As if Josh F. weren’t enough…
By bats | April 24, 2012 - 11:14 am
Posted in Category: Cameo Appearances

I love The Comics Curmudgeon blog…Josh’s insights are funny, sharp, snarky, funny, more snarky…you get the idea.

And if laying the smack-down on comics that need whupping one side of the head (and usually down the other side) isn’t enough, there are the faithful Curminions, who are funny, sharp, snarky, funny, more snarky…you get the idea.  And some are positively inspired, talented beyond imagination, and wonderfully demented.  This flows from the pen (of course these types of folks write in pen! fountain pen! and they don’t get ink all over themselves either!) of Nehemiah Scudder, with a few suggestions from [Old Man] Muffaroo:

I am the very model of a comic strip curmudgeon.
My irony and wit are as sharp as any bludgeon,
I know about all comic strips both present and historical
From Yellow Kid to Cul de Sac in order categorical,
I know about slide rules too, and matters mathematical,
But I am especially good at anything grammatical.
I can diagram a sentence, and correctly use apostrophes
Tho I curse like Donald Duck when I attempt to write pornographies.
But as long as comic strips are there to rouse my dudgeon
I am the very model of a comic strip curmudgeon.

I am very good with words recondite and sesquipedalian,
Although my drinking habits are especially bacchanalian
Such words as fulgent, orgulous, occupy my cerebration,
Whilst I practice floccinaucinihilipilification.
I love to flaunt my knowledge of English lit and history
Tho anything to do with sports to me is just a mystery
But tho my comments range from the sublime to the ridiculous
I hope that I’ve never made a fellow ‘mudge somniculous!
But as long as comic strips are there to rouse my dudgeon
I am the very model of a comic strip curmudgeon.

Oh my gosh.  Just so good…take that, Les “I Am a Published Writer” Moore and Michael “Heh…We’re Still in Syndication, Suckers!” Patterson!

(Thanks for the loan, Nehemiah!)

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    April 24, 2012 @ 3:23 PM


    “Some are positively inspired, talented beyond imagination, and wonderfully demented…”

    Thanks awfully! Say, I wonder if you might have a word with my wife… I think she agrees with the “demented” at least.

    Posted by N.S.