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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 22, 2023 10:29:41 GMT -5
My wife surprised me with this tablet holder. She made it herself as my Birthday present. Nice! For me, that's the best kind of gift... the gift of someone's own talent and efforts. You can't put a price on that.
I have a construction paper-link chain Christmas ornament that my son made for me when he was 4 (he'll be 33 this year). It still goes on the tree every year. There's lots of memories tied up in that stuff.
We only put up a tiny Christmas tree that sits on top of my vintage radio/record player. 90% of the (very few) ornaments that can fit on it were made by my two younger sons or my grandkids. The others have similar sentimental value (we still have two ornaments left from the boxes of ornaments my wife and I bought for our first Christmas). So, yeah. And Happy Birthday, George.
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 22, 2023 12:12:09 GMT -5
Happy Birthday, Icctrombone ! Treat yourself to a Liefeld comic or two. But not this one...
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 22, 2023 12:15:57 GMT -5
Happy Birthday, Icctrombone ! Treat yourself to a Liefeld comic or two. But not this one... I have it .
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 22, 2023 12:24:15 GMT -5
Happy Birthday, Icctrombone ! Treat yourself to a Liefeld comic or two. But not this one... I have it . Well, that saves me a few bucks.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 22, 2023 13:35:01 GMT -5
I have it . Well, that saves me a few bucks. If you’re treating, I’ll get myself an original liefeld art piece.
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 22, 2023 13:45:46 GMT -5
Well, that saves me a few bucks. If you’re treating, I’ll get myself an original liefeld art piece. That'd be fine, but when was anything he ever drew original? Heehee.
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Post by impulse on Feb 22, 2023 14:26:22 GMT -5
OHhhhhhh, treat. I thought you said RETREAT from Liefeld art which makes a lot more sense.
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 22, 2023 15:17:00 GMT -5
Happy Birthday, Icctrombone ! Treat yourself to a Liefeld comic or two. But not this one... I have it . That keeps the rest of us safe from it!
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 22, 2023 16:11:12 GMT -5
You guys are mad because the feet on Captain America are flawless.
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 22, 2023 23:11:46 GMT -5
You guys are mad because the feet on Captain America are flawless. More like we are blinded by the 120 teeth..........
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 23, 2023 0:44:55 GMT -5
You guys are mad because the feet on Captain America are flawless. I dunno. To me it looks like he’s standing on a tile flaw.
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 27, 2023 11:35:27 GMT -5
You know, I was never a big fan of the Dilbert comic strip; but, I never expected it to end like it has. Yeesh!
Wonder what Al Capp would think?
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Post by Batflunkie on Feb 27, 2023 13:07:35 GMT -5
You know, I was never a big fan of the Dilbert comic strip; but, I never expected it to end like it has. Yeesh! I feel like I've said this before, but you never really can tell what kind of unyielding perspectives people have sometimes. I wonder how long Adams has felt this way and if he's just bottled it up for so long that it just now decided to bubble up to the surface
Makes me feel bad for enjoying the strip as well as his short lived cartoon on UPN
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2023 13:32:43 GMT -5
You know, I was never a big fan of the Dilbert comic strip; but, I never expected it to end like it has. Yeesh! I feel like I've said this before, but you never really can tell what kind of unyielding perspectives people have sometimes. I wonder how long Adams has felt this way and if he's just bottled it up for so long that it just now decided to bubble up to the surface
Makes me feel bad for enjoying the strip as well as his short lived cartoon on UPN
I was just thinking the same thing. I remember the strip was a common reference point for us office workers (much like the movie Office Space), particularly "back in the day" (hadn't read it in a long time). And my wife and I literally just pulled out our DVD set of the cartoon a few weeks back, but now I have that bad feeling you mentioned. Some things I can separate the creator as a person from their work, but this one is too much for me.
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Post by impulse on Feb 27, 2023 14:25:27 GMT -5
I feel like I've said this before, but you never really can tell what kind of unyielding perspectives people have sometimes. I wonder how long Adams has felt this way and if he's just bottled it up for so long that it just now decided to bubble up to the surface Makes me feel bad for enjoying the strip as well as his short lived cartoon on UPN
It really is surprising sometimes, particularly when the work they are known for seems so opposite the vile views they espouse. I also enjoyed Dilbert a lot in my earlier corporate career days. It had an authentic understanding of the experience. I've stopped reading in recent years, and even a few years ago I remember Adams getting kind of weird in the press, but I mostly just read the strip so didn't see much of it. But his recent tirade is... yikes. Selfishly, I wish these creators would shut up and keep their private views private so we can continue living in blissful ignorance. None of them is as fundamentally shocking to me as Orson Scott Card being a raging homophobe, though. I know I've said this on this board and elsewhere before, but my brain just short circuits. I cannot understand how the same person who had the capacity to understand empathy well enough to write "Ender's Game" could hold bigoted views toward a group. Sigh. Side note, no need to feel bad for enjoying the strip in the past before you knew. How could you? Unless my memory is very off by rose-tinted glasses, any vile personal views had note crept into the work, at least when I was reading it.
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