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| I enjoy reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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64 | 26.02% |
| I hate reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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| I enjoy reading historical newspaper comics. |
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88 | 35.77% |
| I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. |
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52 | 21.14% |
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Early postin’ ¡Aragones!  Life in Hell  Sylvia  Marlys! 
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Arnold (October 24-30, 1983)       Comic Strips 2022: Too many Caucasians make me nervous Mister Beeg fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Aug 28, 2022 |
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Aug 28, 2022 17:46
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I knew immediately which commercial he was talking about which means it is indeed a great commercial. Also I still have no idea what EDS does, so he was right on that one too. F Minus  Mark Trail  Mary Worth  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Two Heads Talking on the Phone for Eleven Panels MD  Andertoons  Flash Gordon 
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Aug 28, 2022 18:28
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Murdstone posted:
Next Week on the Phantom: Maybe Something Happens?
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Aug 28, 2022 18:42
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Darthemed posted:Docks I can't tell if McGruder is attacking the idea of universal broadband itself or if it's just another "Bush dumb and bad" joke. I know this strip has aged poorly in a lot of ways, and this is before every business in the world moved to online job applications, but it seems bizarre to frame it as a bad idea.
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Aug 28, 2022 20:17
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Alhazred posted:Next Week on the Phantom: Maybe Something Happens? I hope so, they've been dragging this out for months.
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Aug 28, 2022 20:21
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Haraiso Days: spoilered just in case for tamely-presented adult situation inc male-presenting nipples Cthulhu and Girl 
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Aug 28, 2022 21:29
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Giant Ethicist posted:Haraiso Days: spoilered just in case for tamely-presented adult situation inc male-presenting nipples RIP to this guy (in a different comic)
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Aug 28, 2022 21:36
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I work on the NMCI government contract and EDS was spun off of HP enterprise to get rid of it. EDS in turn became Perspecta. In a surprise move Leidos got the contract and now the long line of failures should be die soon. That video is it’s greatest contribution to the modern world.
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Aug 28, 2022 22:30
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Crabgrass Old School Peanuts (Oct 4, 1953)  Calvin and Hobbes (Mar 27-28, 1992)   Big Nate 
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Aug 28, 2022 23:00
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Into Ilves  Nancy  Dustin 
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Aug 28, 2022 23:16
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Pickles Hagar the Horrible  Zits 
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Aug 28, 2022 23:54
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Kennel posted:Nancy There are two schools of thought on endings. There's the Babylon 5 method: "Here are the complete thoughts and feelings of every character at this point in their own lives, and you're invited to reflect on exactly where they've been and where they're going as you watch each of them individually (and literally) walk away toward their separate futures. This will take three episodes." And there's the Star Trek: Voyager method: "Hey, that was exciting, but they've just this instant gotten back to the alpha quadrant, so... roll credits! Hope you weren't wondering how they'd blend back into life in Starfleet and/or the Federation, or anything like that. Anyway, join us for the adventures of a whole new crew on 'Enterprise', coming this fall to UPN!"
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Aug 29, 2022 01:20
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Financial Problems For Everyone! Unless You're A Small Business Owner! Or Dating Someone In The Family! Hooray!       
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Aug 29, 2022 01:53
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It's A Sketchy Life for August 26, 1926! John Held Jr.  Frederick Strothmann:  Harrison Cady:  And in the "foreign cartoons tossed in the back with the ad copy" section, Theodore van Elsen:  Meanwhile, in the movie section, Vitaphone clears its throat and the talkies are on the horizon. 
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Darthemed posted:
goatface posted:I hope so, they've been dragging this out for months. The Phantom dragging a story out pointlessly for months? Kennel posted:
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  For Better or For Worse  Classic Arlo and Janis (September 21, 2000)  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens 
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Aug 29, 2022 06:36
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Zeni Rhymes with Orange  Brenda Starr 5/15/49  "Hang on. Your cousin's name is John St. John?" Smokey Stover 10/30/49  Everyday Movies 7/11/49  "I'm in favor of taking a bungalow again this August, but there's got to be a clear understanding there won't be more than five girls in a room -- except Saturdays and Sundays, of course."
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Aug 29, 2022 11:37
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riderchop posted:
Superbowl XXXIV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_MaJDK3VNE Edit: gently caress; Beaten ~Coxy fucked around with this message at 12:41 on Aug 29, 2022 |
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Aug 29, 2022 12:34
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Vintage Valiant (Dec. 28, 1952)  
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Crab Dad posted:I work on the NMCI government contract and EDS was spun off of HP enterprise to get rid of it. EDS in turn became Perspecta. In a surprise move Leidos got the contract and now the long line of failures should be die soon. That video is it’s greatest contribution to the modern world. EDS started out as a Ross Perot IT services company, he sold it to GM at one point and GM put him on him on the board. Perot was such a pain int he rear end they sold it back to him for pennies on the dollar. He sold it or got bought out. A year or two after that commercial EDS was involved in an accounting scandal where they were overvaluing IT contract jobs, and got devalued, split up, and bought out. At that time they were also a poo poo company. MarxCarl fucked around with this message at 13:31 on Aug 29, 2022 |
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Aug 29, 2022 13:19
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Reminder that Will Henry owns a cheese shop irl. Heart of the City  Curtis 
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Aug 29, 2022 13:25
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MarxCarl posted:EDS started out as a Ross Perot IT services company, he sold it to GM at one point and put him on him on the board. Perot was such a pain int he rear end they sold it back to him for pennies on the dollar. He sold it or got bought out. A year or two after that commercial EDS was involved in an accounting scandal where they were overvaluing IT contract jobs, and got devalued, split up, and bought out. At that time they were also a poo poo company. What happened to the cats?
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Aug 29, 2022 13:26
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Solver: Green Door John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Forward Slash Scare website for Allison's side comics John Allison posted:Sharp eyed viewers will recognise three of these toughs from GdxB. Sure enough the three of the “toughs” in todays comic appeared in the Giant Days / Batman crossover. Here's the page in question if you don't want to click the link: 
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Aug 29, 2022 13:26
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Kennel posted:What happened to the cats? we went and found new jobs
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Aug 29, 2022 13:32
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Vargo posted:Wallace the Brave Vargo posted:Curtis Endless Mike fucked around with this message at 13:49 on Aug 29, 2022 |
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Hostile V posted:Financial Problems For Everyone! Unless You're A Small Business Owner! Or Dating Someone In The Family! Hooray! If she wasn't being given the scholarships due to donations or other similarly nefarious reasons, and Fiona wasn't revealed to be doing something with bad pr, why would her athletic scholarships be withdrawn explicitly because she lost her fortune?
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Aug 29, 2022 15:49
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Bizarro The Family Circus 
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TegneHanne L-Innsikt  Zelda 
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Aug 29, 2022 16:24
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maltesh posted:If she wasn't being given the scholarships due to donations or other similarly nefarious reasons, and Fiona wasn't revealed to be doing something with bad pr, why would her athletic scholarships be withdrawn explicitly because she lost her fortune?        
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Endless Mike posted:Small thing, but I appreciate Wallace using "their" here. 
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Modesty Blase: The Jericho Caper 
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Kennel posted:What happened to the cats? It was rough for a while but my understanding is they managed to land on their feet.
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maltesh posted:If she wasn't being given the scholarships due to donations or other similarly nefarious reasons, and Fiona wasn't revealed to be doing something with bad pr, why would her athletic scholarships be withdrawn explicitly because she lost her fortune? Well since none of them were being offered by main chars, they were probably only offered by greedy bad people, not good people like the main chars.
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Twelve by Pies posted:I can't tell if McGruder is attacking the idea of universal broadband itself or if it's just another "Bush dumb and bad" joke. I know this strip has aged poorly in a lot of ways, and this is before every business in the world moved to online job applications, but it seems bizarre to frame it as a bad idea. I'm reading it as criticizing Bush for using the prospect of universal broadband service as an election year ploy. As you mentioned, this was a time before everyone and everything was terminally online - Zuckerberg had just launched The Facebook two months prior to this strip - so the necessity of it wasn't fully evident yet (One statistic I found said that only 55% of adult Americans in 2004 had access to broadband, either at home or work.) At the time, it was just a "Hey, wouldn't this be cool? We're working on it, we promise" kind of thing that Bush & Co. leveraged in an attempt to make people forget about the Iraq War. ("Luckily," the furor around gay marriage took over political discourse by November and helped the dumbass secure a second term.) Oh, and this is from days ago but man this Arnold got me good. Perfect punchline structure.
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JethroMcB posted:Oh, and this is from days ago but man this Arnold got me good. Perfect punchline structure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HgejSCHRi8 It always gets me
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