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From: warkent@ltisun11.epfl.ch (Ken Warkentyne)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips,soc.culture.canada,soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Comic Strips -- American Cultural Imperialism over Canada
Date: 8 Apr 92 16:29:46 GMT
	<1992Apr8.133719.28018@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Followup-To: rec.arts.comics.strips
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne---Laboratoire de
	Teleinformatique
In-reply-to: irvine@en.ecn.purdue.edu's message of 8 Apr 92 13:37:19 GMT

> 	[...] but the USA is
> 	not *that* different in culture (except for Quebec, 
> 	which feels intimidated by *everyone* :) ) that anyone could 
> 	claim domination by anything so inane as a comic strip!

This discussion reminds me of a book written by two Argentinians
detailing how Disney comic books are used to indoctrinate third
world denizens to accept US hegemony.  Their case was fairly
well made, but don't go digging in your pile of comic books to
check them out: apparently the comics issued in S.America are
not the same as those published chez vous.

>	If you are culturally dominated by a *COMIC STRIP* it
>	says a lot more about _your_ culture than that of your
>	neighbors'!

The point is not that we are being culturally dominated by US comic
strips but that the predominant presence of US comic strips in
Canadian newspapers is an impediment to Canadian cultural
development (comics category).  Canada has already successfully
applied Canadian content regulations to music, so why not
apply it to comic strips?
--
Ken Warkentyne - warkent@ltisun.epfl.ch
                 Laboratoire de Teleinformatique, EPFL, Suisse.
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From: ansok@stsci.edu (Gary Ansok)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Reply-To: ansok@stsci.edu (Gary Ansok)
Organization: TRW, c/o Space Telescope Science Inst., Baltimore, MD
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 16:34:39 GMT

My favorite is "And then, the dawn is still again -- and another miracle
of nature emerges."

(Picture of a baby bird emerging from its egg wearing a hardhat
and holding a chainsaw)

Of course, trying to describe almost any of his cartoons in words loses
most of the flavor (true for most cartoons, but more so for his -- IMHO)

Gary
ansok@stsci.edu
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From: cs911124@ariel.yorku.ca (MARLON L. SCHMITT)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes Snowmen
Originator: cs911124@t03.ariel.yorku.ca
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Distribution: york
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 22:59:22 GMT


No, but I have created a few snow UFO's up here in Canada, and some spiked snowtires. Deranged Mutant Killer Snow Goons was a great book.
From: uslave@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu (KJS @ucsb.mcl)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Bloom County
Date: 10 Apr 92 03:10:31 GMT
Distribution: usa

In <1992Apr8.143506.16072@cis.ohio-state.edu> ffriedma@cis.ohio-state.edu (frank e friedman) writes:


>	I'm a new subscriber to this group.  There has been a lot of talk
>about Bloom County (OK...a lot of "write").  In my opinion, I think the best
>series in Bloom County was the one about forming and following the 
>"Heavy Metal Band."  Unfortunatly, Bloom county never made me laugh as hard
>after that series died off.



I prefer "Bill for President" and "Dr. Oliver's hair tonic" myself...





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From: sarwate@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Sanjiv Sarwate)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 14:16:56 GMT


My personal favorites:
The one where the dog is holding a gun at the dinner table and says 
"Hey bucko, I'm through begging!"

"Notice: You must be as tall as this sign to attack the city"

The one where the woman is vacuuming under her sofa and she finds her husband.


-- 
Sanjiv Sarwate		sarwate@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu	SANJIV@UIUCVMD
"We all thought one could treat history like one experiments in physics. The
difference is that in physics one can repeat the experiment a thousand times,
but in history, only once."  -Arthur Koestler, DARKNESS AT NOON
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: jaguar@netcom.com (Elaine Pang)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 05:15:25 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Keywords: far side gary larson

warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) writes:

>What is your FAVOURITE Far Side cartoon?

>	CAT FUD.

>	Oh please, oh please.

>Warwick

Since I got the Far Side Computer Calendar, I have seen Far Sides
I've never seen before!  My favorite of this set is the Venus Kid Trap
(A palm-tree-like plant festooned with tire swings.)

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From: portnoy@athena.mit.edu (Stephen L. Peters)
Subject: Re: Outland vs. Bloom County (WAS Re: Calvin and Hobbes)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 03:45:27 GMT

In article <steph.702712796@pegasus.cs.uiuc.edu> steph@cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson) writes:
>If Portnoy, Hodgepodge and Oliver Wendall Jones would join the cast it
>might help...


I agree.  Portnoy should join the cast again, if ONLY so that people
will stop being really confused as to what my username means.

(Unfortunately, after Bloom County went away, I was left with a
username that people inevitably associate with soft-core pornography.
Argh.)

				Stephen Peters
				portnoy@athena.mit.edu
From: egj00@cd.amdahl.com (Edward G Johnson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Doonesbury
Date: 8 Apr 92 21:20:11 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <1992Apr8.032646.21526@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>,
iam30974@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ivan Moscoso) writes:

>To pour something old into the pot, I recall hearing a few months ago (around
>the time when the whole "controversy" over the Quayle strip came out)... that
>Trudeau supposedly doesn't draw, but writes the material...  too bad I don't
>have any strips laying around, but is this common knowledge?  Am I just 
>dreaming this?


There was a story about Trudeau in Newsweek a couple of years ago.  I
believe it
said that he draws the strip in pencil but sends it to someone else for
inking.

-Ed
From: andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: New newsgroup alt.comics.buffalo-roam
Summary: I've seen it.
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:18:52 GMT
Organization: Leapers For a Better Yesterday

bmarcum@world.std.com (Bill Marcum) writes:
>This new newsgroup just showed up here.  Apparently they plan to have a comic
>strip distributed through the Net, in GIF and Postscript form.  Has anyone
>out there seen the printed version of a comic strip called "Where The Buffalo
>Roam"?  What's it about?

It's a college strip out of the U of Colorado.  A collection of some of the
strips was recently published (that's how I saw it).  The author and a few
other people are doing an experiment in alternative means of transmission (or
something), so they're (I guess) scanning the strips in and putting them on
the net.

BTW, it's damn funny.  I'd recommend y'all check it out.

-- 
--Andrew Hackard                    Disclaimer: As usual, I wasn't consulted.
  andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu           

"The U.S. is the only highly industrialized nation that teaches eight years of 
 arithmetic, while others begin to lay the foundation for algebra and geometry 
 in primary grades."                              --Iris Carl, President, NCTM
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: st902415@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Adam Levin)
Subject: Re: Bloom County
Reply-To: st902415@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 06:53:39 GMT

In article <it1.703330755@Isis.MsState.Edu>, it1@ra.msstate.edu (Tim Tsai) writes:
>carroll@cs.uiuc.edu (Alan M. Carroll) writes:
>>although
>>I really liked Oliver's physics instructor ("Except, of course, that
>>hamsters are allergic to oatmeal").
>
>  Don't you mean raisins?

What? you mean that raisins are allergic to oatmeal? q:-)

ObFavBloomCounty:The Great LaRouche Toad-Frog Massacree


Adam Levin         st902415@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
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Nathan Seifer Auditorium     April 30 & May 2,3
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: csmith@onetouch.COM (Craig Smith)
Subject: Re: Family Circus
Organization: MCS/OneTouch, Inc.
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 18:06:24 GMT

ted4646@zeus.tamu.edu (kid eternity) writes:

>In article <1992Apr07.192516.230591@cs.cmu.edu>, kji+@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Kathi Iannamico) writes...
>>I hate that syrupy piece of crap.  It used to be good years ago, but now
>>it's nauseating.

>Foxtrot recently had a beautiful week of Family Circus parodies

>"Now this one assumes you've seen _The Exorcist_"


>> 
>>And what is this guy's hang-up with dead people?


>Maybe the only people that like FC are dead people.


Actually, most of them soon will be.

I also love foxtrot.

And (I know I'm going to get crucified for this) I LIKE "ROSE IS ROSE"!


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Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: csmith@onetouch.COM (Craig Smith)
Subject: Re: Tumbleweeds?
Organization: MCS/OneTouch, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 12:41:00 GMT

jverdega@cae.wisc.edu (Jeffrey Verdegan) writes:

>I've seen a couple of references to Tumbleweeds.  The title is familiar, but
>I can't remember the premise.  Could somebody refresh my memory?

An old west motif.

Tumbleweeds is a cowpuncher.
Hildegarde is a homely girl, who is in love with Tumbleweeds.

Other Characters:
The Mayor/Judge
The Sherriff
The Newpaper Publisher
The Cavalry Captain
The Indian Chief
A Hugh Brave
A silly Brave

Any More? And their names?
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: axd7104@acfcluster.nyu.edu
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Organization: New York University
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 01:48:07 GMT

I changed my mind about my favorite.  My true favorite has no caption;
it's an operating room, with all the surgeons surrouding the patient,
with one doctor in the process of tossing a small piece of internal
organ to a dog standing off to the side.  Absolutely sick, and totally
hilarious.  You'll never see that one on a mug.

BTW, is it just me, or is The Far Side not nearly as funny since 
Larson's sabbatical?

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

Al Roker Is God.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: amanning@acd.acd.ucar.edu (Andrew Manning)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Organization: Ntl Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 21:36:00 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.202512.9594@rsg1.er.usgs.gov> ssnyder@sunai.er.usgs.gov (Steve Snyder) writes:
>C&H is the first strip I read in the morning, followed by the Far Side.
>
C&H is the last strip I read in the evening :-)   (because it is the best)

Andrew M.



Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs)
Subject: Re: For Better or for Worse
Originator: hshubs@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 23:01:07 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.215418.28231@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
>Anybody read this? Any opinions? Should she have had the third child?
>Will Michael & Martha stay together forever? Will Gordo turn his dad
>in for abusing him?

I read it.  Beyond that: For the answers to these and other questions,
stay tuned!

-- 
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The Denim Adept     hshubs@BIX.com      but I do agree with them.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: sahul@loading-zone.Stanford.EDU (Zakir H. Sahul)
Subject: Re: Calvin!!
Reply-To: sahul@loading-zone.Stanford.EDU (Zakir H. Sahul)
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: su
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 23:28:59 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.182553.6167@beaver.cs.washington.edu>,
greg@cs.washington.edu (Greg Barnes) writes:
|> 
|>  On this subject of Hobbs and his "reality".
|>  HOBBS is real.....I mean he just is................
|> 
|>  However I do have some evidence.
|> 
[evidence deleted]
|> 
|>  I offer this as real evidence that Hobbs is real.
|> 
|>  Besides the look on his Hobbs face when they find the sign is wonderful.
|> 

Hobbes is real for those who BELIEVE (in Hobbes) and not for those who
don't.  Why not just leave it at that?  In fact, thinking of Hobbes as
real at times
and stuffed at other times makes the strip better.  



Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
Subject: Re: Calvin-Hobbes cast
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 19:40:48 GMT
Organization: SPSS Inc.

In article <1992Apr13.180716.23858@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU 
(Raymond Suke Flournoy) writes:
>  Anyway, the C&H cast that I can remember are:
[...]

You forgot 

Calvin's uncle 
The gym teacher
Elvis

Whoops!  Just kidding about Elvis.
From: pschulz@physics.adelaide.edu.au (Paul Schulz)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Keywords: far side gary larson
Date: 10 Apr 92 01:18:58 GMT

tlynch@cco.caltech.edu (Timothy W. Lynch) writes:

>--the now famous "CAT FUD"
>--"When snakes trip"

>--and "Hmm, maybe we should write that spot down."

>Tim Lynch

What about:
To men are in a hospital ward, one bandaged head to foot... other talking
to somebody else...
caption... "and then Bill said, 'Do you suppose the Bear is dead or just 
            asleep'"

Paul Schulz
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From: isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Compilations
Date: 8 Apr 92 04:20:58 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory



Anyone know if there are any Robotman compilations?  Or, even more
importantly, any On The Fastrack compilations?  I loved that strip
back in the day.  Is the strip still alive?
--
Peace.
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                -- Vice President Dan Quayle Referring to Latin America.
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: timk@meaddata.com (Tim Klein)
Subject: Re: New Comics-only paper? (was Chicago Tribune Comics Section)
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 17:29:43 GMT
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Apr10.020255.1@acfcluster.nyu.edu>, axd7104@acfcluster.nyu.edu writes:
|> In article <1992Apr10.035357.6226@eff.org>, hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs) writes:
|> > Has anyone ever published a comics-only (okay, with ads) newspaper?
|> > Also, are there any newspaper staffers reading this newsgroup?
|> 
|> One just started about a month ago here in NYC, called "The Daily
|> Comics."  There are several others around the country, but they only
|> come out once every two weeks.


Someone please post some subscription addresses!!!!

Thanks.

===========================================================================
Timothy Klein                 I wish TV had a knob so you could turn up
timk@meaddata.com             the intelligence.  The one marked Brightness
...!uunet!meaddata!timk       doesn't work.      -- Gallagher
From: v106lr4h@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Eric T Sasse)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Peanuts
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:24:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <apple.702913191@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu>, apple@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Jessica White) writes...
>asoto@dacapo.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Anthony Soto) writes:
> 
>>Actually, he's gotten a bit better at it lately. I thought he could have
>>done more with the recent strip where Charlie Brown left Snoopy with Linus
>>and Lucy, though.


   This story line is a re-hash anyway. I was reading some of the old peanuts 
collection books and saw the exact thing, so if ya really wanna see how it was 
done, try looking in the old stuff, which of course is better anyway.

>I was just wondering...  does anyone else remember a little boy who 
>rode on the back of his mother's bike?  I believe that he was the little 
>brother of Linus and Lucy, but I'm not sure.  Please someone let me 
>know that I'm not crazy!  :)  No one I have ever mentioned it to
>remembers him!  
> 
>If you know who I'm talking about, do you remember his name?
>Also, I was wondering why no more was written about him.

  I remember seeing an interview with Schultz talking about all the new 
characters he had planned to introduce, and I remember him talking about this 
one and saw a frame with him in it, I believe his name is Rerun, but that sounds
too much like a rappers name to me, and I never actually saw him in the strip.

>				Thanks for the help!
> 
>						Jessica

                                                           -Eric
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: tpjg9663@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Thomas P. Johnston)
Subject: Re: Arnold (sniffle)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 05:52:00 GMT

ddebry@itchy.dsd.es.com (David DeBry) writes:

>In article <1992Apr9.163908.26468@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, tpjg9663@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Thomas P. Johnston) writes:
>|> trombley-sarah@CS.YALE.EDU (Sarah Trombley) writes:
>|> 
>|> >_I_ remember "Arnold!"  I adored that strip, and I think I still have at
>|> >home an enlarged panel with Arnold yelling at the teacher, "Are you
>|> >saying I'm not precious?!?"  The strip was very popular in Detroit--the

>|> If anyone knows of a compilation, please let me know.  This was my 
>|> favorite strip of all time.

>	Does anyone know how to get in touch with the author of the
>strip?  Perhaps we can appeal to him to release an 'unpublished' compendium.

I second that.  Does anyone know the author's name and current location,
etc?

Tom
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: amanning@acd.acd.ucar.edu (Andrew Manning)
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes Question
Organization: Ntl Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 21:33:01 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.201642.8497@nic.unh.edu> ss1@kepler.unh.edu (The Rink) writes:
>Question:
>
>Calvin and Hobbes, (especially in the Sunday comics), seems to be a lot of
>old stuff.  Some look familiar, some don't.  Does anybody know what's going
>on, there?  What's Watterson doing, did he take a vacation somewhere along the
>line...?

I'm surprised you haven't heard. It was a rather well publicised fact that
Waterson took a NINE month vacation. (Don't know where he went or what he
did.) He has just started writing again (about a month ago), so you should
be getting new stuff now (our paper had a big thing about the first day
they ran a new strip, not a rerun), unless maybe your paper is doing
something funny. Waterson actually pissed off a lot of papers, and a lot
have decided to stop running C and H as a result. Something to do with him
insisting on drawing bigger, more colourful strips in the Sunday editions.
Anyway, I side with Waterson - it's about time people stopped letting
themselves be pushed around by the papers and publishers. Look at disney
comics these days; they don't have nearly as much bright colours as they
used to, because publishers are trying to cut costs. 

Andrew M.

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From: ddebry@itchy.dsd.es.com (David DeBry)
Subject: Arnold (NOT Schwarzenegger)
Reply-To: David DeBry <ddebry@dsd.es.com>
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 01:35:56 GMT


	A few years ago, a paper here in Utah carried a syndicated strip
called "Arnold" that I heard was carried by numerous papers all over the
country.  Does anyone remember it?

	Was there a compilation book ever made?  The strip was rather
weird, and the vanilla-type people in Utah had it removed after only a
few short months of running.  I'd really like to see the rest of the
strips, though!


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From: jrbd@craycos.com (James Davies)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Tumbleweeds?
Date: 10 Apr 92 20:40:54 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Cray Computer Corporation

In article <1992Apr9.230301.8761@esd.dl.nec.com> west@esd.dl.nec.com (Mike West) writes:
>From article <1992Apr09.124100.12040@onetouch.COM>, by csmith@onetouch.COM (Craig Smith):
>> jverdega@cae.wisc.edu (Jeffrey Verdegan) writes:
>> 
>>>I've seen a couple of references to Tumbleweeds.  The title is familiar, but
>>>I can't remember the premise.  Could somebody refresh my memory?
>> 
>> Other Characters:

>> A Hugh Brave
>This is Bulic (Bullock ?) Buffalo.  He has some of the funniest lines
>in the whole strip.

Bucolic Buffalo.

>> A silly Brave
>Lipid Lizard.  More imbicilic that silly.
>Both BB and LL lusted after the Chief's beautiful daughter.  Of
>course the Chief detested both.

Limpid Lizard.
From: baruz@aludra.usc.edu (Noan Atoll)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: HOBBES (of C&H) Bumper Sticker...where can I find one?
Date: 10 Apr 1992 05:13:57 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

In article <1992Apr9.224838.13447@oz.plymouth.edu> pyr491@oz.plymouth.edu (Scott Bernier) writes:
>    A bumpersticker that at first looked like the Greatfull Dead sticker
>with their logo bears.  Closer inspection revealed it was not those bears
>but Hobbes in various dance positions...each one a different color
>like the GD (that's Greatful Dead and not G*d D**n) bears.

I don't think this is legit.  Watterson supposedly doesn't license
Calvin and Hobbes at all.

And speaking of contraband, I have a shirt that has Calvin raging
against all humanity: "I hate everybody!  As far as I'm concerned,
everyone on the planet can just drop dead!  People are scum!"  Truly a
hit anywhere I go.  However, it doesn't have the more poignant ending
to the strip on the back.

Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
From: tpjg9663@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Thomas P. Johnston)
Subject: Re: My Favorite Far Side
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 00:32:02 GMT

"So, Professor Jenkins!...My old nemesis!...We meet again, only
this time the advantage is mine! Ha! Ha! Ha!"

This really cracked me up.  It reminded me of a good friend of
mine who is always "playing the villain", stating things in
grandiose ways, etc.

Tom