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1. How the hell do you know what her priorities are? 2. Are you just going through somebody's personal/business financials like that? 3. gently caress
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Sep 4, 2021 19:43
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I know, I will kidnap the king's daughter-in-law! When that idiot dies, he will find himself in a long line of People Who Crossed Prince Val.
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Sep 4, 2021 20:01
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Johnny Walker posted:He really deserves a syndication deal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjkt4UgcTmg&t=104s
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Sep 4, 2021 20:02
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If you live there, dusting the living room isn't "helping", you mullet. It's your chore as much as hers. Edit: she's going to marry one of those insufferable guys who refer to looking after their own kids as "babysitting". Drimble Wedge fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Sep 4, 2021 |
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Sep 4, 2021 20:58
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The Far Side   Pickles  Zits 
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Sep 4, 2021 21:50
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Medenmath posted:Nice. It's the only way I could think of to cheat at a foot race. By Encyclopedia Brown rules I believe you now owe me 25¢. The best part of this strip is that I honestly couldn't tell you which of Val, Katwin, or Aleta is going to kill this guy They all have motive and skill
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Sep 4, 2021 23:41
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Yeeeesssss.  The arc that starts with Ulfrun's abduction of Aleta is one of the best in Foster's entire run.
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Sep 5, 2021 00:24
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Medenmath posted:Nice. It's the only way I could think of to cheat at a foot race. By Encyclopedia Brown rules I believe you now owe me 25¢. You're probably right, but I think we still have the "J'accuse!" and the "J'explain!" strip to go, don't we? If it is twin sisters, feels like it's been presented poorly for the strip . Maybe would be better to present her as having a twin sister who's always waiting for her at the finish line, and the reveal be that they're actually triplets.
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Sep 5, 2021 00:25
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Bobbins Bibliotechno Music posted:Next Chapter: Lost Worlds
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Sep 5, 2021 00:25
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For what it's worth, I distinctly remember "twins switching out in a race" as being the answer in one of the Encyclopedia Brown books, though in that case it was a pie-eating-then-a-footrace competition, which honestly sounds like a terrible idea. "Here let's make a bunch of kids gorge themselves on an entire pie each, and then go running." In that case, the cheaters were exposed by the fact that the contest was using blueberry pie and the winner at the finish line did not have a mouth stained blue.
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Sep 5, 2021 00:30
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It seems like you'd have to be improbably far ahead for a switcheroo like that to have any chance of working. And even cross country races for kids usually have spotters placed throughout to insure no one is engaged in a less convoluted form of cheating.
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Sep 5, 2021 00:45
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Yvonmukluk posted:
Or Domokun
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Sep 5, 2021 01:10
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Fighting Trousers posted:Yeeeesssss. Yeah I'm really looking forward to posting this storyline. maltesh posted:You're probably right, but I think we still have the "J'accuse!" and the "J'explain!" strip to go, don't we? Some Guy TT posted:It seems like you'd have to be improbably far ahead for a switcheroo like that to have any chance of working. And even cross country races for kids usually have spotters placed throughout to insure no one is engaged in a less convoluted form of cheating. I think the idea is the first sister will fall behind so the other runners won't be able to see her, and they'll switch then so the second can sprint back to first place to win. I do like the triplets idea - if there's no extra twist then so far the reveal relies on Encyclopedia stumbling on the other girl rather than figuring anything out. As for spotters, I've run in a few rural 10ks where there were few enough people on the course that it would have been easy to do something unseen, and there are often some kids competing. A kids-only event like this is a little different from that though. RoboRodent posted:For what it's worth, I distinctly remember "twins switching out in a race" as being the answer in one of the Encyclopedia Brown books, though in that case it was a pie-eating-then-a-footrace competition, which honestly sounds like a terrible idea. "Here let's make a bunch of kids gorge themselves on an entire pie each, and then go running." The recent Pixar movie Luca has a triathlon like this in it, with an eating event in the middle. I can't imagine actually competing in something like that, it sounds horrible.
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Sep 5, 2021 01:42
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I may have said this before and don't remember, but I'm pretty sure that the "you have to move out at 18!" thing is mostly an American thing. In a lot of Europe, adults live with their parents long after they're 18, and I think in a lot of cases are expected to do this because it's seen as being a good son/daughter. Not that I would expect Ed to know or care, of course. It's all a scam by the housing markets, credit cards, car manufacturers, etc. to get their hooks into people at a younger age. American Rugged Individualism is a poison that splits the proles against one another.
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Sep 5, 2021 01:47
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MariusLecter posted:It's all a scam by the housing markets, credit cards, car manufacturers, etc. to get their hooks into people at a younger age. Capitalism is a giant MLM scam.
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Sep 5, 2021 01:58
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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Sep 5, 2021 02:16
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riderchop posted:Overboard Scratch is the only good character in modern Overboard because he's the only character that acts like he's in the far superior 90s version.
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Sep 5, 2021 02:38
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Sally Forth Pearls Before Oh, I Guess The Revolution's Over  Peanuts (September 7, 1974)  Funky Winkerbean  Crankshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (April 6, 1938)  Out Our Way (April 22-24, 1937)    Toonerville Folks (January 7-9, 1918)    Dok's "Okay, Now You're Just Dragging This poo poo Out" Duck (October 4, 1913)  Little Lefty indulges in some cheeky humor. (April 15 and 17, 1935)  And yeah, once again we're missing a page...  Which is a shame, because hey look, it's Pioneer Patsy to the rescue!  (And once again, Blondie is a victim of putting this stuff to bed before I put myself to bed.)
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Sep 5, 2021 03:24
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Jucika "238 - Jucika Dresses The Shop's Window" "239 - Jucika Goes In Fashion" 
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Sep 5, 2021 03:28
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Sep 5, 2021 06:14
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In today's Blueberry: It's just like Fury Road! Except much, much slower, or Palmer, being a woman of culture, knows the appropriate dress for the opera, or Stand and deposit!  
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Sep 5, 2021 07:25
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riderchop posted:
Oh no, I don't mind. It's just that I noticed it and thought it was weird. Also, adding my voice to the "adults living with parents" thing: over here (Italy) it's completely normal for adults to live with their parents until they get married, which coincides with moving into a home you share with your partner. Lately it's becoming more common for people to live together even before marriage (and it's becoming more common to not get married at all), but someone well into their thirties still living in their parents' home doesn't raise any eyebrows at all. Classic Kevin & Kell in: rabbit's revenge (June 9-15, 2003)        Thus begins a storyline which has aged terribly. Like, there's quite a bit of YIKES in this, looking at it eighteen years after the fact. Modern Kevin & Kell 
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Sep 5, 2021 09:19
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Surgeon's Tales In the book it was established that Bernhard had read his uncle Torsten's notes about the ring and toyed with the idea of finding and using it, even though he didn't admit to himself that he believed in its power. Here he is mostly rambling deliriously.  Nancy  Dustin  Cruel Little Stories  And that's the end of the first year of Cruel Little Stories. It continued for two more years, but the internet archive ends here. I let this be the last one because it's such a perfect specimen. The author (under pseudonym) is Merja Heikkinen, who AFAIK hasn't done other comics outside similar album Väylä in 2011. Meanwhile the artist (and her husband) Timo Mäkelä is very prolific cartoonist and has done it all from gag comics to philosophical stuff to political cartoons to historical edutainment. Unfortunately I don't find any of his other work particularly interesting, so I'm not going to post those. Kennel fucked around with this message at 10:18 on Sep 5, 2021 |
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Sep 5, 2021 09:45
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Mikl posted:Classic Kevin & Kell in: rabbit's revenge (June 9-15, 2003)  
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Sep 5, 2021 10:03
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Kennel posted:Cruel Little Stories Thank you for posting these, I really liked them! Well, "liked" them, they were a constant parade of Big Oofs and outright lovely people, but y'know how it is.
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Sep 5, 2021 10:05
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Mikl posted:Thank you for posting these, I really liked them! Well, "liked" them, they were a constant parade of Big Oofs and outright lovely people, but y'know how it is. At least they were believably OOF and lovely, not like some of the crap that gets brought up in some drama comics.
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Sep 5, 2021 10:20
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Mikl posted:Classic Kevin & Kell in: rabbit's revenge (June 9-15, 2003) "Lady MacBeth's Cleaners" and "Bill Bennett's Video Poker" both gave me a Sensible Chuckle. I enjoy Kevin & Kell.
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Sep 5, 2021 10:22
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Kennel posted:And that's the end of the first year of Cruel Little Stories. It continued for two more years, but the internet archive ends here. I let this be the last one because it's such a perfect specimen. Thanks for these! There were some really good & relatable ones in there, ones that made me kinda feel "oh noooo, don't do that" inside. This last one is very much that. It seems that Merja really resonated with kids facing awful stuff because their parents think they know better (or just don't think at all).
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Sep 5, 2021 10:26
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Mikl posted:Also, adding my voice to the "adults living with parents" thing: over here (Italy) it's completely normal for adults to live with their parents until they get married, which coincides with moving into a home you share with your partner. Lately it's becoming more common for people to live together even before marriage (and it's becoming more common to not get married at all), but someone well into their thirties still living in their parents' home doesn't raise any eyebrows at all. Continuing "adult children at home" chat - it's also important to remember that's Ed's lovely attitude is ahistorical for the United States as well. Living in the family home until marriage was the norm here in the US until after WWII, and in fact continued to be the norm for most Americans well into the 60s and 70s, when (you guessed it) the Baby Boomers started to reach adulthood. And in their haste to go to college and get out of the homes of their Depression and war traumatized parents, a whole new social expectation was born.
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Sep 5, 2021 12:39
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Curtis 
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Sep 5, 2021 13:16
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Kennel posted:
Thank you for translating and posting this! It was dark but always interesting and amusing.
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Sep 5, 2021 13:29
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Nancy 1946 
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Sep 5, 2021 13:33
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It's in the public domain, you oik.
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Sep 5, 2021 13:50
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Rhymes with Orange Get Fuzzy 9/4/01  Brenda Starr 3/9/47  Smokey Stover 3/28/01  Bonus ad! Don't let drabness spoil your chances! 
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Sep 5, 2021 13:56
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I presume the thing about kids moving out as soon as they graduate from high school is bundled up with American culture's obsession with individuality, which unfortunately seems to manifest more and more often as a refusal to care even slightly about other people. Prince Valiant 
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Sep 5, 2021 14:24
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Interesting colouring there. I quite like it, it lends itself to the hallucinatory tone.
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Sep 5, 2021 14:29
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Sep 5, 2021 14:47
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Classic Zits And here we have Connie’s new forever-hairstyle! Probably easier to draw consistently. Sylvia  100 Demons: Lost Worlds      This is probably my favorite story of the bunch, especially the panel of Lynda waiting on the sidewalk for everyone to come join the game. And of course everything with Chuckie. As an aside, did anyone else use the phrase “it’s your ups” instead of “it’s your turn”? I distinctly remember using it (although I’d forgotten until I saw it in this story, which is fitting), and iirc it was only for physical games, kinda like “batter up.”
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Sep 5, 2021 16:22
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Selachian posted:Rhymes with Orange Tell me to infiltrate NAPA and I"m off to the auto parts store. Bizarro  The Family Circus  FoxTrot 
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