{"id":2611,"date":"2009-06-25T10:42:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T16:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=2611"},"modified":"2009-06-25T10:42:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T16:42:40","slug":"eh-meh-feh-why-do-i-bother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=2611","title":{"rendered":"Eh. Meh. Feh. Why do I bother?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think people would be happier and a whole lot more forgiving if the Keanes just owned up: &#8220;Hey, we&#8217;re not even trying anymore. If all of our fans send $20 to this address by 31 December every year, we&#8217;ll have the syndicate pull our strip.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s going to happen. So we&#8217;re doomed to not-funny panels that don&#8217;t even lend themselves to funnier mashups. <em>Sigh.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[Original caption: &#8220;It&#8217;s called a flower BED because that&#8217;s where the flowers sleep at night.&#8221;  No, I am not making this up.]<\/p>\n<p>I did make this up:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/new-fc1.jpg\" alt=\"new-fc1\" title=\"new-fc1\" width=\"320\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/new-fc1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/new-fc1-200x250.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the scary (literally and figuratively) about this one is while searching for a suitable tentacled celebrity with which to mash, is how many other variations on this FC\/HP Lovecraft theme I ran across.  <em>The horror! The unspeakable, horrible horror!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/new-fc2.jpg\" alt=\"new-fc2\" title=\"new-fc2\" width=\"320\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/new-fc2.jpg 320w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/new-fc2-210x250.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think people would be happier and a whole lot more forgiving if the Keanes just owned up: &#8220;Hey, we&#8217;re not even trying anymore. If all of our fans send $20 to this address by 31 December every year, we&#8217;ll have the syndicate pull our strip.&#8221; Yeah, that&#8217;s going to happen. So we&#8217;re doomed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-circus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2614,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions\/2614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}