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Blind Guardian 06-09-2010 04:52 PM

This is getting good!

*Grabs enough Cookies for a year*

Loslote 06-09-2010 07:26 PM

Secret exits ftw. :p

I'm getting worried...The King Bus looks scary with those new wheels. :eek:

TheGreatElvenWarrior 06-11-2010 03:25 PM

I've been reading old Downers today (it shows how much of a life I have). They are wonderful and amazing and hilarious! I'm glad that I was there to read them when they were posted.

Erm. This is very important to the rest of the world, I assure you.

Hookbill the Goomba 06-13-2010 05:01 PM

The time draws nearer for the 200th edition of the Downer!
Don't let the man get you down. Or up. Or whatever you kids do these days...

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i2...ah/Week199.png

Peter meets an old foe

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i2...Episode106.png

Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien in these confusing and silly stories I'm weaving around, you can look back though the...

PHANTOM AND ALIEN
COMIC ARCHIVE THING


So, grab your faces and duck behind a duck! P&A is about to get a lot more strange. There may be guests and nests, for all you know.
Also, next week's Downer will be a multi-page extravaganza! With more shoes, beards, beef and boskin than you can shake a mule at!

TheGreatElvenWarrior 06-13-2010 09:03 PM

Funny, I thought that the biggest beard the world had ever seen lived in my cupboard. I guess it must have escaped. I knew I should have put higher security measures on it!:rolleyes:

Blind Guardian 06-13-2010 10:19 PM

Damned drink machine!


Two pages! Cool!

*waits patiently, hopes name is in there somewhere*

TheGreatElvenWarrior 06-13-2010 10:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian (Post 632024)
Damned drink machine!


Two pages! Cool!

*waits patiently, hopes name is in there somewhere*

Have you seen the Oxonmoot edition in 2008 and the 100th edition of the Downer? They were great! If you haven't you should read them. :D

Blind Guardian 06-13-2010 11:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior (Post 632028)
Have you seen the Oxonmoot edition in 2008 and the 100th edition of the Downer? They were great! If you haven't you should read them. :D

okay, I'll search it.

TheGreatElvenWarrior 06-13-2010 11:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian (Post 632030)
okay, I'll search it.

Great! They're multipage as well!

Blind Guardian 06-13-2010 11:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior (Post 632031)
Great! They're multipage as well!



http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpos...&postcount=661

That's the only thing I could fine...? I'll keep looking

How do you do that "Click here" thing?

http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpos...&postcount=929 and that

TheGreatElvenWarrior 06-14-2010 12:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian (Post 632033)
http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpos...&postcount=661

That's the only thing I could fine...? I'll keep looking

How do you do that "Click here" thing?

http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpos...&postcount=929 and that

Hyperlink. Then you can type 'Click here'. You can PM me, lest we chat on a thread.

The second link you have is the first bit of the 100th edition.:D

Blind Guardian 06-14-2010 10:21 AM

Okay, thank you.


*goes off to read*

Hookbill the Goomba 06-17-2010 12:48 PM

Before I forget, it's time for your second dose of Phalian!

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i2...Episode107.png

Don't forget that if you've lost track of The Phantom and Alien in these confusing and silly stories I'm weaving around, you can look back though the...

PHANTOM AND ALIEN
COMIC ARCHIVE THING


Who knew lommy could be so... harsh? :eek:
Just don't insult penguins while she's around otherwise that hat will get in all sorts of unpleasant places...

Blind Guardian 06-17-2010 12:57 PM

So that's what she looks like.

TheGreatElvenWarrior 06-17-2010 01:24 PM

Aww. It's grumpy Lommy. :D

Blind Guardian 06-17-2010 01:53 PM

I didn't think the hat came off cause of the penguin.

Hookbill the Goomba 06-20-2010 05:02 PM

So, the time has come for the unusual, the strange and the randomly golden, 200th edition of the Downer Newspaper!
Special thanks to...

TGEW, loslote, and Laurinquë for writing extra special stories for this paper and it's inside stories. ENJOY OR EAT YOUR OWN HAND!

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i2...ah/Week200.png

More pages to come...

Hookbill the Goomba 06-20-2010 05:03 PM

Keep up with the news!

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i2...h/Week2001.png

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i2...h/Week2002.png

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i2...h/Week2003.png

The Phantom and Alien will return on Thursday with the usual madness and mayhem that entails. We'll find out how Pope Formy is doing!

Laurinquë 06-20-2010 05:27 PM

I Approve!
 
GO ROBOTIC TOLKIEN! We're all behind you, attempting to push you over!


Such wonders! You have done a great job with this Hookbill! However, that picture of custard looks more like applesauce. :p I'll eat it anyway though, I love custard.

I think I can recognise the writing (even mine!), but who exactly is responsible for what? Whoever you are, you did a good job! :D

And I'm waiting for those missing pages you know. 1-27.2, 27.4-856, and 858-91,856.

Blind Guardian 06-20-2010 06:05 PM

Go BWH!
 
The BWH has a better chance of winning, besides he'll do less damage!

WAHOO! I was mentioned twice!! Those darn kids! I put paint on my door mat, and when I answered the door, they threw it at me!

What does a Deputy Prime Minister do?:D (besides make up crazy things that random people didn't say :P )

Loslote, Rune doesn't like you any more.

Custard looks like vanilla pudding. Yum!

Phew, they didn't find my fingure prints at the ba-....you didn't here it from me...


Edit: in the middle of typing this Safari messed up lost everything and I had to type it from the Google app

Laurinquë 06-20-2010 09:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian
WAHOO! I was mentioned twice!! Those darn kids! I put paint on my door mat, and when I answered the door, they threw it at me!

It's because you're now everyone's favourite Downer. You liked my bean story then? ;)

Blind Guardian 06-20-2010 09:48 PM

Yes I do. Thank you very much!



Edit: Everyone's favorite Downer? How so?

Laurinquë 06-20-2010 10:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian (Post 632522)
Edit: Everyone's favorite Downer? How so?

Because Hooky and I both included you in our stories somehow. :) Revenge for the poor baked beans! I had just ran out of them when I wrote that and was distressed.

TheGreatElvenWarrior 06-20-2010 10:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian (Post 632522)
Yes I do. Thank you very much!



Edit: Everyone's favorite Downer? How so?

Because I was going to write a story about you too. :p


Oh, Hookbill, that was amazing! Especially the newspaper being gold. And some nice photoshopping you've done there as well. :D

Loslote 06-20-2010 10:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Laurinquë (Post 632509)
I think I can recognise the writing (even mine!), but who exactly is responsible for what? Whoever you are, you did a good job! :D

I wrote the All-Sport piece and the Invading Barrow-Wights piece. I also made the advert. :Merisu:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian (Post 632512)
Loslote, Rune doesn't like you any more.

My dear BeiGe, Rune and I have a very complicated relationship involving attempts to frame and/or assassinate each other on a regular basis due to our meat -or not really meat, in my case - making rivalries. :mad:

Blind Guardian 06-20-2010 10:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior (Post 632526)
Because I was going to write a story about you too. :p

Quote:

Originally Posted by Laurinquë (Post 632525)
Because Hooky and I both included you in our stories somehow. Revenge for the poor baked beans! I had just ran out of them when I wrote that and was distressed.



Wow! I'm famous! (Though I did post something about wanting to be mentioned...)


Quote:

Originally Posted by Loslote (Post 632527)
I wrote the All-Sport piece and the Invading Barrow-Wights piece. I also made the advert. :Merisu:

How do you get to write stuff?


Quote:

Originally Posted by Loslote (Post 632527)
My dear BeiGe, Rune and I have a very complicated relationship involving attempts to frame and/or assassinate each other on a regular basis due to our meat -or not really meat, in my case - making rivalries. :mad:

I want to see this!

Loslote 06-20-2010 10:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian (Post 632529)
How do you get to write stuff?

I want to see this!

You just pm Hooky with an article you've written and, if it's the right length and he doesn't have something else already planned, he might put it in.

And don't worry; read the Downer long enough and articles about this feud will turn up. They always do. :rolleyes: (Of course, after he got me stuck in jail, I had less free time to destroy him, but I still do my best. :Merisu:)

TheGreatElvenWarrior 06-20-2010 10:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian (Post 632529)
Wow! I'm famous! (Though I did post something about wanting to be mentioned...)

You know, when I mentioned something about wanting to be in the Downer I got hacked to death for it. Be careful what you say around Hookbill (or anybody else writing for the Downer) because he might take it and do something ridiculous. It gets even worse when he has access to pictures of you. :p

EDIT: Hookbill will edit an article you send in too if need be. So you really can't go wrong. And it helps the editor to be less stressed, which means that he is funnier, which is always a good thing. :)

Blind Guardian 06-20-2010 11:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Loslote (Post 632530)
You just pm Hooky with an article you've written and, if it's the right length and he doesn't have something else already planned, he might put it in.

And don't worry; read the Downer long enough and articles about this feud will turn up. They always do. :rolleyes: (Of course, after he got me stuck in jail, I had less free time to destroy him, but I still do my best. :Merisu:)

Someday I plan to read it all. Starting now.

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior (Post 632531)
You know, when I mentioned something about wanting to be in the Downer I got hacked to death for it. Be careful what you say around Hookbill (or anybody else writing for the Downer) because he might take it and do something ridiculous. It gets even worse when he has access to pictures of you.

All of the pictures of me have a password that even I can't type. (just tried it the other day, couldn't do it, I kinda wonder how everyone else does it :rolleyes:) But I don't really care, as long as its not personal. *prepares to get hacked to death*

TheGreatElvenWarrior 06-20-2010 11:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian (Post 632535)
All of the pictures of me have a password that even I can't type. (just tried it the other day, couldn't do it, I kinda wonder how everyone else does it :rolleyes:) But I don't really care, as long as its not personal. *prepares to get hacked to death*

Ah, it's only personal if you make it. ;)

You can't take pictures of yourself?

Blind Guardian 06-20-2010 11:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior (Post 632536)
Ah, it's only personal if you make it. ;)

You can't take pictures of yourself?


I meant someone else.

Yeah, on FB if you add me *makes sticky note not to add Hookbill* I don't have a camera but my computer does.

TheGreatElvenWarrior 06-20-2010 11:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian (Post 632538)
I meant someone else.

Yeah, on FB if you add me *makes sticky note not to add Hookbill* I don't have a camera but my computer does.

I. . . see.

But Hoobill only exploits pictures of Rune (so much). So you're relatively safe; unless, of course, you are doing something relatively ridiculous, or that he can photoshop, or both. :rolleyes:

Blind Guardian 06-20-2010 11:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior (Post 632539)
I. . . see.

But Hoobill only exploits pictures of Rune (so much). So you're relatively safe; unless, of course, you are doing something relatively ridiculous, or that he can photoshop, or both. :rolleyes:

Wha..? I'm confused. He only uses pictures of Rune? ?

TheGreatElvenWarrior 06-21-2010 12:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian (Post 632541)
Wha..? I'm confused. He only uses pictures of Rune? ?

No. He excessively uses pictures of Rune. I guess he is easier to poke fun at? I don't know. Hookbill's logic always confused me a bit.

Blind Guardian 06-21-2010 12:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior (Post 632543)
No. He excessively uses pictures of Rune. I guess he is easier to poke fun at? I don't know. Hookbill's logic always confused me a bit.

Confuses me too

Loslote 06-21-2010 01:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior (Post 632543)
No. He excessively uses pictures of Rune. I guess he is easier to poke fun at? I don't know. Hookbill's logic always confused me a bit.

I refuse to acknoledge this trend! Rune deserves no publicity! None, I tell you! :mad:

Wait...that means I shouldn't be talking about this now...ups...:rolleyes:

TheGreatElvenWarrior 06-21-2010 01:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Loslote (Post 632554)
I refuse to acknowledge this trend! Rune deserves no publicity! None, I tell you! :mad:

Wait...that means I shouldn't be talking about this now...ups...:rolleyes:

He didn't even have an advert this time around. Be happy. He was only in an article (that I wrote :p).

Oddwen 06-21-2010 04:52 AM

Well done, (the) Master Hookbill! Congratulations on your bicentennial anniversary.

Pitchwife 06-21-2010 12:33 PM

Hooray for the Golden Bicentennial Downer! Tolkienator Rules!
++Hookbill, TGEW, Lottie and Lauri for Pulitzer Prize (or wraith-world equivalent thereof)
Also, ++Aunt Bob's Letters for regular column!

BG, being mentioned in the Downer is a rare honour, only surpassed by having Hookbill single you out to poke fun at. And like becoming a Fenris Wolf, "This is something that one doesn't seek out it is thrust upon one." (Mithalwen)
(By the way, don't think you're safe just because you haven't posted any photos of yourself. He can make you post some, if he so chooses - I know from experience:D.)

Quote:

Originally Posted by TGEW
Hookbill's logic always confused me a bit.

If Hookbill's logic doesn't confuse you, chances are that you are Hookbill.;)

Hookbill the Goomba 06-21-2010 01:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pitchwife (Post 632582)
If Hookbill's logic doesn't confuse you, chances are that you are Hookbill.;)

Oh dear. Doesn't bode well for me then. :D


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