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kidcoelacanth posted:For my money, Luann is the worst comic posted in this thread. And that's saying something when it has to compete with Nancy. Barney Google and Snuffy Smith  The expressions in that last panel are fantastic. You'd assume that Loweezy was joking except that she looks absolutely devastated and Elviney seems about to cry. Buni  Musta hevonen (Dark Side of the Horse) 
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Tiggum posted:Luann isn't terrible 100% of the time though. When it is bad it's worse than Nancy, but even then I'd say 9 Chickweed Lane and Pibgorn are easily worse. And there's also Monty, Mike du Jour, Non Sequitur, Zippy the Pinhead, Rose is Rose, Mother Goose & Grimm, Piranha Club... When it comes to awful, awful comics we're spoiled for choice. Luann's not on that lowest level, it's in the level above that with the likes of Dustin, Funky Winkerbean and Foob. Oh, god, no, Luann is way worse than Dustin, Funky, and Foob. At least those are readable and well-drawn, Luann is annoying and looks like garbage. The only thing that saves it from being bottom-tier is that it doesn't actively piss me off.
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Ema Nymton posted:Is that normal for service animals? A weather emergency would be a bad time for a service dog to have a freakout. It's FW. The dog has an incurable brain tumor.
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Darthemed posted:Ripley's The Hershey Process milk chocolate used in these bars is cheaper to make than other types of chocolate as it is less sensitive to the freshness of the milk. The process was developed by Milton Hershey and was the first mass-produced chocolate in the United States. As a result, the Hershey flavor is widely recognized in the United States and Canada, but less so internationally, in particular in areas where European chocolates are more widely available. The process is a trade secret, but experts speculate that the milk is partially lipolyzed, producing butyric acid, which stabilizes the milk from further fermentation. This compound gives the product a particular sour, "tangy" taste, to which the US public has become accustomed. So as I understand it, soured milk; yummy! 
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Darthemed posted:Ripley's There's something vaguely offensive about these and I'm not sure if it's the incessant otherizing of foreign cultures or that almost every factoid is the equivalent of the Van Halen M&M story people pass around.
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Indolent Bastard posted:The Hershey Process milk chocolate used in these bars is cheaper to make than other types of chocolate as it is less sensitive to the freshness of the milk. The process was developed by Milton Hershey and was the first mass-produced chocolate in the United States. As a result, the Hershey flavor is widely recognized in the United States and Canada, but less so internationally, in particular in areas where European chocolates are more widely available. The process is a trade secret, but experts speculate that the milk is partially lipolyzed, producing butyric acid, which stabilizes the milk from further fermentation. This compound gives the product a particular sour, "tangy" taste, to which the US public has become accustomed. I hear some people even eat sour cream, and there's apparently this stuff called "yoghurt"...
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Tiggum posted:I hear some people even eat sour cream, and there's apparently this stuff called "yoghurt"... OK smart rear end, go ahead and eat a Hershey bar, I dare you, I double-loving dare you; that poo poo is nasty. Indolent Bastard fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Jun 11, 2014 |
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Indolent Bastard posted:OK smart rear end, go ahead and eat a Hershey bar, I dare you, I double-loving dare you. I live in the US born and raised and I love chocolate. I'm a grown-rear end woman and I drink chocolate milk (1% milk of course) at least every other day and go through about two bags of Dove a month. Hershey's chocolate is godawful. Even a single Hershey's kiss is too much. You might as well buy Palmer.
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Aleph Null posted:I live in the US born and raised and I love chocolate. 
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Fingerpori - Ah, the Wildlife Agency people are counting moose from a helicopter - This one would fit well on this house's yard Laskea means both "to count" and "to lower/drop". Fok_It 
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Indolent Bastard posted:OK smart rear end, go ahead and eat a Hershey bar, I dare you, I double-loving dare you; that poo poo is nasty. You're getting pretty angry about someone else liking bad chocolate! Also, looks like "sundae" is just something totally unrelated that sounds the same. So.. yeah. Believe it or not!
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DoubleDonut posted:You're getting pretty angry about someone else liking bad chocolate! I'm a Canadian trapped in a land of bad chocolate. I grew up on British confectioneries, this American stuff is just so awful, and most of them love it so much. 100 Grand, Baby Ruth, Hershey's, it's not chocolate, it shouldn't even be listed as food. It is starvation time, "We already ate the dog, so we might as well try this stuff" food. I may be drifting into hyperboyle
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Indolent Bastard posted:I'm a Canadian trapped in a land of bad chocolate. I grew up on British confectioneries, this American stuff is just so awful, and most of them love it so much. As an obese American Poor who has managed to get ahold of actual chocolate from places the aren't the US on occasion, I can confirm that our "chocolate" is, in fact, disgusting trash masquerading as candy.
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kidcoelacanth posted:Buncha Harvard Chocolate Elitists up in this thread I see. I just keep a bar of baker's chocolate around and nibble on a square when I get a craving.
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Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD  Duh, stay out of Riverdale.
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kidcoelacanth posted:Buncha Harvard Chocolate Elitists up in this thread I see. As long as it has the blood of African children and a sprinkling of lead, it's good enough for me!
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Tiggum posted:Luann isn't terrible 100% of the time though. When it is bad it's worse than Nancy, but even then I'd say 9 Chickweed Lane and Pibgorn are easily worse. And there's also Monty, Mike du Jour, Non Sequitur, Zippy the Pinhead, Rose is Rose, Mother Goose & Grimm, Piranha Club... When it comes to awful, awful comics we're spoiled for choice. Luann's not on that lowest level, it's in the level above that with the likes of Dustin, Funky Winkerbean and Foob. Wait, what? Did Monty get really bad recently or something? I remember it being hit-and-miss at worst when I kept up with it. quote:Buni  This owns.e: Wanamingo posted:Nancy 
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann Why is Quill there??
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SALT CURES HAM posted:Wait, what? Did Monty get really bad recently or something? I remember it being hit-and-miss at worst when I kept up with it. I've always felt Monty was one of the better daily, US newspaper comics posted here.
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Humanoid Female posted:Why is Quill there?? Good question. I forgot he doesn't go to school with them anymore. I guess so did Greg! Juliet Jones  Phantom Classic  Radio Patrol  Rip Kirby  Big Ben Bolt 
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Monty's definitely one of the better still-running comics in this thread. The rich kid strips aren't great but they only seem to run for a week or two. Since I'm posting I'd just like to say that I'm enjoying the Rock N Roll History comic. The middle panel of the Frank Zappa strip is just wonderful.
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Well since something funny officially came out of it, I feel compelled to say that yesterday's Nancy was just a mild edit. Gilchrist didn't actually use the word thong.
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Now this is awesome. Monty is not. Monty sucks. Monty makes me want to punch something. Some strips are worse written, but I doubt any are uglier. Geech was solid black on May 8, 2000.   Finally, if you live near an Aldi, you can get good German/Austrian chocolate at Hershey's prices.
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy F Minus  Mary Worth  Rex Morgan MD  Cousin Oliver agrees.
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Aardmania posted:Judge Parker "For God's sake have you seen how brown their skin is!"
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These gag-a-day strips just kind of illustrate the main reason why Gilchrist is bad at Nancy. He doesn't get it. Bushmiller Nancy used a lot of silly sight gags and visual puns, but they weren't simplistic. They were always unexpected or surreal in some way or another. Gilchrist gets the "sight gags and visual puns" part, kinda, but he doesn't get what made Bushmiller's implementation work, and so he cocks it up every time.
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Aardmania posted:Dick Tracy Are we supposed to know who The Great Am is? And is he saying Dick Tracy looks like Alley Oop? don Jaime posted:Monty sucks. Monty makes me want to punch something. Some strips are worse written, but I doubt any are uglier. WuMo? Buckles  What?  Family Circus  Pluggers  What does grandpa plugger even think "tablet" means? Before they were computers the only thing I ever heard referred to as a tablet was a pill or a flat stone with writing on.
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