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Thursday, July 31
#23: Obstruction Ahead
I let Otto write the title...
Odder than Artifice and all of its characters are © 2008 by Deena Salzman.Labels: Izzy, Odder than Artifice, Wifty
posted by: Veryne @ 7:51 AM
Tuesday, July 29
Game called on Account of Bleaurgh
Skeeve is calling out on this week's TFRL blog; I have the sick and both our sleeping has been terribly off. TFRL should resume as usual next week.
In the meantime, enjoy this ASCII representation of Eyeball having a night on the town!
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posted by: Bliss @ 10:45 PM
Friday, July 25
Zero's Friday Five
This week, I'm dedicating the Friday Five to The Clown Prince of Crime. But, can you tell me from which of his many appearances on film and in print these quotes come from?
1. "Ears are too long and I miss the cape, but not too shabby."
2. "Any man can have one really bad day and end up just like me."
3. "Why didn't somebody tell me he had one of those... things?!"
4. "A joke a day keeps the gloom away."
5. "You have nothing to threaten me with!"
posted by: Zero @ 1:14 PM
Thursday, July 24
#22: Shell Shock
I am pretty happy with this one, and it was early. Read carefully...
Odder than Artifice and all of its characters are © 2008 by Deena Salzman.Labels: Clyde, Izzy, Odder than Artifice, Terry
posted by: Veryne @ 7:42 AM
Wednesday, July 23
This thing is made for mocking....
The internet age bears with it a wide variety of wonders. I take great joy in collecting them to share with others, and this week has yielded a pair of them that I cannot help but sharing.
First!
Lovely Listing
This is a blog that exhibits images offered as part of actual listings of homes for sale. Messy rooms, damaged rooms, pictures with people in them, inexplicable furniture choices and groupings... they are in there, with commentary.
Second!
Cake Wrecks
Every single cake on this site was "professionally" made - order, bought, paid for, and used for special occasions.
I think my favorite (and also the most horrific) is the Congratulations on your New Baby cake... shaped like a baby. To be sliced up. And eaten.
Dear internet: You are horrific and I love you.
posted by: Bliss @ 10:55 PM
Tuesday, July 22
TFRL! Sorta...
This week, it's a very special special text-based, Skeeve-less, picture-less edition of TFRL.
Why? Because Real Life takes precedence.
I was recently reading a story about a certain movie, and in said story, there was a spoiler warning.
Now, usually when there's a spoiler warning, there's also a little space between the warning itself, and when the spoiler itself appears. This story didn't adhere to the "Spoiler warnings must remain at least 50 yards from their spoiler" restraining order. Instead, the spoiler thing went a little something like this:
"blah blah blah blah *spoilers ahead* HERE'S THE SPOILER!!!"
Yeah, they put the spoiler warning in the middle of the sentence that contained the spoiler.
Bastards.
FYI: The Joker kills Dumbledore.
Next week: TFRL returns at it's regularly scheduled time, as we continue our search for the source. Will we make a Matrix-code joke? Tune in next week, same TFRL-time, same TFRL-channel!
posted by: Eyeball @ 11:45 PM
Monday, July 21
It's late:
And I'm on the phone... Ring ring... Can you grab that? that'd be me phoning tonight in... Cool. Thanks.
posted by: Skeeve @ 11:21 PM
Friday, July 18
Zero's Friday Five
TRIVIA TIME! Do you know where these lines come from?
1. "You threw a knife at my head!"
2. "I immediately regret this decision!"
3. "I'll eat anything you want me to eat. I'll swallow anything you want me to swallow."
4. "Have you ever seen a grown man naked?"
5. "We are building a fighting force of extraordinary magnitude."
posted by: Zero @ 7:10 PM
Thursday, July 17
#21: Petting Zoo
This comic took forever. I don't know why the Book Store comics are sooo much work. I used a slightly lower quality image this week in order to speed up the loading. I think the artifacts are minimal...but I am tired. so who knows?
Odder than Artifice and all of its characters are © 2008 by Deena Salzman.Labels: Book Store, Clyde, Clyde's Job, Mr. Schulman, Odder than Artifice
posted by: Veryne @ 8:17 AM
Wednesday, July 16
VH1: Age-defying Nostalgia
Skeeve and I are enjoying an evening of junk television, watching VH1's I <3 the 70's series... and it's making the, uh, slight age gap between us glaringly obvious.
...I have lost my train of thought. I blame Burt Reynolds' moustache. Suffice to say that Skeeve is having gigglegasms on his stroll down memory lane, and I'm, uh... learning.
Yeah, we'll call it learning.
posted by: Bliss @ 9:56 PM
Tuesday, July 15
What is the source! (part one)
posted by: Torn From Real Life @ 8:51 PM
Monday, July 14
Can you feel the love tonight?
We had a brief hiccup on the kingdom this afternoon. I apologize for the loss of beloved TKOP and would like to assure you that those responsible have been sacked.
Thanks for all the support you guys have been pumping into TKOP in the past couple months. I am still so happy that you all take time out of your days to pop by and see what's been going on. Some have come and some have gone... (And then found thier way back again!) Some just linger... Like fungus! We have new friends, and old friends. People from the past clicking with people from the net... People who found us over the net... People we meet and lure into the fold.
So, new friends and old, all are welcome.
You will always have a home in the Kingdom.
posted by: Skeeve @ 10:33 PM
Friday, July 11
Zero's Friday Five
Evil don't look like anything.
posted by: Zero @ 4:32 PM
Thursday, July 10
#20: Oh no! Not Cookies!
Of course, Terry doesn’t realize that it’s pointless to be jealous of a giraffe.
I would like to ask people to let me know what their favorite episodes of Odder than Artifice are to help me pick some to submit for inclusion in a gallery show of comic art. I started a new thread for this in the Throne Room.
Odder than Artifice and all of its characters are ©2008 by Deena Salzman.Labels: Edgar, Game Night, Odder than Artifice, Paolo, Terry
posted by: Veryne @ 8:35 AM
Wednesday, July 9
Bathroom Ettiquette
This is one of these things that, as an adult in a very adult-centered world, I would think wouldn't need to be addressed. But after having worked both in retail and corporate environments, there are some issues that I would like to make clear.
The flusher on the toilet is not inherently dirty.
All too often I've been in a stall, waiting for a stall, whatever, and see a pair of feet in the next stall stand, turn, do the pants-on shuffle - and then one foot lifts, disappearing from sight to push the button or depress the handle to make the toilet flush. Yes, sad but true - there are many women out there who, for some STUPID reason, feel that they keep themselves cleaner by not touching the button/handle with their bare hand. What they have succeeded in doing instead is getting the dirt and germs all over the bottom of their shoe onto the place where the next hapless stall user is likely to put her hand for flushing.
Almost invariably, too, these same women leave without washing their precious pristine hands that they just used to wipe their butt or hoo-ha.
The toilet paper already in the bowl will not hurt you.
I know, from time to time, women think their precious butts are too delicate to put down on the toilet seat, and they hover, inevitably dirtying said seat (much in the same say they use their feet to flush - I wonder if it tends to be the same women?) and then of COURSE leaving the spattermess behind. I can understand subsequent would-be stall users going in, seeing that mess, and then stepping back out to hunt up a cleaner stall. What I do NOT understand is people who walk into the stall and see there is some T.P. still floating in there from an unsuccessful previous flush - and do the backout of avoidance.
This makes no sense to me. The paper isn't going to jump out and bite them in the ass. Hell, nothing stops them from flushing it down before having a sit - so why just shift on to the next stall instead of doing exactly that?!
Get the paper towel in the garbage bin.
Seriously, for chrissake. My three year old can do this. Grownups who don't bother should be ashamed.
posted by: Bliss @ 10:45 PM
Tuesday, July 8
May your TFRL never wither:
posted by: Torn From Real Life @ 11:43 PM
Monday, July 7
Monday
Nothing take the reverie out of a long weekend like the prospect of Monday. Sunday night the growing anxiety starts... Knowing that you are sleeping the night as a condemned man. That a week of toil awaits you. You are not free.
Even if it's a 3 days weekend, it will end. It won't even be put aside by a vacation. These too much end.
Mondays...
posted by: Skeeve @ 11:10 PM
Friday, July 4
Zero's Friday Five
It's the 4th of July! (Well, it's really the 6th, and I'm just getting back from some family fun away from home and computers... apologies for the late five...) This week, it's a lyrical game. What modern rock song contains the following phrase?:
"Her Horoscope Was Nearly Perfect"
posted by: Zero @ 3:45 AM
Thursday, July 3
#19: Trivial Pursuits
How many kinds can you think of?
Odder than Artifice and all of its characters are ©2008 by Deena Salzman.Labels: Clyde, Edgar, Game Night, Odder than Artifice, Paolo, Terry
posted by: Veryne @ 7:27 AM
Wednesday, July 2
Totally Normal Event
con
[SF fandom] A science-fiction convention. Not used of other sorts of conventions, such as professional meetings. This term, unlike many others of SF-fan slang, is widely recognised even by hackers who aren't fans. "We'd been corresponding on the net for months, then we met face-to-face at a con."
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Variant of com-.
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a prefix meaning "with," "together," "in association,"
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This weekend I had the chance to go to my very first convention - and damn, it was awesome. Cool people, cool shows, cool vendors, cool costumes. It was apparently on the small side, as cons go, but really I think that only served to make it better. It gave the whole weekend a wonderful feeling of community and togetherness that I really enjoyed - and believe me, I never would have thought it easy to feel togetherness with Doms, mimes, pagans, furries, mad scientists, bellydancers, and fairy vendors. But somehow it happened, and I cannot wait to do this again!
posted by: Bliss @ 11:07 PM
Tuesday, July 1
Let there be TFRL...
posted by: Torn From Real Life @ 11:13 PM
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