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Wanamingo posted:Nancy
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 23:02 |
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 23:07 |
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You have my heart for ever and ever.
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 23:08 |
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Scuba masks are for when you pitch face first into a puddle so that joke makes perfect sense.
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# ? Feb 25, 2014 23:26 |
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SubNat posted:
I've been away from the thread for a few days, so I kinda skimmed quickly. I might have missed it, so before I pull the trigger has anyone already snagged this? edit: also, caption suggestions? I was thinking of leaving the title blank and letting the image speak for its self.
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 00:52 |
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I was wondering why there was a mummy in that third comic.
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 01:29 |
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EasyEW posted:Rip Haywire Well there's something I never expected to see in this thread, much less in 2014.
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 01:54 |
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Borden fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Feb 26, 2014 |
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Tonight is a night of wonders.
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 02:55 |
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Tonight is GLORIOUS. I totally missed that, Random Ferret, you got me, and then Axe maniac and Borden, my god...this day should be screencapped for the op of the next thread.
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 03:59 |
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Juliet Jones Phantom Classic That's some earring Mr. Hog's got on there. Radio Patrol Rip Kirby Big Ben Bolt
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 04:15 |
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Dragongem posted:Argh, I want to like Rip Haywire but the needless dropping of restaraunt, pop culture, and et. al. references winds up annoying me every time. So that's what it is! I've always found Rip Haywire borderline unreadable because there's all this weird dialogue that I have no idea what they're talking about, and almost no explanation as to what's actually happening. So it's not written in code, just Family Guy. Got it. Comics (February 8th 2007) I just want to take a moment to say, gently caress registration titles. Heaven help the people who lose those in a house fire or something. La Cucaracha Doonesbury The Duplex F-Minus Non Sequitur --- Eyebeam Hahaha. Why am I not surprised that this has never come up before. Apparently Polaroid is shorthand for photography in Korean too.
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 04:57 |
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Gil Because it's the economical and thus most boring option. There's a direct correlation between the two. Retail Yeah, man, don't get on Cooper's bad side or he might fill your car with shaving cream or stuff your car keys in the vending machine or something. Also this strip has gotten incredibly boring without Josh or Mina around. I can't believe it took months of buildup to get to this and we're probably in for the long haul before anything actually happens. Bleeker the Rechargeable Dog You still have a couple more old filters to burn through. Dustin I have to agree. Why the heck would any city build a new library in this day and age? On the Fastrack I don't see why that app would be rejected. It's completely useless but that doesn't stop a million other apps from making the grade. Safe Havens She gave you permission to leave. You didn't have to jailbreak out other than scoring style points.
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 06:35 |
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Midnight Moth posted:Dustin In the case of my city it was because the old one was flooded out, rendering the building unsafe and most of the books destroyed, and people clambered for a new one. It's really loving nice and looks like something from a 70s scifi movie.
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Midnight Moth posted:Dustin It may come as a shock but there are people who do not have the ability to grab a Kindle and load it full of books. Libraries are great because they are accessible to any economic class. Support your local library.
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Scary Gary
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 07:10 |
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Seriously, speaking as a guy currently in a Master's of Library and Information Science program, there are many reasons we haven't dropped the "Library" from it yet. Libraries are extremely important due to their accessibility to anyone--e-readers and other technology are still prohibitively expensive to a LOT of people. Libraries also provide Internet services to anyone, which since that's still considered a luxury for some reason means they're the only way a LOT of people can get online. We're never going to have a completely paperless society, because the book as a device and a concept is a far more effective conveyor of information than people give it credit for. It's cheap to make, easy to use, non-proprietary in design. What's more, many books CAN'T be digitized because of copyright laws. Some older books could be digitized but the process is likely to be harmful to them, though that's not true in the majority of cases. I'd have to pull out my textbooks from last semester to get into the full nitty-gritty, I lost a LOT of information over winter break, but the long and the short of it is that the library is a completely invaluable public institution, particularly in terms of providing means of access to knowledge and learning to those who can't afford to be privately taught. Hell, to those who can, too! EDIT: Moreover, the library as a place acts as a social hub as much as it does an intellectual one--lots of people interact in libraries because they're a logical place for people of all stripes to go to. If you want an example, just go to any public library and watch how the place moves for a day. There's also the fact that information in a library will drop off at a much slower rate than information in electronic sources will. Some books have been on library shelves for fifty years--the Nook has been around for under five and might not last much longer. For an Internet example, archives can be deleted, people miss their server payments, and sometimes whole sites disappear. The Wayback Machine can't archive all of that (not that I think that's how it should be!), and inevitably there's going to be information loss. DOUBLE EDIT: That got a little out of hand in the first draft. Sorry; I get kind of passionate about libraries. Redeye Flight fucked around with this message at 07:26 on Feb 26, 2014 |
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Piranha Club Dick Tracy Nothing to worry about, they just replaced the tube t.v. set with a flat panel. Judge Parker 9 Chickweed Lane This is the same person who conspired to relay useless information during her spy assignment just so she could keep meeting up with her P.O.W. boyfriend. "Okay, but the only time I saw one of these shows performed, it was with a donkey." Piranha Club Well, at least Brooke finally has the right year.
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 07:25 |
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I have a reader, but I much prefer paper because the type is generally bigger and I hate how readers will abruptly jump a page if you click too fast. I realize this is probably a very "old person" post for a twentysomething, but it's true.
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 07:28 |
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Where's that one Hi and Lois?
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 07:30 |
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Mr. Maltose posted:It may come as a shock but there are people who do not have the ability to grab a Kindle and load it full of books. Libraries are great because they are accessible to any economic class. Support your local library.
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Bitchtits McGee posted:Where's that one Hi and Lois? Still one of the dumbest newspaper strips I have ever seen. I mean, it's like a Kelly cartoon. All that's missing is the crying Statue of Liberty.
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 07:38 |
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Midnight Moth posted:
Nice left handed handshake. Power move, Coop, keep the new guy disoriented.
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 07:48 |
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Mr. Maltose posted:It may come as a shock but there are people who do not have the ability to grab a Kindle and load it full of books. Libraries are great because they are accessible to any economic class. Support your local library.
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Midnight Moth posted:Do you also support print newspapers? Don't be a smug elitist. Librarychat, I wish my local library was open on weekends or outside office hours because I just can't make it in at any point, unfortunately.
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 08:12 |
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Pidmon posted:Don't be a smug elitist.
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Midnight Moth posted:I wasn't trying to be, but everything he said could be used as an argument to support propping up print newspapers so I was curious if he also supported that.
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Zereth posted:The government gives papers out for free now?
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 08:32 |
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Midnight Moth posted:Do you also support print newspapers? Dustin is dumb and makes dumb points, news at 11. For one thing Meg or whatever her name is can probably sign up for ebook loaning right from her Generic Tablet Device without so much as getting up from her chair (haha a joke she is a teen and therefore reads only Facebook and Buzzfeed). Aardmania posted:Miyamoto Musashi and Juliet
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 08:33 |
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Midnight Moth posted:I wasn't trying to be, but everything he said could be used as an argument to support propping up print newspapers so I was curious if he also supported that.
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 08:35 |
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It's so much worse than that. I don't need to go to the library to check out a book. I just download the app. I can have 75 books out at a time, and I don't have to leave my bed. But I take the bus to the library because the Seattle Central Public Library is loving boss. I could spend days in the map room alone.
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 08:39 |
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I just cannot understand that people do not enjoy being around and browsing books. You can't be at home all the time, so if you have some free time between errands why NOT look at books?
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Maxwell Lord posted:I just cannot understand that people do not enjoy being around and browsing books. You can't be at home all the time, so if you have some free time between errands why NOT look at books? See, I don't understand people who like books as things. To me a book is just a container for words. I don't care what the container is, except in that I want the most convenient form available. Usually that's an ebook, because I have a Kindle, a phone, a laptop and a desktop, so I can read it wherever I happen to be on whatever device is handy. I like browsing books on Amazon or Goodreads, because it's really comprehensive and convenient. Actually going to a library or book shop takes longer, is less convenient, and has a far smaller selection. I have nothing against printed books, other than the fact that I almost always have a better option available.
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My Lovely Horse posted:We're reading Everett True and Out Our Way in this thread; let's talk about that in 80 years and see if we can still dig up Heavenly Nostrils and Chief Dharma. That reminds me, uh, you might want to save the Dharmas yourselves if you want to keep them, because sometimes the computer I use gets wiped and they're all gone. Right now, for example, I only have them back to #1065. Give it a couple months and those originals will probably be dead too. The original translation files I mean, given that raw Dharmas are easy enough to find and any copies are identical to the original in a digital context anyway. Incidentally libraries are a godsend for crazy people like me who don't want to own computers or back up data. Not that that's where I am right now.
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 09:20 |
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Any good library should have a map room. Lose yourself in one. It's the best thing in the world.
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 09:21 |
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Tiggum posted:See, I don't understand people who like books as things. To me a book is just a container for words. I don't care what the container is, except in that I want the most convenient form available.
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 09:41 |
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gently caress things.
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# ? Feb 26, 2014 09:48 |
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I don't know if we had digital clothing I might be into that. If I could just buy a few plain white outfits to wear as a base and modify the digital coating at the push of a button without buying brand new outfits all the time that'd be pretty cool. I'm sorry I started this derail although it might make an interesting D&D thread.
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Yeah but then your favourite pattern gets locked because someone else is using it. "Finally springtime" you think, "I get to wear my favourite paisley pattern again" and suddenly your shirt reads "Unfortunately the period of use for Perfect Paisley has expired. Why not browse our offers in this season's top patterns, Pretty Much Just Polka Dots? Separate subscription required."
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