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johnnysokko
April 9, 2001 6:44 PM

I've read through almost a hundred strips now and laughed at exactly none of them (including mine), so I can say this without exaggeration:

We are not funny.

I think that I may have given one strip out of that hundred an eight. In retrospect, that was probably because the strips preceding it were so incredibly unfunny that it seemed like an embarrassing wealth of comedy genius.

I'd give everybody zeroes if I could. Unfortunately, the voting scale only goes down to one. Perhaps the good people at Lowpass could create a new "Top Ten Unfunniest" list. That'd be super.

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Scyess April 9, 2001 6:56 PM	Actually, because of the primitive way the scores are calculated, you can hit "refresh" instead of voting, and that equates to a "0" vote. When I'm bored enough to scroll randomly through comics I do that a lot.
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DexX
April 9, 2001 9:15 PM

If you think there are no funny comics, you haven't been reading the right ones. Over on the left of this message, click on my name, and then have a look at some of the authors I have listed on my profile page. They are some of the best, in my opinion. They, in turn, will have links to their favourites.

It's a great way to find quality - find someone you like, then find out who THEY like, and so on.

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wirthling April 9, 2001 11:02 PM	Oh, these things are supposed to be funny? Why didn't anybody tell me that earlier?! In that case, I guess I shouldn't bother with that series of comics I was about to do on process engineering in the textile industry...
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ObiJo April 10, 2001 12:22 AM	11697
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boorite April 10, 2001 7:49 AM	quote: We are not funny. ... I'd give everybody zeroes if I could. I just read three pages of syndicated daily strips in the Wash Post, and by that yardstick, WE ARE FUCKING HILARIOUS. And I remind you that people make their livings off of the syndicated strips. So felch ye the red-assed baboon.
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Scyess April 10, 2001 8:32 AM	quote: I just read three pages of syndicated daily strips in the Wash Post, and by that yardstick, WE ARE FUCKING HILARIOUS. And I remind you that people make their livings off of the syndicated strips. I never thought of it that way. If Bil Keane can be published, then dammit every strip on the web site should be in the Gugenheim. Even the "refresh"ers.
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BigEvilDan April 10, 2001 2:53 PM	11799 There's a pretty bad signal/noise ratio here, and that's why I've pretty much stopped the random viewing of comics. You're better off finding some strips you do enjoy and read the ones done by those authors. And sometimes the lack of funny can be funny. Most of my original strips were jabs at the stupid comics around here.
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gabe_billings April 10, 2001 3:01 PM	I've become a complete slacker. All I really do is read the message boards. Any comics I make are for the contest, or just another way to talk to people or make fun of wirthling. Case in point... 11802 It's been so long since I've voted on a comic I've forgotten how.
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bunnerabb
April 10, 2001 6:40 PM

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We are not funny. I'd give everybody zeroes if I could.

A few points, if I may....

1): Nobody has a gun to your head to read this shit.

2): Who's "we"?

3): The preponderance of material on here is written by a pack of lamers. The reason that there remains some sembalance of elitism here, is that the elite authors who work here are fuck off funny, Ahab. With or without you.

4): We ARE funnier that most of the crap in syndie.... Have you bloody well read Marmaduke or Cathy lately? Give it a rest, mate.

I don't know if you contribute here, or just piss and moan, but it's time to put a quarter in the meter or go back to surfing persiankitty for pictures of your mum.

Cheers.

bunner

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ObiJo April 10, 2001 9:17 PM	quote: I don't know if you contribute here, or just piss and moan, but it's time to put a quarter in the meter or go back to surfing persiankitty for pictures of your mum. Bunner, I feel you fell into the same trap of spreading hate, in fact...Ok, I'm just fucking around this time. Put down the shiv.
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bunnerabb April 10, 2001 9:39 PM	quote: Bunner, I feel you fell into the same trap of spreading hate, in fact...Ok, I'm just fucking around this time. Put down the shiv. Shiv? You wound me, sir. That's not hate. That's a review. I suggest H.L. Mencken, Florence King, and Dorthy Parker as light reading.
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johnnysokko
April 10, 2001 10:09 PM

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A few points, if I may....

Sure! I wasn't planning on responding to any of the replies as several posters have already made some good points, but you seem to be hankering for a fracas. On to your post!

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1): Nobody has a gun to your head to read this shit.

This is true. Still, I was kinda hoping to laugh.

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2): Who's "we"?

I think that's made clear in the subject line.

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3): The preponderance of material on here is written by a pack of lamers. The reason that there remains some sembalance of elitism here, is that the elite authors who work here are fuck off funny, Ahab. With or without you.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that the elite authors (I'm guessing that you consider yourself in that category) are "fuck off funny."

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4): We ARE funnier that most of the crap in syndie.... Have you bloody well read Marmaduke or Cathy lately? Give it a rest, mate.

Whatever you say, Guv'nor! Only half-kidding. Proclaiming that our strips are funnier than the syndicated strips isn't saying much. Dog poop may smell less offensive than horse poop but man, it still stinks. Oddly enough, they both taste equally delicious.

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I don't know if you contribute here, or just piss and moan, but it's time to put a quarter in the meter or go back to surfing persiankitty for pictures of your mum.

Tou-chy! My mom makes me pay to see her dirty pictures. Can you believe that? Her own son! On the other hand, your mum gives her pictures away for free. There's no competing with that! She's hot, too. Bad teeth and all...

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Cheers.

bunner

P.S.--

Cathy is HOT.

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ObiJo April 10, 2001 10:30 PM	quote: Shiv? You wound me, sir. That's not hate. That's a review. I suggest H.L. Mencken, Florence King, and Dorthy Parker as light reading. No, I meant put down the shiv, as in don't come after me for fucking around with that old love/hate dialogue, like...oh fuck it. Nobody gets me. As for the rest of it, I'm just gonna pull up a chair and some popcorn and watch the bloodshed. Game on.
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bunnerabb April 10, 2001 10:39 PM	quote: Tou-chy! My mom makes me pay to see her dirty pictures. Can you believe that? Her own son! On the other hand, your mum gives her pictures away for free. There's no competing with that! She's hot, too. Bad teeth and all... Ohhhh, I'm get it. My bad. You just want to start a lame assed flame war. I thought you actually were trying to say something. Sorry. Carry on. zZZzZZZzZ
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johnnysokko April 10, 2001 11:14 PM	"Flame" is such an ugly word. I think "playful teasing" is a much better term for what I was doing; and I'm sure that others would agree if they carefully read your post and my response. Admit it-- you overreacted a tad. Here, I made a comic especially for you: 11854 It's not going to be on a Hallmark card anytime soon, but it's the best I can do. I'm sorry! Let's make up!
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wirthling April 10, 2001 11:55 PM	Oh yeah, baby! Time for the make up sex! Hooyah! I'm so jealous...
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wirthling
April 11, 2001 12:24 AM

Actually, I don't think of the group of us who hang out here as "elite" - I think of us more like a clique of obsessive-compulsive geeks who happen to share a common (more-or-less) sense of humor. We generally find our own comics a hell of a lot funnier than the standard newspaper comics, but then again we're a bunch of warped bastards. Not everybody finds anal rape and homicidal robots as funny as we do. Go figure.

Funny is an entirely subjective thing. Except for in the case of Gabe Billings, of course. Only his mother finds him funny, and even then not for the reasons he'd like.

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gabe_billings April 11, 2001 2:58 AM	Yeah, I'm so unfunny it makes my head hurt. The only reason I'm here is to turn out bar graphs and give wirthling the choadsmoker someone to pick on. But it'll be a different story when my army of Avon-disguised red robots show up at his house.
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Jael April 11, 2001 6:30 AM	quote: quote: Bunner, I feel you fell into the same trap of spreading hate, in fact...Ok, I'm just fucking around this time. Put down the shiv. Shiv? You wound me, sir. That's not hate. That's a review. I suggest H.L. Mencken, Florence King, and Dorthy Parker as light reading. Dorothy Parker...ahhh what a dame! She's was like the janeane garafalo of her day, but BETTER!
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ObiJo April 11, 2001 7:04 AM	quote: Dorothy Parker...ahhh what a dame! She's was like the janeane garafalo of her day, but BETTER! Better how? "Less hair under her arms" better or "SHE'LL return my calls" better?
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boorite April 11, 2001 8:15 AM	quote: Dog poop may smell less offensive than horse poop but man, it still stinks. You wouldn't know funny if it clanked up to you in a robot suit and anally raped you! (Hint: The above is funny.)
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boorite April 11, 2001 8:25 AM	OK, Johnny Sukko-- this should settle the question of whether we're funny or not. 11783 It helps if you get the puns from the original Aramaic, but still.
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boorite April 11, 2001 8:28 AM	quote: It helps if you get the puns from the original Aramaic, but still. Shit... I wasn't far off. I just Googled up an alleged "old Arab proverb": "Death rides a fast camel." Eerie.
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Scyess
April 11, 2001 8:33 AM

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Actually, I don't think of the group of us who hang out here as "elite" - I think of us more like a clique of obsessive-compulsive geeks who happen to share a common (more-or-less) sense of humor.

And gods forbid you try to win a comics contest around here if you don't share that exact sense of humor! You have to wait until someone makes rules so offensive that only 3 people enter the contest.

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You wouldn't know funny if it clanked up to you in a robot suit and anally raped you!

(Hint: The above is funny.)

*sigh* While that's mildly funny to the layman, it's only uproariously funny to the Clique -- a large number of whose posts I've read. Sad.

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bunnerabb
April 11, 2001 8:47 AM

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Actually, I don't think of the group of us who hang out here as "elite" - I think of us more like a clique of obsessive-compulsive geeks who happen to share a common (more-or-less) sense of humor. We generally find our own comics a hell of a lot funnier than the standard newspaper comics, but then again we're a bunch of warped bastards. Not everybody finds anal rape and homicidal robots as funny as we do. Go figure.

That's kind of what I meant, yeah. I blame the Jack Daniel's.

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boorite
April 11, 2001 9:10 AM

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*sigh* While that's mildly funny to the layman,

WHAT? Robotic manrape scores right off the charts on instruments designed to measure cross-cultural humorosity. The Bambuti devote a four-day dance festival to it! It is the subject of a full 20% of Laplander drinking songs! And a British sitcom (Felchy Towers) and a Japanese game show (Super Robot Manrape Endurance Torture Rally)! No funnier concept exists in the entire anthropological record!

Note that the syndies neglect this theme and are totally unfunny. Coincidence?

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bunnerabb
April 11, 2001 9:14 AM

Yeah.... pretty lame. I didn't mean "elite" in the sense that we're all fucking 3l337 and shit.... I meant, like, the same pack of people have formed a core group of writers who are regulars due to the fact that they keep posting. Ok? Got it? And a lot of them ARE fuck off funny. Piss your pants funny. A lot of their work sucks. Lord knows a lot of mine does. But there are gems here that blow away any of the grind it out stuff in syndie.

P.S: I'm sober now. (As far as you know.)

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Jael
April 11, 2001 10:48 AM

okay none of those were funny at all! You guys are going to have your membership in the "Jael Worships The Comic Geex Forum" club if this keeps up!!

And why the hell did lowpass take so damn long to post my message! It's WAY out of the thread loop.

I don't know!! I JUST DON'T KNOW!

Can we settle this with a good game of dodgeball at the flamer guy?

And Gabe...check your icq...you webposting work slacking m0m0!>;)

"Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt."- Dorothy Parker

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Jael April 11, 2001 11:03 AM	After reading the OTHER forums...I had to: 11911
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Jael April 11, 2001 11:46 AM	For the OCD's of the group: 11913
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gabe_billings April 11, 2001 12:37 PM	If we're supposed to be the 'elite' of Lowpass, we ought to at least have some secret handshakes or initiations or some such things.
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wirthling
April 11, 2001 1:53 PM

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The only reason I'm here is to turn out bar graphs and give wirthling the choadsmoker someone to pick on.

I only pick on you because I am insanely jealous of your graphing skills. And because you are a monumental dork, of course.

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But it'll be a different story when my army of Avon-disguised red robots show up at his house.

Oh, you were the one who sent the army of Avon-disguised red robots to my house? Oh crap. I thought it was ObiJo. ObiJo, you might not want to open any Fedex packages you receive in the next couple of days...

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wirthling April 11, 2001 2:16 PM	quote: If we're supposed to be the 'elite' of Lowpass, we ought to at least have some secret handshakes or initiations or some such things. 11938
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Jael April 11, 2001 2:48 PM	Oh my gawd! That wasn't a hand!! I was lied too! I'm so suing! after I debride all the skin off it.
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NeoVid April 11, 2001 3:19 PM	This is the only comic I've been able to come up with in days. http://www.stripcreator.com/view.php?ID=11945 11945 Damn. The new guy's right.
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ObiJo
April 11, 2001 9:38 PM

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I honestly have no delusions that anyone else finds me funny except for myself. Case in point, I've only won one contest, and then made everyone do Haiku.

I found that last sentence funny as hell, d. May I call you d? Iâ€™m fine with d or Cindy. But honestly, I find you and just about everyone else that posts to the contests funny as hell. I think most people do. Why the hell else would we keep submitting? Itâ€™s not like we get money or silverware for winning.

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No funnier concept exists in the entire anthropological record!

What about the Trail of Tears? Câ€™mon, I couldnâ€™t have been the only one laughing his ass off when they first saw that story on the History Channel.

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ObiJo, you might not want to open any Fedex packages you receive in the next couple of days...

Too late. As you can see Iâ€™ve already used the Trail of Tears joke.

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bunnerabb April 11, 2001 9:58 PM	Stop with the elitist shit already. It wasn't what I meant, and you know it. Stop it, stop it, just stop it.... you elitist fucks. Love, bunner
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ObiJo April 11, 2001 11:27 PM	11981
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bunnerabb April 11, 2001 11:50 PM	Now... see? See? SEE?? THAT shit is funny! bunner
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DragonXero April 12, 2001 12:05 AM	quote: If we're supposed to be the 'elite' of Lowpass, we ought to at least have some secret handshakes or initiations or some such things. Or at least a "members only" website... I should set that up. Or maybe our beloved (?) webmaster J'ohnny?
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DragonXero April 12, 2001 12:05 AM	quote: If we're supposed to be the 'elite' of Lowpass, we ought to at least have some secret handshakes or initiations or some such things. Or at least a "members only" website... I should set that up. Or maybe our beloved (?) webmaster J'ohnny?
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gabe_billings April 12, 2001 2:36 AM	What would be the point? No one posts to the message board but us 'elitist fucks' anyway. It's like having our own private domain. Too bad there's no porn.
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Jael April 12, 2001 7:26 AM	oh does this mean I can put my patented "hoity toity elitist snob" face back on??? Or do you have to actually be funny to be an elitist? I'm just gonna resort to poop jokes, obviously MY Humor is just beyond the meager grasping capabilities of this group ;)) runs like hell
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boorite
April 12, 2001 8:27 AM

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No funnier concept exists in the entire anthropological record!
What about the Trail of Tears? Câ€™mon, I couldnâ€™t have been the only one laughing his ass off when they first saw that story on the History Channel.

Ah, but if you think that's funny, imagine how much funnier it would be with the addition of a little robotic sodomy.

Or "Ein wenig Robotersodomy," as they say in Stuttgart.

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ObiJo April 12, 2001 8:57 AM	quote: Ah, but if you think that's funny, imagine how much funnier it would be with the addition of a little robotic sodomy. Can't argue with that logic. Oh, for a time machine, a six pack, and some spare time.
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boorite April 12, 2001 9:00 AM	Good news, everyone. 12068
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gabe_billings April 12, 2001 9:59 AM	HAHAHAHAHAHA!
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ObiJo April 12, 2001 7:51 PM	quote: HAHAHAHAHAHA! Though I am nondemonstrative in my emotions, (comes from a rigid upbringing) I must second that. That was funny as hell.
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