As a fellow turtle owner/herpiphile, I really enjoyed this story - this guy is a great friend to turtles everywhere.

I feel left out.

Ahhh, that brings back memories. When I was a kid I had a tee shirt of that first image. One of my favorite memories was coming out of "Journey Into Imagination" and playing with my sister and friends in the jumping-water fountain outside, getting soaked and having all the black dye from that tee shirt run all over our arms and legs.

Parents weren't too fond of that, but I thought it was a hoot.

Presale PW for LA is "pink"

These guys are really on the ball with the presale passwords.

(Don't email me asking for presale passwords, nobody gives me them. I just see them posted on the site I just linked.)

I DID say "one of the"... :)

Oh damn, I used to do GEnie in '93 and '94 too but I didn't really hang out in the comics area. I was with the Disney World geeks back then.

Oh man, good times. Good times on my old LC3 in grade 8.

This show is ALL new material. I believe there are some new sketches featuring old characters, but all the sketches are newly written for this show, in the spirit of their formative days performing at the Rivoli in Toronto when they would write a new show every week.

I can't wait. I am drooling with excitement.

That story was brilliant.

Hee hee hee hee.

My dad, the most curmudgeonly old science fiction nerd on the planet, says: The time of history you are living in today has not replaced the old Horn & Hardart automats with better food unless you go to a restaurant. Fast food places have lowered the quality of food and forced the old automats out of business but have failed to offer the public better food for their money. Sometimes the future is not as good as the past.

He's old. :D

This clip shows the one on 42nd and 3rd in Manhattan - the last one, closed in 1991. *sniff*

Why do posts keep disappearing? The inside-out teddy post disappeared too. :(

There's a woman named A who works in my office. That's her whole, legal, on-her-birth-certificate, given first name. I think it's kinda neat.

"This password must be given if you are ever asked by a fellow member, "Are you a Turtle?" You MUST then reply "You bet your sweet ass I am." If you do not give the password in full because of embarassment or some other reason, you forfeit a beverage of his choice. So always remember the password. "

This blew my mind. This was an inside joke between me and my mom, something she told me once when we were visiting the Air & Space Museum in Washington DC. We were looking at astronaut stuff and she told me that astronauts always ask eachother this question, but that I shouldn't tell my sister because the answer was too "grown-up". So it was a secret joke between she and I for years.

I had no idea it was based on a secret society. I'm kind of blown away right now.

"This password must be given if you are ever asked by a fellow member, "Are you a Turtle?" You MUST then reply "You bet your sweet ass I am." If you do not give the password in full because of embarassment or some other reason, you forfeit a beverage of his choice. So always remember the password. "

This blew my mind. This was an inside joke between me and my mom, something she told me once when we were visiting the Air & Space Museum in Washington DC. We were looking at astronaut stuff and she told me that astronauts always ask eachother this question, but that I shouldn't tell my sister because the answer was too "grown-up". So it was a secret joke between she and I for years.

I had no idea it was based on a secret society. I'm kind of blown away right now.

@207 - RIGHT ON! My parents gave me an unusual one 28 years ago and it's done me very, very well. Poesy's name's gonna be one of the great gifts she gets!

Now, remember, start her on Disney parks early, but she won't remember anything until age 3 or so, so make sure THAT trip is *really* special. And don't neglect the East Coast; Epcot at age 3 is one of my favorite memories.

She's beautiful, Cory! Congratulations to you three! Welcome to the world, Poesy!

I got a copy of this for Christmas, and it was my first exposure to the strip. I am now obsessed - this guy is a demented genius.

IRC@2 -- it wasn't U of T, it was SEED Alternative School, a secondary school. 1988-1992

Dave Foley's alma mater! Nice.

@ #6 -

My last trip to the US had me walking through a bunch of dumb fat people

What did their size have to do with it...?

Why would you want to sit on a cold toilet seat? I'm always thankful to get one that has been pre-warmed.

@ #4- no, Carousel of Progress is in a different building. "Stitch's Great Escape", nee "Alien Encounter", was formerly the home of "Mission to Mars".

(Geek alert? Busted.)

Aw, DUDE. Another reason to wish I was in SF. First, I learn that Kids in the Hall are playing at SF Sketchfest next month. And now this awesome-looking exhibit on my favorite artist?

NO FAIR.

And, @#3 - this provides its own "unicorn chaser", in a way... if you think about it...

Yikes, what a bunch of squeamish squeamies. It's just a tail. I think it's kinda neat.

Anonymous#16, clearly you didn't click my link if you had to ask that. ;)

I hate to do this, but I must link, this video is all I could think of when I read this: I Ain't Gonna Spread for no Roses.

(It's an image about halfway through the clip. You'll know what I mean immediately.)

This one makes me happy.

Don't you dare!

This came listed as a recent "Web Zen" on BB and I've been obsessed with it ever since. I wish there was a better payoff, is all.

Thank you, Xeni. I love you again.

("You" = Boing Boing. I never stopped loving YOU. *glares barefully at Mark*)

I HATE YOU NOW.

(Not really, but for god's sake! I have a PHOBIA! When I was 13 an albino roach dropped from the kitchen ceiling ONTO MY SHOULDER. I haven't been able to eat "albino" versions of foods since, it scared me so much. Please, please, I NEED the chaser. Just adding this comment made the picture flash before my eyes twice more.)

I figure "aeroplane" is Cory's Canadian showing - they sometimes favour the English spelling, doncha know...

Ahhh. Now at level 18. This is insidious.

I can't beat level 10 of gravity pods. It's driving me mad. Anyone?

Holy crap! I've traveled with a poster tube, too. I'm a middle-aged caucasian woman, though. I also discovered after the last time I flew that I had forgotten and left one of those metal nail files in my purse. TSA didn't even bat an eye. It seems like there's no consistency, or sanity, involved in this system.

Heh. I flew from NYC to Atlanta, from Atlanta to Miami, and the same way back, with pepper spray in my purse. (I had forgotten it was there.) Not a peep from the TSA.

But I was stopped once for carrying a latch hook that I used to weave in the ends of my knitting. Go figure.

Hot diggety dog!

I just came back from WDW's "Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party" and their parade is pretty great. (Pictures here.)

I was very, very impressed by the Haunted Mansion section especially. The groundskeeper from the graveyard scene (complete with a real live dog parading down Main Street was my favorite - unfortunately my best picture of them didn't come out so great.)

Arm of the Starfish is a favorite. Also Dragons in the Waters. Breathtaking.

She's one of the authors who changed how I saw the world.

I can barely concentrate on work, I am so grieved. She was by far my favorite author, ever.

I have a letter from her somewhere, wish I could find it. She was the only author I ever wrote to.

Not a monkey, an ape.

I love how, as someone in the Flickr comments to the Gates photo points out, there's an Apple Mac in the background on Bill's picture.

Reminds me of an exchange from Newsradio (paraphrased):

Lisa: Not everyone is attracted to muscle-bound meatheads.
Beth: Yeah, and not everyone has a pinup of Stephen Hawking on their bedroom wall...

"We fear change. Change is bad." -Garth Algar

I like it. I'll get used to it. Nice to see the comments back, but I fear I'll be skipping over a lot of petty nonsense.

Which actually also passes the time, so whatevs.