I first stumbled on Cliff through a poster on another MB, who would always use Cliff quotes as her signature. Such as “Archaeologists unearth a perfectly-preserved 20th century shithead.” or my personal favorite:
McDonalds: Next exit
Certain Death: 2 Miles
I wasted an entire weekend reading the archive, but it was an entire weekend of me laughing my ass off.
Nowadays I read the archives when I’m bored, or when I’m writing a paper and I get stuck. I go from writing sentences like “The imagery in the scene underlies a nascent sexual tension” to reading sentences like “I bashed that clownfucker so hard he shit an entire row of teeth into the toilet that night.” Cliff taught me that “mutant” is a really fun word to say, and it’s a pretty handy insult.
Some of my all-time favorites:
http://www.somethingawful.com/cliff/ihateyou/page-25.htm Top picture
http://www.somethingawful.com/cliff/ihateyou/page-55.htm Second and third ones
http://www.somethingawful.com/cliff/ihateyou/page-74.htm Last one
And many others that I’m too lazy to search for.