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2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 12:03 am
by Obbl
[ “Floss” ]

Title Text: Did you know Housepets shares a birthday with a certain infamous comic strip? Name seems to escape me at the moment . . .

What could it mean? @_@

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 12:04 am
by Stormrun
Oh no

Oh no...

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 12:05 am
by Saturn381
I'm not sure if I should laugh or not since I know what's being referenced here. :?

Nice job anyway, Biddy and Chaoko.

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 12:06 am
by TheSilverFox51
RIP Grape 2008-2018, first Peanut with the cheese, and now Grape was taken out by some floss. The fans have it in for the characters...

Edit: My god I just got the reference, I don't know how I didn't notice it. But it makes so much more sense!

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 12:07 am
by Arvetis
Image quality is weird. Did you use a lossy format?

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 12:15 am
by Welsh Halfwit
I’m not sure I’d use that floss,
after Peanut’s done his teeth
or even before, as seen here,
when we see Grape come to grief.
Even more Chaokotic than before
as the lad panics with his brush,
doing a new Foxes Biddying
and living his life in a rush.
Imagination says what he did
and tells it better than our eyes;
Grape was exploring string theory
and took the sofa on for size.

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 12:17 am
by Gbr23
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Image

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 12:18 am
by biddyfox
Arvetis wrote:Image quality is weird. Did you use a lossy format?
It’s not anti aliased, so the lines are all jagged. I broke my tablet and had to use my trackpad, and it’s harder to do fake pen pressure with the anti aliased brush tool. I also just kind of like how it looks, though that’s just my opinion.

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 12:28 am
by ChekeBello
When I saw the title I got the reference, and I was like "Ohh, so good use of 'Loss', hehe" and then it hit me... "Why 'Loss' funny?"
Why the **** did this comic put me on a reflective mood about an old meme? D:

(Still pretty good comic! one of my fav gueststripts =) )
Mod edit: use of that word for anything other than discussing the place is not allowed

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 1:17 am
by Champion Wallace
For those of you that want an explanation for this strip: the internet says it better then me: http://knowyourmeme.com/news/heres-to-loss-the-internets-greatest-meme (you have to copy and past it yourself because a hyperlink would bleed though the blackout (sorry)). In addition to the position of the characters, the name of the strip and the headline on Mr. Sandwich's newspaper contain the word "loss", Grape is complaining to the artist through the fourth wall about using Loss for a punchline, and the alt-text is referring to the fact the original Loss strip came out the same day as the first Housepets! strip.

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 1:22 am
by Welsh Halfwit
Never read that before. No wonder I was at a Loss. :D

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 1:53 am
by Champion Wallace
Welsh Halfwit wrote:Never read that before. No wonder I was at a Loss. :D
*Asks Joel and Tess if they have any bricks I can borrow*

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 2:02 am
by Silly Zealot
Buahahahahaha!
Image

Also, Big thank you to Champion Wallace for pointing out the reference. I feel kinda ashamed I didn't notice it before.

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 2:27 am
by MX682XM
biddyfox wrote:
Arvetis wrote:Image quality is weird. Did you use a lossy format?
It’s not anti aliased, so the lines are all jagged. I broke my tablet and had to use my trackpad, and it’s harder to do fake pen pressure with the anti aliased brush tool. I also just kind of like how it looks, though that’s just my opinion.
I think Arvetis made just a pun there

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 2:38 am
by RandomGeekNamedBrent
grape, how did this happen? did you trip while holding the floss? you've gotta be really careful not to carry it wrong.

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 5:47 am
by GameCobra
At least she didn't eat it. Whew.

Surprised she just didn't cut the string with her claws yet =P

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 7:06 am
by Frank
that was about as clear as fog in San Francisco.

but it's always funny to see Grape tangled

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 7:28 am
by NHWestoN
.... and now dentists can learn why millions of patients don't floss !

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 8:14 am
by Buster
Image

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 9:40 am
by Pandooble
Bravo. It took me a few until reading the title to catch the joke. I'm at a loss for words

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 10:13 am
by Sansash
John Green should do a video about this meme on the Youtube channel Mental Floss

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 1:06 pm
by Cesco
Eheh, nice pun. :P But, Grape, that's totally unexpected from you. :lol: That's not a yarn ball, then... :roll: Good Peanut washing his teeth like an human, instead of using that sort of fake bone. ;)
Very nice work, BiddyFox and Chaoko! :D

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 3:22 pm
by Greigh
Ayup, I'm now too old to understand what is being said.

-shakes cane- off my lawn. x3

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 9:54 pm
by Sleet
I AM SO INCREDIBLY NOT OKAY WITH THIS.

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 12:06 am
by D-Rock
Buster wrote:Image
Sleet wrote:I AM SO INCREDIBLY NOT OKAY WITH THIS.
Stormrun wrote:Oh no

Oh no...
Same, y'all. Same.

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 9:06 pm
by NHWestoN
Can I finish your ice cream?

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 9:13 pm
by Buster
to be fair, it's not actually that bad. actually a pretty funny riff on the mess that was the original.

I just wanted an excuse to use that gif.

I found it in my bookmarks a week ago, I'm not sure when the last time i actually used it was, but i suspect it was on here since i apparently named the link "Dang It Chaoko"...
:lol:

Re: 2018/06/11 - “Floss”

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 9:38 pm
by D-Rock
Yeah, it was on here.

I still vividly remember the first use. :oops:

Anyway, I remember seeing my first parody of this on Sandra and Woo, but never would have gotten it if people didn't say "hah, shots fired at CAD."

Didn't look further. Fast forward a couple years, a bit of an influx of "is this loss" memes showed up on the Discord, so I finally asked what it was about. I determined that it was stupid in just how abstract it was and how much reaching was needed for it, which led me to despise it. :evil:

And Chaoko is well aware of this. :roll: