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Pastry of the Year posted:Garfield Classic (June 12, 1988)  VRMM! I've always loved that image for some reason.  Manuel Calavera posted:Foxtrot
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Discendo Vox posted:My thesis defense involved several hours of scrutiny. It was by no means theater - students in my department have failed the defense in the recent past. If my thesis had involved an external physical object as an example, it is indeed possible the committee would have examined it directly. Different departments do things differently. Holbrook's work is full of bullshit, but the basic idea of the defense procedure isn't a case of bullshit. That's interesting. Without disclosing more personal information than you're comfortable with, can you say what field your degree is in, or what degree it is you got? I imagine there is a world of difference between, say, an MSc in computer science (which is what Guy seems to be getting) and a MoA in Modern Dance or Sculpting or something. It is worth clarifying that my experience is specifically in the natural sciences.
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I also defended my master's thesis (Humanities). The difference between the MA and the PhD is that an MA was read by an internal committee whereas the PhD had an external examiner.
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CommonShore posted:I also defended my master's thesis (Humanities). The difference between the MA and the PhD is that an MA was read by an internal committee whereas the PhD had an external examiner. Same (STEM M.Eng). Nobody except my chair showed for the defense, but in theory yeah.
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Did he do brain surgery on these apparently sapient kitchen appliances, or did he secure them by telling them not to talk to Russians?
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The Dinette Set stays loyal. Working Daze remembers it has a character that's a medusa. And yes, she turns people into stone.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix is an implied threat.  Cul De Sac loves special features. 
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Evil Mastermind posted:Cul De Sac loves special features. 
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Old School Peanuts (May 10, 1951) Calvin and Hobbes (Nov 18-19, 1986)   Robbie and Bobby (Dec 17-18, 2014)  
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goatface posted:Did he do brain surgery on these apparently sapient kitchen appliances, or did he secure them by telling them not to talk to Russians? Knowing Holbrook's dumb bullshit he probably gave them a lecture inside the Virtual Internet School as his avatar, I dunno, "animatronic chess horse" or something.
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Rhymes with Orange Retail  Get Fuzzy 1/4/00  Now I want a meatball sub. Sigh.
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Der Shovel posted:That's interesting. Without disclosing more personal information than you're comfortable with, can you say what field your degree is in, or what degree it is you got? I imagine there is a world of difference between, say, an MSc in computer science (which is what Guy seems to be getting) and a MoA in Modern Dance or Sculpting or something. Social science. My program also had a humanities side, which had similarly (arguably much more intensive) rigorous defenses.
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FrumpleOrz posted:Frazz gently caress oofffffffffffffffff lol, what the gently caress, are you trying to say these two things somehow offset each other? Shut the gently caress up, Frazz. BCN  Phoebe  Wallace  Curti... what the gently caress 
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Vargo posted:
Now I'm super invested in whatever Michelle gave Curtis. Spill the beans, Billingsley!
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Safety Dance posted:Now I'm super invested in whatever Michelle gave Curtis. Spill the beans, Billingsley! It's extremely weird because this is the last strip before the Pixel-Anne Lee story:  Which seems to imply that the story was the gift. But then you get yesterday's strip saying Michelle got him something else and his mom gave him the book? It is incredible how bad of a storyteller Billingsley is.
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Vargo posted:It's extremely weird because this is the last strip before the Pixel-Anne Lee story: I'm betting it's going to be a framed "selfie"of her, but one of the ones Curtis took of her that she found flattering. There was an arc about that some billion years ago or so. It'd fit form for the character.
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goatface posted:Did he do brain surgery on these apparently sapient kitchen appliances, or did he secure them by telling them not to talk to Russians? I "secured" my devices (a couple of cheap Foscam clones that I got years ago so I could look in on the cat while I was out) by setting up my router to deny them access to the Internet. Boom, all attempts to call home to whatever that IP address in China is are stymied, and I can still reach them when I'm away from home via a nice simple SSH tunnel. I can haz master's degree now? Or do I still need to work in DNA-that's-indistinguishable-from-magic?
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Surgeon's Tales feat. the majestik møøse Åland is an island group between Sweden and Finland.   Nancy  Dustin  1997 Viivi & Wagner 
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Manuel Calavera posted:Bizarro Yelyektioee Yayestsolts Ieetl is a very bizarre name for a business, especially since it mixes the Russian and English alphabet, but I suppose that's to be expected considering the name of the strip I don't speak Russian and my "translation" of the name is probably very very wrong but you get the idea
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Look! A kinda good Macanudo! F Minus  Mark Trail  Does it appear to anyone else that you're supposed to read the top left panel, then the top part of the big right panel, then the bottom left panel, then the bottom of the right? That's not what comic strips are supposed to do but it doesn't seem to work any other way. Mary Worth  The Phantom  *The Ghost Who Steals Culturally Important Artifacts and Human Remains! Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  "Eat, my pretties!" Andertoons  Popeye's Cartoon Club  Flash Gordon  That story seemed longer than the usual one, but that may be because it was boring.
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth "Also your doctor declared you to have menopause without doing any sort of test to confirm, and then said 'Good luck with that, you old bag, bye lol!' without offering any sort of advice or treatment to help with your symptoms, even though they seem extensive. So also don't give up on finding a different doctor!"
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Sally Forth Peanuts (January 7, 1973)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  9 Chickweed Lane  Thanks to Public Domain 2020, the hiatus is over and now it's time to return to Life (With Skippy). (January 4, 1924)  What I coughed up as an introduction last year is still a decent place to start: Me last year posted:Before the name was bolted to the legacy of the Time-Warner media megalith, there was a whole other Life Magazine, a weekly that was effectively the American answer to Punch. While there were written pieces, the founder was a professional illustrator and it was one of the first periodicals to use a new high quality printing process, so the big draw was the art. Life v.1.0 was the launching point for Charles Dana Gibson, who eventually became a big enough deal that he bought the magazine, and his Gibson girls. Over the years, its pages hosted Robert Ripley, Norman Rockwell, Palmer Cox, H.T. Webster...and, eventually, some dude (and (no fooling) future Olympic medalist in drawing and watercolors) named Percy Crosby. And that brings us to year two. Welcome back.  Elsewhere In The Magazine (because this era of Life drew in a lot of top-drawer talent):  Crosby again, when he wasn't drawing kids.  Don Herold, who we were introduced to last thread, fixes a furnace.  Rodney Thomson, who had a decades-long run with Life.  Alice Harvey, and if Thomson is the old guard, Harvey is downright modern by comparison. What really jumps at me, though, is The New Yorker launched in 1925 and lifted a lot of people out of Life to help launch the new magazine. Harvey found a home at the new magazine, and (in case you didn't click that link) Harold Ross, New Yorker co-founder, called her "one of the three or four pathfinders in what is called the new school of American humor". "I remember seeing it and being encouraged by it when I was thinking of starting The New Yorker. It had a lot to do with convincing me that there was a new talent around for a magazine like this."  (August 17, 1922) So yeah, she established the New Yorker style years before there was a New Yorker, which not only makes her quite worthy, but means she's got a lot to answer for. Continuing our scan of the before-Skippy times gives us Ellison Hoover's contribution to a newspaper "burlesque" issue. (September 7, 1922)  Alias: Buster Brown: Through a quirk in early 20th century intellectual property laws, Richard Outcault managed to escape his first employer with one of his world-famous characters, and the judge said he could do that as long as he didn't use the name on the masthead. So for awhile, there were two competing Buster Browns circulating in the world, but the non-Outcault one was just unspeakably off. Never settle for substitutions. (March 15, 1908)   And now a confession: I skipped two of these last week on purpose. The way I've always approached posting old stuff, especially when the project is going back either to the beginning of a thing or a fixed starting point in its history and discovering it with the rest of you, is to present history as it was, not as we wish it was. It was an approach that made sense to a few folks around here several years ago, and in the not too distant future I'm going to make a fistful of words to clarify it a little bit better than I have in the past. I'd rather punch a Nazi than be confused for one, but I'd still like the option of being able to make sense of history, especially now that some of our idiot neighbors seem hell-bent on dragging everyone back to their revisionist version of the past at blistering speed. But last week a few too many intolerance brushfires popped up in our own backyard to ignore (you might know what I'm talking about, but you're blessed if you don't), and the next couple of Buster Browns that were in the queue had a side character who, especially in full color, rendered in a way I just couldn't bring myself to post, especially with (gestures wildly at everything else). For those who want the full set, they're from February 23 (e: and here's the link to the source, since Imgur seems to think it's porn) and March 1, 1908. Also, it took three hours to write the last two paragraphs and I still think I got it wrong. EasyEW fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Jan 6, 2020 |
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EasyEW posted:Peanuts (January 7, 1973) 
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EasyEW posted:
Classic Cat 
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StrixNebulosa posted:gently caress you. I do not want to read works by transphobes, bigots, and fuckers. gently caress off. Then set their profile to ignore and move on. Modesty Blaise  
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Palette swap posted:Caught up this year. You are a disgrace to your avatar. 
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My Dad is Dracula  Pickles  Zits  I'm going to be traveling a bit for work over the next month or two. Expect catch-up posts on the weekends.
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Yvonmukluk posted:There is a professional misconduct hearing over here with your name on it Nekonaughey 
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King Aroo 8/16/53 They'll Do It Every Time 7/23/46  Mopsy 8/1/42 
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Kennel posted:Dustin Holy crap, did Ed actually apologize for being a knob? Is that a first? EasyEW posted:Continuing our scan of the before-Skippy times gives us Ellison Hoover's contribution to a newspaper "burlesque" issue. (September 7, 1922) I do not understand this at all but I like it.
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Ghostlight posted:Classic Cat
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Darthemed posted:Brutal slam. Is it?
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Kennel posted:Dustin John Pinette did it better
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EasyEW posted:But last week a few too many intolerance brushfires popped up in our own backyard to ignore (you might know what I'm talking about, but you're blessed if you don't)  2017 Spiderman  1978 Comics    Dick Tracy  Locher Tracy  Origins of the Sunday Comics  Footrot Flats 
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The Lockhorns Brewster Rockit Space Guy  On The Fastrack I don't think Holbrook has ever actually worked in IT, right?  No Safe Havens on Sundays! Stone Soup  Kevin & Kell Is there even a joke here?  Mother Goose & Grimm  Hagar The Horrible  Sherman's Lagoon  Frazz 
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FrumpleOrz posted:Kevin & Kell Is there even a joke here?
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