Questions for Roger Kettle

[SanD]

Does this mean my cover's blown?

[Mince]

Ooh, sorry, Fyodor, I meant SanD. 

[The Peepmaster]

She's 'avin a larf! Is she 'avin a larf

And stop using lime green: it's like reading someone's vomit.

Try not to curb people's creative individualism, Mincey. Just because you're in charge, don't get carried away! They say power corrupts, etc...
 

[Mince]

Try not to curb people's creative individualism, Mincey.

Writing in Lime Green is now creative?

Just because you're in charge, don't get carried away!

I'm in charge now? Oh just bloody brilliant . . . as though I don't have enough to cope with with all these students.

Maybe it's my custom title. I think it's time to change that.

[Mince]

SanD

Sorry about blowing your cover, but using the same IP address and then trying to deceive the board admin (who necessarily has to have access to IPs etc in case he needs to ban someone) seemed like asking for it. At least, that's how it's viewed on other boards I have been a member of. Next time I shall merely point out that I know who you are without blowing your cover.

If you wish to do this properly, you need to hide you IP address by using an anonymous web proxy like anonymouse or Proxify, or freeware such as JAP or TOR.

[Elizabeth]

Hi Mince - it is my profession, as it happens. The belly dancing is just my evening occupation. By the way, if you want more of us girlies, maybe you should discourage all the technical discussion that appears on the board. We can't cope with it you know. 

[Mince]

By the way, if you want more of us girlies, maybe you should discourage all the technical discussion that appears on the board.

Okay, I'll stop using phrases like "Lime Green".

[Mince]

Next question for Roger:

How did you deal with the groupies when you first started?

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

And how do you handle them now?

[Roger Kettle]

I had a crack team of ex-S.A.S. bodyguards and was in constant touch with The White House security office regarding the latest in protective technology. When I popped out to the shops, a regiment of Ghurkas yomped alongside me. Andrew had his mum.

[Mince]

How many of your ideas for strips are eventually not used. How do you decide whether they are funny or not?

[The Peepmaster]

How many of your ideas for strips are eventually not used. How do you decide whether they are funny or not?

Roger doesn't do strips that aren't funny! The impudence!

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

I had a crack team of ex-S.A.S. bodyguards and was in constant touch with The White House security office regarding the latest in protective technology. When I popped out to the shops, a regiment of Ghurkas yomped alongside me.

I heard you married her.

[Roger Kettle]

Mince, I don't think you DECIDE if something is funny. It either is or it isn't. While some ideas are obviously funnier than others, I like to think I keep up a reasonable standard. Sometimes, I'm going down a certain line and it simply doesn't work so I scrap the idea and start again.  I also spend ridiculous amounts of time trying to get the "rhythm" of the dialogue right. Often a joke works better if a key word has, say, three sylllables rather than two and I'll trawl around my brain till I find what I think works best.
By the way, does anyone else have to check the dictionary every time they use the word "rhythm"?

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

I use the Rhythm Method myself. Four daughters later.....