Toonbots message board: I've been lazy again...

Michael Mon Feb 19 22:23:20 2001 I've been lazy again... So my weak excuse is that I lost my largest account last week and was scrambling to put my client base back in order. Yeah. I know, money is really a lame excuse, but hey. There ya go. Those darned mortgage companies can be so insistent. Plus my workflow toolkit is taking up a lot of my thinking time. Getting very interesting. Anyway, again in lieu of a new Toonbots, I thought I'd waste my time and yours with a Paintbrush soliloquy, a variation on Case Yorke's last (and maybe last?) strip of Jan. 22:

Chris Mon Feb 19 23:34:46 2001 Re: I've been lazy again... Two questions, Michael: 1) What are you on? 2) Can I have some?

glych Tue Feb 20 01:53:01 2001 I know how you feel YOu feel so guilty when you can't update...But yours can be sparatic..mine can't :( ...Wanna' do a toonbot special for me after my framed! crossover? -glych

glych Tue Feb 20 01:54:18 2001 p.s. *smirk* I'll give you head(s)... (Sorry, had to...) -glych

Michael Tue Feb 20 10:24:16 2001 Re: p.s. > *smirk* I'll give you head(s)... Goodness, glych, this is a family forum here.

Brother Emsworth Tue Feb 20 14:05:00 2001 Re: p.s. > Goodness, glych, this is a family forum here. Well, yws it is, but I fail to see the point. Once again, I can only guess there was some sort of innuendo there, but if so, I'd rather here no more about it. Let's move on to something more edifying.... Anyone ever noticed the underlying themes of insanity in the works of James Thurber?

glych Wed Feb 21 13:45:04 2001 You never answered my question luv... Do you want to do a guest strip for me? Only one if your time's lagging, and it'll be in a month or two. -glych

Michael Wed Feb 21 14:06:22 2001 Re: You never answered my question luv... > Do you want to do a guest strip for me? Only one if your time's lagging, > and it'll be in a month or two. Well, I *kind* of answered it. I said "Hmm...". Sure, I can do a guest strip or even a couple. Your bunch could get into a very *wrong* dimension, heh, heh, heh. And by that time, maybe I'll be able to draw the Jihad even. I'm not sure what I'll do about glych and glych being in the Jihad and the main cast.... That gives me a headache even thinking about it. Even though you're only an untitled Jihad camp follower, I know that in your heart of hearts, you're in the Jihad.

glych Fri Feb 23 15:07:42 2001 Ah... Actually, we'll be back in the NS world. After the Framed Crossover, and I'm basically am going to take a nap for about a week....Only one comic is all I ask! Done in your patented (and if not it should be) Toonbot stylings... *hint hint*... Basically, something along the lines of: Ack! What the hell happened to is? Where did the background's go? You: Well, I'm Micheal, and she asked me to fill in for her for a day...How do you like it? Them: *fumes* I'll still give you The Heads. *snicker* -glych

Michael Fri Feb 23 18:32:50 2001 Re: Ah... > You: Well, I'm Micheal, and she asked me to fill in for her for a > day...How do you like it? Metacartoonist. Metacartoonist, glych. OK. I'll gladly do that -- that's easy. It'll take me about five minutes if you give me their heads. ... There's another place I just intuit should have an off-color joke but I simply can't quite find it...

Michael Tue Feb 20 10:32:26 2001 Re: I know how you feel > ...Wanna' do a toonbot special for me after my framed! crossover? Hmm. Let me think about that.

Michael Tue Feb 20 10:30:22 2001 Re: I've been lazy again... > Two questions, Michael: > 1) What are you on? > 2) Can I have some? I'm high on life, my friend, high on life.

Ilya Olenskaya Tue Feb 20 06:03:02 2001 ... Chairman Mao and Partyleader Lenin, along with assists from Tito, Castro, and Kim sabotaged your capitalist endeavors. This was because I told them you omitted boobs and poop from the above rework. Communists like boobs and poop. -IO PhD in Stalker.

Michael Tue Feb 20 10:29:21 2001 Re: ... > Chairman Mao and Partyleader Lenin, along with assists from Tito, Castro, > and Kim sabotaged your capitalist endeavors. Tito! Now Tito is a communist I hadn't thought of! I couldn't find any Castro pictures I liked. And Kim -- eh. He's more a wacko than a bona fide communist. > This was because I told them you omitted boobs and poop from the above > rework. > Communists like boobs and poop. Yes, that's a trait I've often noted.

Joe Nadeau Tue Feb 20 12:27:42 2001 Re: ... My Grandpa's a commie.

Michael Tue Feb 20 13:55:55 2001 Re: ... > My Grandpa's a commie. My wife's a commie.

Chris Tue Feb 20 19:42:12 2001 Re: ... > My wife's a commie. Don't worry. You're among blood-sucking capitalist exploiters of the working class. I mean friends. You're among friends. Yeah...

Michael Tue Feb 20 23:10:54 2001 Re: ... > Don't worry. You're among blood-sucking capitalist exploiters of the > working class. *I* am a blood-sucking capitalist exploiter of the working class.

glych Wed Feb 21 13:55:24 2001 Re: ... Mikey! You're home!!!! -glych

Michael Wed Feb 21 14:11:11 2001 Re: ... > Mikey! You're home!!!! I'm always home. I work at home. Or is that, "I live at work?" The boundaries melt and flow together. See, I direct the multinational activities of that shadowy conglomerate known as Vivtek from my secret subterranean basement -- I mean BASE, subterranean BASE, of course. Which happens to be under my otherwise unassuming Bloomington house. And has a 12"x18" southern exposure, I might add (it would be twice as large were it not for that dryer vent.) During the summer, the multinational activities of Vivtek are often directed from a secret headquarters in Budapest, again by that shadowy figure known only as Michael. MWUhahahahahahhahahaa!

gopher Wed Feb 21 15:19:02 2001 Re: ... > I mean BASE, subterranean BASE, of course. All your base are belong to us.

Brother Emsworth Wed Feb 21 19:58:40 2001 WHAT YOU SAY!! > All your base are belong to us. (Eesh! I've never played this game myself, but suddenly I keep finding references to it in numerous message boards. An odd trend, really.) Remove every pane! For great defenestration!

Michael Wed Feb 21 20:30:03 2001 Re: WHAT YOU SAY!! > (Eesh! I've never played this game myself, but suddenly I keep finding > references to it in numerous message boards. An odd trend, really.) > Remove every pane! > For great defenestration! What the *heck* are you people talking about?!?!?

Brother Emsworth Wed Feb 21 21:10:10 2001 Re: WHAT YOU SAY!! > What the *heck* are you people talking about?!?!? A winner is you, Michael!!

gopher Thu Feb 22 01:24:46 2001 Re: WHAT YOU SAY!! > A winner is you, Michael!! I've always wondered how such horrid (though funny) beatings of the English language occur. It seems like it wouldn't be too hard to find some random English-speaking person on the street to check the game dialouge. But I suppose that if they did that we could no longer move 'Zig'. For great justice.

Emsworth Wed Feb 21 21:33:44 2001 A fairly serious explanation (also look up "Z > What the *heck* are you people talking about?!?!? Well, isn't confusing others keeping with the spirit of Toonbots and the PAFTWJ? (Or maybe not. You know, I've been thinking that, at some point, we probably need to establish a charter for the Jihad, delineating traditions and customs; outlining conditions for defenestration and situations where the wolverines might be used instaed, or in addition to defenestration; possibly detailing the jihad hierarchy and the duties of each member; and in general, explaining the true spirit and purpose of Toonbots, the Toon-O-Matic, and the Jihad to all the infidels, so they'll understand our cause before they're defenestrated. Besides, it just might be useful as propoganda. Or as evidence if any of us are ever faced with a sanity hearing. Hmmm... Well, I still think it's not that bad an idea.) Regarding the "all your base are belong to us" and other references, I've been finding them on several Spot and Space boards lately. I remember seeing an explanation on a Space board which I normally don't look at, and I've forgotten which one it was now. However, it was also explained in this thread over at Keenspot Central: http://www.keenspot.com/KeenBoard/Forum1/HTML/000359.html Apparently it all started with a bad English translation of a video game, and somehow its spreading across message boards for online comics, and possibly elsewhere.

Emsworth Wed Feb 21 21:37:32 2001 Re: A fairly serious explanation (also look up &qu Note on the topic title: I tried to mention "Zero Wing," but apparently ran out of space. Ah, well.

gopher Wed Feb 21 22:08:17 2001 Re: A fairly serious explanation (also look up &qu > Apparently it all started with a bad English translation of a video game, > and somehow its spreading across message boards for online comics, and > possibly elsewhere. In my case it was the result of finding a flash music video based upon this open sequence. First, the "All your base" obsession, it's actually not all that new. There were several random images posted to the SomethingAwful forum some time ago that were modified to include "All your base belong to us" or various other phrases from that sequence. However, I can't say /how/ long ago, since aparently the people running the something awful forums don't think that the datestamp needs to have anything beyond time of day and day of month (idiots! That has to be the most horrid message board I've ever seen! Aparently the high moron concentration there also has rather short attention spans, so I guess that anything that's more than 30 days is irrelevant and doesn't need to be dated properly. ) Anyways, for the original intro sequence, look here: http://blackhole.cs.uwec.edu/~buzaan/zerowing.gif For the movie, all the places posted on git.talk.flame seem to be gone, so here's my copy of it: http://gophernet.org/dat/allyourbase.swf It has throroughly infected the Georgia Tech newsgroups. The source there was someone posted a link in git.test since one of the original sources of the movie had a username "dank", and one of our local net.celebrities has the same username, hence it was thought to be interesting. I have no idea how the original poster found it. As for the resurgance in comic related forums, I believe that the source is the Bad Boy of Computer of Science forums. That's all I know, since I'm feeling too lazy to research it further. You have no chance to survive make your time

Michael Wed Feb 21 23:32:08 2001 Re: A fairly serious explanation (also look up &am > For the movie, all the places posted on git.talk.flame seem to be gone, so > here's my copy of it: http://gophernet.org/dat/allyourbase.swf > It has throroughly infected the Georgia Tech newsgroups. Oh. My. God. That is unbelievably funny. It'd be derivative to do that for an episode or two, wouldn't it? Yeah. Pfttt. LIKE I CARE ABOUT THAT!!! HOORAY!!!!