the mail between the rabbit's international staff and our beloved readers.
Phiip speaks in bold, the others not. It's unfair, but that's the way it is.
When I think of all the things that happened those days...
You know what happened ?
Someone talked about Rabbit in a forum I didn't know before, called Metafilter.
And in a good way ! (could you imagine that ?)
I quote the review :
"In honour of it being Friday, and all the mention of rabbits below, I present you with: The Rabbit.
The sheer volume and effort truly amazes me, and the stories are...interesting.
Oh, and let's not forget the quotes page.
The creator of these pages may be a complete genius or totally crazy, but always interesting.
(it's entirely possible that some of this may not be worksafe)"
ashbury
And they liked the vinci wallpapers too.
What's cool, it's that it got me like 600 people in a few hours, and I loved it !!
---------------------- And I love the reviews I got at Funny Paper, like that one :
Reviewed by Mango on 09/05/02
Awful. Worthless.
(I rated it 1/10)
What is this crap? Are people actually willing to read this tripe on purpose?
I wouldn't wipe my ass with this comic.
Of course, you don't get to answer those guys, but I thought I could anyway, so I'll do it here :
Dear Mango,
I love you too, but we can't e-mail each other like this anymore.
Phiip
PS : I don't know how you wipe your ass, but I don't think pixels are the right tool for you.
I also get good reviews, lets just quote one (there's 40 of them, click "reviews"):
Reviewed by JG on 09/03/02
fantastic.
(I rated it 10/10)
One of the best websites, probably the best one, I have ever visited.
God bless Holy Phiip for that extraordinary work...
I like to be called "holy".
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Dear Phiip
Thank you for the replies. Your site is totally amazing.
bill
well, the trick is to have no life at all
and to put it on the web
that way you can look back at what you did and say : what is... what ?
Ps : thank you Bill. I do love support. And chocolate.
Well, things happened those weeks, so here they are !
Well, first, no words from the parrish... Too bad, I mean, perhaps when you explain
rabbit, it's not funny anymore ?
Well, that could be it. Or they suck.
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It's great! No boring real-life quotes...
So this is my few words,
I like it and am going to send a few friends there, too.
Thanks for the laffs.
Liza
thank you ! I really appreciate the moral support...
And surprisingly enough, few people react on the quotes, really few, even on the french site.
I don't know why, perhaps because there not much to develop, contrary to the comic strip
(was that good english ? don't think so, mister...
sorry)
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hi, just wanted to say i enjoy your site
keep up the good work i'll read till i drop.
some i don't understand, but some i do so it evens out
later, loye
same for me :
- I'll do it till I drop
- and I don't understand everything either...
(okay, that was a -bad- joke : I'm in fact the only person in the whole
world who understood every single episode
of the comic strip and every quote !
and that makes me unique...
shouldn't make me proud anyway...)
thanks a lot for writing
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And for the record, I'll quote a very nice thing said about me
and the rabbit on metafilter :
In honour of it being Friday, and all the mention of rabbits below,
I present you with: The Rabbit.
The sheer volume and effort truly amazes me, and the stories are...interesting.
Oh, and let's not forget the quotes page.
The creator of these pages may be a complete genius or totally crazy,
but always interesting.
(it's entirely possible that some of this may not be worksafe)
(and thanks also for the extra trafic, i can always use that...)
Okay, i guess that's it.
Next news in september, i guess...
Phiip
Don't forget to write write write !!!
the antepenultimate week of mai 2002
episodes 286 to 290
Our first week, a strange, very strange week (even for an experienced rabbit)
Where we learn the meaning of the word shell, and about the annual Parrish Cookout
It all began with the message with the episode 288 : what can you do in a beautiful rainy day like this ?
hmmm, I'll get me a shell,
then I'll go drool on somebody else's salad
This is a good idea. But why does a shell eat salades ? Alice
--------------- no, okay, hmmm, what I meant was,
with a shell, I'll be like a -you know- a snail,
so I can get salad from a salad bar or something
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Ah... Yes ! I see... But you could eat salads in a salad bar... without any shell, don't you ?
French people are very strange with snails. Alice
--------------- well... you can also eat snail with a salad
(and probably some garlic sauce...)
and, if you're a snail,
you'd avoid french restaurants of course
unless you're suicidal,
then it's a good plan
and a good opportunity to see stuff...
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Oh...
Alice
--------------- My pleasure.the episode 285 message : the parrish organise a babecue party on the theme : "these obnoxious french"
(this theme is to have fun with stereotypes, not meant to be taken seriously, I know that)
and there's a link to the rabbit's site that says exactly :
"somebody PLEASE explain"
american people are strange, aren't they ?
--------------- So I sent this to the Jen Parrish :
--------------- Hi,
My name is Phiip, from the rabbit comics thing.
Well, I have had a lot of visitors from your "cookout page" recently, and as a webmaster
I'm always happy to have a little more trafic.
Of course, there's this somebody PLEASE explain? link thing, and I think I understand your question.
I don't know if you can identify rabbit's particularity with a "typical french thing" explanation.
Well, probably not, you know why ?
Because lots of french people don't understand rabbit either.
Worse : lots of the french people that receive rabbit on a daily basis don't understand it.
And some english speaking people do understand it (or pretend very well).
Of course, on the other side, many of my readers love it, comment it or not, collect it and whatever
stuff you do when you like something. One of them prints every episode and puts it in a special rabbit's hutch (authentic).
So I'm pretty pleased as an author right now (even got interviewed for a small french paper, would you believe it ?)
So I asked my readers how they would answer your question, and the answers freaked ME out !!
Check this one : "Rabbit is a deep exploration of the nonnense, quite beyond the usual limits of humour.
To appreciate Rabbit you must not expect anything : no fun, no thrill, no excitement.
It's a daily practice of mind-cleaning, it's the yoga of the brain."
CCA I'm not sure I like this explanation, but it's the only one that translated it.
French ones : Lapin est intriguant, génial car original, chaque jour un épisode nouveau, toujours aussi mystérieux,
me trifouille le cerveau. Depuis le premier jour, et ce jusqu'au moment même ou je vous parle,
je cherche à comprendre, à savoir, est-ce moi qui suis différente des autres?
Ya t'il quelquechose qui m'a échappé et qui rend pour moi ces épisodes incompréhensibles?
Etant donné que je suis entêtée, je ne me désabonne pas et chaque jour je me pose des questions sur les épisodes...
Un jour, je trouverai la solution, et elle sera tellement géniale que lapin devinedra roi,
aura un succès fou à travers le monde entier, tellement son idée est excellentissime.
Roxane
She says she doesn't understand rabbit, but she won't quit before she does.
As you're part french, you might understand a little of what is said in the french forum, and see more what it's about. there
or there
Well, that was a pleasure to help you. You know what I'd love to know ?
It's what you future guests have said about rabbit, the reactions you got with you very catchy sentence-link.
If you don't mind, just please send them in (they'll get in the english forum).
Unless there might be some privacy stuff you'd like to preserve.
Sincerely,
Phiip
PS : I heard from that second degree thing, is it a kind of flower or what ?
PPS : just joking
PPPS : my wife really digs your jewellery stuff (as for me, if I become gay one day,
I think I would gladly wear them also - but as I'm still straight I see them as a bunch of colored expensive stones)
PPPPS : I don't think I will make it to the cookout, but did one in my home yesterday to compensate.
-------------- Now, I'm just waiting for the answer.........;;
Gnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnniiii !!!!!!!!!!!!
(I'm not a good waiter) "Oh Romeo, flick thy nipple!"
Juliet
------------------- KeyLime915
Thank you for participating !
I'll design a readers quotes page soon and yours will be in it !
Don't hesitate to give your opinion about the comic strip, the quotes, whatever you want !
--------------- And that's it.
No so bad for a first readers week...
So, see you next week guys !
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