# Get Fuzzy? Get Bent! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 12, 2002, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-get-bent/108685 "2002-05-12T21:03:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c2a13f/32.png) [@The\_Man\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_Who)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-get-bent/108685/1 "2002-05-12T21:03:24Z")
It’s my new favorite comic strip, Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley. It’s pretty funny, it’s drawn well enough, the guy has a personal point of view he sticks into his comic, so fans can experience something besides just some yucks. What’s to hate, right? Well, hie your ass over to [getfuzzy.com](http://getfuzzy.com) and download the Get Fuzzy Comet Cursor. Then you will know what to hate. I hope and pray that this is the syndicate’s doing and not Darby’s. I’d hate to have to hate my new favorite cartoon already. Myron from Minnesota ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-get-bent/108685/2 "2002-05-12T21:43:29Z")
Don’t think it would work for me, since I’m on a Mac. But why not just tell us what’s so bad about it; why make us download it and share in your misery to find out? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-get-bent/108685/3 "2002-05-12T21:47:25Z")
AFAIC, Comet Cursor is a result of a collaboration between Loki, Set, and Kali, organized by Alister Crowley. Satan was invited to add his touches, but decided it was just too evil. IOW, Comet Cursor could go away yesterday, and I’d be quite happy. ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-get-bent/108685/4 "2002-05-12T22:36:33Z")
I don’t care how cool it is, if it were Shakespeare’s website with a new poem every day I still wouldn’t download Comet Curser to see it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c2a13f/32.png) [@The\_Man\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_Who)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-get-bent/108685/5 "2002-05-12T23:45:26Z")
Do NOT download Comet Cursor. It will fuck up your computer. That was a rhetorical evice which assumed everyone was familiar with its evil. -M ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-get-bent/108685/6 "2002-05-13T00:04:34Z")
comet cursor… ::shudder:: ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-get-bent/108685/7 "2002-05-13T01:39:32Z")
Okay, I get the idea that people hate this thing, that T.M.W. wasn’t really telling people to download it, and I see I should be happy that it wouldn’t work on my computer anyway. But now my curiousity is up… what exactly IS it? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c2a13f/32.png) [@The\_Man\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_Who)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-get-bent/108685/8 "2002-05-13T01:58:53Z")
Ostensibly it’s a program that changes your cursor into your favorite cartoon characters or whatever. In reality it’s spyware that tracks your internet usage and slows down your computer wildly. Also it’s the cyber-incarnation of pure evil, but you already knew that. -M ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-get-bent/108685/9 "2002-05-13T02:01:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Man Who \* > \*\*Also it’s the cyber-incarnation of pure evil, but you already knew that.-M \*\* Let us not forget its evil twin - Bonzi Buddy! ---
**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-get-bent/108685/10 "2002-05-13T04:00:34Z")
Bonzi Buddy is the Demogorgon to Comet Cursor’s Lucifer. ---
**Author:** ![apotheosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@apotheosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apotheosis)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-get-bent/108685/11 "2002-05-13T18:55:06Z")
Awright, dammit…is it the Comet Cursor software itself that’s being (deservingly) targeted by the OP, or is it the particular cursor related to this comic strip and/or site? If it’s the latter, I’d love to know what the cursor iself is. The former is, as noted elsewhere, a rancid plug of festering faeces; a rectal projectile from Baphomet’s bunghole. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-get-bent/108685/12 "2002-05-13T20:47:49Z")
See, **Anamorphic?** Another good reason to use a Mac! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-get-bent/108685/13 "2002-05-13T21:15:09Z")
So are you just angry that the site uses Comet Cursor? (rightful anger) Or are you mad about the particular cursor? Or a combination of the two? ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2002, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-get-bent/108685/14 "2002-05-13T21:54:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rjung \* > \*\*See, **Anamorphic?** Another good reason to use a Mac! 🙂 \*\* Yeah, the scum who make the spyware don’t think enough of us to subject us to it. I’ll take that! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-get-bent/108685/15 "2002-05-14T15:11:23Z")
Some idiot kid that came to a party at our house downloaded Comet Cursor onto our computer. I keep uninstalling it, and it keeps reappearing. My sister adamantly denies that she’s re-downloading it. How can I get rid of this thing? ---
**Author:** ![Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazing_Tiki_God)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-fuzzy-get-bent/108685/16 "2002-05-14T19:16:21Z")
I’m pretty sure Ad Aware gets rid of it. Go [here](http://download.com.com/3000-2094-10107505.html?tag=lst-0-3) to download it. It will also clean any other bit of spyware off of your computer.