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Mikl posted:Edit: ^^ Like really though! If we're complaining about annoying customer behavior it would make a lot more sense to have a customer insist they get all the same lot number (and call another store if they have to) because that's a thing that actually would happen! (And rightfully so. No-dye-lot yarn exists, but for the most part you really want to be sure those lot numbers match. I can see why it would be irritating for the employee who has to help, though.)  
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The idea is that the customer is absurd, not a realistic portrayal of knitters
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Johnny Walker posted:Mary Worth Johnny Walker posted:Rex Morgan MD Where *is* Snorkmaiden's mouth, anyway?
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Deathless Deer 3/8-10/43   The only part of that Deer understood was "shekels."
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Mikl posted:Edit: ^^ Mercury Hat posted:She says right there that it's bad luck if it's the same lot number, sheesh! Julet Esqu posted:Like really though! If we're complaining about annoying customer behavior it would make a lot more sense to have a customer insist they get all the same lot number (and call another store if they have to) because that's a thing that actually would happen! (And rightfully so. No-dye-lot yarn exists, but for the most part you really want to be sure those lot numbers match. I can see why it would be irritating for the employee who has to help, though.) I think the implication is that the customer is not only needy, but possibly mentally ill. I remember a customer who used to come in, invariably about 30 minutes before close, and she would want an associate to hand-hold her through a series of complicated orders and returns, with coupons and rewards, all the while telling you the no-filter story of the latest thing to go wrong in her life. It wasn't that she needed the stuff (hence the returns - there was always a return). She just wanted to be the center of someone's attention. It always made us sad, because we realized why she was doing, but it was also infuriating. Fighting Trousers fucked around with this message at 20:06 on May 16, 2021 |
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Did the strip explain why the Egyptian princess knew English? (I'm not being snarky; I must have missed it) Scary Gary    We don't have a car right now so I kinda feel like Travis at the moment.
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Drimble Wedge posted:Did the strip explain why the Egyptian princess knew English? (I'm not being snarky; I must have missed it) 
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Old School Peanuts (Sep 24, 1952) Calvin and Hobbes (Jun 11-12, 1989)   Robbie and Bobby   Support Jason's Patreon (and see new My Dad is Draculas) here.
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The Dinette Set doesn't want you to go out of your way. Working Daze didn't need the other guy talking past the punchline.  Super-Fun-Pak Comix should probably workshop this a bit more.  Cul De Sac isn't going to like this any better next week. 
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Fighting Trousers posted:I think the implication is that the customer is not only needy, but possibly mentally ill. I remember a customer who used to come in, invariably about 30 minutes before close, and she would want an associate to hand-hold her through a series of complicated orders and returns, with coupons and rewards, all the while telling you the no-filter story of the latest thing to go wrong in her life. It wasn't that she needed the stuff (hence the returns - there was always a return). She just wanted to be the center of someone's attention. It always made us sad, because we realized why she was doing, but it was also infuriating. Yeah, stories about people like this is something common across a lot of retail workers. We had a person who always wanted to exchange their bills for shiny nickels and quarters but hated the new designs and would tie up the register line if you let them.
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B Kliban Kliban's hot-take on racism. No idea how anyone will react so I'm just going to spoil it. 
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Oh man, I am super tempted. Dinky Dinkerton, Flyin' Jenny, and The Red Knight Nov. 16th, 1940    Axa  
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catlord posted:Oh man, I am super tempted. 
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Loldismas posted:gotta say I'm a liiiiiitle ready for Val to get over his weird amnesia brain fog thing? as much as I enjoy aleta being in charge. As a guy that's been married to a woman for over thirty years: last thing Aleta needs, right her & right now, is Prince Valiant doing his prince Valiant thing. I have not read this part of the series, but: Trust me. Better yet, trust Hal Foster, When there is a need for The Hulk, The Hulk will be there.
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Sally Forth Pearls Before Swine  Peanuts (May 19, 1974)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  And now, just a week after I told you I'd do it tomorrow, another double scoop of Life (With Skippy) (May 7 and 14, 1925)   Elsewhere in the issue(s):    And surprise! It's another Milt Gross.  Gluyas Williams:  Fred G. Cooper:  Al Frueh has been illustrating Robert Benchley's theater reviews for a good stretch with caricatures of theater people, but it took him this long to get to one I'm sure you might recognize without footnotes.  Oh, and as a bonus, here's a brief book review I forgot to post the last time around, about a thing written by some snotty young punk with an impressive looking name. It'll be forgotten by '26, I'm sure. (April 30, 1925) 
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 5/16/01  Brenda Starr 6/27-29/46    I have no idea what's up with the "I LOVE that hat!" ladies. Maybe Messick just wanted to have fun drawing goofy hats. Smokey Stover 3/2/41  Richard's Poor Almanac  Thompson's putting Scrooge in North Bethesda is probably an inside joke for DC area residents; Bethesda is one of the richest and snobbiest Maryland suburbs (and hometown of Brett Kavanaugh, which should give you an idea). Selachian fucked around with this message at 07:16 on May 17, 2021 |
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Garfield Heathcliff  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Ahhhhh, I don't know about this one Chuck  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons 
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I had a super bad feeling about EB's "disguise," and here we are Classic Kevin & Kell in: thinking about college (May 14-20, 2001)       
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Mikl posted:I had a super bad feeling about EB's "disguise," and here we are Confused by the phrase "Pamela Anderson bootleg medical graphics" here. Why not just say "swimsuit pics" or something, this makes it sound like surgery photos.
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Author Unknown? John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Steeple website My Author Unknown? intro guide password is TheOther Commentators on the Steeple site noticed that the statue behind the strategically placed topiary is of Archduke Horns, a character from Allison's one-shot comic Mordawwa. 
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Zoot-a-Root! 3/11-13/43 To a Forties audience, "dancing Egyptian style" would have suggested belly dancing. (See, for instance, the various performers who used the stage name Little Egypt.) "On the beam" -- that is, right on target in the manner of a plane following a radar beam to its destination -- was pretty newfangled slang back then. I think it's another sign that Mosley, who was a pilot and would probably have been familiar with the expression, is contributing to the strip at this point.  
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It seems like A) bouncing sound waves off electrons can't possibly work and 2) we're what, maybe seven years before LCD screens really supplant CRTs, at which point this issue will be long forgotten. Assuming there haven't been multiple strips with Fenton reading a newspaper.
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also if he can bounce it off the "electrons" he can bounce it off the ink on the paper, and also bats have decent eyesight.
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Vintage Valiant (Apr. 08, 1945)  I am very grateful that this scene only lasts for one more strip. The Medieval Castle (Apr. 08, 1945) 
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Selachian posted:Richard's Poor Almanac Skin Flint Mall is a play on the White Flint Mall, which up until very recently had a single Lord & Taylor holding out against the full closure/death of the entire complex, which was slated for redevelopment as a part of a greater effort along the Rockville Pike corridor in the 2010s. Due to a hilariously poorly written contract from the 1970s which promised them an anchor position in the mall until 2042, Lord & Taylor actually sued the mall in 2013 and in 2017 won $31 Million for the breach of contract. They later finally closed down in 2020 when the greater Lord & Taylor corporation declared bankruptcy.
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maltesh posted:It seems like A) bouncing sound waves off electrons can't possibly work and 2) we're what, maybe seven years before LCD screens really supplant CRTs, at which point this issue will be long forgotten. I feel like this could be easier explained with just "Fenton is a bad test taker" but gotta get them species jokes in.
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