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Some Guy TT posted:Just a few minutes ago at the library I saw an adult and some kids trying to find a movie to watch (this being a movie library). They eventually settled on Iron Man, because it was something they had all heard of, though the girl wasn't happy. It occurred to me that, at a library where you have to paw through the stacks physically and look at lots of bright DVD box art, they would have been less likely to fixate on the popular pop culture reference. Digital distribution may theoretically have everything, but the reality is you're not going to pay attention to most of it because it would never occur to you search for weirdly specific stuff. Yep, as I said before, to me it seems more likely you would find a "surprise" book when you're more or less forced to browse through a bunch of them in search of something you're actually after. I mean, yes, I guess there is a "digital equivalent" like Youtube "suggesting" videos based on what you've watched before, or Amazon "suggesting" books based on what you've purchased, but to me it's not the same. I distinctly remember two books that I checked out, read, and thoroughly enjoyed simply because I stumbled across them while looking for something else.  A strain of bacteria, developed by man, accidentally released into the wild, THAT loving EATS EVERY TYPE OF PLASTIC EVER!!?? Just imagine all the plastic insulation on every wire, everywhere, suddenly being dissolved.  And this one:  Which I've read, like, 5 times and I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. It's an amazingly fascinating, addicting, and enigmatic story. Anyway, speaking of not being able to "wrap one's head around" something... here's Jane's World?  ? Non Sequitur  Aw, pour Eddie another shot, I want to hear how this ends. Heavenly Nostrils is still the 26th's. Kliban's Cats   Check out the wallpaper. 9 Chickweed Lane 2/27/2003  Speaking of enigmatic. What? Zits  I don't blame you one bit, Jeremy. I've tried Eggplant every possible way it can be prepared, and it still tastes like poo poo to me. Bleh. Kevin & Kell  Ah yes, the tree who talks through an intercom. So loving weird. Nemi  E: Oh, and Borden,  Borden posted:Yes. Beautifuly seizure inducing! 
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Zits But.. but.. moussaka..
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Feb 27, 2014 14:57
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Much love to Fok_It, which has rapidly become one of my favorites in the thread.
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My Lovely Horse posted:That's almost self-parody now. This makes as much sense to me as any other Jill strip. Midnight Moth posted:Safe Havens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlKZujGZi0I Momma's son presumably has a developmental disorder. 
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shmee posted:But.. but.. moussaka.. Ok, I'll give you that. But, in moussaka's case, it's the fact that the hummus component overpowers the eggplant. 
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Tiggum posted:Pluggers (Old men tend to lose the hair on their shins, especially if they often wear socks and/or long pants.)
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Skippy (December 9, 1926) Peanuts gives us escalating dread. (March 2, 1967)  Funky Winkerbean is doing planks today, which is appropriate, because he still looks like a stiff.  Popeye  Yep, another day of lynching babies without a jury trial. The missus doesn't even look me in the eye anymore... Rip Haywire  The Highwayman's a lot less eloquent when he's not menacing you in person. Pogo (March 1, 1956)  Out Our Way  
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My Lovely Horse posted:That's almost self-parody now. A flashforward to a flashback, I think possibly still within one or two layers of original flashback? In any case, a stunning achievement in permutation of chronology.
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Feb 27, 2014 16:29
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Endless Mike posted:If you want to annoy the bartenders, ask them to make you a Queen Vic. I had the pleasure of listening to a Real British Lady complain that the Sticky Toffee Pudding wasn't right, even though A)the owners are from the UK and B) it was delicious.
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Green Intern posted:I had the pleasure of listening to a Real British Lady complain that the Sticky Toffee Pudding wasn't right, even though A)the owners are from the UK and B) it was delicious. There's only one right way to make any british food and it's the way your gran made it. 'From the UK' includes an alarming number of the wrong kind of people.
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Non Sequitur This is insufferable.
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sassassin posted:There's only one right way to make any british food and it's the way your gran made it. She may have said something about her gran, actually. It was a while ago.
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Endless Mike posted:Cocktails have at least three ingredients. If there's just two, it's a mixed drink. There's lots of beer cocktails that are quite tasty. This bar here in DC has a few on the menu that are very good. Those all look like cider cocktails, not beer. I've only ever heard of one beer cocktail, it's called The Billy. Picked it up from some engineering students years ago, so it's explicitly designed to get you hosed up in a hurry. You take a pint glass, throw in a shot of rye, a shot of amaretto, an entire bottle of coors light, and then a splash of orange juice to cover. It sounds disgusting, but it somehow adds up to make a lovely little sipper with the alcohol equivalent of three drinks. Don't try to chug it unless puking up the first drink of the night was somehow part of your Master Plan Comix. Pooch Café   For those who came in late, here's the storyline that led to this: http://www.gocomics.com/poochcafe/2007/05/28#.Uw9mJoXLK8E Ballard Street   I do this sometimes. Both these things.
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LvK posted:Much love to Fok_It, which has rapidly become one of my favorites in the thread. It's odd how I used to dislike it in Finnish but now it has really grown on me. I guess the original version is an acquired taste because, unlike most Finnish strips, people are talking like in real life instead of using proper grammar. Translations also help to spot several stealth puns that make some Monkey Cheesey strips feel less LOL-Random.
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Bloom County And with that one incredibly weak argument, Binkley's new-found care for other life-forms is restored to the status quo.  Remember when soda companies could use celebrity endorsements in US advertising? Calvin And Hobbes   Cheap Thrills Cuisine  Geech is a strip by Jerry Bittle (who did Shirley And Son), and it features unattractive people, just like real life.  I remember loving this strip as a kid, simply because the art style gave the characters such a sense of personality. Aside from that, it's pretty much a slice-of-life strip, with story arcs generally topping out the drama at 'going on a fishing trip' (from what I remember).
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Cricken_Nigfops posted:The Creeps clogs EVERYTHING. It occurs to me that I don't think I've ever read a subpar Creeps comic. EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean is doing planks today, which is appropriate, because he still looks like a stiff. Oh, like it's worth it to stay fit in the Funky Winkerbean universe. Just get fat and die before the cancer comes.
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Ok, I'll give you that. But, in moussaka's case, it's the fact that the hummus component overpowers the eggplant. I find the trick to good eggplant, however you cook it, is to salt and rinse it beforehand. The salt leeches out most of the bitterness in the fruit, leaving a good savory flavor.
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It helps if you bread it, pan-fry it, and serve it with chunky sugo and gobs of cheese.
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Anyway, speaking of not being able to "wrap one's head around" something... here's Jane's World? I think that's supposed to be a Workman, though Paige got the central flap and pockets all wrong. Regardless, drat that's a fine Utilikilt. (I used to work for the company in their warehouse)
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Cricken_Nigfops posted:The Creeps clogs EVERYTHING. So good.
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GorfZaplen posted:The Phantom Oh boy, another crossover!
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:9 Chickweed Lane 2/25/2003 What chins??
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Fingerpori - The greatest leaders often spoke with their hands - Citizens Both "on their hands" and "with their hands" use the adessive case. Ho-hum Fok_It 
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Darthemed posted:Cheap Thrills Cuisine I can't get drunk at brunch on this!
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Modesty Blaise  They're really not doing this halfway, are they? The Home Secretary at this time was Robert Carr in Edward Heath's Cabinet. Two years earlier his house was bombed by the IRA, here's a news clip of him describing what happened https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsvxGwuRYAQ
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Midnight Moth posted:Retail does in fact have a fanbase who cheers for the main characters as deplorable as that sounds. The same can be said of Luann. It's really weird. Luann  I'm not a big tea drinker, but I like it on occasion and I know it's not dull. We've just had pages and pages about how cool libraries are, surely somebody who knows more than I do can come in here and defend tea's honor!  Nothing wrong with being a sensible person. Prefering to think things through doesn't doom you to become a Gunther or a Miss Phelps. I don't like Luann at the best of times, but today it's making me resentful.  Apartment 3-G   Pros & Cons   Sally Forth   Has Alice always been characterized as an office fuckup? I never noticed it before. The Amazing Spider-Man  Our hero.  
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Kammat posted:They're really not doing this halfway, are they? The Home Secretary at this time was Robert Carr in Edward Heath's Cabinet. Two years earlier his house was bombed by the IRA, here's a news clip of him describing what happened Your link says it was an Anarchist group called The Angry Brigade, not an IRA.
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann Lately I've been reading Luann backwards, right to left. I'm not sure if it ends up making the comic any better, but it makes it less understandable, so I'd say it's an improvement. I think I'll keep doing that from now on.
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Wanamingo posted:
Is anyone else looking at certain Wee Pals and thinking "I hope this is/is not the one he goes out on"? Because this would be a great one to go out on. Julet Esqu posted:
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Stultus Maximus posted:Feeling a little defensive, are we? Absolutely
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Julet Esqu posted:The same can be said of Luann. It's really weird.  Julet Esqu posted:
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Julet Esqu posted:I'm not a big tea drinker, but I like it on occasion and I know it's not dull. We've just had pages and pages about how cool libraries are, surely somebody who knows more than I do can come in here and defend tea's honor! If anyone badmouths tea I'll fight them irl Used to be I didn't like tea at all. Then I realized that there's a world of difference between squeezing cheap teabags into water that's been boiling way too long and proper tea. If it's dull you're drinking it wrong.
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