When I read the collections, there was usually something that raised a smirk every 4 pages or something, but no, I never rated it as a hilarious comic strip (unlike Calvin and Hobbes).
I do on the other hand rate it as a very important comic strip given that it did seem to push the boundaries of what was acceptable in cartoon weirdness though.
Excuse me...Guinness is Irish, and from what I remember of some article in the Sun a few years ago, average British breast size is quite small compared to our Scandanavian neighbours.
How do you think Steve Forbes got to be a billionaire?
IIRC his daddy gave him it.
But he's not a billionaire, he's only got a 400,000,000$ fortune or at least he did a few years ago. Dunno how much he has now, but I doubt if it's grown to over a billion in 3 years. It might have...
Ahhh, the good old days when Sluggy was funny. It was funny up until about the end of 2001 and then it headed downhill. At least some comics know when to call it a day.
yeah, I can agree with that. I put my entire family on the list and we've not been called for about a year now. Only trick I noticed was you need to register each person rather than each number.
So if you only register Jo Bloggs at 65223345, they can still call to ask for Peter Bloggs at 65223345.
But, it does work, and its great. I now know that if the phone rings at 10:30am and I'm still in bed, I probably do need to get up to answer it.
> They havent had a chance to do that in ten years.
Sure they have, they've just been looking for talent in a very very small search space. "Things that sound/look like Britney", "things that take the good bits of hip hop and make it hip pop", and "things that sound like punk, but are really just boy bands with an overdrive pedal". This is the shit that sells, and most labels are there to make money, not to make innovative music.
But the "sponsorship" idea is rather worrying. It could start out a nice relationship, but what happens if the band does something that the sponsor perceives to be "bad" for their buisness? What happens if the sponsor does something that the members of the band consider bad?
Sponsorship might work in sport because really, you're not trying to innovate, you're playing a game to win it, and really there's no "artistic" talent required. When corporate sponsors are the major way to make money, then the art will suffer because it will be limited to what the sponsor says is okay and sanitised.
# A cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound. # A form of wit that is marked by the use of sarcastic language and is intended to make its victim the butt of contempt or ridicule. # The use of sarcasm. See Synonyms at wit
Hmm..that reference seems to imply it should have been funny, but it wasn't. It was just annoying.
So remove the "either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version." from the standard Copyright header and replace it with "version 2 of the License".
Means the software is still perfectly GPL licensed, but you're protected from future changes to the GPL that you disagree with.
> independent of what other people think of it, or of me for owning it.
Thats probably because most people grow out of worrying too much about fitting in because they have formed an identity for themselves.
Adolesence isn't that simple a time:)
But also, it underlies my point that no-one really gives a toss what sort of computer you own, because its not the "cool" thing, its just something that people have and most people know that all computers do the exact same things, one way or another.
Possibly this is the problem that adverts like "Dude, you're getting a Dell" face, because a Dell is identical to some homemade job...Maybe its not, one pair of jeans is fundamentally the same as the other, its just the little tag of material with a name on it that distinguishes cool from crap...
In small circles "cool" comes about naturally. Adidas during the mid 80s in small areas of New York. But large corporations have "Cool hunters" whose job it is to hang around these areas, and look and see what is cool, and what isn't, and then they manufacture it on a large scale, across a country, across the globe.
Cool can be manufactured. Witness things like Nike Air trainers, smoking, Levis 501 jeans. The difference is that these things are aimed at the younger market, people who are desperately trying to find their place, so don't want to do or say anything that would alienate them from their peers.
Computers on the other hand are not exactly the sort of thing that people get worried about. You don't have kids going home and crying to his dad because some of the kids in school laughed at him because he didn't have some cool make of computer. (Well, geeks might, but we already know they're not the exact epitomy of coolness).
So, yeah, I'll agree with your outcome, even if I don't necessarily agree with your original statement. Still, we'll get to laugh at the dad thinking he's cool. Like we can do with McDonalds - No really, its more fun to go and dance outside a McDonalds than it is to go to a nightclub, no it is...
Most people I know who see the advert just fall around and laugh because its so pitfully bad. Its really clear they're jumping on a cool bandwagon, and falling off again.
Production can make someone who cannot sing at all sound good. That is the secret of Britney Spears et al. Lots of money to add effects and manipulate the hell out of the sound to make it palatable.
Oh clearly, but these aren't the people (I'm assuming) who would be forking out to build their own home studio with a laptop.
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> the laws of physics than something like "2 Fast 2 Furious."
No, but seriously, those cars did go so fast they could seperate light...That was sooooo cooooool
Oh, and also...surely "Least funny comic of all time" has to go to User Friendly?
When I read the collections, there was usually something that raised a smirk every 4 pages or something, but no, I never rated it as a hilarious comic strip (unlike Calvin and Hobbes).
I do on the other hand rate it as a very important comic strip given that it did seem to push the boundaries of what was acceptable in cartoon weirdness though.
of Mr Bobby Gillispe
"One man's freedom fighter, is another man's terrorist"
Which...convientiantly has nothing to do with religion.
Excuse me...Guinness is Irish, and from what I remember of some article in the Sun a few years ago, average British breast size is quite small compared to our Scandanavian neighbours.
I've had very few problems with Pipex. Doesn't seem slow either, but maybe thats cos not many people use broadband around these parts.
How do you think Steve Forbes got to be a billionaire?
IIRC his daddy gave him it.
But he's not a billionaire, he's only got a 400,000,000$ fortune or at least he did a few years ago. Dunno how much he has now, but I doubt if it's grown to over a billion in 3 years. It might have...
Ahhh, the good old days when Sluggy was funny.
It was funny up until about the end of 2001 and then it headed downhill. At least some comics know when to call it a day.
yeah, I can agree with that.
I put my entire family on the list and we've not been called for about a year now. Only trick I noticed was you need to register each person rather than each number.
So if you only register Jo Bloggs at 65223345, they can still call to ask for Peter Bloggs at 65223345.
But, it does work, and its great. I now know that if the phone rings at 10:30am and I'm still in bed, I probably do need to get up to answer it.
> They havent had a chance to do that in ten years.
Sure they have, they've just been looking for talent in a very very small search space. "Things that sound/look like Britney", "things that take the good bits of hip hop and make it hip pop", and "things that sound like punk, but are really just boy bands with an overdrive pedal". This is the shit that sells, and most labels are there to make money, not to make innovative music.
But the "sponsorship" idea is rather worrying. It could start out a nice relationship, but what happens if the band does something that the sponsor perceives to be "bad" for their buisness? What happens if the sponsor does something that the members of the band consider bad?
Sponsorship might work in sport because really, you're not trying to innovate, you're playing a game to win it, and really there's no "artistic" talent required. When corporate sponsors are the major way to make money, then the art will suffer because it will be limited to what the sponsor says is okay and sanitised.
Wouldn't you fry your fingers too?
# A cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound.
# A form of wit that is marked by the use of sarcastic language and is intended to make its victim the butt of contempt or ridicule.
# The use of sarcasm. See Synonyms at wit
Hmm..that reference seems to imply it should have been funny, but it wasn't. It was just annoying.
So remove the "either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version." from the standard Copyright header and replace it with "version 2 of the License".
Means the software is still perfectly GPL licensed, but you're protected from future changes to the GPL that you disagree with.
Its even worse than the /. trolls favourite movie http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0274518/
Although, it didn't do too badly at all.
The 3 foreign films I can think of are all over 7 :)
i mdb.com/title/tt0150662/e /tt0211915/
And they're all worth it, but I guess 3 isn't a very good number really
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I think the word you were looking for is "shit" not "hip"
> independent of what other people think of it, or of me for owning it.
:)
Thats probably because most people grow out of worrying too much about fitting in because they have formed an identity for themselves.
Adolesence isn't that simple a time
But also, it underlies my point that no-one really gives a toss what sort of computer you own, because its not the "cool" thing, its just something that people have and most people know that all computers do the exact same things, one way or another.
Possibly this is the problem that adverts like "Dude, you're getting a Dell" face, because a Dell is identical to some homemade job...Maybe its not, one pair of jeans is fundamentally the same as the other, its just the little tag of material with a name on it that distinguishes cool from crap...
He wasn't exactly cool when he was a hacker.
He was cool cos he could jump over large buildings and do kung fu.
In small circles "cool" comes about naturally. Adidas during the mid 80s in small areas of New York. But large corporations have "Cool hunters" whose job it is to hang around these areas, and look and see what is cool, and what isn't, and then they manufacture it on a large scale, across a country, across the globe.
Cool can be manufactured. Witness things like Nike Air trainers, smoking, Levis 501 jeans. The difference is that these things are aimed at the younger market, people who are desperately trying to find their place, so don't want to do or say anything that would alienate them from their peers.
Computers on the other hand are not exactly the sort of thing that people get worried about. You don't have kids going home and crying to his dad because some of the kids in school laughed at him because he didn't have some cool make of computer. (Well, geeks might, but we already know they're not the exact epitomy of coolness).
So, yeah, I'll agree with your outcome, even if I don't necessarily agree with your original statement. Still, we'll get to laugh at the dad thinking he's cool. Like we can do with McDonalds - No really, its more fun to go and dance outside a McDonalds than it is to go to a nightclub, no it is...
Most people I know who see the advert just fall around and laugh because its so pitfully bad. Its really clear they're jumping on a cool bandwagon, and falling off again.
Ah, gotcha...
I would have complained because I hate mirrors
Why did no-one complain anymore after the mirrors were installed...I think I missed the point of that story.
Production can make someone who cannot sing at all sound good. That is the secret of Britney Spears et al. Lots of money to add effects and manipulate the hell out of the sound to make it palatable.
Oh clearly, but these aren't the people (I'm assuming) who would be forking out to build their own home studio with a laptop.