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somepartsareme posted:In 2004 the Dave Matthews Band tour bus illegally dumped human waste into the Chicago river and onto a tour boat It's also a part of forums history as someone who worked on the tour boat posted about it before the bus had been identified  .This is a thread from 2004 so I can't vouch for the overall content, but it's interesting anyway.
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Slammy posted:Those Were the Days (February 1, 1951) This comic is a treasure  .
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Slammy posted:Those Were the Days (April 19, 1951) If it weren't for the fact that it's so well drawn, this would be indistinguishable from a modern political cartoon. Amazing.
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I had to dig through the old threads for that strip and I got super bummed out that there wasn't ever a The Creeps collection. I hope the artist is doing well in whatever they're up to now.
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Feb 2, 2021 17:29
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Parahexavoctal posted:In this installment of The Timid Soul (August 12, 1935), I'm really not sure what Caspar's putting on his feet. And I guess this was before the invention of anti-slip bathtub mats. I imagine it's what it sounds like: a resin from something like a pine tree that will help him stick to the slick tub, similar to how dancers will rosin up their shoes to keep from slipping on the floor.
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Feb 6, 2021 18:00
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Pastry of the Year posted:Garfield Classic (June 11, 1989) I think strips like this are why I really liked Garfield as a kid. The art and layout are pretty interesting, especially compared to modern Garfield. That first panel where he's peering around the corner into the room really sells the scenario.
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Feb 11, 2021 15:45
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Selachian posted:Richard's Poor Almanac I'm guessing this is from the 2002 - 2004 time period given the jokes about the French and the war on Iraq and I can say living in the DC Metro area at the time of this comic was wild. The safe room thing is referring to the scaremongering that terrorists would set off a dirty bomb or some kind of biological weapon and that you could -- poo poo you not -- safeguard your house by duct taping garbage bags to the windows. "Duct tape sales rise amid terror fears From Jeanne Meserve CNN Tuesday, February 11, 2003 Posted: 7:35 PM EST (0035 GMT) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Americans have apparently heeded the U.S. government's advice to prepare for terror attacks, emptying hardware store shelves of duct tape. On Tuesday, less than 24 hours after U.S. Fire Administrator David Paulison described a list of useful items, stores in the greater Washington, D.C. area reported a surge in sales of plastic sheeting, duct tape, and other emergency items. These items, Paulison said, can be helpful after a biological, chemical or radiological attack. A Lowe's hardware store in Alexandria, Virginia, said every roll of duct tape has been sold. Another Alexandria Home Depot store reported sales of duct tape tripled overnight. "Everything that was on that newscast, we are selling a lot of it," said Rich Pierce with a Home Depot in the D.C. area. In his advisory, Paulison recommended that households have on hand three days worth of water and food; an emergency supply kit for both home and automobile; radios with extra batteries; and plastic sheeting and duct tape to seal windows and doors. (What to do) With concerns growing about al Qaeda's interest in acquiring weapons of mass destruction, Paulison cautioned that aid after an attack could be hard to come by, at least initially. He said that in the first 48 to 72 hours of an emergency, many Americans will likely to have to look after themselves.(Red Cross on preparedness) If an attack occurs, Paulison said, households should tune in to local media outlets and not evacuate unless they are told to do so. President Bush's Homeland Security Council raised the national threat level from yellow to orange on Friday. Orange indicates a "high" risk of terrorist attack, and yellow indicates an "elevated" risk. The level was raised in part because of a high amount of "chatter" being intercepted by intelligence agencies. When the Department of Homeland Security urged Americans on Monday to take steps to prepare for a possible attack, it said the advice was intended not as a "dire" warning but as cautionary advice."
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Kennel posted:Dustin I don't know why I thought at first that the punchline was "mom calls out misogynist plot point in old movie, dad approves but Dustin doesn't". I really ought to have known better.
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Hwurmp posted:ngl I actually like this idea People have also kicked the idea up a notch by cross stitching a QR code to connect to their routers.
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Crab Dad posted:I honestly cant see another explanation. I think the intent is they're just unused to being in such fancy surroundings instead of a ramshackle bunk room or sleeping outside on the ground. E: they'll have their night of passion after they're used to the feeling of a downy pillow and the luxury of a full mattress and comforter. Mercury Hat fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Mar 13, 2021 |
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Gatto Grigio posted:The strip where Calvin locks his sitter out of house feels true to life because I did the same thing to my sitter when I was 10. I remember this one getting Calvin a pretty stern (for the strip) talking-to from his mother about how dangerous it was to do.
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Unfortunately, I think if you polled a random sampling of Americans, very few would be able to tell you that word is derived from a slur.
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Mar 21, 2021 19:33
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Charlie Stewart was a Tumblr witch 40 years before it was invented.
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Mar 28, 2021 18:42
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Strontium posted:Take It From the Tinkersons Oh come on, Stinkerson is right there.
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Apr 6, 2021 14:46
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Mr. Maltose posted:I've never seen anything suggesting that predator/prey relationships are in any way representative of gay relationships as opposed to being something resembling interracial marriage. Holbrook's terrible metaphors being generalist garbage certainly could stretch to that reading but he already has a specific terrible metaphor for queerness in "domestication" and he's not exactly a writer who deals in Very Special topics with anything approaching subtlety. Sorry to drag this up from days and pages ago, but the metaphor in K&K really is that muddled. Back in 2004 when Georgia introduced (and subsequently passed) a Constitutional amendment banning recognition of same sex marriages and unions, there was a K&K storyline where an amendment banning carnivore - herbivore marriages was proposed. Of course in K&K-verse it didn't pass because everyone was moved by Kevin and Kell pleading their case and showing the politicians how much they love each other. Unlike the real world where the amendment passed with a 76% majority of votes and remained law until Obergefell v. Hodges superseded it a decade later  .
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Bibliotechno Music posted:Those brain resters with the encyclopedias were born 60 or 70 years too soon Seriously, this is just me looking up online every flower and bug I saw while out for a walk.
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Apr 23, 2021 12:00
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Johnny Aztec posted:Bought a file container, at an estate auction today, that had a big pile of Underground comics from the 70s, and 80s. R. Crumb collection, and Fritz the cat collection, and some books that were collections of porn parody comics from the 30s. Like originals from the 30s or a book of reproductions? Either way, find a way to archive some of the rarer stuff if you've got it, comics history outside of the big well-known names and properties can be so ephemeral.
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curtadams posted:This storyline flopped like a dead fish. The first few turned on rather lame details, but at least they had something of a story. This had no tension, no motivations, and the "villain" is begging to be released from gloves he's had no complaints about earlier. Also, why *would* he have called in a report? On the other hand, this is what I remember reading Encyclopedia Brown mysteries to be like when I was a kid. Maybe I just had a dud book or was a particularly dull child.
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Apr 28, 2021 23:09
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I don't want this lost at the bottom of the page.
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Apr 29, 2021 18:00
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EasyEW posted:Elsewhere in the issues: Another fun time with Fred G. Cooper... I really love this, the pig's little face is cracking me up.
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May 3, 2021 12:00
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By the way, that link isn't kidding when they say there are no SFW samples of "Kit n Kay Boodle" before anyone does any innocent googling. Not me though, I was poisoned by the internet by 2002.
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May 4, 2021 21:11
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Pastry of the Year posted:Arlo and Janis I turned the page in a book I got from a used bookstore once to find a stranger's family photo and I drat near hurled the book across the room from surprise. Let's see kindles do that!
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Powered Descent posted:Agreed. From December 2010: This will always be the high-water mark for me in Mary Worth freakouts .
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May 9, 2021 00:34
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SubNat posted:I mean, hot strawberry juice is pretty delicious. Scandinavia has a couple warm and cool variants of red fruit soups either as their own thing, or as a sauce to oatmeal, rice-cream, ice cream, etc. I think it's more commonly called squash in places like the UK, but it's not really something we do here in the US anymore (if we ever did, I'm not sure). Typically the only fruit you can get as a concentrate is orange and it's frozen in a can. Other fruit juices we can buy commercially are already ready to drink and the variety is usually grape, apple, grapefruit, or orange, or cranberry. Some of these might have other flavors mixed in. Guess it comes down to marketing and what was profitable to do. Which is a long way to say yeah, strawberry juice sounds weird to this American, lol.
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Mikl posted:This of course was more than ten years before Patreon. I honestly don't know if "webcomic author" was a viable profession back in the early 'aughts; even now, unless you're super big, making a webcomic usually isn't enough to make a living off of. Some creators had luck with merchandise, but that was also harder to do with fewer options for printing books, shirts, that kind of thing. One thing that caught on was a proto-Patreon arrangement where creators asked fans to donate a large enough lump sum to cover a year's salary. I'm pretty sure R.K. Milholland of Something Positive was the first to do it: quote:Something Positive by R.K. Milholland is one of the most well-known webcomics on the Internet. I enjoy the art, and the writing is great as well. However, Something Positive is also known for R.K.'s infamous fundraiser back in 2004. A reader complained about a lack of updates to the strip, and R.K. responded by daring his readers to donate to the strip so that he could do it full-time and not miss an update. Although his original plan was just to hush the critics (see the full story in the FAQ on his site here), much to his surprise his readers DID respond, and in a month he earned the equivalent to his salary at the time! Many webcomics have tried to follow suit, but not many have been able to match that incredible feat. And I remember Mookie of Dominic Deegan doing the same thing a year or two after. People would also do up-front pre-orders to cover the cost of a print run in a kind of Kickstarter-esque business model to gauge interest. The danger of doing this, though, is Paypal could and did flag someone's account for fraudulent activity with the sudden surge of cash. I want to say Girly's artist got burned by this, but I can't find anything on a quick google with hazy search terms. So, long story short, some people could manage a living from webcomics, but it was a different environment 20 years ago. This is just going off of my memory as a hobbyist who's mostly on the outside looking in at these things.
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She says right there that it's bad luck if it's the same lot number, sheesh!
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Fighting Trousers posted:I think the implication is that the customer is not only needy, but possibly mentally ill. I remember a customer who used to come in, invariably about 30 minutes before close, and she would want an associate to hand-hold her through a series of complicated orders and returns, with coupons and rewards, all the while telling you the no-filter story of the latest thing to go wrong in her life. It wasn't that she needed the stuff (hence the returns - there was always a return). She just wanted to be the center of someone's attention. It always made us sad, because we realized why she was doing, but it was also infuriating. Yeah, stories about people like this is something common across a lot of retail workers. We had a person who always wanted to exchange their bills for shiny nickels and quarters but hated the new designs and would tie up the register line if you let them.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Comic Strips 2021: urgl Comic Strips 2021: Enter The Ape
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Haifisch posted:1979 comics
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EasyEW posted:Out Our Way (September 7-9, 1936) .
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Bobulus posted:FBOW also got a lot of flack at the end of its first run for being so depressingly conservative and old fashioned. Michael marries his high school sweetheart and buys his parents' house to raise his own set of children. Liz gives up an exciting career to marry her high school sweetheart, the most boring man alive and become a homemaker. April begins dating her middle school sweetheart. Yeah I think the ending really soured the whole archives for people. That high school sweetheart of Liz's was a man who pressured his ex-wife into having a baby but then was shocked and hurt that she still focused on her career after the birth and dumped most of the child rearing on him. The ex is presented as completely in the wrong while Anthony is blameless.
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Is there anyone who gets this worked up over a spontaneous kiss who wasn't also raised in a cult? That would be a pretty good twist just to see how Luann handled it. But really it's not like she's worried she's going to lead him on or that she doesn't have feelings for him but got caught up in a moment, she jumped right to "I'm a slutty slut slut".
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Kennel posted:
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I don't even know what to make of "getting harassed made my art better".
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Selachian posted:Brenda Starr 8/1-3/46 I don't know how I feel about the storyline, but this amazing butch woman named Hank has me captivated .
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Selachian posted:Brenda Starr 8/4/46 Also, I love the panel of the hairdresser smoking while she works. What a window into the past.
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Bibliotechno Music posted:I can’t be the only one reading this as a double-bearding relationship, right? Hank O’Hair is as lesbian-coded as they come, and I am absolutely loving her and her hair’s refusal to cooperate with gender norms. The look on her face when she puts on that gown in the last strip reminds me so much of my ex-girlfriend’s face the one time I got her to try on a dress for funsies. This is absolutely how I choose to interpret it, anyway.
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Professor Wayne posted:The Far Side "Gary Larson writes a pubic hair joke" isn't where I thought my day was going  .
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