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OK, what's up with the lousy participation rate for this cup? Does it suck that bad? If so, let that be a lesson to you next time you consider voting for me in a future Comic Cup.

Anyway, Round #1 is finally over...

Winner of Round #1, Match #8: Spankling

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I freakin won? I got like 4 votes! chicka - i'm willing to wait for others votes if the floating head will allow.

Geeky electronic gizmo: Portable lazer-acurate voting stylus
Felony: Stealing an election
3rd-world country: Florida

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

I refer you to this:

Any questions?

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

The number of choices available to us for last round's suggestions were too finite, I think. You need to give us stuff we can be creative with. Other than that, I don't think this Cup sucks at all.

I vote for Spankling. (Seriously.)

[u]Gizmo[/u]: the pocket projector (figuring out what such a device does is left as an exercise to the reader)
[u]Felony[/u]: Modifying dozens of US Forest Service advertisements to read "Only you can start forest fires" (as seen in Furious George and the Cross-Country Crime Spree!)
[u]3rd-world country[/u]: Ohio

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

Geeky electronic gizmo: Palm Pirate
Felony: Murder in the 98th Degree
3rd-world country: Absolutistan

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

Tech Support 2001 by fuzzyman 11-09-01

Hello? IBM Tech Support? Ever since I loaded Windows XP on my Aptiva, something has been sucking up all my memory. Yes, we’ve been hearing a lot of that lately. To fix this problem, you’ll need to load a patch that we call “Linux.” We’ll ship it right out to you. Have a great day! Hello? Mars Candy Bar Tech Support? I’m following your recipe for Fried Mars Bars, but I can’t suck off the crispy coating like I used to back home in Connecticut. I see that you’re calling from Colorado. If you’re living 10,000 feet above sea level, we recommend adding two pounds of lard to the hot oil. Thank you for calling! Hello? Marilyn Manson Tech Support? No matter how loud I play your new album, it still sucks. Yeah, well, fuck you, bitch.

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

Gizmo: The babelfish
Felony: Refusing entry to someone who wants to use your commode in Scotland
Thirld World country: Mordor

Geeky electronic gizmo: Flux capacitor

Felony: Human experimentation, attempted murders, torture, extreme rape tortures, Gang Rape, Homosexual Rape, armed Robberies, Burglaries, Medical Malpractice, Slavery, and extortion, false incarceration, false arrest, torture, kidnapping, hostage holding, terrorism, organized crime, extortion, drug dealing, prostitution, Pedophilia, child molestation, and embezzlement.

3rd-world country: Zimbabwe.

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

this coming from someone who's logged time in Baltimore??

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When they invent BookFace, I'm -there-.

RAAR!

Your maw refused me entry last night.

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When they invent BookFace, I'm -there-.

I'm having a whole lot of trouble coming up with something to run against fuzzyman's strip. Good thing the deadlines don't apply to the weekends.

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I am a delicate fucking flower. https://beacons.ai/jesskent

Yours never refused me.

Yours never refused me.

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hmm, that would explain why my developmentally disabled infant brother's first words were "red bull"....

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When they invent BookFace, I'm -there-.

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Your maw refused me entry last night.

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Maw meaning mother or maw meaning mouth? 'Cause both are pretty hot.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

this coming from someone who's logged time in Baltimore??

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I liked Baltimore. I hope to live there again someday.

I have another suggestion for a third-world country, though: Pacmanistan. I've got the first two panels of a strip about it worked out, I just can't think of a punchline.

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

Geeky electronic gizmo - Robotic Girlfriend
Felony - Draft-dodging.
3rd-world country - Afbradistan (Apparently that's where Brad is from...)

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Okay. I have had a massive amount of performance anxiety all weekend because fuzzyman's comic was so damned good. This is what I finally managed to squeeze out:

Fuzzyman, I do not expect to even come close to beating you.

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I am a delicate fucking flower. https://beacons.ai/jesskent

fuzzyman. But you're being too hard on your entry, ladyj!

fuzzyman had two elements in his favor: #1, the MicroBorg bashing... and #2, the Marilyn Manson bashing.

He gets my vote.

(Though I did have a hard time choosing. LadyJ's was really good too.)

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This is not my empire.

Though I liked the "Carrot Top Juicer", I too am going to cast my vote for fuzzyman.

Here's the comic I ended up with for the "Pacmanistan" idea. If anyone can improve upon it, please do.

Documentary: Pacmanistan by evil_d 11-11-01

Good morning, class. Today we'll be learning about the small third-world nation of Pacmanistan. Though their land is poor in resources, the cultural and spirital wealth of the Pacman people is quite impressive. The region's staple food is a small, tastless wafer of unleavened bread. The name for these wafers translates roughly as "dots". Fruits are rare, and highly prized. But the Pacmans are a very superstitious people. A common religious ritual involves the consumption of vitamin pills which are believed to ward off ghosts. Sadly, Pacmanistan is behind the curve in terms of civil rights. Women are forced to wear red or pink ribbons at all times while in public. Yet despite their flaws, the arts and customs of Pacmanistan have been imitated repeatedly by other societies. I dare say they affect the way we think, even how we dress.

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Crime Wave by kaufman 11-11-01

Ladies and Gentlemen, Pacmanistan's Minister of Justice My fellow Pacmanistanis, I would like to inform you of the dangerous criminals on our Most Wanted List. There's Inky ................... Binky .......... ................. Pinky and Clyde.

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ken.kaufman@gmail.com

I take voting seriously. Should I be dying on voting day I would somehow make it to the polls. After a good breakfast voting is the first thing I do on that day, just in case I get hit by a bus later.

That said, I feel the need to vote for Lady J in order to send a message that her comic was good too and deserved to be on the ticket. I might have voted for the fuzz, but I think the message needed to be heard.

That and I get a kick out of voting for chicks. I do the same thing when voting for judges. Who the freak know enough about judges to vote for one over another?

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

evil_d, I loved Pacmanistan..except the last panel was a letdown after the others were so great. but if that had been an entry in any CC, I'd have picked it.

and speaking of, Fuzzyman gets my vote. LadyJ, yours was good too, but that one would have been hard for anyone to beat.

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When they invent BookFace, I'm -there-.

Thanks. Yeah, I'm not a fan of the last bit either. But after wracking my brain for hours for something else that was potentially funny about Pac-Man, that was the best I could do.

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

Thanks. Yeah, I'm not a fan of the last bit either. But after wracking my brain for hours for something else that was potentially funny about Pac-Man, that was the best I could do.

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Perhaps discussing something about how they overcame the previously powerful neighbor, Pongopolis. Maybe that already flitted through your mind.

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"Jelly-belly gigglin, dancin and a-wigglin, honey that's the way I am!" Janice the Muppet

Thanks for the pity vote, Spankling.

I am not wallowing or anything. I'm glad I could overcome the intimidation of the glory of fuzzyman's strip enough to post anything. I was seriously going to just concede, but I felt that would be too lame.

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I am a delicate fucking flower. https://beacons.ai/jesskent