I've thought of some super-neat-o rules for this one, folks. Thanks largely to DexX's contribution to the CC26 folder.

The rules are simple:

1) You must use either Bongo from Life in Hell or Pants from Jerk City at least once in the comic.

2) Somewhere in the comic you have to use the words "toothpaste," "confetti," and "interstice" at least once.

3) The subject of the cartoon must somehow ridicule people who get silly liberal arts degrees, such as a French / Women's Studies major or (God forbid) a philosophy / linguistics major.

4) Oh, yes. No direct references to other Lowpass strippers. Not even DexX. ;>

Rule 2 may make this contest pretty hard. I'm glad *I* don't have to enter it. Let the games begin!

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"Old" is the old new.

Dang. And I thought I sucked...

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"And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."

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interstice

interstice was Word of the Day on January 29, 2001.

Source: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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in·ter·stice (n-tûrsts)
n., pl. in·ter·stic·es (-st-sz, -sz.)

A space, especially a small or narrow one, between things or parts: “There is a gleam of luminous gold, where the sinking western sun has found a first direct interstice in the clouds” (John Fowles).

Middle English from Old French from Latin interstitium, from *interstitus, past participle of intersistere, to pause, make a break: inter-, inter- + sistere, to cause to stand, set up; see st- in Indo-European Roots.]

I think we've found wirthling's first business partner.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

Deadline? Um, Thursday-ish?

The name, by the way, for whomever asked, is "Scy-" (as in "sigh") and ("-ess" as in "lionESS"). I THOUGHT I posted this in the CC26 folder already, but apparently I didn't...

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"Old" is the old new.

That was me. I didn't see it. Now I know. How long have you and wirthling been in cahoots?

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

Comic Contest #27: Thank you Guidance Counsellors by NastyPope 4-30-01

Hey Bro, what are you doing back at registration and why are you shredding your class schedule into confetti? Well, last night I was freebasing some cloves ground up into toothpaste when I had an epiphany Really? Like, you saw God and were given divine inspiration and guidance? Sorta. Basically I realized that I would corrupt my essence if I got my Business degree and then went on to Law School. So I am changing my degree to Woman's Studies. Woman's Studies?!?!? Are you out of your mind? The difference between that and government cheese eating social worker is minute! Well....I wanted to become a gynecologist, but I couldn't find an interstice.

My use of interstice was stretching it a bit, but is synonymous with 'opening' apparently.

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At least im still funny .....looking. http://www.carrionfields.com

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

Awww, SHIT! Typo. Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, SHIT! GNAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!

Ok, better.

Sorry.

Love,

bunner

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

CC27: Fastest Finger Time? Has to be Sally, 8th Grade. by ObiJo 4-30-01

a)Confetti.......b)Toothpaste....... c)Interstice....d)Vagisil....... I'd like to use the 50/50. Ok. Computer, take away two of the wrong answers. .........................b)Toothpaste....... .........................d)Vagisil....... Hmm, the two I had it narrowed down to. That's always the way. Ok, since I don't have any friends, I'd like to poll the audience. Ok, audience. Please select on your keypads: Which do you use to brush your teeth: b)Toothpaste or d)Vagisil. 99% said Toothpaste with 1% saying Confetti. Well, Regis, I'm just not sure. I think I'm going to walk with my $100. *sigh* This is why Trabec never has "Community College Week."

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

Know the difference between community colleges and state colleges?
Thousands of dollars.
Oh and two years usually...

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Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.

Zero is spelled with a Z.

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

So is zoophile.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

I dedicate this one to bunner...

CC 27: The value of a Philosophy degree... by wirthling 5-01-01

...but if conscious expression is bound by the limitations of language, the extrication of internal meaning by words is like attempting in vain to squeeze the last bit of toothpaste from the tube... ...or perhaps it is more apropos to liken our verbal instantiations as mere confetti left over from the parade of our essential thoughts, or maybe the conceptual monad is only true within itself... ...but others aver that the interstice between an objectified mental concept and its simplest morphemic instance may be rather infinitessimal, and this verisimilitude between -- Look, college boy - I didn't come to Starbucks for pretentious blather. Just make me a damn Caramel Macchiatto, for cryin' out loud!

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"And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."

So it is, bunnerabb.

I went to a community college to start off college. After leaving, I went to a private college that cost a buttload and had a guy to girl ratio of 7 to 1. Oh, how I longed for the community college days of multiple choice questions and women who were women and not your roomate dressed up as one.

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

Damn.... that joke would have worked for Gabe. :- (

So, you want a torte with that caramel macchiatto?

bunner

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

http://www.stripcreator.com/view.php?ID=13759

CC27 - Rules are made to be carefully interpreted. by DexX 5-01-01

Fourteen down: "Voluntary imprisonment, decorated with confetti." Eight letters, beginning with M. Marriage. Easy one... Okay then... twenty-five across: "Apply to facial interstice for mintiness". I don't even understand the question... Toothpaste. Come on, even an Arts graduate could work these ones out. Give me a really hard one! Let's see... how about thirty-one across: "Donkey molester". Nine letters, starting with W. Hey, that's cheating! If I answer that one I break the rules of this comic contest!

The rules say [u]direct[/u] references. :)

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Well, I was trying to use a play on words since I always pronounce your name bunny rab. Zoophile, bunny rab, ah fuck it. And I swear to GOD, if I get compared to Gabe one more time on jokes, in bed, or ear hair, I'm moving to Zimbabwe (Z) to make a new start.
Nope, I went to one in Northern Arizona called Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. Once, for a dance, the school actually went and recruited women from a state university some 150 miles away, just so there'd be enough. Sad really. Do you still have nightmares? I do.

Also, Indiana and Arizona both obviously have technical schools with high guy to girl ratios. Also, Indiana and Arizona are, I think, the only two states that don't do daylight savings time. Coincidence? Deducing these facts, there can only be one answer. I'm the King of Spain.

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

Haha. Yep, definitely. I used to hang around with my friends who went to ASU in Tempe, AZ (Suburb of Phoenix.) That school is huge, about 45 thousand or so, has tons of hot girls, and was voted Playboy's #1 Party school in the mid-90's. That school had it all.

Then I moved up to podunk Prescott, AZ to go to Embry-Riddle. The entire city of Prescott only had a population of 35 thousand. My college had only like 1500 people, and the few girls who were there were bunugly. (That's like Jamie Foxx dressed up as a woman ugly.) But, since it was 7 to 1, guys to girls, they started thinking since guys were horny and always trying to hook up with them that they were hot. I swear it was funny as hell. Like bizarro universe where the snaggle-toothed ladies with bristle hair and a lisp suddenly are too good for the room. The only thing that saved all us men from mass suicide was Prescott's Whiskey Row. It was a row of bars dating back to the 1880's when Prescott was an old west town and the territorial capitol of Arizona. And that's just another example of the type of historical information you pick up when you're not getting laid. :)

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

Very true... then again, the rules also say the comic must ridicule people who get silly liberal arts educations. Hhmmm...

Of course, when the person who makes the rules is also the person who interprets them and judges the contest, finding sneaky loopholes is sort of an empty victory, don't you think?

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"Old" is the old new.

Terre Haute, huh? I used to curse like a sailor, but trying to get myself to stop, I started saying "Holy Moly Guacamole, Terre Haute, Indiana" everytime I was about to cuss. It worked fucking marvelously.

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

CC 27 - Score some Blow (first try) by Braze 5-02-01

What the... this isn't a thing like you. You've cleaned up; your hair is clean, you brushed your teeth with real toothpaste... what the hell is going on? I'm going to a party tonight! ... ah. You mean a "confetti, drinks and happy" type party, or a "dog suffocated with rubber tubing" type party? Uh, neither really. More a "pretentious art faggot" party. I will "narrow the intercise within my demographic". ... So basically you're going there to score some blow. Don't forget my overwhelming thirst for ass!

Uh, I spelled "interstice" wrong. Because I was too lazy to look it up before making my contribution...

...does it matter? WILL I BE PENALIZED BY YOU HEARTLESS, HEARTLESS BASTARDS?!?

...or will you find it in the depths of your collective hearts to forgive me this one error?

It does, but only lightly... something along the lines of, "Even an Arts graduate could guess these." I had the general flow of the strip worked out, and the Arts student reference was the last thing to be added. You may have noticed.

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Uh, I spelled "interstice" wrong. Because I was too lazy to look it up before making my contribution...

...does it matter? WILL I BE PENALIZED BY YOU HEARTLESS, HEARTLESS BASTARDS?!?

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As the title says..

CC27 : See, this is why I don't enter normally. by MatthewEastaugh 5-02-01

The sixteenth annual 'Random Word Quoting' contest... Toothpaste. Confetti. Interstice. Damn, you win. That French / Women's Studies major you got has been put to good use, I see. (sarcasm) Unfortunately, as is normal for me, it all goes to pieces in panel 3... Erm... Wirthling is a donkey fucker. TOBOR WILL CORNHOLE YOU!! RAR!!

Golly gosh I'm crap.

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I like Liberal Arts majors, but I will enter your contest anyway.

http://www.stripcreator.com/view.php?ID=13838

Comic Contest 27: Is this what English majors do? by evil_d 5-02-01

Toothpaste. Noun. A dentifrice in the form of a paste. "My dentist told me to brush my teeth with a new kind of toothpaste." Confetti. Plural noun. Small pieces or streamers of colored paper that are scattered around during the course of festive occasions. "Confetti covers the floor every year on January 1." Interstice. Noun. A space, especially a small or narrow one, between things or parts. "Her foot was caught in the interstice between two large boulders." French-fried potatoes. Plural noun. Strips of potato fried in deep fat. "Would you like some French-fried potatoes with that?"

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!