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Postby VisibilityMissing » Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:51 am

<!--QuoteBegin-KingOfKings+Jul 19 2005, 08:35 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (KingOfKings @ Jul 19 2005, 08:35 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Uh, are you sure you dont have your foot resting on your leg like youre supposed to? I mean, if you cross your legs like that, you'd have to...nevermind, I dont want to break the TOS describing what happens. If this place has a TOS. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> I think what you wanted to say, is that if Ozy has anatomy similar to a human, he should find that position uncomfortable, due to having genitalia in the way. <br><br>However, since we're already breaking so many rules here, why not break that one, too? Suffice it to say, lupine and canine anatomy is a bit different.
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Postby KingOfKings » Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:52 am

<img src='http://www.ozyandmillie.net/2001/om20011027.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' /><br><br>For some reason Ozy goes from girl style to man style in the 3rd panel.<br><br>Actually, it appears to be like that for EVERY sitting strip, not just this one. When Ozy is facing right, he has his legs crossed skirt style. When hes facing the left, he has his legs crossed pants style.

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Postby Mista_B » Wed Jul 20, 2005 2:01 am

Meh, whatever's comfortable. Me, I've got a couple leg injuries make it easier to sit the "wrong" way, so that's what I do more often.<br><br>Otherwise, this whole story-arc... heheh, yeah, some of the things I created as a kid... I shudder.<br><br>I'm thinking Millie's got a solid angle here. Wonder what trouble she'll get into with a new bike?
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Postby KingOfKings » Wed Jul 20, 2005 2:29 am

Well, not crossing your legs at all is the most comfortable...

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Postby dcsimpson » Wed Jul 20, 2005 2:43 am

<!--QuoteBegin-KingOfKings+Jul 20 2005, 01:30 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (KingOfKings @ Jul 20 2005, 01:30 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Ozy sits like a girl. Literaly. He's in the "cover up skirt so no one sees anything" position for some reason. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> I sit like that. I have observed that so does my father and so did his father.<br><br>Actually, most of Ozy and Millie's body language, things like tail-wagging aside, is an imitation of things I do myself. Not on purpose, it's just what came naturally to me to draw.

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Postby KingOfKings » Wed Jul 20, 2005 2:47 am

Well, regardless, it's still officially the skirt style of sitting.<br><br><!--QuoteBegin--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Blah, then I'll just do it "wrong" to piss people of<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br>Remember what Llewellyn said about how there are two sides to subjugating yourself to popular opinion...

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Postby Mista_B » Wed Jul 20, 2005 2:50 am

Wha, my side, and everyone else who's wrong?<br><br> <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Postby KingOfKings » Wed Jul 20, 2005 2:53 am

Sitting like that isn't "wrong," it just isn't proper etiquette. It's like holding a fork. You don't HAVE to hold it the proper way, but if you don't want to get funny looks, you should.

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Postby Caigan » Wed Jul 20, 2005 5:19 am

<!--QuoteBegin-KingOfKings+Jul 19 2005, 06:47 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (KingOfKings @ Jul 19 2005, 06:47 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Well, regardless, it's still officially the skirt style of sitting.<br><br><!--QuoteBegin--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Blah, then I'll just do it "wrong" to piss people of<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br>Remember what Llewellyn said about how there are two sides to subjugating yourself to popular opinion... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Officially? Never heard it being the 'official' way of that.<br><br>I sit both ways. I also have lots of male friends who sit the 'skirt' way too.
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Postby Dr. Doog » Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:11 am

well, I do sit in the "normal" way for a guy to cross his legs too, but that doesn't really work in my computer chair. and therefore, most of the time I don't sit like that <!--emo&:P--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo--> like DCS, I've noticed that my dad does the same. perhaps I just don't have my legs so tight together as to be uncomfortable? or maybe I have no nerve endings <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Postby KingOfKings » Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:00 am

<!--QuoteBegin--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <br>Officially? Never heard it being the 'official' way of that.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br>Well, considering there aren't a whole lot of options on how to sit down with a skirt on without showing your stuff, I'd say yes, that is the official way.<br><br>I find sitting like that weird. I mean, usually people who wear baggy pants think about being "cool" too much to sit like a girl, and the boys who don't care usually don't wear baggy pants, so it's easier to crush your...assets...under your leg. Unless you actually reach in and pull it out of the sandwich you make, which is what I have to do.<br><br>Or maybe your friends are compensating and their entire leg isn't resting on the other leg entirely, so it's like combining the male and female way of sitting.

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Postby NHJ BV » Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:14 am

I use both methods of leg-crossing inconsistantly.
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Postby Jerry Roosevelt » Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:19 am

<!--QuoteBegin-dcsimpson+Jul 19 2005, 10:43 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (dcsimpson @ Jul 19 2005, 10:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <!--QuoteBegin-KingOfKings+Jul 20 2005, 01:30 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (KingOfKings @ Jul 20 2005, 01:30 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Ozy sits like a girl. Literaly. He's in the "cover up skirt so no one sees anything" position for some reason. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>I sit like that. I have observed that so does my father and so did his father.<br><br>Actually, most of Ozy and Millie's body language, things like tail-wagging aside, is an imitation of things I do myself. Not on purpose, it's just what came naturally to me to draw. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Because if you wagged your tail, you'd knock over that priceless ming vase sitting on the obscenely thin, tall table.
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Postby Tom Flapwell » Wed Jul 20, 2005 3:02 pm

I used to sit the skirt way, until my peers in the 7th grade persisted in telling me not to do it. I got the impression that even resting my ankle on my knee was wrong, until I saw it more. (Yes, a flying fox can do this; take my word for it.)<br><br>As <i>The Bird Cage</i> implied, sitting the skirt way may be more common in gay men. Ozy doesn't think he "likes" guys, but seeing as he hasn't developed a manifest libido, it's hard to tell.<br><br>I think Ozy's apparent change of position in that panel is really a matter of difficulty in drawing it right from that angle. But then, just because he meditates a lot doesn't mean that he likes to stay in one position the rest of the time. That was certainly hard for me at age 10, and I think I was more Ozy than Millie.<br><br>You know, in all the confusion over "Booger" and the idea of stealing a shipment to your own home, I never realized that the same anchor called Greater Llewellynland both hostile and peaceful. That's really the crux of the satire, isn't it? Not that the strip wouldn't be funny without it.
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Postby Steve the Pocket » Wed Jul 20, 2005 3:54 pm

There's a Far Side cartoon where these cowboys are sitting around a campfire, and one of them is crossing his legs "girl style" and the others are all looking at him and one of them says, "I wouldn't do that if I were you, Slim." Or something like that. It'd have more impact if I posted the comic itself but I don't have it with me.<br><br>EDIT: I just realized that, as I typed this, I'm sitting in an inverse of the "guy style" cross: with one leg crossed <i>under</i> the other, so I'm essentially half-sitting on one of my legs. I personally can't sitting with both legs straight down for more than a minute at a time; it just isn't comfortable for some reason. <!--emo&:huh:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... ns/huh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='huh.gif' /><!--endemo-->


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