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Kennel posted:Man in Black I'm pretty sure it's either Ari Kutila himself or then Keijo Ahlqvist, who he worked a lot with and who's sort of a grand old man of Finnish comics culture.
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Mikl posted:That would make a pretty good "Disaster Lesbian" avatar. Hmmm... a companion... 
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Vintage Valiant (Aug. 04, 1940)  "Next week - The Oriental"  He's a merchant who briefly hires the trio as guards. Definitely a stereotype, but could be worse I guess.
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How Wonderful! posted:Ok, I've been back from camping for a few days and have finally tidied up my work area and dug out my DtWOF books. The Savings and Loan crisis was set in motion by the inflation of the 70's. S&Ls, at the time, took in short-term deposits and used them for long-term mortgages. They weren't allowed to do other kinds of banking because the government had wanted money channeled into housing loans. When inflation went up, the existing mortgages stayed at their low rates, but the rates needed to keep deposits went way up, putting S&Ls in a squeeze and leaving them short of money or downright broke. S&Ls had been created by the government to provide housing loans in the New Deal, and it wasn't their fault that government regulations plus government money policies had squeezed them so. The fair fix would have been for the government to bail them out, funded with capital gains taxes, which would fall on those who had benefited by the inflation. But this was the start of the "market is perfect and fixes all problems" mantra so instead the feds chose to deregulate the S&Ls so they could make more profits by making large commercial loans and investments. (There were also more sensible deregulations like allowing adjustable loans, which would have helped with the inflation crisis.) However, these deregulations didn't help much because investment banks developed new ways to get the S&L type deposits into the general financial systems with money markets, and to fund mortgage loans via collateralized debt obligations (bundling large groups of mortgages into a loan that can be traded without needing to know details about the individual mortages) Meanwhile the S&Ls lacked the size and the experience to match investment banks in the general financial markets. Worse, S&Ls didn't have strong institutional controls to prevent fraud by their officers, because that hadn't been necessary as long as they could only make small loans backed by property. So what happened was that shady investors took control of S&Ls and had the S&Ls make huge loans to their cronies' businesses, or even their own. They got all potential profits from the businesses, but if the loan went bad most of the losses fell on S&L depositors and federal insurance. This is "privatizing the profits and socializing the losses", a driving force in financial systems today. A sharp example of how bad things got was that then-Vice President Bush's son Neil Bush, on the board of Silverado S&L, approved 100 million dollars in loans to his business partners. The loans couldn't be repaid (I think there was outright embezzlement at the companies), and Silverado went under, costing the federal government 1.3 billion. Neil Bush eventually was fined $50,000 - which he didn't even have to pay because Republican supporters paid it for him! That tells you how massive the fraud was - the leaders made so much they'd just *give* money away to other people in the defrauding system. In the end the federal government essentially closed down the S&L industry, and provided a bailout of over 100 billion dollars, which covered both the genuine losses and the massive fraud. "S&L" institutions continued to exist, but regulations were changed so they became regular banks. Oversight was tightened so they were no more susceptible to fraud than banks in general, which isn't adequate but was a lot better than before. The scale of this blows one's mind, but even more unbelievably people kept saying "the market is perfect" after this and all through the Great Housing Bubble and even after that nearly took down the world financial system they are STILL saying it.
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Ted Forth Knows The Score Pearls Before Swine, in which I was under the impression that Rat wasn't supposed to be a role model.  Skippy (February 16, 1933)  Peanuts (August 8, 1973)  Mopey Pete's Grand Day Out  Crankshaft  9 "UNBRIDLED JOCULARITY!" Lane  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (March 6, 1937)  Out Our Way (December 13-15, 1934)    The Wiktionary editors seem to think that the Beastie Boys coined this term. It is shocking (shocking, I tell you) that the Internet got something wrong. Dok's "Fresh Air Fund" Duck (March 18, 1913) 
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 Okay, first of all, anxiety on this level indicates that Bern should stop trying to psychoanalyze everybody else and go find a therapist of her own. (We knew that already, but still.) Second, she and Luann have been best friends since they were 7 or 8. Has Bern never in all these years had a sleepover at Luann's? Because the idea of having to use the toilet in this house while everyone else sleeps seems completely foreign to her.
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Modesty Blaise   Next time: new adventure! Destroy History 
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EasyEW posted:Peanuts (August 8, 1973) As you might guess, this was the season Hank Aaron started chasing Ruth's record, although he fell just short and wouldn't break it until 1974.
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Julet Esqu posted:
Didn't she live in a co-ed dorm room with a communal bathroom? You'd think she would be used going to the bathroom during odd hours by now.
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Julet Esqu posted:
F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Johnny Walker posted:
"I made my wife write you the letter, why aren't you calm?!"
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I'm glad we finally got to see Bernice peeing after all these years of waiting
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The Bloop posted:I'm glad we finally got to see Bernice peeing after all these years of waiting She's putting down toilet paper to mask the splashes... She isn't just peeing.
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Stultus Maximus posted:She's putting down toilet paper to mask the splashes... She isn't just peeing. well that's the part I care about you weirdo
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Please don't post about Bernice pooping, I have a lot to live for and I don't want this thread to kill me.
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EasyEW posted:Mopey Pete's Grand Day Out With all this lead-up to the wildfire Doing Anything, I'm kinda expecting that someone in this strip will die. quote:Out Our Way (December 13-15, 1934) Every time I see these workers wearing these baggy coveralls, I wonder why there aren't more of these Machine Shop strips where someone is about to lose a leg.
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The Bloop posted:I'm glad we finally got to see Bernice peeing after all these years of waiting Stultus Maximus posted:She's putting down toilet paper to mask the splashes... She isn't just peeing. The Bloop posted:well that's the part I care about you weirdo #LetBerniceDropADeuce (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Let the woman do what she needs to do in peace. "Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen"
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B. Virtanen That third strip has probably actually been a valid logic for a lot people   ANSU   riderchop posted:i love Ansu, thanks for posting it Thanks a lot for saying that!  I've been a bit unsure if people feel that Ansu's stuff is a bit too simplistic/nonsensical or somesuch.
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Drakyn posted:I'm far too sophisticated to let this pass by without insight. Mm, such delicious low-hanging fruit! 
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Ah, yes. You can totally feel the love in the air from this proposal.  Did the Dick Tracy writers even read Fastrack? Dethany has never once refused any of her abusive boss' whims, why the hell would she start now? Green Intern posted:With all this lead-up to the wildfire Doing Anything, I'm kinda expecting that someone in this strip will die. Considering how Batiuk never does any research for the things he writes, I suspect the wildfire will burn the studio where they're filming the Cancerwife movie and somehow no one would have thought to save their progress on the Cloud. That way Les can feel relief that no one will desecrate his book while everyone feels sorry for him.
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Hempuli posted:Thanks a lot for saying that!
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Hempuli posted:Thanks a lot for saying that! yeah, it’s delightfully simple, like “man in black”, or “dark side of the horse”. i’ve gotten shades of “the bus” at times, too. we need more art like that, in general.
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FrumpleOrz posted:On The Fastrack Wait... Admittedly I don't know my Holbrook lore, but the impression I'm getting from this is that she and her husband both work in the same office. And they're just... okay with the fact that they're being forced to live apart solely because their boss is an egomaniac who wants to monitor her employees' personal lives? It's lovely enough that she's quarantined them all in her McMansion, keeping them away from whatever obligations they might have had at home (Kids and pets to feed? Elderly parents to care for? Too bad!), but here she would rather split apart a family than just let them both work their office job from home. Like, this isn't a case of an actual medical professional saying "hey, it's safer if you two live apart due to X reason". This is their employer dictating where they should live, with no timeframe for when she or any other employee will be allowed to leave. MiracleFlare fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Aug 6, 2020 |
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MiracleFlare posted:Wait... Admittedly I don't know my Holbrook lore, but the impression I'm getting from this is that she and her husband both work in the same office. And they're just... okay with the fact that they're being forced to live apart solely because their boss is an egomaniac who wants to monitor her employees' personal lives? It's lovely enough that she's quarantined them all in her McMansion, keeping them away from whatever obligations they might have had at home (Kids and pets to feed? Elderly parents to care for? Too bad!), but here she would rather split apart a family than just let them both work their office job from home. They use the Q word but they just work at her mansion during the day, and go back home in the evening.
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riderchop posted:Monty Fantastic Voyage Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth Raine Dog intensifies. Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis Are these actual old strips, or are they just in that style? The date's current and they're remarkably crisp. Selachian posted:Smokey Stover 12/13/36 "Christmas seals"?
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Ghostlight posted:キューライス I want this on my wall. BCN  Phoebe  Wallace  Curtis  Increased awareness of what, Billingsley?! I'm finding myself less and less patient with Curtis' cutesie mention-the-problem-without-mentioning-it games, especially as Bianca Xunise is being dragged through the mud for the mildest of criticisms about white people and even loving Herb and Jamal managed to address the BLM movement by name.
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