X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,4e66530106467f8f X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-07-22 08:07:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-05!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: llizard Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Nerd Boy, episode 254 Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:06:20 -0400 Organization: via Internetdirect, Canada; zone 6A (or is it 5b?) Message-ID: Reply-To: llizard@idirct.ca References: 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: 54 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:18427 In article , "Joaquim G�ndara" wrote: [snip] > OK you lost me. > ,,, , > '.. OO > .||. || > jg_______________ || ______ dd __________________ > > >---- >This one was kind of hard to do, since I first thought of the next >strip (id est Wednesday's strip) and then had to do some set-up for >it to work as well as possible. That's tough, because not only did >I have to work backwards, I also want the set-up AND the following >ones to be funny in and of themselves. I normally just end up faking >it and then pretend to be this pretentious writer/artist type you've >come to love to hate. <-- See? I'm doing it! Okay, first things first... I always go to the site to read the strip so that I won't be distracted by your explanations. #254 is brilliant. (I smiled broadly) What ARE you going on about? Are you saying that this is another one of those dashed-off strips that you don't think are really funny? Please stop apologizing for those. I suspect that one of the reasons that they work so well is the very fact that they ARE off-the-cuff and unplanned. ___ ha _/ | ,^^%--- ha |_____| _/>\ \ ha ...you're _pretending_ to be a --- == >/ pretentious writer/artist type??? [_ejm_] __>,^ | | //| | ... ___ ha _/ | / *snort* |_____| |,^%--- ha --- == < \ ha ...pretty good imitation! [_ejm_] __ \ > \ | | __| /\/>,^ \ -- ___ _/ | |_____| ,^^%--- --- == _/<\ \ no offense intended, Joaquim [_ejm_] __ > \ | | __| _ /\>^^ ASCII-art & ASCII-animation llizard aka ejm llizard@idirec+.ca www.crosswinds.net/~llizard/ascii-art/ If you are e-mailing and hit the reply button, add an "e" to "idirct"