Comments on: ‘Day By Day’ Rescue Patrol

By: FLedermaus

FLedermaus — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:57:46 +0000

How are either of those funny? No seriously, where’s the joke?

By: nate dogg

nate dogg — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:21:22 +0000

“I came and then I came and then I came and then I saw” — The Dwarves

By: Douche Baggins

Douche Baggins — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:16:46 +0000

“Vici, veni, VD” – “I saw, I came, I cankered.”

Talking about Thomas Kinkade, it’s even worse than you think. I friend of mine spent six months there working on packaging to minimize breakage during shipment, and he saw everything. Two words for how the litho prints are generated: laser printers. What a fucking racket.

By: Michael Harrington

Michael Harrington — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:09:15 +0000

Aprés pablo: “I second Bubba’s suggestion. Constant panic would make the characters seem like true conservatives, not the faux hipsters they’re portrayed as being.’

That is far and away the most annoying thing about this nonsensical tripe. That Muir tries to fob off a set of characters like this, urban sophisticates (as Fishbone points out, the one guy is a straight up Giancarlo Esposito, not the sort I’ve ever heard mouthing shopworn anti-Clinton rhetoric and the latest spellbinding insights from Rich Lowry), who nonetheless spout opinions far more in line with LGF’s readership (who probably refuse to read the strip anyway, in protest of it’s apparent endorsement of miscegenation.)

By: tigrismus

tigrismus — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 21:20:29 +0000

Although I have to say, I think if anybody here got on wingnut welfare, odds are they’d make something funnier than Day by Day.

I bet you a whole dollar Lefties would create better, funnier, more trenchant right-wing comics than those done by real right-wingers. It’s kind of sad.

By: ec1009

ec1009 — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 14:16:47 +0000

Veni, Vidi, Vino.

What an Italian executive does before 11:00 a.m.

By: Thlayli

Thlayli — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 10:31:35 +0000

What happened to the baby? Wasn’t the female character pregnant? I seem to remember a protruding stomach and a spine concaved to the breaking point.

It’s still there, just getting squished by the table edge. Look at the outline of the bottom of her shirt.

As far as her spinal curvature, this is about the best he’s gotten with it.

By: mndean

mndean — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 07:16:57 +0000

That Veni, Vidi, Vici, thing reminds me of an awful joke I told many years ago and which may have been inspired by the Murray line. In response to a question about a new girlfriend, I said Vidi, Vici, VeniVeniVeni, which I translated to I saw, I conquered, I came three times.

By: noen

noen — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 07:16:15 +0000

Hey thanks and yeah, I could dual boot and I even have a separate drive I could use. I even have a live Ubuntu CD I burned, you don’t even need to install. It just boots and runs right from the CD. I’ve done it before but I spent so much time on not being productive I felt it wasn’t worth it. As for space, well, when I matchmove or rotoscope I get raw HD plates. They are very big files.

By: Simba B.

Simba B. — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 04:51:45 +0000

…and it doesn’t require you to destroy your installation of Windows. Provided you have enough free disk space it can resize your Windows install without destroying any data.

By: Simba B.

Simba B. — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 04:50:14 +0000

noen, perhaps you could dual-boot and just have a very small Windows installation for the apps you need? Like others have pointed out, people are living inside Firefox more and more these days…

Oh, and for what it’s worth, the basis of Ubuntu, Debian, has a web site that lets you install from Windows without changing BIOS settings or burning CDs:

http://www.goodbye-windows.com/

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 04:35:02 +0000

And Bubba, if you’re interested, I’ll send you a CD.

Thanks Jas. I’ve actually got a recent image kicking around that I just haven’t dealt with yet.

I made the mistake of getting Windows XP 64 and my god! I wish I never bought this POS.

I can’t fix your windows problem but this can make life on a PC much much better:

http://www.launchy.net/

By: noen

noen — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 04:24:11 +0000

Please no platform wars.

For me and as a “creative” I would love to have a Mac, I just can’t afford them. But my impressions of them are all pre OSX. They seem to be made for people who don’t want to be bothered with too much techie stuff. I can understand that.

I made the mistake of getting Windows XP 64 and my god! I wish I never bought this POS. I’d like to switch to Ubutu but it just didn’t work out. The apps I use have to run on Windows and I need them running on bare metal.

By: superdude

superdude — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 04:02:37 +0000

the dryyyyyyy cracker said,
That Ghostbusters quote’s actually a play on “Vini, Vidi, Vici.” Your point stands, just not that particular example.

1) Veni, vidi, vici is usually translated as “I came, I saw, I conquered”

2) Bill Murray switches the THIRD ITEM IN THE SERIES to make the quote “I came, I saw, I kicked its ass.”

3) The audience’s expectations are confounded. He said “Ass” instead of finishing a famous Julius Caesar quote! Rule of Three Followed.

Woo ha! Comedy gold! My point stands for this particular example.

By: LA Confidential Pantload

LA Confidential Pantload — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:54:12 +0000

Xenos,

Alfred Bester was a terrific writer; Chris Muir is….well, if you can’t say something nice about someone…..

By: sarah

sarah — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:26:04 +0000

good call, kingubu! but while we're appreciating gywo (which played a key role in getting me through 2001-2003), let's not forget its siblings, adventures of confessions of st. augustine bear, my new filing technique is unstoppable, and my new fighting technique is unstoppable. also, david rees's speech at columbia university is totally awesome. if you don't have time to watch the entire thing, i recommend checking out the first couple of minutes. it starts a little slowly, but one of the first things he does is to give "props" to his corporate sponsor, the new york times' thomas freidman metaphor illustration service. and it is hilarious.

By: Snorghagen

Snorghagen — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:06:07 +0000

kingubu wrote:
Um, before we get too far out there on the whole “pre-existing clip-art in comics is always Teh SUXX0rz!11!” thing, do please consider Get Your War On, which is the shiznit.

Several good strips do something like that. Red Meat comes to mind. The difference is that those strips actually have something to say other than ‘Liberulz-is-doodoo-headz’.

Mikey wrote:
I know for a fact that Thomas Kinkade has a sweatshop in Gilroy where an army of southeast asian people paint highlights on his “custom” lithos.

Aha! Meagan McArdle was right – great art has been created in sweatshops.

By: pablo

pablo — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:02:36 +0000

“It is now funnier. I think all Chris Muir’s work would benefit from sheer panic on the face of every character.”

I second Bubba’s suggestion. Constant panic would make the characters seem like true conservatives, not the faux hipsters they’re portrayed as being.

By: Jas

Jas — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:55:15 +0000

No, not Mac OS X. A fine OS, but watch your movies more closely. When they have to “reroute the encryption keys” it’s some unrecognizable OS on a large-scale workstation.

Though I get your point – OS X is a best of breed Unix.

And Bubba, if you’re interested, I’ll send you a CD. I’ve got the latest version of Ubuntu sitting right here. Drop me an email, I’d gladly fling it your way.

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:39:46 +0000

Mac OS before OS X did suck, but OS X is very different.

I found the old Mac OS pretty easy and intuitive to deal with. For sound and music Macs were awesome. They could natively read almost any file format you threw at them, and the file organization of the system was super simple.

OS X is lots better, but this last update brought a lot of weird clunkiness. Just proof that nobody really gets it right. I’ve been thinking of trying out Ubuntu just for the heck of it.