LOL-June 28
Cidu Bill on Jun 28th 2009
Jon Delfin:
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Marshal Jun 28th 2009 at 03:50 pm 1
The bird might still be OK the crocodile’s arms look to short to floss correctly.
tofor Jun 28th 2009 at 04:53 pm 2
Pay-Per-View is not a scam.
Dave Van Domelen Jun 28th 2009 at 05:18 pm 3
The movie one strikes me as an inventory cartoon, something he sketched up in advance to give himself a day off later on. Just plug in the relevant summer blockbuster for the week it’d run.
This is not to say that they didn’t excise the plot of Revenge of the Fallen during editing, because they DID. But the cartoon felt phoned in.
Ray Brady Jun 28th 2009 at 05:18 pm 4
I can’t figure out why the guy in the sixth cartoon is hitting Ctrl+C. Wouldn’t Esc or Ctrl+Q make more sense?
furrykef Jun 28th 2009 at 05:18 pm 5
tofor - perhaps not, but I bet it feels like a ripoff. I think the joke works just fine.
I think it’d have been funnier if the dad’s reaction weren’t so sarcastic, though (i.e., if he didn’t realize that he’d be “falling for it”)
Lost in A**2 Jun 28th 2009 at 05:58 pm 6
Ray, because he’s using unix of some flavour.
Lola Jun 28th 2009 at 06:57 pm 7
Tofor - I bet the buyers of Mike Tyson bouts though so.
Rainey Jun 28th 2009 at 07:05 pm 8
@furrykef: Yes, the Curtis strip would be funnier if the dad didn’t realize he’d be falling for the scam. However, this wouldn’t be keeping in the spirit of the character ( Curtis’s dad is obviously of average or greater intelligence ). If somebody should fall for this, it should be Gunther, the barber.
Kate C Jun 28th 2009 at 11:32 pm 9
I don’t know much about pay-per-view, bust most of the things I see advertised for it (with the advent of cable and video-on-demand, and such, does pay-per-view even exist anymore?) are boxing matches and porn. A program about corporations and class resentment seems awfully PBS to me (and, actually, probably too political for my local PBS station, which mostly plays classic music concerts, Masterpiece, travel shows, and that documentary Alone in The Wilderness over and over again).
Rasheed Jun 29th 2009 at 07:02 am 10
I’m assuming he’s Ctrl-Cing the password that gets sent to him, not Ctrl-Qing in a panic to shut down his grand phishing scheme.
Powers Jun 29th 2009 at 07:08 am 11
Rasheed, you’re wrong. He’s trying to cancel the operation that his computer has undertaken to find a network to use.
GP Jun 29th 2009 at 08:13 am 12
Ctrl-C is a signal interrupt, or ‘kill’ command. It’s an emergency quit option on Unix (and some command-line Windows).
Kevin Andresen Jun 29th 2009 at 04:23 pm 13
Even though I’ve used Windows for 15 years, it didn’t occur to me that I’ve used “Ctrl-C” for copy for all that time, leaving me wondering why people were so extra perplexed by its usage here.
In 2009, I can imagine that 80-90% of home computer users have only ever known the “Copy” usage.
For us old Unix and DOS users, our panicked Ctrl-C attempt-to-abort experiences leave that meaning at the top of the list. (I seem to remember that keeping my 20-Megabyte hard drive from filling up was a major priority. … as it was similar to the car problem of flooding a carburetor or getting water in a cylinder; it either would prevent the computer from rebooting or “break a rod” in a running program. )
Rasheed Jun 29th 2009 at 07:44 pm 14
Ok, you’re right. I didn’t use UNIX until 1997, and we probably had ctrl-c also (I’m remembering ctrl-q more obviously, but I know why that’s wrong). Our version also made use of the ctrl-break command which is what I remember using. Haven’t had to use UNIX since, but I remember a lot of %’s and TELNET.
Todd Jun 30th 2009 at 03:49 pm 15
Am I the only one who played with Apple II Basic? Ctrl-C was also used to stop programs there.
yello.cape.cod Jul 1st 2009 at 12:01 am 16
I had no idea Curtis has a daily strip. I wonder why my local paper only carries the Sundays strips.
I have never had a Curtis be a LOL for me. This is an example. It seems like the author can never seem to express the punchline correctly. This was more of a “mild chuckle” for me, and that only in my head.