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Chris Says He Wasn’t Abducted

Cartoon characters are party animals, and they attract the best kind of party goers. Memories of characters that filled up our lives lasted the entire conversation. And, as usual, the Link Leak virus hit again. The Link Leak Virus is a special strain of the indie virus with blogtipping mutations that occur in threes. We didn’t seem to mind though.

Chris was back from his alien abduction, but he was acting a little strangely. I can’t say exactly how because my DSL went. That meant I had to play via dial-up, so my perceptions were markedly slow.

Welcome to all of the new folks who came. It was great fun having you!

Cool links were shared.

You Are About to Enter Toon Town

Here are a few of the things that were said.
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katiebird Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:01 pm e
So, huh… “What’s up doc?” (ducking)

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Joe Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:15 pm e
Flintstones, meet the Flintstones… the modern stone age fam-i-ly.
From the, town of Bedrock…
I really do know all the words.

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Service Untitled – Douglas Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:23 pm e
Joe, I’m actually fairly good at the piano (and a good typist as well), but the Flinstones theme is not my best work.

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Joe Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:25 pm e
Ok, It’s still early…
Five FAVORITE CARTOON’s of all time…

1. Popeye
2. Flintstones
3. Jetson’s
4. Tom & Jerry (not Ben and Jerry)
5. RoadRunner

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Tony Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:27 pm e
I’ll betray my own age (or lack thereof) by giving my fave 5:

1. Transformers
2. GI Joe
3. G-Force
4. Naruto
5. TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

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Danielle Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:30 pm e
Hi all, first open mike, and just to be annoyingly different, I prefer anime (Japanese “cartoon characters”), but that doesn’t stop me from enjoying a good 1940s WB cartoon or two. And Disney’s Sleeping Beauty.

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ShadowsEdge Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:31 pm e
*chuckles* cartoons, eh? Have to admit that some of mine are anime – Battle of planets, anyone?

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Danielle Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:36 pm e
Tony — Probably not your top 5, let’s put it that way. I don’t watch a lot of anime, I’m more into manga, but:

1. Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
2. Full Moon wo Sagashite
3. Tsubasa Chronicle
(and in no particular order hereafter, but ranking alongside 1 and 2)
4. Laputa, Castle in the Sky
5. Porco Rosso

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ME Strauss Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:37 pm e
Sorry, to be gone there.
I lost my DSL. I’m now on dial up!
Doug, please put AT&T in the cage for me.

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Tony Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:39 pm e
Liz — what happened? “Lost DSL?”
Wow … kudos to the fact that you had backup.
How many others of us have a “backup” system?
(I don’t have the foresight).

[snip]

Futurama, SouthPark, the Simpsons and Family Guy
Speed Racer and Johnny Quest

[snip]

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ME Strauss Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:43 pm e
Thanks Tony,
Yeah, I’m in the wall with my telephone. Ugh!
I like Bugs Bunny. I used to do the Bugs Bunny dance that he did with the cannibals to freak the editors out. They would just look at me and say “Bizarre!”

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ShadowsEdge Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:44 pm e
Sounds like you’d fit right in where I work Liz!

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katiebird Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:44 pm e
(raising hand) We’ve got an emergency dial-up account. It’s come in handy several times.

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candice Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:50 pm e
Joe, Robot Chicken? In the middle of the night on cartoon network? (Some of the bars in n.o. play cartoon network at night.)

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ShadowsEdge Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:50 pm e
Liz,
I don’t *laughs* I just make cryptic comments. But I think there’s a co-worker or two who’s been known to warble a show tune or three

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ME Strauss Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:55 pm e
Tony,
We’ve decided that everyone from Canada knows everyone everywhere.

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ShadowsEdge Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:55 pm e
Is anyone keeping tabs on the new Transformers movie they’re working on? From what I’ve heard, I’m almost afraid to see it when it comes out.

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Advice Librarian Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:55 pm e
Hey, gang! I brought tomato soup with macaroni in case anyone wants – though I think I overdid it on the macaroni. It looks suspiciously like macaroni in tomato sauce…

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Tony Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:56 pm e
Shadowsedge: Yeah, I’ve heard some scary-bad things about that Transformers movie. Scary in a sad way
Mind you, I’ll still see it … but the hype is sad, not mad. (Mad == good)

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Advice Librarian Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:57 pm e
Oooh, transformers! Huh, what’ve you heard that makes you worry? The promo bits and production stills I’ve seen so far looks really good – though they’ve “compressed” the story somewhat in terms of where exactly the transformers are coming from…

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ShadowsEdge Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:58 pm e
They’re changing Bumblebee into a camero! At least they got Cullen to come back and voice Optimus Prime though

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Tony Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:58 pm e
Liz — actually, it is a state secret that Canadians do in fact know everyone from everywhere.
What is also not known is that we know everyone from any*time*.
That’s right — it crosses space/time.
Our taxes are high … but what with universal health care, omniscience is sort of the frosting on the cake.

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Joe Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:11 pm e
Here we go again, either everyone is typing at the same time, or the Internet Crashed…

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HART (1-800-HART) Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:11 pm e
~wave! Hey everybody ~~

Pssst Tony: I’ve been sent by the Canadian Thought Police Council .. you weren’t supposed to reveal anything about “space and time” yet ..

HART’s favorite “currently running” Cartoons:
Family Guy
Futurama
Home Movies
Wrong Coast
Sons of Butchers

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Chris Cree Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:13 pm e
Mutiny makes me very angreeeyyy!

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ME Strauss Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:17 pm e
CHRIS!!!
The aliens brought you back!!
Are you Chris??
What would you name a donkey?

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Chris Cree Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:20 pm e
Hey all! I figured if I was going to be abducted by aliens last week then perhaps I could come back as Marvin Martian this week. (I hope that was a good impersonation.)

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Advice Librarian Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:22 pm e
“I yam what I yam, I’m Popeye the sailor man!”

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Joe Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:23 pm e
Hey Chris, I thought you were trying to be a Roman Centurian with a Ray Gun.

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ME Strauss Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:23 pm e
You aren’t Chris, ARE YOU????

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Chris Cree Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:25 pm e
Yep. I’m Chris. At least I’m wearing his underwear anyway.

ME Strauss Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:27 pm e
The real Chris would know what to name a donkey and he would have picked on Joe at least three times by now.
What did you do with Chris and why are you wearing his underwear?

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mike dunn Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:29 pm e
hi all – just got home and thought i’d put in my 2 cents…
so the coolest job i ever had was working for hanna-barbera, when my boys were very young – gave me a built in excuse for watching cartoons anytime.

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Chris Cree Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:30 pm e
Actually He had a brain flush driving back from Jacksonville tonight. I think he OD’d on the highest quality motivational CD’s and now naming asses is significantly beneath him.
Although he seems to have a weird fixation on the word booger tonight for some reason

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Advice Librarian Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:31 pm e
It’s a Chris PodPerson-Cree this time, then?

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katiebird Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:38 pm e
HART, are you me?

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HART (1-800-HART) Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:43 pm e
Katiebird.. no… i’m your long lost twin brother .. and we went to different schools together.

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Ben Yoskovitz Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:45 pm e
Dang it Joe. I knew you’d ask me.

Thundercats was cool.
Transformers. X-men.
Dragon Tales is hooking me with their 60s chill-out theme song.
Smurfs in French. Which is Les Stroumphs (pronounced: ’str-oom-fs’) — which sounds cool.

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mike dunn Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:49 pm e
thundercats was very cool – i was @ hb when it was created…

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D.T. Kelly Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:50 pm e
I admit I didn’t like the pilot of Eureka. But it has started to grow on me, and is being TiVo-ed as I type this.
The show has some interesting aspects.

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ME Strauss Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:57 pm e
Hey, Anyone say Hi!
to DT?
What are we a bunch of cretins??

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Chris Cree Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:59 pm e
Actually, Liz, my great-grandmother told me before she stepped into the ever-after that we were distantly related to a clan of CREEtins from the old country…
Hey DT!

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Advice Librarian Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:14 pm e
Hey, long is good – and how does barbequing pizza work? Do you have a recipe?

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Ben Yoskovitz Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:17 pm e
Ok folks. I’d love to stay up, and I feel like I haven’t contributed a darn thing tonight – except the Stroumphs bit which many some people didn’t know.

Nevertheless, I’m beat. My eyelids are closing and I’ve got BBQ on the brain. Literally. My wife just smacked me with a piece of BBQ pork I was trying to eat. She got down those stairs FAST when she heard the fridge open. So I need to fix up my head, try and sneak a bite to eat and crash.
Next week I hope to be in better form! Night!

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katiebird Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:18 pm e
AL — I’m not the cook, but I think what we did was cook the crust for a little while first, then add the toppings and let it cook a while longer on a low, low fire. But, I’ll have to ask mister when he gets back.

It was about 12 years ago and while it was fun to figure that stuff out (we did a corn suffle (sp) also) we never did it again once we had the oven back.

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katiebird Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:18 pm e
AL — I’m not the cook, but I think what we did was cook the crust for a little while first, then add the toppings and let it cook a while longer on a low, low fire. But, I’ll have to ask mister when he gets back.

It was about 12 years ago and while it was fun to figure that stuff out (we did a corn suffle (sp) also) we never did it again once we had the oven back.

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ME Strauss Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:26 pm e
New blog, Chris’s underwear, nice to Joe, no Jack, booger.
Where is the pod . . . where is the pod?

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Chris Cree Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:32 pm e
Liz, I’m definately sleep deprived enough to be Chris. There’s no pod (not even an iPod!)
I’ll do you one better, Joe. The new blog is going to explore success and all that is wrapped up in it. You can check it out at SuccessCREEations.com

It needs a lot of work. But I’m not waiting ’till I get it all worked out this time. Truly a work in progress.

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Trisha Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:52 pm e
I’m fine Chris – thanks for asking!

Is Joe still here? I believe you mentioned Popeye earlier – the town I’m from is the ‘home of Popeye’, the guy who created him was from there.
!
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Joe Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:53 pm e
I figured it out… The time warp works on the transition from one 25 count to the next.
If you don’t flip the page you just keep seeing the same thing over and over again.
I knew if I kept looking for an answer, it would finally come to me.

Hi Trisha, sorry, didn’t want to forget to say Hi, Liz gets upset if we forget to welcome people into the conversation.

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Chris Cree Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:54 pm e
So Popeye the Sailor was from no where near the sea? Who’da thunk it?!

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Trisha Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:56 pm e
Three of the characters were named after people from the town, Popeye, Olive Oyl and Wimpy.

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Joe Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 10:00 pm e
Ok, another question…
Why do the old cartoon male characters have no pants and the female have no tops?

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Advice Librarian Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 10:08 pm e
It’s because pants are really, really, hard to draw and worse to animate – and the techniques used in early animation didn’t lend themselves very well to spending the time needed to do it right, I think.

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webduck Says:
August 23rd, 2006 at 1:26 am e
I am a little off-beat in my cartoon favs.

1) I really liked Mr. Peabody on the Bullwinkle show.
2) The Martian cracked me up.
3) Loved Tom and Jerry too, Joe.
4) Popeye (along with Peepeye, and and Poopye, can’t remember the third one)
5) Scooby do

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Samuel John Klein Says:
August 23rd, 2006 at 2:02 am e
As long as we’re all putting in our favorites, one suddenly springs to mind. It maybe only ran a season or two and it was in the mid-70s, and it was called “The Adventures of Waldo Kitty”, and it combined two of my favorite things; animation and…well, kitties.

The format was pretty simple really; live action kitties with voices over that you were supposed to believe that the kitties in the film are saying to themselves and each other. There was Waldo, who was a black-and-white mediumhair who was kind of timid but had a wonderful fantasy life (like Walter Mitty, of course), a Persian who was Waldo’s putative girlfriend (it’s always a Persian, you know), and a big brute of a snub-nosed bull terrier who was always pushing poor Waldo around.

They’d have a situation where Waldo had a a problem, then the live action would dissolve to a cartoon where Waldo would play a heroic persona-anything from a kitty pirate to a kitty Captain Kirk-then he’d get clever, inspired by his inner adventure, and beat the bully and win the girl.

Real sweet stuff. Brings a tear to my eye right now just thinking of it.

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ME Strauss Says:
August 23rd, 2006 at 6:03 am e
Waldo Kitty! Samuel John!
That just reminded me of . . .

MIghty Mouse!!!

But still the cartoon that comes to mind first when people mention cartoons is this. Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam are in the Old West. They meet in the aisle of a moving train.

Yosimite Sam puts his hands at ready near his guns and says to Bugs, “Draw!”

Bugs pulls a pad of paper out of nowhere and draw a picture of a gun.

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MamaDuck Says:
August 23rd, 2006 at 7:24 am e
LOL you all are too funny! Sorry, we are still sick so I went to bed last night rather than jump on over here – I did think about you and hope to be around next Tuesday night

And so ended the night without an appearance by . . . Roger Rabbit.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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