Nerd Boy, episode 606
Joaquim Gândara
You're still not foiling my
brother's plan to monopolize Linda's still working for him?
the antivirus market with your I just assumed she'd get fed
unstoppable virus? `,,, , up and kick his butt.
'.. OO
.||. .||.
___________ |\ _________ dd _______
I mean, what's he got over there,
some kinda hypnotizing ray?
,,, ,
'.. OO
.||. .||>
_______ || _______ dd _____
Hehe. Hypnoti.. what?
,,, ,
'.. OO
|| .||.
_______ || _______ dd _____
OMG HE HAS A HYPNOTIZING
RAY! WE HAVE TO SAVE HER!
`,,, *sigh*
'oo OO
-||- ))
jg _____________ || _______ dd _________________
----
I guess he's a fan of melodrama. I love the Donald Duck comics
where he's mock melodramatic. It happens in some of Don Rosa's
comics (which are all kick-ass).
--
OO Joaquim Gândara
.||. http://www.Nerd-Boy.net
bb jg
Bertrand Mollinier Toublet
>
> OMG HE HAS A HYPNOTIZING
Did Fan Boy get that annoying way of speech from his malevolent brother?
> RAY! WE HAVE TO SAVE HER!
> `,,, *sigh*
> 'oo OO
> -||- ))
> jg _____________ || _______ dd _________________
>
--
Bertrand
ABCGi
It seems to me fanboy would use OMG
--
ABCGi - Atomic ______________________
<===> Bacterial Genetic |---------------------||
Chemical Infantrymen <=========== http://abcgi.fly.to =-+-=>
|---------------------|'
Don Rosa
>>>Don Rosa's comics are all kick-ass.
Oh!
Is that good? I hope?
Joaquim Gândara
news:8f032555.04112...@posting.google.com
Yes, it's very very good. However, I find it unlikely that
someone who has lived his whole life in the USA wouldn't
know what "kick-ass" means, especially since I know despite
not living there. I also find it very unlikely that Don Rosa
would be reading alt.ascii-art. It would be cool if you
really were Don Rosa, but in that case I'm guessing that
this will very much resemble the "Trent Reznor on Prodigy"
thing (they kicked him out for impersonating himself). You
used the right e-mail address though, so that's cool.
Seriously, there should be a celebrity PGP key server.
ABCGi
I choose to *bbeeeeeeeeelllllllliiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeevvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeee* !
All us celeb's use google groups, me and Tom were hangin' jus de udder day.
From: - Wed Nov 24 23:32:38 2004
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
From: don...@iglou.com (Don Rosa)
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: Nerd Boy, episode 606
Date: 23 Nov 2004 21:57:51 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Lines: 6
Message-ID: <8f032555.04112...@posting.google.com>
References: <30fg6fF...@uni-berlin.de>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.253.101.68
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1101275871 28118 127.0.0.1 (24 Nov 2004
05:57:51 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: groups...@google.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 05:57:51 +0000 (UTC)
Path:
dnews.tpgi.com.au!tpg.com.au!nntp.gblx.net!nntp3.phx1!nntp1.phx1.gblx.net!nntp.gblx.net!nntp.gblx.net!newsfeed.news2me.com!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!postnews.google.com!not-for-mail
Xref: dnews.tpgi.com.au alt.ascii-art:13032
| |~| ||
| ||| ||
\,//\,// OA: Udders?
. .
. .
.
Joaquim Gândara
news:41a4...@dnews.tpgi.com.au
> Joaquim Gândara wrote:
> > "Don Rosa" <don...@iglou.com> skrev i meddelandet
> > news:8f032555.04112...@posting.google.com
> >>"Joaquim Gândara" <joa...@telia.com> wrote in message
> >>
> >>>>>Don Rosa's comics are all kick-ass.
> >>
> >>Oh!
> >>Is that good? I hope?
> >
> > Yes, it's very very good.
<snippety>
> NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.253.101.68
<snipfordson>
Actually, the Don Rosa post did originate from an IP in Louisville,
which is where Don Rosa lives. This is getting curiouser and curiouser.
OK, now I've searched Google Groups, and a ton of Don Rosa posts
turned up! AND, they seem more and more legit the more I read.
So for now I'm going to assume that Don Rosa actually (if only very
vaguely) knows about my cartoon. That is such an awesome thought
that it probably won't fit in my head for very long.
So (while my head is still unexploded) let me be the first to
welcome you to alt.ascii-art, Mr Don Rosa. :)
Timofei Shatrov
<joa...@telia.com> tried to confuse everyone with this message:
>"ABCGi" <ab...@yahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet
> news:41a4...@dnews.tpgi.com.au
>> Joaquim Gândara wrote:
>> > "Don Rosa" <don...@iglou.com> skrev i meddelandet
>> > news:8f032555.04112...@posting.google.com
>> >>"Joaquim Gândara" <joa...@telia.com> wrote in message
>> >>
>> >>>>>Don Rosa's comics are all kick-ass.
>> >>
>> >>Oh!
>> >>Is that good? I hope?
>> >
>> > Yes, it's very very good.
>
><snippety>
>> NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.253.101.68
><snipfordson>
>
>Actually, the Don Rosa post did originate from an IP in Louisville,
>which is where Don Rosa lives. This is getting curiouser and curiouser.
>
Sorry to disappoint you, but I think he just searched for his name on
Google Groups. I remember him popping up in rec.games.roguelike.adom
(that was in 2001) and everyone went crazy about that.
--
|a\o/r|,-------------.,---------- Timofei Shatrov aka Grue ------------.
| m"a ||FC AMKAR PERM|| mail: grue at mail.ru http://grue3.tripod.com |
| k || PWNZ J00 || KoL:Grue3 NationStates:Holypunkeye |
`-----'`-------------'`-------------------------------------------[4*72]
Don Rosa
> someone who has lived his whole life in the USA wouldn't
> know what "kick-ass" means
I had a pretty good idea that it was a positive comment, but it's not
an expression I use, so I would feel phony responding to it with an
automatic "THANKS!". I would rather first see it phrased differently,
then I can cheerfully say "Thank you!".
Thank you!
> I also find it very unlikely that Don Rosa
> would be reading alt.ascii-art.
Of course I don't, but I have an auto-Google running all the time that
alerts me whenever my name is used on an Internet newsgroup, the same
way I monitor the sale of my comics and art on eBay. So
"alt.ascii-art" popped up yesterday, though I don't even have the
slightest idea what it is.
> It would be cool if you really were Don Rosa
It would be... kick-ass?
Joaquim Gândara
news:41a49111...@news.individual.net
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:45:22 +0100, "Joaquim Gândara"
> <joa...@telia.com> tried to confuse everyone with this message:
> >Actually, the Don Rosa post did originate from an IP in Louisville,
> >which is where Don Rosa lives. This is getting curiouser and curiouser.
>
> Sorry to disappoint you, but I think he just searched for his name on
> Google Groups. I remember him popping up in rec.games.roguelike.adom
> (that was in 2001) and everyone went crazy about that.
I'm not disappointed. In fact, that's exactly what I assumed, by his
abundance of posts on Usenet in response to random messages talking about
Scrooge McDuck or Don Rosa. (Note how many times I used his name in
my previous post; I'm basically hoping he'll see it.) It's still cool
that The Don Rosa has seen my ASCII art cartoon (albeit in passing), and
he still deserves a welcome.
Joaquim Gândara
> > I find it unlikely that
> > someone who has lived his whole life in the USA wouldn't
> > know what "kick-ass" means
>
> I had a pretty good idea that it was a positive comment, but it's not
> an expression I use, so I would feel phony responding to it with an
> automatic "THANKS!". I would rather first see it phrased differently,
> then I can cheerfully say "Thank you!".
I see. Sorry about my initial disbelief. I've just come to expect
that everything's phony on the internet, and your message contained
such fragmented sentences that it seemed written by a non-native
English speaker.
> Thank you!
You're quite welcome; it bears repeating that I really enjoy your
work. In fact, I made it a point to study the pacing and structure
of your comics in preparation for my (hopefully) upcoming book. (In
case you didn't notice, this thread actually starts with a comic
strip of mine.) I seem to have found some golden rules of cartooning
in your work, and also several places where you quite masterfully
break those rules.
> So "alt.ascii-art" popped up yesterday, though I don't even have
> the slightest idea what it is.
That's what I thought. ASCII art is art made of ASCII characters,
i.e. text. Have a look at www.ascii-art.de for a lot of good
examples. Here's a selection:
http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/def/donald_duck.txt
http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/def/disney.txt
I think Joris Bellenger's ASCII art is particularly good:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~svzanten/ascii/index.html
> > It would be cool if you really were Don Rosa
>
> It would be... kick-ass?
It would indeed be kick-ass.
ABCGi
hmmm cool. That celebrity PGP key server is looking like a better idea
more and more!
| |~| ||
| ||| ||
\,//\,// OA: Udders
The Ultimate Artist
On 2004-11-24 joa...@telia.com said:
> So (while my head is still unexploded) let me be the first to
> welcome you to alt.ascii-art, Mr Don Rosa. :)
Joe's head explodes: .
)
(
___
/ \\\
[.[.]-\\
/_ /|/
{-} |=
.- #// (\.
/ \
____
/ \\\
[o[o]--\\
/_ /|/
{-} |=
.-#// (\.
/ \
_____
/ \\
/ \\\
: [O[O]--, \\
/_ /|/
{o} |=
.#// (\.
/ \
o | ,
. _ .
\ (' `,'"`._ / '
_,-( ( ').-.-.
` (' _ _ ) )_
(' |_) | |_| |\/| ) `)
(' |_) |__ | | | | `).' _.
'. ) `)
/ (` '._ . )'`).)_) ,
"". ` ). `-`-` ')`
'-' (_;.;-`-_.' \
`
Don Rosa has some
SERIOUS explaining .
to do! \ (
)
OO
<||> ,#>,.
bb o\__x;.
---/\;-x,