Well, here I am. I'm still a little stunned that I actually won. I guess maybe I am funny, after all. At least to descolada. And here's the new contest, with some rules. I've browsed back a few to get an idea of what kind of rules are often in place, and, well, here we go...

1) I want every letter in the alphabet in the strip, somewhere. The title does NOT count, but narration does.
1a) If the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, he'd better have a *really* funny reason for doing it.
2) I like props. So use a "character" from the prop section, even if it's just one of height props.
3) To avoid stifiling the creative geniuses that abound on this board, I'm leaving the topic wide open. Yes, even inside jokes; but be warned, since I haven't been around that long, I'm not likely to find inside jokes as funny. Donkey Sodomy, however, is just about always funny.
3a) No, your comic doesn't have to be about Donkey Sodomy to win.

Okay, that's about it. It's pretty wide open, so no excuses!

I'll close the contest 7pm Thursday, Central Daylight time, as that is what time I'll leave work and drive on home. I'll announce a winner a little later that night.

Gee whiz, even though this exercises the alphabet restriction even more stringently than the contest requirements, and it happened to be written nineteen hours before the contest announcement was posted, I think this is just what's needed to start this thing off with a vroom!

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Needless to say, the introductory paragraph of this post is pangrammatic as well.

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http://www.stripcreator.com/view.php?ID=17356
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Hey, you were right -- donkey sodomy is just about always funny.

I didn't technically use a prop, but you can pretend the left character in the third panel is a height prop, if it helps me not get disqualified.

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This is very weak, I admit, but it follows the rules...are you allowed to post multiple entries in a contest?

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This is very weak, I admit, but it follows the rules...are you allowed to post multiple entries in a contest?

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Hi all. I do these infrequently and this one intregued me so here is effort.

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What the fuck have you guys been doing all weekend? When I come back after having been gone for three days, I'd expect to be swamps in mounds of old posts that take me a while to get through. Next time I'm gonna leave my wife a list of good insulting replies to wirthling and ObiJo with instructions to post them occaisonally.

In fact, I should do that anyway. Just in case I mysteriously die, I can live on through put downs for a while.

Enjoy:

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I'm spent.

Since exactly zero people have griped about multiple entries, I'll inflict this one on you. If the judge DQ's it, well, that's life. --KK

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I said, "The quick brown fox jumped into my ass!" I think he's still in there -- want to see?

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Good God man, I shouldn't even bother entering. That's one of the funniest comics I've ever read on here.

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Personally, I'm partial to the line, "You can't pronounce your own name, can you, Captain Monosyllabic?" Now that's comedy.

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I quite like this strip, but I would like it more if I could have made it funny. Oh well, at least Bunner will appreciate it... :)

This one sucks, but I've been unmotivated and I was mainly trying to get the alphabet.
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Ok, guy who entered twice, if you do that, you have to pick out one of your entries as the 'official' one.

ANyway, even though this one doesn't suck like most of mine, it still doesn't have a damn chance against "The quick brown fox jumped in my ass!"

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Am I the only one who pictures big bird instead of a senator there?

Sesame Street is an integral part of the conspiracy.

Really. I have documents that belonged to the Nine Or Ten Guys Who Secretly Run Everything.

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Personally, I'm partial to the line, "You can't pronounce your own name, can you, Captain Monosyllabic?" Now that's comedy.

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Thank you. :)

Would it have been funnier if I'd ended it with a question mark? I figured that the period gave the sentence a more disdainful quality.

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And hey, wow, it seems that some people like my entry. Oh, to think of all the time I wasted making strips that didn't involve anatomy or farm animals.

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This comic sucks worse than even the comics that think they suck. Plus it's been so long since I entered a contest that I might be mistaken for a newbie. That's why I think this comic is a winner.

PS: It is pronounced 'zed'. Silly Americans.

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It does. I'm just a compulsive copy editor. Don't mind me.

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Your joking, right? ;p

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In other news, the entries are looking good so far. But if I ever host another comic contest, I'm picking rules that are easier to verify...sheesh.

"I'm sure there's a k in here somewhere..."

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I made this comic before seeing evil_d's last post. I was so close to omitting the z all together, in the grand tradition evil_d spoke of. But, at last, I cowtowed to the pressure and called the family the Zuckermans instead of the Smiths. *sigh* That sigh was just my emphysema acting up. This next one will be that of despair. *sigh* Yep, there it was.

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You know, you don't have to check for whether a strip follows the rules unless you're going to give it the win. The difference between losing and being disqualified is invisible to the contestants.

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Ppppfttttbbblahahahachhheddddgghhaiiijjjaaaakkkkll
llmmmmmuahhahahanfffnffooohohoho.

Ok. I'm okay n-quarharharstustustuhuhuhuvhhehehehe
wahahahaxyzahahaha.

How's that?

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PS: It is pronounced 'zed'. Silly Americans.

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I can relate. My boyfriend is very, very sick of me correcting his grammar.

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Ok I messed up the 1st time. It met all the rules but I didn't use a prop. Granted there is no Donkey sodomy in t his one but I did use every letter int he alphabet at least once in there without resorting to using any oddball words, that should count for something :P

*big alarm goes off at my house*

I got here as fast as I could.. I've just heard that someone in this here thread insulted the British. Grr. I'm all angry now. Fear my unrelenting wrath, mere comic writer... RAAAAARRR!

*thwack*

Whoops, who put that door there? Try again... RAAAARRRR!!!

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I can relate. My boyfriend is very, very sick of me correcting his grammar.

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"...of my correcting his grammar." Gerund.

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I can relate. My boyfriend is very, very sick of me correcting his grammar.

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"...of my correcting his grammar." Gerund.

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I can relate. My boyfriend is very, very sick of me correcting his grammar.

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"...of my correcting his grammar." Gerund.

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Actually, it depends... (Please for give the paraphrasing - it's for brevity and simplicity.)

"My boyfriend is sick of me correcting him."
In this sentence, you could argue that the phrase "me correcting him" is a noun, as in, "Here is a photo of me correcting him." "Correcting" in this context is not a gerund (a verb made into a noun by adding -ing, for those who don't know) but a participle verb.

"My boyfriend is sick of my correcting him."
On the other hand, the "my" is an adjective describing "correcting". Since, as you pointed out, "correcting" in this context is a gerund, "correcting him" is ungrammatical, since they are both nouns (well, a noun and a pronoun).

By my linguistic reckoning, if you want to put the "my" in there, the sentence should be this:

"My boyfriend is sick of my correction of him."

...or, in the phraseology of the original quote:

"My boyfriend is very, very sick of my correction of his grammar."

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"My boyfriend is sick of me correcting him."
In this sentence, you could argue that the phrase "me correcting him" is a noun, as in,

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Or, "...of me, correcting his grammar." Either way, I was wrong. Thank you.

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This is the weirdest fucking sidetrack since that whole volatile dictionary debate. I blame DexX for both. No, check that. I blame gabe. No real reason other than precedent.

For all you grammar freaks out there, tell me what this sentence doesn't not not say:

I don't not object to your reverse argument of the fact that no one can not truly not know those that did not not raise them.

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I got here as fast as I could.. I've just heard that someone in this here thread insulted the British. Grr. I'm all angry now. Fear my unrelenting wrath, mere comic writer... RAAAAARRR!

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That was me. I know I'm a few contests late for limey-bashing, but it was funny.

Also, I'm part Irish and part black, and none of us like the bastard English.

And being black/Irish, I could drink you under the table any day, sassenach.

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So does this make me your boyfriend? 8)

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I couldn't come with any funny ideas, so here's this instead...

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This is the weirdest fucking sidetrack since that whole volatile dictionary debate. I blame DexX for both. No, check that. I blame gabe. No real reason other than precedent.

For all you grammar freaks out there, tell me what this sentence doesn't not not say:

I don't not object to your reverse argument of the fact that no one can not truly not know those that did not not raise them.

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Also, I'm part Irish and part black, and none of us like the bastard English.

And being black/Irish, I could drink you under the table any day, sassenach.

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That was me. I know I'm a few contests late for limey-bashing, but it was funny.

Also, I'm part Irish and part black, and none of us like the bastard English.

And being black/Irish, I could drink you under the table any day, sassenach.

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While it's true that most people hate grammar pedants, I tend not to mind so much. Intelligence is sexy. Once intelligence is established, however, frequent correction is just fucking annoying.

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1a) If the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, he'd better have a *really* funny reason for doing it.

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This one is dedicated to all my dead homies.

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This is the weirdest fucking sidetrack since that whole volatile dictionary debate. I blame DexX for both. No, check that. I blame gabe. No real reason other than precedent.

For all you grammar freaks out there, tell me what this sentence doesn't not not say:

I don't not object to your reverse argument of the fact that no one can not truly not know those that did not not raise them.

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Sigh, I guess I'll have to remove my others from contest consideration if this one is funnier. If nothing else it's timelier. And to those of you on the West Coast still watching it, sorry about the spoilers. But then you probably won't read this for another two hours anyway. Screw the Temporal Prime Directive!

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I'll tell you what it means. You're a dick. I think you and wirthling are the same person, since I've grown to loathe you both equally.

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By saying "my boyfriend is sick of me correcting him," she's saying that her boyfriend is sick of HER, and (on an unrelated or loosely related note) she's correcting him. Whether you want the -ing form of "correct" to be a gerund or a participle, she's still guilty at least of a dangling modifier. Hang her!

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