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Wow... remember how we all thought the Far Side box set was, like, the coolect thing ever? Well THIS has just dethroned it. |
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« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2005, 07:48:39 PM » |
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Wow... remember how we all thought the Far Side box set was, like, the coolect thing ever? Well THIS has just dethroned it. YES! I was just thinking the other day how sweet it would be to have one of these, and here it is! Just in time for my birthday, too! However, Far Side is still my all-time favorite strip, so that box set remains the coolest thing ever. |
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Fun facts about Chuck Norris:
Newton's Third Law is wrong: Although it states that for each action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, there is no force equal in reaction to a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick.
Chuck Norris can divide by zero.
Chuck Norris CAN believe it's not butter.
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« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2005, 07:57:28 PM » |
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Sweet. The juxtaposition of the ornate binding and box with the medium contained therein, though, is kind of amusing in itself.
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If you don’t have freedom as a principle, you can never see a reason not to make an exception. There are constantly going to be times when for one reason or another there’s some practical convenience in making an exception.
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« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2005, 06:44:37 AM » |
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« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2005, 11:52:00 AM » |
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*drools*
I gots to get me one of those!
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« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2005, 03:47:00 PM » |
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Wow... remember how we all thought the Far Side box set was, like, the coolect thing ever? Well THIS has just dethroned it. Nothing is as good as The Far Side. |
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« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2005, 06:27:39 PM » |
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Bill Watterson is one of the few cartoonists (Berkeley Breathed is the only other one that I can think of... well, maybe Schultz...) who considers himself to be a storyteller. His strip was not concerned with gags or cheap laughs so much as developing characters and telling meaningful tales of childhood and imagination. It was a brilliantly observed and often very philosophical strip, and that's what made the humor so sharp. The only other strip that I can think of that ever achieved anything like this is Bloom County.
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« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2005, 06:39:21 PM » |
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Bill Watterson is one of the few cartoonists (Berkeley Breathed is the only other one that I can think of... well, maybe Schultz...) who considers himself to be a storyteller. His strip was not concerned with gags or cheap laughs so much as developing characters and telling meaningful tales of childhood and imagination. It was a brilliantly observed and often very philosophical strip, and that's what made the humor so sharp. The only other strip that I can think of that ever achieved anything like this is Bloom County. I agree with all of that, and that is why C&H is my second favorite strip. Far Side is my favorite simply because it makes me laugh more.  |
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Fun facts about Chuck Norris:
Newton's Third Law is wrong: Although it states that for each action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, there is no force equal in reaction to a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick.
Chuck Norris can divide by zero.
Chuck Norris CAN believe it's not butter.
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« Reply #8 on: June 01, 2005, 03:46:10 PM » |
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This just gets better and better... Calvin and Hobbes will be returning to the funny pages at the end of this year! Okay, so it's only for a few months, and it'll probably be repeats rather than brand new strips, but still, it's guaranteed to be better than anything else in the comics these days.
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« Reply #9 on: June 01, 2005, 03:55:28 PM » |
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Calvin and Hobbes is my favorite strip of all time as well. My brother will pee himself when I give him a link to this.
(I feel bad for people who are diehards for Peanuts. That set will cost a mint by the time it's done)
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« Reply #10 on: June 03, 2005, 09:39:24 AM » |
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(I feel bad for people who are diehards for Peanuts. That set will cost a mint by the time it's done) heh, i was just thinking the same thing... C&H always cracked me up too... i need more rich friends or uncles or something... scratch that, rich and generous... peace... love... bdg... |
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« Reply #11 on: June 09, 2005, 01:41:29 PM » |
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ooo... That's pretty.
I was in B&N today and saw that Far Side set... holy cow. It amazing.
One comic I can't get enough of though, is The Boondocks... man, I love that strip. I've got two of the collections. Unfortunately, the Des Moines Register doesn't run it on the Comics pages...
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« Reply #12 on: June 09, 2005, 02:11:09 PM » |
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Yeah. If they need to run Boondocks in the editorials page, just nix Doonesbury (it's pointless) and replace it.
(I don't care for most overtly political comics, and I'd include the rather conservative Mallard Fillmore in that).
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« Reply #13 on: June 10, 2005, 03:24:15 AM » |
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Yeah. If they need to run Boondocks in the editorials page, just nix Doonesbury (it's pointless) and replace it.
(I don't care for most overtly political comics, and I'd include the rather conservative Mallard Fillmore in that). I like how Boondocks can get off of political topics sometimes. I like Doonesbury, but it can be rather subtle, and it doesn't age well at all. Mallard bugs me, partially because the jokes aren't too good and partially because you have to be more conservative than I am to appreciate the ones that aren't too bad. |
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Someday, Dan will make a site with nothing but pictures of amusing stolen avatars.
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