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Professor Wayne posted:Pickles Is this the comic equivalent of "no infringement intended I do not claim this all rights to original owners" on a Youtube video?
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Tho.as and Marlon are in front of the tank. Usually that's more apparent since it's people standing while she swims, but acrobats.
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Apr 5, 2020 05:19
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Boots is the easy part, folks forget about the seven-league pants.
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Apr 6, 2020 01:28
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Julet Esqu posted:It's a joke, yes, but it's also true. It's amazing how many people think gloves are a magic shield that no germs can cling to. I had a co-worker I had to nag about it all the time. "If you touch something dirty with your glove, your glove is now dirty! If you touch a clean thing with your dirty glove, that clean thing is now dirty! You are contaminating this whole office!" He would just argue with me about it even when our mutual boss would interject that I was right. He got fired finally, thank god. I've had some flashbacks to my radioactive material training. It helps snap me into awareness; I'm usually a heavy fidgeter but when I remember that stuff I can stay aware of where my hands are and keep things under control. Then after I get home and cleaned up I shake for a few minutes to get all that pent-up fidgeting out of my system.
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Apr 8, 2020 18:07
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Chef Bourgeoisie posted:Bloom County https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8DWf-rSHn0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQPN3UKQM-U In case any young'uns don't know what a Pepper is either. Bruceski fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Apr 12, 2020 |
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Apr 12, 2020 03:24
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I might be remembering a different strip, is Mark Trail the one where the original artist died or retired and the new guy just traces old strips any time he can get away with it?
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Apr 18, 2020 03:30
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StrixNebulosa posted:That's basically every older strip now. Garfield's creator isn't dead but it sure is traced - no not even that, they just paste in stock garfields and speech bubbles. Yeah, Garfield's style can support copy/paste.
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Apr 18, 2020 05:54
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Alhazred posted:There really is an old jungle saying for everything the Phantom does. "Old jungle saying" has no timestamp. It counts even if they say it while laughing around the campfire tonight.
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Apr 18, 2020 21:15
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Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis Classic (September 15, 1998) Been there, done that.
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Apr 24, 2020 16:45
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Selachian posted:I've read ahead in the first couple months of T&TP, and unfortunately that guy in the last panel isn't a one-off. He ends up tagging along with Terry and Pat as a bumbling, cowardly, English-butchering comedy relief sidekick. And there's only so far you can stretch "Well, it was a different time..." What gets me is that there's this whole street of normal-if-stylisticly-uniform people like you'd find if a comic strip visited anywhere else, and then That Guy shows up. In a different time/context that would be the punchline.
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Apr 28, 2020 18:59
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Nestorix posted:That’s melancholic Finnish type of storytelling. No, it’s not funny but the humour comes from the human hubris Feels like what I remember of News from Lake Wobegon. E: pulled up a video to reminisce and this story could go straight into a Mämmilä comic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVY4UdHLJFA&t=604s Bruceski fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Apr 30, 2020 |
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Apr 30, 2020 20:35
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:Haha. 0->60 today! Reminds me of my first car, drove like a boat. I still instinctively wait for about a half-mile gap in traffic before making a turn.
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May 1, 2020 01:09
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth Tryst of the Magi
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May 1, 2020 04:56
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howe_sam posted:Jesus Christ. I mean, that's an amazing joke, but holy poo poo. Yeah, I totally didn't catch that as a kid.
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May 1, 2020 17:31
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Okay, as plans go that's pretty "drawing on the king's walls"-worthy.
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May 3, 2020 01:05
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The Bloop posted:It was funny at first, but since it turns out that sarcastic racism is actually just more easily deniable racism, it did far far more harm than good It's fun being Jewish when everyone thinks "repeating what Cartman said" is the same as "telling a joke."
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May 4, 2020 02:05
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Angular Cyrus posted:King Aroo 12/15/53 That comic consistently has the worst(best) puns with the best delivery. Bruceski fucked around with this message at 07:19 on May 6, 2020 |
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May 6, 2020 07:15
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gleebster posted:"I knew Tracy would let me stay. He loves putting me in positions where I can be threatened with violence by desperate criminals." "We're up to shady business we don't want the detectives to find out. Better try to keep them around."
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May 7, 2020 22:18
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catlord posted:I've noticed there's an awful lot of secretly using your friends for research purposes in this strip. I'm pretty sure variations of this exact same conversation have been had several times. Now, I'm no scientist, but I'm pretty sure that's ethically shaky, at best. I thought it was just me, I'm sure I've seen the "We got an 'A'" punchline before.
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May 8, 2020 05:15
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Kids with letter combinations?
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May 9, 2020 07:07
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Tiggum posted:Interesting choice to spend an entire page recapping a Roadrunner cartoon. This sounds snarky but I'm actually curious, was the RR ever openly antagonistic to the Coyote like this in actual cartoons? I just remember a lot of self-inflicted hubris.
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May 9, 2020 19:33
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It's the repeated "born thirty years too soon" caption in those strips that befuddles me. I understand the phrase to mean "ahead of his time" but it never seems to fit the picture it's with.
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May 13, 2020 18:49
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Kennel posted:Man in Black I really like the use of space in this one. For a single-panel comic there's still pacing for the punchline.
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May 14, 2020 15:31
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NRVNQSR posted:The promise was to scatter her ashes in Central Park. Which I'm pretty sure is illegal, as is transporting human remains on commercial US flights; he means they didn't check inside the bag at the airport so he got away with it. I know scattering at sea within X miles of the coast is the boring kind of illegal where it's part of standard ecological laws but nobody's gonna make a fuss unless you make a big deal about it. Don't announce what you're doing beforehand at the wake or post it on Youtube and they'll just shrug. And no, the funeral director did NOT tell us that and did NOT give those as specific examples he'd seen where people screwed up. Bruceski fucked around with this message at 16:02 on May 16, 2020 |
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May 16, 2020 15:58
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Julet Esqu posted:Jesus Christ, things really don't ever change, do they? Nope, they don't.
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May 17, 2020 21:43
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Green Intern posted:Devil is not impressed with the Phantom's splits. I used to do that to action figures.
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May 19, 2020 18:41
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Parahexavoctal posted:In this installment of Keeping Up With the Joneses, it's interesting that Clarice is offended by the idea of buying frozen meat. My family has an in-joke of "New Mexico fresh fish" after one server happily told my mom "of course it's fresh, the plane brought it in just this morning!" As for the time of the comic, flash-freezing started being a thing in 1929 so you could sell see an issue in quality for frozen meat even from a professional.
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May 23, 2020 00:18
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Johnny Walker posted:Yeah I think it is just an old-fashioned way of saying "do the right thing" that is unintentionally racist sounding. Not that casual racism is not found in Ella Cinders (I want to say we already had some but I don't remember what), just this is probably not an example of it. There was "if his face was as black as his heart he could do a minstrel show without any makeup" which all scans fine in context but is a bit of a collar-tugger.
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May 25, 2020 18:44
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riderchop posted:Monty Newton also calculated pi by hand to something like twenty decimal places because he was that bored.
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May 25, 2020 19:43
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EasyEW posted:Out Our Way (July 16-18, 1934) I grew up in terrain like that. Keeps ya sure-footed.
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May 27, 2020 02:07
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Selachian posted:This one deserves a bit of an explanation. Charles Schulz was scheduled to get a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Cartoonists Society on May 27, 2000, so NCS president Mike Luckovich coordinated with a bunch of strip artists to put Peanuts references in their strips for that day. And, of course, Schulz passed away before he could receive the award, which makes the tributes a little bittersweet. (I think there may be a bit of self-deprecating humor here as well, because Get Fuzzy, as a popular new strip, did end up taking Peanuts's space in some papers.) The Norm's "Will you all be here tomorrow?" "Sure, stop by any time." stings a bit.
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May 29, 2020 01:42
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Zereth posted:I forget why the human-universe counterpart danielle ended up in the animal universe, but going through the portal turned her into a rabbit, as it does. She eventually ended up falling in love with the person who'd fallen in love wit original danilelle, and they had a kid, which turned out to be human, because as safe havens shows, holbrook's lack of grasp on how genetics work is only rivaled by his grasp on how everything else ever works. Of all the things to jump on the guy for, "interdimensional species-changing portals don't work that way" is, I think, one we can let slide.
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May 29, 2020 11:08
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Haifisch posted:Toxic Masculinity: The Arc can end any time now. That's 40% of Boondocks, isn't it? Even when it's one of the kids skiving off chores it's wrapped up in that language.
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May 30, 2020 02:10
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Alhazred posted:Intet Nytt Fra Hjemmefronten I learned all my curse words from people who were told them in church for this same reason.
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PetraCore posted:I've never been a 'theatre kid' so I have no idea if the techie bias is a thing or not. I was in choir and vaguely remember doing backstage work was considered less prestigious than being on stage, but there were a whole group of kids that did tech work and set building so it's not like there was, like, a single isolated lighting tech. That said, I imagine the new author doesn't want to flood us with characters and is massively simplifying. I had some choir and limited theatre experience (was shanghai'd into doing Fiddler on the Roof because my mom and brother were already involved and they needed more men who could sing for the chorus), in my experience the tech folks didn't interact too much with the performers just because of where they needed to be/downtime overlaps, but were viewed with mild amounts of awe. "Oh wow, they trust him in the lighting booth!" "Leigh choreographed this routine herself? I can barely walk across the stage without a script." Small town though so it was folks we already knew, and the culture of the place definitely appreciated technical knowledge. Also I'm a massive nerd, so I personally apprewciated technical knowledge even above typical for the town.
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gleebster posted:Criminals in Chicago can be recognized by the fact that they wear unusually short scarves that barely fit around their necks. Criminals in Chicago can be recognized by being in Chicago.
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Manuel Calavera posted:One Big Happy That brings back some wonderful memories. My brother and I used to do that to freak out the solos. Some Guy TT posted:This one's really screwing with me. I didn't think the black stuff was water at first but then when I saw the boat I couldn't remember what I thought the black stuff was. I think I thought it was the sky even though it doesn't look like the sky at all now and I can't figure out why I assumed that. Low clouds? That was my thought.
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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD Xer Nagrom DM, half of Rex's job is stopping him from killing patients but the bureaucracy is too much to fire him until one actually dies.
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amigolupus posted:Put the mask on before you go out of your house, you stupid fucks. They were worried that their tenant had been killed in a cave-in.
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gently caress Holbrook for treating the pandemic so glibly in his comics.
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How Wonderful! posted:Dykes to Watch Out For #77 (1990) I don't know if he's come up before, but "Dr. Spock childhood" is a reference to Dr Benjamin Spock and his book The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. It was a paradigm shift in ideas of how to care for children, mainly contradicting previous ideas that babies should all be treated the same and forced to adjust to a "proper" schedule as soon as possible. Spock's book was more about giving general ideas of a child's needs and motivations at various stages of life and ideas of how to accommodate that, but an emphasis on parents trusting their instincts and changing ideas to fit the child rather than the other way around. I have no idea how the book is regarded today. So Mo is referring to a "textbook perfect" childhood in her rant.
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