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Ghost Leviathan posted:And here I thought the brief fad of people using chatGPT as a replacement for google had been laughed off the internet already. Mate have you seen the garbage that Google comes up with these days And besides, I’m a loving terrible programmer so I can say “write me a javascript to do x” and it usually after some minor tweaks and testing
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BrigadierSensible posted:Murray Ball, (the creator and artist behind Footrot Flats) is a oval office. He did end up with one I think. It was like "shirley" or some poo poo. I haven't read newspaper comic strips in a very very long time If you've ever spent time around ramshackle farms the dog usually gets a name. The cat probably wouldn't get one like Horrace does. But Horrace was a monster who was too good at his job and Dog was just a dumbass The Peccadillo fucked around with this message at 08:49 on Feb 17, 2024 |
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The Peccadillo posted:He did end up with one I think. It was like "shirley" or some poo poo. I haven't read newspaper comic strips in a very very long time Shirley does make sense for The Dog's name. Its a "girls" name so he would be embarrassed about it, yet is also used for olde timey aristocratic men, so it makes sense why the Aunt Dolly character would have given it to him. I always assumed it was "Petunia" or some poo poo like that. We used to have several Footrot Flats books in hour house when I was a kid. The big oblong shaped ones. And please forgive me if I am wrong, but I thought the cat was called Horse, not Horace.
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BrigadierSensible posted:And please forgive me if I am wrong, but I thought the cat was called Horse, not Horace. Yeah I always remembered the cats name being Horse. Due to it's size and all.
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Our most famous Shirley:
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The whole joke is the dog has a name and hates anyone using it, so everyone just calls him 'Dog' and he's smart enough to figure it out from context. Also Horse is based on a real feral cat given the same name.
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The Peccadillo posted:He did end up with one I think. It was like "shirley" or some poo poo. I haven't read newspaper comic strips in a very very long time On the official site Ball says that he decided to never reveal it quote:I was probably about 24 strips in to the series when it came to me. It was magnificent – it suited him so-oo well. From that day forth I set about trying to find an opportunity to slip it into the strip. The readers would love it… There's a rumour online that he once revealed in a letter to a fan that the dog's name was Diogenes, and the fact that Balls' publishing label was called Diogenes Design might have been a wink and a nod to that
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Definitely the right idea, there's no way any reveal could live up to it. Though Diogenes would be very fitting for a few reasons. Especially since it means 'dog' iirc.
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My Dad was convinced that he read in one of the comics that the dog's real name was creampuff. I can't ever remember reading it myself but I'm going back like 35 years to having actual copies of the comic books on hand to check
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EoinCannon posted:What was his deal? Anti semite? He also wrote the second most racist bond film
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bee posted:My Dad was convinced that he read in one of the comics that the dog's real name was creampuff. I can't ever remember reading it myself but I'm going back like 35 years to having actual copies of the comic books on hand to check I remember hearing that. It feels like a cop out rumour since the joke is the third Murphy dog is named Cream Puff.
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bee posted:My Dad was convinced that he read in one of the comics that the dog's real name was creampuff. I can't ever remember reading it myself but I'm going back like 35 years to having actual copies of the comic books on hand to check Creampuff is one of the Murphy dogs. There's a few mentions online of Diogenes being Dog's real name which seems pretty on brand for Aunt Dolly. Ball seems like a complex dude, on one hand Sisterhood is by all accounts supremely hosed but on the other he apparently cracked the shits at the All Blacks tour of South Africa while Dog was a mascot because of all the racist poo poo going on there. There's an article online saying he gave up writing Footrot Flats because "the ethos of the simple, humble and generous life depicted in the strips was being swamped by capitalism, corporatism, and consumerism" which doesn't seem like a particularly conservative perspective. I guess like a lot of people he had his flaws and you have to take the good with the bad.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Definitely the right idea, there's no way any reveal could live up to it. And he lived in a barrel.
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Gah, I totally missed some choice Footrot Flats chat because I was working all week... FF was my backup Hard Quiz topic after some bogan bombed out on Mad Max... But, yes, Diogenes was allegedly the Dog's real name. The character was kind of a simple man's philosopher, and Diogenes of his time was known as 'The Dog' and lived in a barrel, usually accompanied by strays.  Ball himself was considered left-wing, though the boomerisms became more apparent over time. He stopped making the comic in 1994 well before a lot of changes in social conscience became mainstream, though I am not certain anything controversial would have made it in anyway since it was never the style of FF. But I think you can see his views on feminism in the comic, Aunt Dolly being an example of an older conservative woman who is easily fiercely independent and physically and mentally strong, but is terminally single and living with a bunch of cats. Pongo being new-wave radical feminism displayed with juvenile naivety. Then Cheeky Hobson being a vacuous thirst trap that would string Wal along for the entire series until she fucks him over in the end...
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I had a Sonny cut we all had Sonny cuts
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Carlos Lantana posted:I had a Sonny cut Bowl cut, we always said, the ol' puddin basin
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webmeister posted:Meet me at Maccas
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The treatment of Cheeky is pretty weird given she's shown as looking like a blonde bimbo but she and Wal are genuinely mutually interested, the whole point is more the Dog's childish jealousy, and she does step up when they need her help, and when thrown in the deep end with farm work she ends up doing alright. It's literally at the hen party where she decides apparently on a whim to call off the wedding and run off with an American male stripper. I think one of those things where you can see the cracks of the contradictions that eventually end up tearing it all apart.
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Cooch would be your anti vax mate that is so peaceful and nice otherwise that you just don't bring it up.
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ili posted:We should be allowed to sacrifice blow to get NVJ unbanned.
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EoinCannon posted:Cooch would be your anti vax mate that is so peaceful and nice otherwise that you just don't bring it up. Eh, whole thing with Cooch is that he's a huge country hippie but also very practical, he's not a vegetarian (and considers cave wetas good eating) and understands the realities of farming, I think he could go either way.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Eh, whole thing with Cooch is that he's a huge country hippie but also very practical, he's not a vegetarian (and considers cave wetas good eating) and understands the realities of farming, I think he could go either way. I'd wager that Cooch wouldn't get lost in those rabbit holes, I don't even think he owns a TV. He does have some weird home remedies passed down by family, though. Now, if you want to talk cookers, Tarquin St Clair's parents would absolutely be nuts about vaccines and 5G. Ok, but of a deep cut, there. They were only in one short arc of gag-a-day strips. Tarquin was one of the rugby juniors Wal coached and his very left-wing (near beatnik) parents protested Wal's decision to put the kid in the sin bin for refusing to tackle citing pacifism... Ghost Leviathan posted:The treatment of Cheeky is pretty weird given she's shown as looking like a blonde bimbo but she and Wal are genuinely mutually interested, the whole point is more the Dog's childish jealousy, and she does step up when they need her help, and when thrown in the deep end with farm work she ends up doing alright. It's literally at the hen party where she decides apparently on a whim to call off the wedding and run off with an American male stripper. There were also moments of fussiness and high standards that made her incompatible with a farmer's life, like say the time she stormed out of Wal's house because she found a single flea (Apparently sent by Dog) or getting kitted out in designer rainwear to help out on the farm. Guess it was easy to wring comedy from the fish-out-of-water trope. But she also wouldn't completely block Spit Murphy's advances and would basically use them to gently caress with Wal as she enjoyed the attention. (Spit also tried mackin' on to Cooch's Cousin Cathy, bringing out an unprecedented rage in him.) When you look at it, Cheeky was just a wannabe glamour girl, past her prime, and stuck in a lovely rural community having to deal with the fact that she'd have to settle for a fat bloke that regularly smelled of manure and went with the nicest one there, which is why she shot through with the stripper on her hen's night without a second thought. EDIT: Australiana: Ok, NZ can come too... Maximum Sexy Pigeon fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Feb 20, 2024 |
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:When you look at it, Cheeky was just a wannabe glamour girl, past her prime, and stuck in a lovely rural community having to deal with the fact that she'd have to settle for a fat bloke that regularly smelled of manure and went with the nicest one there, which is why she shot through with the stripper on her hen's night without a second thought. poo poo, when you put it that way it makes sense. Having come from bumfuck nowhere I probably even know the type and hard to blame her considering. Most people in those communities who don't have the right kind of brainworms to feel like they belong there tend to gently caress off the first chance they get. Farmers are a weird bunch. Even Wal can be pretty immature and doesn't have much in the way of friends.
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Marrying Wal would mean she'd be stuck farming for life. Why would you drive out from whatever hill tract Wal hangs out on to work when there's work to do on the farm.
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Well I've only just realised it, since I've never actually had a discussion about FF as an adult and can now see all the stuff I missed as a kid. I've still got a stack of the comics in a box here, somewhere. Might have to go over them for the first time in a coupla decades and see what else I notice.
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That and Spit Murphy is like the one guy for miles around who actually bothers to put effort into his appearance.
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Well I've only just realised it, since I've never actually had a discussion about FF as an adult and can now see all the stuff I missed as a kid. I also read the comics as a kid. And this discussion is showing me hoe poor my knowledge of Footrot Flats actually is.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:That and Spit Murphy is like the one guy for miles around who actually bothers to put effort into his appearance. Spit is a greaser wannabe when he's not in farm clothes or a rugby uniform, so yeah, makes sense.
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My Tent Spider and her just-hatched spiderlings. The web has been there for a few weeks. She adds more structural lines like guy- wires and repairs it daily. The males warily hang out on the edge. We recently had a severe thunderstorm with +60km/h windspeed. The web stretched like an elastic band, but it held fast. Good engineering. I was impressed. 
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Blow posted:My Tent Spider and her just-hatched spiderlings. Them Orb Weaver types have strong-rear end webs for sure. They can take a lot of punishment.
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