Petey Fan Art #8

I want to play Bunnies and Burrows!!! I really like the pained expression on Petey's face in the second one, maybe it's because he's fulfilling the role of... RABBIT EARS. not so much fun when it's you, eh Petey my boy?

I didn't think it was a bag of flies because I was expecting Petey to be carrying rabbits, but I'll have to check and see if the Rt. 27 sign is accurate. It's probably a good thing that there hasn't been a series on Chick tract art, or the joint would be overrun with Fundies. Solomon Grundy wasn't a Fundie because he slept late on a Sunday.

Sunday is Fundie Fun-Day!
I'll smack myself and save you the trouble.

I was looking at a map of Rogers, Arkansas and nearby is a place called Electric Springs. Pel-Freez is listed as a supplier of bovine albumin and in vitro diagnostics, too.

I just remembered this couple I know have a buck bunny that likes to pop balloons! They put him on the floor with a balloon and he jumps on it and bites it. He smiles like he thinks it's fun! They have to take the broken balloon away from him because he chews on them and they don't want him to choke. But if you got ten balloons, he'll pop all of them.

Anyone thought of making a Jack Chick role-playing game?

GURPS Chick! I can see it now. all Jack Chick's delusions are real; DMs are powerful warlocks, telling someone about Jesus causes immediate epiphany, Satan controls the Jews, Catholics, entertainment industry, &c.
I want to play. dammit, I must get off the night shift and start gaming again, I don't care that I won't be able to sleep...

I knew someone who once devised "Speed Racer: The Role Playing Game". The features I remember best were:

1) Characters could expend "Incredible Plot-Guessing Points" simply by saying the words, "I think something's going on here", and the GM would have to tell them what the bad guys were up to.

2) You either had Nice Guy Points (NGPs), Nasty Guy Points (NGPs), or Neutral Guy Points (NGPs). These would be earned for good/bad/neutral deeds, and could be used as "luck points". When you ran out of one, you could start racking up another -- just like in at least one episode of "Speed Racer", where Speed's luck was failing him so he picked up a machine gun and started mowing the bad guys down. Ran out of Nice Guy Points, so he started building up Nasty Guy Points. (And Racer X gets Neutral Guy Points.)

3) There was a "Bards" appendix, but it was perpetually under development.

As far as the Jack Chick game goes, I want to play a binding demon who gets teenagers addicted to cocaine.

I just submitted the notion of GURPS Chick to the folks at Steve Jackson Games. I'll provide updates as they become available ...

Patty's got a big ol' butt.

I'd rather see Chick in a card game, something close to the original Illuminati. Cards like "The Blood of Jesus", "The Lake of FIRE", "Catholics", "Sodom", and "D & D". Shame that Mr. Chick's lawyers have a nasty habit of trying to silence legitimate satire.

I once tried to make a multiplayer Web game FUNDIE (it was an acronym for something; I forget what). Aimed of course at being as tasteless as possible (special actions included "Shoot Abortion Doctor", "March in Catholic Neighborhoods", "Scream 'Allahu Akbar'", "Rehearse Boy's Choir", "Throw Acid", and "Defend Promised Land"). Six teams (Baptoid, Mormoid, Randoid, Taliboid, Haredoid, SubGenius). Basically gave up on it due to a lack of time.

1. That's her skirt, dammit.

2. GURPS: JTC would be incredibly cool. Don't forget Enemy: Catholic Church. That'd be worth a lot, since the Catholics can infiltrate anything, apparently. Also stats for Jim and Tim, the ambiguously gay Bible commandos. And Alberto!

There would be a heck of a lot of magic, seeing as in the Chickverse even reading a fictional book about magic lets you cast spells.

And don't forget that ubiquitous Tribulation golf cart-guillotine. I've seen that in Chick, Kirban and many other Rapture books, all by different authors/artists. Apparently there's something in Revelation that says "and LO, the Antichrist will cause a guillotine to MOUNT UP APON a Cushman, and have a man in a NICE JUMPSUIT AND HAT drive it through SUBURBIA." I really want one.

My other favorite trope is the HAW HAW HAW laughter. That's how you can tell if someone is evil. 95% of the time, if they laugh with a W, they're bad.

Funny you should mention the laughter ...

Haw! Somone put up a link on here for a very cool 3-wheeled Vespa delivery wagon that was up on eBay.

Shriners!
also, lots of middle-class parent PC's with dependent children, and if the children have friends who listen to rock music, play D&D, or eat ethnic food they're worth many points because they'll need constant rescuing from evil cults and sleazy guys who want to turn them out for Satan!

we seem to have a bevy of folks skilled in various languages here. can anyone identify this tongue and translate the phrase? MYN GLAS LOOPT RAS

But it's an anagram for sportsmanly goal or possibly sportsmanly Olga. During the war effort, perhaps the gym loans patrols. What, don't you like my patrol slogan? What the hell do you call that? Pastor: Gall, my son. All my protons sag..

[Sadly, I did not use a program to do that. It all started with trying to read it backwards.]

Tried looking for "Mijn glas loopt ras." Hey, whatever the hell language this is, bingo! And apparently it has something to do with an hourglass or time. I guess the first bit is "my glass," obviously enough, and the guy's saying something about day and night, but that's as far as my Guess Wildly About Cognates roll goes.

My (hour)glass is quickly running empty.

And it's all about printing! Yay! Some Dutch guy's logo was "a turtle with an hourglass with wings topped with a skull on its shield." Beat that, heavy metal badasses! It's the flying hourglass winged turtle! ROLL FOR INITIATIVE!

grant me this boon... etc.
thanks! and the heavy metal comment is ironic considering it was borrowed for Devil Doll liner notes! HAW HAW HAW! best band ever.
I am impressed and a little bit scared by your anagram powers. Jeremy Irons. Is Ron Jeremy...?

I forgot my favorite affectation.

... this may be the coolest quote I've seen in a while, from the Old Man Murray site.

"If your preferred method of acting tough is to beat up the myths people create to give them comfort when everyone they love eventually drops dead, at least pick one whose motto isn't 'turn the other cheek.'  Pussy."

Granted, there are people who go completely cuckoo for cocoa-puffs in their religious zeal, and a little mockery may be appropriate. But on the balance, what the hell.

of course being nasty to the religoids is cowardly, unless they're nasty people in their own right. but laughing at them behind their backs is ok, I think. I hope so, 'cause they're k-funny.

I definitely agree, when people use religion to justify intolerance and harm in general, then those individuals are to be taken to task.

Sadly, though, there are entire classes of people whose sole claim to coolness is, "we think Jesus sucks". It's sad when you don't have anything better to be proud of. I even know of one eeediot who once took the brave stance of writing an open letter to the Pope on an "alt" newsgroup. Ooooh, now that's tough.

Allow me to place my best guess as to what they're talking about on the page Annna found with the general cemetery symbols. This will be a rough translation at best. Brackets will indicate parts where I'm particularly unsure of my translation.

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Winged Hourglass

The hourglass is the symbol of the brevity of life and the inevitability of [death]. The hourglass was first used as a symbol of death in the late Mittle Ages.

The left wing represents "the day" and the right wing represents "the night". The meaning of the wings ([dove] wings) is that life flies away day and night, [good and evil].

The overturnability of the hourglass is seen in the Christian tradition as the new life in the resurrection.

[Many of these babies bear the inscription]: "Mijn glas loopt ras".

My main complaint about religions is that they started out pantheistic and fetishistic, then became monotheistic and symbolic, but seem to have regressed in some quarters back to fetishism, which is why my personal preference is toward the silk and incense of the Anglican Church rather than the holy-rollin' tent revival carnival sideshow. But I think that Shoutin' Gospel Music is better than just purely pipe organ. Mijn glas loopt ras, I thought that it was a bit of a joke about turtles, too; turtles aren't especially speedy, and the bit mentioned the slowness of the printer's trade. I like the cartoon about the near-sighted turtle trying to screw an Army helmet.

I agree with Lou that it is a bit chickenshit to kick the poodle of a blue-haired bingo granny, and if the dog don't yap at me, I won't; afterall, let sleeping dogs lie. But the unexamined life is not worth living, so, live and let live, patience is a virtue, and virtue is its' own reward, give me pie in the sky when I die in the sweet by and by, opium is the religion of the people, work is the curse of the drinking class, 54°40' or fight! I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK! Brook ye no loggerheads. Tip a canoe and zindaloo.

You guys be wantin' an update, but I'm at work with stuff to do... tell you what, why don't you all just sit tight and imagine that video clip of the monkey drinking its own pee, and pretend that's today's update? And maybe I'll have a little something up tonight or tomorrow, less'n Anna gots something up her sleeve.

That's the nice thing about the comments section: it allows us all to "update", even if some of us don't necessarily have more than a paragraph of useful words to string together. So it keeps things from getting entirely stagnant.

Anyone want to know how I remain disease-free?

Vast quantities of garlic?

RAINWATER AND GRAIN ALCOHOL.

Bourbon and branch water?

... but nope, it's actually simpler.

To be sure, garlic will clean your pipes, plus it's darn tasty on just about everything. And rainwater contains a tiny bit of naturally-occurring hydrogen peroxide, which puts more free radicals in your system, which (contrary to what they tell you at GNC) is a good thing. So these are helpful.

But I have found that health actually starts with the psyche. The most potent means to ward off disease, is to do all the classical things for the achievement of serenity. This would include breathing deeply from the diaphragm, and NOT directing your attention at things if even for just a few minutes.

When I notice that my temperature is a little elevated, I take that as an undeniable sign that I'm not managing myself properly. So I put myself in "low power" mode to the best of my ability, and stop applying my concentration to anything external or internal. Even watching TV requires a certain exertion of concentration, as does thinking about what one is going to do over the weekend. Emotions tend to require a certain degree of concentration as well, and in particular anger will consume ALL your concentration -- so if you're in a bad mood about work, you kind of need to let go of it ASAP lest your body suffer.

Once my temperature drops down to a proper level, I know it's safe to resume my normal activities again. It's rather like videogames where you can see when your gun is starting to overheat: you let it cool down a little and then resume the slaughter. It sure beats a total meltdown.

I will also maintain that elevated temperature PRECEDES viral or bacterial onslaught, as much as medical science tends to see things differently. The elevated temperature is a sign that one's innards are being mismanaged, and it is this mismanagement that allows virii to get a foothold.

I go through this all the time where I live: everyone else in the house gets a virus but I don't, because I know how to handle myself better than they do. Once in a while, I wake up and discover my temperature is up and I've got the very initial symptoms of what everyone else had; but then with a little breathing and a little mental calmness, I set everything right.

So, to sum up: keep an eye on your temperature, and when it starts going towards the red, it's time to take it out of gear.

SERENITY NOW!

If psyches are the key to health, I'll eat more psyches! Yum, sez I, whilst licking chops.

... I think you're thinking of Necco Wafers.

I always get the two mixed up, myself.

You are likely right in your approach, I like the Tao Watercourse Way; it is the path of least resistance, and a Law of Nature

'Necro Wafers'?

You had mentioned something about "Myn Glas loopt ras." Do you happen to know the orgins of that word? Just curious..