Big Top by Rob Harrell for October 04, 2011

Hey breakfast menu people: in honor of today’s strip, how about some clown growth hormone sausage? Yum.

Nuc ? No? Guess I won’t get anything done today….So is Stucco blowing his nose? cuz CGA would only increase his size…. cartoon physics . ….. never mind

Good Morning big G, Grog, Josh, frumdebag and Plods! Its a bit cloudy here in Central California but very nice and cool.

Good Morning, big G, frumdebang, Plods & Knightman.

I think I’d pass on anything that had clown growth hormone in it.

PopIt’s National Golf Day! Everybody go out and hit some balls with a stick!GOODMORNINGTRIBEANDALL and GROG!.toontourpooph

Good morning to all who are here.My brother-in-law will not see this. Wishing him a

HAPPY BIRTHDAY today.Sad day for him planning his dad’s path to heaven.

Good Morning, ♥Kab♥ Well, in the event he does see it, Happy Birthday, ♥Kab♥’s Brother-in-Law.

Good morning, Everyone.Love to have a Tri Tip Omelet, Big G! But, you’ll have to throw in some DWFNC to wake me up first!.Our condolences, Kab, and Happy Birthday to your Brother-in-Law..Doctor’s visit went well……..second surgery is healing nicely!

Morning All!

That is one obscenely large clown. If Wink was to trip him, would he be arrested for making an obscene clown fall?

Good Morning, Doctor Toon, Montana Lady, Digital Frog & Donkey

Um… can anyone tell me where to find the destructions for font changes other than bold? I’m got soooo confuzzled when GC changed the rules.Please?

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡♪ Hello TRIBE! ♪Hello to all those here!

I’ll have the breakfast pizza and DWFNC, thanks big G.

Happy Birthday to Kab’s Brother in Law!

Montana Lady – That’s great news to hear!!!!!

Good Morning, everybody who’s here!

(esp: Plods)

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It is confuzzling about the codes.

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As I understand it, html codes mostly work, like < i > and < h1 > (less the spaces, of course). Italics is also underline(_) before and after, and bold is asterisks(*).

Except that there has to be a space before the first underline or asterisk. Or something like that. (And multiple ones(*) no longer work like they used to.)

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< a href=“url” > works for embedded web links.

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Beyond that, I get lots fuzzier on what to use.

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My advice is to find a nice HTML code page and bookmark it for opening in another tab/window when you need something exotic. And experiment.

I do know that bold and the various headline fonts (h1, h2, h3 . . . h5) interact in odd ways, some turning red or making odd sizes—and even both.

Just gocomics trying to get us really discombobulated enough to stop using them, I guess?

Hah! That nearly worked!

Except, apparently, multiple *s get squisshed into one.

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I’ve also noticed that several ^s at the start of a line will become one, just like several line returns go to one—and one line return just vanishes.

And my “trademark” separater (++++s) will sometimes become a ±.

Oh, yes. I got sidetracked.

Hi, Sojo!

Happy birthday to ♥Kab’s♥ Brother in law, condolences to his family at their loss.

Good news and a “Hip! Hip! Horray!” to MT Lady—as well as thanks to MT Daughter for the updates while Mom was incapacitated.

Yay! I forgot that one still works. So as people ask intermitently, the last known sighting of Sir Lew (to my knowledge) is:

Lewreader commented on The Doozies 23 days ago

 It is morning Peoples!

Hi, LuvBFooFoo!

I agree:

It is morning!

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By the way, I didn’t suggest you do eggs in the microwave—I was just trying to come up with a safe way to do so. . . .

(hehehe!)

PlodsAssorted Coffee could very well include Doctor Toon’s World Famous Nuclear Coffee and Paint Remover. Maybe you should just try asking and find out? If it doesn’t, all you have to do is whistle or scream.

 BmonkI think I ruined another pot. My mom didn’t understand why I thought it was a good idea to get all my pots and pans from Good Will. I just think if you are going to ruin 6 or 10 pans a year, why spend a lot of money on them?

Hehehe! I agree: it’s cheaper to get cheap pots if you plan on ruining them.

But a really good pot can be so much nicer to cook with.

Maybe you need to buy a good set to hang in the kitchen? So everybody thinks you are a good cook?

Hello bmonk and LuvBFooFoo!

Hi, Donkey!

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I often think of the old children’s game, alternating between two persons:

“I am a gold lock.”

“I am a gold key.”

“I am a silver lock.”

“I am a silver key.”

“I am a brass lock.”

“I am a brass key.”

“I am a lead lock.”

“I am a lead key.”

“I am a don lock.”

“I am a don key!”

 Hello Sojo, Donkey Hotey, Bmonk & Plods*

Okay, it only works when it wants to work……..

Hello Donkey Hotey!

does that list include paper and pencil,

bat and ball

bit and bridle

Yup! Once in a while my message disappears. It seems especially fond of happening when it is a long message and I am on Fiend instead of my computer.

Thousand Island Dressing & ToothpasteThousand Island Dressing & Anything!!!

I think it takes a while for gocomics sometimes to get the message squeezled through that little wire into all the computers.

For me: don’t go together: Thousand Island Dressing and me.

Off to lunch; bbl!

No, I know what you mean—sometimes the comment doesn’t post until refreshing; other times it takes two or three minutes to appear, and often it comes aftre just a few seconds.

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And then there’s times—most often when I try to reply to someone—that “submit” doesn’t work, and the page has to be refreshed. In that case the text reappears, but not the “reply to xxxx”—but it still is a reply to that person when it does load.

Our weather has been strange lately.

Last week it looked like summer but felt like fall.

This week it looks more like fall, but feels like summer.

Donkey Hotey – I don’t use the Reply button but have had some problems with it when I did. I don’t use it because I don’t see a need for it and because of it they took away our Edit button. I’ve been off for awhile letting my ’puter do a task uninterupted.

Donkey Hotey – I have a small program that adds to your clipboard letting you store all the repeat items you want with them being easily accesed in only a couple of letters at most usually. For me it’s good as I can only type with one finger at a time.

This is it.

It’s free.

I find the “reply” does have more problems—but they usually get resolved with a refresh of the page. I’m using Firefox 7.0.1, if it matters.

Toothpaste especially doesn’t go with thousand island dressing when you combine both in your mouth at the same time. I almost threw up. Didn’t even manage to gross out my little brother because I couldn’t keep it in my mouth long enough.

The reply button only works once for me, then I have to refresh if I want to use it again on the same page, but I always get one shot. Maybe GC’s way of keeping the chatter down…< Snerk >

I might vaguely recall that hitting reply problem. I think it might even be why I decided not tho bother with the whole reply thing anyway. On Fiend if I have to refresh it sends me back to twenty comments and this and that so……

Phooey!

And the only alternative to edit is to copy the naughty post, delete the comment, paste the naughty post, spank it and click on submit.

And I had no problems using reply (famous last words. . . .)

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Update: I had to reload the page.

Hey! It is a lot more work now you show off! That is another thing they did between Gocomics and Android it is a pain in the finger to copy and repost!!!

Yup! That was way back when, though we did find out a few years ago that my youngest brother still can’t stand it when we open our mouths with food in them and show him. (giggles)

Hello Plods!

LuvBFooFoo – Once my brother mixed half hydrogen peroxide and half water and told me it would make a good mouthwash. I didn’t but it should make you throw up. (Also it shouldn’t be swallowed so I wouldn’t try it on someone.)

In our family, we first asked the traditional question, “Do you like sea-food?”

Then we let them see food.

LuvBFooFoo – First ask your little brother if he likes seafood. If he says yes then show him a mouth full of food.

I guess my comment was a little late!

It depends on the sibling whether he (she) likes it. And the age.

Some six-year-olds (either gender) find it hilarious. Some never do.

The other little brother put the front half of a crawdad in his mouth to show off to everyone. That was actually pretty neat, but it was riverfood. Alas!

No thanks. There are very few six-year-olds in the monastery.

Even counting just psychological age.

Yes, Bmonk maybe during the evening meal?

See you later Donkey Hotey.

Oh Phooey! Be a grown up! Bye Donkey Hotey

Later, Donkey!

You could just casually do it, and then pretend you didn’t. Since it is quiet time, no one would ask.

They would know.

And refuse to talk to me.

bmonk – Remember that if you want peace and quiet.

Okay, no more bad suggestions, I Be Good.

Good Evening, Tribe.

I never liked Thousand Island dressing or French for that matter. But then I could say that about most. I don’t like the thick & creamy ones. I eat Italian or put oil & vinegar mix on my salads

Good Evening Grog!

Hi Sojo

Grog – Are you done with the auditors now?

They’re out of the office but probably not completely out of our hair. My boss will be with them in Dallas next week.

The auditor that audited my plant was practically fresh out of school. No practical experience,

That sums it up nicely.

1Time for my zzzzzz’s.♪ P&L ♪≡≡ POOF! ≡≡

Good night, Sojo