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Sundae posted:Tomorrow's Luann leaked early. Am I wrong or is that fetus(?) pretty far along?
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:Am I wrong or is that fetus(?) pretty far along? That looks like what you'd get if you googled "20-week sonogram" as a reference. Which is right at halfway, and the appointment where parents are usually given the option of learning the bio sex of the baby.
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Huxley posted:That looks like what you'd get if you googled "20-week sonogram" as a reference. So it isn't reasonable that a slender woman wouldn't be showing?
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My Luann prediction is she's faking the pregnancy cause that's what crazy women do am I rite?
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It's actually Tiff who is pregnant.
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:So it isn't reasonable that a slender woman wouldn't be showing? She's not just pregnant-- she's Chickweed Pregnant.
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I have a friend who has a funny story about this arc, so I asked her to type it out so I could share it with people. My Friend Alice posted:When I was, oh, 6 or so years old, my mom had enough of my obnoxiousness and she gave me one of Dad's Calvin and Hobbes books and told me to go read comics quietly in my room.
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MyronMulch posted:Mark Trail If it wasn't for it involving touching the poop, regularly tweeting revisions of MT with that quote back at Jam Esallen would be a fun, fun game.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I have a friend who has a funny story about this arc, so I asked her to type it out so I could share it with people. Speaking of, the Yukon Ho! collection which features this story was one of the books that had an extra: ![]() (which, of course, 9 year old me had memorized)
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I have a friend who has a funny story about this arc, so I asked her to type it out so I could share it with people. That's like something I would have done as a kid. I read a lot of Calvin and Hobbes and it influenced my imagination. In fifth grade, inspired by the strip, I had a certain tree on my school playground that worked somewhat like Calvin's transmogrifier. I'd key in a code for whatever I wanted to be, pretend to step inside the tree, and emerge transformed. Calvin and Hobbes is one of my favorite comic strips. It's been really interesting to reread it from the perspective of a 36 year old adult.
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How Wonderful! posted:She's not just pregnant-- she's Chickweed Pregnant. how kafkaesque
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I have a friend who has a funny story about this arc, so I asked her to type it out so I could share it with people. My mom noticed and stopped me before I could do it, and gently pointed out that people might think I was actually being kidnapped if they saw a sign like that. (and in retrospect she probably didn't want it blocking the rear view, either ![]() Stultus Maximus posted:Speaking of, the Yukon Ho! collection which features this story was one of the books that had an extra: ![]()
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The Bloop posted:how kafkaesque
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Sundae posted:If it wasn't for it involving touching the poop, regularly tweeting revisions of MT with that quote back at Jam Esallen would be a fun, fun game. It is honestly the only funny thing he's ever written.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Calvin Haifisch posted:Hobbes Wallace the Brave is probably the currently-running strip that most closely reminds me of that kind of insane period of early life where everything around you is unknown and interesting and full of potential, but I can't read it when I'm six, so Calvin and Hobbes is always going to have that special place.
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:So it isn't reasonable that a slender woman wouldn't be showing? She should be. Whether this is because they've decided she's faking it or just because they didn't understand this when they were drawing her I don't care to wager.
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Or maybe it's Tiffany as a fetus so it can all explode on her when she confronts her dad about evil Ann getting knocked up.
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Sally Forth![]() ![]() ![]() Skippy (January 2-3, 1933) ![]() ![]() Peanuts (June 13-15, 1973) ![]() ![]() ![]() Mason Jarre Trespasses In Sacred Space ![]() ![]() ![]() Crankshaft ![]() ![]() ![]() 9 Chickweed Lane ![]() ![]() ![]() Rip Haywire ![]() ![]() ![]() Thimble Theater (January 11-13, 1937) ![]() ![]() ![]() Out Our Way (August 6-8, 1934) ![]() ![]() ![]()
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EasyEW posted:Sally Forth quote:9 Chickweed Lane
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Asking anyone from 9CL to stop loving is like asking the birds to stop
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Uhh wait so who won the pregnancy wager then? E: This one Discendo Vox posted:Thread contest: Oh, I guess it was only for K&K manero fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Jun 14, 2020 |
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I mean, given Ann's personality, getting pregnant would be like Priority Number One. A child would cement her position. In the event of the husbands death, it gives her an even stronger position to control the entire estate/inheritence. It's classic medieval type politics with nobles and all that.
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EasyEW posted:9 Chickweed Lane "Oh, well, the music was a series of notes sounded in a specific order. It is capable of communicating and evoking neither emotion nor meaning. This you well know, having lectured supposed 'fans' of said music at length on multiple occasions."
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Let's just say Brooke McEldowney's depravity knows no bounds.
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EasyEW posted:Crankshaft I actually really like this one, as it seems to wholeheartedly embrace the idea that using your imagination to have fun is cool, even when you're old. A genuinely good Crankshaft.
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Haifisch posted:It's generally cute and lighthearted, although it does have a problem with weeks like this where it's repeating the same joke over and over. I tried to give it the benefit of the doubt but the joke literally never changes. Phoebe and her unicorn friend are the least most annoying characters in the thread, by which I mean that while I don't like them, their competition is pretty stiff (Ruthie, Dustin's dad, the enunciating baby in Rose Is Rose, etc.). It is sweet that Phoebe's parents are kind and caring, but it seems common enough. Rex Morgan, Sally Forth, Mark Trail, and Alice's mom from that one comic are nice too. The parents that dislike their kids are SUPER vocal about it though. Parahexavoctal posted:Let's just say Brooke McEldowney's depravity knows no bounds. A woman/man/dog threesome would definitely shake things up.
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EasyEW posted:Asking anyone from 9CL to stop loving is like asking the bird to stop yelling AND THEN THEY hosed!. Fixed that for you.
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In today's Corto Maltese: Itxaygix (a real name) is cynical for his years, or Waka may not have been as effective as Jack made her out to be..., or Well, let's hope that she DIDN'T end up like up like Waka![]() ![]() ![]()
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Kavak posted:It is honestly the only funny thing he's ever written. ![]()
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Only funny joke he's ever written.
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Sundae posted:If it wasn't for it involving touching the poop, regularly tweeting revisions of MT with that quote back at Jam Esallen would be a fun, fun game.
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Oops, I missed yesterday. Daddy Daze ![]() ![]() Take It From the Tinkersons ![]() ![]() Dark Side of the Horse ![]() ![]() Fort Knox ![]() ![]() Strontium fucked around with this message at 06:29 on Jun 14, 2020 |
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Well drat, I knew I kept forgetting something important. Frank Bolle died on May 12th at the age of 95. He worked on dozens of comic strips over a very long career, and as longtime thread pals know, the last one was Apartment 3-G.
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The last month of A3G was an amazing fever dream.
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godspeed you aggressively stubborn man.
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# ? Feb 12, 2025 19:24 |
Rest in peace, Mr Bolle
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