Haifisch posted:

1981 comics

EasyEW posted:

Tiggum posted:

It is super weird how dedicated Diana is to getting her son together with her daughter's friend.

So, in what way is Steamboat Willie actually the "basis and inspiration" for this completely unrelated story?

~Coxy posted:

I'm sorry to sound interrogative, but did you drop Our Boarding House?

Medenmath posted:

It's legal to use the visual designs of the oldest Disney characters now, so he has to use them, I guess, to thumb his nose at the mouse or whatever. At least this is slightly less banal than another horror thing with an evil Mickey in it.

Really this only highlights how lovely it is that it takes 95 years or whatever for things to become public domain, since by the time something is available for use it's almost entirely culturally irrelevant. Steamboat Willie is very famous, of course, but I don't think the general public actually care about it at all. It's probably been largely without economic value even to Disney for decades.

Strontium posted:

Take It From The Tinkersons

Powered Descent posted:

Flash Gordon

quote:

Babushka
Babushka is Russian and Polish slang for grandmother, because of the headscarves they wore which were called babushkas.

quote:

Voochko
Voochko's name is played off the name Vucko, the mascot of the former Yugoslavia Olympics in 1984. In the comic the character represents Soviet Communism. At the time of this comic, the US and the USSR were in the middle of the Cold War, a period of geopolitical tension between the USA and former Soviet Union, that ran from the end of World War Two to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Both were nuclear powers, and the danger that either side might set off a full scale nuclear war was very real.

EasyEW posted:

Because there's a good chance I didn't say exactly what was going on, there was a family medical emergency that popped up roughly three weeks ago that is still ongoing and, because I've been designated a certain role in caregiving (and because I feel like I'm still trying to figure out what the hell I'm doing), it's been eating up almost the entirety of my waking hours. I'm posting what I can handle in a day, and as soon as things settle down I'll hopefully get back to my regular schedule.

Caphi posted:

The continuous smirking in whatever is going on in The Phantom right now is so off-putting.

Murdstone posted:

Mary Worth

Caphi posted:

The continuous smirking in whatever is going on in The Phantom right now is so off-putting.

Yvonmukluk posted:

Bad Machinery

Forum accident posted:

Ziggy


(8/20/1971)

Vargo posted:

Wallace the Brave

Murdstone posted:

Pooch Cafe



I don't get it.

Julet Esqu posted:

Luann


No, but for real. If this essay actually turns into a Bernice diss track I am so for it.

EasyEW posted:

Because there's a good chance I didn't say exactly what was going on, there was a family medical emergency that popped up roughly three weeks ago that is still ongoing and, because I've been designated a certain role in caregiving (and because I feel like I'm still trying to figure out what the hell I'm doing), it's been eating up almost the entirety of my waking hours. I'm posting what I can handle in a day, and as soon as things settle down I'll hopefully get back to my regular schedule.

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

"You don't have the skill, experience or demeanor to be the assistant manager"

lol, and while I'm at it, lmao to say that it takes any "skill" or "experience" to be a retail manager like Josh.

Cowslips Warren posted:

if anything Josh would be promoted to assistant manager, and then manager at the next new opening, not because he is good at his job, but, Lesson of Life, he has sucked up to the DM and is a good simp to him.

had Retail not ended, at some point he would have become DM over Marla while Stuart moved up in corporate. unless Josh got there first.

Weembles posted:

I might be misremembering the last run of Retail, but didn't Josh leave to go work at Delman's?

Selachian posted:

Closer Than We Think! 7/12/59



"Obscure chemicals"? Sounds safe.

"https://adelaideaz.com/articles/jack-becker-and-scientist-david-riceman-turn-ninety-mile-desert-into-productive-coonalpyn-downs posted:

South Australia’s Ninety-Mile Desert was transformed into Coonalpyn Downs agricultural land by entrepreneur Jack Becker and scientist David Riceman from 1943 when Becker bought 3,080 hectares of “poor despised land” 13km west of Keith. Although it received 45cm annual rainfall, the region was unproductive due to soil that was largely leached silicious sand (Laffer sand).

The deficiency of soil trace elements – manganese, copper, zinc and molybdenum – on pasture and on grazing stock had been found in parts of Western Australia, South Australia and New Zealand and shown a decade before by research workers in Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR – later CSIRO) and at Adelaide’s Waite Agricultural Research Institute.

When Becker brought his Beckersfield property near Keith at 27/6d per hectare in 1943, he knew about David Riceman's work with the CSCIR on mineral deficiencies in the soil at Robert Dawson’s farm in Robe, in South Australia’s south east. Becker made available land, labour and any other help Riceman needed to test trace elements at Beckersfield.

The first cereal and pasture plots sewn in 1944 showed they responded to superphosphate but, more profoundly, copper and zinc. Riceman's work continued until 1948. It greatly increased farm and pastoral plus scientific understanding. Some, including Becker, became very wealthy, with land prices rising from about 25/- per hectare to about £25. Becker himself moved into producing and harvesting high-quality pasture seeds, especially Clare subterranean clover and perennial veldt grass.

Becker developed seed of a satisfactory purity and germination that he sold commercially through his Unarlee Pastoral Company with Alf Hannaford, a maker of agricultural machinery, who delivered the seed to farmers around the state in his fleet of trucks fitted with the wheat seed grading and pickling machine he invented.