But first, a word.

Now, for our story...

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*ahem*

You were, of course, going to give credit to the people who came up with that first gag...

Shatner Physics (part 1) by kaufman 6-19-02

So ... I said ... WELL!

Cowboy Overacting by DexX 6-19-02

Meanwhile, back on the two-dimensional cardboard ranch... So I say, "Them rotor turbines ain't gonna generate gravitons by themselves." What? The... the rotor.. t-t-turbines...? Why do they mock me so? Why? Al I wanted was some gravitons! Damn those rotor turbines! DAMN THEM TO HELL! Where the fuck did you learn to act? *sob*

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I figured I'd let this be a thread for that... didn't mean to steal the gag without giving credit :-<

The series was really an accident to bump my comics up to 400.

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*ahem*

You were, of course, going to give credit to the people who came up with that first gag...

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I was guessing dexx meant "Shatner Physics" specificly...

though it's kind of a lame copyright one one joke. I mean, when someone makes a Tobor strip, do we all say, HA HA! You're so original because Tobor is a funny new thing!
Maternal Clock, Cowbow Physics of all kinds and so on have been abused to death without anyone questioning their authorship.

I think it depends on how you use them. If you do another Tobor strip where he just cornholes someone, that's not partcularly original. But I like to think that series concepts like making Tobor pregnant, inverting his personality, or putting him in prison are mildly original (at least for Tobor).

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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.

Here's the conversation Ken and I had last night (my time):

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mcdexx: *blink blink* Nope, I'm bewildered. This is a cowboy2 situation...
kaufman: maybe I'm just becoming incomprehensible. I just read what I wrote, played it in my head, and it came out a bit in his voice.
kaufman: oh well, back to physics
mcdexx: Damn those rotor turbines! DAMN THEM!!!!
mcdexx: Cowboy Overacting
kaufman: SHATNER PHYSICS!
kaufman: in fact ....
mcdexx: There's a strip in that.
kaufman: and its number is 72959

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