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  1. 2014-09-11, 05:43 AM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #1
    Apani
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    Default Was Mail Call answering to real mails?

    Reading the strips 33, 121 and 259, I was wondering: are the characters answering to real mails sent from real fans or fake ones written by the Giant?
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  2. 2014-09-11, 06:40 AM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #2
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    Default Re: Was Mail Call answering to real mails?

    While I don't doubt that Rich has gotten much more fan mail than he knows what to do with, I don't think he just picked up 3 random letters/emails, said "Screw it, these are funny questions." and made the comics. Im particular, I cant imagine him getting a letter about what the heck a doily was.
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  3. 2014-09-11, 07:20 AM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #3
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    Default Re: Was Mail Call answering to real mails?

    Real forum comments. If you go look at the early threads you can see them.
    We are the Blorg. You will be befriended. Resistance is impolite.
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  4. 2014-09-11, 08:40 AM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #4
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    Default Re: Was Mail Call answering to real mails?

    Well, I found them:

    http://www.giantitp.com/forums/shows...&postcount=221

    http://www.giantitp.com/forums/shows...&postcount=223

    Looks like they were real mails.
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  5. 2014-09-11, 01:16 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #5
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    Oh wow. I really thought Avian Overlord was making a joke. That's great.
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  6. 2014-09-13, 10:35 AM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #6
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    Default Re: Was Mail Call answering to real mails?

    Both of the linked quotes are from former moderators. I'm sure this implies something, but I'm don't know what.
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  7. 2014-09-13, 11:31 AM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #7
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    Default Re: Was Mail Call answering to real mails?

    Quote Originally Posted by Katuko View Post
    Both of the linked quotes are from former moderators. I'm sure this implies something, but I'm don't know what.
    It implies that any question that came before strip 33 is from somebody who was deeply involved with the forums from a very early time.
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  8. 2014-09-13, 02:54 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #8
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    Default Re: Was Mail Call answering to real mails?

    Huh, I never knew that. Very interesting.


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  9. 2014-09-13, 03:16 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #9
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    Default Re: Was Mail Call answering to real mails?

    Wow, that's interesting. Makes the stuff more fun!
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    So the song runs on, with shift and change,
    Through the years that have no name,
    And the late notes soar to a higher range,
    But the theme is still the same.
    Man's battle-cry and the guns' reply
    Blend in with the old, old rhyme
    That was traced in the score of the strata marks
    While millenniums winked like campfire sparks
    Down the winds of unguessed time. -- 4th Stanza, The Bad Lands, Badger Clark
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  10. 2014-09-14, 09:17 AM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #10
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    I fully recommended checking out the first few threads sometime. Very interesting and amusing when viewed in retrospect.

    Edit: Seriously, even just the first 10 pages of the linked thread honestly feel like foreshadowing. Spooky.
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  11. 2014-09-15, 06:30 AM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jaxzan Proditor View Post
    Huh, I never knew that. Very interesting.
    Indeed. Years passed in this forum, and i didn't knew it...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Killer Angel View Post
    Indeed. Years passed in this forum, and i didn't knew it...
    Really? You never noticed the posters with the really old join dates?
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  13. 2014-09-15, 10:17 AM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #13
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    Quote Originally Posted by evileeyore View Post
    Really? You never noticed the posters with the really old join dates?
    Anyone with a join date older than 2010 turns invisible whenever I look at their profile.
    “Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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    Quote Originally Posted by Keltest View Post
    Anyone with a join date older than 2010 turns invisible whenever I look at their profile.
    Odd...does that mean I appear as a ghost to you?
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    Default Re: Was Mail Call answering to real mails?

    Did somebody say something?
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    Quote Originally Posted by A Ghost View Post
    Odd...does that mean I appear as a ghost to you?
    Pretty much, I'm afraid.


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    Default Re: Was Mail Call answering to real mails?

    Gotta say, I always assumed those were made-up letters/questions! Cool beans.
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  18. 2014-09-19, 10:25 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #18
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    Default Re: Was Mail Call answering to real mails?

    Seems like a TON of webcomics from 2003-2006 did mail call. It was like a fad that blew in/up/out. I kinda miss it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by evileeyore View Post
    Really? You never noticed the posters with the really old join dates?
    What qualifies as a "really old join date"?

    I just noticed that I've been reading this comic for seven years. How time flies!

    edit: ooh just found my old avatar on archive.org... those are my cats. Sadly the spotted one died last year, congenital heart problem but it is nice to be reminded of her.
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  20. 2014-09-24, 06:35 PM (ISO 8601) - Top - End - #20
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    Quote Originally Posted by Prowl View Post
    What qualifies as a "really old join date"?
    Get off my lawn youngin!

    /shake cane





    You can switch to a forum avatar through settings I think. I'm not sure though, I've had this one as long as you've been a member of the forum...
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