🎨 Artcow Iconoclast / Jonathan Mack Sweet - The Chris-Chan of Arkansas

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ToroidalBoat said:
Maybe his eyes glazed over when they tried to teach him proper (or at least civil) table manners?

Speaking of, what were his table manners like at the sumptuous buffet at ASU?
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All we ever heard about was the salad bar thing.
 
John Titor said:
salad bar thing
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Although based on what we do know, Sweet was probably juuuuuuuuuust fine to be around in the cafeteria.

For example, we know he tried to be a comedian while others were eating (edit: ninja'd by DrJonesHat):
The_Iconoclast said:
Back in the day I often performed impromptu stand-up in the cafeteria during mealtime. They loved me. Another reason I miss college....
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And we all know how great Sweet is at reading others.
 
John Titor said:
All we ever heard about was the salad bar thing.
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According to my sources: Aside from the famous salad-bar incident and the cringe-inducing comedy performances, Sweet was not noticeably swinish in the dining hall.

No one can understand why he thought that quail was ever on the menu. The dining hall also didn't serve pheasant under glass or duck à l'orange or ortolans. I suspect that Sweet probably thought some form of chicken that wasn't heavily breaded and deep-fried in fat was a rare delicacy and decided on quail for reasons that only he can comprehend.
 
DrChristianTroy said:
taco salad
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You know how the Norse had the concept of Valhalla? The Sweetish equivalent would be something like an eternity of the Sweetish conception of ASU, where taco salad is the food of the newspapermen gods there.

Dr. Merkwurdichliebe said:
cringe-inducing comedy performances
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So how did they go?

Not surprised about the quail misinterpretation thing, although I am surprised that Sweet managed to behave relatively well as far as public table manners go.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
You know how the Norse had the concept of Valhalla? The Sweetish equivalent would be something like an eternity of the Sweetish conception of ASU, where taco salad is the food of the newspapermen gods there.
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I think Sweet regards himself as more of an Olympian god than a figure out of Norse mythology. In Valhalla, you have to go out every damned day and engage in single combat against one of the other heroes in residence. Also unlike Olympus, there is a remarkable shortage of barely legal girls in the Hall of the Slain.

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ToroidalBoat said:
So how did they go?
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Well, when a guy who looks like a fat, moonfaced version of Fidel Castro stands up in the dining hall at a conservative Southern university and starts performing a "comedy" routine that consists of shouting bits of material lifted from TV performances of half-past 1997, it tends to not go very well. Some laughed at the campus idiot making a fool of himself, but most averted their eyes and left as quickly as possibly. Sweet, of course, interprets the laughter directed at his intentionally grotesque appearance and abnormal behavior as some kind of genuine delight in his performance, much as he regards being the recipient of other people's garbage as being "showered with gifts."
 
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He Sets Me On Fire said:
I only clicked "Informative" for lack of the horrifying or puke button.

Where exactly does he get the idea that people want to read that? Where is the encouragement coming from, other than his head?
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Yep, the same place the encouragement came from when he made his zingers in college.
He Sets Me On Fire said:
Edit: This stuck in my head the first time, but I couldn't quite put my finger on what bothered me about it until now:

"I remember reading some old AJM posts of his where he discussed in detail how he left "old wrapping paper and leftovers"

What ... what in the hell?!

I mean - How exactly do they feed him? Do they just fill up a trough with slops and let him go to town? Are 21st century eating habits too much for him to handle? Cripes!
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I think it's the same logic as the piss jars. Rather than take his food and silverware back to the kitchen, he just thows it on the floor so he doesn't have to stop watching his toons. (Of course he hated it when his brother allegedly did the same thing, but theory of mind and all that...)

ToroidalBoat said:
I am surprised that Sweet managed to behave relatively well as far as public table manners go.
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That we know of. Probably no one sat next to him so they didn't notice the up-close stuff. Well, except for his Japanese dining partner, and how short-lived that was might be indicative.
Dr. Merkwurdichliebe said:
much as he regards being the recipient of other people's garbage as being "showered with gifts."
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Heh, I just got a mental image of him being pelted with tomatoes in the cafeteria and then years later telling people how he was "literally showered with gifts of free produce."
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
Check out that legal disclaimer.
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Very nice find!

What a piece of work.

He puts a copyright notice, instead of a trademark notice, on the name of his company. Pretty sloppy work by the Bad Boy of College Journalism, who never gets his facts wrong.

He claims the copyright on a cover that he admits stealing from using to pay homage to Ernest Goes To Camp.

He explicitly claims copyright ownership of "all of the character names" appearing in the comic, meaning that everyone in the world named Josh, Bill, Tony and Jon, for starters, is using their own name in violation of Mold Kingdom copyright laws. And no other writers may use those names in their works under penalty of decapitation. It's a pity Sweet didn't go to law school: The students and faculty would have laughed themselves into comas.

And best of all, he claims copyright ownership of drawings of stick figures.

Finally, there's this: "No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons and/or institution in this magazine with any person living or dead or any institution is intended, and any such similarity that may exist is purely coincidental." He has plagiarized the exact wording of the legal disclaimer used by Marvel Characters, Inc., and Marvel Entertainment. How long before Jon denies the existence of Marvel Comics or at least claims that he has never seen one? If Jon thinks getting kicked off The Herald after confessing to plagiarism was a painful experience, he has no idea what lawyers are capable of when you steal intellectual property belonging to them or their clients.

 
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Dr. Merkwurdichliebe said:
How long before Jon denies the existence of Marvel Comics or at least claims that he has never seen one?
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Not only is there apparent plagiarism in the disclaimer, there are also indeed characters in Belch Dimension based on people IRL. Like the people who kicked him off the Herald, that Leo Greer guy, the self-insert of Sweet...

Like I've said, I normally don't conflate copyright infringement with theft per se, but like I've also said, if Sweet is knowingly and fraudulently claiming copyright to subjects he can't copyright, then that's copyfraud. Sweet is lucky that lawyers don't really notice him. Maybe they have trouble reading Belch Dimension because they aren't true conservatives?

And Sweet really likes to imitate TV shows he likes, whether it's in Belch Dimension or in stand-up comedy at the sumptuous buffet of "quail and steak."
 
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Dr. Merkwurdichliebe said:
He claims the copyright on a cover that he admits stealing from using to pay homage to Ernest Goes To Camp.
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ToroidalBoat said:
And Sweet really likes to imitate TV shows he likes, whether it's in Belch Dimension or in stand-up comedy at the sumptuous buffet of "quail and steak."
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Sweet said:
The cover is amockup [si] of the poster for "Ernest Goes to Camp"
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I wonder how much bandwidth it would take up to host a post showing the number of times Jon openly admitted to ripping things off like this? He does it constantly. I can only imagine that whenever Jon passed a test in high school, he'd walk up to the front of the class, that weird, asymmetric grin on his maw, holding up the paper and saying, "I got the idea for the right answers by looking at Heather Johnson's test..."

... which is the first of, and one of the top three, Ernest films out there. This is before the budgets were cut, the damn things went straight-to-video, and Gailard Sartain ("Chuck") left, so they started pairing the little fella who played Bobby off with either another previously unknown brother, Tom, or actress Lynda Cash, perhaps best known for her cream cheese commercials. For my money, that was what sent the franchise straight to hell.
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Uh-huh. Huh. Hey, Jon - who started the fight that landed you in jail, you or your brother? I mean, if you can recall the history of a bunch of D-grade comedies so accurately...

Good friends, silly songs, prank wars, and comical inter-camp rivalries. Nothing says summer like this winning combination.
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I wonder if Jon ever actually went to summer camp, and if so, how many hours it took until he was kicked out?
 
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