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The Perishers (1983)  Beau Peep (1986)   (By virtue of the fact that I now keep the collections in the same place I have a working scanner, I'm going to try to be more consistent about posting these this year).
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readingatwork posted:Calvin and Hobbes (Nov 28-29, 1986) I've always really loved Hobbes' grin in this one. The Perishers (1983)   Beau Peep (1986)  
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Zinkraptor posted:The reason is that that the woman was sitting in the wrong spot - you see, women are supposed to sit with their backs to the wall in restaurants, and the couple had it the wrong way around, proving their deception. There used to be a whole bunch of weird etiquette involving men and women, like when walking down the side of the street the man had to be closest to the middle, and what's more you should walk up the right side of the street so the woman would be on the right, as that was the more honoured position. It persisted long enough that I'd occasionally be corrected on it by my teachers (growing up in the UK in the 70s/80s). And I've noticed such things do tend to show up in older mystery fiction, perhaps because it can indicate something or someone is Not Right in a subtle way. I think my favourite is a minor plot point in a Dorothy L. Sayers story where a murdered gentleman's laces are tied in a lazy bow, indicating that his shoes must had been put on later by the murderer, because his valet would never have tied his laces in such a way. (I'd never heard of a lazy bow before reading the story, and on looking up what it was I suddenly realized why my laces would never stay tied).
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Selachian posted:Huh. I always heard the rule was that the man should walk on the outside, closest to the curb, so the woman would be protected from any splashes if someone rode/drove through street mess too fast. Yeah, I probably wasn't clear, the man should always be on the street side of the woman. The reason that you'd walk on the right side of the street was so that you could do that and be on the left of the woman. And the reason for being on the left, as was explained to me, was so that your sword, which would be scabbarded the left side of your belt, wouldn't get tangled with the woman's skirts if you had to draw it to protect her from a ruffian. Pointing out that (a) I didn't wear a sword, and (b) If I did I would wear it on the right since I'm left handed, cut no ice with my teachers.
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Tiggum posted:The plot of Cats is very straight-forward and easy to explain. The cats are competing in a talent contest, but the evil cat is cheating by kidnapping the other contestants. There's a lot about it that's weird and hard to explain, but the plot is easy. When the trailer for the movie came out and everyone crowed about it I was nonplussed. Like, have you ever seen a production of Cats? It looks pretty much exactly like that. I've not seen the movie but as far as the plot goes, well, it's stitched up from a bunch of Eliot poems by Andrew Lloyd Webber:  Of course it doesn't make much sense. Have you ever seen Jesus Christ, Superstar? If you didn't already know the story you'd have no idea what was going on. Anyhow. The Persishers (1983)   Beau Peep (1986)  
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Zereth posted:Are... are you trying to defend Cats? No, not really trying to defend it. I was more that I thought everyone already knew that ALW's stuff (and Cats in particular) tended to the freaking weird, so some of the reaction I saw to the movie surprised me. Just a bad assumption on my part. That said, if you have the ability to see a decent production of Cats (I saw the Broadway tour quite recently), it's worth watching for the utterly barmy spectacle of the thing.
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Bruceski posted:Yeah, it can be a big ol' mess. My parents had to deal with that a few years back when the neighbor's tree fell over and broke a fence and some plants, and that was with both parties cooperating and just trying to figure out the insurance forms and reimbursement. "When you hire guys to clean up the part on your side, can they take care of the part on our side too or do we need to hire them separately and you pay us back" sort of thing. Then there are issues with a healthy tree such as branches/fruit overhanging a property line, blocked views in places where people pay way too much money without thinking about how things will grow in ten years, general cleanup from fall leaves, plenty of fodder for folks who already don't get along to explode into a legal brawl. There's even a cartoon for it: 
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Guest artist: Brooke McEldowney. The Bloop posted:And it flies! Maybe it's an air/raft.
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Nenonen posted:For those who are unacquainted with the history of coastal communities in the Baltic and probably in many other places, a common type of piracy used to be to set fires to misguide sailors into rocks so locals could loot the shipwreck. This is common knowledge so forgive me for finnsplaining, but maybe someone here wasn't familiar with this trivia. I knew this was a thing in the UK, particularly Cornwall and Devon, because of the Daphne du Maurier novel (and Hitchcock film) Jamaica Inn, but I didn't realize it was also common in the Baltic and other places.
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