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Phone a friend... if you have one, NERD!

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Click here to read A SECURITY ISSUE AT THE OFFICE.

 

And please: don't reveal the SHOCKING, SURPRISE ending to your friends!

 

 

 

I'm not.

Mark Evanier writes a blog post today about extras (background actors), and it reminded me of the greatest extra anecdote I've ever heard... and I learned of it on Mark's own website.

An extra in a crowd scene not only gets himself a line in the movie by ad-libbing it out loud during a rehearsal, it becomes one of the best, most cherished lines in movie comedy history!

For the true story, click here.

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At last! The battle you demanded! The earth will crumble when it's... God-Man vs. Human-Man!

 

NOT A DREAM!

NOT A HOAX!

NOT AN IMAGINARY TALE!

Well, okay, it is technically an imaginary tale...

 

 

Doonesbury 40

I just got the new Doonesbury 40 book.  I don't believe I've ever used the word gorgeous, and I'm not going to start now.  Or am I?

 

Click here.

 

Suggested by a reader

"A Lucky Duck, a Webfoot Promenade" (April 1903).  Background music for a Lucky Ducky cartoon?

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Percival Dunwoody, Idiot Time-Traveler From 1909!

Click here.

 

What's the big deal?

So Ted Rall went on TV to support his book The Anti-American Manifesto, and argued for the use of violence in overthrowing the United States government.  Nothing to get in a huff about.

THIS WEEK'S COMIC at Boing Boing

 LUCKY DUCKY! What's the real reason Hollingsworth Hound hates Barack Obadger so much?  click here.