HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: john@spss.com (John Przyborowski)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Peanuts: Can Snoopy Talk?
Keywords: peanuts
Date: 14 Apr 92 15:57:42 GMT
Organization: SPSS Inc.

derek@netcom.com (Derek LeLash) writes:

>A tip of the trivia toque to anyone who can remember the one time Snoopy
>*did* speak, and what he said.  (I actually only know the latter...)

>Derek

>-- 
>Derek LeLash (derek@netcom.com)   "I pulled into a fast food place, parked, and
>Technical Writer/Mac Savant        went in.  I could have yelled my order into
>BASYS Automation Systems, Inc.     a clown's mouth and eaten in the car, but I
>Sunnyvale, CA  408-720-1236 x201   wanted to show I had class." -- Sue Grafton 


Was it ****HA!!!!!!!!*****?


john
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: kji+@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Kathi Iannamico)
Subject: Hey!!!
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 21:55:47 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Originator: kji@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU

I accidentally posted the finals of the top ten poll to rec.arts.comics.
I forgot the 'strips'. So where did it go...the twilight zone?  Anyway,
I'll have to redo it tomorrow...aaaaarrrggghhhh......


All that work for nothing.  poop

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From: schmid@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Steven Schmid)
Subject: Re: Favorite Mr. Boffo
Keywords: Mr. Boffo
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 14:26:25 GMT

In article <uslave.703315009@mcl> uslave@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu (KJS @ucsb.mcl) writes:
>"The Devil making a funny"
>
>The Devil is standing in a crowded elevator and yells, "UP!"
>
>
>--
>*        *      *     *     *    *   *  *  * * ** ** *** **** ****** ********* 
>   KJS @ucsb.mcl (Jesse Chang)               e-mail: uslave@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu *
>   "Traveling thru hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy!"    -- Han Solo * 
>*         *       *      *     *    *   *  *  * ** ** *** **** ****** ********
From: jverdega@cae.wisc.edu (Jeffrey Verdegan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Let's analyse Calvin.
Date: 9 Apr 92 00:59:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: doug.1992Apr8.195940.11392
Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison

In article <1992Apr8.175215.19910@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> tony@nexus.yorku.ca (Tony Wallis) writes:
>[...]
>Would you like to see more or less snot-and-barf humour ?
>

More snot and barf!! More snot and barf!!

(I guess that answers the question about the "little boy" inside of me! =:-))

Jeff


----------

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University of Wisconsin-Madison
Computer-Aided Engineering Center
jjv@caestaff.engr.wisc.edu
(608) 263-1875
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: BACS Data Communications Group <commgrp@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Massive sexism and racism in Beetle Bailey
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 23:08:23 GMT

n8742883@gonzo.cc.wwu.edu (Perry Pederson) writes:
>Is anyone else out there slightly bothered by the sexism and
>racism that the Beetle Bailey strip has?...

Hell no.  They're still using M1 rifles and steel-pot helmets.  
You expect them to be up to date otherwise??

--

Frank     reid@ucs.indiana.edu

Bring back Flash Gordon and the Katzenjammer Kids!
From: mer@druwy.ATT.COM (RenquistME)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Marmaduke...
Keywords: stupidity
Date: 9 Apr 92 15:38:49 GMT
Distribution: rec


Ah Marmaduke... what a waste of valuable comic strip space. I used to try
to avoid even eye contact with the strip but being a comic strip freak
means that it is very hard to skip over a strip. I even read Nancy but I
am not sure why. So... as a little challenge, I try to guess the "punch
line" of Marmaduke every day. Originally I was getting around 40%-50% but now 
I estimate on the order of 75%. Note that I don't feel that I have
to get it exactly right because it's not funny ennyhow.

I cut out the dumbest and send to my friends/put on the refrigerator etc.


Here's one:

The wimp is evidently coming home from work (walking up the front
sidewalk) and marmapuke has intercepted him. He (the dog) has grabbed
the wimp by the arm of his suit jacket and is shaking him vigorously
from side to side, his legs in the air, hat flying. I would guess
that an ambulance probably should be called but the wimp's wife 
is standing in the the doorway, hands on hips, seemingly unconcerned
with the wimp's endoskeleton saying:

	"Marmaduke's in high spirits today."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.........

Where *is* my 9mm.....


Ahhh, I feel better. Where's today's paper???

WW
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From: tpjg9663@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Thomas P. Johnston)
Subject: Re: Bob 'n' Dave (was Re: Bad college strips (was Re: stupid strips)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 03:32:07 GMT

My favorite Bob 'n' Dave 's were the "Rubble Without a Cause" strip and
the "My Dinner with Godzilla" strip.  Great stuff.

Tom
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson)
Subject: Re: Family Circus
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 03:55:16 GMT

In article <ROISE.92Apr7182332@milton.milton.u.washington.edu> roise@milton.milton.u.washington.edu (Linda Roise) writes:
}NOBODY has mentioned "Kathy."   

You must have missed the college contest between Family Circus and Cathy
to see which was the worse.

}Maybe "Family Circus" appeals to a different time, a different set of
}values.

Maybe it should just curl up and die, since those times are over. This
Peanuts-style practice of running a decent strip into the ground for
four decades has got to stop!

}That's why, I think, we miss the point of "The Far Side" some of the
}time.

Who is this "we"? Is this the same "we" who relates to Kathy [sic]?
My wife detests Cathy, and she is certainly a career woman. We don't
miss the Far Side; I disagree strongly with this "we" stuff.

Or, to quote my wife sitting here beside me:

"Cathy is diets and shopping; shopping and diets. Who needs it?"

and

"Even now that I have a dog I still hate Marmaduke."
-- 
Curtis Jackson @ Adobe Systems in Mountain View, CA  (415-962-4905)
Internet: cjackson@adobe.com	uucp: ...!{apple|decwrl|sun}!adobe!cjackson
      "They that can give up an essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
       safety deserve neither liberty nor safety". -- Benjamin Franklin (1759)
From: Eddie.Saxe@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Eddie Saxe)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Date: 15 Apr 92 03:36:20 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <sacass.703156070@unix1.tcd.ie> sacass@unix1.tcd.ie (stephen andrew cass) writes:

>Can anyone tell me what the one with the prehistoric men hunting the
>mammoth while one blokes spear misses and the caption is 'Air Spear! Air
>Spear!' means???

>Steve

This is an allusion to basketball games.  A common cheer that crowds shout when
an opposing team's player shoots a ball that can't even connect with the back-
board or rim of the basket, is "Air Ball!  Air Ball!"  Preferably, as loudly as
possible.

 ____/|  Bill the Cat says "Vote Dave Barry | Eddie@uncvx1.bitnet alias
 \ o.O|  for President!"  Actually, he says,| Eddie@uncvx1.oit.unc.edu
  =(_)=  "ACK!  THPHTH!" but we're sure that| "I've changed my mind, Hobbes.
    U    he's a Dave Barry supporter.       |  People are scum."---Calvin
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From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: stupid strips
Keywords: dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb
Date: 8 Apr 92 16:02:12 GMT
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter) writes:

>hozman@aludra.usc.edu (The Hoz!!!) writes:

>>A strip that ussually is pretty good is Sally Forth.  One thing that
>>botherss me though.  About 6 months-1 year ago, the artwork got noticably
>>harsher and the strip started to be signed by "howard and mac" (although
>>the LA Times still lists only Greg Howard as the author).  Anyone know the
>>scoop on this?

>I seem to remember hearing that the usual writer of the script took a
>vacation and left it to "Howard and Mac" for a while.  I don't think
>it's a permanent change.

Actually, Greg Howard is still writing the script, but can no longer both
script and draw it... hence "Mac" does the drawing for the "Howard" scripted
strip...
-- 
==============================================================================
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                Jim Jagielski                  NASA/GSFC, Code 711.4
          jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov             Greenbelt, MD 20771

       "If we took the bones out, it wouldn't be crunchy now would it?"
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From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Subject: Re: C&H:  Merchandising (was Re: HOBBES (of C&H) Bumper Sticker)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 21:54:06 GMT
Organization: Living in a satellite fantasy, waiting for the night to end.
Distribution: usa

wmorgan@stsci.edu (Windsor A. Morgan) writes:

> ...all merchandise *except* books and calendars is bootleg.

Watterson doesn't even like the fact that A&M are printing the large-
format book collections, and has said so in interviews.  (But reprints,
including books and calendars, are part of the standard syndicate contract
so he doesn't have any direct control over them.) 

--
Lazlo (lazlo@triton.unm.edu)

"forests falling at a desperate pace"
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From: carols@world.std.com (Carol Springs)
Subject: Re: Peanuts: Can Snoopy Talk?
Keywords: peanuts
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 23:17:06 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.214107.7652@descartes.waterloo.edu> 
kbnguyen@descartes.waterloo.edu (Khanh Nguyen) writes:

>	A friend and I was discussing the other day about if Snoopy can
>talk to others, or when he talks, do others hear?

Snoopy, along with many other comic strip animals, communicates by means 
of telepathy.
 

-- 
Carol Springs                      carols@world.std.com
From: cole@unix.SRI.COM (Susan Cole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Date: 11 Apr 92 01:57:16 GMT
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, California

In article <1992Apr10.141656.9933@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> sarwate@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Sanjiv Sarwate) writes:
>
>My personal favorites:
>The one where the dog is holding a gun at the dinner table and says 
>"Hey bucko, I'm through begging!"

Dog at back door addressing owner, while a bevy of dog-piloted space ships
hovers nearby:  "Well, they finally came.  But before I go, let's see *you*
roll over a few times."

-- 
cole@unix.sri.com
{amdahl,rutgers}!sri-unix!cole
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: carols@world.std.com (Carol Springs)
Subject: Re: Poll
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: usa 
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 22:56:58 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.183321.16242@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> 
toj8j@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Timothy Olin Jarrett) writes:

>The work of an author or cartoonist should be allowed to stand as a monument
>to him after his death, regardless of how much money his syndicate, agents etc.
>lose by not continuing the strip.

I mostly agree with these sentiments.  However, note that Walt Kelly is on  
record as having hoped that Pogo would continue after his death.  His widow,
Selby, worked on it for a while after he died.  There was some excuse for
the current revival.  (I don't know what the situation is with the recent
takeover of the strip by Kelly's not-very-talented offspring.)
 

-- 
Carol Springs                      carols@world.std.com
From: Eddie.Saxe@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Eddie Saxe)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Favorite Far Side
Keywords: gary larsen
Date: 13 Apr 92 14:39:29 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

I'm supprised no one has mentioned my favorite Far Side cartoon:  the one with
the prehistoric guys fishing.  I'll try to jog your memory:

"Throw, Grog!  Throw!  Throoooooww!!  Throw throw throw throw throw!"
 ____/|  Bil the Cat says, "Vote Dave Barry| Eddie@uncvx1.bitnet alias
 \ o.O|  for President!" Actually, he says,| Eddie@uncvx1.oit.unc.edu
  =(_)=  "ACK, THPHTH!" but we're sure that| "I've changed my mind, Hobbes.
    U    he's a Dave Barry supporter.      | People are scum" ---Calvin
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From: hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs)
Subject: New Comics-only paper? (was Chicago Tribune Comics Section)
Originator: hshubs@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 03:53:57 GMT

In article <steph.702795402@pegasus.cs.uiuc.edu> steph@cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson) writes:
[survey deleted]
>
>The trib needs
>B.C.
>Wizard of Id
>Tumbleweeds
>Another two full pages of comics :->  (Hey, you think I buy the paper for 
>*News*?)

Has anyone ever published a comics-only (okay, with ads) newspaper?
Also, are there any newspaper staffers reading this newsgroup?

-- 
Howard S Shubs      hshubs@eff.org      I don't represent the EFF,
The Denim Adept     hshubs@BIX.com      but I do agree with them.
From: pcg@panix.com (Paul Gallagher)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: The Globe Rules! (was Robotman (was Calvin and Hobbes))
Date: 8 Apr 92 13:22:06 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

In <1992Apr8.001937.10828@husc3.harvard.edu> fry@tara.harvard.edu (David Fry) writes:

>In article <1973@transfer.stratus.com> hship@sw.stratus.com (Howard Ship) writes:
>Glad to see Robotman mentioned.  I think Robotman is my
>favorite, with Calvin and Hobbes a close second. Does anyone
>else read RM?  Do many papers carry it?

Robotman was my favorite when I lived in Cambridge, MA.  Dilbert was
another favorite.  I've never seen either of these comic strips in any 
newspaper but the Boston Globe, unfortunately.

Diane White wrote in the Globe a few weeks ago that it's a mystery to everyone
how comic strips get selected for or removed from the Globe.  Nonetheless,
I think the Globe has the best selection of any newspaper I've seen.  
Foxtrot, Curtis, Adam, Rose is Rose, and Arlo and Janis are very good
and appear hardly anywhere else.  Plus the more familiar Calvin and Hobbes,
Zippy, Doonesburry, Mr. Boffo, and the underrated Pogo.

The Baltimore Sun, on Saturdays, when the morning and evening editions are
combined, also has a fine collection.


Paul
pcg@panix.com

"Ha ha ha! My scheme to conquer the Earth is right on track!"
					- Dogbert, 1/28/90
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From: morrow@fnalf.fnal.gov (I Elmo)
Subject: Re: Random Data
Organization: bim bim bim!
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 01:24:09 GMT

In article <10340@inews.intel.com>, bhoughto@hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>>Longest running strip: "Katzenjammer Kids" created in 1897; dailies
>>running it in 1930: 800; today 50.
> 
> The name was long ago PCed to "The Captain and the Kids" in
> most papers.  It was this fact that first taught me what PC
> was all about, long before the term "PC" was applied to it
> (back when education was worth something we called it
> "bowdlerization").
> 
	Nope.  What happened was the original author of KK got out of his
syndication deal and created CK at another syndicate.  The original syndicate
still owned KK, and kept it going with another artist.

-- 
"On the campaign trail, the President tends to jerk his arms around a lot and
 speak in little bursts of sentence fragments that sound as if they might be
 part of some other conversation carried on by two other people somewhere else 
 on a different subject."
--Calvin Trillin

elmo (morrow@fnal.fnal.gov,morrow@physics.rice.edu)
From: axd7104@acfcluster.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Jim's Journal
Date: 9 Apr 92 20:42:56 GMT
Organization: New York University

In article <1992Apr9.145716.3456@amhux2.amherst.edu>, twpierce@amhux1.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
> Has anyone else seen a strip called "Jim's Journal?"  We get it at
> Amherst, but it seems not to be distributed very widely.  This is kind
> of an existentialist/minimalist strip with a small but pretty
> dedicated following here and at UMass.  I was wondering if New England
> has the only pocket of "Jim's Journal" fans in the country.
> 

The only place I've ever seen "Jim's Journal" is a compilation book sold
at our college bookstore.  It was, of course, in the humor section, 
leading me to believe it was a joke.  I didn't find it to be 
existentialist; rather insipid and waaaay too wimpy...the Alan Alda of
college strips.  That's DEFINITELY minimalist, though, both in the art and
the ideas he tries to get across.  I guess I just don't like the idea of
being treated to a daily psychotherapy session on the comics page.  

And the fact that the book (I think the name of it was "I WENT TO COLLEGE
...and it was okay;" puhleeze!) was being sold right next to a bunch of
copies of "Thatch" made it look really pale in comparison.

-- 
Aaron Dickey                      Bitnet: axd7104@nyuacf
New York University             Internet: axd7104@ACFcluster.nyu.edu

Al Roker Is God.
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From: wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr)
Subject: Re: Rerun and The Worst Strip (was Re: Peanuts)
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 22:12:20 GMT

In article <kubrk9INN2ti@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> kallen@cs.utk.edu (Karl Allen) writes:
>Rerun appeared recently, I believe. It's tricky to spot him, because he
>looks almost exactly like Linus. I don't recall what his most recent 
>appearance was about, but I vaguely remember him standing at the bus stop.
>For the first few days, I thought it was Linus, then someone called him
>Rerun, and I noticed he didn't have a blanket. That is, I think, the only
>way to tell them apart. 
>
What ever happened to Linus's glasses?  They seemed to be introduced around
the time rerun was, and I thought the main reason was to have a way to
differentiate the two ;-)  Has Linus switched to contacts?  If so, why
didn't Schultz make a big deal about it, and plug Opthamologists some more,
to the dismay of optomitrists and optitians (and if I spelled any of those
correctly, someone owes me a beer!).

Or maybe Linus had that radical new eye surgury that's so popular in Russia.

Anyway, I agree with everything Karl writes, if only because he knows
the proper spelling of his name ;-)

>As for the name, his parents chose Rerun because having another kid seemed
>somehow like watching the same show on television again. I think Schultz
>was making a joke about TV, but I'm not sure. 
>
>Five? Oh, I thought it was V. 
>
>I remain, 
>Karl Allen
>kallen@cs.utk.edu
>

-- 
                    ' ",      *
Karl Wagenfuehr         ,         "Weisst du, wieviel Sternlein stehen an dem
wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu  ,  '      blauen Himmelszelt?"  --Deutsches Volkslied
                          '
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From: naran@fraser.sfu.ca (Travers Naran)
Subject: Re: INCOMING!! (Was: Re: American Cultural Imperialism over Canada)
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 07:32:35 GMT

a0v6282@rigel.tamu.edu (Art Velasquez) writes:
>     Okay, I'm exaggerating a bit about it.  But until we Americans do
>know how our cultures differ, arguments on either side of this won't
>make a whole lot of sense.

Actually, most Canadians who do know a bit about the American psyche and
politics (like me), we would prefer you know as little about us. Better yet,
we'd be happy if you never hear of us outside of maybe George Bush being up
here when he makes a sound bite on domestic policy {I know, kind of rare}. The
reason being that the last Gallup Poll taken in the U.S. last year (or more)
showed that over 70% of Americans would like to annex Canada to the United
States. So, if you don't mind, pretend you've never heard of us, ok? :-)

Just think of it as the Ultimate Stealth Protection. :-)

Anyways, can we _please_ get back to comic strips?
;-)
-- 
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Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada	|    Lt. Worf,
Cmpt. Science student wanna-be				|    ST:TNG, "Q-pid"
Trekker, Leaper, Red Dwarf'er, Prober, etc.		|
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Family Circus and Nancy
Date: 16 Apr 92 20:54:16 GMT
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <8APR199217470756@rigel.tamu.edu> a0v6282@rigel.tamu.edu (Art Velasquez) writes:
>    In article <1992Apr7.223612.20866@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>, 
>flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond Suke Flournoy) writes...
>: 
>:Nancy still exists?!  I hadn't seen it in so long, I just assumed that
>:someone put it out of our misery.  Well, since "Andy Capp" and
>:"Broomhilda" still exist, I guess it should come as no surprise, but
>:still...
>:
>     Well, yes, Nancy's still around.  At least it is in the Bryan-
>College Station (Tx.) _Eagle_.  However, its original creator,
>Ernie Bushmiller, died a few years ago, and was replaced by someone
>I can't remember at the moment.
>     Talk about the living dead... ;-) 

You want stupid?  Take a look at the Boston Globe, which is still running
"Amy."  Gawd, it was a single-panel daily, and I think by the time I
graduated, it had a run of 1273 consecutive days without one humorous
incident.

Typical Amy strip:

Scene: Mother pulls cookies from oven.  Amy looks at them longingly.
Punchline: "Now don't eat any of these cookies until after dinner!"
-- 
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1307 E 60 St, #109 +  as countersuit to paternity action was improperly
U o' C Law Skool   +  motivated required remand."  Headnote 9, Committee on
Chi, IL 60637      +  Legal Ethics of WVa State Bar v Douglas, 370 SE2d 325.
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From: apple@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Jessica White)
Subject: Re: Rose Is Rose
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 13:48:41 GMT

I love Rose is Rose.  Unfortunately I don't get to read it much.

My favorite one is when Pasquale is trying to swing.

The first frame shows him sitting in the swing (not moving).

The second frame shows him moving all around just as fast as he can, 
	trying to get the swing moving, but it is still.

The third frame shows Pasquale (in a still unmoving swing) flopped 
	backwards and just as tired as he can be!


Oh well!  I thought it was funny!  I guess you had to see it!


						Jessica 
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From: twpierce@amhux1.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Keywords: far side gary larson
Date: 9 Apr 92 02:41:14 GMT
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst, MA

If anyone understands the "Some of the Non-Vital Organs" strip, please
let me know.  Freshman year, everyone on my hall spent weeks pondering
that one.

And, of course, there was the infamous "School For The Gifted."  Every
high school in New York I knew of had that one posted all over the
place, with the school's name superimposed over the cartoon school's
name.  (It was especially popular at my school -- St. Ann's School for
Gifted Children.  :-)

-- 
____ Tim Pierce                / "Someone here suggested blue square badges for
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