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hay y'all..................
Uh... Hi Crazy. Something I can do for you?
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ZOMBIE USER 12297
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no. just passin through.... metaphoricaly speakin
Ah.
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Do you have an opinion on either the current subject of "the Charlie One Night Stand" or the digression of Anthromorphic Clothiers?
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Do you have an opinion on either the current subject of "the Charlie One Night Stand" or the digression of Anthromorphic Clothiers?
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Random George
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i will say that situations like this are the reason i always go unfamiliar places in pairs. if i go to see a show in a new venue where i'm not likely to have friends, i won't go alone. if i'm going somewhere i'm known, i don't worry so much, because i have friends who will watch out for me and i watch out for them. though i rarely drink when i'm out at a club, even water's not safe any more. i know two people who've been hit with strange substances. one in water, one in a coke. one girl had a friend with her who noticed her acting strangely and took her home to sleep it off, and one called her boyfriend on her cell phone and said, 'i feel kind of funny.' he asked her if her drink had been handled by anyone other than her, and when she said yes, he told her, 'get out of the concert, and talk to me the whole way while you walk home.' it's stupid to go out drinking or not drinking if you don't have a steady friend to watch your back.
i fear this will end up in another 'drinking vs. not drinking' debacle, but my point is that if people choose to drink, the buddy system can change lives. it's like a designated driver. you have a designated sober person who makes sure no one takes advantage. as the usual dsp, i won't keep people from stage diving, or dancing on tables, or telling off-color jokes to clergy, but i won't let them go home with someone they didn't plan to go home with when the evening started. my job is not to prevent embarrassment, but to prevent serious and life-changing mistakes. it's a good world to me, because less than one time in twenty will i have to detach some sharkling from a friend, but i'm really glad to be along that other ninety-five percent of the time if it means i get to be there for the five. if the girl had taken along a friend she trusted, she might have avoided this situation.
my thinking on it? i think it went one of two ways. either charlie was so drunk all he could do was pass out, or deep down he's actually not a total sleaze, and he wouldn't take advantage of someone who couldn't resist. he is enough of a jerk to take advantage of a situation (and let her think she'd done what she's too shy to ask him about), but maybe not of a person. he does have a playboy image to protect, you know, so if a girl was to be leaving his room in the morning, it just wouldn't do his rep any good for people to find out she'd just slept off a bender instead of giving in to his masculine charm and engaging in a night of passionate abandon.
my other question: not to be horribly indelicate, but unless she's the sort of woman who'd be a lot less bothered by the prospect of having slept with charlie, a woman can tell when she's had sex, or even a heavy session of fooling around. why couldn't she?
peace out,
geo
i fear this will end up in another 'drinking vs. not drinking' debacle, but my point is that if people choose to drink, the buddy system can change lives. it's like a designated driver. you have a designated sober person who makes sure no one takes advantage. as the usual dsp, i won't keep people from stage diving, or dancing on tables, or telling off-color jokes to clergy, but i won't let them go home with someone they didn't plan to go home with when the evening started. my job is not to prevent embarrassment, but to prevent serious and life-changing mistakes. it's a good world to me, because less than one time in twenty will i have to detach some sharkling from a friend, but i'm really glad to be along that other ninety-five percent of the time if it means i get to be there for the five. if the girl had taken along a friend she trusted, she might have avoided this situation.
my thinking on it? i think it went one of two ways. either charlie was so drunk all he could do was pass out, or deep down he's actually not a total sleaze, and he wouldn't take advantage of someone who couldn't resist. he is enough of a jerk to take advantage of a situation (and let her think she'd done what she's too shy to ask him about), but maybe not of a person. he does have a playboy image to protect, you know, so if a girl was to be leaving his room in the morning, it just wouldn't do his rep any good for people to find out she'd just slept off a bender instead of giving in to his masculine charm and engaging in a night of passionate abandon.
my other question: not to be horribly indelicate, but unless she's the sort of woman who'd be a lot less bothered by the prospect of having slept with charlie, a woman can tell when she's had sex, or even a heavy session of fooling around. why couldn't she?
peace out,
geo
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Probably because she was
1)off-kilter from her hangover
2)freaked out by waking up in the wrong bed
3)doubly freaked out by her missing undergarments
4)Not "experienced," so she doesn't really know what the morning after sex feels like....
5)Too busy scrubbing down in a boiling shower ("unclean, uncleeeeaannn!!!!) to consider how her body does or does not feel.
Besides which, there are plenty of other horrific scenarios other than actual intercourse which could come to mind.
1)off-kilter from her hangover
2)freaked out by waking up in the wrong bed
3)doubly freaked out by her missing undergarments
4)Not "experienced," so she doesn't really know what the morning after sex feels like....
5)Too busy scrubbing down in a boiling shower ("unclean, uncleeeeaannn!!!!) to consider how her body does or does not feel.
Besides which, there are plenty of other horrific scenarios other than actual intercourse which could come to mind.
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Jess Ragan
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Clothing, etc.
I'm entitled to my opinion too, and I personally feel that clothing would be less important to an animal than a human being. Sure, there are more practical uses for clothes, but if I were covered with a thick coat of hair, I'd avoid wearing much unless it were absolutely necessary.
To address Squeaky Bunny's parting comment... I never really understood why monkeys and apes need to wear diapers in captivity. They're supposed to be smarter than all the other animals that don't need them, right? Maybe it has something to do with the primates' tendency to fling their droppings once they've deposited them...
JR
To address Squeaky Bunny's parting comment... I never really understood why monkeys and apes need to wear diapers in captivity. They're supposed to be smarter than all the other animals that don't need them, right? Maybe it has something to do with the primates' tendency to fling their droppings once they've deposited them...
JR
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Squeaky Bunny
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The poo at house corners
Easily enough answered.
Partly, because as you said, they like to do things like fling their feces and urinate wherever they feel like it. (and they feel like doing it quite often)
And partly because the people that they are around do not want to be urinated or deficated on. (of course, YMMV)
Monkeys also have a habit of doing quite a bit of other rather obnoxious things that squicks most people off and diapers keep them from doing a number of them.
No one has impugned your right to an opinion. I just stated that there is a valid reason for an animal to have clothing put on themselves sometimes.
And if you ever have been around monkeys for any length of time you might even agree with me on a point or two.
Or, if you would, please stand there long enough for me to get my arm limbered up and the range figured out.
Partly, because as you said, they like to do things like fling their feces and urinate wherever they feel like it. (and they feel like doing it quite often)
And partly because the people that they are around do not want to be urinated or deficated on. (of course, YMMV)
Monkeys also have a habit of doing quite a bit of other rather obnoxious things that squicks most people off and diapers keep them from doing a number of them.
No one has impugned your right to an opinion. I just stated that there is a valid reason for an animal to have clothing put on themselves sometimes.
And if you ever have been around monkeys for any length of time you might even agree with me on a point or two.
Or, if you would, please stand there long enough for me to get my arm limbered up and the range figured out.
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Finally...
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Good evening.
Why doesn't Kay just go to a gynecologist to check?
If she didn't have sex, she's in the clear.
If she did, well, at least she's free of the uncertainty.
Until next time, remember:
I AM THE J.A.M.
Good evening.
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Good evening.
Why doesn't Kay just go to a gynecologist to check?
If she didn't have sex, she's in the clear.
If she did, well, at least she's free of the uncertainty.
Until next time, remember:
I AM THE J.A.M.
Good evening.
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Well, Jess, noone is saying you can't have an opinion. I'm just pointing out you are going to have problems reconciling Ralph's comic to your opinion and vice versa. Ralph's animal characters really aren't. They require clothes to protect them from the elements, they sweat, they visibly blush - all in all they're furry humans with occasional quirks. No outward signs of instincts, no predator/prey behaviors, heck if you changed the Todd boys to look like sheep it wouldn't change a thing in the comic.
Now, if this comic was the Suburban Jungle I'd agree with you.
Now, if this comic was the Suburban Jungle I'd agree with you.
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UncleMonty
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There's no "right" way to depict cartoon characters, because they are imaginary. If your fantasy creature wears clothing and another's don't, it doesn't matter. In "Pogo" we had a naked, cigar-smoking alligator who never once tried to eat the opossum main character, while in "Kevin and Kell" that same cigar-smoking alligator would likely be wearing a business suit, and the opossum would have been a business lunch.
Just kick back and enjoy the ride.
Just kick back and enjoy the ride.
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AtlantaMike
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AtlantaMike, that only works because they themselves never brought such things up. That's part of the problem here is that these things are coming up. Therefore, this is one part which cannot be swept away as unimportant and eminently ignorable. Joel (and, later, Mike) never did those "other science facts" on camera and they were never used as plot devices or character indicators.AtlantaMike wrote:I'll just kinda paraphrase part of the opening lyrics to Mystery Science Theatre 3000...
Since those very things are integral parts of Ralph's comics (remember the "fur is murder" girl of UtLT?) then the reader must be cognizant of them for certain segments or punchlines to have the desired effect - humor.
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I just think that too often, folks get so bogged down in little details like that they forget to just enjoy the story as put forth. Ya gotta just learn to let yer brains suspend beleif for a little while. That's what let's us be entertained. I get all the nit-picky details I can eat in my daily drudgery. 
As I once told a person years ago that was asking too many "why s it like this?" questions about a story universe I had made, I just told them, "Hey, it's *my* universe, and it's that way because I say so."
Just remember folks, to never forget to have fun with it.
AtlantaMike
As I once told a person years ago that was asking too many "why s it like this?" questions about a story universe I had made, I just told them, "Hey, it's *my* universe, and it's that way because I say so."
Just remember folks, to never forget to have fun with it.
AtlantaMike