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significant tweets
Jan. 30th, 2012 01:32 pm- RT@TheOnlyTrout Original US copyright law was FUN. You got it for seven years after it was written. It was intended to force authors to make MORE.
- If the first thing Smaug says to Bilbo is, "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive," I'm walkin out.
- @TheOnlyTrout You don't understand. The purpose of a new MicroSoft product version is to remove features the users liked.
- The proper response to conservative complaints about Muppets liberal propaganda is, "Duhhh." http://www.theferrett.com/ferrettworks/2012/01/why-the-muppets-are-propaganda/
- Coming up with tomorrow's script improves the whole day
- I learned to write with fanfiction. I don't do background. RT@blambot For chrissakes, webcomickers, draw the backgrounds. JEEEEzus.
- .@TheOnlyTrout Re backgrounds: I was influenced at an early age by Bill Mauldin's discussion of Johnny Hart, and "rivet men". (more)
- .@TheOnlyTrout Mauldin said a "rivet man" draws every rivet on a pot. "So what if the hero is offcenter in the panel? (more)
- .@TheOnlyTrout "Put in a computer with lots of dials, or a tree with every leaf. Nothing wows the reader like a tree with every leaf. (more)
- .@TheOnlyTrout "But you place two unwashed cavemen against a line that might be the top of a horizon or the bottom of an ovecast, (more)
- .@TheOnlyTrout "And you'd better place them RIGHT."
- Newly waxing moon low on the western horizon. That's a big rock.
- @TheOnlyTrout When I've done that, I've drawn the notes but not the staff. No one's ever come out and said they recognized the tune.
- @TheOnlyTrout Unless I actually copied out a few bars from an actual score, because that was the joke.
- @TheOnlyTrout I once drew two guys whistling Rhapsody In Blue for three panels.
- @scifichat #scifichat A2 The epitome of the machines-don't-belong-in-charge-of-people trope is the STAR TREK episode The Apple, ...
- @scifichat #scifichat ...which was deconstructed in my fanfiction story Half A Worm, ...
- @scifichat #scifichat ...which was adapted and serialized in my webcomic Arthur, King of Time and Space. (Links available on request.)
- I wonder if many The Big Bang Theory viewers see the salute to sitcom history in the protoganists' names.
- It's too bad that there's only one Peter Bishop. We could call the second one Repete. #fringe
- @heldaction He thinks he's not home because no one here knows him. But in the season finale everyone at home forgot him. #fringe
- My god. Hutton is so good. Nate Ford is drunk off his ass.
- @choochoobear I know how you feel. No one but me seems to have noticed that humans raised by Moties suffer from jump shock like Moties.
- MSPaintVista has some advantages but I think it's MSPaintXP most of the time for me from now on. (7 is right out.)
