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Super Jenius
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Syracuse, NY
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Midvale School for the Gifted
How many of you knew exactly what this referred to before clicking the link?
  Another fave: "It appears that agent 6373 accomplished her mission." I got the complete Far Side for X-mas (2 gorgeous, huge bound volumes) and I'd had a "Midvale" moment just the day before, after which I said under my breath "Midvale School for the Gifted". I miss Gary Larson. JP
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01-06-2005, 11:49 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: State of Failure
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I did. That was by far my favorite comic strip.
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01-06-2005, 11:51 AM
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As I was clicking, in the back of my mind I was thinking "where can I find a jpg of that cartoon..."
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Hot as Hell, AZ
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LOL, I think I got a hernia unwrapping that...2 huge freaking books!
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01-06-2005, 12:09 PM
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Super Jenius
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Syracuse, NY
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If I had any silkscreening skills (or "ins") I'd have Midvale School for the Gifted T-shirts made up.
I was tempted to put it on my resume, just to see if anybody said anything. JP
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01-06-2005, 12:15 PM
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JP, I've actually got a Midvale T-Shirt!
It's got a little 2nd frame at the bottom, maybe 2"x2" of the student, pounding on the door to be let in.
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01-06-2005, 12:59 PM
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Super Jenius
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Syracuse, NY
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Adam -- that's great!
I was thinking of making it like a real school's T-shirt, with "Midvale" in large, collegiate-block style letters and "School for the Gifted" in slightly smaller lettering underneath. Make it look as cookie-cutter and ordinary as possible... Is that what yours looks like, but w/ the comic strip beneath it? JP
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01-06-2005, 01:05 PM
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Thought/hoped it would be a Larson before I clicked.
That's a heck of a birthmark (deer born will a red and white bullseye).
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01-06-2005, 01:24 PM
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This was always my favorite:
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01-06-2005, 01:26 PM
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JP - I'll get it out tonight and take a photo. It's an official Larson product, I believe. I've also got a beat-up old "Midvale" coffee mug somewhere here in the office. I'll try and find that now.
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01-06-2005, 01:32 PM
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I have several Far Side books, might have to get the new one mentioned above.
One of my (scores of) X-girlfriends and I used to play a game where you'd have to guess the caption of a Far Side panel.
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01-06-2005, 02:13 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: So. Cal.
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I knew what it referred to immediately. A long time ago (20 years ?) I made quite a splash at the school where I was teaching when I blew it up and pasted the name of the school in place of "Midvale" and put it up on the wall of my room. A lot of people agreed with it. One of my favorites.
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01-06-2005, 02:13 PM
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entertaining the idea
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Sadly enough, I knew what it was before clicking too.....lol
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01-06-2005, 02:58 PM
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Love it!
My fav, "Hell of a birthmark Hal."
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01-06-2005, 03:08 PM
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Definitely one of my all-time favorites, I think about that comic all the time. We always had his books in the house growing up, my current favorite are "The Onion" compilations. A recent Onion headline, (w/ photo of A. Gonzales): "Ashcroft Loses Job to Mexican".....
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01-06-2005, 03:12 PM
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The Unsettler
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Lantanna TX
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"Objects in mirror are closer than they appear"
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01-06-2005, 03:21 PM
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A Man of Wealth and Taste
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Out there somewhere beyond the doors of perception
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I bought that set last year....at Costco.... $79
Calvin and Hobes, Dilbert, and Non Sequiter....and Ballard Street are all favs of mine...
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01-06-2005, 03:28 PM
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My absolute favourite:
"Situation's changed, Jules! Take my buffalo gun and hand me my Mime rifle"
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01-06-2005, 04:25 PM
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I'm beggin' ya, please. If you run across the 'toon with the cow's in the pasture lamenting the fences, please, please please...scan a copy and post it here. The captions says something I can't remember and then quotes the cow's saying "Damn the electric fences!" I can't explain it, but on a trip to Australia several years ago, I saw a card with this cartoon on it and it literally brought me to my knees in the middle of the novelty store. I laughed so hard I had tears flowing down my face...and I am not exagerating. I bought the card, but somehow, over the years it was misplaced. So, please, if you come across it, post it, or e-mail it to me....please! THANKS! Randy
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01-06-2005, 05:00 PM
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Some of my favorites are the ones in Hell:
"Go back to sleep Chuck, you're just having a nightmare. Of course, we ARE still in H&ll!!" - That was my GE coffee mug for years. Another Fav: 3 guys by a poorly construsted Rocket: "I guess we really aren't Rocket Scientists." At the mad Scientists conventions: "An now our Keynote speaker Professor ______, who coined the now familiar phase 'Fools! I'll destroy them all!'".
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