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Manuel Calavera posted:Bizarro This is just as bad as Mother Goose and Grimm or any of that Wiley poo poo.
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Manuel Calavera posted:Foxtrot The real twist is that the first ball was replaced after the first pitch of the game, and the boy must reconcile the fact that he didn't really care about the ball at all, but the ideal that the ball represented. Also one of them has cancer. Screenplay by John Green.
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Johnny Aztec posted:What does this mean? What does ANY of this mean?!
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EasyEW posted:
What, you didn't encounter 20-year out-of-date subculture stereotypes when you were in high school 20 years ago?
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Fingerpori New! Decorate your table / Table in Korean Pöytä is table. Korea, besides being a country or two, means beautiful or decorated. -ksi is the suffix for the translative case, denoting a change of state: "change to", "become", "into". "Make your table decorated" is probably the closest literal translation in proper English. Besides that, the translative case is also used for "in (language)". At any rate, despite its literal meaning, pöytä koreaksi is a common phrase that actually means to put a lot of good food on the table, not about frills or anything. If there's an English equivalent, let me know. Fok_It  On Palm Sunday (usually), there's a tradition where children (especially girls) dress up as Easter witches carrying willow sprigs decorated with colorful feathers and whatnot and (not unlike Halloween) walking from door to door exchanging a sprig and a prayer for candy. It's (supposed to be) done in remembrance of Jesus arriving in Jerusalem and being greeted with palm leaves. Despite this whole deal coming from an Eastern Orthodoxy tradition of blessing willow sprigs and giving them to people to bless their family and relatives, it seems to me like it took on some old pagan characteristics as it became the modern version. The prayer (more like a nursery rhyme, but still) I mentioned is more or less virvon varvon tuoreeks terveeks tulevaks vuodeks although there's some local variance. Virvon varvon is particularly troublesome to translate: the verb virpoa comes from virpi, a sprig, and it refers to the entire process of waggling the sprig in front of your candy-giving victim. I guess you could say it's something like "I spriggle, I spraggle"  . Tuoreeks... I loosely translated in the second panel.
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Tiggum posted:
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Julet Esqu posted:Phantom Classic
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The Sphinxster posted:Dustin files 1040EZ.
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Jane's World Weirdly accurate artwork on the street signs. Either that, or she shopped in photos because she didn't want to screw with drawing them? Non Sequitur  Well, not in this case, at least. Heavenly Nostrils  I've only done that with Battlestar Galactica ToS, before we had netflix, and back when SciFi was good, and they ran a 24 hour marathon. Kliban  Soot, I get it... but...  Their noses. Weird.9 Chickweed Lane 4/14/2003  Oh stop bitching you old bat. Zits  Oh come on Sarah, you've got to know that Jeremy's folks are old just like your own. Kevin & Kell  This "attempting to drop large objects on a poodle" is clearly not very effective. Why don't they just shoot her? Or, are there no guns in the K&K universe. Nemi  Whatever you said, Nemi, it must've been impressive, as you made Ofelia puke into her napkin.
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:
Huh. Musta shared that larva orzo recipe from earlier in the week. Cul-de-sac plans villainy.  The Creeps is in the midst of a story line!  Candorville gives you clyde, which I know you people like for some goddamn reason. 
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Cricken_Nigfops posted:Candorville gives you clyde, which I know you people like for some goddamn reason. Bloom County  Imagine how unsettling the garbage-man version of the Wonkatania trip would be.   again.Calvin And Hobbes   Teresa Burritt and David Stanford's Shoecabbage is a strip focusing on inter-lingual homophones. I'm serious.  The artwork of the characters in Jeff Harris' Shortcuts always made me think of the Vengaboys, for some reason.  And Jason Little's Shutterbug Follies is set in the long-ago days before digital photography! 
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I love Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz. The problems are practically impossible to solve without some sort of extra crazy knowledge, but I just love how Inspector Danger is so delightfully grumpy. He's all like "ugh, another case? I had tickets to the game tonight."
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The Sphinxster posted:Dustin files 1040EZ. This is probably it, he works jobs but doesn't have investments or property or anything complicated. Hell, if the temp agency is like the one I worked with, he just has the one W-2 and doesn't even have to add different things together. e: I procrastinated on my state and local returns because I knew I wasn't getting a refund and they took me about 5 minutes to do.
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Emmy Lou Heathcliff  Mandrake the Magician  The Phantom  Pickles  Classic Prince Valiant  
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Darthemed posted:Hey hey hey, don't put that on us. What's great is that this later showed up in the Simpsons. [quote="tiistai" post="428282514"] Fingerpori New! Decorate your table / Table in Korean "The [ethnicity] Table" is a common title for cookbooks, especially the kind with more photos than recipes. Maybe that?
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I'm getting sick of these Masturbatory Dog Comix. Pooch Café  Everybody likes a little attention from time to time. Ballard Street  He's not really asleep.
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Darthemed posted:And Jason Little's Shutterbug Follies is set in the long-ago days before digital photography! I've been reading this for a while now, and it's kind of like Jane's World in that there is a story going on and it's really hard to pick up because it keeps jumping from one thing to another. But without the time travel, aliens or flashbacks within flashbacks. GorfZaplen posted:The Phantom This is almost getting into Spider-Man territory now.
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Skippy gives us OBAMACARE.  (January 24, 1927) Peanuts gives us...oh, I dunno, Planned Parenthood? (April 17, 1967)  And speaking of abortions, here's Funky Winkerbean! (Wow, that was a stretch.)  CANDY KANE. These joke names from the old days are a real slap in the face from a strip that's pretending to be art now. Popeye: Anyway, continuing on the topic of things with a lack of relation...  Rip Haywire: And while we're on the subject of taking inappropriate pride in things that piss other people off...  Pogo: And while we're contemplating how sometimes you find out things in the worst possible way... (April 16, 1956)  Out Our Way (October 20-21, 1956) Furthering the theme of filling yourself with crap in the great outdoors...  ...and from here, we start another type of fire. 
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Manuel Calavera posted:Rose is Rose I've always thought of myself as kind of a boring person but every time they do one of these strips I say a little prayer of thanks that I'm not boring enough to think that putting some jalapeño on a sandwich is an act worthy of a 'badass' biker alter-ego.
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Tiggum posted:I've been reading this for a while now, and it's kind of like Jane's World in that there is a story going on and it's really hard to pick up because it keeps jumping from one thing to another. But without the time travel, aliens or flashbacks within flashbacks. Wrong, Spider-man is extremely boring. e. isn't!! Kennel fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Apr 14, 2014 |
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Kennel posted:Wrong, Spider-man is extremely boring. Let's not say things we can't take back!
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RandomFerret posted:I'm getting sick of these Masturbatory Dog Comix.  I scrolled down to read Pooch Cafe first and all I could see of Ballard Street was the squirts and the hunch of the dog. That was very disturbing. vvv Seconding this. It was so weird and confusing at first, but now it's just charming and hilarious sort of in the same vein as Heathcliff. LtStorm fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Apr 14, 2014 |
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I genuinely believe that Ballard Street is the best strip in papers today.
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:I've always thought of myself as kind of a boring person but every time they do one of these strips I say a little prayer of thanks that I'm not boring enough to think that putting some jalapeño on a sandwich is an act worthy of a 'badass' biker alter-ego. Rose's "alter ego" makes me blindingly angry.
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Comics (March 27th 2007) La Cucaracha  Doonesbury  The Duplex  F-Minus  Non Sequitur  --- Eyebeam  It's All Right Chief Dharma 
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pienipple posted:Rose's "alter ego" makes me blindingly angry. Doesn't it look a lot shitter today than usual, Normally it's boringly solid, artistically. Momma  The title is incorrect: it is the unconsidered specificity of her order (ie "That's all!") that gives her son the room to just obey the letter of her wish. Also, some odd stuff from Francis.  The Doctor's crabby attitude makes me think that this is the 3rd time this week Momma's dragged her son to see him to satisfy her proxied hypochondria.
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I like to think Rose isn't doing the alter ego thing intentionally. Certain things just run so counter to her bland upbringing that she spontaneously creates Other Rose. Other Rose can eat spicy food. Other Rose can listen to loud music. Other Rose can talk back to her controlling creep of a husband.
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Some Guy TT posted:It's All Right Chief Dharma A candid representation of the entrenched xenophobia of modern-day South Korea. A startlingly frank cartoon.
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Wanamingo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz I feel way too smug about finally being able to solve one of those things.
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Some Guy TT posted:
Much like Out Our Way, Chief Dharma focuses on the lighter side of entrenched racism.
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Dr. Dos posted:I feel way too smug about finally being able to solve one of those things. I was able to pick the second guy as well because of the booze but I can't figure out how that makes him the killer rather than the odd man out 
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Raskolnikov38 posted:I was able to pick the second guy as well because of the booze but I can't figure out how that makes him the killer rather than the odd man out I assumed that his liver disease was a cover for him poisoning both their drinks.
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Some Guy TT posted:It's All Right Chief Dharma So am I reading this wrong, or were they terrified of that guy's dick in the bathroom panel?
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Tunicate posted:I assumed that his liver disease was a cover for him poisoning both their drinks. I thought the guy had liver disease because he was an alcoholic and wasn't going to stop just because booze was literally killing him. VictorGrunn posted:So am I reading this wrong, or were they terrified of that guy's dick in the bathroom panel? Yes, because it is huge. You're probably familiar with the equivalent stereotype in American culture.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:The Little King This whimsical lil' spoiled butterball is NOT afraid to get his hands bloody.
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Some Guy TT posted:I thought the guy had liver disease because he was an alcoholic and wasn't going to stop just because booze was literally killing him. I think the suggestion is that the liver disease gave the murderer an excuse to avoid drinking with the victim ... but there's no evidence the other two had a drink with the victim either, is there? Gah. Encyclopedia Brown was never this stupid.
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Luann That dress is going to look amazing next to Quill's loving purple plaid cummerbund Gunther made him. Apartment 3-G  1. Once again, A3G obstinately refuses to show us anything interesting. Tommie smuggled a live deer into a motel, but no reason any of us would want to see that. 2. Bolle's all like, "Hey, its that farm guy again. I guess that means this scene takes place at the farm. What motel?" 3. Good job sounding sincere with that apology, Tommie. Pros & Cons  Sally Forth  The Amazing Spider-Man 
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Selachian posted:I think the suggestion is that the liver disease gave the murderer an excuse to avoid drinking with the victim ... but there's no evidence the other two had a drink with the victim either, is there? Gah. Encyclopedia Brown was never this stupid. The "no prints on the water glass" isn't supposed to be nobody used it, you're supposed to insinuate "the murderer picked it up wearing gloves!" (because everyone drinks water with gloves on?), and figure out that the guy who can't drink alcohol had the water. It requires some very cheesy-detective-novel logical jumps and depends how obsessed you are with the genre conventions... much like every other Inspector Danger. The only real change is that this reference is only about 20 years old, whereas most of them seem to rely on you knowing that "Chinamen with long whiskers are always nefarious" and other ideas from Raymond Chandler-era novels.
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