Letters to the Editor
Nimrod Gently
Published Letters: 32
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Douze
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was 12 in 1995. Fortunately it was in Britain, where 1995 is arguably the last hyper-significant year in music. I guess some stuff happened in other things too.
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Shut up, RealName
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Can we please have a letter section not all about you?
I take it Bert the Turtle is out of copyright by now.
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Anonymous
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm curious, what exactly is it that's wrong with you? Is it just basic stupidity, or is it something more complex, like a fundamental insensitivity to reason, or a lack of basic observational skills?
Please look into it.
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The Continuing Adventures
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh, Moonbat McWacky, will you ever learn?
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Also to Anonymous
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ah yes. Christian interpretations and devotion to the Old Testament = JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOZE. How...revealing.
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Parallell Earth
[Read the article: This Modern World ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I take it the small cute dog is a lame duck by now. You got the flag backwards, though.
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Dear Carol Lay
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have never met you, know nothing about you or your life, and have only the faintest idea (based on your own drawings) of what you even look like, but I still feel compelled to devote my energies towards holding you in the utmost contempt based on a cartoon you drew, which should have been more interesting to me, even if your mother died or something, which for all I know could be the reason for your having drawn a simple doodle this week rather than skip it altogether and leave us with nothing.
In conclusion, I'm a complete jerk and I don't deserve any cartoons at all.
Yours sincerely,
Pompous McTypeanwine.
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Garry Owen, Anonymous McSneerenweep:
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No-one will ever love you. Please stop trying.
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You know what the real problem is?
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty...Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is one page of a several page story and it doesn't work cut down like this because the single page doesn't go anywhere. I'm interested, but I'd be more interested in reading the whole thing than little confusing chunks like this.
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TONI SCHLESINGER KILLED MY DOG
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What is so hard about skipping the comic and moving on with your life?
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Maybe they starred Amity's letter because she's right
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And maybe Schlesinger and Bachtell haven't responded because Jesus Christ, they genuinely despise us, what the Christ?
I kind of want this to keep being published forever, just to annoy the kind of people who actually genuinely hate it - hate it like Ahab hated that whale - and still read the damn thing, just so they can write letters detailing their geunine and undending hatred, which wells up like blood in their throat and burns like the fires of hell behind their eyes.
I dunno. Jury's still out. I like the art, but it still doesn't seem to be going anywhere. But then you wouldn't read a novel one page a week. That would be ridiculously irritating.
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Oh Come On
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Get a grip and get a focus. I still like the art but if you don't have any idea what you're trying to do with it then what chance have I got?
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What
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Okay look just stop publishing this one page at a time. It might work at a pace of more than four panels a week.
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I HAVE TO READ THIS COMIC BECAUSE IT IS THERE
[Read the article: Kansas O'Flaherty ... Secret Agent]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why--so the editors will think we like it and offload more on us?
Wait - you think you're actively being subjected to it? The existence of a comic you don't like isn't damaging to your health. Otherwise Mallard Filmore would be responsible for a holocaust.
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For the love of God
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Will you stop whining about Kansas O' Bleeding Flaherty. It's not as if you have to read the thing, you don't have to pour vinegar all over unrelated letters pages because of it.
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You will never sleep again
[Read the article: The K Chronicles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]YAY
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It's always time for Dada!
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And the pants of the vicar are closing rataplan rataplan.
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Wait, Vampira died?
[Read the article: WayLay]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Damn.
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Everyone who wants to quibble about numbers:
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Click on my name first.
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(The headline for your letter posting)
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I didn't mean a slight against anyone, I just wanted to draw people's attention to the author's notes.
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Reagan's genocidal maniac friends?
[Read the article: Ronald Reagan: Chamberlainian appeaser of the 1980s]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well let's see now. There was Pinochet, for a start. Reagan's great gift to Chile, because of course America couldn't stand for any country, no matter how insignificant on the world stage, electing anyone to the left of George P. Schultz. Better to have an oppressive, murderous fascist dictator than a democratically elected commie like Salvador Allende, right?
Speaking of, don't forget the Contras. The Sandinistas (another democratically elected party - at least once they'd got the country on its feet again) were no saints, but it was never anything they did that was the problem for the Reagan government, it was the fact that they had different ideas for governing a country, ideas which didn't include voodoo economics and "optimism" as the cure for everything.
Still in Iberian America (Panama, Nicaragua, Chile - why should any of these countries pose any threat whatsoever? Oh, that's right, the domino effect), there was Noriega, out on his ass as soon as he became a liability, a walking cautionary tale for Saddam which he failed to heed.
Oh yes, that Hussein guy with the moustache. The Reagan administration didn't put him there, of course, but they were perfectly chummy with him, simply because he was in charge of a reasonably sized country near Iran, and didn't like Iranians. So he sent one of his future murderers along to shake his hand. Twenty years later, the recipient of the handshake was crying out that Hussein had gassed his own people. No, Reagan didn't give him the people. But he did give him the gas. Funny how things turn out.
Relations with all of these people? Perfectly OK. Treating Gorbachev - one of the most simply decent statesmen of the last several decades - with anything other than contempt and horror? Unacceptable! Appeasement! Peace in our time, brother.
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Ugh
[Read the article: High standards at the Washington Post Op-Ed page]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Godwin's Law notwithstanding, that "blood/sacrifice/heritage" screed genuinely could have been written in Germany circa 1937.
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That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
[Read the article: Ronald Reagan: Chamberlainian appeaser of the 1980s]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Could someone do something about this freaking letter robot?
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I don't get Hilarious Only to the British
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]and I'm British.
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However
[Read the article: Tom the Dancing Bug]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I love the "Serling" signature.
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Can I just say
[Read the article: This Modern World]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't think it should go unremarked that GoodCelery just posted a letter which just about made sense.
Also I'm surprised TomReedToon isn't about screaming "AT LAST TOM TOMORROW ADMITS THAT HE SUCKS BY FOOTNOTING A STOLEN JOKE HARG BLAR".
Although isn't it policy to delete that guy now?
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The Death of Berke Breathed
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Spasmodic Torticollis isn't usually fatal.
It is debilitating, though, so I expect you could be right about the retirement.