{"id":3251,"date":"2009-01-31T06:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2009-01-31T06:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T14:48:00","slug":"three-and-three-meme-response-to-fauxklore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3251","title":{"rendered":"Three and Three Meme – Response to fauxklore"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Meme: \u201cMake a comment in this entry. I’ll go to your profile, pick 3 userpics and interests , and then you explain them in your journal.\u201d<\/p>\n

fauxklore<\/a> picked the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nDon Martin<\/b>. How appropos that fauxklore<\/a> would pick this image on this day, of all days? I say this because this userpic is a picture of a character drawn by Don Martin<\/a>, the artist from Mad Magazine<\/a>. January 31st<\/sup> is a day that, for the longest time, honored Mr. Martin\u2019s creation. In the 1963 Signet paperback original, DON MARTIN BOUNCES BACK!, there is a story starring Fester Bestertester and his pal Karbuncle, called, fittingly enough, \u201cNational Gorilla Suit Day<\/a>\u201d. To celebrate National Gorilla Suit Day, the tradition is to dress up in a gorilla suit and make a door-to-door trek around the neighborhood. But as Fester Bestertester noted, \u201cEverybody knows it\u2019s just a ploy by the gorilla suit companies to sell their products!\u201d <\/p>\n

In any case, National Gorilla Suit Day was championed by mark_evanier<\/a>… but in November 2007, Mark reported that Don Martin\u2019s widow had requested the day no longer be celebrated<\/a>. Further, our leading \u201cmonkey in a suit\u201d has left office<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, this userpic remains to honor Don Martin, National Gorilla Suit Day, and all the Fester Bestertesters of the world.<\/p>\n


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\n <\/td>\n		Tombstones<\/b>. This picture was adapted from a picture of Civil War Tombstones, and is used for posts where I am either discussing recent obituaries or death. I find obituaries interesting, primarily because the human mind tends to detect patterns in death, and seems to group them in threes. Thus, the death trifecta is born… building a strong of three related deaths. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEdward-Littlehazy<\/b>. Edward is a representative of a series of cartoons I drew in high school and college called \u201cThe Droopouts\u201d. Edward was a professor at Droopouts University. He is a more generic icon (and one I don\u2019t use all that often, as I should really redraw him or use a scan instead). I think he sorta looks like me.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

 
\nNow, on to the interests. All three were picked the last time I did this meme:<\/p>\n