Changing your name to Bill the Cat????opusthepenguin wrote:Let's hope!dhkendall wrote:Looks like a fellow boardie will be working again!
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Speaking of the former, she's got less than two months to go. She's already Britain's longest-lived monarch and the world's oldest reigning monarch. Assuming she's still alive (and still queen) on September 10, she will surpass her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria, as the longest-reigning monarch in history. 63 years, 7 months and change if I did the math right. I don't care that she's mostly a figurehead and queening ain't what it used to be. That's still pretty darned impressive. There are few of us on this board (and I'm not one of them) who've even been alive during another British monarch's reign. Any of us old enough to remember such a time?dinghammer wrote:"Who has more kids -- Michael Jordan or the King of Jordan?" was pretty hard too. I think certain people might know about Michael Jordan's three older children and recent twins, but most of our monarchy enthusiasts seem to follow Elizabeth II, not Abdullah II.
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I am not, but my mom, who turned 72 this spring, says that she wrote a fan letter to the queen shortly after she started her reign. (I think my grandmother showed me the reply she got once many years ago (my grandmother passed away almost 20 years ago, so it would have been a while) and it was a form letter but my mom treasured it. I don't know what happened to it since.)opusthepenguin wrote:Speaking of the former, she's got less than two months to go. She's already Britain's longest-lived monarch and the world's oldest reigning monarch. Assuming she's still alive (and still queen) on September 10, she will surpass her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria, as the longest-reigning monarch in history. 63 years, 7 months and change if I did the math right. I don't care that she's mostly a figurehead and queening ain't what it used to be. That's still pretty darned impressive. There are few of us on this board (and I'm not one of them) who've even been alive during another British monarch's reign. Any of us old enough to remember such a time?dinghammer wrote:"Who has more kids -- Michael Jordan or the King of Jordan?" was pretty hard too. I think certain people might know about Michael Jordan's three older children and recent twins, but most of our monarchy enthusiasts seem to follow Elizabeth II, not Abdullah II.
My parents recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary back in the spring, I sent a request to get a congratulatory letter from the Queen. From what I could tell, I think only the Governor General does 50th and HM does 60th, but if I'm wrong (or if they're still around 10 years from now) my mom will be tickled pink to get another letter from her.
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If they keep on at this rate people may begin to talk!dhkendall wrote:I am not, but my mom, who turned 72 this spring, says that she wrote a fan letter to the queen shortly after she started her reign. (I think my grandmother showed me the reply she got once many years ago (my grandmother passed away almost 20 years ago, so it would have been a while) and it was a form letter but my mom treasured it. I don't know what happened to it since.)opusthepenguin wrote:Speaking of the former, she's got less than two months to go. She's already Britain's longest-lived monarch and the world's oldest reigning monarch. Assuming she's still alive (and still queen) on September 10, she will surpass her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria, as the longest-reigning monarch in history. 63 years, 7 months and change if I did the math right. I don't care that she's mostly a figurehead and queening ain't what it used to be. That's still pretty darned impressive. There are few of us on this board (and I'm not one of them) who've even been alive during another British monarch's reign. Any of us old enough to remember such a time?dinghammer wrote:"Who has more kids -- Michael Jordan or the King of Jordan?" was pretty hard too. I think certain people might know about Michael Jordan's three older children and recent twins, but most of our monarchy enthusiasts seem to follow Elizabeth II, not Abdullah II.
My parents recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary back in the spring, I sent a request to get a congratulatory letter from the Queen. From what I could tell, I think only the Governor General does 50th and HM does 60th, but if I'm wrong (or if they're still around 10 years from now) my mom will be tickled pink to get another letter from her.
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Could be good for a chuckle or two. (Yes, I believe there are more in here from Family Feud (any incarnation, including apparently the British version), than any other, I'm guessing second place would be the Dating Game. Jeopardy! only has one, from a contestant interview.)
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That picture, um *looks* like something Vanya would post.
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That and many other adjectives.Robert K S wrote:That it's derivative?Rex Kramer wrote:I share Garry Trudeau's opinion of Berkeley Breathed.
I was doing some research on the Trudeau-Breathed relationship and came across this interview. It's hard to fathom a political cartoonist from the '80s who was evidently unaware of Pat Oliphant and who had only ever read one comic strip in his whole life. If I were making a caricature of Breathed I would have dismissed those ideas as too outrageous and defamatory to be believed.
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Today I learned: the term "perk" in the context of employment is a shortened form of the word "perquisite." Checking the Archive, this has come up once before, in 2007. Seems like the type of thing that will come up again eventually.
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As far as I know I can't change the picture used on a video before it plays. But hey maybe it'll get Vanya interested.alietr wrote:That picture, um *looks* like something Vanya would post.
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It better have '-upine' in it. So much wrong in so few letters...dhkendall wrote:Could be good for a chuckle or two. (Yes, I believe there are more in here from Family Feud (any incarnation, including apparently the British version), than any other, I'm guessing second place would be the Dating Game. Jeopardy! only has one, from a contestant interview.)...
Edit: Oh, good. It was in there.
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I have grown weary of the internets lies about how funny things are. This was time well wasted. The Jeopardy clip was great. All about Alex's reaction. The grass bit on The Newlywed Game was a lovely slow burn.
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Breathed isn't a political cartoonist. Bloom County wasn't a political cartoon. If that's what youthought he was trying for, you'll definitely miss the point. I'm not saying you'd like the point if you got it. I'm just saying your criticism is like faulting J. K. Rowling for writing bad detective fiction and not being familiar with the genre. It's not an outrageous and defamatory caricature, anyway, so that's a relief.Rex Kramer wrote:That and many other adjectives.Robert K S wrote:That it's derivative?Rex Kramer wrote:I share Garry Trudeau's opinion of Berkeley Breathed.
I was doing some research on the Trudeau-Breathed relationship and came across this interview. It's hard to fathom a political cartoonist from the '80s who was evidently unaware of Pat Oliphant and who had only ever read one comic strip in his whole life. If I were making a caricature of Breathed I would have dismissed those ideas as too outrageous and defamatory to be believed.
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Bloom County > all.
Except, maybe, Calvin and Hobbes.
Except, maybe, Calvin and Hobbes.
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Why would you want to?dhkendall wrote:alietr wrote: As far as I know I can't change the picture used on a video before it plays
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I'm with you there. I might throw in The Far Side as a third among equals. Only in retrospect did we understand that all this was happening during the Comics page's last dazzling hurrah.econgator wrote:Bloom County > all.
Except, maybe, Calvin and Hobbes.
One thing the three had in common? The authors quit while they were still the best. (True, Breathed cheated by continuing on with Outland and even later getting back in the game with Opus. That may or may not have been a mistake, but at least he never called those strips Bloom County. Thus, Bloom County, like Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side, remains unsullied by the years, a triumphant corpus of near perfection.)
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Oh, a Gary Larson calendar!opusthepenguin wrote:I'm with you there. I might throw in The Far Side as a third among equals. Only in retrospect did we understand that all this was happening during the Comics page's last dazzling hurrah.econgator wrote:Bloom County > all.
Except, maybe, Calvin and Hobbes.
One thing the three had in common? The authors quit while they were still the best. (True, Breathed cheated by continuing on with Outland and even later getting back in the game with Opus. That may or may not have been a mistake, but at least he never called those strips Bloom County. Thus, Bloom County, like Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side, remains unsullied by the years, a triumphant corpus of near perfection.)
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Anyone who hasn't spent some time getting to know Get Fuzzy is really missing out. It's the one strip I've seen in the last 20 years that consistently makes me laugh out loud. Pearls Before Swine also has its moments, but I find it to be hit-or-miss.opusthepenguin wrote:I'm with you there. I might throw in The Far Side as a third among equals. Only in retrospect did we understand that all this was happening during the Comics page's last dazzling hurrah.econgator wrote:Bloom County > all.
Except, maybe, Calvin and Hobbes.
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And, as I posted, now there's Bloom County 2015 (at least that seems to be the title). From the (one) strip I"ve seen so far, it seems to be the same as what we've all gotten used to, so one can get back in the game and not lose it (I wonder if Bil Waterson lurks here ... )opusthepenguin wrote:I'm with you there. I might throw in The Far Side as a third among equals. Only in retrospect did we understand that all this was happening during the Comics page's last dazzling hurrah.econgator wrote:Bloom County > all.
Except, maybe, Calvin and Hobbes.
One thing the three had in common? The authors quit while they were still the best. (True, Breathed cheated by continuing on with Outland and even later getting back in the game with Opus. That may or may not have been a mistake, but at least he never called those strips Bloom County. Thus, Bloom County, like Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side, remains unsullied by the years, a triumphant corpus of near perfection.)
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Okay, I'll amend my assertion: It's hard to fathom any cartoonist from the '80s who was evidently unaware of Pat Oliphant and who had only ever read one comic strip in his whole life.opusthepenguin wrote:Breathed isn't a political cartoonist. Bloom County wasn't a political cartoon. If that's what you thought he was trying for, you'll definitely miss the point. I'm not saying you'd like the point if you got it. I'm just saying your criticism is like faulting J. K. Rowling for writing bad detective fiction and not being familiar with the genre. It's not an outrageous and defamatory caricature, anyway, so that's a relief.Rex Kramer wrote:That and many other adjectives.Robert K S wrote:That it's derivative?Rex Kramer wrote:I share Garry Trudeau's opinion of Berkeley Breathed.
I was doing some research on the Trudeau-Breathed relationship and came across this interview. It's hard to fathom a political cartoonist from the '80s who was evidently unaware of Pat Oliphant and who had only ever read one comic strip in his whole life. If I were making a caricature of Breathed I would have dismissed those ideas as too outrageous and defamatory to be believed.
Political cartooning is not what I thought he was trying for; it's what Breathed said he was doing (among other things, granted), even in the interview I cited. I have no doubt that one could also find quotes of him firmly denying that he practiced any political cartooning; he is not the most reliable or least self-contradictory pop artist out there. (See "I made it quite clear that Opus was not coming back.")
There was a period, once Breathed had stopped directly copying Trudeau and before he had made so much money that he just didn't care any more, when Bloom County was often quite funny. So, if you can overlook the plagiarism, narcissism, and nihilism -- which I can't, because it oozes into his work -- then he's an enviably capable cartoonist.
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