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As I understand the joke is that standing on the edge of the tub of lye is dangerous and you will die if you slip. I don't think there's anything deeper to it
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My understanding is that one might expect that phrasing for a particularly difficult or dangerous machine, but here it's just...an actual tub of lye.
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What's really insulting is how Team Evans didn't even put in any effort to draw Pru getting proposed to. Reading between the lines, it seems like Pru's girlfriend didn't even bother meeting her in person and just sent her proposal in a loving letter. At least Holbrook actually draws his characters getting proposed to and looking pretty happy about it. This is just a really obvious ploy from Team Evans to get rid of their only LGBTQ+ character. Mildred winning the kids over with her outlaw tales is very cute. ![]() For a second there, I thought he was throwing bottles into the portal that leads to Hellworld and we were about to be subjected to a Kevin and Kell crossover. This was several pages ago, but I remember someone was wondering how poachers even work in Hellworld. Well looks like Holbrook's about to answer your question.
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somehow pru got passive aggressively fridged in a way i didn't know was possible and i can only assume it's because she's gay, and since the usual go-to in media for that is 'dies in the second or third act' i figure they had to come up with something else since it's a daily newspaper comic where death would be very jarring
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amigolupus posted:What's really insulting is how Team Evans didn't even put in any effort to draw Pru getting proposed to. Reading between the lines, it seems like Pru's girlfriend didn't even bother meeting her in person and just sent her proposal in a loving letter. At least Holbrook actually draws his characters getting proposed to and looking pretty happy about it. This is just a really obvious ploy from Team Evans to get rid of their only LGBTQ+ character.
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Rahonavis posted:This is it. This is the one Far Side comic I never got and nobody I know could explain to me. Now unless it’s as simple as a pun on “Her heart is full of lies”, I still don’t get it. I always figured it was something you'd say metaphorically about a person with a caustic personality, only in this case the old codger is being literal since, y'know, the vat of lye.
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OneMoreTime posted:Can't wait for Mary Worth to handwave Dawn cheating on Hugo like they did with Wilbur. After Jared leaves her, Dawn gets jealous of Hugo's new girlfriend and embarrasses herself during a drunk Skype call...
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean Vargo posted:Adam ![]()
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Tiggum posted:What the gently caress is a ray blaster? Remember, he was in
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Didn't Luann used to have a black friend who went off to a different college and hasn't been mentioned in like 5 years? Honestly I'm not surprised that Pru will also be Disappeared soon.
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catlord posted:Remember, he was in Please, call it by it's actual title: Lust for Lisa. God, I can't believe Batiuk thought that was a good name for the Cancerwife movie. sweetguts posted:Didn't Luann used to have a black friend who went off to a different college and hasn't been mentioned in like 5 years? Honestly I'm not surprised that Pru will also be Disappeared soon. Going by how hard Team Evans has been trying to make Bets unlikeable to their regular Out of all the ways for this to end, Spidey and Rocket trying to cram an unconscious Ronan into Rocket's ship never crossed my mind. Why is this strip so good? ![]()
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catlord posted:Remember, he was in ![]() sweetguts posted:Didn't Luann used to have a black friend who went off to a different college and hasn't been mentioned in like 5 years? Haifisch posted:Dick Tracy's Adventures In The Chicago Burbs ![]()
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In today's Corto Maltese: Corto...? get's upset at Rasputin, or Rasputin has twenty seconds to comply, or Sorry everyone, this scan is so atrocious, I can even make a half-witted comment about it![]() ![]() ![]()
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Alhazred posted:Zelda so Zelda and Boy Zelda's terribleness is absolutely intentional well played Zelda writer, you had me going for a minute
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this is amazing, and if I had the patience to learn how I would edit it to give the women flat asses
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Hwurmp posted:Boy Zelda His name is Link!
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Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis Classic (August 28, 1998) The infield fly rule isn't nearly as arcane and obscure as its reputation would have you believe.
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Darthemed posted:Dick Anyway, in Juliet Jones. I hope Pops is careful crossing streets in the future. ![]()
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Medenmath posted:Vintage Valiant (Jul. 03, 1938) I support Val putting a viking in the Sharpshooter.
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Green Intern posted:I support Val putting a viking in the Sharpshooter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJczWE1UHcg
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I was thinking that sharpshooter was wrong, but I didn't know what to actually call it. It's definitely the first part of the surfboard, but I don't know if there's a name for just that bit it on its own. ![]()
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Kennel posted:Dustin Dustin's shows off his skills as a negotiator. A good comic. I accept this correction.
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howe_sam posted:The infield fly rule isn't nearly as arcane and obscure as its reputation would have you believe. I just looked it up, and it seems pretty straight-forward. It's essentially to prevent runner traffic-jams, right? Scenario: Bases are loaded, a flyball to the infield is hit. Without the infield-fly rule, the basement could intentionally choose to not catch the ball, immediately scoop it up, and then they could get multiple runners out, because the runners on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd are forced to move by the newly-running batter. Right?
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Bobulus posted:I just looked it up, and it seems pretty straight-forward. It's essentially to prevent runner traffic-jams, right? Yeah, it's to protect the runners from an unwinnable position. It's a good rule that makes perfect sense, it just doesn't come up that often and at some point became the thing writers mention when they talk about baseball being hard to understand.
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Huxley posted:Yeah, it's to protect the runners from an unwinnable position. Well it is very unintuitive before you understand why it exists.
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Nice! Old School Peanuts (Aug 17, 1951) ![]() Calvin and Hobbes (May 7-8, 1987) ![]() ![]() Robbie and Bobby (Aug 21-24, 2015) ![]() ![]()
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Kennel posted:Well it is very unintuitive before you understand why it exists. Yeah, I should have said, "makes perfect sense after you have it explained." It's definitely the kind of thing that came up organically and everyone went, "wait no hang on that can't be how it works."
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gleebster posted:Anyway, in Juliet Jones. I hope Pops is careful crossing streets in the future. gleebster posted:
I love how expressive they are. That "oh gently caress" misery on Chip's face. You know who didn't like the expressiveness? "A 1994 article about Stan Drake" posted:
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I like to give strips credit where it's due and this is a really dumb funny joke that was set up well.
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