From crispen@INTERNIC.NET Fri Feb 27 22:13:22 1998
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 05:27:27 -0500
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Subject: TOURBUS - 5 FEB 1997 - COMICS! :)
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TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP: Comics!
TODAY'S ADDRESS(ES):
http://features.yahoo.com/comics
http://www.comiczone.com/
http://www.comiczone.com/editoons/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/comics/wiley/
Howdy, y'all!
A few alert TOURBUS riders will realize by the time stamp in today's header
that today's post is being written in the wee small hours of the morning.
The reason for this is that your fearless bus driver recently ate what is
quite possibly the sweetest substance known to man, and I have been
bouncing off the walls ever since. What, exactly, is this hyper-sweet
substance? Well, it is hard to describe, but I can tell you how to
replicate it in your own kitchen:
1. Pour yourself a heaping bowl of Apple Cinnamon Cheerios (a
breakfast cereal that is available all over North America).
2. Eat the cereal, but try to leave the milk in the bowl.
3. Pour some more Apple Cinnamon Cheerios into the bowl (but
don't add any more milk!).
4. Eat _that_ cereal, again trying to leave the milk in the bowl.
5. Finally, drink the leftover milk.
Trust me ... much excitement will follow. :)
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For some reason eating gobs of sugar always reminds me of Sunday mornings
when I was a kid. Back then I would wake up, eat of bunch of
sugar-enriched cereal, and then spend the rest of the morning carefully
studying the Sunday comic strips in my local newspaper.
Anyway, since I am currently in a Cheerios-induced sugar coma, I figured it
would be fun to take our little bus of Internet happiness to a couple of
the free comic strip archives on the Web. Our first stop is at Yahoo's new
daily comics page at
http://features.yahoo.com/comics
To be completely honest, Yahoo's comic selection is pretty weak, but I
expect that to change in the future. Right now, Yahoo's comic page only
displays one daily cartoon (Dilbert), but it does have pointers to other
comic strips online, including Yahoo's own archives of
- Luann,
- Nancy,
- Marmaduke, and
- Reality check
and United Media's archive of
- Peanuts,
- Robotman,
- Over the Hedge,
- For Better or For Worse, and
- Dilbert (of course).
Actually, if you want to check out United Media's entire collection of
online comic strips, you can bypass Yahoo altogether and point your Web
browser to
http://www.comiczone.com/
United Media is the company that distributes most of the comic strips that
appear in your local newspaper. United Media's two most popular comic
strips are Peanuts and Dilbert, so their Comic Zone Web site heavily
promotes both of these strips. But, if you take a look at the pull-down
menu at the top of the Comic Zone Web page you'll see that United Media
offers *29* different comic strips that you can view online. Best of all,
most of these comic strips are updated daily ... and the entire United
Media Comic Zone Web site is _FREE_! :)
United Media also offers a pretty impressive collection of editorial
cartoons at
http://www.comiczone.com/editoons/
I'm not sure if these will appeal to our overseas riders, though. A lot of
these editorial cartoons are anglo- and US-centric (a couple of the ones
that I saw a few moments ago dealt with topics like the recent execution of
Karla Faye Tucker in Texas and the Oprah Winfrey "beef defamation" lawsuit
which is also happening in Texas).
As exciting as United Media's Comic Zone is, though, it still doesn't offer
my favorite comic strip of all time: Non Sequitur by Wiley. For a long
time, Non Sequitur was only available in "real" newspapers (the ones that
are actually printed on _paper_!) and on pay Web sites like the San Jose
Mercury News' Mercury Center (http://www.sjmercury.com/).
Well, I am happy to announce that Non Sequitur is now available on the Web
... for FREE! Just point your Web browser to
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/comics/wiley/
That is a pretty long URL, but believe me when I say it is worth the extra
effort involved with typing it in. The Non Sequitur Web page has links to:
- Today's "Sequitoon" (updated daily)
- Past "Sequtitoons" (a _HUGE_ archive) and
- "Wiley Talk," a Web-based message board (that, shockingly, no
one seems to have used recently).
Well, that should keep you busy for a while! Have a safe and happy weekend!
Oh, by the way, if you are a TOURBUS Plus! subscriber (see
http://www.tourbus.com/plus.htm for more information about the Plus Bus), I
am happy to announce that Bob's post this Saturday will include an
interview with one of the ... um ... "tallest" persons on the Net. :)
TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP: Comics!
TODAY'S ADDRESS(ES):
http://features.yahoo.com/comics
http://www.comiczone.com/
http://www.comiczone.com/editoons/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/comics/wiley/
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TODAY'S SOUTHERN WORD OF THE DAY
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WAULD (adjective). Not tame.
Usage: "He turned out to be a sweet feller, but his beg brother is
just wauld."
(Special thanks to Lorri Malone for today's wurd)
YOU CAN FIND ALL OF THE OLD SOUTHERN WORDS OF THE DAY ON THE SOUTHERN WORD
HOMEPAGE AT http://www.brigadoon.com/~crispen/word.html
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