# Just so this topic isn't so lonely **URL:** \ **Category:** Andy Ihnatko\ **Created:** [October 15, 2019, 4:03am UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/just-so-this-topic-isnt-so-lonely/2304 "2019-10-15T04:03:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/gaffa/32/1319_2.png) [@gaffa](https://www.twit.community/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 4:03am UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/just-so-this-topic-isnt-so-lonely/2304/1 "2019-10-15T04:03:47Z")
The first time I ran across the name Andy Ihnatko was as a contributor to [some of the most hilarious user-generated captions for _The Dysfunctional Family Circus._](https://dfc.furr.org/archive/16.html) The owner of the site would scan one of Bil Keane’s sickeningly heartwarming cartoons and put it up, and invite the public to make up their own captions, and early on Andy submitted some of the most twisted and hilarious. Even though it was clearly a protected work of parody, the cartoon’s publisher threatened legal action trying to force it to close. There were a bunch of lawyers among the readers of the site eager to take it all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary, but in November of 1999, it shut down after 500 cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![ZivZulander](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/zivzulander/32/1168_2.png) [@ZivZulander](https://www.twit.community/u/ZivZulander)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 4:12am UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/just-so-this-topic-isnt-so-lonely/2304/2 "2019-10-15T04:12:06Z")
I love Andy. He’s delightfully long-winded, a master of metaphor and auteur of analogy. ---
**Author:** ![ant\_pruitt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/ant_pruitt/32/21453_2.png) [@ant\_pruitt](https://www.twit.community/u/ant_pruitt)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 4:18am UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/just-so-this-topic-isnt-so-lonely/2304/3 "2019-10-15T04:18:47Z")
Agreed. He’s one of a kind ---
**Author:** ![philodygmn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/philodygmn/32/1235_2.png) [@philodygmn](https://www.twit.community/u/philodygmn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 4:27am UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/just-so-this-topic-isnt-so-lonely/2304/4 "2019-10-15T04:27:34Z")
Not to be contrarian, @gaffa, but you’ve mis-spelled his name! The “h” is the 2nd letter, not the 3rd. What I appreciate most about Andy is his insistence that technology be accountable to those it may effectively (even if indirectly) disenfranchise. ---
**Author:** ![ZivZulander](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/zivzulander/32/1168_2.png) [@ZivZulander](https://www.twit.community/u/ZivZulander)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 4:32am UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/just-so-this-topic-isnt-so-lonely/2304/5 "2019-10-15T04:32:04Z")
And he somehow does it in a cheerful, approachable manner. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/gaffa/32/1319_2.png) [@gaffa](https://www.twit.community/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 4:41am UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/just-so-this-topic-isnt-so-lonely/2304/6 "2019-10-15T04:41:35Z")
> [@philodygmn](#): > > Not to be contrarian, @gaffa, but you’ve mis-spelled his name! The “h” is the 2nd letter, not the 3rd. I fixed it. Thanks for the heads up! ---
**Author:** ![phandrens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/phandrens/32/1364_2.png) [@phandrens](https://www.twit.community/u/phandrens)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 6:36am UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/just-so-this-topic-isnt-so-lonely/2304/7 "2019-10-15T06:36:35Z")
If you can spell it without checking, you are a true fan… Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![Wizardling](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/wizardling/32/1183_2.png) [@Wizardling](https://www.twit.community/u/Wizardling)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 9:40pm UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/just-so-this-topic-isnt-so-lonely/2304/8 "2019-10-15T21:40:54Z")
The column at the back of MacWorld was where I first discovered Andy’s wit 🙂 Later I was delighted to find him on MacBreak Weekly and other TWiT podcasts.