Toonbots message board: curious indeed

Michael Sat Jul 20 13:15:13 2002 Re: curious indeed > It looks like a message board, but I dont see many messages...I am not > trying to bash your board, but it is hard to have a conversation here. Think of it as baseball. Things move at a leisurely pace.

surfer Sat Jul 20 18:44:03 2002 Re: curious indeed >I was thinking more like watching corn grow, but okay, baseball it is. Think of it as baseball. Things move at a leisurely pace.

Michael Sat Jul 20 22:53:10 2002 Corn growth Ah, now you're making me nostalgic.

surfer Sun Jul 21 06:57:19 2002 Re: Corn growth > Ah, now you're making me nostalgic. Nostalgia is good for the soul, be careful though it can lead to depression and ennui, both of which are spirit crushers. It is a fine line, mind your balance.

mouse Sun Jul 21 13:53:33 2002 Re: curious indeed > I was thinking more like watching corn grow more comments on our humor, huh?

surfer Sun Jul 21 19:43:09 2002 Re: curious indeed > more comments on our humor, huh? No you have it all wrong...I was trying to be funny, guess I failed, oh well.

mouse Mon Jul 22 16:03:06 2002 Re: curious indeed no, my fault - it's my deadpan humor.

Pack of Wolverines Mon Jul 22 16:06:28 2002 Re: curious indeed > no, my fault - it's my deadpan humor. ::wolverines gently maul the nearest person in an endearingly deadpan manner::

mouse Mon Jul 22 16:24:41 2002 the finer points of wolverines > ::wolverines gently maul the nearest person in an endearingly deadpan > manner:: see, surfer - as long as they do it _gently_, we're all happy. they're really pretty cute (especially otu). just be careful of any sudden moves and extremist positions. trust me, you can actually get to enjoy being mauled - think of it as a sort of deep-tissue massage.

Emsworth Tue Jul 23 14:23:24 2002 Nothing could be finer than to be a wolveriner... ...in the moooorning! >they're really pretty cute (especially otu). ::Otu crawls into mouse's lap for a purring session and a nap.:: Besides, the wolverines seldom ravenously maul full Jihad members, except Michael when he's being an orange jerk. They're more apt to simply gnaw at their extremities or whatnot.

Brother Emsworth Sat Jul 20 21:38:16 2002 Re: curious indeed > It looks like a message board, but I dont see many messages...I am not > trying to bash your board, but it is hard to have a conversation here. Admittedly the feast of reason and flow of soul has been reduced to a mere trickle at best of late, partially due to the lack of a new strip to analyze and discuss, and little else apart from Michael's continued film reviews to discuss (though I could always break out my Wodehouse quotes again, or possibly the Joys of Yiddish.) But while I realize I'm being pedantic, your point essentially is that there's little conversation to be had at present, not necessarily that it's difficult to start one. The "All Your Base" thread is going fairly well, I think, slowly but steadily (have little to say on that score myself), but if you give us another topic, I'm sure we humble few would rise to meet the occasion, or at least make an attempt to do so, time and circumstances permitting. Where do your tastes in stimulating discourse lie? Literature? Film? Art? Politics (an area I personally am generally averse to)? Deceased character actors from the 30's through the 60's? Oh, wait, that's me. (Jack Kruschen, who played Dr. Dreyfuss in Billy Wilder's "The Apartment" passed away a couple of months ago.) Try us and see what happens. In the mean time.... METAMORPHOSES (1978) A Sanrio Films release. Producers: Terry Ogisu, Hrio Tsugawa, Takashi; Director, writer: Takashi; Music: Bob Randles; Sequence directors: Jerry Eisenberg, Richard Huebner, Sadao Miyamoto, Amby Paliwoda, Ray Patterson, Manny Perez, George Singer, Stan Walsh; Animators: Edwin Aardal, John Ahern, Mikaharu Akabori, Robert Carlson, Brad Case, Marija Dail, Edward DeMattia, Joan Drake, Edgar Friedman, Edwardo Fuentes, Morris Gollub, Fred Grable, Masami Hata, Fred Hellmich, Ernesto Lopez, Daniel Noonan, Ken O'Brian, Jack Ozark, William Pratt, Thomas Ray, Virgil Ross, Glenn Schmitz, Martha Swanson, Reuben Timmins, James Walker, John Walker, Shigeru Yamamoto, Rudolfo Zamora; Production designers: Paul Julian, Ray Aragon, Kuni Fukai, Rebecca Ortega Mills, Akira Uno; Backgrounds: Ron Dias; Running time: 89 minutes. Voices: Narrator: Norman Corwin, Peter Ustinov

Emsworth Sat Jul 20 21:51:22 2002 Re: curious indeed Terry Pratchett references, accusations of cannibalism, and mysterious tauntings from bands of penguins also tend to stimulate the flow fo discussion, by the way.

mouse Sun Jul 21 13:51:26 2002 Re: curious indeed > Terry Pratchett references, by the way - my summer project is reading all the 'discworld' stuff i can get my hands on. right now i'm on 'men at arms', but i'm not exactly going in order. what can i say - it's great stuff! right now, i'm thinking death is my favorite character (but rincewind is right up there)