #43 on: February 13, 2004, 03:48:03 am »
Leave the banjo player on the list, August.

That is all.
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Drabble is Your Wife - 12 February 2004
« Reply #44 on: February 13, 2004, 03:48:41 am »
How many of said huntin' dog songs include the much lamented death of the dog?  I'm guessing more than half.
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