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Strontium posted:Fort Knox Every single day of this is two identical half-asleep faces looking at each other for three panels, and then one character "reacts" by raising their eyelids and having parenthesis shoot out of the sides of their head
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Old School Peanuts (May 21, 1951) Calvin and Hobbes (Dec 6-7, 1986)   Robbie and Bobby (Jan 12-13, 2015)   
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Surgeon's Tales The game they play is said to be "femkort och trumf", probably this [in Swedish]: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femkort  Nancy   Dustin  Mandrake  1997 Viivi & Wagner 
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Hey, that pig tries to barge in!
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readingatwork posted:Calvin and Hobbes (Dec 6-7, 1986) 
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Endless Mike posted:Star Wars is FAST AND FURIOUS Only recently jumped in on these strips so I didn't catch the start. Does Vader know that the spy is Luke? I'm assuming so and that he's wiped him from any database of wanted rebels. Otherwise you'd think that the guy who blew up the Death Star would be Bin Laden levels of infamous in the Empire.
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Lodin posted:Only recently jumped in on these strips so I didn't catch the start. Does Vader know that the spy is Luke? I'm assuming so and that he's wiped him from any database of wanted rebels. Otherwise you'd think that the guy who blew up the Death Star would be Bin Laden levels of infamous in the Empire.   
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Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis To answer Arlo's question, Betelgeuse is over 600 light-years away, which is too far away to really affect us unless its spin axis was pointed precisely at us (and it isn't). If it goes supernova, we'd get one hell of a light show for a few months (it'd be bright to enough to see in daylight and to read by at night) and afterward the night sky would be forever changed, but that's about it. As for whether this dimming indicates that a supernova is imminent, nobody knows for sure. And even if it does... well, by star standards, "imminent" could be a million years from now. It's always been a variable star, but never THIS variable. And nobody knows if the dimming is the new normal or if it'll go back to its usual brightness soon. Variable stars can be temperamental.  Despite all that, the sudden change in what's usually one of the brightest stars in the sky is making the entire sky look... off. Go outside tonight and look up. Betelgeuse looks rather different than in the picture above.
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Kennel posted:Dustin  This brings back so many happy memories of how once I graduated from college (where I worked two on-campus jobs to pay off my student loans) I soon found myself working two off-campus jobs seven days a week (M-F and W-Su) because I couldn't get my career started and I was paying rent to live at home which meant I was constantly being hit with fun little bon mots like, "Fox News said you Gen-Xers are lazy. Why don't you have a REAL job?"
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Modesty Blaise  Classic Working Daze  VINTAGE Working Daze 
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Hobnob posted:There used to be a whole bunch of weird etiquette involving men and women, like when walking down the side of the street the man had to be closest to the middle, and what's more you should walk up the right side of the street so the woman would be on the right, as that was the more honoured position. It persisted long enough that I'd occasionally be corrected on it by my teachers (growing up in the UK in the 70s/80s). Huh. I always heard the rule was that the man should walk on the outside, closest to the curb, so the woman would be protected from any splashes if someone rode/drove through street mess too fast. And my favorite Outdated Encyclopedia Brown solution is the one where the crook claims he was at the bank cashing a check on a certain date, and Encyclopedia points out he couldn't possibly have done that because that date was a Sunday.
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Selachian posted:Huh. I always heard the rule was that the man should walk on the outside, closest to the curb, so the woman would be protected from any splashes if someone rode/drove through street mess too fast. The man walks on the inside from what I've heard was due to people emptying chamber pots by dumping them out the window.
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Selachian posted:Huh. I always heard the rule was that the man should walk on the outside, closest to the curb, so the woman would be protected from any splashes if someone rode/drove through street mess too fast. It seems to be one of those rules of etiquette that changes depending on when and where you are. I've heard the explanation for "men on the inside" was because of the fear that people will throw dirty water (or worse) out their windows into the street. But yeah it also changed to "men on the outside" for the reason you mention here. E: Encyclopedia Brown chat: I read one where the key to solving the case was someone claimed to have used a knife to open a letter in a Chinese restaurant, but famously Chinese restaurants have no knives.
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Zerilan posted:The man walks on the inside from what I've heard was due to people emptying chamber pots by dumping them out the window. It's the outside, but you got the reason correct. Sidewalks in the time of chamberpots were right next to the houses. People would try to throw their waste into the street so the arc from the upper floor window to the street meant that the outside position was in more danger of being hit.
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Selachian posted:Huh. I always heard the rule was that the man should walk on the outside, closest to the curb, so the woman would be protected from any splashes if someone rode/drove through street mess too fast. Yeah, I probably wasn't clear, the man should always be on the street side of the woman. The reason that you'd walk on the right side of the street was so that you could do that and be on the left of the woman. And the reason for being on the left, as was explained to me, was so that your sword, which would be scabbarded the left side of your belt, wouldn't get tangled with the woman's skirts if you had to draw it to protect her from a ruffian. Pointing out that (a) I didn't wear a sword, and (b) If I did I would wear it on the right since I'm left handed, cut no ice with my teachers.
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I always walk street-side under the assumption that if someone is going to get hit by a runaway car, I'd rather increase the likelihood it's just me than my wife or kids. That or puddle splashes.
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Selachian posted:Huh. I always heard the rule was that the man should walk on the outside, closest to the curb, so the woman would be protected from any splashes if someone rode/drove through street mess too fast. The only specific Encyclopedia Brown solution I still remember vividly was a guy had a sword that was supposedly given to a general after the First Battle of Bull Run and EB knew it was fake because it was engraved "For the First Battle of Bull Run" and he was like "How would they know it was the first when they hadn't had a second yet?" F Minus   Mark Trail  No they weren't. This is dumb. Mary Worth  Apparently, MW has become "Edge of Drama" since they keep killing interesting possibilities before they happen. The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  Andertoons  This could very well be why time machines don't exist. Apartment 3-G 
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Hobnob posted:And the reason for being on the left, as was explained to me, was so that your sword, which would be scabbarded the left side of your belt, wouldn't get tangled with the woman's skirts if you had to draw it to protect her from a ruffian. Strangely enough, I always heard that as the justification for why the man traditionally stands on the right when getting married -- so his right arm would be free in case he needed to draw his sword. I'm starting to think traditions don't always make a whole lot of sense.
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Powered Descent posted:Strangely enough, I always heard that as the justification for why the man traditionally stands on the right when getting married -- so his right arm would be free in case he needed to draw his sword. Why would I ever marry some chump who doesn't dual wield.
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Powered Descent posted:Strangely enough, I always heard that as the justification for why the man traditionally stands on the right when getting married -- so his right arm would be free in case he needed to draw his sword. It was probably just some social convention and then people in the 19th and 20th century made up justifications out of thin air.
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Transmodiar posted:Classic Working Daze The art and jokes aren't completely terrible. What the hell happened?
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Archyduchess posted:Why would I ever marry some chump who doesn't dual wield. sometimes you want someone who specializes in certain stances
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Powered Descent posted:To answer Arlo's question, Betelgeuse is over 600 light-years away, which is too far away to really affect us unless its spin axis was pointed precisely at us (and it isn't). If it goes supernova, we'd get one hell of a light show for a few months (it'd be bright to enough to see in daylight and to read by at night) and afterward the night sky would be forever changed, but that's about it. As for whether this dimming indicates that a supernova is imminent, nobody knows for sure. And even if it does... well, by star standards, "imminent" could be a million years from now. And that's what Arlo is doing, "what harm could it do" refers to going outside to wait for the lightshow with a blanket and a full thermos.  By the way, if some of you are a night sky idiot like me then download and install Stellarium, it makes it easy to understand what you can see from your location at different times! It's fun to just play with too, in case you live in a big city where stars can't be seen. And it's free! Nenonen fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Jan 14, 2020 |
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Multiple instance of Working Daze is pretty much the level of suffering we deserve. Sally Forth   Skippy (August 29-30, 1932)   Peanuts (January 15-16, 1973)   Funky Winkerbean, in which Mason Jarre got tired of being a marketable face (at least as far as the Funkyverse is concerned), and a dude who's had a property shoved through movie development before assumes that not hearing something for a month means that a project is dead.   Crankshaft   9 Chickweed Lane   Rip Haywire   Thimble Theater (August 13-14, 1936)   Out Our Way (December 25-27, 1933)    Toonerville Folks, in which the staff and management of the New Orleans Times-Picayune wishes you a safe and sane Fourth. (July 4-6, 1916)    Dok's "That's Not How Police Bribery Works, Dude" Duck (January 16, 1913)  We're still doing Rube Goldberg, but welcome to the part of the thread where I have trouble keeping multiple balls in the air. 
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EasyEW posted:
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I double-checked and Darthemed is correct! We don't have Sunday strips until May 10, 1981. Plus, the first one is the one that I posted earlier, so it'll be a re-post but in color. Bloom County December 23rd and 24th, 1980  
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Bad Machinery quote:Rogue element Lovelace runs into more rogues in a backstreet "situation" sure to quicken the pulse.
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Cowslips Warren posted:When I was debating about coming out, DTWOF was something I started reading, and while it didn't help much (because gently caress you Sydney she was always the worst) in terms of what to expect, it did humanize gay people overall because the only ones I knew of otherwise were Elton John and Ellen. I remember that strip! DtWOF was a weird part of my childhood, since Bechdel's strips ran in the weekly free paper. Imagine being 8 and your funny pages are DtWOF, Doonsbury, and like a bunch of oddball local artists complaining about the local government.
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Vintage Valiant (Apr. 03, 1937)  Cowslips Warren posted:I do remember most of the cast but one of the best later strips was when one of the couple's kids went to camp, and his gay uncle worked there, and some kids began calling something gay, naturally meaning stupid and lame. The kid asked his uncle about this, and the uncle retorted that gay meant awesome, for example, his shirt, which was tight and form fitting and showed off his muscles; by comparison one of the other camp counselors likely wore the same shirt, stained and loose, because it was the only clean thing in his closet. Kid goes home and asks his moms to get him more tight fitting muscle shirts because "they're super gay." I happened to have exactly one panel of DTWOF on my computer.  JethroMcB posted:Every single day of this is two identical half-asleep faces looking at each other for three panels, and then one character "reacts" by raising their eyelids and having parenthesis shoot out of the sides of their head It's easily one of the worst strips I've seen.
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Transmodiar posted:Classic Working Daze These both really throw into stark relief how godawful the current Working Daze art is! Miller in particular has a sort of breezy 90s clipart style that's fairly pleasant to look at. (Also presumably helps that the classic strips we've seen so far are just fairly generic office humor and not nerd_thing.txt on repeat...)
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Johnny Walker posted:Mark Trail Incredible art in this one.
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Darthemed posted:Docks LOL god drat I remember the Bob Jones thing. Ah, memories...
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