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| I enjoy reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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64 | 26.02% |
| I hate reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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42 | 17.07% |
| I enjoy reading historical newspaper comics. |
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88 | 35.77% |
| I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. |
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52 | 21.14% |
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"Hello, Dawn. This is your new mother."
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Nancy 1947 I had to look this one up. Portal-to-portal refers to the entire time a worker spends from the entrance of an employer's property, to the actual work site. (e.g. a mine) There was also the Portal-to-Portal act of 1947 which clarified how workers should or should not be compensated for work-related activities. manero fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Jan 27, 2022 |
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Jan 27, 2022 14:35
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Into Ilves  Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake  The bold text makes it look like they are shouting very loudly. Kennel fucked around with this message at 14:45 on Jan 27, 2022 |
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Jan 27, 2022 14:42
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Selachian posted:Bonus Ad! Selling cigarettes with dwarf judo! Something that always strikes me about cigarette ads is that they often talk around "Hey, isn't smoking deeply unpleasant? Don't you hate the sensation of inhaling smoke? Try our brand, it's slightly less abrasive than other cigarettes!"
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Jan 27, 2022 14:44
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We don't see Wilbur in-frame yet because he's still wearing one shoe and ripped up castaway clothes
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Jan 27, 2022 14:59
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I hope he's wearing a flowery lei and launches into a joyful description of all the fun he had on the resort island, totally oblivious to how horrible he is for not immediately contacting anyone to let them know he was okay.
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Jan 27, 2022 15:38
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Medenmath posted:I hope he's wearing a flowery lei and launches into a joyful description of all the fun he had on the resort island, totally oblivious to how horrible he is for not immediately contacting anyone to let them know he was okay. This is what I was anticipating How can he show up back home without having called anyone first - what a tremendous rear end in a top hat
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Jan 27, 2022 15:39
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Wilbur you're alive thank heaven! Lets not waste any more time, we're getting married right now!
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Jan 27, 2022 15:42
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The Bloop posted:Wilbur you're alive thank heaven! Next Up: Wedding Blues!
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Jan 27, 2022 15:47
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It absolutely won't be this, but it would be wild if it were Aldo returning for some reason
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Jan 27, 2022 15:47
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They will get to the altar and we'll get a runaway bride situation and everyone will cheer going phew, finally Mary talks her back into it and they get married for real
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Jan 27, 2022 15:48
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I hate this Mary Worth plot yet I can't look away. Also, that tofu tomato salad looks delicious but I might use basil instead of mint? I dunno, looks super versatile so do whatever you want.
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Jan 27, 2022 15:56
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El Spamo posted:Also, that tofu tomato salad looks delicious but I might use basil instead of mint? I dunno, looks super versatile so do whatever you want. Yeah I just had whole mint leaves on hand, so I used it for the photo. I took them off before eating it! I'm not sure what perilla tastes like so I don't know the best actual substitute.
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Jan 27, 2022 16:10
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He should have done it at his own funeral and introduced his new wife. Just gone full JoJo.
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Jan 27, 2022 16:13
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I won't be posting for 4-5 days due to vacation travel. Please ration these Jucikas carefully! Jucika "5 - Jucika on a Suspicious Classified Advertising"  "Pretty, 20 years old, Brunette girl looking for a man between 25-30, with a stable background." "6 - Jucika Grabbing Violets" 
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Jan 27, 2022 16:31
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Encyclopedia Brown has now taught me never to tell the cops if I've spent hours going south on Interstate 94. (Talking to cops at all would be my first mistake, of course.) And I was hoping Wilbur would take this opportunity to shed his old life, hop a freighter that's sailing for Johannesburg*, and start over as a  Bizarro  The Family Circus  * In the Worthiverse, there's a beach in Bogota (elevation 8660 feet), so yes, there's also an ocean harbor in Johannesburg (~300 miles inland). 
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Jan 27, 2022 17:28
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Storm P
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Jan 27, 2022 17:45
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Murdstone posted:No one can resist the lure of Mary Worth. Oh boy! Looks like my wish might become partially true! me posted:
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Jan 27, 2022 17:52
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I so badly want Duffman to show up in Mary Worth tomorrow.
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Jan 27, 2022 18:23
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Docks  Retail   Popcom (double Smitty edition)  
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Jan 27, 2022 18:23
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I've been enjoying the terrible Mary Worth storyline, but it's beginning to grate on me and I hope they end it soon. They don't have to resolve anything, just move on to another story and let this one simmer with everyone mad a Wilbur. Either that or rename it "Mary Worth and Wilbur Weston" and gradually work Mary Worth out of the strip like they did with Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. F Minus  Mark Trail  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  Apartment 3-G  I feel like we're not supposed to like this girl but she seems OK to me.
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Jan 27, 2022 18:45
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Medenmath posted:
To quote the inimitable Naked Snake: So, how does it taste?
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Jan 27, 2022 19:25
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I couldn't find perilla leaves so I chopped up some mint just for the photo. I don't know if it was worth it since I'm not all that good at making food look nice anyway.
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rannum posted:Next Up: Wedding Blues! Estelle: but Wilbur, we can't have a hazelnut wedding cake, you know I'm allergic! Wilbur: *hic* thish weddingsh off! *falls off balcony, lands in a pile of money and sandwiches*
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Jan 27, 2022 19:30
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Samovar posted:To quote the inimitable Naked Snake: Yah, seriously I have a grocery shopping trip either today or tomorrow and I might pick up some tofu and fresh tomatos to make a salad.
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Jan 27, 2022 19:32
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Bad Machinery
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Jan 27, 2022 19:34
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Haifisch posted:1979 comics
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Jan 27, 2022 19:44
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JethroMcB posted:Something that always strikes me about cigarette ads is that they often talk around "Hey, isn't smoking deeply unpleasant? Don't you hate the sensation of inhaling smoke? Try our brand, it's slightly less abrasive than other cigarettes!"   "It's only 8mg! Totally safe and won't give you cancer!" Powered Descent posted:Encyclopedia Brown has now taught me never to tell the cops if I've spent hours going south on Interstate 94. (Talking to cops at all would be my first mistake, of course.)  (for the unaware, I94 has a bend where it goes north/south to get around Lake Michigan. Pretty much the entire section in Illinois is that way.)
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Jan 27, 2022 20:00
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Samovar posted:To quote the inimitable Naked Snake: El Spamo posted:Yah, seriously I have a grocery shopping trip either today or tomorrow and I might pick up some tofu and fresh tomatos to make a salad. If you like tomatoes and Japanese soups you will probably like it. I like plain tofu on lettuce salads and stuff so that helps. Since I only needed a tiny bit of the broth I made some by mixing soy sauce, mirin, and some of the sake I was drinking, and letting it sit with some kombu that I later removed. It was sweet due to the mirin, so maybe I should have used a little less. There's probably lots of ways to adjust this based on your preferences. I also added the ginger and garlic from the main recipe since it was all going to end up together anyway. I think it might help to let the tomatoes sit in the whole preparation overnight.
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Jan 27, 2022 20:46
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Vater und Sohn: Painful interlude (46/1936) Staple characters of the traditional Kasperletheater, the German version of a puppet show that exists in many similar expressions across Europe, such as the English Punch and Judy show, include Kasper, the Policeman, the Devil, the Wizard and the Crocodile.
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Jan 27, 2022 21:28
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Haifisch posted:The 79 paper I use has a full page cigarette ad in a surprising number of issues along with some smaller ads. My favorite is all the ads talking about "low tar". I assume people were starting to push back against how unhealthy smoking is and the low tar stuff was companies trying to pretend their product is healthy and fine. Oh yeah, it can be startling to pick up an old magazine or newspaper and be reminded just how omnipresent tobacco advertising used to be in print media -- especially after tobacco ads were banned from TV, and the butt peddlers had to put their advertising budgets somewhere.
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Jan 27, 2022 21:41
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Haifisch posted:The 79 paper I use has a full page cigarette ad in a surprising number of issues along with some smaller ads. My favorite is all the ads talking about "low tar". I assume people were starting to push back against how unhealthy smoking is and the low tar stuff was companies trying to pretend their product is healthy and fine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(tobacco_residue)
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Jan 27, 2022 21:49
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Murdstone posted:The Phantom Ah, what a wonderful day where my father isn't dead! Good day, all! I hope that like me, your day has been filled with your father not dying!
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Jan 27, 2022 21:51
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Uramachi Sakaba  Which is a good time to share this one-pager:  Which is an homage to a famous series of kids' books with images of kaiju:  ChaCha Chako   Chako knocking the sun into a lake is referring to one of the very first Chako strips, which wasn't tagged nicely on Q-Rais' site so I didn't share it here. Night Visitors 
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Jan 27, 2022 22:43
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Haifisch posted:The 79 paper I use has a full page cigarette ad in a surprising number of issues along with some smaller ads. My favorite is all the ads talking about "low tar". I assume people were starting to push back against how unhealthy smoking is and the low tar stuff was companies trying to pretend their product is healthy and fine. Major scientific literature regarding the health hazards of tobacco date to the 1910s. This started getting into the popular media around 1952, after there had been enough studies to solidly support the notion and not enough wars to occupy the public attention. This is why filtered cigarettes started cropping up in the mid-50s - the tobacco industry was pushing hard to counter the emerging narrative that their products killed their customers. Government officials were pushing for modern-style indoor smoking bans by the 60s.
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Jan 27, 2022 22:49
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Emi PUNCH
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Jan 27, 2022 23:00
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Giant Ethicist posted:Which is a good time to share this one-pager: I was actually just wondering how her being a cyborg worked, since most of the other characters with cyborg parts have bits that look obviously mechanical. Can't fly huh... Maybe after she saved the assassin the owner will give her a raise so she can spring for the Astro Boy package. Thanks for posting this strip by the way, I have a thing for slice-of-life stuff with fantastical settings. Gnoman posted:Major scientific literature regarding the health hazards of tobacco date to the 1910s. This started getting into the popular media around 1952, after there had been enough studies to solidly support the notion and not enough wars to occupy the public attention. This is why filtered cigarettes started cropping up in the mid-50s - the tobacco industry was pushing hard to counter the emerging narrative that their products killed their customers. Government officials were pushing for modern-style indoor smoking bans by the 60s. It's depressing, but not terribly surprising, how long it took for those kinds of bans actually to happen.
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Jan 27, 2022 23:22
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Still Ongoing Animal Plotline
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Jan 28, 2022 01:07
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Medenmath posted:It's depressing, but not terribly surprising, how long it took for those kinds of bans actually to happen.  I feel like this is gonna be one of those things where kids will start assuming it was banned in like the 50s and be shocked when they find out otherwise.
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Jan 28, 2022 01:16
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Haifisch posted:And even today you still see occasional smoker mad that they can't stink up any space they want to. Like lead paint
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Jan 28, 2022 01:23
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Haifisch posted:And even today you still see occasional smoker mad that they can't stink up any space they want to. Tobacco companies really got their claws into China, India, and the developing world.
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