I'm gonna catch crap for this...

[Medic]

...but todays 'Garfield', after being not funny for most of my life, finally got one right...
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/2461/garfieldrd4.gif (http://imageshack.us)

[Kermit]

That is pretty decent.

Garfield is funny. It always has been. The problem is that (as of next week) he's been telling the same 4 jokes for 29 years. Don't get me wrong, I love a good Knock-Knock joke, but after 29 years it gets a tad stale.

[F7]

How dare you use imageshack!

[samuelk]

Garfield loves lasagna!

[Medic]

How dare you use imageshack!

What should I use?

[F7]

It was mere rhetoric, not meant for scrutiny resulting in a discourse on image hosting.

[Medic]

Oh. Doh.

[Creole Ned]

Garfield used to look like a cat.

Let me see if I can find the original-look Garfield. He was kind of creepy, actually.

[Kermit]

Thanks Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield)!

[Creole Ned]

Yes, there we go. Delightfully hideous.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/Garfield_19_Jun_1978.png

[Iceman]

I've never found Garfield funny.

The closest it's ever come to making me laugh is a slight smile thinking "that's cute."

Calvin and Hobbes on the other hand has made me laugh out loud: And in the case of other people who's copys I've read, laugh so hard that their gum falls out of their mouth and leaves a sticky pink spot on the page for all eternity.

[jackrabbit]

I agree. I don't know how Garfield ever got published. The art is crap, and it's still the best part of the comic.

Also, Medic, is that avatar from US Acres or whatever it was? That other blight on humanity that Jim Davis gave us?

[Shadowrat]

I first opened the Sunday paper as a wee lad. I saw garfield, mary worth, prince valiant, and blondie.

i read garfield.

[Creole Ned]

With the size most comic strips are published at in papers nowadays, Prince Valiant would be inscrutable.

[Iceman]

Also, Medic, is that avatar from US Acres or whatever it was? That other blight on humanity that Jim Davis gave us?

Ummmm, See Above JR.


Back when I could find them in the paper I'd read Family Circus, and Mother Goose and Grimm.

[Circuit]

Wait, you're trashing Garfield but you liked Family Circus?

Also, LOL at JR for not having images in posts turned on!

[samuelk]

Family Circus is second only to Gasoline Alley in the running for worst comic in the universe.

Compared to those two, Garfield is frickin' Bloom County.

[jackrabbit]

not to derail a valid argument, but when comparing comics, wouldn't Bloom County be Bloom County?

[Creole Ned]

Judging from his posts to this thread, I conclude that jackrabbit has suffered blunt head trauma.

[samuelk]

not to derail a valid argument, but when comparing comics, wouldn't Bloom County be Bloom County?

um. . .


¿Que?

[jackrabbit]

I'm saying if you were comparing comics to fine art, you could say "Garfield sure is no Picasso," or when comparing fine art you can say "Picasso is no Rembrandt," but you can't say when comparing fine art "Next to Matisse, Picasso is Rembrandt," because Picasso can't be Rembrandt when comparing painters, Rembrandt is Rembrandt.

[Creole Ned]

Sam's analogy is fine. I'm not sure where the whole fine art comparison comes in, since Sam never mentions fine art anywhere in his post. He's comparing bad comics to good comics and saying that even though Garfield is not a good comic, Family Circus and Gasoline Alley are so much worse they make Garfield look like a good comic (Bloom County) in comparison.

[samuelk]

Sam's analogy is fine. I'm not sure where the whole fine art comparison comes in, since Sam never mentions fine art anywhere in his post. He's comparing bad comics to good comics and saying that even though Garfield is not a good comic, Family Circus and Gasoline Alley are so much worse they make Garfield look like a good comic (Bloom County) in comparison.

Yeah, exactly.

Or, I could have phrased it like this:

"Gasoline Alley and Family Circus make Garfield look like Bloom County".

[Falhawk]

after a mind numbing discussion in irc I have come to the conclusion that JR would have been more comfortable if you had used a simile instead of a metaphor

[jackrabbit]

I'd agree with the rephrasing. It's anal, but Fal nails it on the head as to why.

[Creole Ned]

I stand by my claim of blunt head trauma.

[Circuit]

I'm gonna go with the defective head thing, too, because that's about the dumbest thing I've seen anyone here argue about. Maybe ever. :)

[jackrabbit]

I wasn't really arguing. I made a joke about the phrasing of it. Though I will argue. Just give me a topic.

[Kermit]

Which is worse, Garfield or Peanuts?

[Tick]

He may never finish that one. Just page after page of hate directed at them both...

[Circuit]

I wasn't really arguing. I made a joke about the phrasing of it. Though I will argue. Just give me a topic.

You were too arguing.

LOL! etc.

[jackrabbit]

I was responding to a question. You may just read all my posts with the voice that I am arguing, which isn't an entirely incorrect assumption.

[Circuit]

I would argue that it is a partially correct declaration!

[Creole Ned]

I'm going to guess, based on past commentary (http://www.martiancartel.com/fuzzylogic/vault/e13.jpg), that jackrabbit would pick Peanuts as being the worse comic of the two.

[Tai]

I do so love Fuzzy Logic.

[Iceman]

Judging from his posts to this thread, I conclude that jackrabbit has suffered blunt head trauma.


Do you mean blunt force trauma to the head? Or do you mean that the blunt has finally caused him head trauma?:confused:

[Creole Ned]

Basilar skull fracture: A fracture of the bones that form the base (floor) of the skull and results from severe blunt head trauma of significant force.

See reference here (http://www.emedicinehealth.com/head_injury/article_em.htm).

[Circuit]

He was attempting to make a pot joke, Ned.

[Medic]

For the record, I love how our topics occasionally fall completely to pieces. No sarcasm. I really do.

[F7]

I'm gonna have to go with 'Cathy' for worst comic.

However, the Onion publishes Cathy in it's print version only the entire comic is in Spanish. This makes the comic incredibly funny.

Also, Wondermark rules:

http://wondermark.com/comics/218.gif

[Creole Ned]

I still think Circuit got it right by naming Marmaduke the worst comic strip. In most of the other bad ones there may be a tiny redeeming bit that shows through occasionally -- a clever pop culture reference, an unusually well-drawn panel, a punchline that actually works. Marmaduke never has any of these things. Ever.

[Circuit]

And it's just one punchline: the dog's big. Even genuinely clever writers can only do so much with that. Add puzzlingly bad writing and horrible art into the equation and I just don't see how anyone could have ever thought it was funny enough to put in the paper for so many years. Marmaduke is one of the few comics that actually makes me angry to read. Sally Forth is another simply because every strip ends with that stupid fucking smug look on her face. It's such a blatantly obvious reflection of how clever the writer inappropriately thinks he is.

[Iceman]

Quote:
Basilar skull fracture: A fracture of the bones that form the base (floor) of the skull and results from severe blunt head trauma of significant force.

See reference here.
here (http://www.emedicinehealth.com/head_injury/article_em.htm).

Yes, I'm quite familiar with blunt force trauma to the head.

In your example the word "blunt" is an adjective for the force.
As it makes reference to the force. (proper usage.)

In your post there is no mention of the force, just simply "blunt head trauma."

It's like saying
"He was hit by a speeding ______!"
What was it? A train? A bus? A bullet? Ferrari?

Moral of the story: Use the force!:p

[Creole Ned]

This is why no one invites you to be a friend on Xbox Live.

[Budly]

Blunt trauma - see Orion.

In "the biz" we always just referred to it as blunt trauma, the location was usually pretty obvious.

[Iceman]

Hmmm, I always thought it was because I played only 2 games, both of which are old.

That or they hate jabbers on Fight Night.