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Posted: **Wed Oct 11, 2000 12:07 am**

Wow. I don't know what to say.Lee, I'm going to make that shirt for you
tonight. e-mail me your address.
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Here comes <A HREF="http://www.boxjamsdoodle.com" TARGET=_blank>BoxJam's Doodle</A>!
Good ol' <A HREF="http://www.boxjamsdoodle.com" TARGET=_blank>BoxJam's Doodle</A>...Yes, sir!
There goes <A HREF="http://www.boxjamsdoodle.com" TARGET=_blank>BoxJam's Doodle</A>.How I hate it.

Posted: **Wed Oct 11, 2000 3:11 am**

The Doodle is like a big ball of chocolatey goodness, only it's better than chocolate. If I say to my friends "You will eat this chocolate or I will cease to talk to you," then there isn't any left for me, and I can only smear a half-melted candybar all over the ceiling once before it's gone, but the Doodle is there every time I need it (unless bloody Keensp* goes down again).Also, I don't think anyone is allergic to the Doodle. At least I hope not. That would suck.In short, the Doodle is Good.------------------
"Am I hideous, Jane?"
"Very, sir: you always were, you know."

Posted: **Wed Oct 11, 2000 4:58 am**

The Doodle is finding that $&*&!@#$ stupid semicolon at 3:30 AM and realizing you can sleep now. It's knowing the answer to the radio question when you're not in the car -- and being the ninth caller! The Doodle is the peanut butter cups in the Moose Tracks ice cream. It's that pepperoni on your pizza that just happened to be half out of the cheese and kind of fried to a crispy goodness that isn't burnt. The Doodle is like getting your gutters cleaned out before it rains, but waiting to wash the car until after.Can I have my five bucks now, Boxjam?

Posted: **Wed Oct 11, 2000 7:13 am**

the doodle is a refined scrawl catching an emotional moment in time kind of like sniffing a magic marker in geometry class.------------------
um, yeah...

Posted: **Wed Oct 11, 2000 11:58 am**

I begin this thread by borrowing from my post in another. This is a call for all fans of the Doodle to say just what the Doodle means to them...To me:
Reading the Doodle is pausing to take a deep breath of fresh air; it's closing your eyes on a merry-go-round; it's pedaling your bike with no hands; it's a Saturday morning in 1979, when good cartoons started at 7AM and didn't end 'til 1PM, and not a single one of them was designed to sell a product; it's playing Activision's KaBoom! on an Atari 2600; it's an unexpected hug from someone you care about; it's a sniff from the coffee grinder machine in the supermarket; it's snapping a beer bottlecap from between your fingers and hitting the lightswitch on the other side of the room; it's letting up on the handle of the gas pump exactly at the $20 mark...The Doodle is the soul of my generation. It's everything that's right with America.It is my friend.
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---Lee
<A HREF="http://www.choppingblock.org" TARGET=_blank>Chopping Block</A>
In KeenSpace, no one can hear you scream.

Posted: **Thu Oct 12, 2000 5:55 am**

Imagine that guy/girl you had a painfully intense crush on in high school. You'd actually physically squirm when you were in the presence of this person. You'd be so careful to try to act, talk and look exactly the right way to win the heart of thie mystical creature. You'd find special ways of letting that guy/girl know you cared, maybe by letting him/her cut into line or by leaving small, annonymous gifts by his/her locker. When she/he would walk by, your pulse would explode in your ears, your sense of balance a fond memory, your palms awash in perspiration. The worse thing is that the magnitude of your emotion prebents you from expressing it for fear of a rejection that would surely wither your heart as it beats furiously in your chest.Yes, the only thing that keeps your painful, romantic secret is your innate will-to-live.Now picture ten years later. You run across this person serendipitously at the grocery store. Your eyes dart to the left hand's ring finger -- miraculously, marvelously, tremendously naked. He/She smiles at you and, after the perfunctory reminiscence, muses, "I had the biggest crush on you in high school, but I was to shy to say anything."You feel the pressure of tears behind your eyes as you try compose yourself. Gathering your strength, you force the words past your clenched throat: "Yoi. Yoi yoi."That's the Doodle -- at a click of the button: love, romance, tension, angst, anxiety, taking out the garbage, committment, joy, wit, loathing, sentimentality, and, yes, muumuus.All condensed into deceptively simple line drawings for your reading pleasure.------------------

Posted: **Thu Oct 12, 2000 6:24 am**

I'm gonna get too embarrassed to post here...------------------
Here comes <A HREF="http://www.boxjamsdoodle.com" TARGET=_blank>BoxJam's Doodle</A>!
Good ol' <A HREF="http://www.boxjamsdoodle.com" TARGET=_blank>BoxJam's Doodle</A>...Yes, sir!
There goes <A HREF="http://www.boxjamsdoodle.com" TARGET=_blank>BoxJam's Doodle</A>.How I hate it.

Posted: **Thu Oct 12, 2000 6:51 am**

Brad, I believe choirs of angels began to sing as I read that...

Posted: **Thu Oct 12, 2000 8:04 am**

For some reason, when I was re-reading it, I heard Garrison Keillor's voice.Then I realized I had the NPR on the radio.--Brad------------------

Posted: **Thu Oct 12, 2000 8:32 am**

You know BoxJam (dare I say it???)YOU SHOULD MAKE A PAGE OF THESENote the LACK of sarcasm. OH, and while you're at it, those spinoffs that got done a while back......------------------
Brian West
aka Tirdun
tirdun@yahoo.com <A HREF="http://farawaystars.keenspace.com" TARGET=_blank>farawaystars.keenspace.com</A>

Posted: **Thu Oct 12, 2000 10:03 am**

I started a page of the spinoffs - it
took a long time to load, and I got
distracted, andHey look a quarter------------------
Here comes <A HREF="http://www.boxjamsdoodle.com" TARGET=_blank>BoxJam's Doodle</A>!
Good ol' <A HREF="http://www.boxjamsdoodle.com" TARGET=_blank>BoxJam's Doodle</A>...Yes, sir!
There goes <A HREF="http://www.boxjamsdoodle.com" TARGET=_blank>BoxJam's Doodle</A>.How I hate it.

Posted: **Thu Oct 12, 2000 10:25 am**

Nice to see that Boxjam uses what my friends call the "Hey look, a monkey" dodge to get out of uncomfortable situations. To me that means that the doodle has become like that old friend who you lost contact with, only to run into them years later. You look quickly to their ring finger to discover that yes it's taken and then you notice the person that they're with is the one you were to shy to speak too. And she's wearing a damn ring too.um, Hey look, a monkey!------------------
um, yeah...

Posted: **Fri Oct 13, 2000 12:02 am**

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by BoxJam:
rrrreeeaallllyyy<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I think you're missing an 'a' and two 'l's in that.

Posted: **Fri Oct 13, 2000 12:05 am**

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Michael:
 I think you're missing an 'a' and two 'l's in that.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Is that all? Get it? An 'a' and two 'l's? 'all'?

Posted: **Fri Oct 13, 2000 3:17 am**

Yeah, yeah. I got tired of waiting and put all mine on a page for ME to look at.. oh, and my 10 readers, of course.Hey look, Taffy Bondage Licorice Lesbians!

Posted: **Fri Oct 13, 2000 3:20 am**

Oh, I forgot to post my dissertation on "What BoxJam Means To Me".BoxJam is that comic that I drag my online (and RL) friends to and go LOOK! LOOK AT IT DAMMIT! They give me the "I'm being patient with Brian" look that I've become very familiar with, give it a cursory read, chuckle, and move on. For a few of them, though. Just a few, they see the "spark". They decide to go back and maybe read one or two of the older ones. They browse the archive, they look at the fan stuff, the spinoff page, the words of praise and think "Hey, maybe I'm not really getting it". Then, they click the double boxjam heads at the bottom and start at BoxJam 1.They always thank me.
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Brian West
aka Tirdun
tirdun@yahoo.com <A HREF="http://farawaystars.keenspace.com" TARGET=_blank>farawaystars.keenspace.com</A> [This message has been edited by Tirdun (edited 10-13-2000).]

Posted: **Fri Oct 13, 2000 4:46 am**

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Tirdun:
 Then, they click the double boxjam heads at the bottom and start at BoxJam 1.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Also known as BJPrime, or BoxGenesis.------------------
---Lee
<A HREF="http://www.choppingblock.org" TARGET=_blank>Chopping Block</A>
In KeenSpace, no one can hear you scream.

Posted: **Fri Oct 13, 2000 6:35 am**

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Tirdun:
Oh, I forgot to post my dissertation on "What BoxJam Means To Me".BoxJam is that comic that I drag my online (and RL) friends to and go LOOK! LOOK AT IT DAMMIT! They give me the "I'm being patient with Brian" look that I've become very familiar with, give it a cursory read, chuckle, and move on. For a few of them, though. Just a few, they see the "spark". They decide to go back and maybe read one or two of the older ones. They browse the archive, they look at the fan stuff, the spinoff page, the words of praise and think "Hey, maybe I'm not really getting it". Then, they click the double boxjam heads at the bottom and start at BoxJam 1.They always thank me.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>LOL! That phenomenon seems to be really
common with the doodle - people take a while
to be hooked.I guess that's because of the drawing, or
the lack of 'slickness.' My software, and
knowledge of it, have improved recently, so
at least the lines look clean and solid now.Thank you, Tirdun, for all that effort in
getting me some readers.------------------
Here comes <A HREF="http://www.boxjamsdoodle.com" TARGET=_blank>BoxJam's Doodle</A>!
Good ol' <A HREF="http://www.boxjamsdoodle.com" TARGET=_blank>BoxJam's Doodle</A>...Yes, sir!
There goes <A HREF="http://www.boxjamsdoodle.com" TARGET=_blank>BoxJam's Doodle</A>.How I hate it.

Posted: **Fri Oct 13, 2000 9:02 am**

I so far haven't gotten anyone else addicted to the Doodle, but I'm working on it. At least I've got two people cheerfully admitting that they like it. That's a start.Perhaps when I rule the world, I shall make this the Official State Comic Strip Whatchamahoozit. How d'ya like that, eh BoxJam?------------------
"Am I hideous, Jane?"
"Very, sir: you always were, you know."

Posted: **Fri Oct 13, 2000 9:36 am**

That'd be excellent. Fascism rocks if you
happen to agree with the person in charge.What's up with the goateed frisbee guy's
girlfriend? She seems rrrreeeaallllyyy
friendly, for someone who just met two
people for all of 5 seconds.------------------
Here comes <A HREF="http://www.boxjamsdoodle.com" TARGET=_blank>BoxJam's Doodle</A>!
Good ol' <A HREF="http://www.boxjamsdoodle.com" TARGET=_blank>BoxJam's Doodle</A>...Yes, sir!
There goes <A HREF="http://www.boxjamsdoodle.com" TARGET=_blank>BoxJam's Doodle</A>.How I hate it.

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