Comic for Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Posted: 7:37 am, Thursday, August 31st

Remember how I said I'd have more for today's post? I think that was a damn dirty lie. Instead of written content, then, let's just go big with plug-in pictures and YouTubes.

I've been wondering why everyone's been Photoshopping Stephen Colbert's On Notice board lately - I've seen them all over the web. I should've known it was a generator thing.

I have to admit, there's a certain hilarity to seeing "Michigan Fucking State" in Colbert's hands.

Wow, 1966 *was* a good year for music.

Well, I sure hate this kid.

Up next is today's Daily Irish - my favorite ND ad ever. Beats the hell out of that Higher Power one from last season.

That building in back of Joe is my ol' stomping grounds, Alumni Hall. In your eye, North Quad! (For more on North Quad and endless other Notre Dame in-jokes, check out this ridiculous glossary on the NBC Sports site. Our own Reggie Ho makes the list.) (Two other collitch football items real quick, I like this guy's Big Integer picks, especially the nickname for Bowling Green, and the boys at markmaybewrong have a pretty awesome pick 'em contest going. The options for Arkansas and USC are the funniest thing I've seen all week.)

We haven't had a truly terrible color combo in a while... Let's rectify that.

bullfrog

Keith Olbermann opens up a *can* on Rummy:

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/OlbermannBlastsRumsfeldOnFacism.mov

Can I get an Amen!

An while we're at it:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6619753987505107802&q=Keith+Olbermann&hl=en

Love the Brooklyn Bridge picture!

Good job, me, misspelling Katie's name in the third panel. I'll fix that tonight.

So am I to assume Katie and Pete are hooking up? Way to go Pete!

I also love the Brooklyn Bridge sunrise...

Pete doesn't need the encouragement, 15.

I thought about drawing over the sunrise to Five Buck-ize it, but figured that would be redundant. Incidentally, Diesel Sweeties ran a strip like this earlier in the summer, but that wasn't really my inspiration for this. I always thought I'd end Five Bucks with a sunrise over the Brooklyn Bridge scene, but figured it just fit the awesome-night storyline so well that I couldn't avoid it.

http://dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1487

I love the sunrise! Have you ever seen one in reality?

Off the Bridge? Sadly, no. Last year, when I was training for the 'thon, I'd run over the Brooklyn Bridge every Saturday morning at about 6:20, but when that was exactly lined up to be sunrise, it was raining like crazy. And whenever I'm out rockin' 'til the break of dawn - which has been a while now - the sun usually rises while I'm on the subway.

I've seen plenty rising over the lake in Prospect Park as I'm running by, though. Kind of a low-rent version of Forrest Gump. (How's that for a self-description?)

When is the Lissa / Jen / Ron love triangle going to come to a head? I thought the night depicted in your strip was going to have some major drama.

Um.. eventually. Actually, I think I just now figured out how I want to resolve it while writing this answer. Unfortunately, I plot at a pretty glacial pace (as I'm sure everyone's noticed), and have some other stuff I wanted to get around to in the meantime.

I have an idea: the crew takes the Chinatown bus to D.C. They can hang out with the cartoon depiction of me.

That would be the shit.

Spoken like a man bored off his ass from knee surgery.

Dragon Ball Z story lines move faster than your strip. Ok, that's a lie - I just remembered the "Vidal Gets Crushed" episode.

Shit like that is why you're On Notice.

Pat, can they hang out with the cartoon me in DC as well? Here is a picture for you to go of Bullfrog. http://www.smart-weight-training.fr/divers/mensurations-ideales/arnold-schwarzenegger-big.jpg

I have taken some artistic license with my appearance. For example, I now have a beard and longer hair than in this picture of myself.

Sorry for the double post. I just re watched the rubics cube kid again. He's a little fucker. My envy is only matched by my dislike of him.

Jen would probably be picked up by the FBI almost immediately upon setting foot in DC. Pete's probably got a warrant out, too.

I've never come anywhere close to getting a Rubik's cube finished. Hell, I lost at Connect Four last time I played it.

I can solve the Rubik's cube that fast. And I think I learned the same technique as that little kid. But you may or may not think that's cool considering I learned how to do it on the internet. Granted, it still is difficult to figure out how to do it from the internet, but no where near as difficult as trying to figure out yourself. This is the website I used: http://jeays.net/rubiks.htm It took me a few weeks. Then I memorized it. It's just one of those things I always wanted to know how to do.