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I'd kind of like to see a variation on that where the individual steals the song, pretends to write it, registers it, but keeps it on the down-low until the real song comes out, waits for it to be a hit, and then sues the band for copyright infringement. But the band company has money, lawyers, and private investigators,and manage to prove in court that that the individual is a time traveler from the future who stole the songs, win the case, and are awarded the time machine.
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FrumpleOrz posted:There's no world where a Beatles album released today would be as popular as it was back in the 60s. I could see an album like Abbey Road having a dedicated fanbase but it would probably be closer to the small but loud Guided By Voices obsessives instead of any sort of pop culture explosion. Lennon–McCartney were such a strong songwriting duo that I think you could make hits out of their catalog in any era, just not necessarily sounding like Beatles songs. Especially the early stuff, because tweens and teens will forever eat up pretty boys singing "love me do".
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MariusLecter posted:Important question; would Everet True wear a mask? If so, would his wrath be unleashed on those who do not wear one and also people who wear a mask but have their noses uncovered? 
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Bruceski posted:Agents of Shield had one person steal various songs from the 80s last week. A few years before they'd be released, so you avoid the "playing the music outside the moment that helped it be a hit" thing but there's still the marketing/band factor just getting glossed over. One nice touch is that the lyrics aren't exact, he's going off memory. I always remember the line "so they'll still talk about us when we die" from Jesus Christ Superstar as "so we'll all become famous when we die" which is such a ridiculous departure beyond the mere tone that I'm not sure how I came up with it. Which is an oddly appropriate segue for today's comic. Cheer Up Boss Dharma     This particular translation takes a lot of liberties with the original meaning, but the only one that's particularly easy to explain is the punchline. The word Taku is using is circumcision, which doesn't sound as weird in natural speech in Korean because it's easily broken down into its Chinese origin- 包莖手術, or surgery involving the container of your roots. So Taku's churlish tone is entirely my embellishment, solely because in my opinion there's no way to casually discuss circumcision in English that doesn't sound completely ridiculous.
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My niece had a creative writing class assignment about this, and instead of music, she went for Harry Potter; she didn't have all the books memorized, but her idea was if she got the first one done, hopefully the agents would sign for more. And her big plot twist was that love potions had been banned post Voldemort, and Dumbledore was a far more open person about being a puppetmaster. I told her she aimed too high: Harry Potter risked market saturation, but Twilight could be written with your eyes closed.
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Lodin posted:It strikes me as unrealistic that a children's school cafeteria would leave salt shakers on the tables. I guess Susie keeps one in her lunch box? nah, it's a thing. They're usually all-plastic affairs though.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Maybe our resident True collector has a bigger version but At the risk of working someone else's territory, here''s The Outbursts of Everett Flu.  
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howe_sam posted:Lennon–McCartney were such a strong songwriting duo that I think you could make hits out of their catalog in any era, just not necessarily sounding like Beatles songs. Especially the early stuff, because tweens and teens will forever eat up pretty boys singing "love me do". Oh yeah, I think select songs would work well in any era with the proper arrangement that matched the time but I don't see the songs becoming the incredibly huge influences we connect with the songs. It might end up more like those songs on that compilation The Songs The Beatles Gave Away where they were hits at the time but most didn't exactly become household names. I love The Beatles and the Lennon-McCartney team but George Martin's production makes those albums and songs. He's the reason I get too drunk and listen to "When I'm 64" a dozen times in a row or want to listen to just side 2 of the White Album.
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As the last poster to post a lot of Everett True: he would pummel me if I tried to get territorial over something like this. Y'all are great and I love seeing Everett in action. Does the heart good to see him in a mask.
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Ghostlight posted:Herb and Jamal Huh. It's real, and continuing today. Any chance you or someone else could post these, at least until the story arc's over? I can tell it's not easy, given that you posted the black and white version rather than the color one on Comics Kingdom which can't be easily swiped. Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons The complete lack of variation in reaction shots in Take It From the Tinkersons makes the drawing look lazy. But it does lend itself well to a certain kind of nonplussed response. Kind of similar to Mr. Boop in that way.
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The times we live in where mild-mannered Herb & Jamal goes all in on BLM and at-least-ostensibly-urban Curtis either ignores the matter completely or vaguely goes "oh no, protests" in its general direction
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Oh, Mr. True. If only you didn't have the jingoistic spiel during WW1, then you could have been nearly perfect. Well, that and the racist representations every so often. But that pretty much goes as read, seeing as it was a comic from the turn of the century.
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Family Circus Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Everyone's favorite Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro 
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You know what all this Everett True chat has put me in the mood for? Old Everett True posts. Outbursts of Everett True (April, 1916)  Outbursts of Everett True (May, 1916)  Outbursts of Everett True (July, 1916)  Outbursts of Everett True (September, 1916)  Outbursts of Everett True (December, 1916)  Outbursts of Everett True (February, 1917)  Outbursts of Everett True (April, 1917)  Slammy may be gone but his posts are still with us. Some Guy TT fucked around with this message at 08:59 on Jul 14, 2020 |
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Manuel Calavera posted:One Big Happy
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Poil posted:A coming out party? Have I missed something important or does it mean something completely different? "Coming out" refers to the process of being introduced to society. It was originally used in the context of introducing young women into society when they reached marriageable age, and was later adopted to refer to young people joining the gay community. In the case of this strip I really don't want to speculate on what the hell the writer was thinking.
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Poil posted:A coming out party? Have I missed something important or does it mean something completely different? It's for when a young person is about to start their career as a model. I've heard of it more for teenagers than little kids though, not that I've heard of it happening very much at all. A friend of a friend had one back in high school is about the sum total of my familiarity of the practice.
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NRVNQSR posted:"Coming out" refers to the process of being introduced to society. It was originally used in the context of introducing young women into society when they reached marriageable age, and was later adopted to refer to young people joining the gay community. Some Guy TT posted:It's for when a young person is about to start their career as a model. I've heard of it more for teenagers than little kids though, not that I've heard of it happening very much at all. A friend of a friend had one back in high school is about the sum total of my familiarity of the practice. 
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On the other hand, "'coming out' and 'being gay' is a fad for spoiled children" is also completely in line with the strip's brand.
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But if she was gay why would she need a boy date? So she could spurn him and dance with a girl instead?
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honestly I'm so used to this strip being dogwhistle rightwing that I didn't even think about whether it made internal sense, which it rarely does anyway, I just filed it under "Detorie's usual bullshit" and moved on
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Surgeon's Tales In 1700 Saint Petersburg, nowadays Europe's fourth largest city, didn't exist. That area, Ingria, had been under Swedish control for over 80 years and was populated largely by various Finnic peoples, many of them new settlers.  Yes, the kings of Sweden, Denmark and Poland (as well as the duke of Holstein, who appeared earlier) were all grandchildren of Frederick III of Denmark (and none of them were siblings). Naturally this meant that there was an eternal peace. Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake  Man in Black   
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I keep waiting for Man in Black to run out of gags but he doesn't and they're fun every time.
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Some Guy TT posted:Huh. It's real, and continuing today. Any chance you or someone else could post these, at least until the story arc's over? I can tell it's not easy, given that you posted the black and white version rather than the color one on Comics Kingdom which can't be easily swiped. I don't want to cut Ghostlight's grass, but until they take it :   The comments on GoComics are just as you'd imagine them to be. Resident Idiot fucked around with this message at 12:37 on Jul 14, 2020 |
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Man that Mr Boop is sure lucky he got to be in a coma so he could have that incredible dream.
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Look, That Rabbit's Got a Vicious Streak a Mile Wide! Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 7/13/00  Brenda Starr 12/14/41   That's right, Brenda has been viciously beaten by a crook, but what really gets her dander up is being called ugly.  Smokey Stover 7/19/36 
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Well that certainly took a turn.
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 King Aroo 1/18/54  They'll Do It Every Time 1/20/47  Mopsy 1/30/43 
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EasyEW posted:At the risk of working someone else's territory, here''s The Outbursts of Everett Flu. Word for word what the anti-maskers say a hundred years later.
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Smokey Stover chugging down that Banana Boat like it’s fine wine.
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Does anyone have any dates on those Everett True comics?
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For the ones I posted anyway the guy who uploaded them appeared to have access to all of them. I imagine if you went through his posts one by one and counted manually when he switched to a new month you could figure out the exact day of publication.
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Lodin posted:It strikes me as unrealistic that a children's school cafeteria would leave salt shakers on the tables. I guess Susie keeps one in her lunch box? Back in my day (60s-80s), we had them. The cafeteria folks actually made the food from scratch, too. 
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