Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
3. U.S. social security card (nonmetal) or Canadian social insurance card
Some years ago a few companies would make a nice metal social security card to replace the flimsy paper one (that you can't laminate or you'd void it.) The thing is, you can't use it anywhere as a form of ID which is understandable I suppose, but how fucking hard would it be to, you know ...
put our SSN on our driver's license so we don't have to carry around a flimsy paper SSN card anymore? Or if it has to be separate, put it on card that won't fall apart if you look at it funny?
Also, fake IDs (the kinds that will at least pass cursory inspection) are actually pretty fucking hard to come by and unless you have a bit of inside knowledge -- which hardly anyone has -- you won't know where to find one, and if you do they're pretty fucking expensive. Requiring two forms for a simple state ID is pretty ridiculous.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I never understood why social security cards are as flimsy as they are. The driver's license that we carry around for four years at most is printed on a decent piece of plastic, but the card that we're expected to carry around our entire lives is a flimsy piece of cardstock. I know the federal government doesn't have an unlimited budget for these things but come on.
As an aside, I just noticed that mine, being from the early 1990s, was printed rather fuzzily on a dot-matrix printer. I wonder if newer social security cards are printed any nicer...
Don't be jealous of me just cuz im rich and am smart and have 1000000000000000000000000 boyfrends and can shoot lazers and can comprehend knowledge gretaer than the human mind and i have a moped
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
In my english writing class, my final was an argumentative paper on why the term "Graphic Novel" is fucking stupid and that comics are comics are comics. I have nothing against dramatic or serious storytelling in sequential art form, but the shit isn't literature as we know it. Period. Literature is an art form put to words and words only. Comics, in turn, are simply that. Comics. Anyway the student grader sent the paper back to me with an angry question of why I'm ignoring Asian comics when at least 500 words were dedicated to discussing the contribution that is Persepolis. When I went to the english instructor to tell him that his student graders are fucking morons who fail at basic geography and maybe I'd have received a better grade if I threw a sop in my paper to Sailor Moon, he snidely replied that "not everyone is as smart as you, Forsythe." Anyway I got a D on that paper and in that class but you saw that one coming
Also as a kid I remember a time when Funky Winkerbean was one of the funnier comics on the comics page and Batuik wasn't a wet blanket about everything.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
One of the gags in the old Funky Winkerbean comics was the school hall monitor desk was armed with a permanently-mounted machine gun. It was never used, of course, but it was there for visual laughs and it worked. Another running gag was how "Crazy Eddy" would play frozen pizzas on his LP player, and the school football hero was always going to beat the daylights out of Les, the resident wimpy nerd (one gag was when Les' mom showed up right before Bull (the bully) was going to knock Les' daylights out and he sighed relief that he was saved only for his mother to shout out that she has plenty of time to wait on Bull.) Holly, the lead cheerleader, had her "world famous flaming baton trick" which always ended up with her getting caught on fire (off-camera, of course) and the school band would try to raise annual funds by selling mutant 3-legged turkeys at Thanksgiving (that nobody would ever buy.) All of this fell neatly into comic strip logic that Schultz pioneered with Peanuts decades before. Anyway, right around the beginning of the 90's, the strip (overnight) turned into a serious, depressing serial where everyone's lives are falling apart.
One of the gags in the old Funky Winkerbean comics was the school hall monitor desk was armed with a permanently-mounted machine gun. It was never used, of course, but it was there for visual laughs and it worked. Another running gag was how "Crazy Eddy" would play frozen pizzas on his LP player, and the school football hero was always going to beat the daylights out of Les, the resident wimpy nerd (one gag was when Les' mom showed up right before Bull (the bully) was going to knock Les' daylights out and he sighed relief that he was saved only for his mother to shout out that she has plenty of time to wait on Bull.) Holly, the lead cheerleader, had her "world famous flaming baton trick" which always ended up with her getting caught on fire (off-camera, of course) and the school band would try to raise annual funds by selling mutant 3-legged turkeys at Thanksgiving (that nobody would ever buy.) All of this fell neatly into comic strip logic that Schultz pioneered with Peanuts decades before. Anyway, right around the beginning of the 90's, the strip (overnight) turned into a serious, depressing serial where everyone's lives are falling apart.
Mostly infamous today for giving all of its characters cancer or somesuch.
Also I think graphic novel is a valid term, but only as one of format. An issue of a comic as opposed to a volume of a graphic novel. Really just a matter of length, IMO, but that's just the definition I use. Some like to be pretentious about it.
Also I'm back from work. Witnessed an interdepartment war today.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
Let me put it this way: Imagine 11.975MHz had a screeching halt,and Deco was set 7 years later as struggling single mother with Lunchbox in some shitty job, Fussy lost a breast to cancer and is estranged to Antithesis who herself joined some neocon movement, Caboose became a reclusive psychotic who hates everyone and Elsepeth decided she needed a drinking problem and keeps waking up in a ditch every morning.
That's pretty much what Funky Winkerbean went and did.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I think the thing that irritates me the most about modern-day Funky Winkerbean is Batuik's insistence on using his characters as mouthpieces for rants about how all comics to be "funny" or how not every ending needs to be a happy one.
No shit Sherlock. We don't dislike your comic because we expect all comics to be humorous, we dislike it because it was explicitly comedic before you decided it needed to be Depressionsville.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Let me put it this way: Imagine 11.975MHz had a screeching halt,and Deco was set 7 years later as struggling single mother with Lunchbox in some shitty job, Fussy lost a breast to cancer and is estranged to Antithesis who herself joined some neocon movement, Caboose became a reclusive psychotic who hates everyone and Elsepeth decided she needed a drinking problem and keeps waking up in a ditch every morning.
That's pretty much what Funky Winkerbean went and did.
Let me put it this way: Imagine 11.975MHz had a screeching halt,and Deco was set 7 years later as struggling single mother with Lunchbox in some shitty job, Fussy lost a breast to cancer and is estranged to Antithesis who herself joined some neocon movement, Caboose became a reclusive psychotic who hates everyone and Elsepeth decided she needed a drinking problem and keeps waking up in a ditch every morning.
So basically if every strip was about the Catfolk?
I'm not trying to be a jerk, I just always wondered what the deal was here and while we were on the vague subject it seemed like a good time to ask.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I never noticed the electrical outlet with the missing plate before.
Let me put it this way: Imagine 11.975MHz had a screeching halt,and Deco was set 7 years later as struggling single mother with Lunchbox in some shitty job, Fussy lost a breast to cancer and is estranged to Antithesis who herself joined some neocon movement, Caboose became a reclusive psychotic who hates everyone and Elsepeth decided she needed a drinking problem and keeps waking up in a ditch every morning.
forsythe have you ever gotten fanfiction because i am writing some now
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Hi Tools.
That's one of the things I like about 11.975MHz, every time I look at a comic I notice details I hadn't before.
I really do need to buy this book. I feel it will explain the things that I wonder about that can't be explained by the setting and tone.
Which is admittedly, like, three things. But whatevs.
Well, I only footnote a few comics, like the shout-out there or how one comic was inspired by a raving homeless man I saw in the middle of Los Angeles. I'd think if I explained everything that it'd lose its charm really quick.
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I thought it was Funky Winterbean.
Mostly infamous today for giving all of its characters cancer or somesuch.
Also I think graphic novel is a valid term, but only as one of format. An issue of a comic as opposed to a volume of a graphic novel. Really just a matter of length, IMO, but that's just the definition I use. Some like to be pretentious about it.
Also I'm back from work. Witnessed an interdepartment war today.
We should frame it and put it on a wall
So basically if every strip was about the Catfolk?
I'm not trying to be a jerk, I just always wondered what the deal was here and while we were on the vague subject it seemed like a good time to ask.
OH NO
I DIDN'T CHECK MY MOPED PRIVILEGES
*melts*
Oh, alright.
*shrug*
While I'm bugging you, is this a reference to Lord Cat-sama in PaniPoniDash!, or just another cat who also happens to attend to a soda machine?
morning...
Phil Phriendly.
is kind of a dick.
Huh, cool.
I really do need to buy this book. I feel it will explain the things that I wonder about that can't be explained by the setting and tone.
Which is admittedly, like, three things. But whatevs.
Like I said, roughly three things.
Anyway that's probably true.
In other comic related news, I need to learn to draw so I can get back to Tripadelic.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis