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[Mothra]

Alright... back when I was in the hospital, my uncle's 90-year-old aunt sent me the quinessential Hang In There!! cat get-well card. It was very nice of her, and now that I'm better, I was going to send her one back.

I bought a card with nothing but this picture, and have covered up the existing text:



I need CAT FROG puns people! I am STUMPED

[Classic]

Is it cool to evoke racial slurs against French People?
Le Chat Noir. That's french  and famous or something. And that little kitten's got a little black fur.

[Caithness]

"You'll be happy to know that I've bounced back."

[Classic]

"You'll be hoppy to know that I've bounced back."

Cheese is king.

[Mongrel]

"In the hospital, all cats are green"

[Mothra]

"You'll be happy to know that I've bounced back."

Cait you have my thanks

[Defenestration]

Why would you buy a card and not have pun already in mind? I find it hard to believe there is not all sorts of cat cards littering any one greeting card aisle. The frog part makes it a bit hard.

[Beat Bandit]

Why would you buy a card and not have pun already in mind? I find it hard to believe there is not all sorts of cat cards littering any one greeting card aisle. The frog part makes it a bit better.

[Mothra]

Man cards to the elderly are not the kind of thing you really hammer out on the conceptual level before moving forward. You find a card with a picture of a kitten in a frog costume on it, you buy the card and you work out the formality of accompanying text later.

The meat and potatoes of this thing is going to be a written letter I'll fold up and put in card itself, basically giving her the rundown of how things are going and what I'm thinking and where I'm considering going, because that's the kind of thing you kind of hope you'll get when you're old and you get a piece of mail from someone you sort of know.

[Classic]

If your grammy likes muppets:
"This is Kitten the Frog reporting!"

[Kayma]

I need CAT FROG puns people! I am STUMPED

Paging Dr. Lottel. Paging Dr. Lottel.

[Lottel]

Ok. Fine.  Use bounce back and say "you'll be hoppy to know" or something.

I'M GOING BACK TO BED.

[Mothra]

I was thinking of doing this but I kind of like the simplicity of the one stoic jump joke. I think if I leave it as it, it doesn't blow its load before she reaches the end of the card.

[Lottel]

GOOD. That's exactly what I told Kayma!
It's wonderful and Caithness is a cool guy~

[TA]

So I'm frapsing some game stuff, converting to .mp4, and linking to people.  But there's a problem with my process!  Fraps severs the video when it gets to 4gb and starts a new file, so I end up with a bunch of big, short videos that I need to stitch together into one thing.  What I'm doing now is appending them all together in VirtualDub, saving one giant 50gb AVI, and then converting that with Handbrake into a more manageable format.  There's got to be a better way!  What is that way?

[Smiler]

I hope you are using .avs scripts to combine the files, because if you are encoding a video twice, that is bad.

Basically you want avisynth to make a script that strings all of them together, and then encode from that with something like megui.

[Mongrel]

Reposting my request for people who don't read the comics thread.

I am thinking of pulling the trigger on some very hard-to-find old Moebius books which would complete my collection, but the only place they are available is Amazon and Amazon seriously has to be the worst fucking site in the world for internet commerce (nobody ever offers international shipping, the few who do have exorbitant rates, and inventories are actually completely segregated by nation - no US seller or their wares appears on Amazon.ca, etc.).

Can someone receive and re-mail three books for me?

Doubleplusgood if you're comfortable fudging customs forms with something like "used magazines $25". Rather not pay $40 import duties on three beat-up old comics, rare as they might be.

Don't feel super-obligated if this is too much trouble - I have a few other folks I can ask elsewhere.

[Mongrel]

Uhm, an awkward question. How do you go about getting a non-responsive site creator to take down your name & content? Anything short of paying a lawyer? And would that even that do anything?

Issue is some guy decided to use my Candy in the Van picture for a comedy article on some hipster art-and-articles site a few years back. Only he's such a bad writer that it sounds like the timecube guy wrote it (I guess if you write something so shittily incoherent only you find it funny, it'll always stay indie!). Worse, now when you search my name in google it looks like I'm attached to some crazy rambling defense of NAMBLA.

I have already sent emails asking nicely but there's no reply (tellingly, there's no site admin or individual member contact - only a submissions email address).

Sooooo, because I would like to be able to, you know, ever pass a pre-interview screening anywhere ever again, I want the guy to just take my damn name down (hell he could even keep the picture if it game down to it, so long as my name didn't come up on the google results).

I mean, it at least links to my actual source page, so anyone who find it via Google can in fact link to the source and see with about thirty seconds reading that the picture is harmless. But it doesn't look like that when the Google search hits your eyes and I can't count on random people I've never met to be that diligent. This is not something I really want to take chances with. Nor do I want to wait around until it actually bites me on the ass to deal with it.

Sure, maybe no one here has any answers, but I figured I'd ask, just 'cause I really don't know what to do or try next.

[Brentai]

Dunno how important this is to you in a monetary sense, but there are services out there that specialize in scrubbing reputation-damaging shit off the internet.  It's assumed that they have Ways of doing this, or else you can just demand your money back.

[A²]

Uhm, an awkward question. How do you go about getting a non-responsive site creator to take down your name & content? Anything short of paying a lawyer? And would that even that do anything?

Issue is some guy decided to use my Candy in the Van picture for a comedy article on some hipster art-and-articles site a few years back. Only he's such a bad writer that it sounds like the timecube guy wrote it (I guess if you write something so shittily incoherent only you find it funny, it'll always stay indie!). Worse, now when you search my name in google it looks like I'm attached to some crazy rambling defense of NAMBLA.

I have already sent emails asking nicely but there's no reply (tellingly, there's no site admin or individual member contact - only a submissions email address).

Sooooo, because I would like to be able to, you know, ever pass a pre-interview screening anywhere ever again, I want the guy to just take my damn name down (hell he could even keep the picture if it game down to it, so long as my name didn't come up on the google results).

I mean, it at least links to my actual source page, so anyone who find it via Google can in fact link to the source and see with about thirty seconds reading that the picture is harmless. But it doesn't look like that when the Google search hits your eyes and I can't count on random people I've never met to be that diligent. This is not something I really want to take chances with. Nor do I want to wait around until it actually bites me on the ass to deal with it.

Sure, maybe no one here has any answers, but I figured I'd ask, just 'cause I really don't know what to do or try next.

The threat of legal action may be enough. See if a lawyer-y friend can draft up a "Take this down or we'll find a lawyer and sue you" in a professional enough sense to rustle this guy's jimmies.