The Whiteboard
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Topic: The Whiteboard
Posted By: DeTrevni
Subject: The Whiteboard
Date Posted: 27 August 2008 at 1:37pm
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Mother of Gawd. Doc gets furrier and furrier each day... Have you ever thought about what kind of pictures he draws his characters in that he doesn't post on the intertubez? He kinda scares me. Check out his latest few "works." ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 27 August 2008 at 1:39pm
| People read Web comics about paintball? |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 27 August 2008 at 1:42pm
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I started a long time ago. Now it's just on my list of webcomics that amuse me enough to check the updates. Besides. I see nothing wrong with paintball webcomics. Especially ones with neckid female humanoid snow leopards and foxes. >.> ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 27 August 2008 at 1:44pm
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Detrevni link. I am far too lazy to type it in google. ------------- Que pasa? 
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Posted By: jordanpischke
Date Posted: 27 August 2008 at 1:44pm
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The whiteboard is the only webcomic I read and I love it. These latest ones are building up pretty good for him to either wake up or figure out he got tricked by everyone. ------------- 
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 27 August 2008 at 1:46pm
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http://www.the-whiteboard.com - www.the-whiteboard.com It starts a few days back, so hit "previous" a few times. However, the latest comic should have non-followers going "Dubya tee eff, mate?" Edit: If this constitutes as "not forum appropriate," I'll delete it. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 27 August 2008 at 1:50pm
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Yeah wow.
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Posted By: Brian Fellows
Date Posted: 27 August 2008 at 2:25pm
| Yiffy. |
Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 27 August 2008 at 2:58pm
| Pretty glad I stopped reading that years ago. |
Posted By: Hysteria
Date Posted: 27 August 2008 at 4:06pm
| Damn furries. |
Posted By: bavo12
Date Posted: 27 August 2008 at 4:11pm
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mildly entertaining ------------- think not that i am come to send peace on earth: i came not to send peace, but a sword. matthew 10:34 |
Posted By: Doc Nickel
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 1:17am
-Virtually none at all. I have a few very rough sketches, typically showing how I wanted a particular gag or scene to look (usually when the action is heavily exaggerated- somebody getting hit with a mallet, etc.) but that's pretty much it. There's also a lot of sketches I did for fans, in the backs of the various books- I've ended up using quite a few of these as "filler" strips: like http://www.the-whiteboard.com/auto851filler.gif - this , http://www.the-whiteboard.com/auto752filler.gif - this and http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autobunny.gif - this . Basically, with very few exceptions, if it's not posted on TWB somewhere, I haven't drawn it. I barely have the free time to draw the strip itself as it is. Doc. |
DeTrevni wrote:Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 1:33am
| Holy crap it's doc! How much do you lurk here, or did someone tip you off? Send me free things! |
Posted By: Kingtiger
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 1:37am
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Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 1:46am
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ha i wonder if detrevni feels like an ass now
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Posted By: Doc Nickel
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 2:16am
-I've lurked a lot of places. But this thread I saw in my page stats. :D E-mail me your address, I'll be happy to send you some stickers.
-Wasn't my intention to put anyone down, I just thought I'd clear the air a bit. It actually sounds like Det is something of a fan. Sad fact is, the "furry" genre` does indeed have some... baggage associated with it. Had I known just how bad it was, or how bad it's gotten, I probably wouldn't have used 'anthro' characters in the first place... Unfortunately, it seems that, if you draw a "furry" character, some people just assume you're a capital-F Furry. I'm regularly asked if I've joined DeviantArt (I haven't) or if I'm a member of FurAffinity (I'm not) or if I have an "adult" gallery somewhere (I don't.) The simple fact is, I'm a http://www.docsmachine.com/customguns.html - machinist first and foremost, and in my all-too-rare spare time, I occasionally draw a comic strip. Some of my readers are, however, capital-F Furries, and I'll occasionally throw them some "fan service", like this week. Next week we'll be back to the paintball and blowing stuff up (but not at the same time. :D ) Doc. |
Posted By: Doc Nickel
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 2:39am
-According to my page stats, between 10,000 and 20,000 people a day do. Last Wednesday (the first "cheesecake" scene) there were almost 40,000 pageviews- that's not far off of the total circulation of APG Magazine (about 50K last I heard.) By readership numbers, TWB is in the top fifty or sixty webcomics- and there's something like eleven thousand webcomics out there. Not to brag or anything.  Doc. |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 3:16am
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I work on the Web myself. Not half bad page views, considering I am lucky to push 15,000 on a slow news day.
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 8:21am
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I respect what you do but I have never, ever laughed at the whiteboard. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 8:33am
You should try to work paintballchat.org into a webcomic  In a positive light of course, but with your numbers, we sure could use the traffic
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Posted By: JohnnyHopper
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 9:05am
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LOL, pssst Detrevni he's behind you..... ixnay on the urryfay :)
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Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 9:17am
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I really like the whiteboard, I just for some reason have the hardest time
remembering to check up on it. Which is okay, because it means I get to read larger chunks of it every once in a while. ------------- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 10:18am
Uh . . . why not? ------------- 
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Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 10:21am
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Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 10:30am
dear god...doc's HERE! great comic!
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 11:09am
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Holycrapit'sDoc! Wow. Didn't mean to sound like an arse there. Time to cover my behind. In all honesty, I'm actually a fan of your comic. I found it a long time ago, and a few days later, I had caught up with he whole thing. Now, it's on my repertoire of comics I check religiously, along with Cyanide and Happiness, Questionable Content and Dr. McNinja. I've given up on VGcats... Anyway, just making discussion  . Sorry to insult.------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 1:24pm
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What's that whooshing sound? Oh, it's just DeTrevni sucking up to Doc.  -------------
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 1:40pm
It's true, though I was being honest in my second post there. I feel like an a-hole now, so I'm trying to balance things out.  ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: Doc Nickel
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 4:56pm
-Nothing wrong with that. People have varying tastes. That's hardly news. I knew when I started the strip that, since it was about a niche-market subject like paintball (as opposed to the computers/tech-support/videogames all the other comics were about at the time) that it'd never have much mass appeal. It's just a hobby to me, some people like it, some don't. No biggie.
-No worries, I didn't take it as an insult. I was just idly looking at my page stats, saw this thread, had a couple minutes to wander over and join the conversation. Anyway, yeah, this week's run is a little on the racy side (well, for a mainstream webcomic, that is) but it's just a little "fan service". Like I said, we'll be back to paintball and explosions next week. (But not at the same time.)
-Well, I... Hm. Okay, you talked me into it. :D (Might not be right away/next week, though...) Doc. |
Posted By: Bruce Banner
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 4:59pm
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I just came in here to say that I love the twisty-rod I bought for my cocker a couple of years ago. And the flashpoint tip too, for that matter. And all the other useless-but-nifty crap I have bought from doc. ------------- Waste and excess are not conservative family values http://www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/07opclassic.html - Nature is not a liberal plot http://pickensplan.com - A Good Energy Plan |
Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 5:04pm
| i have to say doc, while your browsing...that wolf head made out of metal is truly a beautiful piece of work...whatever happened to that one a day ebay thing you had going? |
Posted By: Doc Nickel
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 6:09pm
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Ebay changed their pricing scale in March. They "lowered" the cost to post an auction, but nearly doubled the percentage they took out of the final value. So between that and PayPal's fees, any auction that finished under about five bucks or so- and that's mostly what I had left, was little $3 and $5 parts- wasn't worth the effort of posting it. A $3 auction left me a total profit of about nine cents. Between that and the playing season getting underway, it wasn't worth my time anymore. Doc. |
Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 6:17pm
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I will love you forever if you somehow put bravecoward in your comic strip. even in the background -------------
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 6:27pm
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In before flood of comic requests... ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 6:44pm
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nobody else is allowed to
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Posted By: Doc Nickel
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 7:05pm
It's virtually impossible to caricature a player in a mask.  I mean, besides the fact I can't draw decent human faces in the first place, let alone one that's recognizably somebody. But throw a mask on, and unless he's got a jersey with his name on it, and only seen from the back... Though I suppose I could have one of the characters saying something like "Yeah, those jerks over at paintballchat.com...!" or "that idiot DeTrevni on the Tippmann board...!" Doc. |
Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 7:10pm
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Say something about me. Hell, a shoutout to all of Ginger-kind would be neat.
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Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 7:12pm
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a comic about the techpb/paintballchat thing would be epic. pro pbc though. and dont say anything about detrev he talks crap about your comic all the time. **EDIT** bravecoward on a jersey is fine -------------
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 7:19pm
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Wait, what? ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 7:36pm
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dont act like you dont know
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 7:43pm
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As I mentioned in my previous post, I'd love it if paintballchat could get a mention in your comic. We're really trying to get more traffic to the site/ chat. Check us out on youtube btw if you havent yet :)
http://www.youtube.com/user/PaintballChat - http://www.youtube.com/user/PaintballChat |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 8:17pm
http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb273.gif - Feb. 23, 2004 That's why.... ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: GI JOES SON
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 9:18pm
i fail to see a problem with that. explain |
Posted By: Kingtiger
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 9:21pm
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 10:25pm
It's already been done, that's why. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 28 August 2008 at 10:43pm
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Wow, it's Doc Nickel! I go away for 2 days and I almost miss a celebrity? Typical. Anyway, Been a regular reader of TWB for about 2.5 years now. I've been slowing down on my paintball playing for financial reasons (yeah, I play stock), but your comics inspire me to try to make it out at least a couple times a year. I remember ogling all of your custom markers back when I played. I was eventually going to try to buy a half-block kit for my cocker, but I never got around to it (regrettably). Your webcomic aside, can you fill us in on any projects you have in the makes? Is the rail-gun marker real? How about getting Vista installed on an Invert Mini? How about some coffee recipes? You know... for my girlfriend. ------------- X |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 29 August 2008 at 12:39am
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Its nice to see you around, Doc. As with many, I love TWB. It would be nice to see if you could publish all of the strips into a book one day. Hell, I would buy it. I'll take this chance to beg for stickers, a 98og.net and "SSOK" insertion into TWB. Good job Detrevni. Try badmouthing Kaye or Budd next, you never know I hope you can stick around a little Doc. Its nice to chat with well known people. ------------- 
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Posted By: Doc Nickel
Date Posted: 31 August 2008 at 2:43am
-Well, I could suggest helping out a starving airsmith by buying time on the PW banner ad at the top of the TWB page... Right now, it's only a buck a day.But barring that, I'll have to see if I can squeeze in a mention...
-I'm hardly what you'd call a celebrity. I'm just a guy that spends way too damn much time online...
-Nothing terribly amazing at the moment. Lots of basic repair stuff, the usual stripped threads (grip frames, feed necks, air fittings, etc.) and a few bits I'm working on for the next http://www.docsmachine.com/tees/ - preorder run . If you're a fan of other webcomics, there is one thing I'm building for another artist. I think it'll be a fun surprise. (Sorry, no hints, but it'll be a Christmas present for him.) I was trying to put a Morlock and MQ into my old Stroker, but the valve chamber is much too small. Not sure if I can mod that, as the valve chamber is soldered in- the gun was originally a Piranha. I've got a few other things I'm working on, but a lot of them are personal projects that I often don't have much time for.
-Well, I have three books available in my store right now- link above. I may one day do a "treasury" type book, but don't hold your breath. These smaller ones are already pretty expensive to make. As for the stickers, as I said in my earlier post, E-mail me your mailing address and I'll send you some. Inventory changes, so I can't promise which stickers you'll get, but I'll send something. Doc. |
Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 31 August 2008 at 3:05am
omg it's doc 
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Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 31 August 2008 at 3:34am
Not necessary; just have someone saying "want some candy little kid" and everyone here will know who it is supposed to be. All that would be required for a DeTrevni cameo is some guy in the store pointing with multiple arms repeating the words "I want that" about a bazillion times. -------------
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Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 31 August 2008 at 3:52am
The DeTrevni look would need a fedora, Hawaiian shirt, and perhaps an obnoxious, outdated marker (Osirus, Rainmaker, PGP, KP2...). Main point across would be the theme of "tacky". Also, Doc could say something along the lines of "Kids just seem backwards these days" as a reference to his name "inverTeD". That would be gold. |
Posted By: Kingtiger
Date Posted: 31 August 2008 at 4:14am
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 31 August 2008 at 10:17am
Didn't you love how they announced that too? As if it was a big deal... as if they were going to save you hundreds of dollers... I liked this one by the way: http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb968.html - http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb968.html ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 31 August 2008 at 11:32am
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I'm not convinced it's Doc in the slightest, especially knowing some of the PBC people in here and the join date.
Until I see something definitive, I'm skeptical. ------------- 
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Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 31 August 2008 at 11:50am
I might just do that. Also would you be interested in coming on PaintballChat Netradio for an interview? I would love to talk to you about TWB and your projects. ------------- 
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 31 August 2008 at 1:26pm
I was going to say that I'd contact snake about it, but there you go :) |
Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 31 August 2008 at 1:33pm
I'm on this like white on rice. -------------
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Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 31 August 2008 at 3:33pm
Typically I would agree, but I don't think there is anyone that would feel like typing up such long posts, and finding links. ------------- Que pasa?
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 31 August 2008 at 3:36pm
*ahem* Osiris, thankyouverymuch. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: JohnnyHopper
Date Posted: 31 August 2008 at 3:53pm
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How much paypal would it take to just have the bear eat him? (First color strip maybe?) :) ------------- My shoes of peace have steel toes. |
Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 31 August 2008 at 4:40pm
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Heh, I wonder how often Doc gets flooded with requests like this when ever he posts on a forum. That being said, I'm sure he has a great deal of other things to worry about which dwarf the concept of drawing some obscure kid with inverted spelled backwards into his strip. It would however, be all together amazing should a brief, yet insulting (for humor purposes) plug be thrown PBC's way - (Speaking from a purely non affiliated stand point). Keep up the good work Doc, thanks for dropping in! |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 31 August 2008 at 8:22pm
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Just remember, as cool as it would be, I'm not the one asking for me to be represented in the strip. It's the people that want me! ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 01 September 2008 at 1:00am
That's right comrade! Viva La Revolucion!!! Up with the people! Up with DeTrevni! ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 01 September 2008 at 1:06am
| Maybe he'll get some style and taste if he's in the public eye enough. |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 01 September 2008 at 11:37am
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In response to the question I was sent off-forum (since I'm sure the answer would end up here anyway). I doubt Doc would accept your suggestion for a "Mack" caricature; he seems nicer than that. A more appropriate one would be some old guy on an all-terrain Hover Round complaining about the "young whippersnappers and their fancy guns." -------------
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 01 September 2008 at 12:15pm
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A character?
Just for me? Well... if you insist... ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 01 September 2008 at 12:33pm
No one likes to draw animals with downs syndrome. -------------
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Posted By: JohnnyHopper
Date Posted: 01 September 2008 at 12:35pm
No need to, just draw a mole rat.  ------------- My shoes of peace have steel toes. |
Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 01 September 2008 at 1:52pm
Quit insulting mole rats you speciest! -------------
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