I'm pretty sure that an anagram or a palindrome has something to do with one of the rules. Wait - no, I'm not sure about that. Never mind.

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Gabe, I don't know if it's Rule 1, 3, or 5, but I love it! And wirthling, you're right, it is a palindrome.

Life on the Brink by kaufman 6-18-01

I step behind a bush, and look what I turn into. Kafka would be proud! I wanted to be a composer, but I didn't mean Tin Can Alley. You look marvelous. You are truly the Cadillac of women, no? Depends. Are you buying or leasing? Go ahead, kill me. Where will you put my body? Gabe bag.

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Step on no pets. by gabe_billings 6-18-01

Cigar? Toss it in a can, it is so tragic. Straw? No, too stupid a fad. I put soot on warts. Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog! God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog! Sis, ask Costner to not rent socks "as is"! Star? Come Donna Melba, I'm an amiable man, no Democrats!

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Life on the Brink by Kaufman
Follows: 4,5,6,7,10
Breaks: 1,2,3,8,9

Hints:

Rule #1
Rule #2
Rule #3
Rule #4
Rule #5
Rule #6
Rule #7
Rule #8
Rule #9
Rule #10

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Rule #1 - IMDb... I thought maybe this was something to do with movie musicals, but after I found "State Fair" I couldn't find any others in the rule-1-compliant strips. *frown*

Rule #2 - Amtrak... Unfair! Sounds like US cities of some kind, possibly state capitals...

Rule #3 - Adjacent.com... Consultants? Wha???

Rule #4 - Periodic table... I figured this one out, but haven't mentioned it yet.

Rule #5 - Palindromes... Finally worked this one out after many hints from the participants. "Son, I am able," she said, "though you scare me." "Watch," said I. "Beloved, I said watch me scare you." "Though," said she, "Able am I, son." (From "I Palindrome I" by They Might Be Giants)

Rule #6 - Presidents... This also is unfair on this poor Aussie. *grumble*

Rule #7 - Gary Sinise from Forrest Gump... what the fuck??? (Incidentally, that page has a really obnoxious pop-up window that I found very hard to close.)

Rule #8 - Cyclops... OK, nothing about superheroes, so I am thinking this is X-related. No idea beyond that.

Rule #9 - A pink keyboard? Huh?

Rule #10 - Some obscure band called the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies. Again - WTF???

A halfhearted comic attempt shall follow...

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Rules? IV - I know I got a few of them right... by DexX 6-18-01

Conga line, woohoo! Do I really have to do this? There's a new remake of Get Carter on cable, starring Chevy Chase... A man, a plan, a canal, Panama! What are you talking about? I haven't had this much fun since the last time I went to a swingers party in Boston! You're in charge kid - lead the way! Conga! Conga! I wish that dog would keep his filthy paws off my arse...

I still have no idea about the background or character selections, so I am taking wild guesses on those ones.

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Rules? IV - I know I got a few of them right... by Dexx

Follows: 3,4,6
Breaks: 1,2,5,7,8,9,10

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Rule #1 - IMDb... I thought maybe this was something to do with movie musicals, but after I found "State Fair" I couldn't find any others in the rule-1-compliant strips. *frown*
Nothing to do with movie names. But what else can you find there?

Rule #2 - Amtrak... Unfair! Sounds like US cities of some kind, possibly state capitals...
Unfair? Just wanted you to get the idea of a train in your mind. How are trains connected?

Rule #3 - Adjacent.com... Consultants? Wha???
Don't dig too much on this one. Just the name is enough.

Rule #4 - Periodic table... I figured this one out, but haven't mentioned it yet.
Golden.

Rule #5 - Palindromes... Finally worked this one out after many hints from the participants. "Son, I am able," she said, "though you scare me." "Watch," said I. "Beloved, I said watch me scare you." "Though," said she, "Able am I, son." (From "I Palindrome I" by They Might Be Giants)
Wow.

Rule #6 - Presidents... This also is unfair on this poor Aussie. *grumble*
Sorry. Next time I'll have a rule about Australian television.

Rule #7 - Gary Sinise from Forrest Gump... what the fuck??? (Incidentally, that page has a really obnoxious pop-up window that I found very hard to close.)
I thought for sure this one would jump out at you. I still think it will. Don't think too much about it.

Rule #8 - Cyclops... OK, nothing about superheroes, so I am thinking this is X-related. No idea beyond that.
Same as #7.

Rule #9 - A pink keyboard? Huh?
I didn't know it was pink. That's not important. It's a what?

Rule #10 - Some obscure band called the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies. Again - WTF???
It's just part of their name I'm interested in.

A halfhearted comic attempt shall follow...

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A Man, A Strip, A Contest: Set no cap, Irtsanama! by kaufman 6-19-01

Hold that train of thought, ma'am. You say that the strontium in fruits cured your dyslexia and depression? Smulp was I ere I saw plums! Hey, remember me? I was the best boy in your Latin class. But how would you say, "Night falls on a tricky dick?" Nox in Nixon. Vladimir, am I ... ...Da, Ed, dead!

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A Man, A Strip, A Contest: Set no cap, Irtsanama! by Kaufman

Follows: 4,5,6,7,8,10
Breaks: 1,2,3
Iffy: 9 (maybe on a model other than mine)

You need work on titles, characters and backgrounds. And I'm guessing at least one of the ones you got right was unintentional. But I could be wrong.

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A Man, A Strip, A Contest: Set no cap, Irtsanama! by Kaufman

Follows: 4,5,6,7,8,10
Breaks: 1,2,3
Iffy: 9 (maybe on a model other than mine)

You need work on titles, characters and backgrounds. And I'm guessing at least one of the ones you got right was unintentional. But I could be wrong.

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Rules? IV - I know I got a few of them right... by Dexx
Follows: 3,4,6
Breaks: 1,2,5,7,8,9,10

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This is more for my own reference than an attempt to guess rules...

Rule #1 - I keep getting ideas, but none of them pan out. If you are using movie quotes, they are damned obscure ones. *grin*

Rule #2 - Still no idea, possibly something to do with conjunctions.

Rule #3 - Adjacency... Since I got this one right, I thought maybe it meant that the backgrounds have to all be adjacent to each other in the list, but that doesn't seem to work for all the rule-3-compliant strips. *shrug*

Rule #4 - Name an element, I think that's all it is.

Rule #5 - Include a palindrome.

Rule #6 - Include a US president.

Rule #7 - Maybe a character with no visible legs...?

Rule #8 - A character with only one visible eye, possibly? I'll have to check that one...

Rule #9 - Something keyboard-related, but still no ideas.

Rule #10 - I think I have this one - has to include an abbreviation including an apostrophe.

Still no clues about title restrictions.

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Some fairly certain ones, some guesses, and some wild and clueless stabs in the dark.

Humour makes the world go "Argh! The pain!" by DexX 6-19-01

...and the hooker says, "I ain't touchin' that! Who do you think you are - Bill Clinton?" Geddit? Har har har... That joke could not have been a bigger bomb even with the aid of plutonium... Doctor a tame net, enema tarot cod! Being your twin is bad for my self esteem. So then Hugh Grant says... Oh come on, at least have the decency to face me when I tell you a joke! Tell it to the big fluffy tail, cuz the cute chubby face really doesn't give a shit.

Oh, and Gabe: As far as I know, train carriages are joined by shunting, but I don't suppose that was what you were trying to tell me. :)

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I like a good tarot cod reading.

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What others say about boorite!

I never realised how hard it was to come up with a decent palindrome off the top of your head.

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If you think that's hard, wait till you big SOL men figure out Rule #1!

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Rules? IV - I know I got a few of them right... by Dexx
Follows: 3,4,5,6
Breaks: 1,2,7,8,9,10

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Are you SURE about these? Isn't rule 5 the palindrome?

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Rule #1: There is NOOOO rule #1!

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

If this doesn't touch all the bases, it's getting close.

Able GI Soul by kaufman 6-19-01

As the war rages on in France ... Soldier, I want you to try out our new hydrogen-powered jeep. Yes, sir! Meanwhile, on a Pacific island Good news! I've found the locations of General Eisenhower's caches of non-perishable rations. Spam maps! And as the time-traveling shuttle orbits overhead... You thirsty? Yeah, man, let's head over to the space bar.

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The only downside to making so many complicated damn rules is trying to tell when people are adhering to them. Thus we will be revisiting Dexx's comic because I'm an eggsucking bastard and scored it incorrectly.

Rules? IV - I know I got a few of them right... by DexX 6-18-01

Conga line, woohoo! Do I really have to do this? There's a new remake of Get Carter on cable, starring Chevy Chase... A man, a plan, a canal, Panama! What are you talking about? I haven't had this much fun since the last time I went to a swingers party in Boston! You're in charge kid - lead the way! Conga! Conga! I wish that dog would keep his filthy paws off my arse...

Follows: 3,4,5,6,10
Breaks: 1,2,7,8,9

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Humour makes the world go "Argh! The pain!" by Dexx
Follows: 4,5,6,7,8
Breaks: 1,3,10
Darn Close: 2 (66% of your comic is fine)

Able GI Soul by Smarty Pants Kaufman
Follows: 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Breaks: 3

And current point standings...

I'm kind of fudging these, since I'm getting both verbal rule descriptions as well as comics (and even an email or two). So I'm handing out points based on the first person to make me absolutely positive they knew a given rule. Some were possible to get by mistake, so I needed confirmation you actually knew what you were talking about. So here's as it stands so far:

DexX: 2 points (rules 7,8)
Kaufman: 7 points (rules 1,2,4,5,6,9,10 with an assist by wirthling on #5)

And the rules:

#1 - Title must be an anagram of a well known actor or actress.
A Demonic Link - Nicole Kidman (Australian tie, see!)
Annoy Screen - Sean Connery
Cesium Rot - Tom Cruise (plus an element!)
Social Change - Nicholas Cage
Bestial Juror - Julia Roberts

#2 - The name of each background must begin with the letter the previous one ended with (like a train, see?)
#3 - All characters/props myst come from (at most) 3 adjacent character sets
#4 - Name an element
#5 - 1 character can only speak in palindromes
#6 - Name a US president (last name) (sorry Dexx)
#7 - In one frame no legs must be visible
#8 - Must use one character with only a single eye visible
#9 - Name a function-type key (not a letter) on your keyboard (my apoligies to any of you with weird bass-ackward keyboards that don't look like mine, but I thought they were pretty standard.
#10 - Name some sort of wheeled vehicle

Ok. That's it. We volley the moderatorship back to Senor Kaufman.

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And the rules:

#1 - Title must be an anagram of a well known actor or actress.
A Demonic Link - Nicole Kidman (Australian tie, see!)
Annoy Screen - Sean Connery
Cesium Rot - Tom Cruise (plus an element!)
Social Change - Nicholas Cage
Bestial Juror - Julia Roberts

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Hmm. I could probably be convinced. If there's interest in another round. But DexX, who actually got some points out of this one, gets first crack.

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