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From: "Joaquim G�ndara" <claw@lords.com>
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Subject: Re: Nerd Boy, episode 257
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"llizard" <llizard@NOPOLLUTIONwildmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:6isfku0eo8qsdktvcs6o827i2oi4ke501q@4ax.com
> In article <ai7dq2$128jlj$1@ID-102694.news.dfncis.de>, "Joaquim
> G�ndara" <claw@lords.com> wrote:
> >"llizard" <llizard@NOPOLLUTIONwildmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
> >news:tnjdkug18ummleua0tbjbq8enln625msu2@4ax.com
> >> In article <ai4jk9$uqekm$1@ID-102694.news.dfncis.de>, "Joaquim
> >> G�ndara" <claw@lords.com> wrote:
> >> >"llizard" <llizard@NOPOLLUTIONwildmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
> >> >news:da9bkussva7cpq7qr9410a7v0hre6k0p9t@4ax.com
8<
> >> The extraneous *point* *laugh* detracts from Nerdboy's "OK, don't
> >> answer that", which is the punchline (at least I thought that was the
> >> punchline)
> >
> >A weak punchline, which I wanted to combine with a postpunchline joke,
> >Calvin & Hobbes style.
>
> The punchline isn't weak. The postpunchline joke would work better if
> it didn't have the extra words to distract the eye.

The "extra words" _are_ the postpunchline joke.

> But I sense that you have tired of my ceaseless nagging on this. From
> now on, I will try to confine my comments on your strips that I find
> funny to "oh wow that was fabulous" and perhaps attempt to say why I
> think it works.

You can question my writing any time you want, but this discussion just
seems to go back and forth...

> And speaking of #258, is there a reason that it is only on
> http://nerdboy.xepher.net/ and not on http://nerdboy.port5.com/ ?

Yes, I couldn't get through to the port5 server yesterday.

>        ____
>       /| OO|
>      | |.|||    ,^^%---  the only reason I've made suggestions
>      |_|_bb|  _/>\  \    is that I see something quite good
>        ---  ==  > \      that with a few tweaks could be great
>      [_____]  __>,^
> ejm   |   |  //| |

Subjectively speaking, of course, since I see something rather OK
that with your tweaks would become worse... In this case, anyway.

--
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