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Monday's update is going to be a splash page of Bud's giant etheric form, and it will be wonderful.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Haha I suppose that would be similar (it seems to translate literally as Ranger Town, I'd never come across the word wellyn before!), but it's still an odd name for a person to have. Welsh names are usually patrimonial, either along the lines Ap Dafydd, Ap Grufydd, etc or Edwards, Thomas, Davies, etc. I don't think I've ever come across a place name type surname in Welsh. It makes sense if you view it as a name that the family has had for ages now. In just about every culture, there is a point where the lower classes went from not having last names to having them. The most common names to adopt were patronymics (Ericsson, Johnson), profession (Carpenter, Cooper, Smith), or place of residence. This is why some of the most common family names in Japan literally translate to "foot of the mountain" or "middle of the rice paddy". In other words, I'd view it less as the family being Welsh and having a Welsh name than as the family having lived in Wales hundreds of years ago and adopting the name of their town as a surname at some point.
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Oct 14, 2011 18:35
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Kismet posted:Tom is a known fan of folk singer Kate Rusby, whose performances include songs called Sir Eglamore, Annan Waters, Awkward Annie, Matt Hyland and Maid of Llanwellyn. Though Gunnerkrigg Court predates Awkward Annie by quite a long time. Also, finishing a surname in 'ton' isn't weird at all. Middleton? I also know a Kingston and Ashton. For 'ham', Cunningham is pretty popular. Sure, Llanwellyn isn't a real surname, but it isn't too far removed from reality.
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Oct 14, 2011 18:47
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Awkward Annie is actually a song. Incredible.
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Oct 14, 2011 19:31
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a pipe smoking dog posted:also Llanwellyn is a really weird surname seeing as the Welsh prefix Llan is basically like the english suffix -ham or -ton. You forget the part where Welsh is the language of insanity. So who's Bud talking to? His wife? Jones? Eglamore?
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Oct 14, 2011 19:53
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Noonsaliwah posted:Also, finishing a surname in 'ton' isn't weird at all. Middleton? I also know a Kingston and Ashton. For 'ham', Cunningham is pretty popular. Sure, Llanwellyn isn't a real surname, but it isn't too far removed from reality. My point was that whereas in English culture surnames based on a location are pretty normal in Welsh culture they aren't at all, to the extent that I found the idea of someone being called Llanwellyn really weird. That said Nipponophile's idea of them being a non-Welsh family who have taken on a Welsh place name as their surname is satisfying enough to assuage my sperg-nationalism.
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Oct 14, 2011 20:37
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Bud's the kind of Cool Teacher (or faculty member) who'd say "Listen, you know I wouldn't run you in for smoking up here, but the headmaster's in the building and if he catches you, you are in for a world of trouble. So you might want to consider putting those out and moving along." But in a regional accent I won't try to attempt. Bottom line is, Bud's all right.
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Oct 14, 2011 22:21
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I randomly found out about this comic today and marathoned it through a bad flu day, this owns.
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Oct 15, 2011 01:09
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Bud's etheric form is a lobster with a lot fewer legs than a lobster. Fun fact: Tom absolutely doesn't care about the biological accuracy of his creatures' body plan. And that's fine.
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Oct 15, 2011 02:46
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Reynard's etheric form is a fox, when we all know he is actually a stuffed animal.
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Oct 15, 2011 03:10
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Howard Beale posted:Bud's the kind of Cool Teacher (or faculty member) who'd say "Listen, you know I wouldn't run you in for smoking up here, but the headmaster's in the building and if he catches you, you are in for a world of trouble. So you might want to consider putting those out and moving along." So basically he's Ryan in Bad Machinery.
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Oct 15, 2011 04:27
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To make a mention of a topic back on the last page, the Maid of Llanwellyn makes pretty good background music for Janet's version of how she and Winsbury hooked up.
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Oct 15, 2011 04:56
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Cyphoderus posted:Bud's etheric form is a lobster with a lot fewer legs than a lobster. I'm not entirely sure that ætheric creatures necessarily have something that could be described as a "body plan".
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Oct 15, 2011 21:15
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Cyphoderus posted:Bud's etheric form is a lobster with a lot fewer legs than a lobster. How many legs do you think a lobster has? Bud isn't a lobster though.
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Oct 16, 2011 07:47
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Tea-san posted:How many legs do you think a lobster has? Ten, and Bud appears to have eight, but I'd hardly call the difference of two "a lot fewer." quote:Bud isn't a lobster though. That much should be abundantly clear to anyone who is at all familiar with lobsters. He looks more like a half-crab half-lobster half-soulless-abomination-out-of-time-and-space-that-man-was-not-meant-to-know.
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Oct 16, 2011 07:58
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DontMockMySmock posted:That much should be abundantly clear to anyone who is at all familiar with lobsters. He looks more like a half-crab half-lobster half-soulless-abomination-out-of-time-and-space-that-man-was-not-meant-to-know. Also, in that third panel? Wee bit SeaQuest.
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Oct 16, 2011 08:06
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DontMockMySmock posted:Ten, and Bud appears to have eight, but I'd hardly call the difference of two "a lot fewer."  v
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Oct 16, 2011 08:20
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The ten legs a lobster has include the two large front claws, which Bud also has. Add to that the two swimming legs (which are not the same as a lobster's swimmerets), and Bud has 12 legs. I based Bud's species more on eurypterids and merostomata than crustaceans (though he clearly has a crab face, because those are cuter). Lindsey, though, she has a crap ton of legs, but we'll never really see her whole body. She's meant to be kind of scary looking, so her design was less conservative than Bud's.
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Oct 16, 2011 08:31
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Tea-san posted:Word of God Welp, there ya go. Back to Eglamore and Jones memes. Or Boxbot. But nobody wants to talk about Boxbot 
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Oct 16, 2011 08:34
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Tollymain posted:Or Boxbot. But nobody wants to talk about Boxbot It is lonely at the top. I give 2:1 odds next page we get bud saying "Get to sleep, annie". No foolin that psychic crab. 
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Oct 16, 2011 08:39
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Kismet posted:Tom is a known fan of folk singer Kate Rusby, whose performances include songs called Sir Eglamore, Annan Waters, Awkward Annie, Matt Hyland and Maid of Llanwellyn. This was fairly amusing to know. And Awkward Annie came after GC? The cover is a redheaded little girl fishing stars under the moon. Who's making homages now  She's a good singer, too.
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Oct 16, 2011 08:40
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Tollymain posted:Welp, there ya go. Back to Eglamore and Jones memes. So wait, Jones is a lobster? That guy with ten legs, is that Eglamore? I'm so confused 
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Oct 16, 2011 08:48
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Tea-san posted:The ten legs a lobster has include the two large front claws, which Bud also has. Add to that the two swimming legs (which are not the same as a lobster's swimmerets), and Bud has 12 legs. I based Bud's species more on eurypterids and merostomata than crustaceans (though he clearly has a crab face, because those are cuter).  If there was one thing missing for me to really appreciate this comic, it was the knowledge that the author does biological research. That's incredible, thank you. I was pretty heavily sleep deprived when I made that first post. Lobsters are indeed part of a group called Decapoda and have 10 legs. What I felt was missing was actually the bunch of other conspicuous appendices that don't show too much in Bud because he's got a crab head.
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Oct 16, 2011 14:36
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Where we're going, we wont need eyes to see. 
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Oct 17, 2011 08:08
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Oh my god Monday's update.  That last panel is a thing of beauty.
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Oct 17, 2011 08:08
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No one ever said this spirit plane stuff was easy. You can see some horrible stuff there. I like both of Annie's facial expressions, nice touch.
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Oct 17, 2011 08:12
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Now that's how you end a chapter. 
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Oct 17, 2011 08:19
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Hahahahahaaa, oh gently caress, I'm dying at that last panel.
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Oct 17, 2011 08:25
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Tom, you're a magnificent madman with an attention to detail which should earn you a medal or something. (Nice research notes.) This is hilarious. Poor Annie.
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Oct 17, 2011 08:27
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I really should stop reading the Deegan and CAD threads, this is all the comic I need. 
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Oct 17, 2011 08:43
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I wonder what it's like to puke into the ether I sure am glad that last week I thought to myself "hey, I remember liking that weird Gunnersomething Court comic. Wonder what it's been been up to the past few years?" This junk has gotten really good.
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Oct 17, 2011 09:47
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Oh wow. Good job Tea-san, you made me chuckle out loud. I want to make a wallpaper or something out of the last three panels. but I won't because I can't do poo poo with art 
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Oct 17, 2011 10:59
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Oh hey, let's check out today's GK update... .And this, Annie, is why it isn't recommended to spy on
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Oct 17, 2011 12:48
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Hahhahahaa this is the best way to start a Monday! loving cracking up here, especially at the dual grimace.
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Oct 17, 2011 13:12
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Only one reaction panel is appropriate for this page.
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Oct 17, 2011 16:22
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If there happened to be a few more panels, they probably would have looked something like this.
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Oct 17, 2011 17:01
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I remember when Annie got the cut on her aetheric face, but did they ever mention if it was something that would heal? It's interesting that it is still around.
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Oct 17, 2011 20:29
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DreamtShadow posted:I remember when Annie got the cut on her aetheric face, but did they ever mention if it was something that would heal? It's interesting that it is still around. The only time I remember the scar being acknowledged at all is in this strip with coyote, I'm not sure Kat's mother ever mentioned it. Coyote doesn't comment on if it would heal, though.
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Oct 17, 2011 21:09
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Oh god, I bust a gut laughing. Tom, I love you. Now gimmie a kiss
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Noonsaliwah posted:The only time I remember the scar being acknowledged at all is in this strip with coyote, I'm not sure Kat's mother ever mentioned it. Coyote doesn't comment on if it would heal, though. I want to say either Zimmy or Gamma have noticed it but I'm not sure where. edit: Aha, here it is. Mazerunner fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Oct 17, 2011 |
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