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Oh shit, I always thought it was a fictional name that the writers used for the random stuff that come up during the writing process. Didn't know it was a real person!

Holy shit, he created Toonces!

Handey is also credited with creating Toonces the Driving Cat, the cat who could drive a car, although not very well.

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[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

This has completely changed everything I ever held dear and holy.

I always thought handy was a Hartman character and was him reading.

To find out it was neither Hartman's character nor his voice is .... everything was a lie.

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Hartman did the intro.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 1 year ago*

SNL had a bunch of absolutely legendary writers. Jim Downey is another one

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[–] mdhughes@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

His books are also fun, The Stench of Honolulu was good, the opposite of a hard-boiled PI.

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[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 1 point 1 year ago

"Hmm. I wonder. I was thinking of dancing trees. Now I'm wondering what's next. Screaming trees. Yeah. That's got to be the answer. Screaming trees." - private notes by Hans Reiser, filesystem designer and a convicted murderer

(OK, that's a fake quote. This one is real:)

"Trees have their roots pointing up. And if you cut a tree apart, you get a forest. No, I'm not drunk." - one of my computer science profs, on data structures

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