Christine Burke Fitness » Comics http://cparkburke.com A Light Heart Lives Long • LightHeartedFitness.com • CParkBurke.com Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:12:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Runner’s Gift from Scott Meyers of Basic Instructions http://cparkburke.com/20100630/runners-gift-scott-meyers-basic-instructions/ http://cparkburke.com/20100630/runners-gift-scott-meyers-basic-instructions/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:52:47 +0000 Christine Burke http://cparkburke.com/?p=623 basicinstructions.net

My favorite comic strips of all time are: The Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes, Bloom Country, Life in Hell, Dilbert, Foxtrot, and Basic Instructions.

If you’ve never heard of the last one, go immediately to basicinstructions.net and enjoy. I found out about Basic Instructions on Scott “Dilbert” Adams’s blog, and it turns out Scott Meyers, the creator of Basic Instructions, is amazingly cool.

How cool is he?

I told Scott I loved this strip about freaky runner parades, and could I have a mug of it? Rather than completely ignore me, which is usually what happens when I write to my internet heroes, he sends me a link to a customizable mug:

Anti-Running Mug from Scott Meyers of Basic Instructions

Now go buy it for all your runner friends, especially if they’ve just finished a marathon or half! I suggest the 15oz ringer’s mug in black or the travel mug. Buy yourself one of Scott’s signed books or Infini-Tee while you’re at it.

Thanks Scott! I hereby officially deem you Prime Exalted Cartoonist of LightheartedFitness.com!

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I especially liked this one:

http://www.gocomics.com/pluggers/2008/10/10/

“A plugger doesn’t mind paying five bucks for coffee… as long as he gets a pound.”

My husband and his folks… they are all pluggers, and I love ‘em for it.

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