Toothpaste
I’m always loath to link to humor sites, partly because I’m usually like three years behind the rest of the internets in discovering them (OMG Homestar Runner! Funny!), but mostly because I’m kind of a sponge when it comes to other people’s writing (especially funny writing) and I’m afraid my readers will figure out that I’ve just been ripping off (verbatim!) funnier sites all along.
That said, I’ve been really enjoying Toothpaste for Dinner lately. And by “enjoying,” I mean obsessively reading through his entire archives, emailing cartoons to friends, and driving my girlfriend to distraction with “Hey baby come in here you gotta see this oh my god it’s so funny what are those suitcases for are you leaving me?”
I bought L a TFD shirt (Bad Poetry, Oh Noetry!) a while ago, and she wears it whenever she has a poetry unit at school. The cartoons on the site mirror in a lot of ways my own life, from the coffee and Minesweeper obsessions to the hipster disdain to the coworker ordeals to the left leaning politics.
Still, if you’re gonna spend some time on the site, I’ve got a couple of tools that’ll help. The first is Linky, a Firefox extension that lets you select a bunch of links on a page and open them all at once in tabs. This works great for the Toothpaste archives, though in my experience Linky craps out if you select more than 30 or so links at once.
The second is only tangentially related, but it needs to be noted that the Minesweeper Firefox Extension is way faster than the Minesweeper Dashboard Widget.
Some of my favorite Toothpastes for Dinner are, in alphabetical order, here here here here here here here here here here here here here here here here here here here here here here here here here here here here and here.
it always makes me happy when people discover drew’s site because i kinda know him and he’s nice and funny and deserves millions of fans. he is well on his way to getting millions, too, and it’s awesome. his sister’s site is good stuff, too.
Comment by Heidi — July 6, 2005 @ 11:36 pm
this one is currently posted outside of my cube… has it stopped annoying co-worker from boring me to death? sadly, no.
Comment by anne... — July 7, 2005 @ 12:26 pm
Heidi: So jealous that you know him. That Slate article makes him out to be a hermit.
Anne: I love that one. I know people think Dilbert is the be-all and end-all of office humor, but Toothpaste’s stuff is way more grounded in my reality of office life.
Comment by Feaverish — July 7, 2005 @ 1:00 pm
oh, he is a hermit. i know him through his music originally. he’s very good friends with a friend of mine.
Comment by Heidi — July 7, 2005 @ 9:39 pm
Man, I gotta get some new friends…
Comment by Feaverish — July 7, 2005 @ 10:12 pm
I see that you are all friends. I just want to say that I really like your site. I was surprised when I discovered the “old book”.
Good luck!!
Comment by Caty — July 8, 2005 @ 12:51 am
I have never known birds of different species to flock together. The very idea is altogether unimaginable.
Comment by Sloop — July 8, 2005 @ 1:22 pm
Caty — I actually don’t personally know any of these people. Except Sloop, and we’re bitter enemies. We were in a knife fight once!
Comment by Feaverish — July 11, 2005 @ 8:16 pm
Oh…I understand! My mistake:)
Comment by Caty — July 11, 2005 @ 11:23 pm
Funny how you don’t mention who was totally victorious with the blade and who was washed away in a flood of tears and blood and cowardice, eh?
Comment by Sloop — July 12, 2005 @ 9:56 am
i don’t have any friends who know anyone named heidi, and if you really did know me, you’d know that natalie dee isn’t my sister. i’m also not a hermit, so, sorry on all counts.
Comment by drew — July 16, 2005 @ 4:27 pm
haha. burn.
Comment by Pierce — July 17, 2005 @ 5:14 am
if only it were! a burn, that is.
Comment by Heidi — July 19, 2005 @ 11:54 am
I think I remember that epic battle.
Comment by Jim Renaud — July 20, 2005 @ 9:45 am
I read drews comics most every day
im getting the poetry tee..drools i just cant get enough… i laugh even when other people look at them and have a quizzical expression… _ Oh yes
Comment by Carley — March 7, 2006 @ 3:06 pm