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So people always talk about favorite lines from movies and TV shows and shit ... but I was reading one of my "Calvin and Hobbes" books today and was giggling over a strip where Calvin is walking aimlessly around with Hobbes and all of a sudden he's struck with a thought that horrifies him: "What if someone calls us a pair o' pathetic parapetetics?"

Help me out here people.

― jewelly (jewelly), Thursday, 14 August 2003 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'M LOOKITING!"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 14 August 2003 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

What's that from?

― jewelly (jewelly), Thursday, 14 August 2003 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Get Fuzzy, always. I just got the girlfriend a "Pray to your big, filthy monkey god before I food you" mug for her birthday.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 14 August 2003 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

That's from a Peanust strip where Lucy is pestering Charlie Brown to "lookit" her jump rope. The Strip is 8 panels of Lucy going "Lookit, Charlie Brown! Lookit! Lookit! Lookit! Lookit!" until CB snaps and screams "I'M LOOKITING!" at her.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 14 August 2003 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

from the new yorker,
single strip but still classic
mom: "it's broccoli"

daughter: "i say it's
spinach, and I say the hell
with it." that girl rocked.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 14 August 2003 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'm too depressed to trim my junk"

coming from a robot sitting in bed with visible bush peeking up over the blanket. I swear I laughed for like 10 minutes straight. Diesel Sweeties really has had some good ones.

― Dan I., Thursday, 14 August 2003 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

diesel sweeties def. has some contenders for this title.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 14 August 2003 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Calvin and Hobbes:

First Panel: Calvin is hammering nails into the coffee table.
Second Panel: Calvin's Mother "What are you doing???!!!"
Third Panel: Calvin's Mind: I would have thought that was obvious.

Um, and every other 'Calvin and Hobbes' strip, too.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 14 August 2003 03:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"Parapetetics"?

― kieran, Thursday, 14 August 2003 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I dig the Bizarro with two guys playing pool, one of them jammed most of the way into the corner pocket while the other leans casually on his cue - the caption is 'Scratch.'

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 August 2003 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

one panel, a bedraggled man on a raft is approaching a desert island, on which is another man similarly bedraggled; they both share the same thought balloon --> "i'm saved!"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 14 August 2003 05:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Two wildebeasts standing at the back of a huge herd of wildebeasts and one says to the other "For the good of the herd, for the good of the herd, always for the good of the herd. What's the herd ever done for me?"

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 14 August 2003 05:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Calvin: Do you love me, Dad?
Dad: Of course I do, Calvin.
Calvin: Would you still love me if I did something bad?
Dad: Well, of course...I...would...
Calvin: I mean something really, REALLY...
Dad: CALVIN, WHAT DID YOU DO?

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 14 August 2003 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

(Dilbert approaches a stall with "Nose Puppies" written above it)

Dilbert: What's a nose puppy?

Vendor: It's a small ceramic hand painted puppy that you put up your nose.

Vendor: They weren't really selling until I came up with the nose idea.

Vendor: I'm not in it for the money, I just want to leave the world a better place than I found it.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 August 2003 08:58 (twenty-two years ago)

HA!

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 14 August 2003 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

(Two snails looking at a role of tape)
"I don’t care if she is a tape dispenser. I love her."

From the New Yorker.

― jesse, Thursday, 14 August 2003 09:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Luna, I don't get it.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 14 August 2003 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't either. I thought I was all alone!

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 14 August 2003 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

dilbert.

wally is dreaming about talking to the pointy-haired boss.

wally: thanks for the advice that I should worker smarter, not harder. I didn't realise that people could increase their intelligence just by thinking about it. let me crank up a few IQ points right now [he pumps his arms and his head grows]. wow! I can suddenly speak latin! why am I working in this dump? I should be a consultant.

the next day, he is describing the dream to dilbert.

wally: and when I woke up, my pillow was gone.

dilbert: wow, you woke up in the wrong joke.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 14 August 2003 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the Calvin & Hobbes that ends with Calvin saying "verbing weirds language".

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 14 August 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

another great line from calvin and hobbes:
don't knock my smock or i'll clean your clock

― angela (angela), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Popular New Yorker cartoon at our house:

Two praying mantises, one headless:
"You slept with her, didn't you?"

― rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

A while back I saw a cartoon that showed a woman standing there at various stages of her life. She's a baby. She's a toddler. She's a pre-adolescent. She's a teenager. She's a young woman. She's a middle aged woman ...

In the last panel, when she's an old woman, she says, "That sucked."

― jewelly (jewelly), Thursday, 14 August 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

This is from memory, so it might not be word-for-word. It's a Dilbert strip:

PHB (to Dilbert and Wally): My laptop has locked up. How do I reboot it?
Wally: Hold it upside-down and shake.
(PHB leaves)
Dilbert: Will he ever realise we gave him an Etch-A-Sketch?

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 14 August 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Mine's in the same vein as jewelly's. It's a Kliban cartoon with two panels. The first is a baby in diapers with a naively blank expression, labelled: BEFORE. The second is a bent-over old man with a cane, a scraggy suit and clunky shoes labelled: AFTER.

There's also an old Life In Hell strip by Matt Groening that is far too involved to describe here, entitled "Your Guide to the World of Work", IIRC. Blisteringly funny.

― Aimless, Thursday, 14 August 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

dilbert.

PHB: dilbert, I need a new computer.

D: that's not a computer; it's a cardboard cutout that came with your desk.

PHB: I think I might just need a new motherboard.

D: I think you need a new desk.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 14 August 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.partiallyclips.com/pages/archive.php?id=1021&b=1&c=

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 24 November 2003 05:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Not my favourite, but great.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 24 November 2003 06:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, this shit just gets better.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 24 November 2003 06:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I just found PartiallyStrips today (last night, now) through languagehat, and it's very much one of those strips that you laugh at more the more you read it. Which is weird, since it's not like it has recurring characters or plot. It's a rhythm thing, I guess. It's gonna getcha.

(That Apollo 11 one is brilliant, I hadn't gotten to that yet.)

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 24 November 2003 06:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Seems sorta Red Meat-like.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

"Dr. Heimlich pulls his first maneuver." Picture of man in lab coat stretching to put his arm around girl in movie theatre.

Anyone know the strip for this one? I forget.

― Colin Saunders (csaunders), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah I was thinking PartiallyClips is Red Meat like as well.

I like the concept of clipart turned into comics, tho now it's been done so much I'd look like a theiving tool if I started one :/

(I cant draw for shit, do you see etc)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it was Far Side, Colin

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Colin: I could be wrong but that sounds like something Gary Larson would have done.

xpost Luna :D

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the concept of clipart turned into comics, tho now it's been done so much I'd look like a theiving tool if I started one :/

So? To bastardise a saying: "Mimicry is the sincere form of flattery". The Net was created by theiving tools for theiving tools.

If really scared, be sure to copyright

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Larson! Of course. Thanks Trayce/Luna.

The strip was even funnier b/c "pulling a maneuver" was huge in local slang at Cal in 1991. As in, "Dude, he totally pulled a first class upgrade maneuver", or "Last night I pulled a two entree maneuver at the DC".

― Colin Saunders (csaunders), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

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