Ummm...so, hi!

[reo01]

Hi all! I'm Reo, and I live in Auckland, New Zealand.
I found Devil's Panties a few weeks back now, by wandering thru Keenspace (I also found Out There and Gene Catlow that way). I love it and tonight I finally came up to date with the strips! So I thought I'd join the forum and say hi to whoever might be here. :p
I got into reading webcomics earlier this year. A friend who flats with my boyfriend introduced me to The Wotch, Venus Envy, El Goonish Shive and Abstract Gender. After devouring so many webcomics, it reminded me just how much I used to love comics as a kid (Ok, that was Disney and Archie, but still comics!) and I needed more! More Input! So I went roaming and here I am!
I used to draw heaps as a kid, too, and just before I found DP I started drawing again. I'm sketching out a lil comic, roughly based on funny/weird/random stuff that happens to me and the mates I've made thru my fella. I call it Almost Like A Life. I haven't gone past pencil sketch strips with it, but I will ink it one day. Maybe even put it online?
I have to say, since reading Jennies stuff, I've had a lot of inspiration and ideas for different ways of doing storylines, and it has shown me that you can have a really great, funny, addictive comic about real life, so maybe one day people might read my work too! So,
"Thanks, Devil's Panties!!!" :dgrin:

[kitty!]

*pounces and hugs the newbie* Yaaaaay! Love! Cuddles! FRESH MEAT!

[Ruestir]

Welcome Reo!

[Crazeyal]

*Dogpile on the newbie!!!*

:al:

Welcome to the hangout.. As Kitty say's "We're special!"

[Ecchi_Kitty]

In many cases it's 'short bus special', but we luv them anyway..... or they luv us.... I can never recall.... :rolleyes:

[Plunder Down-Under]

*pounces Reo*

Huzzah more and more friends! This is exciting!

[Wayne]

*pounces onto pile*

Welcome, sit awhile and enjoy yourself.

[UberFische]

*snaps his fingers and a couple of his bears jump on to the pile*

[Mike Taylor]

Welcome, Reo. I'd pounce, but everyone else would get injured in the process.

[RazorJAK]

Welcome, Reo. I'd pounce, but everyone else would get injured in the process.

Speak for yourself, lightweight. ;-)

[Leffy]

*waves* lol hihi i'd pounce too but i'm still recovering from the last time i was the pounced. i think mike and razorjak both participated in that attack :P

[Wayne]

*waves* lol hihi i'd pounce too but i'm still recovering from the last time i was the pounced. i think mike and razorjak both participated in that attack :P


I always miss the real good pouncings. :rolleyes:

[garfalk]

i always miss being pounced upon.,,

[Crazeyal]

*POU...

nahhhhhhh

[Mike Taylor]

Speak for yourself, lightweight. ;-)

In what world is 300 lbs, light? :eek:

[Plunder Down-Under]

Jupiter.

[Mike Taylor]

*waves* lol hihi i'd pounce too but i'm still recovering from the last time i was the pounced. i think mike and razorjak both participated in that attack :P

Admit it, you loved the attention. :D

[reo01]

*Muffled voice from bottom of Pounce Ground Zero*
Gosh, thanks for the big welcome! Heehee, I'm aaaall kindsa special too, yay special!

[Leffy]

of course i love the attention. only assholes and paranoid schizophrenics don't enjoy exuberant bursts of affection.

[Wayne]

Those of us who are paranoid get all the attention we need. Even if it is just in our heads.

[Sehson]

I'm not paranoid I have photographic evidence they're out to get me....

It right here....

No is it over here.................

No...

OK who stole the pictures of them out to get me....

[Wayne]

They're out there. That's why I wear an armadillo helmet.

[UberFische]

that's why I wear a turkey helmet

[Wayne]

Which al seems to keep eating.

[Plunder Down-Under]

DONT LOOK AT ME! *freaks out*

[Farler]

DONT LOOK AT ME! *freaks out*

*stares at plunder* He asked me to!


...cause I no longer recognize the letter T, and I changed my name to Don, Also plunder has developed a super mario italian accent. Yes, that all makes perfect sense

[Plunder Down-Under]

Aaahhhhhh!!!

[Farler]

Aaahhhhhh!!!
That's exactly how you get more stares. If you really didn't want people to look you should run away... or soil your self. No one wants to see that.

[kitty!]

Ew...now Plunder will go poopie and I was about to hug him too.

[Wayne]

DONT LOOK AT ME! *freaks out*

Then close your eyes and we won't be able to see you.

[Farler]

Ew...now Plunder will go poopie and I was about to hug him too.

You don't know that for sure, he doesn't do everything I tell him to. Of course if he did then, well... heh... MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! ...where's Jon? I have an idea...

[Plunder Down-Under]

Or use reverse phsycology...

LOOKIT ME PEOPLE!!!

[kitty!]

Dude...I've pretty much been telling people to look at me for months now.

AND THEY HAVE.

Sometimes it works to be an attention whore!

[Plunder Down-Under]

Aint it just the dandiest? *poses*

Also I was lying about not wanting to be looked at... AND YOU ALL FELL FOR IT! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Farler]

Thunder rolls through a pitch black sky as a cold rain falls, as an attention whore slowly makes his way through the dark and rainy streets. A sudden flash of lightning illuminates his surroundings and he sees a strange movement a few feet ahead of him. Immediatly on edge, he moves slowly forward fists at the ready fully aware that australian boys are useless in a fight. He gets to the point where he saw whatever it was that he saw and immediatly takes in his surroundings remembering to look UP since god knows if you don't look up that's exactly where the monster will come from. A cat hisses and leaps from the dark alley. The aussie sighs in relief and continues on his way stopping to pose and whore in front of a store window when a sudden flash of light reveals a huge ominous eye right behind him. He is wrapped in it's long sticky tentacles, tickled and licked mercilously his screams of joy and giggles drowned out by the thunder and rain.

When they found plunder the next morning he was covered in a white sticky thick liquid that could only be... vanilla icecream.

He had suffered the fate of all attention seekers. He was assaulted by...

THE ICECREAM OCTOPUS!


I really wish I could draw a picture for right here but... I can't. oh well. Someone wanna draw me an icecream octopus?

[Plunder Down-Under]

"Australian boys are useless in a fight"? Come down under and say that to my face buddy! :p

[Farler]

"Australian boys are useless in a fight"? Come down under and say that to my face buddy! :p
*rolls up his sleeves* Why don't you come up here and we can fight like real men! Shirtless in 20 below weather, drunk off our asses after a long day of lumber jacking. :D

[Plunder Down-Under]

It is true lumberjacks are manliest of the men.

[Big Otis Landfish]

Dude...I've pretty much been telling people to look at me for months now.

AND THEY HAVE.

Sometimes it works to be an attention whore!

Provided you don't have a short attention span.
Remember that teasing only works if it's only teasing.

Man, I go from poo to prude in 4.3 seconds.... :d/:


Plunder, yer not a Monty Python fan are you?

*hums 'I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok....'*

Asides, do you have lumberjacks out there Farler? There's more trees than SK, but still....

[Plunder Down-Under]

A lumberjack is manly enough to wear womens undies and still outman a Drunken Scottish Pirate.

And thats pretty damn manly.

[UberFische]

how bout a Viking woodsman?

[Plunder Down-Under]

A lumberjack is even manlier than a Viking Woodsman. Thought Viking Woodsmen are pretty damn manly too.

[Farler]

Provided you don't have a short attention span.
Remember that teasing only works if it's only teasing.

Man, I go from poo to prude in 4.3 seconds.... :d/:


Plunder, yer not a Monty Python fan are you?

*hums 'I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok....'*

Asides, do you have lumberjacks out there Farler? There's more trees than SK, but still....

Yeah, there's more than a few. Ive seen a forest turn into a campground in under a month, because nothing ruins camping worse then trees.

[Big Otis Landfish]

I've only been (that I can remember - was out there when I was very small) to the extreme south end of Manitoba (Waskada) so I wasn't sure what the rest looked like, other than lots o' water. AB (aside from the Rockies/foothills) and SK only have forest up north in the muskeg, and that's just scrubby black spruce. Most lumberjacks have STUBBLE bigger than those trees.

I'm a BC boy, so my definition of forest is a little skewed. Campground in a month? Heh, here's a nice set of 'campsites' near where I grew up (http://maps.google.ca/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&q=&t=h&om=1&ll=50.012152,-118.7883&spn=0.396244,0.933838&z=10). Note the scale, mind you.

[Ecchi_Kitty]

Know people where 'camping' means the motel has trees around it.

I've taught Wilderness Survival, where you 'camp' by finding some branches to keep the rain off, watching the wildlife to see what berries are edible.

To me, camping mean no plug ins, sleep in a tent or less. Platform to keep your tent off the ground and away from bugs is pushing it.

[Big Otis Landfish]

I've taught Wilderness Survival, where you 'camp' by finding some branches to keep the rain off, watching the wildlife to see what berries are edible.

If I was that close, I'd eat the wildlife. Mind you, I already know the majority of the easily-edible foods back home; here is not much different. Good rule of thumb for emergencies in random locations, I suppose, other than LD50 differences between species.

[Ecchi_Kitty]

Aye, come to that, wildlife is probally better for you, but tends to be a bloody pain to catch.

Though to be honest, if lost out in the woods, are better things to do with your time and energy then look for food.

[Big Otis Landfish]

Very true.

[Leffy]

we camp on jekyll island every year but the islands gone so yuppie half the funs taken away. theres now 3 more bathrroom/shower facilities, and all now have atleast 4 hair dryer/curler options, and massaging shower heads, they spray the trees once every few months to kill the mosquitos ticks and other pest bugs, all campsites have water/electricity/cable hookups except ten in the very back, but those ten border the road, they have sattelite or cable options, and free wifi.

[Mike Taylor]

I thought they were fighting to keep Jekyll Island as pristine as possible. :(

[Leffy]

yeah...if pristine is covered in condos and the natural beauty removed.

[UberFische]

man... i am so glad I live near the Adirondacks... all that's in there is a few small towns, and a couple "Restricted Areas" (ie: Missile Silos)

[Big Otis Landfish]

OK... for the RV'ers, I can tolerate electrical or water hookups at a campground (I won't be camping there, but I can appreciate having lights and a shower for your RV unit). But TV or teh intarwebz?! :repuke:

Why bother camping?


The only luxury we indulge in for camping is one of those blowup mattresses with a foldout frame for the tent.... keeps the li'l lady from complaining about rocks in the back or being too cold. And I eat real food when I'm camping, but always cook over the fire!

[Mike Taylor]

yeah...if pristine is covered in condos and the natural beauty removed.

:( Stupid rich yuppies messing up my coastline.

[Farler]

Yeah, were mostly prairie, lots of water, but there are a few good sized wooded areas.

Now as for amenities while camping, Im fine with a few things if youre going camping then you really shouldn't have electricity, maybe an air pump for your mattress or whatever of various balls you may have brought to play with, cause ya know those jumbo beach balls are fucking hard to blow up.

Now if youre going to the cottage or rving you can have a tv and a vcr/dvd player. NO CABLE AND NO SATELLITE! come on, play games with your family or read at night. Or ya know start a fire. You can bring the gameboy if you must but leave the console at home. Most of your day should be spent a fish'n and a swim'n.


Unfortunatly I have no cottage and don't go camping. My girlfriend gets dragged out to her cottage often but despite being told I could come I have yet to be invited.

[Leffy]

since they announced where the Gathering was going to be i've been really curious about Cave-in-Rock Illinois. supposed to be very gorgeous and serene.

it won't be in just over a week for 4 days, but outside of having thousands of juggalos swamp it to party down like its the end of the world, i bet its real nice.

[reo01]

Wow, you guys can really ramble.


I think I'm gonna like it here! :D

[Crazeyal]

You missed the randomness thread. We almost brokeded the forum!!! :lol:

[Leffy]

i thought we had broke the forum, thus the move here?

[Crazeyal]

No...

ol YOU-KNOW-WHO brokeded the forum by trying to upgrade it...

But he pays for everything so he's allowed..:rolleyes:

[Leffy]

true. we should make him a cake.

[Crazeyal]

Well.. YOU are in Atlanta, and it would be GREEN when it got overseas to him.. annnnd if *I* tried it would likely be green to start off with...

[UberFische]

I could send him MRE Poundcakes... kekekekeke... those things last forever

[Leffy]

from what i hear, make good weapons too.

[UberFische]

Yeah, they kindof de-evolve from the sort-of-food class to the rock and mineral class after a while (out of the package that is)

[Rapscallion]

No...

ol YOU-KNOW-WHO brokeded the forum by trying to upgrade it...

But he pays for everything so he's allowed..:rolleyes:

Someone - a certain someone - kept harping on on my other forums about how the DP forums were down yet again (bloody hosted servers...).

Besides, this move saves the price of about a pint of cheap beer a week, and since I'm teetotal I don't care.

Rapscallion

[Leffy]

its a nice place. :D and saving money is always nice

[Plunder Down-Under]

HOARD THE GOLD! Today a cheap beer... tommorow and expensive beer... NEXT WEEK A BOTTLE OF WINE! MUAHAHAHAHA

[reo01]

Randomness is good. I've always liked being the host of a random thread. Just as long as the board doesn't break an I get the blame for it! :-p

[Plunder Down-Under]

Ive contributed to crashing a wow server once, but never broken a forum before.

[reo01]

Ive contributed to crashing a wow server once, but never broken a forum before.
I've been guilty of causing The Horizontal Scrollbar of Doom on the Ebay doll forums many a time. :o Never permanently broked anything online. But I was a member of a faction in a text based MMORPG who crashed the game's server by all taking on the games newest, biggest and most dangerous foe at once...and killing it! :dgrin:

[AcrophobicPixie]

On camping: Plug ins at tent sites should only be used to listen to a radio for weather announcements. Not for taking a 32" plasma tv and blaring RE:2 at midnight.

On randomness: There should always be a random thread on forums. Otherwise, the randomness gets pent up and then things will definately go splody. And splody, while fun, isn't always a good thing.

Oh, and Hi :)

[Plunder Down-Under]

I promise we dont let our randomness get pent up

[garfalk]

camping: the few times ive gone the most advanced thing we've taken was a portable stove. me mom was too afraid to light a fire. and it was always in one of those 'i am a camp site' areas. the ones with no gate, nor power. and it was right next to a water storage tank. and yes, everytime we went, it was to the same place.

randomness: bananas.

[Wayne]

true. we should make him a cake.


I like cake.

[Leffy]

*pounces the pixie!* sorry i haven't got to do it yet :D

we use the plug ins for said radio, air conditioner units for those that don't want the tents but to sleep in the suburban, and for anything that needs to be blown up, and for cooking stuffs in the "once i was an rv!!" trailer thats older then i am lol.

normally we'd be all about the going au naturale on food prep and sleeping and such but the camping trip is ran by people in their mid fifties/early sixties with a few health issues. we want to keep them camping with us for a while. plus we don't want a food poisoned toddler with us. takes the fun out of fishing when you're holding a barfing toddler.

[Compton]

I don't camp. I had bad experiences.

[Leffy]

.... thats the point of camping. to see how much you can take before you turn into a sqealer.

[Big Otis Landfish]

Unfortunately, tents aren't soundproof enough to suppress squeals... so pack the ball gag if you prefer that the whole campground doesn't hear.

It's more fun in the bushes, anyways. :D

[Wayne]

Or on the beach near the campground.

[Mike Taylor]

The REALLY daring screw on the picnic tables right there in the middle of the campground. Oh wait... that was summer camp (and sadly wasn't me).

[reo01]

I went camping once, when I was 11, with the other kids in my year at school. We camped for a couple days on Mangere Mountain, which is actually the hill-sized remains of a long extinct volcano about 10 mins drive from our school. We slept in tents (which weren't so bad) had Port-a-loos for bathrooms (which everyone hated, especially the kid that was inside one when a bunch of boys decided to tip it over) and I ripped the seat of my pants open on a wire fence. This lead to the awful situation of having to wear a spare pair of shorts belonging to my teacher. Now, this was 1990, neon still lived. My teacher's shorts had fluro pink and white stripes the width of my hand.
It wasn't pretty.
Put me off shorts for a while and off pink clothing permanently.

[Wayne]

I get to go camp this weekend. We are getting things shut down for the winter out at our Council Scout camp.