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fondue posted:That was abrupt. I was hoping to find out what happens with Lunker. He'll find something.
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EasyEW posted:
It's funny, but until this Out Our Way, I was under the impression that the "Worry Wart" kids' mother was dead. So many of the cartoons depict either Worry Wart fussing over his younger brother, or being fussed over by their older brother, and there's never a suggestion of a mother (or older sister) around to feed, dress or bathe them, or at least the toddler. I was even going to put forward that idea to see if I was the only one who read it that way. Oh, well! (My new headcanon is that she works outside the home, like my great-grandmothers did in the thirties.)
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My vote for a gang tag is Aldo Kelrast coming through the bushes, but I'm old school. Speaking of Aldo, check out this article on CNN about his death. quote:(CNN) -- This is a splendid weekend for entertainment. Three notable movies -- "Flags of Our Fathers," "The Prestige" and "Marie Antoinette" -- are receiving wide openings. The World Series begins. And a DVD of "SCTV's" early years is due out Tuesday.
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The Bloop posted:I really think the answer is to do something like this: This is my favorite
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Johnny Walker posted:
Oh. Oh, wow. Words fail me. (Can I be tagged, or do I have to get jumped in?)
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Thank you for the gang tag, How Wonderful!. I'm genuinely happy to be part of this gang and this thread.Selachian posted:"Doc's Nuclear Coffee" is an in-joke that migrated from the Gocomics comments into the actual strip, which you don't see that often. But yeah, be prepared for lots of "Adam is a coffee junky" jokes. Rob Harrell is just the illustrator for the comic. The writer and original artist is Brian Basset, the creator and artist for "Red and Rover." Originally the comic was called "Adam," and the main character used to work in an office before he became a writer; as I recall, it was still pretty bland. I believe that Harrell came on the same time the name was changed to "Adam@Home;" he was brought on so Basset can focus on "Red & Rover."
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fondue posted:Seeing The Far Side return really makes me miss Kliban. Well, by all means, please 
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catlord posted:Funky Winkerbean poisons everything it touches. New thread title, please
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Tiggum posted:Did... did she just make her school-age children pay for their own dinner? I don't actually think that's a bad thing, though? They've got food in the house that they don't have to pay for, so if they want to splurge instead, they can pay for it. My siblings and I had to cook for ourselves/each other sometimes when we were that age, and sometimes we pooled our allowance money and get pizza or take-out. It's not traumatizing to order and pay for your own pizza when you're a child. Actually, it's awesome at that age: you get to choose your dinner, you get to place an order and be all grown-up, you get to pay for it with your own money like a real adult, the adults (and teenagers) in this whole transaction talk to you like you're another adult, and there's pizza at the end. Der Shovel posted:jfc Zelda is awful Agreed, everyone in this comic is dogshit and it's not funny.
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Hwurmp posted:so Zelda and Boy Zelda's terribleness is absolutely intentional Obviously, but is the terribleness of the comic itself intentional?
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Professor Wayne posted:So their humanity outreach plan is to let people know they can totally gently caress mermaids? You've been on DeviantArt before, right?
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Some Guy TT posted:Cheer Up Boss Dharma How do we make this a law?
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Chef Bourgeoisie posted:Bloom County Steve still smoking while he's eating kills me
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My Lovely Horse posted:Secondly, one of you Americans please explain the difference between Jesus and Baby Jesus that apparently exists in your particular theology. There isn't one, some people just like Baby Jesus, he's less preachy than Grown-Up Jesus. Also, this is a child praying, it's a Kids Say the Darnedest Things comic (I have an effort post in me somewhere about the elevation of Christmas in American Christian culture, the gist of which is that a lot of the blame lies in Protestant influence and capitalism; this brought about heightened popularity to iconography of the Nativity and infant Jesus, and that image has thus influenced the early religious education of countless children, so it's natural that Ruthie would both latch on to Baby Jesus and confuse him for a separate being.)
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My Lovely Horse posted:I feel like there's another level to it. Ruthie is custom-tailored to appeal to a very specific focus group (insufferable old people), so this Jesus/Baby Jesus thing must be something that reaffirms and conforms to their world view and doesn't register as odd. There really isn't. Children like babies and relate to them; Jesus's birth is a major part of Christian theology; Christmas is Jesus's birthday; Christmas is children's favorite holiday; children receive presents on the day we celebrate Jesus being born; there are shitloads of Christmas cards and Nativity scenes portraying Jesus as an infant; people often refer to him as Infant Jesus or Baby Jesus when they explain the Nativity/Christmas to children; children pick up on that naming convention and interpret it how they will; old people find it wholesome and charming. Christmas Jesus is much more child-friendly than Easter Jesus. Try explaining death to a six-year old, let alone resurrection and the redemption of Mankind's sins, and that they are personally responsible in part for Jesus's horrible death. It's a lot easier to start with Baby Jesus and Christmas. And remember that this is a comic strip about a six year-old praying; there's not as much to read into it as you may think. I used to think that the box that held communion wafers had the literal Body of Christ in it, specifically one of Jesus's hands. (Why, yes, I am Catholic, how could you tell?)
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Wow, nobody posted last Sunday's Blondie nightmare fuel? (Including me, I saw in GBS.)
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Some Guy TT posted:The other part of this storyline that really bugs me is that she's reading a book at all. Kids don't like reading books, and the Godfather specifically is a book that's not very easy to find. It's famous mainly for being a movie. Which any halfway clever kid could find on the Internet pretty easily just because it's old. Lots of kids like to read, what are you talking about?
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curtadams posted:Wait, Essential jumps straight from 37 to 44? Do I have a lot of scanning to do? I'd like to at least see the ones about Toni and Clarice, I need closure! Re: "Jane's World," if I remember right, its greatest flaw was that it was boring
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LazyQ posted:tl;dr - translating is hard It's greatly appreciated, I hope you know. Everyone who's posting non-English strips and providing translations and commentary, you're all awesome
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amigolupus posted:I love how King Arthur invited Val to tell them about Saxons and instead he started drawing on their walls and jumped onto the table and tracked mud on that fancy tablecloth. No wonder King Arthur was all "ughh, you again?" when he saw him. I get the feeling that Arthur loves Val's antics, but is realistic about how chaotic the kid is. All of his reprimands about making noise and ruining the floor were jokes, too
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Drimble Wedge posted:Scary Gary Guest-written by Lynn Johnson's son (Seriously loving brutal) Crowetron posted:I would absolutely buy the pig shirt. It's not an exact match, but this one's close and pretty stylish
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Mister Olympus posted:I still don't get it The Mystery Teens aren't going to attend their school after this year, because the tunnel's opening has changed, among other things, the two school districts and which students will go where. Thus the school won't have enough students in the higher grades to justify having those classes. The kids are going to be split up thanks to Mildred's meddling. You know what, she's still my favorite.
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Some Guy TT posted:I understand this reasoning in the abstract but in practice I can't quite figure out why opening the tunnel would change any of this when presumably there are the exact same number of students living in the same place they were before the tunnel was opened. Like, do British schools have some kind of weird formula that takes travel routing into account when assigning children to districts? If Tackleford and Wendlefield are small and remote enough, it would possibly be more practical to combine them into one school district now that the tunnel is opened. Several towns forming one school district isn't unheard-of, especially in rural areas. Remember that people live on/near borders; there are bound to be Tackleford kids who live closer to Wendlefield than Griswald's, and vice-versa. Only in this case there wasn't enough of the vice-versa to justify keeping the two highest grades at the school. Residency is the biggest consideration when it comes to school districts, but it's not the only one. I know a couple people who attended school in different districts for that exact reason: they lived like two miles from the next town's high school and thirty miles from theirs. (That school district covers over 80 square miles, and it starts about two miles from one of the high schools in my hometown.) Plus districts retool themselves all the time; I went to a different high school than my older brothers, even though we didn't move, because the school board did some voodoo and recalculating. Plus stuff like switching districts to avail of special education programs. Tl; dr: school districting is a land of contrasts
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Alhazred posted:Zelda I have to admit, "Zelda" is winning me over, now that it's over the initial rough early days.
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howe_sam posted:I love this mode of Far Side joke, so smart and dumb at the same time. But that's the wrong type of wicket isn't it? I don't think the kind of wicket matters, as long as it's a sticky one
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curtadams posted:You could make that work in English with "Well ok... if the car is up for it." The peculiar delight of Finnish ambiguity is that pretty much every single word is a homonym, 50% of the time with more than two meanings, and 90% of the time they refer to genitals
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Samovar posted:Oh geez. Times have changed, and for the better. People touching your hair/make-up is a timeless nuisance
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How Wonderful! posted:Dykes to Watch Out For #42 (1988) Mo doesn't strike me as a Monica. Maybe a Maureen Ghostlight posted:Majinaughey 
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BigDave posted:Edit: also, as someone who's cared for a terminally ill loved one, it is NOT this clean and easy. There should be some screaming and blaming each other for not getting the right kind of ice cream, or Les should put his fist through a wall in frustration at how he can't do anything. To be fair, the comic also skips over the horrible things that happen to your body as it starts shutting down, so I can give it a pass on skipping fights and breakdowns, too Edit: I'm reading the 2018 comic thread since I missed that one, and this is a fantastic post/avatar combo: Discendo Vox posted:1. Best time is Wednesday at approximately 10 AM. Minimal foot traffic, prior to deposit. The vault's most likely open for receipt then. The guard on a reduced schedule is more likely to have a medical condition. That said, you need to know when the vault's open. You got to hit them during a count or deposit round, or you're getting a few thousand from the night deposit, tops. The rest of this assumes you're hitting while the vault's open, the poo poo's out of its boxes, and that it's a low traffic period. Sailor Cat fucked around with this message at 01:29 on May 17, 2020 |
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BigDave posted:I'm usually good at picking up on the A+J subtext, but this one I just don't get. He doesn't always pay attention to things she says, and is trying to cover up that he forgot that she even has a bad knee
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Powered Descent posted:Lucky for them, adopting a kid is as simple as adopting a kitten! There's no red tape or expense or bureaucracy involved at all! Yeah, who are this kid's current guardians? Because it ain't these people, they don't even know him. I thought at first that the family had been doing visits and overnights with the little kid before taking the step of fostering him, but nope, they just showed up like, Where all the homeless kids at?  I don't expect a comic strip writer and artist would be intimately familiar with the US foster care and adoption systems, but it's not like researching the basic process is that hard. Jams probably thinks orphanages are still a thing and adoption is an easy-peasy thing to do
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curtadams posted:Later in the strip Ginger is commuting to Buffalo, which pretty much means they have to be somewhere in upstate NY, although around Erie in Pennsylvania is possible too. In my mind I've always had upstate NY, although I can't think of any specific in-comic references to establish that. Since Bechdel is from Pennsylvania originally maybe around Erie would make more sense. Ahem, but Buffalo is Western New York, not upstate. "Upstate" means everything east of the Southern Tier 'round these parts. (That may not be technically correct, but we're not Albany/Utica: we have good ol' fashioned hamburgers here, not steamed hams. And all of government stuff says WNY)
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Kennel posted:
I want to make t-shirts of this exact panel for everyone I know
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Some Guy TT posted:Cheer Up Boss Dharma This is, no lie, one of my arguments against fast food CEO's and such being paid so highly, especially compared to the regular workers: you could replace them with dogs and not see much of a difference for a long time, but everything would immediately fall apart without human cooks and cashiers.
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computer angel posted:I recall reading that Larson recieved quite a lot of criticism about this one from parents when it ran in the paper. It owns though, the look on the witch's face is priceless. My favorite part is that the parents are exasperated because the witch ate both kids, like one is understandable but eating both is just being greedy edit: amigolupus posted:Yeah, because 6-year-olds tell their mom they have sexy legs to cheer them up. Brooke seems like he's able to hide his grossness in classic 9CL, but then you get poo poo like this to remind you it's always been there the whole time. Not to defend Brooke, but Edda and Amos are about 13 years old, not 6 Sailor Cat fucked around with this message at 05:46 on May 29, 2020 |
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Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons The mother from The Tinkersons is a depressed and unemployed alcoholic (essay forthcoming)
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:this is like the fourth comic in a row where tinkmom is talking about wine. I was only kind of kidding when I said the mother from The Tinkersons is a depressed and unemployed alcoholic
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