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SomeMathGuy posted:The Phantom Why is he white.
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Not 'Why's he wearing two pairs of glasses?'
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Sep 7, 2016 07:44
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Well he switched them so I guess he's too dumb to invest in a pair of bifocals.
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Sep 7, 2016 07:46
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Savidudeosoo posted:Why is he white. For those keeping track of nominative determinism in the Phantom, a dorje is a ceremonial club that represents power and enlightenment.
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Sep 7, 2016 08:15
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SomeMathGuy posted:Mark Trail You are in the vehicle rental business. If a man is wanting to rent a vehicle from you, and that man is admitting to a history of destroying vehicles he has rented, that is very specifically your business.
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Sep 7, 2016 08:15
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Six Chix Zippy the Pinhead  Nancy  Arlo and Janis  Andertoons  Pluggers 
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Sep 7, 2016 09:05
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Why is that poor child suffering from hair loss? Does he have cancer?
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Sep 7, 2016 11:56
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He was shaved for lice.
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Sep 7, 2016 11:58
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Aardmania posted:Heathcliff It's a weird thing to catch myself saying, but Heathcliff is so consistently good these days. Peter Gallagher just has so much fun with it; it's so straight-facedly surreal. Aardmania posted:Judge Parker I feel like Ces read the David Foster Wallace essay about David Lynch and is, consciously or not, hitting all the notes that Wallace pointed out as "Lynchian", like this, and the other day when there was that morbid aside about paninis. I'm not complaining; I like this strip and I like Mike Manley a lot, and Ces is giving him cool stuff to do. Tiggum posted:Lockhorns Please keep posting this, if you're so inclined; I know it's not a terribly popular strip, but I really dig the Hoest style of cartooning.
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Sep 7, 2016 12:22
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SomeMathGuy posted:The Phantom Ah, thank goodness there's a godfearing English Speaker to help Kit out. Also this dude is probably 100% in on the Phantom's secret.
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Sep 7, 2016 12:36
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Wanamingo posted:Six Chix if he tries to sell you yellow wallpaper, get the hell out of there
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Sep 7, 2016 12:39
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quote:And He Died. Between these two I went from  to  in under five seconds. Bravo
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Sep 7, 2016 12:43
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Green Intern posted:Ah, thank goodness there's a godfearing English Speaker to help Kit out. Also this dude is probably 100% in on the Phantom's secret. He's actually 300 years old himself.
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Sep 7, 2016 12:43
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SomeMathGuy posted:The Phantom Is this another Lee Falk cameo? There has to be a reason for the fourth-wall breaking look.
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Sep 7, 2016 12:48
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Intelligent Life Take It From the Tinkersons  Viivi & Wagner 
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Sep 7, 2016 13:06
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Julet Esqu posted:Luann quote:You think that you’re going to find one for under 200 dollars? Good luck with that. Maybe if you put and ad in the paper an older woman might let you borrow hers or even sell it to you. Her late or ex husband may have been a jerk and she’d want to be rid of something that reminded her of her wedding to him. Either way, good luck. BTW, where is the car? Has it been ticketed? Has it also been towed for ransom? Has it been stolen? Has it been stripped in place? quote:Up next: Brad has an affair, with the wedding planner :p (no, probably not quote:OK, so Toni believes that her aunt is still alive, but isn’t sure how to reach her. Presumably the uncle who left her the car isn’t in the picture. With her tiny family, I wonder if she’s thinking she wants lots and lots of little ones running around, or has her brother made her too painfully aware of all the responsibilities involved in raising a child? Have she and Brad ever discussed (where we could hear, anyway) how they feel about children? quote:IamJayBluE said, 1 day ago quote:amJayBluE said, 1 day ago quote:Mordock999 GoComics PRO Member said, about 23 hours ago fort knox  Flying Mccoys  Dustin 
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I don't understand that Dustin. What type of mouth breather does it take to have difficulty using a debit/credit card reader?
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Sep 7, 2016 13:31
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JaggerMcDagger posted:Dustin I've never seen this happen and in Finland we've basically stopped using cash outside private to private transactions. What I have seen are old people paying with cash and noticing it takes noticeably longer for them to get their payment done. Hell for things under €25 I can just hold the card against the reader until 3 blue lights light up and it beeps. Automatic payment done.
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Sep 7, 2016 13:33
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Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons "Did you wash your hair?" "Yes." "Are you sure? Because it looks like poo poo."
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Sep 7, 2016 13:38
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JaggerMcDagger posted:Dustin When he finds out about contactless payments, is he going to have a fit about them being too fast?
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Sep 7, 2016 13:38
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In the US they've just started rolling out chip and pin debit cards to major retailers. We're way behind Europe in both technology and infrastructure that it takes a good 5-10 seconds for each step of the process to go through. So the reader asks you to insert your card, then wait, then asks if you want cash back, then wait, then verify the amount is correct, then wait, then enter your PIN, then wait, then remove your card. Compounding the issue is some stores might ask questions in a different order or skip the cash back option or throw new questions at you like asking if you want to donate to a charity or something, so for people unused to them it's easy to yank your card out too soon. Unrelated to our laughable banking systems, how old are these Go Comics posters? You won't have the widest selection, but there's wedding gowns out there under $200 that aren't flour sacks or Carol Burnett's Gone With the Wind dress.
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Sep 7, 2016 13:39
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Comic Strip Megathread 10-2: Team Evans Continues to STALL His ‘Romance’ with Tiffany….,
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Mercury Hat posted:In the US they've just started rolling out chip and pin debit cards to major retailers. We're way behind Europe in both technology and infrastructure that it takes a good 5-10 seconds for each step of the process to go through. So the reader asks you to insert your card, then wait, then asks if you want cash back, then wait, then verify the amount is correct, then wait, then enter your PIN, then wait, then remove your card. Compounding the issue is some stores might ask questions in a different order or skip the cash back option or throw new questions at you like asking if you want to donate to a charity or something, so for people unused to them it's easy to yank your card out too soon. There's also the hilarious wrinkle of all vendors being at different levels of adoption if it their chip readers work at all. Lowes has their chip reader working...if you're using a credit card. If you put in a chipped debit card then after that 5-10 second wait it tells you to remove the card and revert to sliding it with the magstripe 
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Sep 7, 2016 13:44
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Mercury Hat posted:In the US they've just started rolling out chip and pin debit cards to major retailers. We're way behind Europe in both technology and infrastructure that it takes a good 5-10 seconds for each step of the process to go through. So the reader asks you to insert your card, then wait, then asks if you want cash back, then wait, then verify the amount is correct, then wait, then enter your PIN, then wait, then remove your card. Compounding the issue is some stores might ask questions in a different order or skip the cash back option or throw new questions at you like asking if you want to donate to a charity or something, so for people unused to them it's easy to yank your card out too soon. My personal favorite right now is Rite Aid. I have a debit card that also works as a straight Visa. If I insert it in the chip reader it says "no, this card needs to be swiped." So I swipe it. It asks me "credit or debit," I select "credit," then it says "oh, this card needs to be inserted."
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Sep 7, 2016 13:55
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delfin posted:My personal favorite right now is Rite Aid. I have a debit card that also works as a straight Visa. If I insert it in the chip reader it says "no, this card needs to be swiped." So I swipe it. It asks me "credit or debit," I select "credit," then it says "oh, this card needs to be inserted." Oh man I'm glad I'm not the only one who has to deal with this at Rite Aid
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Sep 7, 2016 14:30
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Okay, now that I understand the context maybe this isn't just Ed going through his "medium and large cup" routine. Here they have recently started using RFID on cards like HDS said, and I've seen people not knowing how to use them but that'll pass.
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Sep 7, 2016 14:40
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Man, here in China we've got chip & pin, contactless AND phone pay via QR code (vendor just scans the screen on your phone). Which would be the fastest way to pay except the person using it waits until the total comes up before retreiving their phone, booting up the app, getting lost, finding the right part of the app and only then holding it up to scan. EVERY drat TIME.
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Sep 7, 2016 14:49
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Nenonen posted:What type of mouth breather does it take to have difficulty using a debit/credit card reader? Customers. "OK, slide the card in and leave it in until it beeps at you" *puts card in, immediately yanks it out* *gets mad at machine because they can't follow simple directions* Byzantine fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Sep 7, 2016 |
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Sep 7, 2016 14:50
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The problem is that the system in the US kinda sucks right now and takes too long and people really have issues with the thing taking so much longer than it used to, I think. Still an improvement over when we had the slot but not the software and people would just wander up and shove the card in there and cause the whole system to flip its poo poo for like a week because someone kept putting the thing back customer-facing. Disconnect/reconnect, full reboots, nothing worked. It would just decide it was okay again after a week or so and then we'd have time before some jerk put it back customer-facing and everything flipped out again.
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Shugojin posted:Still an improvement over when we had the slot but not the software and people would just wander up and shove the card in there and cause the whole system to flip its poo poo for like a week because someone kept putting the thing back customer-facing. Disconnect/reconnect, full reboots, nothing worked. It would just decide it was okay again after a week or so and then we'd have time before some jerk put it back customer-facing and everything flipped out again. A store near me had a similar problem and "solved" it by putting credit-card sized slips of plastic in the slots that read "do not use slot".
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Sep 7, 2016 15:43
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I think I'm just going to assume the Fort Knox characters have no lower torsos. Half their body mass is in their eyes' ability to bug out.
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Strontium posted:Intelligent Life His Divine Shadow posted:Hell for things under €25 I can just hold the card against the reader until 3 blue lights light up and it beeps. Automatic payment done. Unless you're buying a train ticket, because everything about that has to be as slow and inconvenient as possible. Mercury Hat posted:In the US they've just started rolling out chip and pin debit cards to major retailers. We're way behind Europe in both technology and infrastructure that it takes a good 5-10 seconds for each step of the process to go through. So the reader asks you to insert your card, then wait, then asks if you want cash back, then wait, then verify the amount is correct, then wait, then enter your PIN, then wait, then remove your card. Compounding the issue is some stores might ask questions in a different order or skip the cash back option or throw new questions at you like asking if you want to donate to a charity or something, so for people unused to them it's easy to yank your card out too soon.  delfin posted:My personal favorite right now is Rite Aid. I have a debit card that also works as a straight Visa. If I insert it in the chip reader it says "no, this card needs to be swiped." So I swipe it. It asks me "credit or debit," I select "credit," then it says "oh, this card needs to be inserted." 
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Sep 7, 2016 15:58
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Tiggum posted:Oh my god, how do you have the entire rest of the world to copy from and end up with a worse system than literally everyone else? It's pretty much our M.O.  But yeah, nthing the "Dustin is actually somewhat reasonable for a change" on this one.
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Sep 7, 2016 16:23
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Tiggum posted:Is that actually a thing? You can go into the shop and just play with legos? Yeah, LEGO stores usually have little brick bins out and play areas for little kids. The one near my house used to have a downhill ramp and parts to build cars. They also have racks of Minifigure parts so you can build your own and buy them for like $12. I don't think they let you build any of the sets, though. Usually they're locked in display cases.
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King Aroo (August 15, 1951) Nancy (September 29, 1943)  Wash Tubbs (June 12, 1929)  Gasoline Alley (June 27, 1923)  Barney Google (June 28, 1922)  Alley Oop (September 27, 1933)  Lil' Abner (February 24, 1937) 
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Sep 7, 2016 16:30
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Kumaton posted:Yeah, LEGO stores usually have little brick bins out and play areas for little kids. The one near my house used to have a downhill ramp and parts to build cars. They also have racks of Minifigure parts so you can build your own and buy them for like $12. I don't think they let you build any of the sets, though. Usually they're locked in display cases. Tiggum posted:Is that actually a thing? You can go into the shop and just play with legos? My nephew loves Lego stores for this reason. And I love taking him there because then I can build Legos with him, and who doesn't enjoy that. But yeah, as far as I know, they probably don't want/allow a gaggle of adults to sit on child-sized stools and build a Death Star or something for eight hours. Stupid comic.
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EasyEW posted:Thimble Theater (March 26, 1930) It's hard to imagine how Popeye stole the main character slot from Castor after reading this arc.
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Sep 7, 2016 16:37
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SomeMathGuy posted:Mark Trail Guys I think Mark Trail has had some issues damaging boats in the past. I'm not entirely sure though, I could be wrong, so I hope the strip finally clarifies this over the course of the next several weeks.
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treasureplane posted:Lil' Abner (February 24, 1937) That isn't Abner in the last panel?
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