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At the age of 13 I was an enormous Garfield fan. I even had a soft toy Garfield big enough to be described as a teddy bear.

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

(and this from the man who mocks the fact that I had a Pierrot bedroom aged 10)

― Emma, Monday, 20 January 2003 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Alang, I now find you Odie-ous.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Alan you're a brave man but you disgust me.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)

i disgust myself. but, my, how that cat loved lasagne

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)

How big precisely was the soft toy? Was it as big as Sarah's Meowth?

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:40 (twenty-three years ago)

(I feel disturbed that that's now some kind of benchmark in soft toy giganticism)

I related to Garfield, but it was never on enough. I liked the thing with the farm.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:42 (twenty-three years ago)

it was maybe 4 inches tall at most -- the garfield toy i mean missus. in fact i now have another one courtesy of my father's laser-accurate christmas present buying strategy. he saw one in a charity shop and thought it would be funny. how right he was.

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Awww.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:46 (twenty-three years ago)

My father won a bear in a raffle which is FIVE FEET TALL. I went into his study at Christmas and found it sitting in a chair and it frightened me.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:46 (twenty-three years ago)

My sisters boyf bought her one of those 5ft tall bears one Christmas. I walked in on her one day muttering under her breath and kicking it "f*cking stupid bear, what the f*ck am I supposed to do with a 5ft f*cking bear? F*cking takes up space, f*cking nowhere to put it, who the f*ck wants a 5ft bear?" repeat to fade....

― smee (smee), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)

whats with the fucking asterisks?

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Cute widdle Garfield for Alang!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm too nice a girl to write such a bad word....
Force of habit really, in my old place the email police caught you if you wrote swear words in your emails.

― smee (smee), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

At Linens and Things I saw some Powerpuff Girls dolls that, in terms of square feet occupied, must have been as big as me. (And those of you who met me in Boston know that I am by no definition petite.) What on earth do you do with a toy that large?

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:04 (twenty-three years ago)

First, you bend the arms back. Then, you *CENSORED*.

Hope that helps!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Kick it around your bedroom and swear at it!

Dan, you are a bad mang.

― smee (smee), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan truly boldly goes where nobody else would willingly tread.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm too nice a girl to write such a bad word....
Force of habit really, in my old place the email police caught you if you wrote swear words in your emails.

Ha ha, smee!
I can see it now. The work email police reading your emails and seeing all those "f*cking"s and being like, "Nothing to see here, let's move along to the next batch of emails."

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I know it sounds totally dumb but they had a thing wot drew their attention to your email should it contain certain words, so if you put in * it didn't work - do you see?

― smee (smee), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyway, Alan confesses to being a Garfield fan and I get ridiculed for a few *'s? There is no justice.....

― smee (smee), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

i also got ridiculed for not swearing on ilx once. now THAT's justice.

― i hate mondays ha ha ha ha ha (Alan), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Fuck off.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

N. must you lower the tone so?

― smee (smee), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Well he was never going to make things more refined was he. I admire his directness.

I had a big stuffed Leon Garfield when I was a kid.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 20 January 2003 17:09 (twenty-three years ago)

soft toy Garfield - not nearly as bad as Garfield on suction cups against window of car. They are the worst.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 20 January 2003 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Alan, me too. I liked reading the first couple books and I had a stuffed toy too. no shame.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 20 January 2003 17:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I did like the one where he had nine lives and one of them was a noir detective bit. He's a smug little bastard, though.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 20 January 2003 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

well, at least it's better than he*thcliff.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 20 January 2003 18:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Garfield ruled, then i turned 12 and he didnt seem to appeal as much

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 20 January 2003 18:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I had a couple of Garfield books when I was six or seven. I thought they were hysterical (f*cking hysterical, even). Then last month I read the current Garfield cartoons in the Daily News, and it was just sooooo boring and dumb.

― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 20 January 2003 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I took it for granted that Alan was a Garfield fan.

I think it was a good strip for a couple of years, though he seemed to get lazy and/or uninspired pretty quickly when it got really big.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 20 January 2003 19:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, yeah, Garfield the comic strip is a bit dud (though you guys are a little hard on it: it's not Calvin & Hobbes but it's not like it's as terrible as the Family Circus either), but Garfield the cartoon is just about the best Saturday morning cartoon there ever was.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 20 January 2003 19:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Recently, Garfield has been just as terrible as Family Circus.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 January 2003 19:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Panel One - Garfield sees spider.
Panel Two - Garfield smack spider with newspaper.
Panel Three - GARFIELD: "That was a big spider."

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 20 January 2003 20:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Panel Four - AND THEN THEY ALL LEZ UP

(Brought to you by the Committee to Save Garfield from Crushing Ennui.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 January 2003 20:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I LOVE POOKY.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 20 January 2003 20:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Garfield makes me laugh. He's best in large doses. I liked Nermal the best. He was cute.

― toraneko (toraneko), Monday, 20 January 2003 23:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Panel One - Garfield sees spider.
Panel Two - Garfield smack spider with newspaper.
Panel Three - GARFIELD: "That was a big spider."

I like that. Simplicity is beautiful.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 20 January 2003 23:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I had an Odie doll I got from the Scholastic Book Club. I would pour water into his mouth to simulate his drooling.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 23:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Marmaduke can totally kick Garfield's ass

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 20 January 2003 23:42 (twenty-three years ago)

other animals with ironically genteel first names = ? they must be out there but i'm blanking

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 00:53 (twenty-three years ago)

"it was maybe 4 inches tall at most"

pffff, that's nothing, I had a 3 foot tall stuffed Garfield along with 37 other stuffed animals on top of my dresser, right underneath two cat posters (one that had kittens in a basket and had the caption: "Are we having fun yet?") and this was all the way through high school. I had almost all the Garfield comics, too (even many of the sparkly ones.)

"I like that. Simplicity is beautiful."

Then you would like this one (which is one of my favorites):

Panel One - Garfield is sleeping in box
Panel Two - Garfield is sleeping in box
Panel Three - Garfield is sleeping in box

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 01:26 (twenty-three years ago)

"Recently, Garfield has been just as terrible as Family Circus. "

No way, look at todays (it's a hoot):

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/uclickcomics/20030120/cx_ga_uc/ga20030120

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 01:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Panel One - Garfield is sleeping in box
Panel Two - Garfield is sleeping in box
Panel Three - Garfield is sleeping in box

Grebt! And cozy, too.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 01:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I also loved Garfield when I was 12-13 and I drew him all the time and had loads of comic books. Everyone remembered it all through high school and it was oh so embarrassing when I was 15 or so. I still use my Garfield pillowcase.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 02:36 (twenty-three years ago)

i dont really like garfeild any more but i draw him to increase my knoledge of anime drawing

― giovanni (blake), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 03:35 (twenty-three years ago)

i dont really like garfeild any more but i draw him to increase my knowledge of anime drawing

― giovanni (blake), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 03:35 (twenty-three years ago)

garfield had the coolest showbag at the melbourne show because it had a pair of glasses with windscreen wipers on

― minna (minna), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 03:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I had a book of Garfield cartoons called "Garfield on the town" -- is there something that shameful and sordid related to liking Garfield? I still think he's cool, kinda.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 05:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I had a book or two when I was about 11, and also the stuffed toy... I'm not alone after all!

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 09:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Tracer: you are thinking of Marmaduke, the Great Dane. (Monday: Marmaduke sits on sofa. Tuesday: Marmaduke sits on bed. Wednesday: Marmaduke eats a lot. Thursday...)

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 09:29 (twenty-three years ago)

i dug garfield for years! damn you all to hell!

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 11:37 (twenty-three years ago)

That cartoon was great until I realised it wasn't a non-secutur.

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 15:30 (twenty-three years ago)

A non-whit? The pedant in me really wants to correct your spelling but I'm too insecure, perhaps this is a word I do not know?

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I mean:
non se·qui·tur (nhttp://cache.dictionary.com/dictionary/graphics/AHD4/GIF/obreve.gifn shttp://cache.dictionary.com/dictionary/graphics/AHD4/GIF/ebreve.gifkhttp://cache.dictionary.com/dictionary/graphics/AHD4/GIF/prime.gifwhttp://cache.dictionary.com/dictionary/graphics/AHD4/GIF/ibreve.gif-thttp://cache.dictionary.com/dictionary/graphics/AHD4/GIF/schwa.gifr, -thttp://cache.dictionary.com/dictionary/graphics/AHD4/GIF/oobreve.gifrhttp://cache.dictionary.com/dictionary/graphics/AHD4/GIF/lprime.gif)

n.

An inference or conclusion that does not follow from the premises or evidence.

A statement that does not follow logically from what preceded it.

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree with Graham. If it had been a non-sequitur it would have been as funny as Kramer's 'my wife is a slut' New Yorker cartoon idea.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 16:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Garfield's grouchiness was his selling point for me when I was small. It should still be, but no.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 16:21 (twenty-three years ago)

The problem is that one wants to kick his stupid head in.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 16:22 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a goofy rap that's on DJ Yoda HTC&Pvol1 which rhymes something like "I said yr cuter than Nermal, I hope that my sperm'll get under yr thermal... underwear". first garfield-inspired laff in ages

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 16:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't that a Paul Barman line? If so, dud.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Well at least we've learned the basis for Alang's fondness for kitten pics.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 17:16 (twenty-three years ago)

yes it looks like MC Paul Barman from my googles. he's a comedy rapper, what's not to like. do you hate fun? etc.

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 17:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Search for the ILM thread about Dalek for my hatred of Paul Barman, and others backing me up, but essentially, he's a cockfarmer.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Carrumba!

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 17:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Chaki's line on that thread makes me chuckle in retrospect:

"ethan is just another one of those indie boys that like to tell the rest of us how hip hop should be."

(Though Mr. Trife did have a good response.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 17:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, it wasn't the Dalek thread. But it wasn't the one posted above either. Oh well. Same general idea. I went to college with Clarke from that thread, so same deal.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

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