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Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

Sundae posted:

Tomorrow's Luann leaked early.



Am I wrong or is that fetus(?) pretty far along?

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Huxley
Oct 10, 2012



Grimey Drawer

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.

Transmodiar
Jul 9, 2005

You're a terrible person, Mildred.
Modesty Blaise



Chef Bourgeoisie
Oct 8, 2016

by Reene
Bloom County
November 1st & 2nd, 1981

Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

Huxley posted:

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.

So it isn't reasonable that a slender woman wouldn't be showing?

Alterian
Jan 28, 2003

My Luann prediction is she's faking the pregnancy cause that's what crazy women do am I rite?

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
It's actually Tiff who is pregnant.

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas

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.

The Vosgian Beast
Aug 13, 2011

Business is slow

readingatwork posted:


Calvin and Hobbes (Sept 16-17, 1987)






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.

It was the book that contained this arc.

Somehow, even though it didn't work out for Calvin, I was convinced that this was the greatest idea in the world, and I decided to try it for myself. I packed up my Crayola-branded suitcase with everything I thought I'd need to live on my own (basically just my Rand McNally road atlas and some toys) then wandered out the front door.

I got as far as the courtyard of the apartment complex we lived in before my mother realized what I was doing and dragged me back inside.

MyronMulch
Nov 12, 2006

Mark Trail

Sundae
Dec 1, 2005

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.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

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)

F_Shit_Fitzgerald
Feb 2, 2017



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.

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

How Wonderful! posted:

She's not just pregnant-- she's Chickweed Pregnant.

how kafkaesque

Haifisch
Nov 12, 2010

Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!



Taco Defender

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.
I remember reading one of the C&H strips where Calvin basically wrote a 'HELP I'M BEING KIDNAPPED' sign and held it to the rear window of the car while his parents drove. Kid me thought this would be a hilarious joke to imitate.

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 :v:)

Stultus Maximus posted:

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)
:yeah:

Vox Valentine
May 30, 2013

Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

The Bloop posted:

how kafkaesque
Please, no meat-touching ma'am!

Sailor Cat
Aug 28, 2019

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

:woop:

Kavak
Aug 23, 2009


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.

Drakyn
Dec 26, 2012

It really was like catnip for a kid brain, wasn't it? There'd be like, three things a book you'd see a full storyline of and go 'oh man i could do that.' Build a transmogrifier. Do some time travel photography. Plan an expedition to Mars.
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.

Shugojin
Sep 6, 2007

THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...


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.

Cowslips Warren
Oct 29, 2005

What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?

Grimey Drawer
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.

EasyEW
Mar 8, 2006

I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.
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)





Evil Mastermind
Apr 28, 2008

EasyEW posted:

Sally Forth
Mason Jarre Trespasses In Sacred Space



Get hosed!

quote:

9 Chickweed Lane




Stop loving!

EasyEW
Mar 8, 2006

I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.
Asking anyone from 9CL to stop loving is like asking the birds to stop singing making GBS threads on your windshield.

manero
Jan 30, 2006

Uhh wait so who won the pregnancy wager then?

E: This one

Discendo Vox posted:

Thread contest:

How many days in the strip until this new female character is pregnant? Closest without going over wins!


Oh, I guess it was only for K&K

manero fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Jun 14, 2020

Johnny Aztec
Jan 29, 2005

by Hand Knit
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.

Julet Esqu
May 6, 2007




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."

Parahexavoctal
Oct 10, 2004

I AM NOT BEING PAID TO CORRECT OTHER PEOPLE'S POSTS! DONKEY!!


Let's just say Brooke McEldowney's depravity knows no bounds.

StrixNebulosa
Feb 14, 2012

You cheated not only the game, but yourself.
But most of all, you cheated BABA

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.

YeahTubaMike
Mar 24, 2005

*hic* Gotta finish thish . . .
Doctor Rope

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.

It also has parents who actually like their kids. It's kind of depressing that's a notable point in comic strips, but hey.

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.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer

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.

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

When I want to relax, I read an essay by Engels. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese.


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



Murdstone
Jun 14, 2005



Kavak posted:

It is honestly the only funny thing he's ever written.

Kavak
Aug 23, 2009



Only funny joke he's ever written.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

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.
Especially if he does lose the job.

Strontium
Aug 28, 2009

Dexter didn't much care for the party.
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

EasyEW
Mar 8, 2006

I've got my father's great big six-shooter with me 'n' if anybody in this woods wants to start somethin' just let 'em--but they DASSN'T.
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.

Kennel
May 1, 2008

BAWWW-UNH!
The last month of A3G was an amazing fever dream.

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



godspeed you aggressively stubborn man.

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RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
Rest in peace, Mr Bolle

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