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<                    Welcome to the Doctor Fun Page
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<                    THE BOOK - clicky clicky here.
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<                    The Latest Doctor Fun Cartoon
<                   This Week's Doctor Fun Cartoons
<    Browse Doctor Fun cartoons and logos all the way back to 1993
<                      in The Doctor Fun Archive.
<      Some cartoons other readers liked, Never been here before?
<      Search Doctor Fun Captions: Mark Plaga's Doctor Fun Search
<             Page, Jack Leblond's Doctor Fun Search Page
<                          Random Doctor Fun?
<     Doctor Fun Mirrors: Pacific Internet, Australia, Australian
<      Cybermalls, Austria, Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand,
<                        Sweden, United States
<                         Credits for Mirrors
<     Philip Newton's Doctor Fun RSS feed: Get the last 15 Doctor
<                      Fun cartoons through RSS.
<     If you are a programmer-type person, you can get Doctor Fun
<             and zillions of other comics with Netcomics.
<     Nicholas Barnard's Mailing Lists: Latest Doctor Fun, Latest
<                                 Logo
<       Find out when these pages update, with Jonathan Ah Kit's
<                   Doctor Fun Website Changes List.
<     Some Old Week of Doctor Fun, Mostafa Eldefrawy's Toonogram,
<                         Doctor Fun Segmation
<    Lots of old, pre-Internet Doctor Fun stuff, including Science
<     Fair, and other interesting things. Readers often pick this
<                                 one.
<               The slightly-out-of-date Doctor Fun FAQ
<      _________________________________________________________
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<    News
<      * December  13,  2004  -  You  may  have  noticed  Christmas
<        cartoons  have  been  running  for  a  week  already.  The
<        Christmas  logo will be up ... soon. Doctor Fun will be on
<        break, probably for two weeks, starting the 18th.
<      * November  15,  2004 - Good news - Plan Nine has the Doctor
<        Fun  book  back in stock. Hopefully you have received your
<        Doctor Fun book if you ordered one and have been waiting.
<      * October  19,  2004  - Some of you have asked me where your
<        book  is.  Plan  Nine  is  in the process of printing more
<        Doctor  Fun  books  to fill their pending orders, and will
<        continue  to  take  orders  for more. My apologies for any
<        difficulties.
<      * October 11, 2004 - Doctor Fun resumes. The logo is a rerun
<        - new one soon.
<      * September  27, 2004 - Doctor Fun is on break until October
<        11th. You know the drill.
<      * September 20, 2004 - There will be new Doctor Fun cartoons
<        this week, and then another two-week break.
<      * September 5, 2004 - At long last the first Doctor Fun book
<        is  shipping  from Plan Nine Publishing. 128 pages, color.
<        Also, it's time for another break. Possibly only one week,
<        but  probably  two. There's some new stuff in the archives
<        starting here.
<      * July  26,  2004  - Doctor Fun resumes. There will be other
<        breaks,  at  least  one in September for sure. I'll update
<        the logo soon.
<      * July  12, 2004 - On break again - this time for two weeks.
<        Although I hadn't planned it that way, taking these breaks
<        is better than just stopping the cartoon, plus the counter
<        continues  up  to week 520 when Doctor Fun starts again. A
<        kind reader pointed out that I skipped cartoons 351-400 in
<        the  1990  series.  So,  although  they will now be out of
<        order,  I'm putting up 351-380 this week, and 381-400 next
<        week.
<      * July 5, 2004 - Doctor Fun is back.
<      * June 28, 2004 - Doctor Fun is on break this week.
<      * June  14,  2004  -  for  a change there are new Doctor Fun
<        cartoons  this  week, and next week. There will be a break
<        June 28th.
<      * June  7,  2004  - another break and some new old cartoons.
<        Not  as  many  as usual because I need to attend to making
<        the Doctor Funs.
< 
<    More news...
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<    Info
< 
<    Welcome  to  the  all new spiffed-up and friendlier Doctor Fun
<    page!  I've  thought  for  awhile  that most of the people who
<    visit  this page are first-time visitors, and return customers
<    just  go for the goods. New visitors poke around, get confused
<    and  angry,  and  then leave and never come back. Not if I can
<    help  it.  Welcome,  friend!  This  all new extra-friendly and
<    improved Doctor Fun page is just for you!
< 
<    What's  that  picture  at  the  top  of  the page, is that the
<    cartoon?
< 
<    No,  that's  the  logo  - we'll get to that later. It's just a
<    pretty picture to look at.
< 
<    What the [DEL: fu :DEL] heck is Doctor Fun?
< 
<    Doctor  Fun  is a cartoon. Not all Doctor Funs may be suitable
<    for  children  and some childlike adults. There's a new Doctor
<    Fun  every  weekday.  Doctor  Fun  is  hosted  by ibiblio, the
<    public's  library  and  digital  archive, at the University of
<    North  Carolina, Chapel Hill. Doctor Fun first appeared on the
<    Internet  in  1993,  and  has been at ibiblio (ibiblio has had
<    other  names,  including SunSITE and Metalab) since 1994. What
<    Doctor  Fun  is,  for the literal-minded, is a 640 x 480 pixel
<    24-bit color JPEG file. Doctor Fun has the dubious distinction
<    of  being  the first web cartoon. Doctor Fun was not, however,
<    the first cartoon on the Internet.
< 
<    I still don't get it. Why do they let you ...? You're not ...?
<    But ...?
< 
<    Never  you  mind.  Look  - there's no reason for Doctor Fun to
<    even exist, but here it is.
< 
<    Thanks!  Now  that  I know all that, I want to read the latest
<    Doctor Fun cartoon!
< 
<    Here  is  the  latest cartoon. If you'd like to always link to
<    the latest Doctor Fun, you can use this link:
< 
<    http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/latest.jpg
< 
<    You  can  get  a  little  thumbnail  of (only the artwork) the
<    latest cartoon, too.
< 
<    http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/thumb.jpg
< 
<    That cartoon sucked.
< 
<    That   wasn't  really  a  question,  was  it?  If  you  didn't
<    particularly  like  whatever  the  latest  Doctor  Fun cartoon
<    happened  to  be, perhaps you are still Doctor Fun-curious and
<    would  like  to see some Doctor Funs that other people seem to
<    like  a  lot.  Here's  a  mix  of  cartoons that other people,
<    perhaps like you, seemed to enjoy. These cartoons actually got
<    some hits, or I actually got some e-mail about them, or both.
<      * Here's the one about Barney.
<      * Here's the one about beavers.
<      * Here's the one about gerbils.
<      * Here's the one about tribbles.
<      * Here's the one about wasabi.
<      * Here's the one about vasectomies.
<      * Here's the one about Clusenix.
<      * Here's the one about Usenet.
<      * Here's the one about Don Knuth.
<      * Here's the one about The Incredible Hulk.
< 
<    Those cartoons all suck, but continue with your feeble efforts
<    to entertain. Show me some more.
< 
<    Now, then - those are not necessarily my favorites, either. So
<    I  went  through  each year and picked out some that I thought
<    were  either particularly funny, or particularly well-drawn. A
<    few I thought were both funny and well-drawn.
<      * Here's the one about the donuts.
<      * Here's the one about Godzilla.
<      * Here's the one about the chickens.
<      * Here's the one about the human cannonball.
<      * Here's the one about Mr. Spock.
<      * Here's the one about the sperm.
<      * Here's the one about the protozoa.
<      * Here's the one about the blow-up doll.
<      * Pick this one!
<      * Here's the one about the squirrel.
<      * Here's the one about the ice cream cones.
<      * Here's the one about the pinatas.
<      * Here's the one about the deathray.
<      * Here's the one about the elephants.
<      * Here's the one about tomatillos.
<      * Here's the one about watering the plants.
<      * Here's the one about the tapeworms.
<      * Here's the one about the Zamboni.
<      * Here's the one about the operating room.
<      * Here's the one about the goldfish.
<      * Here's another one about squirrels.
<      * Here's the one about Gumby.
<      * Here's the one about Santa.
<      * Here's another one about chickens.
<      * Here's the one about Mr. Potato Head.
<      * Here's the one about the weasels.
<      * Here's the one about the Titanic.
<      * Here's the one about the Muppets.
<      * Here's the one about the pickles.
<      * Here's the one about Vlad the Impaler.
<      * Here's the one about carrots.
<      * Here's the one about Rear Window.
<      * Here's the one about the fleas.
<      * Here's the one about the Enchanted Forest.
<      * Here's the one about Steely Dan.
<      * Here's the one about the Amish.
<      * Here's the one about noses.
<      * Here's the one about Mister Clean.
<      * Here's the one about Harry Potter.
<      * Here's the one about the chipmunk.
<      * Here's the one about the polar bear.
<      * Here's the one about Ultraman.
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<    These  are  the  cartoons  with  just  the  right  balance  of
<    30-something  sophistication and juvenile humor that I've been
<    searching for! Thank you, Mr. Cartoon Drawing Man! Where can I
<    read more?
< 
<    Still  not  satisfied?  Why  not visit the Doctor Fun Archive,
<    where  you  can  browse  all the old cartoons? Or Doctor Fun's
<    Special  Cartoons Unit, where you can browse stuff that's even
<    older than Doctor Fun?
< 
<    However shall I peruse only this week's Doctor Fun cartoons?
< 
<    You can also see all the cartoons to date for the latest week.
<    If you want to link to this page, it is always:
< 
<    http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/this-week.html
< 
<    In  a shameless attempt to increase traffic, I'm introducing a
<    new,  and  perhaps temporary, feature called "Some Old Week of
<    Doctor Fun Cartoons". It changes every day. Link to it at:
< 
<    http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/old-week.html
< 
<    What's  the  deal  with  the  logo?  I  don't  understand  the
<    relationship  between the unchanging dog-like character in the
<    Doctor  Fun  logo,  and  the actual cartoon, and stuff I don't
<    understand makes me mad.
< 
<    There is also a Doctor Fun logo, which should be at the top of
<    this page unless I screwed the link up, in which case there is
<    an  "error".  The little guy in the logo is Doctor Fun, but he
<    doesn't actually appear in the cartoons. We won't ever be able
<    to  sell  any  cute little Doctor Fun beanie dolls or big ugly
<    Doctor  Fun  blow-up  dolls  unless  there's some kind of cute
<    little  mascot,  and that's the best I could come up with. (To
<    date  there  haven't actually been any Doctor Fun dolls of any
<    size at all.) There is a larger version of the logo available,
<    than  the one that appears on this page. Nobody ever clicks on
<    it, but here it is anyway.
< 
<    http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/logo.jpg
< 
<    You can get the smaller version, too.
< 
<    http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/logo-small.jpg
< 
<    And a thumbnail.
< 
<    http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/thumbl.jpg
< 
<    It  would  be  nice if I could search the Doctor Fun captions.
<    Tell me I can search the Doctor Fun captions.
< 
<    Oh,  yes, you can search the Doctor Fun captions two different
<    ways:
< 
<    Jack  Leblond  at  Net  Smart  Incorporated,  and Support Your
<    Troops has kindly provided a mirror for Doctor Fun in the form
<    of  a  search  engine.  You  can  also get a random Doctor Fun
<    cartoon at Jack's page. Have fun.
< 
<    Mark  Plaga has created another Doctor Fun search page. Mark's
<    page will display a slide show of cartoons after you make your
<    search. Have more fun.
< 
<    It would be great if I could search more than the captions.
< 
<    Yes, it would be great, but none of that is available and it's
<    entirely my fault.
< 
<    Electronic  postcards  are  so  popular  with the young people
<    these  days.  Can  I  send a Doctor Fun electronic postcard to
<    some teenage girls I met on IRC?
< 
<    You  can send a smaller version of a selected number of Doctor
<    Fun cartoons as an electronic postcard at Toonogram, sponsored
<    by Cyber Loft.
< 
<    Toonogram  was provided courtesy of Mostafa Eldefrawy, who did
<    all  of  the work. Mostafa was also kind enough to give me the
<    code  to turn any Doctor Fun into a Toonogram, which I will do
<    someday.
< 
<    I should wish to receive Doctor Fun cartoons as missives in my
<    "electronic  mail".  Is  there  perchance a Doctor Fun mailing
<    list?
< 
<    You  can  receive the latest Doctor Fun cartoon in your e-mail
<    by joining Nicholas Barnard's Doctor Fun Mailing List.
< 
<    I'm  far away. Not close up. Is there a Doctor Fun site closer
<    to me?
< 
<    These  Doctor Fun mirrors might be closer to you than ibiblio.
<    This  list  is  new and improved because the cartoons on these
<    sites  actually  update. There used to be more mirrors. If you
<    know  of  a  mirror  that  isn't on this list, or want to be a
<    mirror, drop me a line.
<      * Australia  -  Today's  Doctor  Fun and The Doctor Fun Page
<        from  Australian  Cybermalls. (Their page only updates the
<        latest cartoons, and looks different than this page.)
<      * Austria  -  Today's  Doctor  Fun and browse the Doctor Fun
<        files  from  the  Vienna University of Technology, Vienna,
<        Austria.
<      * Germany  - Today's Doctor Fun and The Doctor Fun Page from
<        Dr.  Bernhard L. Winkler's WWW-Mirror at the University of
<        Bayreuth, Germany.
<      * Great Britain - Today's Doctor Fun and The Doctor Fun Page
<        from Manchester.
<      * New  Zealand  - Today's Doctor Fun and The Doctor Fun Page
<        from Nick Kean in New Zealand.
<      * Sweden  -  Today's Doctor Fun and The Doctor Fun Page from
<        SUNET.
<      * United States - Today's Doctor Fun and The Doctor Fun Page
<        from the ibiblio mirror at Yale Medical School.
< 
<    Back to the top
< 
<    We're a group of former Enron billionaires trying to spend our
<    now-worthless stock options on foolish purchases. Where can we
<    buy Doctor Fun stuff?
< 
<    Nowhere that that I know of, but if you keep asking for stuff,
<    sometimes stuff appears.
< 
<    Are you soliciting ideas for Doctor Fun?
< 
<    No, I am not soliciting ideas for Doctor Fun.
< 
<    But, I've got an idea..
< 
<    No.
< 
<    Is Doctor Fun Copyright (c) 2003 David Farley?
< 
<    Yes. Feel free to link to Doctor Fun, send it to your friends,
<    send  it  to  your enemies, print it out and use it for toilet
<    paper  (use the glossy photo paper so you clog the toilet real
<    good)  or  tape  it to your door. But anything beyond personal
<    use  I'd  appreciate  it  if you'd contact me. You can use all
<    those  file  names  that  never  change  to always link to the
<    latest  cartoon,  the  latest logo, the latest thumbnails, the
<    latest week, and that. Thanks.
< 
<    Some of those e-mail addresses on the old cartoons don't work.
<    That's a puzzler.
< 
<    Yes. tezcat.com, for instance, is out of business. This is the
<    correct address:
< 
<    [email protected]
< 
<    More! More! I want to know more!
< 
<    Quick  -  before  you  wet  your  pants,  read the tedious and
<    exhaustive Doctor Fun FAQ.
< 
<    Thanks for reading Doctor Fun! David
< 
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<     These  pages  maintained, and contents copyrighted, by David
<     Farley, [email protected] 
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