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Farside is so consistently good.
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May 22, 2020 16:01
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Manuel Calavera posted:Bizarro Bizarro now just repeating Geico commercials. Tune in tomorrow for the one with the Ratt problem. Also, the Ripley's from the other day about the wine in the water mains has the same energy as the Out Our Way comics about lathes. Makes my skin crawl. Cross connection control and backflow prevention are serious matters.
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May 22, 2020 16:09
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Kennel posted:
Gotta admire the gumption of a man whose response to it raining fire is "Smoke if you got'em."
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May 22, 2020 16:45
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Hwurmp posted:leave it to Kelley to assert that "hey, wimp" is the extent of bullying loving millennials, complaining about getting bullied just because somebody called them a wimp a couple of times.  I am genuinely glad that Toni is being nice to her niece for a change. Also, boy is that a lot of TP to waste in These Trying Times.
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May 22, 2020 16:53
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readingatwork posted:Calvin and Hobbes (Aug 7-8, 1987) This has always been one of my favorite Calvin strips. A simple but funny and dynamic and wonderful drawing of such a universally relatable thing. Watterson is too good for this world.
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May 22, 2020 17:03
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FrumpleOrz posted:Safe Havens is 'various reasons' an acknowledgement that da Vinci was gay?
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May 22, 2020 17:09
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Parahexavoctal posted:is 'various reasons' an acknowledgement that da Vinci was gay? You know it's not.
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May 22, 2020 17:10
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LazyQ posted:Mämmilä I've seen it come up a couple times: Our Sulo, our Pekka. Is this a current, or kinda old-fashioned way of referring to family members? I've seen it pop up a couple times before, and it seems to often be while people are referring to close relatives. I know it does get some use in english, but I'm just wondering if it's some specific thing in finnish that's being translated or not. It feels a bit like in english, it gets used to present a person, or specifically a way for parents to refer to their shared child. While in use in Mämmilä it feels like it often gets used when referring to a close relative. (Though since I'm not a native speaker, I have no idea how common 'our (name)' is in normal, daily speech in english either, I suppose.)
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May 22, 2020 17:21
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SubNat posted:It feels a bit like in english, it gets used to present a person, or specifically a way for parents to refer to their shared child. While in use in Mämmilä it feels like it often gets used when referring to a close relative. In British English it would be pretty common, mostly among working class and rural middle class people. "Our John" would just be a way of indicating "the John from our family, rather than one of the other three Johns we know". You might occasionally hear "your John" with the corresponding meaning, but I think that would be a lot less common.
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May 22, 2020 17:36
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Addressing someone as "our Becky" or "our kid" (as in "come on, our kid, hurry up or we'll be late") is something I've only ever seen in northern English speech, like people around Manchester etc.
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May 22, 2020 17:38
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I've seen it used in fantasy-medieval novels when referring to mutual friends or acquaintances, but as a native English speaker (US, midwest, Chicago) I wouldn't use it in casual speech unless I was referring to a mutual relative. Even then I'd probably sound a bit 
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May 22, 2020 17:39
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May 22, 2020 17:50
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Strontium posted:Intelligent Life Ah yes, all the new comics that came out between March and now, splendid. Dykes to Watch Out For #58 (1989)   This kicks off another story which is entirely excised from the Essential-- I guess I can see it. Milkweed is a character who shows up for a continuous stretch of strips and then never again in any meaningful way, so even though this is kind of a fun arc it also doesn't really threaten the comic's overall narrative flow to drop it. The mention of Exxon might be evergreen-- it's not like it was ever not an appalling company during DtWOF's run-- but the Exxon Valdez spill took place on March 24, 1989. This was an enormous environmental disaster and tremendously publicly visible; an Exxon oil tanker smashed into a reef west of Alaska and spilled over 10 million gallons of crude oil into the ocean over the course of several days, effecting huge swathes of ocean and coastline. The initial spin was that the captain of the ship was drunk at the helm or just incompetent, although research and investigations since then have revealed a systematic culture of cost-cutting and negligence at Exxon that left the ship ill-prepared to detect, avoid, or deal with collisions. The news for months was filled with photos of dead or sick penguins, birds, and seals, making it a huge if often superficial rallying point for popular environmentalism-- I definitely remembering learning about it in elementary school in the early 90s, and thinking of oil-slicked sea mammals as one of the major consequences of pollution. As an interesting footnote one of the Unabomber's targets was an Exxon executive who was involved with PR rehabilitation in the aftermath of the spill. Anyway-- this strip ran in the July 1989 issue of off our backs, so granting Bechdel a lead time of several months I guess I feel safe in hazarding that the Exxon mention here is made specifically in the context of Exxon Valdez. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 19:22 on May 22, 2020 |
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May 22, 2020 17:58
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Julet Esqu posted:loving millennials, complaining about getting bullied just because somebody called them a wimp a couple of times. Weird timing of the TP stuff aside, this is actually really cute and good.
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May 22, 2020 18:42
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Mikl posted:Hahaha, who did this?  F Minus  Mark Trail  Cue the laugh track. Mary Worth  "We here at Mary Worth Enterprises salute our brave medical professionals during this difficult time. We are all in this together!" The Phantom  Pooch Cafe [urlhttps://imgur.com/lj5nOMD]  [/url]Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  I'm not sure why I find this one funny but I do. Apartment 3-G 
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May 22, 2020 18:52
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How Wonderful! posted:Dykes to Watch Out For #58 (1989) It has become a bit of an in-joke in one of the women's groups I belong to that lasagna is a real relationship tester. We saw so many Reddit posts in a short period of time of women despairing that their lovely boyfriends/husbands stole their lasagna, ate the whole thing without leaving them any, gave it away to other people, ate the beloved dead grandma's lasagna that the girlfriend froze and labeled was saving for sentimental reasons, ate the whole crunchy top off the mac and cheese (it's lasagna-adjacent) and left the rest behind, and so on. Now I see that lasagna drama is nothing new (though I guess Sparrow is a roommate and not a partner?). The takeaway here: Don't date or marry a person who does not understand how to behave around your lasagna.
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May 22, 2020 18:54
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Drimble Wedge posted:Addressing someone as "our Becky" or "our kid" (as in "come on, our kid, hurry up or we'll be late") is something I've only ever seen in northern English speech, like people around Manchester etc. I just picture Daisy and Onslow going on about Our Hyacinth
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May 22, 2020 19:00
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Julet Esqu posted:It has become a bit of an in-joke in one of the women's groups I belong to that lasagna is a real relationship tester. We saw so many Reddit posts in a short period of time of women despairing that their lovely boyfriends/husbands stole their lasagna, ate the whole thing without leaving them any, gave it away to other people, ate the beloved dead grandma's lasagna that the girlfriend froze and labeled was saving for sentimental reasons, ate the whole crunchy top off the mac and cheese (it's lasagna-adjacent) and left the rest behind, and so on. Now I see that lasagna drama is nothing new (though I guess Sparrow is a roommate and not a partner?). Oh god, now I need to make a lasagna just to see if it gets respected.
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May 22, 2020 19:08
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth Lol, he's a bit nerdy? You were nerding out just as hard as him over that not-Star Wars Movie only a couple of days ago! That's what made you fall for him.
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May 22, 2020 19:14
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How Wonderful! posted:
In fact, it wiped out the Alaskan penguins; that's why you never hear about them.
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May 22, 2020 19:16
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tiercel posted:In fact, it wiped out the Alaskan penguins; that's why you never hear about them. That's what they want you to think...  Somebody fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Jul 25, 2022 |
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May 22, 2020 19:25
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Lodin posted:Lol, he's a bit nerdy? You were nerding out just as hard as him over that not-Star Wars Movie only a couple of days ago! That's what made you fall for him. 
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May 22, 2020 19:54
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Parahexavoctal posted:is 'various reasons' an acknowledgement that da Vinci was gay? Knowing Holbrook this strip will still be running in 20 years and we'll get to read a long plotline about adult da Vinci coming back to the present and getting SOMEBODY pregnant.
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May 22, 2020 20:05
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Darthemed posted:Docks Darren Bell has copied this exact strip in Candorville a bunch of times, I just know it. Johnny Walker posted:
Did Mark uhhhh....do anything in this storyline? Other than the alarm clock going off, they were almost completely incidental to the plot. Also, I'm still convinced that this isn't James doing the art or the writing. This story moved way too fast and had way too few attempts at a 40's-serial-style "adventure" to be James. None of this feels like him. Adam  BCN  Phoebe  Wallace  Curtis 
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May 22, 2020 20:07
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Medenmath posted:The stakes here seem way higher than usual in Wallace Vargo posted:Wallace 
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May 22, 2020 20:18
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Julet Esqu posted:It has become a bit of an in-joke in one of the women's groups I belong to that lasagna is a real relationship tester. We saw so many Reddit posts in a short period of time of women despairing that their lovely boyfriends/husbands stole their lasagna, ate the whole thing without leaving them any, gave it away to other people, ate the beloved dead grandma's lasagna that the girlfriend froze and labeled was saving for sentimental reasons, ate the whole crunchy top off the mac and cheese (it's lasagna-adjacent) and left the rest behind, and so on. Now I see that lasagna drama is nothing new (though I guess Sparrow is a roommate and not a partner?). sweeperbravo posted:I just picture Daisy and Onslow going on about Our Hyacinth 
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May 22, 2020 20:51
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How Wonderful! posted:Ah yes, all the new comics that came out between March and now, splendid. The reasons to drop it that I can see are that Sparrow's characterization clashes with her later one, and voluntary communes are almost entirely a thing of the past. Here Sparrow is slapdash and sloppy, but later on she becomes the neat and planned-out member of the roommate trio. I don't see that as a big deal, because people *do* change over time (my father commented how amazed he was that *my brother* became neat after he bought a house). With communes, it looks like Bechdel decided to chop every reference out (Harriet's commune childhood is gone too, as How Wonderful pointed out). I don't really see why, because while they are much rarer today, even by the late 80's they were passe. Most people still know what a commune is, so the jokes and references ought to land pretty much the same today, referring to a well-known thing of the past, just further in the past now.
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May 22, 2020 21:00
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Conan the Barbarian Nov. 27th, 1978- Dec. 3rd, 1978      
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May 22, 2020 21:11
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curtadams posted:Doesn't threaten the comic's arc, but I'm still surprised she dropped it. The Milkweed arc has some good jokes in it, and Bechdel makes good use of her ensemble cast and the pacing a full-page strip allows. Notice how she slips in the exposition about the action group *after* she's gotten the joke from it, and in a natural way, since the joke is about Ginger being surprised, and that moves smoothly into the lasagna soup and dirty sink jokes (the Milkweed segue is a bit forced, I'll concede). Finally it's got some good notes about Lois waiting to hear back from Emma, and I think that story gets weaker when it's standing on its own that when it's woven into an ongoing world. I wonder if part of it is that Milkweed is kind of a broad depiction of a "type" in a way that Bechdel usually seems to shy away from (Sydney's academic rival is another one). I don't know how much input Bechdel had in selecting what stayed and what went in putting the Essential together but to me it feels like a gentler strip in a lot of ways-- there's a lot of caustic stuff lost, as well as some of the biting (but kind of exhausting if read all at once) strips about Mo just talking about current events. Anyway I've been forgetting about Sam's Strip: 2/8/1962  Andy Gump was the main character of Sidney Smith's The Gumps, which ran from 1917 to 1959 and was to my taste a pretty standard comic about middle class foibles which was nevertheless extremely popular for awhile.  You could buy all sorts of Gumps merchandise, including this profoundly cursed object:  Andy Gump's signature chinless overbite became more pronounced over time, as evidenced by this ad:  I've also been reading and more or less enjoying Cecil Jensen's short-lived Elmo and considering giving it a shot in here: 
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May 22, 2020 21:26
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Oh man, I'd be interested in seeing the Gumps if you have any of it.
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May 22, 2020 21:42
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May 22, 2020 21:47
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May 22, 2020 21:49
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Ghostlight posted:'funny' What, you don't like 'funny' comics?
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May 22, 2020 21:51
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New 'Funny' Comic Strip Megathread
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May 22, 2020 22:01
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Kennel posted:New 'Funny' Comic Strop Megathread BSS > 'Funny' Comic Strip Megathread 2020: Les, Miserable
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May 22, 2020 22:02
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In this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses, it's interesting that Clarice is offended by the idea of buying frozen meat.
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May 22, 2020 23:38
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 5/21/00  Brenda Starr 11/24/40   Smokey Stover 6/30/35 
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May 22, 2020 23:45
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SubNat posted:I've seen it come up a couple times: Our Sulo, our Pekka. It's mom talk for the apple of their eye. It's shorter to say 'our John' than 'our son John' and still clearer than just 'John'.
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Vintage Valiant (May. 14, 1939)  Please pretend I made a clever joke about COVID-19 here. Thanks in advance.
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