The first Horace strip published 20 years ago today!

[Diane CBPFC]

29th May 1989 - the first Horace strip was published

[Mince]

You do know you're going to have to do all these topics again, don't you.

Actually, if only the calendar worked this way. We could have pre-prepared posts ready to appear at a certain date.

[The Peepmaster]

This is eerie. Avatars missing. Mince gone AWOL. Roger's gone too. It's like the Marie Celeste!

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Okay, I've no idea what's going on with everyone else, but probably because I haven't emptied my cache in a while (no, that's not a euphemism), I see everything as it always was.

Roger posted only yesterday, and Mince threw on some inane drivel not that long ago as well. The Marie Celeste appears to be in full steam from here (yes, I know she was a sail ship - that was a euphemism).

[peter]

From were Im looking the Marie Celeste has floundered on rocks and is sinking fast. this is not a euphemism.

[Malc]

Mince Spy an occasional feature, exposing Mince and Peter as the same person.


Mince, you missed off the question mark in your own post, and as Peter you remembered to misspell "where". you left off the apostrophe in "I'm", used "floundered" instead of "foundered", did not capitalise the "t" at the beginning of a sentence, yet spelled "euphemism" perfectly.

[Malc]

It's still not the 29th May yet, so how come we've posted the 20th anniversary already?

[Mince]

Mince Spy an occasional feature, exposing Mince and Peter as the same person.


Mince, you missed off the question mark in your own post, and as Peter you remembered to misspell "where". you left off the apostrophe in "I'm", used "floundered" instead of "foundered", did not capitalise the "t" at the beginning of a sentence, yet spelled "euphemism" perfectly.

Okay then, put money on it.

[Fyodor]

Malc, Tarks used the e word in the post before Peter's, so all Peter had to do was copy. Proves nothing, I know, but I felt compelled to say it anyway.

[Mince]

Malc, Tarks used the e word in the post before Peter's, so all Peter had to do was copy. Proves nothing, I know, but I felt compelled to say it anyway.

Do you mind? I want him to bet money on this.

[peter]

i agree let him put his money were his finger is.

[Malc]

Right. Twenty million pounds. Sterling.

[The Peepmaster]

Okay, answer these questions...

1) Do you live in a tin with a ring-pull lid?

2) Are you hideously unattractive to women?

3) Do you secretly envy Roger, Tarquin, Diane, Peepmaster, and the other top creative people on this board?

4) Would you give your right fin to be as intelligent as everyone else on this board?

5) Do you delight in reprimanding normal people when their grammar and spelling might not be totally correct?

[peter]

Answers to the questions are as follows:-No No No No No

[Malc]

That's what Mince would say. Correctly spelled, down to the colon (though the dash is superfluous, it is not incorrect).


I rest my case. Pay the dosh direct into my RBS account please, Mince.