This is when I sold out and joined the forums:

[Click to view comic: 'if you can't beat em....']
[Click to view comic: 'Stanley Kubrick never put up with this shit']

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Dad was flammable

Here's probably the best of my few Tobor strips, although they kind of depend on you remembering Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.

[Click to view comic: 'It's such a good vibration (feat. Loretta Holloway)']
[Click to view comic: 'Music for the people']

This was my first use of Tobor - I did this and then immediatley realised that Tobor was said film character and was just "robot" backwards. What an idiot.
[Click to view comic: 'Pointless Drivel: Because you wonder sometimes...']

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Please replace the handset, and try again.

Hi, I'm UnknownEric and I'm a TOBORholic. I use TOBOR much, much too often in my strips. Although, hell, you gotta admit, this recent event was just begging for a TOBOR strip...

[Click to view comic: 'TOBOR and the Supreme Court']

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I has a flavor!

I don't usually like to say this, but mine's shorter.

[Click to view comic: 'The deciding vote']

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[Click to view comic: 'Robot Thirtysomethings Reunited']

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Please replace the handset, and try again.

Tobor maeks my but hurt. From teh raep.

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Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.

And, let us not forget... entire series devoted to Tobor, wherein I beat this joke to death a thousand times...

The Incredible Bulk

Doppelgangerbang

TOBOR IN CHAINS!

Unexpected: A Very Special Tobor Story

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

[Click to view comic: 'Inside Joke Inside an Inside Joke']

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Life is a lot like getting mugged; you get your kicks, you take your punches, and when it's over, someone else gets your cash.

Here's one idea:
[Click to view comic: 'Possible Explanation For TABOR']

Yeah, now I got some splainin' to do.
Here's a link to the AllMusicGuide biography: King's X

The guitarist is Ty TABOR, and one of their recent albums featured the track "Fishbowl Man."

Would like to know if anyone else has heard of or likes this band as I'm the only person I know of who does.

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Chicken Feather Bed Bugs Bunny Hop Sing Out Side Street Walker Texas Ranger Cookie Dough Boy Wonder Years

oh, I meant I had ideas why Tobor was widely used. My bad.

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I thought I had attempted several Tobor comics, but i think I only have one. Maybe I've just been pretending.
This is my old one.
[Click to view comic: 'Tobor-The Later Years']

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Peeing sitting down is the gift you give yourself.

[quote]Would like to know if anyone else has heard of or likes this band as I'm the only person I know of who does.
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I used to have "Gretchen..." and "Faith Hope Love" on cassette, but they were 2 of the tapes that were in that box that got somehow "misplaced" when I was moving a few years back.

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I thought Tobor used others "widely."

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

[Click to view comic: 'Power Units']
Tobor or otherwise, this is the first time I used redrobot on my main account.

Anyone recall the mildly amusing "Kompressor" series?

"Tobor Will Cornhole You"
"KOMPRESSOR WILL CRUSH YOU INTO DUST"

etc etc

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"Life Sucks, Then you Die. The bit inbetween isnt very funny either"

[quote]Anyone recall the mildly amusing "Kompressor" series?

"Tobor Will Cornhole You"
"KOMPRESSOR WILL CRUSH YOU INTO DUST"

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P-P-P-P-P-PERM!!!!

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

Tobor is appealing on many levels.

1. He's simple. Not only does he only speak in capital letters and with a very simple "grammar," he has a simple motivation. Cornhole. Repeatedly.

2. He's complex. Why does Tobor want to cornhole? What's his motivation? What's his backstory? Enquiring minds want to know. He *seems* simple, but there are endless ways to twist his character around.

3. He's powerful. Tobor knows what he wants and has the means to get it.

4. He's "edgy." Someone who can get away with sexually violating people repeatedly and yet remain funny and somehow sympathetic is somewhat out of the mainstream. Try explaining a Tobor cartoon to someone you've just met and watch them back away from you veerrry sloooowly. And you're unlikely to see a "Tobor The Cornholing Robot" series on HBO any time soon.

Well, that's my theory, anyway.

[Click to view comic: 'Leave It To Tobor #4']

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

hey fuzzy: good point about the un-cooptability of Tobor. I had noticed the word and concept "queer" getting co-opted all over the place, such that pay cable has a show with queer in the title, and soon basic cable will, and I'm sure the networks are circling it cautiously, and soon it'll be another word/concept used to sell luxury cars. But I don't think we're anywhere close to a sitcom called "That's my Robotic Manrape." Tobor will always be unacceptable, and so he's one of the few things that can be truly ours.

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The band Add N to X had a music video where a woman has sex with a robot, and it has been played on MTV at least once. I don't think it was anal, though.

And it was probably consensual. On her part I mean. Maybe she raped the robot, I don't know.

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BTW, the word "capitalism" or "capitalist" (or variant) occurs in 131 strips, just over a tenth of the number that contain "Tobor."

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I think it's less the Robot thing that makes it unaceptable than it is the joking about constant violent, unconsentual manrape. The robot thing simply adds a certain exagerration that makes adds humor: giant telescoping phallus. It's ridiculous, and yet, deep down, every man wants to think of himself as having Tobor's "attributes. "

Actually, it may be the Robot thing that makes it acceptable at all. I mean, take a Tobor strip, replace him with DragonXero, and make him speak normally. I'm I'd bet that there's a much higher "ick" factor. I mean, then we're talking about a violent, gay rapist. After all, DragonXero can presumably change his behavior, or is at least mentally ill (in this context). Tobor can't help himself.

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

I actually just pitched that to ABC. They're thinking midseason replacement. Probably following "My Wife and Kids."

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I has a flavor!