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Comic and Rant for Tuesday, April 30, 2002
I Really do want to invent this... |
What’s this? Could I have actually gotten both the strip and the rant out in time? You’d better believe it, Campers! What’s more, I’m planning special strips for Friday (due to the release of a certain movie) and Sunday (due to Web Comics Awareness Day). Place your bets now on whether or not I’ll actually get it done in time! Actually, part of the reason for my lateness was the props in last Thursday’s strip. the Evil Pink Wand was easy enough to find, but the Dungeon Master’s Hat...AAARRRGH!!! First off, in its first appearance, there were no stars on it, then when I found that, I searched for the first appearance of the moons, which I was sure existed, as they were here. As you may have guessed, I never found them. Somebody in merchandising has been embellishing! Normally this would be too minor even for a nitpicker like me to complain about, but not finding that out until after rooting through the entire archive of a strip running pretty much daily for 4 years...can you blame me (for anything other than doing too much research, I mean)? Anyway, there was something I wanted to rant about last week, but kept forgetting - Answering machine messages! First off, while some creativity is allowed, keep it fairly short. Second, please mention your first and last names (or say “The [family name]s,” if you don’t live alone) - if someone’s calling with a job offer for your wife then “Hi! This is Bob! Leave a message” might be a bit off-putting. Third, while it’s okay to have your kids record the message make sure they
It was mildly funny in Nothing in Common, but it was a relatively new concept then, plus it was intended to show how childish and obnoxious Tom Hanks’ character was. The sooner a telemarketer realizes (s)he has an answering machine, the sooner (s)he can log it and move on. Now you may wonder why you should do anything that would aid a telemarketer, but keep in mind that if they get your machine they won’t annoy you anyway, and they’ve gotta eat too! Plus in my ex-job there was the added plus that we were “warm calling” former customers. I was able to (somewhat) justify what I did as punishing the ignorant - If they were stupid enough to get involved with mail-order coffee in the first place, and then stupid enough not to say the simple words “please remove me from your list,” then they deserved to be annoyed. In happier news, I got the Anakin Skywalker Lightsaber today! Now they only need to make one more to complete the set from the original “second” trilogy! It’s not too different from the previous ones behavior-wise (except that the sound seems slightly different), but design-wise they made some improvements. It’s narrower and (I assume) closer to scale with the original prop, and it has a notch so that when screwed together it stops when it’s in the proper position (anyone who has the Vader saber will know what I mean!). I’d provide a link, but I can’t find one! Help! Jeff! |
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