TF Flashback: 1125 Fremont #2
Welcome to another edition of TF Flashback, where we revisit some old content from our early years on the web. In this series, we’re reposting issues of an old webcomic we used to do that “chronicled” John, Moe and Hilden’s year of living together in college.
1125 Fremont #2-By the Boo
From the original blog post that accompanied this comic on TeamFremont.com:
…At any rate, I had fun with this one. It lets me introduce one of the more interesting characters we’re going to have on 1125.
Dave was one of our music major friends and he had some interesting personality quirks. One in particular that I’m taking extreme pleasure in exaggerating. They’ll be more to come. Oh, yes. More to come.
As I look back on this series of comics, I find that Dave became more than just an “interesting character”. The guy became a MAJOR aspect of the comic and I have to embarrassingly admit that the gay humor we derived from Dave may be the centerpiece of the whole 1125 Fremont series. Most of the Dave jokes that come later were derived from the funny idea that Dave wasn’t gay but he continued to do “gay-type things”. As we would sit around talking about the stories and jokes for the comic, we’d just hit on another funny and over the top thing that fit the Dave character and it made us laugh so much that we just kept using them. I guess they were easy jokes because we used them a ton over the 50 issues.
I remember showing one of Jennifer’s gay friends the series of comics when he was over, not thinking that they were in any way focused on a singular topic. As I was giving him a synopsis of the various issues, I remember finding myself repeating the same line of “here’s another one about Dave…who’s gay…but not gay. It’s funny”. As I kept stumbling on more Dave comics and laughing (alone I might add), I suddenly started feeling guilty and embarrassed. Like I’d stupidly gone too far into crass-land without thinking about it, only to come to the realization way later while showing the comics off to my wife’s gay best friend. Not one of my finer moments.
About the title: I was in the early stages of dating my future wife at the time of this comic. She had a roommate and a gay friend (not the one from the paragraph above) who had a sort of second language. When the three of them got together, I seriously needed a decoder ring to translate all their abbreviations and inside slang. For instance, the phrase “By the way” got transformed into “By the boobs” for whatever reason. Not content to leave it at that, and having a penchant for abbreviating everything, the phrase morphed one more time to “By the boo”. I found that particular phrase so absurd and strange that I ended up using it as Dave-speak.
And I still find the clenching ass line hilarious.
February 8th, 2010 at 10:03 am
So what are you trying to say here? Huh? Huh?
Should I start making drunken diabetic jokes all the same cuz they’re easy? Would that make everyone happy?
Wait, I already do that.
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Carry on. (Toodles!)
February 9th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
I never really looked at the comics, so this is good. Continue the postings.