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Aardmania posted:Zachary Nixon Johnson Well that's an awkward posture.
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Darthemed posted:And the Julius is pronounced 'yoo-lius', right? Yes. Julius Caesar pre-dates the letter 'J' by ~1500 years, before that 'J' was just an 'I'. The Spanish name 'Julio' is derived from 'Julius' and much closer in pronunciation than the English version. When Europe started trying to figure out how to use J people started just jamming it into Latin loanwords and names (junta, Julio) while English specifically forgot what they were doing and started attaching it to the 'dg' sound so you got words like 'jest' and 'adjoin' while occasionally J made it through with the original 'i' sound for words like 'fjord' and 'Hallelujah' when they were rendered in the Latin alphabet. Language is weird, interesting, and confusing.
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Aardmania posted:9 Chickweed Lane So, they're all dead, right? That's the only explanation for climbing out of ground zero of an artillery strike with nary a smudge on their clothing. They're dead, we can stop now. Hooray! Yay!! Indolent Bastard posted:Intelligent Life[/b] Haha yeah, like, "Star Trek"?? Whaaat?? Who even knows what that is?? EasyEW posted:Out Our Way (January 11-12, 1926) This on the other hand is great  plainswalker75 posted:Are they going to get turned into furries again? It's only happened once, it's just that Jane's World is caught in a time loop. That long ago edit combining Jane's World with "Shrapnel" just keeps getting more and more relevant.
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Pogo, in which Owl tries to give progress a quick boot up the backside. (November 12, 1956) Peanuts: Year Two (October 11-13, 1951)   
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Wanamingo posted:Nancy I'm honestly amazed that Gilchrist didn't draw a sightline so we could see exactly what Sluggo was shocked by.
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Indolent Bastard posted:Intelligent Life bubble wrap
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Wanamingo posted:Inspector Danger's Crime Quiz So rain never changes direction over the course of a single day. Just when you think this strip can't get any dumber, it goes and implies that aliens are real. It's All Right Chief Dharma  Colds are bad and the only people I ever see dress like that this time of year are girl bands doing outdoor performances. And I wish they wouldn't because just looking at them makes me feel chilly.
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oh, I get it. Didn't the strip place them somewhere near Sedona, Arizona a while back? That place is known for having energy vortexes on the mountains and healing energy everywhere and vibrations and other such hippy junk there's probably no point in trying to explain Jane's World though so 
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Some Guy TT posted:So rain never changes direction over the course of a single day. Just when you think this strip can't get any dumber, it goes and implies that aliens are real. This is a great dad joke.
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GorfZaplen posted:The Phantom "He's got brass. Now search him for steel."  drat, that's one hell of a good line. Almost makes me forget the whole planting evidence and snake amnesia plots.
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Wanamingo posted:Deep Dark Fears He's right. That does sound like something I would do. 
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I should probably take that given that this and Thunderdome are the only threads I post in anymore. Maybe later when I'm feeling less lazy.
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Dustin Professional stand up comedian Steve Kelley folks.  Safe Havens  It's also not blue anymore.  Why didn't she just dump one of her On the Fastrack  Isn't she the CEO?  Get a car charger and a portable battery pack. And a phone with a longer battery life.
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Emmy Lou Mandrake the Magician  The Phantom  Classic Prince Valiant  
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Tiggum posted:Do people actually call tooltips "hover explain", or is that just something Piccolo made up? Probably a few people, but not many. Tina's Groove  Family Circus  Rose is Rose  One Big Happy  Mother Goose & Grimm  Foob  Compu-Toon  Bizarro  Dilbert 
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Manuel Calavera posted:Dilbert NOT TED!!! Now Sally is going to have to find a new best friend AND a new husband.
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Skippy (September 6, 1927) Peanuts, in which Charlie Brown deserves it for once. (November 14, 1967)  Funky Winkerbean  He's going to try and poach you, Bull. Because nobody in the Funkyverse gets ahead without twisting the knife on somebody else downstream. Popeye  Rip Haywire, in which the plot kicks in again. Big time.  Out Our Way (January 13-14, 1926)   Mrs. J.H. Oppelt? Not a clue. Anybody?
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Wanamingo posted:Deep Dark Fears A BoI:Rebirth Cartoon.
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The boy has a string tied to his toe which can be pulled by other boys to wake him up early so can sneak out. Presumably he has been grounded.
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The boy has a string tied around his toe and trailing out the window so that his friends may wake him up in the middle of the night (without the noise caused by e.g. pebbles against the window, which could alert others in the house) to go play in a probably somewhat dangerous manner, likely involving the outfit and armaments piled near the bed. His mother, who has become aware of this arrangement, is concerned about his safety and wishes to ensure that he gets a good night's sleep; she is therefore about to cut the string in order to disrupt the plans outlined above. She is "holding her own" in that she is retaining her (own) child within the house, but also in that she is putting up a solid defense against the boy's clever attempts to sneak out at night. 
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Cul-de-sac That is a fine doodad. Poptropica Poor impulse control.webm  Heathcliff looks better on the football anyway. 
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The "sneaking out theory" is what I figured also. What was throwing me initially was that I couldn't tell if it was a kid, or an adult though. If adult, what would be the motive? Welp, Jane's World gets paraphysical today thanks to those whack-rear end energy vortices, or whatever...  Non Sequitur  You know you're fat when you can collapse a barstool. Heavenly Nostrils is current again. At least for today.   A unicorn spa in Canada? This'll be good. And "Unfortunate Nostrils"? Poor Florence.  Kliban's Cats  This needs to be real. I would so wear that t-shirt. 9 Chickweed Lane 11/11/2003  This must be pre-computer-keyboard, or pre-CRT times. Zits  Kevin & Kell  You guys sure are speaking whimsically about the creatures you will eventually kill, and eat. You should be happy they're fattening themselves.  So.. So you don't know Nemi?
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The Dinette Set supports animal rights. Working Daze tritely celebrates the holiday. 
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So for Monday and Tuesday, 9 Chickweed's strips have had absolutely nothing to do with the storyline. Dare we hope?
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Kammat posted:So for Monday and Tuesday, 9 Chickweed's strips have had absolutely nothing to do with the storyline. Dare we hope? Yeah, I think those are old strips. Maybe McEldowney's "futility of war" speeches in the preceding ones were too much for editors to take in the runup to Veterans' Day. Or, could be that the total laziness of the last umpty-ump strips just means he's trying to run out the clock on his contract with as little effort as possible.
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