kaufman
Director of Cats
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Some of this may even be true ...
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My parents faced a choice. Keep me in the public school system with my age group, and have me bored to tears by too easy a curriculum ...
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| 01000110 01101001 01110110 01100101. Got anything harder? | |
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... or send me to an out-of-town private school with older kids, where I'd be challenged intellectually -- if I could survive the experience
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| This is enlightening! I'd have never known "pussy" doesn't just mean cat. | |
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Three decades later, take a look at me and figure out which happened.
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| Ah, sweet reality and refuge for the misfits of society. | |
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I got my first cat when I was 9.
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| Yo, DexX, update my character. I need a cat. | |
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| No can do, mate. I'm not even born yet. | |
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Shortly after I went away to camp, he (the cat, not DexX, who was probably a safely gurgling infant at that point) died, but my family didn't tell me.
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| Hold on a second, I think I hear your sister. | |
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Thus traumatized, I never left home again. Wait, that's not true. I went postal and shot up the whole neighborhood.
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| No can speak: Cat-a-tonic. | |
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Having gotten a talent for punnery from my grandfather, and a taste for parody from MAD Magazine, by junior high, I was cranking out laughs.
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| o/` Bye bye good eaconomc times, why does Ford act so bored, I haven't no dimes ... | |
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In high school, I wowed them with my jokes, even when the work wasn't the best.
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| Fair book report, but I'll never ever forget "shortly after losing her innocence, Tess' sorrow was apparent." | |
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Leading, of course, to a young-adulthood of prominent presence on a series of online humor sites.
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| Caption this Marmaduke cartoon. | |
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| "Sweet mother of Cthuhlu, that dog is so big, it has 32 moons!" | |
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My success with the "fairer" sex was legendary.
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| AGAIN I've been stood up by a girl who hadn't met, seen, or gotten to know me. What's that say about me? | |
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Talk about negative batting averages; for a while, I had MORE rejections than "attempts".
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Even though I'm now living happily ever after, deep scars remain.
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| All this and more, is it any wonder my humor has a dark streak? | |
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I first got on a computer in 10th grade, and took to it like a fish to water.
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| Kaufman wrote a lottery program for our class, so every Friday, bring in a dollar along with your homework. | |
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My interest and aptitude in such things and my lack of other direction kept me in school for years
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| Congratulations, your a Doctor! | |
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But a lack of resolution careerwise has left me at an uncomfortable crossroads.
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[Click to view comic: 'CC 141: Soothnaysayer'][Click to view comic: 'But if you're going to make me write a future ...']
--- ken.kaufman@gmail.com
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