Jane Austen Is Turning In Her Shallow Grave
Or, Courtney's Top Five Dreamiest Internet Comedy Writers.
by Courtney
Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka
Ah, El Lowtax. I can well remember the dreary schooltime afternoon in the computer lab, that fateful day when I was a tender lass of fifteen, and my dear friend Carrie said hey, have you ever heard of Something Awful Dot Com? Nay, said I, for I had not. She showed me some of the ICQ pranks, and from that day on, the major chambers of my heart belonged only to Lowtax.
From the day after that on, Something Awful was banned by the school computers. Probably yelling TONKA at each other across the computer lab wasn't the sneakiest way of hiding our somewhat less than devoted attention to our computering tasks.
Precious Memories: Doom House, every ICQ prank, some other stuff, a dream I had once where we were friends. Le sigh.
Dennis "Corin Tucker's Stalker" Farrell
Author of the only decent webcomic on the whole Interweb - Lost In Appleton. I sent him a fan email once, and he didn't reply. I don't care if he doesn't want to have my bespectacled freak babies! He lives on in my heart, and my heart will go on and on!
Precious Memories: A FRAGILE VASE OF INFINITE POWER!
Tom "moof" Davies
Lowercase moof is a relatively new writer on Something Awful, but he's ridiculously funny. I heart him. So very much.
Precious Memories: I sent him a fan email, and HE ANSWERED. Can you believe it? I'm kind of getting used to being ignored on the Internet, where my come-hither smiles and stunning Pre-Raphaelite good looks cannot affect its lonely, lonely denizens. But moof replied! Replied I say! I swoon. Also: real life/internet/in your mind, good pets, cat people are crazy and so are cats and so are people, anything about space, dinosaurs, Cabbage Farm. Every word was comedy gold, direct from the mine. Why oh why doesn't he update any more?
Why???
Reid "Frolixo" Paskiewicz
Frolixo leapt into my heart way back in '03, or maybe '02, I can't remember. You know how it is sometimes, when you've just met someone yet it feels like you've known them forever? Me neither.
Precious Memories: The very first farming article, more farming stuff, the Greasnin/Frolixo snipe fight, the Prettiest Princess, anything to do with Steve Perry.
John Cheese
The only one on my list not in some way affiliated with Something Awful. Oh Mr. Cheese, will you ever learn?
Precious Memories: Hitler stealing his belt, Taco-Eye Jeff, the Invisibility Pills, Crazy Legs O'Hoolie, the PWOT Beer-Off, JDATE.