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I'm just curious how these things spread. Word of mouth? Accident? Random surfing? How did you first come across O&M?<br><br>I first heard about it on another, completely unrelated message board (it was a marching band fourm, of all things). A person had an O&M banner in his sig, but I never checked it out until he put a comic in his sig (he put in "Witchfraft!"). I got curious about it and checked it out, and here I am today. Needless to say, my life was forever altered that day.<br><br>Share your story? Do you even have a story?

I was looking at a furry comics thread on a message board, and everyone was raving on and on about O&M, so I checked it out and was immediatly hooked. I'm not sure exactly when that happened, but I think it was December 2002.

On another message board somebody made a post in the off topic section about 10 or so of their favorite webcomics. I started checking them out, and O&M was one of them. Hooked since Feb. 7th of this year. (I just searched Executioner Millie to get the date.)

a freind of myne had a link to o&m on his webpage, and i followed it one day when bored. i don't knwo when that was. a year ago? it couldn't have been more than 3...

Some tails fanpage.

this cool thing called stumble upoun, i was looking for some comics, i found ONE. sinfest. it was pretty dumb, plus if i got caught reading it i'd be in trouble for sure. two more days went by until i finally got to O&M in august, i think. stumble upoun.com

The El Goonish Shive message board. People had it in their sigs and I started reading. Great fun.<br><br>That mustve been in october this year.

I have no idea.. I forget now.

Look like most of us found it from other forums.<br><br>There was this guy asking for furry artwork and I can't remember why but the Ozy and Millie link was in there and I don't remember why I clicked on it because I hardly ever click on links which are basicly ads, but I clicked on it and boom I was hooked just like that.

Hdofu told me about it and introduced me to the homepage.

I had seen a couple strips here and there by random people viewing it... but wasn't hooked until I clicked on a link in Midnights AIM away message to a great little strip called "Attention Defficit Disorder". I'd put the link up, but O&M seems to be down at the moment. Upon reading this, i coudn't help but recall so many childhood memories, experiences, and overall thought patters... well, what patterns there were! So, i clicked on, and eventually within 2-4 days had read the whole archive. I actually started about two days after Simpson started reposting strips.

There was a link from a Dungeons & Dragons message board to <a href='http://www.ozyandmillie.org/1999/om19990119.html' target='_blank'>this strip</a>. Curious, I clicked the link, read the strip, laughed heartily, read the archives in a weekend, and ordered all 4 books (before the fifth book was available, obviously). That was in June.<br><br>I wish I knew who posted the link in the first place, I'd like to thank them. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

On this past August, after a couple days of my favorite chatroom <a href='http://www.the-pork.com' target='_blank'>The Pork</a> being, loyal members were rewarded with two weeks of special membership... On one Thursday, after making icons (because all of a sudden, I had a use for 'em), I thought I'd finally visit one ofthe webcomics a friend was linking to and laughing about.. I forget what comic it was, but that wasn't important. I was clikcing a couple links, opening a bunch of windows in the process and then happened upon a button with O&M.. Looked interesting, so I paid it a visit. I liked it right away, and I'd say the first one I really read was linked from the News explaining what "inryowdib" meant (See <a href='http://www.ozyandmillie.org/2003/om20031121.html' target='_blank'>Compressed Speech</a>.) After going backwards in the archives for a while that night, I decided the next day to read them all, saving the images along the way. I am happy to say that they were all read, downloaded, and saved by that Monday.

Just a few weeks ago, someone on the nationstates.net forums made a political cartoons thread, and someone posted <a href='http://www.ozyandmillie.org/2001/om20010213.html' target='_blank'>this one</a> there...I later downloaded the archives and am still reading through them. I'm now in late 2000.

It must have been early 2001, while reading RPG World, I saw one of those Keenspot banners advertising other random comics. I saw O&M's banner and decided to see what it was. (Good timing, too. O&M left Keepspot shortly afterwards.)<br>