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bunnerabb
February 25, 2001 4:29 PM

I.... :- ()

I won? :-)#)

Well, Goddamn. :-/

I really wasn't prepared for this. I mean, no, seriously. I just sort of tossed that one out there assuming I'd be disqualified because I couldn't really think of anything good.

Quick note: I wasn't really miffed about the "Wooden Badger" strips, that was just an accidental double post. I was hoping to get a larf out of it and posting it twice looked like I was bitching. I apologise.

Ummm... shit. Ok. I will post the rules for Comic Contest #8 by 11:30 P.M. E.S.T., Sunday, Feb. 25th. That's tonight for all of you who keep rolling your computer clocks back to keep your shareware from expiring. :)

See you then. And thanks for the win, y'all. I'll try to suck even less as Lowpass mutates into the runaway train it was designed to become.

bunner

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gabe_billings
February 25, 2001 5:32 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

No dancing allowed. Now you're fired.

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bunnerabb
February 25, 2001 5:47 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

Okay.... working under the notion that I haven't been fired, here is the outline for Comic Contest #8:

Any background.

Any character set.

What you must do is: Take a scene from "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, and mutate it into a joke. Derivative productions of this, (Mr. Magoo, Scrooged, Et Ceterea....) are acceptable, as long as the reference is easily recognised.

So.... A scene from "A Christmas Carol", (Scrooge).... riff on it, make it funny. Sort of an MST3K with some Lowpass twisted humour added.

Entries are due by Tuesday, February 27th, 11:00 P.M. E.S.T.

If anybody has any specific problems with this theme, let me know and I'll modify it, or even just bin it, if the consensus is that the idea stinks.

God bless us. Everyone.

bunner

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BigEvilDan
February 25, 2001 6:35 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

5557

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evil_d
February 25, 2001 7:09 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

Any uncultured fools who have yet to read A Christmas Carol may find a copy at ftp://sailor.gutenberg.org/pub/gutenberg/etext92/carol10.txt. God bless Project Gutenberg.

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gabe_billings
February 25, 2001 7:24 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

Killer idea. I knew people would come up with more creative things than I'd originally thought.

5579

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Bottlerockett
February 25, 2001 8:57 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

Yon scurvy bunnerabb hath proposition'd a contest of wits the likes of which hath nay been seen since Mighty Votun clashed with Loge the Trickster! Hark, an entr'y breaks!
5604

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bunnerabb
February 25, 2001 9:02 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

When I said I promised to try and suck less? That doesn't start until Monday.

5605

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wirthling
February 26, 2001 12:54 AM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

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anonymous
February 26, 2001 12:07 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

Goddamn. If I would have participated in the last contest and exerted all my strengths to come up with a comic that doesn't have an e in it and then have a comic picked that has an e in it...urggg. Well, let's just say I would have opened a big can of woopass on gabe. Well, maybe not since then I'd have to contend with Cute Little Manda, who's probably one bad mamajama.

5691

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gabe_billings
February 26, 2001 12:57 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

Haha. I only wish you'd entered so I could've stuck it to ya. But alas....

Gabe

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ObiJo
February 26, 2001 1:15 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

I'm EntirEly surE you'll havE othEr opportunitiEs for Equally EnforcEd Equanimity, gabE.

***Today's mEssagE was brought to you by thE lEttEr E and thE numbEr sEvEn.***

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gabe_billings
February 26, 2001 2:42 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

Damn it, boy! Stop usin' them big werds when you talkin' ta me!

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ObiJo
February 26, 2001 3:20 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but assonance will never hurt you.

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gabe_billings
February 26, 2001 4:37 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

Don't make me bust out a can of whupassonance on you.

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evil_d
February 26, 2001 5:33 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

http://www.lowpass.net/stripcreator/view.php?ID=5787
5787

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ObiJo
February 26, 2001 6:28 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

whupassonance? gabe, i like you, but you have gone too far this time. First, you allied yourself with the gourds. Okay, I told myself, he's young and impressionable, I can forgive him.

Next, you ritualistically sodomized my pet wooden badger. I could forgive this also. Lord knows after a few liters of Jim Beam I've been known to go out to the wood shop, find the nicest piece of oak and...but this isn't about me.

Finally, the E incident. Cringe. And whupassonace was the straw that broke the camel's back. Reconciliation is no longer an option. I'm calling you out if you're man enough. We must settle this in the most public and painful way possible. A trial by fire. Only one man left standing. So here it goes...

One two three four. I declare a thumb war.

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bunnerabb
February 26, 2001 7:15 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

quote:
First, you allied yourself with the gourds.

Next, you ritualistically sodomized my pet wooden badger.

Finally, the E incident. Cringe. And whupassonace was the straw that broke the camel's back.

One two three four. I declare a thumb war.



This, gentle reader, is what happens when yuo don't go outside enough.

bunner

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bunnerabb
February 26, 2001 7:16 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

Well....

That, and perhaps, this:

5590

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gabe_billings
February 26, 2001 7:24 PM

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Bottlerockett
February 26, 2001 7:28 PM

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BLAAAA-HAHAHAHAH!

Your magniloquence is equivocably matched only by your perpetitude at creatizing abnumeral amountations of Hi-larious comical stripted anecdotiatums! You would be wisely to open negrotiations with the great Don King to promote representationalism!

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bunnerabb
February 26, 2001 8:04 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

By the way: I really talk like that.

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ObiJo
February 26, 2001 8:10 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

THUMB war! THUMB war! Jesus Christ man! I declare a thumb war and you send Red Robot after me?! Luckily my wiles were too much for him and his attempts have been unsuccesful. He's now resorted to trying to gain access into my house by dressing up as the Avon Lady and telling me about a sample bottle of skin cream. Tempting, but I kept the door shut. You must try harder Gabe "The Comic Love Doctor" "Bringer of Avon Robots" Billings.

And sadly this is what happens when you spend 14 hours a day in a car driving cross country. I wouldn't have stayed sane if it wasn't for my finally realizing that the glove compartment was not only sentient but also a great conversationalist. But I digress.

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gabe_billings
February 26, 2001 8:50 PM

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ObiJo
February 26, 2001 9:11 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

LOL! Goddamn that cracked me up. I'm glad I started bitching about the E contest just to get that comic out of it.

____________________________________________________
Dear Abby,

I recently bought a product from a gigantic red robot dressed as an Avon lady and bent on my personal destruction.
The expoliator has left some kind of rash which is accompanied by a burning sensation. Is this normal? Also, are you and Ann Landers really twins or are one of you cloned? You can tell me.

-Itchy in Ithaca

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Bottlerockett
February 26, 2001 9:46 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

Hahaha! I think gabe needs to win, start a contest, and have the rules be that you have to make a comic and alter it witf photoshop.

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evil_d
February 26, 2001 10:39 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

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ObiJo
February 27, 2001 10:36 AM

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Dear Abby,

Thanks for your useful advice. Though I now have to type with my tongue and can no longer play the piano (in the traditional way that is), the cauterization seems to have worked out excellently. Thanks for your consideration and that exquisite recipe for rice pudding. It is D-lectable.

-Itchy in Ithaca

__________________________________________________________

Dear Ann Landers,

The price is 5k, woman. I'll do her, I'll even set it up to look like a robbery. But I don't even get out of bed in the morning for anything less than 5k. That's not a lot of money to be rid of your main compettition in the advise line of business, sister or not. In fact, I think you should pay it just to rid the world of that lumpy ass pudding.

-Itchy Trigger in Ithaca

___________________________________________________________

Dear Red Robot,

I long for you. The way you held me in the sunlight in Monaco is forever burnt into my heart. The way your driveshaft whirrs when we kiss, the way I lube you, the soft touch of you titanium coated steel grasper hands. I long for them all. Please treat kindly the fragile gift that is my heart.

-Ed "Itchy" from Big Ed's Tires

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bunnerabb
February 27, 2001 1:38 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

A N D T H E W I N N E R F O R T H E M O S T O F F T O P I C P O S T I S !!

Wait... no... never mind.

See you at 11:00

bunner

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gabe_billings
February 27, 2001 2:01 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

Image above shows the beginning of the first row in crocheting the solid shell stitch. It is basically a single crochet, skip next two stitches, then 5 double crochet in the next stitch (one shell made), skip next two stitches. This is repeated across the row. Easy. Instructions below show how to alternate where the single crochet and shell stitches are placed on the next row, to form the solid shell stitch patterning.

Abbreviations:
ch = chain
dc = double crochet
sc = single crochet
st = stitch

Basic Directions For Solid Shell Stitch
Starting Chain Formula: Multiple of 6 stitches plus 1, then add 1 more for base starting chain
Row 1: 1 sc in 2nd ch from hook, * skip 2 ch, 5 dc in next ch, skip 2 ch, 1 sc in next ch **, repeat * to ** to end of row. Turn.
Row 2: Ch 3 (counts as first dc), 2 dc in same st as ch-3 just made, * skip 2 dc, 1 sc in next dc (which is the center st of the 5-dc shell), skip 2 dc, 5 dc in next sc **, repeat * to ** to end of row, ending the last repeat with 3 dc in last sc, skip turning chain. Turn.
Row 3: Ch 1, 1 sc in first st, * skip 2 dc, 5 dc in next sc, skip 2 dc, 1 sc in next dc **, repeat from * to ** to end of row, ending last repeat with 1 sc in top of the ch-3 turning chain.
Repeat rows: Repeat rows 2 and 3 consecutively, until desired length is reached.

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gabe_billings
February 27, 2001 2:03 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

Oopsie. Guess this means I posted the cartoon of ObiJo getting raped by the donkey in the message board of my crocheting site.

My bad.

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gabe_billings
February 27, 2001 2:03 PM

Subject: Re: Comic Contest #8

Ha. How's that for off-topic?

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bunnerabb
February 27, 2001 8:09 PM

Okey dokey.

I liked them all, really. Quite interesting. Gabe came through with that sort of cynical view of things that living in Cleveland has the tendency to install in one. Probably why there are more working, syndicated, comic strip artists who are from Greater Cleveland than anywhere else. It's a fact.

Wirthling's take on sitcking the whole heartwarming redemption scene into a modern setting was hilarious. He was very much a "crazy-assed cracker" if you look at it.

Bottlerockett's strip re-wrote the whole thing for gamers and put an amusing twist on things. A bit more "Scrooged" than "A Christmas Carol", but a hoot.

ObiJo's mistaken identity idea is hilarious and would probably make a good production for a stage play.

evil_d's Lowpass take was a bit of an inside joke, but pretty funny to those of us who tend to live here. :- )

I actually thought mine didn't suck too badly. A bit of a tired joke, but another dose of that Cleveland jaundice tinted humour for ya.

And the winner is:

5557

This thing worked for me in a lot of ways.

1): The character set is friggin' hilarious and works well as a sight gag.

2): It's a really good riff on the concept we were working inside of.

3:) Amazed Porno Bunny is a racist dickweed and I'm glad he took the piss out of him. It works as an inside joke and it stands on it's own, as well. Albiet on some pretty weird legs. :- )

4): It made me laugh my ass off.

There you have it. Thanks. It was a gas.

Rock on, then

BigEvilDan

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bunnerabb
February 27, 2001 8:26 PM

I'm out of town doing a show until Friday morning, by the way, so if the Comic Contest #9 deadline could fall somewhere around Friday night, that would be a zig launched for great justice. Or some shit. Please?
I gotta eat, y'all.

Thanks,

bunner

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BigEvilDan
February 27, 2001 8:29 PM

Bah, since bunnerabb was judging while drunk or something, I guess this means I need to choose a topic.

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bunnerabb
February 27, 2001 8:37 PM

quote:
Bah, since bunnerabb was judging while drunk or something, I guess this means I need to choose a topic.

Hummph! I am, sir, as sober as... as.... Awww,shit. I'm out of ice. I'll deal with you, *hic* later!

*zZZzzZzZzZzZZZzZzzzzz*

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Bottlerockett
February 27, 2001 8:58 PM

I'm sorry, but you don't know DRUNK until you've been drinking Guinness all night long, take a few tequila shots, slurp down a few Vodka-Collins', and finish off by having the last thing you remember being: looking face down in a tiolet puking black.

(please don't think I do it all the time tho :()

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wirthling
February 27, 2001 10:26 PM

quote:
I'm out of town doing a show until Friday morning...

bunner



How much does stripping at gay clubs pay these days?

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bunnerabb
February 27, 2001 11:08 PM



How much does stripping at gay clubs pay these days?

Look... I TOLD you.... I do lighting and audio. I'm out of artist management. I am NOT going to go and scour up work for you in those nasty-assed gay baths. You'll just have to get a gig on your own. That is if 300 pound gay strippers can still GET work.

Good luck, and stop pestering me,

bunner

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wirthling
February 27, 2001 11:13 PM

Hey! It's 299 pounds, thank you very much. (The diet is really paying off this time!)

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