the ill-tempered cavalier ([info]gillen) wrote,
@ 2006-01-08 14:55:00
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The Garfield panel randomizer
At last technology has finally reached the point that it can even make Garfield funny.



(and by 'funny', I of course mean 'sick and bizarre'.)

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[info]his_magdalene
2006-01-08 11:00 pm UTC (link)
There's another kind of funny?

Who knew?

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[info]carlmarks
2006-01-09 01:46 am UTC (link)
You realize this is exactly what Jim Davis does, right?

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you may be right
[info]gillen
2006-01-09 02:11 am UTC (link)

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Re: you may be right
[info]swandieve
2006-01-09 04:05 am UTC (link)
It's strips like these that make me think he's the kind of guy that just sits in his cubicle all day trying to think of something funny.

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Re: you may be right
[info]gillen
2006-01-09 04:12 am UTC (link)
In Davis' defense, that's mine, not his.

But yeah.

Actually, I'm not sure he even tries anymore.

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[info]aurienne
2006-01-09 12:53 pm UTC (link)
i thought he's a corporation, not a person, and has been for ages?

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Re: you may be right
[info]carlmarks
2006-01-09 01:04 pm UTC (link)
Actually, as I understand it, he literally spends a few hours a month on the comic. The poor bastards sitting the cubicles are just trying to make enough money to buy their souls back from him.

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[info]lucidpseudogod
2006-01-09 04:21 am UTC (link)
How do you get the results of the shuffling
to be put in a post/comment?
I tried looking at the source code
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but I don't understand it well enough
to know what to fiddle with.

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[info]gillen
2006-01-09 04:37 am UTC (link)
Oh, sorry. You don't. You have to copy the screenshot into your graphics program (in this case Macromedia Fireworks), crop it, export as gif, upload it to your webhost and then use an <img src=""> tag to post it.

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[info]kotikokura
2006-01-09 04:22 am UTC (link)
Sick and/or bizarre?

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[info]gillen
2006-01-09 04:32 am UTC (link)
Seen that, and I don't get it. Unless she's saying it was dog ejaculate. And why would she have dog sperm sitting around on her examination table while she's examining a cat? and in a mug?


Okay, never mind. Yes, sick and bizarre. You're right.

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[info]kotikokura
2006-01-09 05:28 am UTC (link)
That's why I had the "bizarre" option in there. Either it's a "John drinks dog semen," joke which fails to hold together, or it's a David Lynch sort of piece. Read it in a backwards/forwards Michael J. Anderson voice.

"Con-grad-u-laaations, Miiiister Arrrbuckle. Yoooou are going to give biiirth ... to a ... fiiine, hell-thee litt-ee-r of puuupeees."

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[info]gillen
2006-01-09 05:31 am UTC (link)
Oh please don't mention David Lynch to me right now. I had to suffer through an entire interview with him blathering on about "finding his bliss" through Transcendental Meditation (TM).

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[info]gillen
2006-01-09 05:34 am UTC (link)
Hah. Doesn't read that way, but I meant that (TM) as a snarky trademark symbol, actually.

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[info]kotikokura
2006-01-09 05:53 am UTC (link)
If I scrutinized the epistemological zaniness of every artist I liked, I'd lose Leonard Cohen and that wouldn't do at all.

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[info]gillen
2006-01-09 06:59 am UTC (link)
Why? What does Leonard believe in?

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[info]kotikokura
2006-01-09 07:14 am UTC (link)
Leonard is extremely rational. I was pretending that he was a flakey, transplanted Californian for hypothetical purposes. Don't read up on Leonard. He thinks as you do and his allegories mean just what you suspect.

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[info]gillen
2006-01-09 09:02 am UTC (link)
::wanders confusedly, pistol in hand::

"What's in the box?? WHAT'S IN THE BOX??!"

::looks in the box::


Oh. Well it could be worse. He could be Cat Stevens crazy.

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[info]kotikokura
2006-01-09 01:31 pm UTC (link)
If you're setting the bar that low, I think Lynch's weekend levitation seminars deserve a pass. Though I always thought Cat got a raw deal in comparison with the bulk of quietly mainstream Christian performers. The aesthetic unfortunateness of moving from Tea for the Tillerman to A is for Allah aside, asking him whether the Rushdie fatwa is valid is about on par with asking a non-Universalist Christian whether they think their deity is currently having Ann Frank, Galen, Gandhi and Groucho Marx tortured for all eternity.

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Damme, there ARE no such pores!
[info]gillen
2006-01-10 02:18 pm UTC (link)
Any deity worth his salt is torturing Galen for all eternity. ;)

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Re: Damme, there ARE no such pores!
[info]kotikokura
2006-01-10 03:10 pm UTC (link)
Oh. You're a pore theorist.

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::waving his William Harvey about::
[info]gillen
2006-01-15 09:25 pm UTC (link)
I'm an anti-pore theorist, thankyouveddymuch!

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???
[info]pirat_ponton
2006-01-09 05:24 am UTC (link)

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[info]adellashair
2006-01-09 06:08 am UTC (link)
I totally did this in analog with a Garfield Treasury the former tenants left at my house. And I think the answer is that Jim Davis does come up with some really good single panels, they're just very rarely in the same cartoon.

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Family Circus
[info]elbowd
2006-01-10 11:17 am UTC (link)
has just one panel
and so
is immune to humor

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Re: Family Circus
[info]gillen
2006-01-10 02:22 pm UTC (link)
See, now you're just teasing. I think Bil Keane made them take down the Dysfunctional Family Circus site though.

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[info]elbowd
2006-01-10 02:33 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, that was funny as balls, though, while it lasted. Nothing good stays.

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[info]gillen
2006-01-10 02:23 pm UTC (link)

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