Come on, that first cartoon has "Bandarlog" written all over it!
Some of them in the past have been ok.
I can't follow the comments. But those drawings, they are funny.
"The bandarlog" is baa's blog. He gave me a quiz a long time ago about what I find funny; he and I agreed on Chris Rock (and other things, as I recall).
Generally, our senses of humor were aligned. Except that ogged found sick children funny.
Since you bring it up, aren't the original Bandarlog not particularly nice?
Correct! They are filthy, jeering apes with no memory or accountability.
More here
Where's alameida gone to? She hasn't posted at her other blog(s), and all else is as dross.
the cartoons are great. the marketing-speak between them is insufferable.
Yeah, I don't read the marketing speak.
Alameida fan, I'm doubting your fandom.
I agree with the second part...of 13.
Speaking of "funny"... or, I guess I should say, not so much "funny" as "so scarily over the top and self-parodical that it must be funny even though you just can't bring yourself to laugh." That kind of funny.
Alameida fan, I'm doubting your fandom.
Doubt away, I don't care. I was genuinely looking for Alameida, am not a regular reader of Unfogged, and hadn't seen her posting in a while, so I checked here.
I'm doubting because there was a post up at one of her other blogs that explains why she hasn't been posting.
Not that I know of any other identity she might post under, given her anonymity, but if you did, and read the current top post on another blog where she posts, it might tell you that she's on vacation.
There's a specific reason for the doubt. In particular, something you said is plainly false.
Not necessarily. Someone who had a policy of only reading posts authored by alemeida, rather than a co-blogger, wouldn't know where she was. That would be a weird policy, but a possible one.
Yes, I am humbled. I had forgotten who wrote the post on the other blog explaining where she was.
In fact, alameida fan did not say anything false (unless you consider the implicit claim to be an Alameida fan)--it's just that if he (?) were a real fan, he'd have known the answer to the question he asked.
Hey! No fair retracting before I correct you!
Bow before my superior nitpicking speed!
No, you didn't nitpick the same thing I did. You said "not necessarily false," I said "definitely not false." Boo-yah!
You'd think that with The Blogger With Ovaries out of the house, this place would go to the roosters quick. Not so much though.
Damn. You win -- I was addressing a.f.'s implication, rather than his words. Of course (perking up), his words are false on their face, unless you're prepared to accept that all else is as dross. Given that the Cuban sandwich I just ate was indubitably not as dross, you lose again!
(Matt, please don't be funny when I have a mouthful of beverage. Thanks.)
I think 'as dross' is contextually determined. Compared to Alameida, even your Cuban sandwich is as dross. Is it not so?
28: When did I say anything funny?
I don't know about that. It was a pretty good sandwich. Does Alameida come with pickles?
Depends on how you use them. ATM. (Take that, 26!)
Unpickled cucumbers are more traditional, I thought.
(30: The nitpick wit was on a slow burn until your boo-yah, which boosted it enough to catalyze trans-nostril fluid dynamics.)
Well, there's the classic argument that a Cuban sandwich is better than Alameida.
Cubans are a tough and resilient people; I can't imagine they'd make very good sandwiches.
Nothing is better than Alameida.
A Cuban sandwich is better than nothing.
Therefore, a Cuban sandwich is better than Alameida.
(Doesn't that come out as sound in Heidegger's system?)
I certainly wasn't claiming that my sandwich was better than Alameida, only that it was not as dross compared to her postings. Dross doesn't have roast pork and ham.
36/38/39 make it seem like you guys are some vaudeville comedy team. Which isn't so innacurate, I suppose.
Y'know, I was just in Florida for three days, and I didn't manage to one stinking Cubano. Dammit.
Chopper- you were in town, and you didn't stop by to say 'hi'? I'm offended!
mike -- didn't realize you were a Sarasotan.
Despite my flippant tone, it wasn't a pleasure trip, alas. My father-in-law was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer last week, and we made a trip to see him before he starts on chemo. The prognosis is better than I had gathered before we left, but it still isn't good.
Sorry to hear it, Chopper. Best to your family.
Chopper, not a whole lot Cubans in Sarasota, at least not compared to this side of the peninsula.
I'm sorry to hear about your father-in-law- best to him and all of you.
Thanks mike. I know there's a relative dearth of cubans and their sandwiches in Sarasota, but in visits past I've usually been able to scrounge one up. The genius who can someday advance sandwich technology to include a third type of pork--perhaps bacon?--in a single sandwich shall win my eternal admiration.
Well you know, if I've been missing the fourth(!) blog at which she posts, you could just, um, answer my first question and tell me where she's posting.
Hey, alameida fan. Go to each of the three blogs at which she posts, and read the first sentence of the top post at each. Time-saving hint: you can start at her first, home blog.
Well, no, the point of her posting here is that it's not associated with any of the other places she posts. At her first blog, her home blog, if you like, there's a post up top *right now* that explains why she hasn't been posting.
Well, I'm just stupid then, and I'll cop to it.