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[FoneBone]

I've been told by 2 people in the past two days that they associate the term "fone bone" with phone sex. This is, needless to say, a rude awakening...

Fone Bone is actually the main character in the all-ages comic Bone, for those not aware. He's the white thing in my avatar.

 

[Dead]

the dude from Bone

 

[kumanoki]

I've been told by 2 people in the past two days that they associate the term "fone bone" with phone sex. This is, needless to say, a rude awakening...

Fone Bone is actually the main character in the all-ages comic Bone, for those not aware. He's the white thing in my avatar.

I just assumed it was a proper name. Like 'Sade' or 'Cher'. Or 'Sting'.

 

[totoro'd]

I thought it was a musical instrument, kinda like a trombone

 

[Deleted member 1235]

phone sex would be my obvious conclusion if I had ever thought about it given that I have no idea what the Bone comic is.

 

[Dan]

I guess if I didn't know about Bone and heard it said without any descriptive context, yeah, my mind might link it with phone sex.

 

[Drensch]

Jeff Smith stuff.

 

[demi]

1800FONEBONE


I knew I saw it somewhere!

 

[xsarien]

I honestly never put much thought into it. But as someone who's not familiar with the comic, um, yeah, eh...make it three.

 

[RevenantKioku]

I thought it was a musical instrument, kinda like a trombone

I knew I had seen that dragon somewhere before when I was watching Dave the Barbarian the other day. That show is quite messed up. :lol

Anyway, somehow I knew of the comic Bone, but I don't remember why.

 

[ohamsie]

Is Fone Bone the one with the cigar and hat or the one with the black shirt with a star on it?

Also is there like a collected works of the Bone comics? What little I read so long ago was pretty good.

 

[FoneBone]

Is Fone Bone the one with the cigar and hat or the one with the black shirt with a star on it?

Neither. Those are Smiley and Phoney, respectively.

Collected edition:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...102-1722178-6332124?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

This is a ludicrously good deal, by the way.

 

[totoro'd]

I knew I had seen that dragon somewhere before when I was watching Dave the Barbarian the other day. That show is quite messed up. :lol

yep, loves me some Dave the Barbarian, Faffy always cracks me up

 

[Drek]

Fone Bone is actually the main character in the all-ages comic Bone, for those not aware. He's the white thing in my avatar.

Thats what I assumed it refered to, the avatar was a tip as well. Not a bad comic back in the day when it first started up, haven't kept up on comics in years though.

 

[RevenantKioku]

yep, loves me some Dave the Barbarian, Faffy always cracks me up

Is that the monkey? (NOT A MONKEY!)
I IMDB'd up the voice actors and was quite surprised, most of them I actually had heard before, it was quite crazy.

 

[Heezzi]

Fone Bone? Flesh's very younger brother.

 

[Tarazet]

I thought it meant phone sex until now. Now I just feel like I feel pretty much whenever I enter a random GAF pop-culture thread: out of the loop...

 

[totoro'd]

Is that the monkey? (NOT A MONKEY!)
I IMDB'd up the voice actors and was quite surprised, most of them I actually had heard before, it was quite crazy.

:lol that's funny, Fang is Dave's sister, the little girl who everyone thinks is a monkey

Faffy is the little dragon

 

[NLB2]

I thought it meant phone sex until now. Now I just feel like I feel pretty much whenever I enter a random GAF pop-culture thread: out of the loop...

Dude, that comic strip has got to be part of one of the dorkiest of geek subcultures. Don't worry about being out of the loop, in fact take it as a blessing

 

[Tarazet]

Dude, that comic strip has got to be part of one of the dorkiest of geek subcultures. Don't worry about being out of the loop, in fact take it as a blessing

You're performing Bruckner - you must be right.

 

[FoneBone]

Dude, that comic strip has got to be part of one of the dorkiest of geek subcultures. Don't worry about being out of the loop, in fact take it as a blessing

STFU

 

[Phoenix]

Phoney Bone

 

[BastardSamurai]

I just assumed you were some sort of diminutive fellow who loves Moby Dick and has a really hard time expressing his amorous feelings towards someone with a flowery name.

 

[Crow357]

Fonebone was also a character in Mad magazine from the 1960's.