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The Opus Interview
Brad1138 writes "MSNBC has an interview with Opus re: his return to Sunday comics. Some interesting/funny bits of info. It was also nice to see how many people loved Bloom County/Opus, they are running a poll and currently 94% 'loved Bloom County & will read "OPUS"'." Here's another article talking about Opus's Return to the Sunday Funnies.
But come on? Pole?
-Peter
Some of the old cast for sure, but I hear the negotiations with Bill are not going well. He got a raw deal the first time around: he was paid per word, and all he usually said was "Ack!" and "Thppt!" And Berke's trying to bring in some of the mutts from his new book, "Flawed Dogs", but apparently they're in a different union than the meadow animals. I just don't get all of this legal mumbo-gumbo-rambo.
Oh, man! Bill the cat has got to make a return. Aaaaack Thppppt!
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"Opus: Who says there's money in comics?"
Answer: Scott Adams does, because you get to do nothing but slack off and make fun of people all day, but you are paid for it. As opposed to most people who slack off and make fun of people all day, but are paid for some other duty, like manager or peon or programmer.
I miss Bill the Cat, who was my fav toon when I was a kid.
Absolutely, though I'm happy to have this one.
Better yet, just like all those Practice/BostonPublic and ER/ThirdWatch crossover episodes, coming soon to the funny pages near you: Calvin & Opus.
Mencken had it right. So glad that's old news.
Because we are both attorneys and we both get tons of chicks.
I for one would like to offer a 34 armpit fart salute. Man the dandelions!
I regularly report MSN spam to the Hotmail admins.
I was like "those bastards, they finally cancelled it!" Then I found it on another page, read Opus and was slightly confused and amused.
This message is encrypted with Quad ROT-13 to protect the author's copyright under the DMCA.
It's not available online.
And what really sucks is that it's printed in DRM ink, which will prevent people from scanning it and putting it on the net.
The Washington Post occasionally uses "intelligent ink" that will permanently bond to the glass surface of a scanner.
... was the best character, and the hacking storylines the only ones I still find funny.
Banana Junior 6000 4ever!!!
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The latest Slashdot meme.
Shouldn't that be "America's Second-favorite Penguin?"
He gets to swear in these interviews, too.
That ought to add a lot of important detail. How inadequate those curse-free interviews look in comparison.
A computer without Microsoft is like ice cream without ketchup.
" Bloom County made the '80s tolerable for me, and I sure could have used it for the last three years of Dubya."
Well, here's hoping it brings a little levity to the next five...
I'm going to have to call bull and ask for a reference.
Personally, I think that Opus is coming back to remind us of penguins before Tux. Opus thought that he was the "be all" and "End all" of penguin mascots. That all changed right after Opus Retired.
At that point in time, hardly anyone knew who Tux was, let alone that he was a Penguin. Fast forward 7 years or so, and all of a sudden (HA) Tux is the penguin mascot of the day.
Opus realizing that Tux has overtaken him has "America's favorite penguin", and now seeks to be reinstated.
Which leads us to the grudge match of the century. Geeks everywhere are going to have to pick their favorite penguin in the next Slashpoll.
Opus vs Tux in "Mascot wars"
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
You sent us your President last week...
Yea, and you bastards sent him back! :-)
Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!