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Bimmi posted:Wapsi is incomprehensible pseudo-mystical mush The one redeeming association I have with Wapsi Square is it's how I pulled "Olmec" out of my brain at trivia once. Hwurmp posted:69420 Interestingly this is a valid Mexican postal code, approximately where the Olmec civilization was!
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May 12, 2023 18:25
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former site of THE SHRINE OF THE SILVER MONKEY
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May 12, 2023 18:35
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Some Guy TT posted:The Demons of Baseball Now I've only started reading Demons of Baseball a while ago, but what's the context between Planck and this lady and her husband? Like, does the glasses guy mistreat her or anything terrible? Because without any clues, it kinda seems like this woman hates her husband for no good reason and wants to jump the bones of Planck, despite only going out with him the one time right before he got dragged into some weird baseball cult.
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May 12, 2023 18:37
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they were friends when they were little kids which is legally Ultra Marriage and the deepest commitment possible for two humans
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May 12, 2023 18:41
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amigolupus posted:Now I've only started reading Demons of Baseball a while ago, but what's the context between Planck and this lady and her husband? Like, does the glasses guy mistreat her or anything terrible? Because without any clues, it kinda seems like this woman hates her husband for no good reason and wants to jump the bones of Planck, despite only going out with him the one time right before he got dragged into some weird baseball cult. Her husband is a colossal rear end in a top hat who only thinks about how good he is at baseball and how he can remain the best at baseball. She married him because Planck was gone for two years training in baseball hell and couldn't write a letter. Edit: He is a very hateable douchebag who also cheated on her. Green Intern fucked around with this message at 19:05 on May 12, 2023 |
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May 12, 2023 19:00
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amigolupus posted:Now I've only started reading Demons of Baseball a while ago, but what's the context between Planck and this lady and her husband? Like, does the glasses guy mistreat her or anything terrible? Because without any clues, it kinda seems like this woman hates her husband for no good reason and wants to jump the bones of Planck, despite only going out with him the one time right before he got dragged into some weird baseball cult. Maggie and Planck were buds growing up, but Maggie's mom didn't approve of him because he was poor. She much preferred Maggie date Copper, who even back then was a huge piece of poo poo who treated her like garbage and cheated on her and stuff. Some other stuff happened like Planck's dad getting hit by a car and dying Maggie dumping Copper and Planck loving up his arm from pitching too awesome and Maggie and Planck falling in love and getting engaged. Then Planck had to go to some island for "training," but it turned out to be a hell island run by a baseball-obsessed psycho and he had to do physical and psychological torture for a few years and he wasn't allowed to write to Maggie or even be like, "This is my last letter they won't let me write you more, but I'm still interested okay?" So obviously when Maggie's fiance leaves for literal years and she never hears anything from him at all she thinks he's dead or dumped her or something. Meanwhile Copper is in the big leagues now and he goes on loving TV and is like, "I'M loving IN LOVE WITH MAGGIE AND IF I BEAT THIS REALLY HARD BASEBALL RECORD IT WILL PROVE MY LOVE AND SHE WILL HAVE TO MARRY ME THIS IS LEGALLY BINDING IN KOREA, APPARENTLY." So he does, and she does even though she hates his loving guts and he still treats her like poo poo. Eventually Planck gets to come back home with his teammates and his hell training made him absolutely nightmarishly good at baseball and he's like, "Cool, so now Maggie and I can get married, right?" But no. They cannot. And it is awkward. There was this weird thing also where Maggie's sister tried to get with Planck and they went on a couple of dates and she was sure it was love and they'd get married and she was a real poo poo to Maggie about it, but then it turned out that Planck was just super crazy from all the psychological torture on Hell Baseball Island and thought she was Maggie and when the truth came out it was REALLY awkward. So that should catch you up. Oh, also don't forget that Maggie's been crying buckets through this whole thing. I don't know if I'd recognize her if she appeared in the strip without the tear streaks all down her face. Luann  I'm not the pheasant plucker. I'm the pheasant plucker's son. I'm only plucking pheasants till the pheasant plucker comes. Gil Thorp  Home Free  Do you get a lot of angler fish in gross ponds behind peoples' houses?
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May 12, 2023 19:05
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Thanks for the explanation of Demons of Baseball, everyone.  It sounds insane and melodramatic in a good way so I may have to read it from the start.
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May 12, 2023 20:09
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Breaking Cat News Phoebe and Her Unicorn  Wallace the Brave  Heart of the City 
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May 12, 2023 20:58
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Haraiso Days Today’s comic: The Reason Miss Haru Doesn’t Get Drunk Cthulhu and Girl  OK, so here’s Q-Rais’ latest monthly offering (since he seems to have given up on Um Bread, sadly): Bardiche Hotel Chapter 1: Shumai  
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May 12, 2023 21:10
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A+J  I wonder if "I can drive the shift out of a stick!" was a step too far for his editors lol.
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May 12, 2023 21:37
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Modesty Blaise: The Puppet Master 
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May 12, 2023 22:42
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Pogo 9/17/50 Archie 5/12-14/47  Wait, so Riverdale is in New England ski country but it's also reachable by ferry from Hoboken? It's like trying to figure out where Springfield really is.  Isn't it great how Archie immediately jumps to the wrongest possible conclusions every time someone quotes prices to him? 
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May 12, 2023 23:42
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The MBTI Is Pseudoscience Horseshit       
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May 12, 2023 23:43
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Selachian posted:Wait, so Riverdale is in New England ski country but it's also reachable by ferry from Hoboken? It's like trying to figure out where Springfield really is. You can (theoretically) take a ferry up the Hudson all the way to Albany!
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May 12, 2023 23:56
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Into Ilves  Nancy  Dustin  Mandrake 
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May 13, 2023 00:02
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amigolupus posted:Thanks for the explanation of Demons of Baseball, everyone. It absolutely is. Everyone is at 100% emotional intensity in every panel and it rules.
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May 13, 2023 00:22
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Really generous of the agent to work for free
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May 13, 2023 00:26
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$7.50 in 1947 is $102 today. Going rate seems to be in the range of $300-500 now for an hour set, so while $7.50 is probably low, $750 would be extremely high for someone who isn't an actual name.
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May 13, 2023 00:31
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Hwurmp posted:69420 Viva la Mexico! http://www.zipcodecountry.com/usapostalcode/69420,OAX,Mexico#.ZF7PvXbMKM8
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May 13, 2023 00:46
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Fingerpori The general joke comes across, I think, but these speech bubbles had a surprising amount of small hard-to-translate nuances. ANSU  
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May 13, 2023 01:08
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Dana Simpson appeared in todays Jumble
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May 13, 2023 01:33
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manero posted:Pluggers  I confess.
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May 13, 2023 02:28
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Our Boarding House (December 24-26, 1923)   A dandy bonus from the Xmas Day 1923 sports page, just to show you that snappy lingo wasn't just restricted to boarding house wiseasses.  Toonerville Folks (February 24-26, 1921)  Just putting out a feeler here, but if anyone thinks these Eppie gags need a modesty curtain of some sort, please don't hesitate to speak up, because this particular strain of shenanigans keeps going for the next twenty or thirty years.   Another bonus: Because Newspapers.com tossed me a free weekend, I found some new bits of the Fontaine Fox fossil record.  (Chicago Post (via St. Louis Star), March 23, 1913) If anyone can find a source for the Chicago Evening Post that isn't the one that shut down in the 1870s (the run we're looking for is 1890-1932), we could open up a whole new Foxology dig site. Dok's Dippy Rarebit Fiend (September 26, 1914)  Little Lefty (July 7-9, 1938)   
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May 13, 2023 02:34
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I am so glad Jucika is back
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Retail 
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May 13, 2023 05:43
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Hostile V posted:The MBTI Is Pseudoscience Horseshit Of loving course K&K/Holbrook goes all in on this poo poo. I hate it! I HATE! Kennel posted:Dustin A strip where, apropos of nothing, the punchline is "Dustin is such a little cuck bitch beta poo poo." Ziggy doesn't have the level of contempt for its titular character that Dustin does...and the conceit of Ziggy is "He's a loser."
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May 13, 2023 06:02
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Heathcliff  Compu-toon   Garfield   Overboard   Monty   For Better or For Worse   Classic Arlo and Janis (June 08-09, 2001)   Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon   On The Fastrack   Safe Havens  
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May 13, 2023 06:16
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Daddy Daze Take It From the Tinkersons  Macanudo  Dark Side of the Horse 
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May 13, 2023 06:33
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riderchop posted:For Better or For Worse Why does she look like she's about to throw herself into traffic over this?  Crabgrass  Peanuts Through the Ages (Oct 13-14, 1950)   Calvin and Hobbes (Jun 2-3, 1993)   Big Nate  Blind Alley  Gonna do the Dunce Christmas full page comic because it's up for free on his social media and why not. 
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May 13, 2023 07:26
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readingatwork posted:Why does she look like she's about to throw herself into traffic over this? Then she'll try to blame it on the nearest child.
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May 13, 2023 08:01
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Fingerpori  OK so in Finnish, the term for Volunteer Fire Department is "Free Fire Department", not in the sense of costing nothing, but as a shortened form of "Vapaaehtoinen palokunta", "Volunteer Fire Department", so it's kind of ... "The Fire Department of the Free-Willing Firemen" kinda thing. It might be the same in the United States and elsewhere, but at least here in rural areas they work kind of like military reserves. People sign up for them, get training courses, and then do a rotation where they act as firemen and hang out at the fire station after work etc. Makes sense, if your house is burning down you don't want to wait for a fire department from a city 50 - 200 kilometers away to get to you -- which they of course never even would because they need to be in the city, so at that point even not as good volunteers are better than nothing. A couple of my childhood friends did volunteer fire fighting as a hobby and they were in very good shape and not at all terribly burned to a crisp so it seemed like a good time. Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 08:45 on May 13, 2023 |
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May 13, 2023 08:42
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Eh... The Aunt Eppie strips I reckon I'd be ok with them either being spoiler'd or not - whatever makes you feel most comfortable. I reckon if I lean towards one over the other, it's them being spoiler'd.
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May 13, 2023 09:03
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readingatwork posted:Why does she look like she's about to throw herself into traffic over this? The guilt of feeling like a bad mom. Also, some parents are quite obsessed about their child's hair.
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May 13, 2023 09:19
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If a child has bad hair it reflects poorly on the parent and that's awful for the parent?riderchop posted:Garfield
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Kennel posted:The guilt of feeling like a bad mom. Also, some parents are quite obsessed about their child's hair. Also, the author/artist of foob has been documented as a good ol' 1970s style child abuser who once threw her toddler out in the freezing canadian winter and locked the door before her "guardian angel" told her to bring the child in from the multiple digits below zero weather.
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May 13, 2023 10:31
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Kennel posted:The guilt of feeling like a bad mom. Also, some parents are quite obsessed about their child's hair. My father wanted my sister to have long hair when she was little. It played out pretty much as the strip.
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May 13, 2023 10:44
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EasyEW posted:Just putting out a feeler here, but if anyone thinks these Eppie gags need a modesty curtain of some sort, please don't hesitate to speak up, because this particular strain of shenanigans keeps going for the next twenty or thirty years. Do whatever you feel you need to. They don't really rise to the same level as the racist stuff but they can be a little uncomfortable. I have a bad habit of interpreting things in the best possible light when it's not really warranted, so early on I was of the mind that the Aunt Eppie strips didn't necessarily feel mean spirited toward the character, but I've come to my senses about that. Vintage Valiant (Mar. 24, 1957) 
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riderchop posted:For Better or For Worse Now surely you've learned your lesson to childproof your home so your kid doesn't get her hands on scissors or chemicals under the sink, right? Right???
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