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Giant Ethicist posted:Huh. Maybe I'm poisoned by knowledge, but this setup seems very easily readable to me. I won't go through why I think so, because it looks like it might be spoilers, though. No, I got it too. This is very much a stock plot. birthday episode right?
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Mister Olympus posted:No, I got it too. This is very much a stock plot. birthday episode right?
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I remember when Bad Machinery was being freshly posted in the bad webcomics thread (jesus, that's gotta be a decade ago now) and I remember bouncing off it because of how every character was written. Seeing all the other Allison stuff in here, yeah, that's not isolated to that one series. I dunno, I guess I can't handle...however you'd describe it, I want to compare it to how Joss Whedon writes characters, but that feels a little too mean-spirited
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Aces High posted:
it's a valid comparison because they're coming out of the same primordial soup, the dawn of internet culture as we understand it today. it's the exact same feeling you get looking at posts from this website circa 2004, and the old allison comics make it very clear. he's refined it in a different direction since then, but is fundamentally bound to a lot of the same gestures
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Scary throwback  "I'll call the scary" as a threat has been living rent-free in my head since I read it. It's like threatening to call Santa
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Selachian posted:Archie 3/2-4/50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQRW0RM4V0k
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Conan: The Blood Egg Part 2 John Allison's Patreon John Allison's Gumroad store Forward Slash Scare website for Allison's side comics John Allison posted:Whenever I look at a river or canal, I imagine the pike down there, skulking in the grotty depths. How do pikes find love? They seem like solitary beasts to me. I heard that when cooked, they taste of nothing.
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Crabgrass Big Nate  They also have stingers. You're welcome.
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readingatwork posted:Crabgrass And some are effectively immortal.
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Olive & Popeye Our Boarding House, in which Roscoe knocks the Major for a loop. (June 25-27, 1925; spoiler for Jewish stereotyping.)    Our Boarding House: The School Ma'am Saga (June 26, 1925)  Toonerville Folks (September 11-13, 1922)    Dok's Dippy Surgeon General's Warning (March 7, 1915; spoilers for more stereotpying)  Little Lefty surrenders to the inevitable. (February, 8-10, 1940)     e: for double posting EasyEW fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Apr 19, 2024 |
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that Sterling panel is perfect avatar material. FOOLS.
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The joke is ancient, but I got a little chuckle out of the cow surgeon with rubber gloves on his hooves. Cow
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Haifisch posted:You posted this one twice, the other outside the spoiler tags. Fixed, and also ugh.
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Heathcliff Compu-toon  Garfield  Overboard  Monty  Classic Arlo and Janis (May 17, 2002)  On The Fastrack  Safe Havens  Zippy The Pinhead  Rae The Doe, which you can support by pledging to the author's Patreon  For Better or For Worse  that's uh.....that's the whole thing lol. we'll get a Friday, a Saturday and a Sunday strip about it and some mentions here and there, but we don't spend any more time than needed on old mate Farley
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goatface posted:A beaker full of GMO spooge from the DNA wizard
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FINGERPORI I feel so close to getting a translation on this joke, but I can't quite get here. So let me explain what's going on. The phrase the crook uses in the original "käänsin kylkeä", literally means "I turned my side", which just means rolling over in your sleep. But "kääntää" (literally to turn) can colloquially also mean "to steal" and "kylki" is literally side or flank, so the guy was peacefully stealing some flank steaks. I know "rolling over" someone can be used as an euphemism for stealing or robbing, but I still feel like I can't quite get there. Can anyone think of a way?
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riderchop posted:On The Fastrack What? If they're employees, they've already gotten past the application part?
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What job is this where they don't ask for your resume before bringing you in for an interview
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Maxwell Lord posted:What job is this where they don't ask for your resume before bringing you in for an interview Newspaper cartoonist.
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:FINGERPORI When you're talking about stealing from someone, you're "rolling" them, not "rolling over." Specifically, it's used for looting someone who's drunk, asleep, or unconscious. Which isn't very helpful for the translation, I know. Rhymes with Orange  Get Fuzzy 4/18/04  Stephen Collins  Brenda Starr 1/18/53  Smokey Stover 1/8/61  Everyday Movies 6/14/37  "His folks gave me a swell party and I got the ring in the most UNUSUAL way. It was hid in my grapefruit!" Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 7/18/43  Closer Than We Think! 1/8/61  Bonus Ad! Don't tell me you're a shoe hoarder! 
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Selachian posted:Stephen Collins In case this is unclear, traditionally pubs had a more space-efficient throng of customers across the bar, where order was mostly enforced by the barstaff checking faces, along with a system of customer's nodding at people who have been waiting longer than they have. This form of politeness is being forgotten in favour of a vertical queue, where it is more obvious to everyone that the person waiting longest gets served first. I have seen a few signs put out by bar staff saying "don't queue at our bar", because it is pretty awkward in most pubs to have a line of people cutting through the room.
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Maxwell Lord posted:What job is this where they don't ask for your resume before bringing you in for an interview The kind where you walk into a random office, find the man in charge, look him in the eye and shake his hand, and ask him for a job.  Bizarro  The Family Circus  Slylock Fox  Flash Gordon  They've awakened the powerful Katrinka! 
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Imagine the poo poo Bok is seeing now. How is he not blind with all that heat?
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Cowslips Warren posted:Imagine the poo poo Bok is seeing now. How is he not blind with all that heat?
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Giant Ethicist posted:Shauna is the best character and it's a drat shame that Allison couldn't figure out what to do with her after SGR was done. Funny story about my brother in law. Back when he was a little kid (the late 80s) his mom took him to a Check E Cheese. Eventually it was time to go, and he pulled the ultimate kid trump card. "I don't know you! I'm not going with you! You're a stranger! This lady is trying to kidnap me! Go away!", etc. The staff had been paying attention, and had probably seen poo poo like this before, so MIL didn't really get hassled, but was absolutely mortified. Then and there, she declared a ban on Chuck E Cheese for her son. Some time later, he was visiting the grandparents and there was some time to kill, so grandma suggested taking the boy to Chuck E Cheese. She of course had heard the story before, but she figured "I raised 2 kids, this is my second grandkid, he knows he got in trouble for pulling that stunt last time. He wouldn't dare try and pull that with grandma." Yeah, no. Second verse, same as the first. Not just a tantrum, but a full blown "HELP! I'm being kidnapped!" So, he has now received a full blown lifetime ban, and even as a man in his 40s, with kids of his own, he's not allowed inside a Chuck E Cheese. EDIT: Just to be absolutely clear, the ban is enforced from the family and not the company.
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