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Forty minutes in the open seas at night drunk as a skunk is completely survivable right? Especially if you're an out of shape dork right? I assume that there's a silent understanding whenever a code Oscar goes out to other nearby ships that it's always more of a recovery mission rather than a rescue
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Yvonmukluk posted:Bad Machinery Shauna sent her brother to prison, right?
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Jan 15, 2022 20:17
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Where are they cruising? Water temperature and density of shipping/availability of air S&R will be a big factor. It's night though, and he wasn't wearing a float, there's no reason to think he would have any durable light source on him. He'd be a bitch to find.
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https://twitter.com/fmarciuliano/status/1482353550055424001 Mutts    Sally Forth Retro-Fest-O-Rama    Pearls Before Swine    Skippy (May 1-2, 1934)   Peanuts (January 16-18, 1975)    Funky Winkerbean    Crankshaft    Mutt and Jeff    Rip Haywire    Thimble Theater (August 15-17, 1938)    Out Our Way (January 20-22, 1938)    Toonerville Folks (August 5-7, 1918)    Duck's Dippy Delusion (by Dok) (December 8, 1913)  Sometimes Little Lefty isn't nearly as in the past as we'd prefer it to be. (December 5-7, 1935)    I'm assuming that pre-fab buildings that have been cluttering up the former playground of my former elementary school for the past (checks calendar) couple of decades don't have these specific problems. Also, I don't remember our school having a cellar, so that's a leg up on depression-era New York City, I guess. Today in Blondie (From Zero): A happy ending? This early on? Oh, pull the other one. (July 16-18, 1931) 
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Jan 15, 2022 20:29
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Kennel posted:Shauna sent her brother to prison, right? Yeah, sometime time after the events of Scary-Go-Round but before Bad Machinery. The details weren't mentioned until The Case of the Missing Piece, the second-to-last Bad Machinery story. IIRC Allison said that he removed Darren (her brother) from Bad Machinery because her step-father Dan filled the role that Darren had held.
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Jan 15, 2022 20:42
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Powered Descent posted:The main Comics Kingdom site is still having major issues, but https://v7.comicskingdom.net/ is up and running. The only difference seems to be that for strips that are available in both square and horizontal-strip aspect ratios, this version of the site will provide the horizontal ones, which explains why Bizarro is longer and skinnier than normal today.  Mandrake  Johnny Hazard   (other comics later because I'm lazy)
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Jan 15, 2022 20:46
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Murdstone posted:Mary Worth Even from beyond the grave, Wilbur finds ways to make everything worse for Estelle than they have to be, convincing her he died by suicide because she turned him down.  No, but really, what value did this "workshop" provide that staying home and taking an online quiz would not? Even at the beginning when it looked like Luann might get some personalized guidance, it just came down to giving her a self-test anyway. And even telling someone, "You would make a good Teacher/Lawyer/Ballerina" isn't helping them find work. Julet Esqu fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Jan 15, 2022 |
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Jan 15, 2022 20:58
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So Wilbur’s just going to be rescued and that’s that? Not even an interval on a desert island first? That’s a huge let-down.
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Jan 15, 2022 21:12
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As unrealistic as Wilbur surviving is, I think it will happen, because it's Mary Worth. Then Estelle will "realize" how much he means to her when she thought he was really gone, and it will all be terrible.
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Jan 15, 2022 21:20
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean Holy poo poo these people just absolutely hate each other and themselves
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Jan 15, 2022 21:20
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I hope they just find a floating body. It would be drama.
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Jan 15, 2022 21:20
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The Bloop posted:Say what now riderchop posted:Overboard
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Jan 15, 2022 21:21
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Like all of those funkies winkerbeans could've been Lockhorns except the Lockhorns actually love each other at the end of the day
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Jan 15, 2022 21:22
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goatface posted:I hope they just find a floating body. It would be drama. Could he have survived the fall?
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Jan 15, 2022 21:32
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The last we saw of Wilbur was a quickly fading bubbly cluster of the wide, open, cold sea and that was, in universe, at least 20 minutes ago
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Jan 15, 2022 21:35
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spookygonk posted:Could he have survived the fall? People have survived much greater falls onto water and ground, but also they weren't shitfaced middle aged men so
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Jan 15, 2022 21:36
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Theoretically? Yes. Humans can survive a lot of things if the universe decides to roll those dice. Probability is not on his side for doing it without some form of serious injury.
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Jan 15, 2022 21:36
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There'll be no accusations, just friendly crustaceans
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Jan 15, 2022 21:43
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Cruise ships are required too be equipped with a minimum of two rescue boats, however, said boats only move at 6 knots, much slower than the cruise ship (~20 knots as mentioned a few pages back), so I assume turning the ship around to get to Wilbur's approximate location then using the rescue boats to find and rescue him is relatively normal operation. Not that it matters, assuming he survived a multiple story fall into the water, can tread water for a good hour, and didn't get eaten by sharks, they're still trying to find a needle in a haystack.
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Jan 15, 2022 21:48
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Kennel posted:Dustin
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Endless Mike posted:Cruise ships are required too be equipped with a minimum of two rescue boats, however, said boats only move at 6 knots, much slower than the cruise ship (~20 knots as mentioned a few pages back), so I assume turning the ship around to get to Wilbur's approximate location then using the rescue boats to find and rescue him is relatively normal operation. tbf it is a very fat needle
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Jan 15, 2022 22:14
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Sweaty IT Nerd posted:This ground was well trod by the Dysfunctional Family Circus. Holy poo poo, I had never heard of this!
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Jan 15, 2022 22:14
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Holy poo poo, I had never heard of this! As someone who contributed a few captions to the DFC back in the day, thanks for helping me feel old. (But then, I am old.) Like a lot of edgy 90s humor, the DFC hasn't aged particularly well, but it'll probably be floating around the internet forever.
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Jan 15, 2022 23:17
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I'll take "is found barely alive, lingers in a coma for a few months, has a 'this was your life' dream sequence and then dies."
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Jan 15, 2022 23:19
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Murdstone posted:
That really have to be an incredible uncomfortable chair. Basically just a piece of cold rock without even a small cushion.
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Jan 15, 2022 23:46
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Alhazred posted:That really have to be an incredible uncomfortable chair. Basically just a piece of cold rock without even a small cushion. 
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Uramachi Sakaba One of the things I love about Maruoka is that he leans into the trope and has fun with it, but the thing about "will they or won't they" is that they never can.   Emi in those last two panels is my favorite Emi though. ChaCha Chako: New chapter!  
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Giant Ethicist posted:but the thing about "will they or won't they" is that they never can. *pulling back hammer on revolver* I disagree.
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Kennel posted:Shauna sent her brother to prison, right? Yep. The thread had much vigorous debate on the subject as to how much resentment Darren was allowed to reasonably have over the issue. On the one end, she was maybe ten years old. On the other end, Shauna's actions had disastrously hosed up consequences for Darren even beyond the prison time, because he'd taken out a small loan right before being pinched that had completely ballooned out of control to an unmanageably large number by the time he got out and could pay it again.
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Cheer Up Boss Dharma
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Crabgrass is on break Old School Peanuts (Apr 16, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (Jul 28-29, 1990)   No Blind Alley today
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 How indeed, Estelle. How indeed.
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The captain has to think about ship liability first and foremost. "He ignored the sign!"
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Murdstone posted:
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curtadams posted:If Wilbur survives, can posters please spoiler post Mary Worth in the future for those of with sensitive constitutions with respect to stupid plotlines? You fool! Now the recovery strip will be spoiled no matter how it turns out, just to keep us in suspense!
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Prince Valiant
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Doomykins posted:*pulling back hammer on revolver* lol you broke my grill posted:The captain has to think about ship liability first and foremost. "He ignored the sign!" "The camera footage shows that he jumped because some selfish woman broke his heart. If I were her, I'd feel hella guilty for not marrying him."
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curtadams posted:If Wilbur survives, can posters please spoiler post Mary Worth in the future for those of with sensitive constitutions with respect to stupid plotlines? This made me laugh pretty hard.
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