"Wizard of Id" Anachronisms..

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It's one thing to feature Christianity in a strip titled "B.C.", but Jonny Hart is really starting to flaunt his apathy toward staying within the confines of his comic strip plots.

Here is today's "Wizard of Id" :
http://www.comics.com/creators/wizardofid/archive/images/wizardofid2030497031223.gif

HOW IN THE HELL IS THIS A MEDEVAL CARTOON? HOW??

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

And it's not funny any more. At all.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, yeah. That too.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Did she recive the present or buy it?

― Aja (aja), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

where have the woman's glasses and the sale table gone, in the last panel?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The sale table I can see why it might be gone, but you're right. Where are her glasses?!

― Aja (aja), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not funny "anymore"?

― spittle (spittle), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

You can't smile while wearign glasses!

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

er, 'wearing'

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

give me one reason why the sale table would be gone, what?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

They should have put the clerk in one of the head & hands stockade things. Then it would've been medieval AND funny.

― andy, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you sure that's "Wizard of Id"? I don't recognize the characters, it says "Parker" in the corner... I don't know, man...

― andy, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

See, everyone else is in such a hurry to BUY Christmas presents that the sale table was picked clean by customers and dismantled by other employees in the brief time it took the old woman and the saleslady to have their little dialogue. It is ingenious attention to subtle details like this which separate THE WIZARD OF ID from THE BUCKETS.

― jewelly (jewelly), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not crazy. This is WOI's homepage. Brant Parker writes the strip and Jonny Hart draws it. Or vice-versa. I can't ever remember.

(If it's after 12/23 in the U.S. when you read this, you may have to click on that date inside the little calendar.)

ANd wow. Those cash register buttons got big in the last panel.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 01:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I think, during the second panel, the returning woman must have sold her glasses to one of the other customers.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

That's just stupid.

― jewelly (jewelly), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe she doesn't even realise they've gone; her hair is pretty ruffled.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, speaking of comics, anyone seen Berke Breathed's new Sunday OPUS? Has there been a thread on that yet? Is it any good? I understand he's not posting it anywhere on the internet so folks are forced to nag their newspaper editors into running it. Mine doesn't yet and I'm too polite to nag.

― jewelly (jewelly), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

b-b-b-but the wizard of id had my favourite joke ever when i was 10:

guard: oh no! the peasants are revolting!
king (snidely): I'll say!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Mine eyes detected a URL on the bottom of the strip:
http://www.Creators.com/

Navigate to the new, color Wizard of Id and you'll find it's quite medieval... there is, however, an appearance by Santa Claus, a vaguely Lappish entity devised in the 19th Century. He's all over the place.

― andy, Wednesday, 24 December 2003 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.jovialfools.com/chip/comics/change.jpg

― Aja (aja), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

give me one reason why the sale table would be gone, what?

The panel is smaller.

― Aja (aja), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 01:35 (twenty-two years ago)

what?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

The first panel is larger than the last one.

― Aja (aja), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't understand, sorry.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, why are the corners on the counter in the last panel curved.

― Aja (aja), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 01:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't understand, sorry.

How can you not understand? The first picture is larger than the last one.

― Aja (aja), Wednesday, 24 December 2003 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)

what?

― Dan I., Thursday, 25 December 2003 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you people stupid?

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 25 December 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I understand, Aja.

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 25 December 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you?

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 25 December 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes.

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 25 December 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Then can you tell everyone else what I mean?

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 25 December 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

You did a good enough job of explaining it. Just be happy that you are smarter than RJG.

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 25 December 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Really?

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 25 December 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Really. Merry Chrismukkah.

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 25 December 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Also the last picture is closer up to the people, so the sale panle gets cut off.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 25 December 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Merry Christmas to you too.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 25 December 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

and the first panel is from a slightly angled perspective.

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 25 December 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

That too.

What did you get for Christmas?

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 25 December 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

the view, in the last panel, may be at a slightly higher angle. so what?

look at the first panel and notice how the right edge of the sale table is level with the left edge of the cash desk.

merry xmas, morans.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 25 December 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

the higher angle would mean that the wall line, behind the cash desk, would be higher, though, instead of, as it has been drawn, lower.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 25 December 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Who cares about this any more! Let's forget about it!

Merry Christmas!

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 25 December 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

merry xmas.

I am smarter than you and carey combined, though.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 25 December 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm only 12 so I've got time to get smarter.

Besides, I'm the smartest one in my grade any way. Better to be smarter than people you know than people you don't.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 25 December 2003 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

What?

― Dan I., Thursday, 25 December 2003 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

this thread is the best gift ilx could have given me.

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 26 December 2003 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

That's pretty sad.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 26 December 2003 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I might agree with dyson if there weren't 563 other threads that have followed the same path.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 26 December 2003 04:16 (twenty-two years ago)

i realize that.
this thread is brilliant for just that reason, the outright banality of it; the complete and utter stupidness of this thread - it's the definition of ilx.
christmas can get me down & this was just what i needed today. i mean - analyzing the roundness of the desk corners in a fucking wizard of id cartoon. scrolling through this was enough to make me hang my head and chuckle.
and now i sit here typing up my defense/philosophy on the subject.
ilx is a vortex of my time & if i didn't have the flu i'd be drinking somewhere; but instead - here i am.

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 26 December 2003 05:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think she's wearing glasses at all; that's just how the eyes are drawn, with cartoonishly large eyelids. But the point remains, in the last panel, all that's left are the pupils!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 December 2003 07:20 (twenty-two years ago)

The only way to solve this is to e-mail the cartoonist this thread.

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 26 December 2003 07:27 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

http://joshreads.com/images/0605/i060504bc.gif

― and what, Saturday, 31 March 2007 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

I can but stare at it.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 31 March 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Why did those letters A so rudely have to materialize and start schoving the ants down the cliff? I don't give that an A.

― Abbott, Saturday, 31 March 2007 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

The first part of this thread is even better with the broken images.

And is the new strip "B.C." or "Wizard of Id"? Or does it even matter anymore?

― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 31 March 2007 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

B.C. is the one with the ants, sometimes doing ant things as above, other times sitting in an anthill school asking anachronistic questions such as why Reagan considered ketchup a vegetable.

― Abbott, Saturday, 31 March 2007 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://img8.imagepile.net/img8b/522wizardofid2007034072803.gif

RAP MUSIC IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND. WHERE'S GEIR HONGRO?

― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 31 March 2007 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Milo: You think you are so fucking cool, don't you? You think you are so fucking cool. But just once, I would like to hear you scream in pain...
Joe Hallenbeck: Play some rap music.

― s1ocki, Saturday, 31 March 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/26/bcstrip7dec2006lq8.png

― abanana, Saturday, 31 March 2007 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

what an asshole

― s1ocki, Saturday, 31 March 2007 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

did that seriously get printed? holy shit.

― J.D., Sunday, 1 April 2007 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

"B.C." is always up to some sort of wackiness.

― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 1 April 2007 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=23005

― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 1 April 2007 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, I feel dumb. I don't get the "infamy" one. Is it something as awful as "no one remembers how bad the Japanese were?"

― Sundar, Sunday, 1 April 2007 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

I had the same reaction.

― teeny, Sunday, 1 April 2007 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

it's not even a definition!

― iiiijjjj, Sunday, 1 April 2007 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

I don't get it either. Unless it's a completely lame WWII crack like Sundar suggests...

― marmotwolof, Sunday, 1 April 2007 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y257/nitsuh/bc-periodapp.png

― nabisco, Sunday, 1 April 2007 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

(PS yes it's a Pearl Harbor crack re: "a day that will live in infamy" -- possibly dude is the kind of Christian conservative who prefers ongoing international animosity to trade and cooperation.)

― nabisco, Sunday, 1 April 2007 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

What are his eyeglasses made out of?

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 1 April 2007 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

Also:
Anglo-Frisian language. Germanic-speaking peoples from various parts of northwest Germany (Saxons, Angles) as well as Jutland (Jutes) invaded what is now known as Eastern England around the 5th century AD. It is a matter of current debate whether the Anglo-Saxon language spread by displacement of the original population, or the native Celts gradually adopted the language and culture of a new ruling class. There is also some debate as to whether there were substantial numbers of Saxons already in Britain in late Roman times.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 1 April 2007 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://joshreads.com/images/0611/i061121bc.gif

― and what, Sunday, 1 April 2007 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://joshreads.com/images/0604/i060414bc.jpg

― and what, Sunday, 1 April 2007 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Instead of medieval England, I'm just going to start imagining that the events in "Wizard of Id" are taking place in Williamsburg:

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/5707/wizardofid2244373007031kg7.gif

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 2 April 2007 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

I always thought the King in the Wizard of Id was a lot like Bob Hawke.

― Fred Nerk II, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

See....I told you the anthropomorphic ants were bad and inane news!

I am glad he lets me know Jesus stands on TRVTH tho. Jesus, Jesus, usesome vowels already!

― Abbott, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha that ant is smoking a pipe

― max, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 05:21 (nineteen years ago)

ON EASTER WEEKEND, NO LESS!

― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 8 April 2007 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

And who will write Wiley's Dictionary entries of crabby racism now?

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 8 April 2007 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

A holy ghost writer.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 9 April 2007 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

*rimshot*

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 April 2007 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

I thought he died like 8 years ago. Maybe that was Parker.

― Abbott, Monday, 9 April 2007 02:36 (nineteen years ago)

It's sad, but I'm glad he died at his story -board.
I will miss leaning on his rock.

― aimurchie, Monday, 9 April 2007 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.imagepup.com/up/x2qb_1176083945_bizarro7yc.gif

― kingfish, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

leaning on His rock

― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Let's find an obit that mentions the "B.C." character called The Fat Broad.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

hey, Washington Post!

Among the characters were the one-legged cave-man poet, Wiley, and a menagerie of talking animals, including an ant, a clam and a lovelorn dinosaur named Gronk. The female characters were Cute Chick and Fat Broad, names that were anatomically, if not politically, correct.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

"yer all gonna burn."

http://www.layman.org/layman/_images/hart-johnny02.jpg

― scott seward, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/BC_Hart_turtle.gif

Then the bird and that box turtle got gay-married.

also, the lolz don't need to stop on account on Johnny:

Prior to his death, Hart had built up a detailed computer archive of his drawings, and been working with family members to produce his strips, both of which mean that BC and The Wizard of Id can continue to be published. [3]

― kingfish, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

ZomB.C. - The Resurrection

― m bison, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

it's been the policy of me and pleasant plains' local paper, the democrat-gazette, to discontinue comics when the artist dies (see: shoe, andy capp, peanuts, etc.). will they uphold this policy?! the exec. editor is basically insane and has been know to create and manipulate policy according to his or the owner's whim. course that's probably any major paper anywhere.

― andrew m., Monday, 9 April 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that is pretty great. Are they still running Blondie, Beetle Bailey, Dick Tracy, Prince Valiant, Apartment 3-G, or any others that have been 'authored' by maybe 3-5 people over the years?

― Abbott, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

Blondie was grandfathered in, I think. Mort Walker is still alive, technically.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

I could SWEAR Beetle started out in the 1920s as a crazy rake and then when the depression hit, they made him into a spud-peeling military kid bcz no-one wanted to read about rich gadabouts anymore. I can't find anything to back that up tho.

If that's yr pape's policy, I don't think they should count parents passing comics onto kids, because that means you will never be rid of the FAMILY CIRCUS.

― Abbott, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Those guys have been at boot camp for 57 YEARS. Just deploy them already.

― nabisco, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

P.S. Abbott I think the very title of "Family Circus" is a clear warning that unfunny circular jokes are an interminable, hereditary cycle -- you can't just KILL something like that, it's going to take silver and stakes and whatnot.

― nabisco, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.joshreads.com/images/07/04/i070406famcirc.jpg

― Abbott, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Chris Keane, other son of Jeff that is not listed by bubble as heir to evil throne, works for Disney as an animator. He was largely responsible for "The Rescuers Down Under." Family needs to birth a QC department.

― Abbott, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

They converted to Catholocism just for that joke!

― nabisco, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

"Mommy, this transubstantiation tastes funny."

― Abbott, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

I like that the mom is just lurching over her with it, like a soulless Catholic Enya.

― Abbott, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

is skeezix still alive?

― m coleman, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

ok that family circus!

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Monday, 9 April 2007 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

this is a black day

― strongohulkington, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

RIP JOHNNY...TOO GOOD FOR THIS PRIMORDIAL WORLD

― strongohulkington, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

so this is how wiley's dictionary defines "grief."

― ghost rider, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

"our unabashed dictionary"

― strongohulkington, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

clams got broken hearts

― ghost rider, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Now all his fantasies of Fat Broad beating his snake are coming true in heaven.

― Abbott, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

show me a good man not long for this wicked world...

― ghost rider, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

FRAMMIN ON THE JIM JAM
FRIPPIN ON THE KROTZ

― Dimension 5ive, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://dreamers.com/karetos/m/mlazarus.jpg

mel lazarus, we hardly knew ye

― strongohulkington, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://tvphotogalleries.com/data/575/1dvd04.jpg

― ghost rider, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

I could SWEAR Beetle started out in the 1920s as a crazy rake and then when the depression hit, they made him into a spud-peeling military kid bcz no-one wanted to read about rich gadabouts anymore. I can't find anything to back that up tho.

-- Abbott, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:44 (42 minutes ago)

I think you have Beetle Bailey mixed up with Blondie.

― Nathan, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

GR drops unexpected Mel Cooley ref! (does TVLand still show Van Dyke?)

This thread needs more Fat Broad.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

Thx Nate.

― Abbott, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/Stranger0704/JohnnyHartDead.jpg

― kingfish, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

I could SWEAR Beetle started out in the 1920s as a crazy rake and then when the depression hit, they made him into a spud-peeling military kid bcz no-one wanted to read about rich gadabouts anymore.

This does sound like Dagwood moreso, but it also reminds me of Wash Tubbs, which around the same time evolved from the hijinks of a devil-may-care (but adorably hapless in romance) little townie to the townie as sidekick to a two-fisted, world-travelling adventure hound... I always took it as just, adventure is more fun, but I wonder if all the flappers and flivvers had become a bit decadent...

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

All this talk and nobody thinks to try, say, Wikipedia:

In 1948 and 1949, Mort Walker submitted his comics to magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post. The editor of the SEP, John Bailey, suggested he draw some comics in a college setting, having seen some of Mort Walker's work during college. Walker did so, and Bailey suggested that he feature one character, who wore a hat down over his eyes. Walker named him Spider, after a fraternity brother.

Walker then decided to do a comic strip about college, putting all of his fraternity brothers from the University of Missouri-Columbia in it. Changing the name from Spider to Beetle, King Features Syndicate bought it; it was the last comic strip personally approved by William Randolph Hearst. Bailey was added as a last name in honor of John Bailey. Beetle Bailey first ran in twelve newspapers on September 4, 1950, the day after Mort Walker's birthday.

On March 13, 1951, during the Korean War, Walker had Beetle Bailey enlist in the Army. All characters other than Beetle were dropped, and new ones created. The struggling comic strip (King Features was considering not renewing the one-year contract) soon appeared in more newspapers, beginning Beetle's rise to popularity.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

A couple of my fellow Mizzou alumni:

http://muarchives.missouri.edu/images/exh_beetle/mort.JPG

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, Ned, I tried le wiki shortly after my post and realized I was R-O-N-G but forgot to make a public confession.

I have a plush doll of Ms. Buxley I got from a claw machine. It already came with her legs spread wide open. It is fucking obscene. It is also baffling that Beetle Bailey plushies were chilling with the Spongebobs and other characters that children might actually like or recognize.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh but I wasn't ENTIRELY wrong! I could swear I saw some pic in a history of comics compendium of Beetle walking around in civillian clothes & a porkpie hat, with no potato peelers to be seen.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Beetle Bailey is Lois Flagston's brother.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

Beetle also Dannielynn's real father.

― M.V., Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

Someone explain the appeal of Andy Capp

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Did Mark E Smith ever appear in it?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Mark E Smith is Andy Capp

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

inventor of delicious hot fries

― dmr, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38164000/jpg/_38164143_andycapp300.jpg

<i>"Northern white crap that talks back-ah"</i>

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

well i did it half-right

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

For a long time, on the back of some packages, "Zesty Ranch" was listed as one of the flavors, despite the fact it was never made.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Zesty Ranch-ah

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

I've always wondered about Pud from Bazooka Joe. He could really wear a turtleneck.

― brownie, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

As Mark E. Smith's band head toward their third decade as the shambolic art-punk outfit that all arrogant art school kids must love even after they've gotten over their own arrogance, the amazing thing is not that they exist or still have a following despite Smith's notorious predilection for doing things onstage to his bandmates not even Rick James would have tried. What's amazing is how good their records still are, and the ways that a singer who looks like the specter of death crossed with Andy Capp who has such a limited range is so consistently engaging. Not as blindingly hateful as their prior two albums, Heads Roll is in fact among the group's finest post-Brix releases. As usual, the group's cover choices are Catholic, and "I Can Hear the Grass Grow" by the Move is on par with their take on "Victoria," which is to say, excellent. This album is long and listeners would do well to program out the last third or so, but thanks to modern technology this is not tough to accomplish. --Mike McGonigal

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.adclassix.com/images62drpepper.jpg

There's another one of these out there featuring Fat Broad making a man trap.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Man, you could write whole multi-volume masters theses on just the ellipses in that old Dr Pepper slogan. It amazes me in every way:

It's different ... I like it!

― nabisco, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.edarts.net/flights/dimpdw1.jpg

― dmr, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Shortly after Reg Smythe died, a campaign was started to have a statue of Andy Capp erected in his, and Reginald's home town, Hartlepool, as a commemorative gesture. However, no local businesses could be found to sponsor the venture, as it was deemed the cartoon was too politically incorrect, and perpetuated a negative stereotype of the northeast. Campaigns are still trying to get the statue of the character erected to this day but public opinion is still split.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

they can put that statue in my apartment

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

Man, you could write whole multi-volume masters theses on just the ellipses in that old Dr Pepper slogan. It amazes me in every way:

It's different ... I like it!

Nabisco, those are three periods. This is an ellipses…

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

i challenge everyone to read a month's worth of Andy Capp

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

No, dude, that's just failed pedantry on your part!

(If you wanted to catch me on something you should have gone with my using the plural ellipses when referring to just one ellipsis.)

― nabisco, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

ellipses. . .have. . .to. . .have. . .spaces. . .between them. . .I think is what. . .he is. . .saying?

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

(I.e., if you're trying to say it's only ellipsis at the end of a sentence, you're just plain wrong -- its original association was with omitted material, and its use for dialogue pauses and "trailing off" came after, with the "trailing off" convention probably being newest.)

(Mr. Que, I think all sane people can agree that the use or non-use of spaces with ellipses is pretty much a matter of house typographical style. I always add spaces with quoting -- and preserve terminal punctuation periods -- because, you know, Chicago style. Dr Pepper slogans, not so much.)

― nabisco, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

oh okay whoops. i thought the spaces between the ellipses was mandatory.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

woah i must have drank too much coffee the day i wrote that amzn review. first sentence alone is ... crazy.

― Mike McGooney-gal, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

i think he's making some html character entities gag guys

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

Nice style would suggest spacing it, yeah, but it's almost less an issue of style and more an issue of, like, kerning -- e.g., I used to be annoyed that a tight ellipsis had become a single character in word processors, until I realized part of the point might be to let fonts style their own ellipses (which is kinda cool), the same way they can do signature variants on M dashes.

Umm let me ask Andy Capp how he feels about this.

― nabisco, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

OMG he called me a darkie and head-butted me while mumbling something about someone called Enoch Powell

― nabisco, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

I just read [url=[Removed Illegal Link] Month of Andy Capp[url] Luv that internet.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

[url=[Removed Illegal Link] Month of Andy Capp[url]

― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, he apologized, now we're sharing some chips and he's telling me what it's like to have sex with his wife

― nabisco, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

now ask an apteryx

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I always thought that big dustball with the rolling pin sticking out of it was them fighting, but he says she likes "angry sex." Hence the black eye.

― nabisco, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

Re: the rolling pin, don't ever eat any baked goods at their house

― nabisco, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

ewwww.

Nabisco, don't shoot pool with him, he's a hustler.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't he suck at everything, though? The main thing I remember, in addition to the wife-beating, is that he was a lousy footballer in the true British style (i.e., played defense, had zero skills, and just fouled everyone all the time).

― nabisco, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

hmm, see my post up thread about reading a whole month of Andy Capp. I think there was at least one in there about him winning a game, I think. But yeah, then he loses a lot and punches a wall in the bathroom. Also, there's a gag in there about Andy winning on the horses and walking down the street with a wad of cash in his hand.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

on his way to down 15 pints no doubt

and then it's rolling pin time once again

― dmr, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/38/85236161_f93363c602_o.jpg

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

louis jagger?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

...

― M.V., Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

bust an andy capp (the original chav?) ...

http://www.kent.ac.uk/studying/images/studying/ugp04/why/exp2a.jpg

― Eisbaer, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

HE DIED

http://www.comicmix.com/news/2007/04/17/wizard-of-ids-parker-dies/

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

wow, just like johnny and june

― ghost rider, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://s3.amazonaws.com/findagrave/photos/2001/359/1250_1009352089.jpg

― and what, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Don't laugh, it will happen to you when Jess dies.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

I just read about this! My local newspaper's going to have to replace another strip in the same two week span. It's just like the papal elections of 1978!

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

and you when bea arthur dies

xp

― and what, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have long now, do I?

― Nicole, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

sorry that was to dr morbius

― and what, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

Then don't you mean Robert Osborne?

― Nicole, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

The Four-Eyes chops made me lol, but it was the nabisco meets andy capp dialogue that just did me in.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 18 September 2008 21:12 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

http://img.waffleimages.com/b6e23198586dc3db62e3f4953aaec560cd4a8d93/wiz213.gif

the last panel cracked me the fuck up

― miss pansy twist (electricsound), Saturday, 19 February 2011 01:36 (fifteen years ago)

omg nabisco's conversation with Andy Capp

― Peter Pepsi (Abbbottt), Saturday, 19 February 2011 02:50 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

Guys.

I never made this connection before.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb57886/britishcomics/images/b/b7/Andy_capp2.gif http://www.gembloux.be/votre-commune/services-communaux/affaires-sociales/nouveautes/handicap-actualite/image_mini

― pplains, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 02:59 (thirteen years ago)

Wait 'til you figure out why they're called the LOCK HORNS

― drawings by teen cultists (Crabbits), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:14 (thirteen years ago)

So if I get shitty drunk and coarse, I can just call myself Andycapped.

― pplains, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:16 (thirteen years ago)

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8ifvnNDXN1qbij88o1_250.jpg

― pplains, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:18 (thirteen years ago)

king jong il still cracks me up

― detune two oscillators...than what (electricsound), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:21 (thirteen years ago)

i can't believe this wasn't an abbbottt thread!

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:40 (thirteen years ago)

i once saw a 'wizard of id' original where Hart/Parker had simply pasted over the word balloons to make a new 'gag' - no new drawing required at all

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 09:19 (thirteen years ago)

The original webcomic cartoonists.

― pplains, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:23 (thirteen years ago)

Thread needs Jim Henson's test pilot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDeAuq44XKQ

― drawings by teen cultists (Crabbits), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:32 (thirteen years ago)

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