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PainterofCrap posted:I am resurrected. Hey I recognize this even though I've never seen it before. In the Simpson's episode 'Duffless' when Homer is watching car crash footage in a DWI class and everyone else is horrified but he's laughing at it, the showrunners specifically cited this cartoon as the inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P7d5VOQnXI&t=1s
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean I wonder how many strips Batuik has drawn over the years has been about old men complaining about how hard working out is
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Selachian posted:
https://youtu.be/gzakwQ9nJVk Thompson really did his homework on this one
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Manuel Calavera posted:
Putting black pepper into some kind of stew doesn't make you to be a badass
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ikanreed posted:Worse, I'm pretty sure that's loving salt. It's white and chunky. Hey don't be bad mouthing Old Bay Haifisch posted:Reminder that this comic makes garlic out as something super intense and smelly, and that even looking at a jalapeno makes you hardcore. If these people were ever exposed to steak sauce it would kill then
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goatface posted:Axa lives in a hellworld of starving and struggling people who still maintain excellent balanced fitness and skincare regimes. So she's in a 1970s post-apocolyptic SciFi movie
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PainterofCrap posted:Drawn and Quartered - 1942 They could try invading Belgium, that might work. BigDave fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Jan 29, 2021 |
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Thanks. I figured someone was more familiar with the whole bundle of crazy. A lot of it sounds like reveals at the end of the original Roseanne. I wanna say there was something about eating over a sink? But the many threads have become a blur to me.
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Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis The Chiefs lost 3 offensive linemen Janis, shouldn't have bet against the Bucs defense.
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Powered Descent posted:This seems like a good point to remind everyone that Safe Havens began in 1988 as a strip about preschoolers at a day care center. 1988?! 
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quote:The view that carrots are good for the eyes is a notion still commonly held today. They do contain Vitamin A, a nutrient which helps contribute to healthy eyes, but it turns out the vegetables have a negligible effect on vision even if eaten in vast quantities. The Air Ministry deliberately fabricated the story to prevent the Germans from discovering the Allies’ invention and implementation of Airborne Interception RADAR units in their fighter planes. This new secret technology was the real reason British pilots always seemed to know when German planes were approaching. https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/for-your-eyes-only/ It was also used as part of a national nutrition campaign to get Americans to eat more vegetables; malnutrition was the most common reason men were rejected from the draft.
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EasyEW posted:
Why do I have a feeling that this is verbatim something that happened to Batuik?
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Feb 24, 2021 03:23
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Parahexavoctal posted:... so if I understand this correctly, Everett believes that wristwatches are so self-evidently feminine that any man wearing one should be a) addressed as 'her' , and b) beaten for doing so? Until WWI, wrist watches were considered feminine; men wore pocket watches. Then during the war, someone realized 'wtf are we still doing pocket watches for?' and switched to wrist watches.
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Pastry of the Year posted:
I'm having flashbacks to the late 1990s in my house
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The_Other posted:
this storyline really reminded me of doing the same thing, overnight road trip to some cousin of my mom's wedding. How Wonderful! posted:Dykes to Watch Out For #135 (1992) Looks like they were protesting and stinkbombing Basic Instinct, aka the Sharon Stone no underwear movie https://apnews.com/article/22a3aef95871419c0742d7dd723bb584
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How Wonderful! posted:Dykes to Watch Out For #136 (1992) VCR's had been commercially available since the mid-80s but they still cost. In 1994 a new VCR would set you back $200 or more. 
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Zereth posted:Points? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjusted_Service_Rating_Score Basically as the war in Europe started to wind down the decision was made to start discharging American troops based on time in service, i.e. First In First Out.
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How Wonderful! posted:Just a head's up, I just got my second Moderna shot and will be traveling for house renovations next week, along with a ton of finals grading. I will try to stay on top of things and of course remember to pack my Bechdel stuff with me, but I might end up being asleep for 48 hours or getting trapped inside drywall or something for a little while, who knows. Free piece of advise, don't try to fight it when the 2nd Moderna shot kicks it. Do what I did, knock back a shot of nyquil and sleep it off like a bad weekend.
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https://twitter.com/normfeuti/status/1388142304947474434?s=19
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We named the cat carcinoma because everyone in this town gets cancer
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Kennel posted:
LOOK YOU DONT GET IT IM FAT AND I WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT BUT I DONT WANT TO CHANGE ANYTHING SO A NEED A SCALE THAT WILL LIE TO ME LIKE SEAN HANNITY DOES EVERY NIGHT I NEED A HANNITY SCALE
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Mercury Hat posted:Back this early, the brass ring for a lot of people was a newspaper syndication, banner ads still had a few years to go before they were profitable and bandwidth was a lot more expensive. A popular comic linking to a lesser known one could crash its website from the traffic influx. Some people could make a go of it; Scott Kurtz leaned hard into the merchandising aspect early on enough to make a difference. Then of course there's Penny Arcade and PAX, which is like winning webcomic Powerball.
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EasyEW posted:
So, I was curious why they picked the Japanese ambassador to get Duck out of Mexico, or if Japan even had a ambassador to Mexico in 1913, and it turns out that Mexico was Japan's first recognized trade partner. quote:After the Meiji Restoration, in which the Empire of Japan officially reestablished diplomatic relations with various governments of the world, in Mexico arose interest to initiate official relations with the Empire of Japan. The expedition from Mexico to Japan in 1874, led by the Mexican scientist Francisco Díaz Covarrubias, was the reason why formal attempts were made between representatives of the governments of both countries to have diplomatic relations. At the end of Diaz Covarrubias' report, such action was recommended. quote:The fact that Mexico agreed to sign a more just treaty in comparison to the treaties reached by other countries that favored the Europeans over the Japanese was seen as a grateful act for the Asian nation; and so the Mexican embassy in Tokyo was given a unique location right next to the Official Residence of the Prime Minister in the heart of the Japanese capital, in an area reserved for the room of senior rulers of the country. It remains there to this day.[5]
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EasyEW posted:Funky Winkerbean so we've seen Batuik complain about how hard working out is, and now we get to see how hard it is to have your house remodeled. coming up next, Funky Winkerbean complains about his annual checkup!
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BigglesSWE posted:I remember when Luann was scandalized by being at a party that was loud, and with people making out. As a comparison, when Foxtrot did the same plot, it was because everyone at the party was drinking, taking bong rips and doing coke.
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EasyEW posted:
I saw something similar in a old Gasoline Alley from the 20s, it cracks me up that the invention of home radio brought in home exercise programs, because it really shows how much society has evolved while keeping the same basic concepts. We've gone from this to Pendleton in 100 years.
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Selachian posted:Peloton, surely. Yeah that's what I meant
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https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2003/03/27
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Late to FOOB chat, but I think one reason why it's so bad to us now is because in the 80s, misery=drama in terms of family oriented dramas. Think back to "very special episodes" of 80s sitcoms. I'd argue that FOOB's bad writing is bad to us now, but was considered top notch at the time. Sitcom drama story at the time was "junior borrowed the car and broke a mirror" or "sister cheated on a test". Today, family drama is multiple layers of causes interlinked with itself, but in the 80s the mom and dad were fountains of wisdom and the kids were always wrong. I'm sure in the 80s FOOB was groundbreaking, but today we look at it and say "gently caress thats hosed up"
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EasyEW posted:
there isn't enough booze in the world to support a Funkyverse strip club
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EasyEW posted:
Stephen Bochco didn't write this much about alcoholism
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EasyEW posted:
"It gave my cancer cancer!" - Mark W. "Help can anyone hear me? I'm trapped between worlds and cannot die!" - Lisa M.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Writing comic strip storylines where characters you invented win prestigious awards is pretty Chris-Chan like. WOAH thats a strong internet flashback, forgot all about that guy
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Huxley posted:Eh, my grandfather fought in WW2, my dad is 64, I'm 37. I think that lines up pretty well with Arlo's dad, Arlo, and Gene. Jimmy Johnson mentioned on his blog that Arlo and Janis are in a sliding scale of late 50s - early 60s, so on the verge of retirement.
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Found this on the Son of Stuck Funky site; I don't know if it's a web crawler or what, but it's got newspaper comics going back to 2006 https://nuless.org/comics/dailystrips-2006.11.15.html
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:This poo poo keeps bugging me more and more day by day. Not only isn't "lol america" -> "gets hit" not a very fun joke the 67th time, it's so loving STUPID. this is something you see quite often in American propaganda and culture at large during 1917-1918; those Europeans think us Americans don't know how to fight, its our first time, etc. There was a element of truth to this; prior to WW1, American troops had been involved in colonialist low level conflicts and some minor skirmishes, but not full scale war*. Also, the US Army prior to WWI wasn't as 'professional' as we think of armed forces today; the Army was seen as something you joined if you had done time in prison or a sanitarium, or if you had failed at everything else. Before the American Expeditionary Force was sent to France, British and French commanders wanted Americans to be assigned to their units as replacements, rather then be their own fighting force. John Perishing resisted this strongly, and also insisted that American troops be well trained before being sent to France, as opposed to simply "here's your rifle, now go get the huns". *the Civil War notwithstanding
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Raskolnikov38 posted:I guess Sears as it existed before Eddie lambert is the analogue?? I don’t remember Sears ever having food or snacks Norm Fetui said it was a expy of Sears and Gimbels department stores. Personally I'd say it was closer to Kmart then anything else, before they got bought before Sears.
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BigglesSWE posted:In what loving universe would “Lisa’s Legacy” be considered a potential hit in Hollywood? in the same one that Batuik dreams of every night, where cartoonists are worshiped as gods among men
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EasyEW posted:
"It's called a 'real doll' and you can have them custom made to look like anyone!"
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