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2007-10-07 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-10-07 14:14|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Paging Mister Joe Btfsplk to the white courtesy telephone.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-07 14:36|| 2007-10-07 14:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Or, better, Mister Mxyzptlk.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-10-07 15:05|| 2007-10-07 15:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Bah! Your Mister Mxyzptlk

is a mere newcomer compared to the legendary Joe Btfsplk.

Nice try though.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-07 15:57|| 2007-10-07 15:57|| Front Page Top

#4 This is from Al Capp, right, along with other characters that appear in the RB graphic stash?
Wikipedia is only a click away, but I've already spent too much time there lately, refreshing my Twilight Zone memory...

I do have a rather serious history of collecting US comics, but I'm a bit holey in my knowledge of older comics or strips.
I'm a big fan of Will Eisner's Spirit, of Alley Opp, or various strips that were translated in french kiddies mags like the one with the two awful brats on that tropical island (Pim, pam et poum in french, ak the krathenhjammer kids or something in english), the one with the vikings, Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond, Mandrake,... but that's about all.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-10-07 16:08|| 2007-10-07 16:08|| Front Page Top

#5 I think it's supposed to be Hmong. Wausau, Wisconsin has quite a large population of these folks.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2007-10-07 16:27|| 2007-10-07 16:27|| Front Page Top

#6 And a Hili Salasi to you, too.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-10-07 16:40|| 2007-10-07 16:40|| Front Page Top

#7 So its some kind of letter substitution code. Obviously, 'hais' is the word 'said'. In order to read it, you would have to rewrite it with all the letter substitutions, then what are the chances that it would be worth reading ? rijjx ?

Posted by wxjames 2007-10-07 17:24|| 2007-10-07 17:24|| Front Page Top

#8 I b'lieve it's the Katzenjammer Kids, a5089.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-10-07 18:46|| 2007-10-07 18:46|| Front Page Top

#9 the krathenhjammer kids

You sure it's not Charles Krauthammer's kids?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-07 20:08|| 2007-10-07 20:08|| Front Page Top

#10 I've been to Wausau no less than a dozen times. From my experience, there can't be enough Hmoob speaking people there to justify The Herald writing articles in it. If that's what it in fact is.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-10-07 23:25|| 2007-10-07 23:25|| Front Page Top

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