Here it is, an 80's cartoon I bet you forgot even existed:

Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=709471084170784075&ei=LM_jSvWxJJTCqAOZ_63MAg&q=cartoon+all+stars+to+the+rescue#

Can anyone actually remember seeing it when it was on TV? I saw it, and until now I'd mercifully forgotten!

I just had to share this one with you: a filk about Lady Trude, a lady knight in the SCA (hmm, I wonder if she ever read Vixen's Keep?) who once got cornered by a nasty mugger.

The mugger tries stabbing her through her overcoat, underneath which she has on a suit of mail. The knife does nothing. Then she pulls her broadsword. At which point the mugger craps his pants and runs.

Read it, it's funny.

I found the link on Tv Tropes, along with similar stories about a guy done up like a Viking warrior who almost gets mugged on the subway until he whips out his Danish axe and roars "BLOOD FOR ODIN!". Another involves a Russian LARPER/re-creator who gets attacked by some hoods on a dark street. Stabbing him does nothing (suit of mail again! I'm beginning to wonder if I should invest in some -- several hundred re-enactors and 19th century boo how doy can't be wrong!) and then he whips out his sword. The muggers flee. Save for one, who drops to his knees and begs, "Please spare me, Duncan McLeod!" I.e., the immortal Scot from Highlander.

As one fellow said, that was obviously the nerdiest mugger on record.

I just about died laughing when I read this, especially the "Real Life" section.

Mugging The Monster.

I especially love the one about the three kids who decide to jack up some old man... who was a retired unarmed combat instructor to the SAS for 20 years. As it says, "The police were able to arrest them in the hospital."

Though the inactive Marine who snapped a knife-toting mugger's neck for him in Costa Rica has a certain nasty charm as well.

Hey, Ken, if you read this, now just imagine someone trying a mugging on Tavar and Khrysha when they're out on a date together...

And another highly amusing story, listed in the Troper Tales:

•This troper's father got mugged while walking his pet late at night in downtown D.C.Her father was a police officer at the time. Guy attempted to rob her dad in an alley. Her dad's 'pet' rose up on its hind legs and smacked the mugger upside the bead. Mugger freaked and ran all the wy to the police station to report a guy with a gorilla. What did Mr.Mugger tell the cops? He tried to rob the guy with the so-called gorrilla.Guess what it was? My dad was walking a year old black bear cub on a leash since he quite obviously coldn't walk it during the day. Police promptly locked stupid up. my dad? went on his merry way with Bubba the bear.

I found this courtesy of Tv tropes, under their Carnivore Confusion entry.

This was made for a children's animated film in Argentina.



Wow. Kids must grow up fast in Argentina, the boys anyway. The last time I saw lines like that on a female animated character was Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood.

And now I'm wondering why I haven't seen a tidal wave of Panty, ahem, 'homage art' showing up on all the furry art sites.

EDITT: A little more Panthy in the name of, uh, research. Yeah. that's it. Research.



BTW, read some of the comments under the first entry. All the moaning and whining about "AUUGH! I LIKE THIS! OH MY GARD I'M TURNING FURRY!" are quite entertaining.

I saw this entry at the infamous Tv Tropes site and was fool enough read through several of the examples. Like The Iron Giant and the infamous one-word quote, "Superman."

Or some of the very best Dini & Timm animation, like the death of Solomon Grundy and several of the Batman episodes, like the first appearance of Mister Freeze: "I can only hope that somehow, somwhere, there is a warm hand to hold yours." and the first appearance/origin of the Mad Hatter: "Would not, should not, could not... Could not join the dance."

And the LoTR movies. Did they make those films just to emotionally torture people?. Is there anyone here who didn't tear up at least once per film? For me, two special moments stick out, when the Rohirrim charge to their deaths against the hordes of Minas Morgul and the moment when Gollum finally gets the Ring back and then plunges to his doom. Then again, most of the scenes with Gollum were heart-rending.

Perhaps I ought to ask, why do people as viewers or readers not only enjoy but revel in these moments? Is there something cathartic about shedding a few tears, or are we as a society just a bunch of overly-emotional mushheads?

Best all.

EDIT: Just had to add this from the site, under the 'Real World' subheading, as I'm shocked at the callousness of it all:

Only slightly less appalling than the human toll, to this somewhat amoral scientist, is the sheer wasted opportunity that the camps represented. In Auschwitz alone, for example, there were several dozen brilliant scientists with a limitless budget, hundreds of thousands of human test subjects who were going to die horribly anyway, and most importantly no moral or ethical oversight whatsoever. They had freedom to conduct research that would have been illegal at any other time or place, and the things they did do certainly proved they were willing to commit horrible atrocities—but rather than take advantage of the situation as a true scientist should, they spent the war pandering to Nazi politics and conducting one ridiculously ghoulish iron-age "experiment" after another.

Just when you thought that mad scientists only existed in bad comic books...

Something bad happened that I don't dare speak of here as yet.

However, for your consideration:

Why is it that a nice furry art piece by someone like [Unknown LJ tag] or Dark Natasha is 'tripe' but junk like this or
this is 'real art'?

*shakes head in disgust*

EDIT: That 'Unknown Lj Tag' is supposed to be Haiku Jaguar, who can be found here:

http://www.haikujaguar.livejournal.com

HI all,

Was recently wandering my favorite online time-waster site, Tv Tropes, and I stumbled across an entry that was both amusing and confusing at the same time.

It was this one right here: Small Name Big Ego. Basically a list of various characters with underservedly large egos (in the opinion of whoever wandered in from the Internet long enough to tell everyone what they thought), it did have some entires I agreed with, like Uwe Boll, M. Night Shyamalan, and several of the comic book artists and writers.

Then we get to furry artists, and things get... interesting. Note that means 'interesting' in the Chinese curse sense.

And right now I'm probably violating some rule somewhere by quoting the material in question, just in case you don't want to go and look. It is found under "Online Comics":

While not a comic per se, online anthromorphic artist Goldenwolf recently signed up too late for a convention's art show, and was put on the waiting list. In response, she sent a very heated message complaining about not being allowed to skip the line - but on accident she sent it to the mailing list for the convention's art show mailing list. Said email was posted on several sites, including on a Livejournal posting where several people mocked her harshly. In response, she first posted a reply on her own Livejournal, then she used the DMCA and threat of a lawsuit to have Livejournal pull the post.

I vaguely remember hearing about this, but the version I heard was different. Can anyone reading this verify what actually happened with Goldy?

And then we get into personal cracks:

Hell, quite a few Furry Fandom artists are like that, many threatening to sue or pull everything and ditch the fandom altogether if they get so much as a dissenting remark about their art, or see one of their pics reposted somewhere else (regardless if it was altered, being sold for money, or if the reposter was claiming ownership for it...usually, it's just some fan who posts something intact, for free, and only wanting to know how to find more), or even more shocking, someone posts a picture with a similar pose to one of theirs (even if the rest of the pic is totally different)... Yes, anthro art is Serious Business in the fandom... unfortunately too serious, for many...

And then the oddest comment of them all.

For some reason, the Furry Fandom seems to have a lot of people who end up like this. Ironically, artists that are willing to draw the most depraved Rule Thirty Nine artwork are generally the most well-adjusted and will laugh off criticism, while the ones that most enthusiastically try to distance themselves from those aspects of the fandom often quickly slip down the crazy slope. Case in point: Furrs for/fur Christ, a forum filled with Christian furries and apparently a lot of crazy just under the surface. Or maybe it's just because furries without porn are boring.

Wow, think he's a fan? (He said, sarcastically.)

"Furry without the pRon is boring", this said on a site where about half the entries are related to sex somehow. But I guess it's different when you're lusting after anime catgirls rather than that creepy furry stuff.

And non-porn furry artists are all crazy? News to me. Unless X-Jag and Micah Hogarth and several dozen other folks are all just reeeeally good at hiding it.

Fannish nonsense, you gotta love it. :D

EDIT: Changed the title because some folks asked me too due to a perceived insulting nature which was not intended. My apologies.

Just hwo true does this sound to you?

The Unfair Sex.

I have to say, it does seem to rather accurately describe the current prevailing attitude (as compared to the old-fashioned one, in which the husband could have a lover* but Heaven help the wife if she stepped out).

I especially like the reaction from the Oprah audience to those words, "What do you think, that all adulterous men are passing around this small group of women?"

* -- If you were high enough in status, that is. If not, you were still in trouble (especially if her family decided to deal with you themselves).

Part 2 of Apaches. Happy fun with children!




And here's part 3!



Gosh, wasn't that heartwarming? Now pardon me, I have to retreat into my room abnd collapse in a catatonic heap.

And they showed these to 8-12 year old children!

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you a lost Public Service Announcement from 1963:

One Got Fat!



Is it just me, or is that every kind of twisted and wrong?

And did anyone actually see this back in the day?