Conference rdvax::grateful

    
    
    This reminds me of the "Far Side" comic in which it says "What we say
    to dogs..."
    
        "Come on Skippy, good boy Skippy. Roll over Skippy. Good boy."
    
    and the next caption...."What they hear..."
    
        "Blah blah Skippy, blah blah Skippy. Blah blah Skippy blah blah"
    
    
     Cracks me up... :-)
    
    Or the way they portray a dog's perception of the world on the show
    "The Simpsons"....wicked funny  :-)
    
    
    Steve-O_allergic_to_most_dogs  :-p
    
    

    Yeah, that Simpson's show when Bart was trying to teach the dog a
    command (ie. sit) or the dog is history.  Funny!  "blah blah blah,
    Santa's Helper, blah blah SIT!"  The dog sat at the very end of the
    show and has been with them since.
    
    House training our dog was quite a turmultuous / emotional time for
    all!!  It sucked!!  He finally got house trained to the extent of not
    pooping in the house, however, we went through almost 10 months of the
    dog destroying things at least once a week!  Now he's exceptionally
    good!!  Hmmm???  Been like this for over a month now???  Could he be
    mellowing??  He IS a pound pup.  Perhaps he's forgotten?
    
    dave

    i like the companion piece to that too...  what we say to cats...
    "no fluffy!!  bad kitty!!!! don't eat the fern!!!"
    what cats hear???  absolutely nothing!!!!
    
    				da ve

    Far Side !!!!! I love the one thats set up like this....
    
    	Person just about to doze off sleeping and the cat is sleeping at 
    the foot of the bed and through the bedroom window we see a dog saying 
    very slowly " Puuuuuuuuuuttttttt tttthhhhhhhheeeee ccaaaaaaaattt 
    ouuuttt" 
    
    HAR !
    
    Chris

	Some great Far Side's that are among my favs:

	. The one that shows a doggy-diner, with patrons (dogs)
	  sitting at tables.   Behind the counter in the forefront
	  is the short-order cook (another dog). Above the counter is
	  one of those round spinning thingamajigs with the orders
	  clipped onto it.  

	  The orders say: 1 canned, 1 dry;  2 canned;  1 canned 2 dry; etc. ;-)

 	. Another shows the outside of a house and the surrounding yard at 
	  night.  In the sky are many flying saucers with dogs in them.  At 
	  the foot of the house is a dog speaking to his owner, who is standing
	  at the door.  The dog says:

	  "Well, they finally arrived.  Let's see YOU roll over a few times"

	  ;-);-)


	I think the Far Sides with the animals are the best.

	/Ken

  One of my favorites shows a couple dogs sitting patiently while a woman is
 opening a can of dog food..one dog looks at the other and says "Oh boy! Its
 dog food *again*!"  :-)





 Jum

	My favourite Far Side is the one with two cows sitting on a couch in
a room, watching TV, and a phone on the endtable is ringing.  One cow says to
the other "There it goes again, and here we sit, without opposable thumbs."

Mark

	I rememered another favorite, dogs again ;-)

	This time it's a doggy supermarket.  There's a dog wheeling a 
	shopping car with a puppy sitting in it, and other dogs shopping
	around some with carts, some without.  They're in what looks like
	a produce section, only the bins are titled:

		. Grizzle and fat
		. Bones (chicken bones removed)
		. Just about anything
		. Who knows ? 

	;-)

	Ken

 Hah!  How bout the one where mr Dog is sitting at the table eating a sandwich
 out from which a chicken bone is sticking..and Mr Dog says "I think she's 
 trying to kill me"

    heres one I like....
    
    	A cat is putting a coin into a Gumball Mechine and starts to turn
    the handle but its not filled with gumballs its filled with mice, we 
    see one mouse pointing down into the pyle of mice and screams "Randys
    going down !" 
    
    
    Chris

I love Larson too!

One I like is two vultures hanging out in the desert.  one is wearing
a cowboy hat and is standing there facing the other vulture and both
are standing over a pile of bones.  The one with the cowboy hat  says,
"howdy howdy howdy I'm a cowboy".

bob

    re .65  Vultures crowded around a body and one with cowboy gear on.
    
    Close, but the real caption is:
    
    Hey everybody, look at me! I'm a cowboy!  
    Howdy! Howdy! Howdy!
    
    This became the theme at our friends wedding.  Amy and I showed up 
    at the party the night before and were greeted at the door with
    Hey everbody, look at me, I'm a bride!   Howdy! Howdy! Howdy!
    and so on.  I got to be the photographer!  Howdy, Howdy Howdy!
    
                                             PeterT
    

	OK, here's one more that I have posted in the pool room. 
	This time it has nothing to do with dogs, and there's no caption.

	The picture shows the field of vision which you'd see if you
	were looking through a set of binoculars; ie, 2 adjacent circles
	with everything else black.   Inside the field of vision, or what
	the person using the bino's sees, is a *huge* nasty looking hawk-like
	bird staring right back with a mean look.   The huge bird is sitting 
	in a nest filled with binoculars and tattered clothes!  

	Well, I thought it was funny. Doesn't seem to translate well into	
	words but it cracked me up!

	;-)

	Ken

	Ken, that reminds me of the one where you see what you would
	see if you were looking thru the ? of a rifle, a circle with
	cross-hairs, everything else is black.  There are two
	bears standing in the target area - one is pointing at
	the other, like "pick him, not me"!


	Debess

 Speaking of bears, one of my favorites shows a couple bears standing around
looking sadly at a coffin with another bear in it...the bear in the coffin is
climbing out saying "Hey, I was just hibernating" :-)





Jum

    
    my favorite is a bunch of deer standing around, one of them has a big
    bullseye painted on his chest.  "Bummer of a birthmark, Hal"
    
    

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>OK OK OK, so I was told at lunch that I spelt shins wrong!  Thanks Fog!  ;^)


My Dearest little litle kaka,

		You spelled spelt wrong.

					:-)   :-)   :-)

RE: Far side:

	There are some Far Side Memorial cube walls interspersed throughout 
Digital Cubeland.  Some of the bigger ones I've seen:

TWO1, about three ailses down from where the main entrance hall spills you out 
into that huge cubeland there: their are about 100 of the those large full 
color ones spread out on the outside of about six people's cubes. Its the Sase
ECO Coordination area, so duck for irate support engineers. :-)

SHR3-1, in the far northeast corner.  Chris Fields outside cube wall, again, 
duck for irate support engineers, since its yet another ECO Area.  :-) :-) :-)

    
    A year or so ago, there was an exhibit of the Far Side at the Museum of
    Natural History in NYC.  It was such a trip.. walking around in these
    big rooms with cartoons up all over the walls, cracking up and
    listening to other folks laughter.  Not your average museum experience.
    :-)
    
    

Larssen has poked fun at the scientific community so often
that a couple years ago I saw a report on the news that 
a new bacteria had been named after him...

I'm not sure, but I think it was some form of pond scum.

Who says propeller-heads don't have a sense of humor...

:-)

tim

    about as far as you can get in the east wing north corner ! I moved
    into your old office, gee Its rilly big without the three big files
    taking all the DAMN room up !
    
    another far side I got is one where we see 2 deer (one's been shot and
    lying on the floor) and a hunter and a cop.....the cops says to the
    standing deer...."I'm sorry ma'am, but his license does check out and,
    after all, your husband was in season. Remember, just because he knocks
    doesn't mean you have to let him in."
    
    
    Chris

Me first, me first!

My current fav hanging outside my office is "Dilbert". 

In the first panel, we see Dilbert's boss talking to Dilbert and a female
coworker:

	"What the department needs is a slogan to inspire us."

In the next panel, he continues:

	"Our new slogan is `We are Quality'!"

In the final panel, Dilbert's coworker has a glazed look in her eye, and
is holding both arms out in front of her like a zombie:

	"Suddenly I feel like working long hours for no extra money."

Dibert's boss:

	"It's working!"

Ooops... thought I'd be first... too slow on the draw!

Re: .21

	Actually, it was a species of lice that infests a particular species of
owl.

Mark

My favorite Far Side...

... has a picture of a deer jumping over a log and as he does his antlers are 
about to get caught on an overhanging branch.

The caption reads... Nature scenes we rarely see.

Geoff

    Oops...sorry - I was just going from memory.  I remembered it was
    something generally disgusting. :-)
    
    tim
    

    	Todays Far Side......
    
    after FF for you purest that have not viewed todays headlines (the
    Comic Strips)
    
    
    	we have six pictures of an Irish Setter's head, they all look the
    same, a happy stupid look with big eyes and the tonge hanging out and
    kinda silly smile on its face....under each picture are different types
    of moods....Happy,Depressed,Angry,Pensive,Excited,Suicidal....the line
    under the whole strip states....How to recognize the moods of an Irish
    Setter.

    another Far Side.....
    
    
    
    
    	we see a dinner counter (Bury's Cafe) a clock on the wall shows the
    time as 12:50 next to the clock is the special board and the special of
    the day is Turtle Soup w/roll & coffee for $6.25, we have four custmers
    and a waitress, two custmers are seated and the other two are standing.
    one giving the Himlickmanouvor to the other one and out spits a little 
    sword....the line under the strip states.....
    
    As Suddenly as it started, Joe's gagging is alleviated when a small 
    ninja sword is dislodged from his throat.

    Calvin & Hobbes today....
    
    part 1.
    
    Calvin sitting with hands folded behind a box/store front type set up
    the sign reads...A SWIFT KICK IN THE BUTT $1.00
    
    part 2.
    
    Hobbes walks up and asks "How's Business ?" Calvin answers "Terrible."
    
    part 3.
    
    Hobbes replies very smuggly "That's hard to believe" and Calvins states
    "I can't understand it."
    
    part 4.
    
    Calvin continues...."Everybody I know needs what I'm selling !"

HA!

I love that 'toon.

-dc

Monday's was classic too: No text, just a lone Calvin sporting a water 
ballon in increasingly evil-eyed poses.

I've also been enjoying Zippy: He and Griffy have checked into Hotel
Existential for the week. Today, they found Ziggy in the closet and will be
sapping him for his own special universal wisdom: "How to be a greeting card
hit"... 

:-)

I just taped an excellent Robotman(tm) cartoon strip up in my cube ....

A Hare Krishna - like dude is taking a pill at Robotman's "Self-Awareness
Pills" booth ("FDA Approved!") ... then he says 

"It just dawned on me that I'm not really on a spiritual quest ... I just like
being told how to dress, how to think and how to behave ... what should I do
now?"  Robotman says "Join a Fortune 500 company."

heh heh

-dc

    I just taped my absolute fave far side up on my werkstashun:
    
    It has a horse driving a car with his hand out the window holding something
    past a fence that has 3 horses behind it and the captions says:
    
    Every afternoon the sugar cube dealer would slowly cruise the
    corral looking for "customers" 

	I should be working but here's a couple that hang out in my cube:

	Mother Goose and Grimm - Grimm is standing and looking at an 
	electric cord coming out of a wall socket.  The cord is frayed.
	Grimm is *very* frayed.  The caption: "Lesson #1: Snakes don't
	crawl out of electric sockets"

	Calvin and Hobbes - Up in a tree, Calvin is sitting on a branch
	leading back against the tree turnk.  Hobbes is sprawled across
	the branch in the typical feline nap position.

		Calvin: "The world is a complicated place, Hobbes."

		Hobbes: "Whenever it seems that way, I take a nap in
			a tree and wait for dinner."

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Hah!  Good personal name ;-)   Gave me a chuckle ;-);-)

Gotta be either Three Stooges or Star Trek.  Right?

Ken

    Nope, not from a TV show as far as I know.  It was a sort of joke
    someone I know made and I've been saying it quite a lot since then!;-)
    
    chaotic individual

Scott Adams, who does "Dilbert," must've worked for a corporation in
the past ....

In the 8/4 strip, a manager-type is talking with Tim, a dazed worker-bee-type:

Mgr:  I understand you've been going without sleep or food for days just to
      meet some artificial deadline.
Tim:  (babbling) Ergle, flumg

Mgr:  As a result, your work has been muddle-brained and incomprehensible.
      You leave me no choice, Tim.
Tim:  Gleeb, nub

2nd worker-bee:  Tim got promoted to division manager.
Dilbert:  I wonder if he knows it.

-dc who has recent experience with artificial deadlines

    
    
    Oh yeah...  I second that about Scott Adams.  He does a fair amount of 
    corporate humor in Dilbert.  One of my favorites on Sunday morning!
    
    He must've been a corporate rat for a while.
    
    Tree

I also confess to a great empathy with Scott Adams. Gee, Maybe it could really
be DECheads writing the strip under a psuedonym???? 


Scott????

Adam?????


hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

    todays Calvin & Hobbies....
    
    
    
    	Calvin confronts Sussy (I thinks that her name)
    
    	Calvin: What's wrong with your snowman ?!
    	Sussy: It's a snow WOMAN.
    
    		the frame show us Calvin and Sussy and a snowperson with
    breasts....
    
    	frame two shows Calvin with a sly but angry looking face
    
    
    	Frame three show us Calvin's Mom and Calvin and a Snowperson with
    its back to us.....
    
    	Mom: I don't care we're not having an anatomically correct snowman
    in the front yard.......

    re: last
    replace the word "angry" with "devious"...and ya got it!!!

    yeah devious is a better word rilly !
    
    Chris

    from Monday's strip for Calvin and Hobbes
    
    
    its just one frame....
    
    we have 3 snowman and Calvin and his Mother
    
    the snowman are melting away and holding signs....
    
    snowman 1 sign reads "repent sinner"
    snowman 2 sign reads "the end is near"
    snbwman 3 sign reads "spring is coming"
    
    Calvin says to his Mom " They're Snowman prophets of Doom"
    his Mom replies..."You certainly take the pleasure out of waiting for
    Daffodils"

    well as Calvin seems to be right up there in most noted topic this is
    just more more....
    
    
    Calvin and Hobbes  06-11-93
    
    frame 1
    Calvin & Hobbes are walking along with their cereals Calvin says to
    Hobbes....."The more you think about things, the weirder they seem."
    
    frame 2
    now our heros are sitting at the table and Calvin holds up a container
    of milk and says......"Take this Milk, why do we drink COW milk??"
    
    frame 3
    we see a close up of Calvin's mushed up face with his clinched fist in
    front of him and says......"Who was the guy who first looked at a cow
    and said, " I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when
    I squeeze 'em!"?"
    
    frame 4
    
    we now see Hobbes walk away with a sickened look and Calvin says with a
    grin....."Isn't that weird ?" Hobbes replies "I think conversation
    should be kept to a minimum until afternoon."
    
    
    whoa this guy cracks me up !
    
    Chris

    Mother Goose & Grimm	9-28-93
    
    one frame:
    
    We see Mother Goose and a friend sitting and having tea. In walks
    Grimmy with dark sunglasses on and a guitar in his paws.....
    
    Mother Goose say to her friend: "He went to a GRATEFUL DOG concert."
    
    

    
    Also had a skull on the guitar
    
    Divide Dave
    

>    Mother Goose & Grimm	9-28-93

can i find that in the Boston Globe?

- rich

    today Far Side is great....I can't write the details you got to see it!
    
    Chris

    ...yeah, the power a sound man wields!

	have ya heard that 'Calvin and Hobbes' is going to retire at
	the end of the year?  What a bummer, huh?

	That's probably my favorite comic strip these days.  I think
	that Calvin is a young merry prankster.  Lots of original
	classic Dead t-shirts with those characters, too.

	What are your favorites?

	Debess

    Yeah, and Bloom County/Outland(ish) gave up the ghost too... and Pogo
    died (for the second time) about two yrs. ago...
    
    so now we're stuck with "Sylvia" and "the Fusco Brothers" 
    ...world's going to h*ll in a handbasket, if you ask me...
    
    ...michael t. CurMudGeonHead

    Patty has several C&H dead t's...we would spend almost all our party
    monies in the parking lot every year in Vegas on t's and jewelry
    
    C&H walking down Shakedown Street, looking at the street sign with I'M
    STILL WALKIN....on the back, the street lites on in colors and C&H are
    dancin with SO I'M SURE THAT I CAN DANCE 
    
    A GOIN DOWN THE ROAD FEELIN BAD t with C&H in a wagon racing down the
    steep hill, on the back DON"T WANNA BE TREATED etc, and C&H spilled all over
    the ground
    
    SUNSHINE DAYDREAM with C&H laying in the grass looking at the sky
    
    Just C&H on the front looking normal but on the back making faces at
    each other, but in tye-dyes
    
    many more that Patty wears that I can't think of right now
    
    
    One I don't have but always liked was the BEFORE and AFTER..before
    being normal looking after with dreads and tye-dyes
    
    rfb
    

    
    Dilbert!  Great stuff. RAGS on manager types.
    
    Robotman! 
    
    And Fox Trot is good too.
    
    
    But to me, the greatest of all time was Bloom County.

    
     Not in to comics much. I especially hate the Cathy one. BC was/is
     ok. Hart was from my hometown (the guy who created BC). There's
     a big golf tournament ever year there (BC open - for broom county, ny)
     and he does neat graphics for it.   Also Andy Cap is pretty funny. 
    
     Cartoons are my fav.  I'm still going through withdrawls without
     PeeWee's Playhouse on saturday! He used to have the King of
     Cartoons come out and play those old time cartoons, mostly
     in black and white. 
     
     Any good cartoons? Any new stuff.. ? 

    my favorite Bloom COunty was the one where the "guys" are sitting on
    the "guy" couch in their underwear, drinking beer watching football and
    making fun of women...the woman in the strip (a character that came
    along later, can't remember her name) comes along and starts ragging on
    the men for being so insensitive to women, for not sharing with women
    emotion but instead being sarcastic towards the need for emotion and
    sharing of true feelings (you get the drift) she ends up saying men
    should "take a good, long look at the one thing that gives meaning to
    their otherwise meaningless life" (meaning women).....they all pause
    and then....
    
    
    
    
    
    they all look down their underwear.......

	My favourite C&H is the one where Calvin's dad is explaining why old
photographs are black&white, while newer ones are colour.  For those that
haven't seen it, the jist is that the world only developed colour in the last
few decades, and the b&w photos are accurate portrayals of the colour spectrum
at the time they were taken.

    
    Today's C&H is pretty funny!
    
    
    Toby

>     Cartoons are my fav.  I'm still going through withdrawls without
>     PeeWee's Playhouse on saturday! He used to have the King of

    PeeWee rules!  

    I heard they're putting that stuff out on video, finally.  Hope so.

    C&H, who has the T with Calvin's head blowing off?  That's
    pretty cool.  

    Tom

    Tom
    the one that says "Never had such a good time"?
    that one is kinda funny

>    the one that says "Never had such a good time"?

    That's it.  I forget the name of the guy wearing it at Cath's
    (no surprise, I forget everyone's name  :-(  ). 

    Tom

    Didn't Dave Benjamin have that Calvin shirt?  
    
    way cool!  %^)
    
    'noky

    That's the guy.  Hi, Dave.

Zippy!

Bill Griffin grew up in the same town I was born in, though we moved
one town south when I was about 4.  He occassionally re-visits Levittown
in his strip, and one time a year or two ago, had this thing with 
one of his characters (Claude?) getting involved with a waitress
who lived on the corner of Starlight Lane, my old street!

I tend to read all the comics, though some be better than others.
I need my comic fix, though sometimes I save them for Friday's and
go through a whole week at a time.

PeterT

    I'm stil partial to Peanuts...I just love Snoopy..speshlee when he's
    Joe Cool...he IS cool

    I have one C&H dead t...on the front, C&H (decked out in tie-dye) flying 
    a flying saucer, on the back the words "Mama Mama, many worlds I've come 
    since I first left home".

    now that's a cool one I've not seen....
    
    rfb

    Nothing beats a good episode of Underdog
    
    Riff Raff and Simon Bar Sinsiter are the evilest of villians!

      Sherman and Mr. Peabody blow away Underdog, dude....!!!
    
    Hi Tom....I believe that I own at least 3 C+H / Dead related t-shirts
    as well as a few other cartoon character/Dead related shirts (Peanuts,
    Pooh, Ren + Stimpy, Bloom County, etc.)....
    
                 :-)

   .68:
    
   > cartoon character/Dead related shirts (Peanuts,
   >     Pooh, Ren + Stimpy, Bloom County, etc.)....
         ^^^^
    
    Which brings up the next question for the masses: Is Pooh a cartoon
    character?
    
    I was always more of the opinion the Bear was a book-hero myself...
    
    michael t. "Goin'_down_the_Road"Head

    
    
     Book hero, yes. But he made his way to cartoons, too. I remember
    seeing Pooh cartoon "specials" when I was little.
    I love saying, "When I was little"  :-)
    
    

    
    AH Yes! speaking of Pooh, thats one of my most worn shirts and it
    shows.
    
     Pooh And a friend on a Harley!!!
    
     under which it states.
    
     Going where the water tastes like wine!
    
    

    
    	Pooh just is....
    
    				da ve

> >     Cartoons are my fav.  I'm still going through withdrawls without
> >     PeeWee's Playhouse on saturday! He used to have the King of
> 
>     PeeWee rules!  
> 
>     I heard they're putting that stuff out on video, finally.  Hope so.

  It really is a shame PeeWee's Playhouse went off the air -- made me really
  angry at the time.  Those craven (hypocritical) cowards.  I ask you, who
  set the worse example...?  Anyway...
  
  His show really talked to kids, and had better content and "values"
  (production and family) than the other network Sat. AM swill at the time.

  Those shows have been out on video ever since the show was still on --
  I still rent them for younger kids occasionally.
  
  Incidentally, PeeWee's Christmas special was one of the 4 or 5 best Xmas
  specials ever...  Best thing he ever did IMO.  I have it on video, but
  have been hoping it'll surface on commercial video so I can give it to
  every family or Xmas special freak I know.   - Jay

	I have a Grateful Fred Flinstone shirt.

	From Dead-rock to Bedrock!


	I wear it while playin' hockey fer luck.


	Toby

    Dave B has anotha good one with Mickey Mouse and Bill the Cat sitting
    behind the drum sets
    
    too funny

    
    Bullwinkle and Rocket J. Squirrel et al. 
    
    my favorite cartoon (it's on the fridge at home) though is Arlo and 
    Janis where their son is watching TV and he sense that his father is in
    back of him disapproving of his tv choice (wrestling).  The kid says
    to himself "He's going to say I can't beleive you're watching that -
    it's just make believe!"  And sure enough Arlo says that and the kid
    says to him "Why are you so hung up on what's real and what's not?".
    
    Next frame the dad is sitting staring at the wall and Janis says
    "what's the matter with you? you've been sitting there staring for
    over an hour."