X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,3a5e52bb9505654d X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-07-18 07:58:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-05!sn-xit-01!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: llizard Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Nerd Boy, episode 249 Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 10:58:11 -0400 Organization: via Internetdirect, Canada; zone 6A (or is it 5b?) Message-ID: Reply-To: llizard@idirct.ca References: <3hjtiu8ph48o173d6rokvlpcnqcb2s311f@4ax.com> <7bt2jucu28r2rec1fal75ngv375bfs7au7@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Lines: 83 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:18338 In article , "Joaquim G�ndara" wrote: >"llizard" skrev i meddelandet >news:bim8jugvl5ugmkqgt6g5jjaa41tvbsbi8m@4ax.com >> In article , "Joaquim >> G�ndara" wrote: >> >> >Your sense of humour seems very strange to me. I've always thought of a >> >joke as something that ties up all the loose ends. [snip] >> tying >> everything up tidily is just too pat. There should always be a >> question of some kind at the end of the story. After all, that's what >> life is all about. > >It is? First of all, I don't know exactly what you mean. Is life all about >hearing stories that has questions at the end so you can ponder them? Or >do you mean that life is a story that should have a question at the end? >Second, my strips aren't self-contained stories. My story arcs, containing >several strips, are stories. My strips are (mostly) jokes. I mean that life doesn't always give all the answers. There will always be questions to ponder. (It's all part of that "seeing through glass darkly" stuff) Ideally, each strip should be a self-contained story that isn't necessarily dependant on the reader having read the previous one. This does not preclude having a series of strips that make a story arc. >> >NB241 wasn't even meant to be funny. I clearly don't understand your >> >sense of humour, and I suspect that I never will... :\ >> >> Just because it was unintentional doesn't mean it can't be funny. >> There are constantly situations that occur that are not intended to be >> humorous, but they are still funny. No amount of "no! No! Stop >> laughing!! I didn't MEAN that!!!" will help. That's life. > >Well, yes, probably. My point is that I can't intentionally make you laugh. My point is that you can't intentionally make me NOT laugh. _____ |.^%==| ===%^, |\/ | (At least, \/> |_____| I THINK > that was > my point) /|^^ \ \ _____ |,^%--| ,^%---\ | /<\|\____| But now I'm not so sure... \>/ > /|^^ \ \ _____ /\|,^@@-| ---@@^,|\/ \| I'm so / \/>|_____| confused.... > > /|^^ ejm \ \ -- (Maybe I should get _____ rid of |^%---| the ===%^, |__\_now mirror) \/> you're thinking! llizard aka ejm > llizard@idirec+.ca > ASCII-ar+, ASCII-anima+ions /|^^ www.crosswinds.net/~llizard/ascii-art/ \ \ If you are e-mailing and hit the reply button, add an "e" to "idirct";