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February 3, 2010
Reader Comments (36)
You need to make this into a poster, for I will buy many many copies of it.
Scott Meyer: standing up for framers everywhere.
I thought this was great.
Why on earth would anyone buy a book when you have already read the entire contents online? I've got the first one and plan to get several copies of the second, for gift and educational purposes.
The last few times I have read you I have noticed that there hasn't been any other comments, sou would you mind awfully if I broke my 'first' virginity on your cool comic website by shouting "FIRST HAHAAA MOTHERFUCKERS, AT LAST!!!".
The comic was good too. Your scripts and story amuse me, why don't more people comment? Subnormality (also on my xmarks list) gets over 100 comments normally and it only updates once a week. You need to promote more.
Also, if I send you a photo can you sign it for me, but not as yourself?
Love it! Particularly after reading your Tweet on the subject...
Thank you very much for this one! Very nice, also looking forward to the second book!
Frist!
Good one, Scott. Loud chuckles from farmes 3 and 4.
Where are the real life character pics?
Hmmm. I think that "framers" is misspelled. If you wanted it to be pronounced as the plural of fram.....2 Ms, sir.
Just thought i would give you a head start on your corrections.
Close the door behind you! Were you raised in a bran?!?
And just how does a "framer" talk? Who stil hasn't learned their lesson? Why not blame it all on your wife? Isn't she supposed to looking out for you? You mean she don't got yo back?
"Listen, city boy, I grew up on a fram and I know how framers talk" is CLASSIC! But here's the problem... even this simple program underlined "fram" in red (twice now) to let me know I'm not using a real word... (but not "framers" 'cuz that IS a real word if you don't rhyme it with "grammars")...
Haven't commented in awhile but have been enjoying the strips and commentary. Keep up the good work, Scott!
The 'how framers talk' in panel three is what sells it.
The Framer in the dell.....The framer in the dell......Hi Ho the dairy-o, the framer in the dell
dun dun dun! a secind book! Huzzuah!
In a completely unrelated blog I was reading, they had a section about "Night hunting" in Bhutan, that had instructions for how to kidnap a girl from a neighbor's house (all in good fun of course).
http://www.parahamsa.com/2009/11/20/night-hunting/
The instructions were,
1. As soon as you get inside, go unlatch the front door from the inside. This way, you can get out easily and you know your way to the door.
2. Every year, each house has an annual ceremony to bless the house and all the people are invited. Pay attention to the layout of the house, so that moving through it in the dark will be easier.
3. If the wooden hinges are noisy at that house, pee on them. They won’t squeak later when you leave after a good catch.
4. If you hit your head in the dark, don’t say, “Ouch!”…Say,”Meoowww!”
*Next* book? You're assuming there's going to be a third? Wow, just wow. Whaddya gonna call this one, "The Framer In the Dell?"
Too funny, Scott. As always. Can't wait for the book :)
I don't care what you're writing, this is true 90% of the time.
poor deluded Simon... thought he was the first to post but didn't know about the delay... time to send him back to the fram...
This is funny! And real books are nice. They don't go down like web sites do, they give a person a chance to look at something other than a computer screen, you don't have to worry about the comics being taken off the web site.
In my day job as an editor, I once had an author explain to me that she really did mean, "Wait just a minuet." Even trying to demonstrate a minuet didn't help, perhaps because I am a terrible dancer. I will now simply start singing "The Framer in the Dell" until they do it my way ... because my singing is even worse than my dancing, and therefore should work faster. Thank you!
Fram 4: Use of "their" is nonstandard but consistent and therefore forgivable.
Fram 1: Use of "they" is nonstandard and set painfully against a "he or she" earlier in the sentence. UNFORGIVABLE
I think the punchline is the same as the first panel of "How To Tell If Somebody Is Dangerously Crazy"