Bugger humility. I think all of us must have at least one strip which we think is pretty good, and I would like to invite all of you to post one or more strips of your own which you are reasonably proud of.

Should make an interesting counterpoint to the Festival of the Unfunny thread, anyway. I am going to stick my neck out and volunteer this one, which I think is my best strip, despite the typo in the title...

http://www.lowpass.net/stripcreator/view.php?ID=2799

The Big C strkes a minor snag... by DexX 1-27-01

I have risen from the sunken city of R'lyeh. I have returned to the Earth. The destruction is total. *sigh* Now I'm bored.

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Here's One by ObiJo 2-11-01

As the battle begins, Ernie starts to think that maybe The Flag of Death wasn't one of his better ideas.

I love that comic, despite the title which came from mental block. It's such a FarSide type comic, though, that I wondered if I had subconsciously stolen it from Gary Larson, but when I checked the whopping 3 farside books I own, I couldn't find it. So, if there is a farside comic like it, then I think the indications are obvious: In the future, Gary Larson must have invented a time machine and stolen my idea. Bastard.

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

I did the Relationship Test series because I think it's a good gag, and it's a timeless approach to humour. The Honeymooners, The Battling Bickersons, (radio), along with more modern sitcoms all use the tenacity of relationships for a gag. That being said, this one always makes me laugh. Following DexX's logic, which, actually, I tend to agree with, (Your worst stuff seems funny to others), this probably blows. I like it. Go figure.

bunner

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

This one is so tenderly self-effacing.

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What others say about boorite!

Since it's "bugger humility," I'm posting two.

Fourth-day retrospective by boorite 3-16-01

On this fourth day of boorite comics, we thought you'd enjoy these hilarious moments divorced from all context. Truth, Oprah? I'd much rather be nuzzling another dog's butt or gnawing a rank chicken bone from the garbage. I shall fist thee up to my wristwatch. [Cue theme music] CROCODILE HUNTER! WHY YOU NAMBY LITTLE FUCKFACE! I'LL WEAR YOUR BALLS FOR A BOWTIE AND CORNHOLE YOUR CORPSE 'TIL YOUR IMMORTAL SOUL PISSES BLOOD ALL OVER HELL! Matter of fact, the missus and me got a three-day spouse-swapper lined up at the Milwaukee TraveLodge next week. Fukui-San! It looks as if the Enormous Insect Pest is dismembering Chairman Kaga alive! We possess none of your military command posts. Join my book club!

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What others say about boorite!

It's our own little gallery opening. But it's too hard to pick just one.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

And, actually, I think this is my best effort.

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

Blazing Low Pass Saddles - Take 2 by Jael 1-24-01

Evil Helmut Lamarr decides to take over the town of Dry Gulch once and for all! We'll fix up Dry Gulch, we'll send them a new sheriff! Yee-haw Hedly..yer right smart! That'll get 'em Meanwhile...in Dry Gulch Well I hear, we're getting a new sheriff! I must get ready...for my showstopping sausage number! Damn...I knew I should have quit the booze long enough for that job interview Across the plains...he rode. A man with a purpose, ready to fight evil and injustice in Dry Gulch. A man...with a tan and a pink donkey. "howdy folks! I'm yer new Sheriff...Sheriff Neal's the name!" psst...Sheriff Neal, do ya think they've never seen a pink donkey before?

Best of Jael: 1 of 3

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Women are fisher's of men because we all know.... The small ones you throw back. The medium ones you eat. The large ones you mount.

2 of 3

Back to the 80's by Jael 1-24-01

I am the son, and the heir... of a shyness that is criminally vulgar. Shut your mouth..how can you say... I go about things the wrong way... I am human and I need to be loved just like everybody else does.

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Women are fisher's of men because we all know.... The small ones you throw back. The medium ones you eat. The large ones you mount.

The last of the Holy Jael Trinity

Back To The 80's - Part Deux by Jael 1-25-01

Dum dum da dee dum dum What? My OWN personal Jesus? Dum dum da dee dum dum Someone to hear my prayers? Someone who cares? Dum dum da dee dum dum Hey look! Jesus to reinvent your popularity..we HAD to do a remix! Why do you look suspiciously like a cleaned up Marilyn Manson?

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Women are fisher's of men because we all know.... The small ones you throw back. The medium ones you eat. The large ones you mount.

If Divine wrote comics.... by balan 4-16-01

The secret life of a super hero Johnny Flame! Mr Evil is robbing the bank and your teamates are out of the country on a special mission. You have to do something! Flame on! And now you know. your....uh....mascara is a little heavy.... It's a distractionary measure. He'll never see my super secret Sequin attack coming....Is my wig on straight?

Oh, what the hell. I dig this one too:

Confuscious say, Only dumb man screw cactus by ObiJo 2-10-01

Some people have a negative outlook on life... Out the way, bitch. While others... I said out the fuckin' way! Have matches. And a history of arson.

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

granted i've only made a few, but this is my favourite... i think

[image]http://www.stripcreator.com/view.php?ID=11984[/image]

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Kafka's Koffee

Gee, I'd love to participate, but everything I've ever made is amazingly inconsequential.

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

I have lots that I like, but this one is one of the first I was really proud of. It's not rated very high by "score," though, proving what utter morons must be rating comics on this site.

The Date by Scyess 2-24-01

So I graduated from the Super Dave Community College with a degree in the lacunar sciences in '98. Well, almost graduated, anyway... Moo. Ha ha! But I've been talking about my self all evening. Why don't you tell me something about yourself. Moo. You're not much for small talk, I guess. What part of "moo" don't you understand?

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"Old" is the old new.

It seems like I can rarely be funny if I'm not doing self-referential humor. This one I like, and actually got a high rating...

He must be stopped by NeoVid 3-04-01

I knew it. Now you've gotten us busted for contributing to delinquency... Good thing I knew who to call... It's about time he got here. You have an author you want me to deal with?

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"Only things I approve of should exist." -some guy on the internet

And I like the simplicity of this one.

Meet the twins by NeoVid 3-08-01

Oh God, it's just like my nightmares.

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"Only things I approve of should exist." -some guy on the internet

I don't know, but my comic scores would back it up. The ones of mine I like the best are ranked lower than the ones I like the least. But all in all, I've basically given up on the scoring system. If you look at the top ten pages of scores, there's maybe a sum total of 10 comics that didn't get written in January. So either January was a VERY funny month, or the scoring system is flawed, or perfect as time goes to infinity. Either way, I now just go through the links of comics I find funny to find other funny comics.

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

I think we've all pretty much given up on the scoring system. But since we're on the topic, how did various people go about cheating?

I recall some time a few months back I was going through the comics and voting and I hit the back button, which brought me right back to the last comic I'd voted on. So I voted on it again. And again. And again. I jumped over and checked periodically, and sure enough, it was rising steadily.

So I know it's possible to raise a comic's score. But I was under the impression that the only was to vote on your own comic was if it just happened to pass by you while you were voting. But if you look at the first page, you'll notice a certain person has 10 comics there, which seems a little much. I figure most of the top comics are either very old and funny, old and really funny, or elevated by people cheating. So the people that cheated numerous times... Did they just sit in front of their computer, mindlessly paging through comics until they hit their own? Or was there some more dastardly way to do it?

Like slipping Johnny $50 bills on the sly.

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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.

http://www.lowpass.net/stripcreator/?ID=0000&vote=10

Rinse, lather, refresh. Or, even better:

while (1) {
/bin/wget http://www.lowpass.net/stripcreator/?ID=0000&vote=10
}

But I never tried that. And I'm not responsible for the fact that Showtime at the Pluto, part 2 has found a permanent home at #9. Though, while we're on the self-congratulating thread, I do think it's one of my best.

Once I'd verified that cheating was possible, I e-mailed Johnny to suggest a number of measures to prevent it -- like checking the URL for question marks, making sure the referring page was on-site, and so on. I believe he said he would implement some of them. I haven't really bothered to check since then. Especially since, as you said, no one takes scores seriously anymore. Which wouldn't bother me so much, except that they still look real. And I'm still convinced averages would be a better scoring method, as long as you can't pick which comics you get to vote on. Even if a comic shot to #1 after its first vote, the second would even it out, and the third, and so on.

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

I completely agree with that. Another option would be to have a threshold number passed before a comic is scored. Like say, after a comic has been voted on 10 times, then those 10 scores are averaged and the comic is given a score. This would prevent the top of the scoring list always being filled with new comics that had only been voted on once or twice.

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I ate a hooker half a bottle of knife.

My favorite one is from the 12th comic contest. I find it strangely fun to try and rhyme long passages. The actual one lowpass kept is screwed up so I fixed it and made it a .jpg http://www.quicktel.com/users/archamian/quitch2.jpg

I also like my own comics best when the art and backgrounds look like they go together, such as this one.

Squirrel The Eternal Optimist by NastyPope 3-08-01

The chimes of the Celestial gates ring as Gabe finds himself amongst the Seraphim and looks down to the world of men to ponder what was his mortal existence. It is hard to believe we died. Both of us were too young to die. Life is simply too fragile. True, we were cut down in our prime, yet here we are, in the eternal bliss of Heaven. Don't grieve the passing of your mortal shell, instead celebrate your newfound immortality! Gabe heaves a heavy hearted sigh but Squirrel is not yet finished pontificating the virtues of the Higher Planes You have been freed of the flesh. No longer are you slave to its pains, its demands, the wracking necessities of life that kept you from your dreams. You will want for nothing, & know everything. With a resolute sigh, Gabe turns his eyes towards the Light of Creation Perhaps you are right, maybe I am being too morose considering where we could have ended up. Yet somehow I still feel cheated of Life.... At least they let you keep your pacman shirt.

I found it rather odd that one of my comics, http://www.lowpass.net/stripcreator/view.php?ID=7887 ranks fairly well, yet it was a mistake. Too bad we cannot edit our comics. At least it taught me to be careful with the 'enter' button, and not to put a title in until after the comic was finished.

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