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Date Posted: 17:26:46 04/07/08 Mon
Author: No name
Subject: Re: Hooray
In reply to: Chris W. 's message, "Re: Hooray" on 18:59:09 10/22/07 Mon

>>>>>>>>>That was a wonderful ending. Thank you for
>eight
>>>>>>>years
>>>>>>>>>of a strange and beautiful webcomic.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Indeed! I second that.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>And I third that. Thank you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I fourth it! It's been a wacky, fun-filled ride,
>>and
>>>>>>I've enjoyed every minute of it. Thanks very much
>>>for
>>>>>>keeping it going as long as you did.
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm glad you've fourthed instead of re-seconded and
>>>>>left me able to confidently fifth, because I really
>>>>>really mean it.
>>>>>Thank you so very much, Patrick, it's been a
>journey
>>>>>beyond any other fiction I've ever experienced.
>>>>
>>>>Can I sixth, or would it be taking it too far?
>>>>Regardless, Triangle & Robert will always be special
>>>>to me. Every time I moved, I'd be away from the
>>>>internet and build up a huge backlog of webcomics.
>>>>Sitting down to see what I'd missed on T&R was the
>>>>first thing I'd do upon reconnecting.
>>>
>>>I'll take it too far and seventh it. I'm really glad
>I
>>>discovered T&R the long time ago that I did. I
>enjoyed
>>>reading it and despaired at the hiatuses (hiati?). In
>>>any case, thank you, Patrick, for the service you
>have
>>>done to the Internet.
>>
>>I got sent here from another comic, but I can't
>>remember which. Dominic Deegan maybe. Anyway I have
>>happily spent some considerable time reading the
>>archives. Having read the ending first, it frustrated
>>me, as did the beginning, however having read the
>>entire archives it all makes sense, and was a fun
>>ride. Thank you, and happily eighthed.
>
>I have only been reading T&R sporadically in the past
>few years; in fact, when I went to look at it today,
>my bookmark was no longer valid and I had to Google
>for this site.
>
>But when the Google results came up, I clicked on the
>Wikipedia entry first because the first few words were
>"Triangle and Robert is a webcomic by Patrick
>Shaughnessy that ran from August 1999 to September
>2007". My first reaction was "Oh, no, what happened to
>it? Is that why my bookmark goes to a 404 page now? Is
>it GONE?"
>
>I was glad to see that the strip still existed online
>at this site, and also glad to see that there's a real
>ending instead of just stopping dead with a "sorry,
>I'm bored with this" message from the creator. I'll
>probably have to go back a year or so to get enough
>background info to *understand* the ending, judging by
>what I remember of this strip, but I'm willing to do
>that and wait to read the ending until I get there.
>
>Patrick, thanks so much for all your hard work on
>Triangle & Robert; over 2300 strips is a hell of an
>achievement. It frequently made me laugh, which is not
>something I can say about too many comic strips,
>web-based OR dead-tree. Great job!

I ninth the statement (nineth?). It wasn't the most orthodox of webcomics, and even though i found that the jokes seemed occasionally low-level and unfunny (sorry Mr. Shaughnessy), the majority of it made me laugh, and all of it made me happy i'd read it. Thanks.

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