I couldn't quite decide on a topic for this one. It was down to "Why wirthling is a narrow-assed hoobajoob" and "Wirthling - He put the 'fucker' in 'apefucker'". So I picked neither.

In honor of my current situation as job seeker, the topic for #7 will be 'The Job Interview'.

We'll be pretty lax about constraints for this one. Use whatever you'd like in terms of backgrounds, characters, etc. Just keep on the subject of getting or interviewing for a job. That's it.

Gabe

PS - I forgot. Just to make things interesting, you can't use the letter 'e' anywhere in your comic except the title. ANYWHERE. I'll be looking with my giant disqualifying pen which I'll use to scribble out your comic as soon as I see it.

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Yes, I know my comic has the letter 'e' in it. I can do that because for the next two days I'm god. HAHA! Losers.

Oh yeah, be done with your comics by noon (EST) on Sunday, 2/25/01.

Toodles.

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Sorry. I goofed and posted this twice. Impatience, don't you know. Anyhoo, this is the one to use. I put a note in with the other one, and if no one posts there it'll just wander on down the list and disappear.

So, once again, USE THIS THREAD TO POST IN.

Merci.

Gabe

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hehehe....since I am in HR and this is part of my daily grind...I wonder if I can validate creating an HR cartoon during my work hour? ;)

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Of course you can. I talked to your boss and he said it was A-Ok.

G

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You are an EVIL man... Can't use the letter 'e'? At least I an still say "fuck you" LOL

Damn... I may have to sit this one out anyway. Moving to the "real world" tomorrow.

jason

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Christ, how many of you guys are moving? Or does the same person keep mentioning it? I feel like you're about the third person to mention moving.

Maybe it's the crack wearing off.

Gabe

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http://www.lowpass.net/stripcreator/view.php?ID=5292

Jael

Here's my attempt!

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Ok, I'm not gonna disallow that. But I'd be happier if you didn't try to sneak around the rules with hacker-talk. Though you get some points for thinking somewhat outside the box. I was thinking more of this...

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Y'all might find this of interest...

http://members.tripod.com/~earthdude1/gadsby/gadsby.html

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lol practically every HR buzzword known to man contains an e...so without resorting to base idiocy..I had to risk the wrath of the haxor 3

:)

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Base idiocy? Base has an e in it...

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Damn, that no e restriction was tough. I kept re-reading it and finding more e's that had crept in. I think I've got them all now...

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New here, thought I'd chance my arm.

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Oops. Can you tell that I thought this would be a one login - one password - one set of hassle deal?

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Ha! I think that happened to all of us. Join the club. :)

Gabe

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Well I tried...I'm such a loser. This was really hard, Gabe. Thanks for the challenge though!

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Hardest contest yet.

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I jsut thought of a cool "non-contest". If one person were to start a serial comic strip and set the characters, make the first strip, and determine the next person to do the next strip in the sequence somehow... How to get it to work without people making conflicting strips (i.e.: two strip #2's by 2 different authors)..?

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No 'e'? Bah. Child's play. Check this out:

http://partal.com/vademecum/eng/llibres/1.html

Read the first story ("What a Man!"). That's right: no vowels other than 'a'. And awkward as it is, it actually makes sense. It's about this guy who's an international spy/private eye (although of course it can't use those words). That's just hardcore, man.

This contest was kind of eerie, 'cause I'm looking for a job right now too. Seems everyone around here is either job-hunting or moving. Weird.

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Er, that last post was me. I'm at a different computer and I forgot to log in.

And I'm still thinking about my entry. Though I ought to have plenty of real-life material to draw on.

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I like the idea of a serial comic, too. What we should do is get a list of everyone interested in doing it and give everyone a number. Each person goes in turn then passes off to the next in line. When you get to the end, we go back to the beginning of the list. If anyone new shows up and wants to give it a try we tack them onto the end and just ease 'em on into the rotation.

Gabe

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Sounds like a plan to me.

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Doop! That was me righ tup there...

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You said doop. I just watched the episode of Futurama where Zap Branigan blows up the Doop. It was funny.

Gabe

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Hey! I know! How about a "cereal comic"? We'll each do a comic, then another author will add to it, and so on, and so on... but you have to mention a popular brand of cereal, do it between midnight and three A.M., GMT, and every third letter has to be a Q or a W depending on what day it is? Then we can put it to a tribe of voting wombats and pick the winner based on overall colour scheme usage in the backgrounds, except for the comics made up of sausgae themed gags, then... um... shit. Never mind.

bunner

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Sarcasm off the starboard bough!

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http://www.lowpass.net/stripcreator/view.php?ID=5418

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Checking entries as we speak... I'll post the winner in about 15 minutes.

Or maybe I'll watch This Old House first. I dunno.

Gabe

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Ok. Once again I had to enlist the help of my wife because making these decisions alone sucks. And once again I'd like to flog the dead horse and say that not having a voting system is hard.

Not being able to use the letter 'e' is harder than I thought. It's more restrictive than narrowing character or background choices down to one or two, I thought. You all did a great job with it.

The winner I chose was the one my wife and I both seemed to laugh at the most. And that comic was...

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I should point out that since with each contest we're dealing with a tiny little dictatorship, the moderator can bend the rules as he/she sees fit. Which obviously I've done. Despite the fact that bunnerabb used an 'e' in his comic, we thought it was funny.

Since this is all in fun, I would hope none of you gets uptight over this decision. Ironically, it was bunnerabb who got a little miffed when bottlerocket won #4, stretching the 'woodenbadger' phrase quite a bit in his entry. This is a little different than creative interpretation and more breaking the rules... But damn it, it was funny. And that's what this whole contest is supposed to be about.

If anyone would like to voice displeasure with my choice you can forward your comments to biteme@idontgiveadamn.com and they'll be dealth with posthaste.

So take it away, bunnerabb....

Gabe

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Okay, so I found time..... man, I don't stand a chance in this one...

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Ooopsss. didn't read the deadline. Oh well. Y'all can enjoy it anyway. :)

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Sorry you were late. It was still funny. :) "Launch all Zig!"

Gabe