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| I enjoy reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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64 | 26.02% |
| I hate reading contemporary newspaper comics. |
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42 | 17.07% |
| I enjoy reading historical newspaper comics. |
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88 | 35.77% |
| I enjoy reading newspaper comics from foreign countries. |
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52 | 21.14% |
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Kennel posted:
Why on Earth would any teacher want 100 notifications of a copy-pasted "I will not text in class" message to hit her phone?
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Jan 2, 2022 15:55
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Haifisch posted:
I know I've seen this answer in an Encyclopedia Brown book, or a similar two-minute mystery: Guy who said it was caused by a cobweb fire is the liar. Cobwebs aren't very flammable.
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Jan 8, 2022 22:28
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Mikl posted:Happy birthday! Hm, May 21st, 2005... Who else had the high ground that weekend? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8wLBOlCKPU
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Jan 9, 2022 15:15
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Haifisch posted:
...Why did they try to burn down the building from the inside? Is this a weird insurance scam, where they decided to turn on each other midway through the arson?
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Jan 10, 2022 19:53
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The people who were guessing the cobwebs were the core of the lie were only half right!
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Julet Esqu posted:
Dear god, what is this quiz where every career path is on a linear numeric scale? "Well, if your score had been 3 less, we'd recommend 'Dance Instructor', 7 more and it would be 'Airline Pilot', but your score is solidly in 'Costumed Crimefighting Vigilante.'"
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Jan 13, 2022 21:52
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Gnoman posted:That's a dated reference in the first strip! Huh, apparently G4 made a return last year to Twitch and Youtube Streaming, and Adam Sessler is hosting X-Play on it again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7HZ1XdfvFw Morgan Webb came back for the reunion special, but not for the regular show.
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Jan 14, 2022 12:33
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Twelve by Pies posted:"Hey did you hear the Last Chance Dude Ranch got robbed?" Encyclopedia Brown: "If I solve this mystery, will you let me go?" Waco Hawkins: "We'll see. There are a lot of crimes here, and I need you to help me solve them." Encyclopedia Brown: "Kidnapping is also a crime, Mr. Hawkins." Waco Hawkins: "Not one that the Idaville PD can solve without you."
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Jan 15, 2022 17:21
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EasyEW posted:
"Yes, I still have ..one... of his old helmets."  (Image from the final Bull Bushka storyline, spoilered in retrospect) maltesh fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Jan 16, 2022 |
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Jan 16, 2022 13:24
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JethroMcB posted:
I thought it got cut short because the Pizza Box Monster had to return?
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Jan 16, 2022 20:52
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goatface posted:I hope he gets found by a hideous old crone who locks him in her seaside hut and holds him there until he agrees to marry her so she can get a visa. Why would you wish him on the poor Sea Hag? She's been through enough as it is!
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Jan 17, 2022 16:15
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Haifisch posted:
I guess I'll put my arcade token down on [Something odd and 1970's about women and safeguarding combs that is treated as Physical Law], Chuck's bald and hates all hair care products with a blinding passion, so the comb belongs to Tex.
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Jan 18, 2022 21:25
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NRVNQSR posted:The jacket was visible in the previous day's strip, so by its own standards it's fair game as a Yeah, the comb was a legit red herring, and this wasn't as obscure a solution as many others. The vest is prominently featured in almost all the week's strips, and, the upcoming answer is kind of lampshaded in the Wednesday strip: Haifisch posted:1979 comics Probably a little more than half the people in the state are female. Disrobing during a burglary is probably still a bad idea, though.
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Jan 20, 2022 22:33
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Haifisch posted:
This is the Thursday, so we're probably not at enough to convict in the Enyclopedia Brown Kangaroo Court of law, but... In the U.S. interstate highway system, even-numbered routes generally run east-to-west, not north to south. This is the case in Florida's state route numbering system, as well, which is where I have been told the town of Idaville is located.
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Jan 24, 2022 12:26
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Kennel posted:
I've only ever really used one food delivery app, but my general impression is that by the time the delivery person is at your door, you've long since paid for the meal, and you'd need to directly contact the company to carry out a threat of "I'm not going to pay for this."
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Jan 25, 2022 12:35
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EasyEW posted:
"Apparently, there are a lot of birds. I've gone through several buckets of rat poison."
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Jan 29, 2022 17:10
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Haifisch posted:
Based on the previous comic, this feels like Brightly lit room + Darkness outside window = Lying about random encounter with Floridian Swamp Murderer
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Feb 1, 2022 20:28
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Green Intern posted:Just hire a regular loving lab assistant, you creep! If she wanted simple solutions, she'd just have used the successful youthening formula she demonstrated a week or so before this storyline started. Besides, hiring someone from outside means that they might find out about all the genetic magic research they're hiding from the world and actively suppressing.
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Feb 4, 2022 15:39
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Mercury Hat posted:I'm by no means a Rex Morgan or legal scholar, but let me see if I have this right: The con artist is alleging a child stole his idea, and is pursuing direct legal action against the child? This seems to be a nonstarter to my layman eyes, even if a 7 year old (or however old she is) saw your idea and took it, you can't expect to argue in any meaningful way the child was aware of what they were doing and their family owes you damages. It seems to me that you'd go after the publisher or at least gin up a story that the parents convinced the kid to take some of your personal drawings to give the suit some kind of legs. Why did they sign this contract, anyway? Did the Morgans at least get a lawyer to look it over? They basically had Vidpa over a barrel on this one, for precisely the thing the Art Teacher is suing them over, and he admitted to it. How did they wind up with a contract that drops the legal risk on the Morgans?
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Feb 5, 2022 21:50
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Haifisch posted:
Kurash, what is your endgame here? Are you planning to vanish into the wind before this child is injured or killed trying to learn to fly with these broken wings? If so, you should have left already. You've got $6 burning a hole in your pocket, that'll get you maybe 5 miles by cab in 1979?
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Feb 11, 2022 11:32
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Murdstone posted:
"Those pictures of the Doggo Twins are actually ones I commissioned him to produce of my Original Characters ten years ago. I paid him to produce it, and I have the receipt." "So he has no right to sue us?" "That's right. That said, I do. Consider yourself Served."
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Feb 13, 2022 19:19
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I don't know why Batiuk didn't just name them "The Elementals" or "Elemental Force", unless someone did a trademark search and found that both were already in active use by other companies. Also, am I looking at things wrong, or is the Oceanaire's neck weirdly long? Edit: Why would you put Doctor Atmos' arm in front of his face on the cover of the first issue of the team book? I suppose you might if there was some plot reason that the Atmos in the book is actually someone who isn't the Doctor Atmos in the self-titled book, intended as a plot surprise. maltesh fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Feb 14, 2022 |
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Feb 14, 2022 02:13
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Fudge, the movie is getting Oscar nominations, isn't it.
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Feb 15, 2022 04:42
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Haifisch posted:[ " Curses, Encyclopedia Brown! You have foiled my plan to make this child pay me six dollars to severely injure himself with my wings that don't work."
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Feb 15, 2022 07:26
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Twelve by Pies posted:How do you binge watch one episode you loving hack? And from vague memories, and reading synopses, are they really all that romantic? More of a "We need to divert the biological impulses of these afflicted Vulcans before they do (or by allowing them to think they did) something they'll horribly regret" type of thing?
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Feb 18, 2022 18:22
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Haifisch posted:
It seems really odd to assume that the ivy near the top of a window would support the weight of a climbing human. I guess if she was climbing primarily the wall, and the ivy was a slight aid and possible impediment... But how was the reader supposed to know that the ivy was pristine at ground-level? Zerilan posted:Seriously why the gently caress does that even exist or is just left sitting around? It was the water bottle in the cage that makes transformations permanent. Big-Eared Mouse Lab Assistant arranged this deliberately. maltesh fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Feb 22, 2022 |
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Feb 22, 2022 14:01
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Medenmath posted:Using "old paper" would make sense if the plot were about a forged medieval manuscript or something, but the drawings in question would only be a few years old. Is there even a test that could tell the difference at that scale? Apparently the solvents in inks take up to two years to evaporate, and you can use a gas chromatograph to check if the ink is younger than that. Not sure what you do if they were pencil sketches, though.
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Feb 25, 2022 01:41
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Julet Esqu posted:I hate the ones where some elderly person makes a terrible joke and the youth don't get it and this is held up as evidence of the ignorance of the kids of today, oh how we hate them. Anyway, I'm old and I also didn't get the reference so I looked it up and I guess either he's talking about a fancy music hall or he's talking about a deceased black actor (oof, if so), but either way I still don't get it. I'm confident I'd find it horrifically unfunny even if I did get it, though. Unsure why you'd need a name for a collective of black holes in a high school class anyway. If I'm not mistaken, almost all the black holes we know of are singletons, and we generally only find out about the binaries because LIGO picks up the gravitational waves that tell us they aren't binaries any more.
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Feb 28, 2022 03:44
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Haifisch posted:
Feels like it would be a bit of an unfair pull, and we're not at J'accuseday yet, but I'm currently thinking the Lighting Technician in the Tuesday Strip., based on the assumption that he'd probably need LOS to aim the spotlight on the comedian, and would expect the glare to hide the muzzle-flash
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Mar 2, 2022 02:06
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Haifisch posted:
What the hell? He brought two guns to do the shooting? So his plan was: 1: Shoot the comedian with the first gun. Put it back in his pocket. 2. Throw the second gun on the floor using a napkin or something so fingerprints don't get on it, as a decoy. 3. Keep hand in pocket for no good reason, Idaville PD won't check for gun residue on your hands, or search you. 4. If all goes south, shoot Encyclopedia Brown. With him dead, they'll never solve the mystery and you can just walk out.
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Mar 3, 2022 19:20
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riderchop posted:
Just more evidence that the either Big-Eared Lab Assistant deliberately arranged everything that happened here, or is criminally incompetent.
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Mar 5, 2022 12:17
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Haifisch posted:
What is going on here? We never saw anything about the old lady, and she got away Scott free with $1,000. Are we getting a multi-week villain storyline in Encyclopedia Brown?
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Mar 9, 2022 12:28
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Slammy posted:
And a reference I didn't know was a reference slots into place: The Rover Boys
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Mar 12, 2022 04:18
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Kennel posted:
You're not paying to repair a new vacuum cleaner. This looks like a vacuum cleaner you've owned for years, and it's definitely been used.
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Mar 15, 2022 17:54
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Haifisch posted:
That is some crazy good penmanship for something presumably being written in the back of a moving school bus.
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Mar 15, 2022 23:13
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Bruceski posted:Did we ever find out why the painting wasn't stolen (or was stashed in the museum after being stolen), or was that lost in archives somewhere? Unless there's a Sunday we aren't seeing, no. The presumed old lady thief (we never saw her in the comic) got away scot free with the ransom.
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Mar 16, 2022 00:43
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Haifisch posted:Nope. It's just an incredibly awkward story where I suspect they couldn't figure out how to condense it into a single week's story arc. (assuming it was adapted from a book, which I think most/all of these are?) I haven't really been looking at the Encyclopedia Brown Encyclopedia as of late, but the main reason I stopped was because most of the ones I was looking up were not showing up there (or at least, I couldn't find them). At this point, I think they're either sufficiently-modified to make searching for them difficult, coming out of Sobol's non-encyclopedia-brown mystery collections, or completely original.
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Mar 16, 2022 11:37
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Twelve by Pies posted:Hey, maybe you could hire a person, who like, wants to work in your field, and is knowledgeable about it, and you could loving pay them. Or I guess you could just grab a random animal and magic them into a person and force them into slavery like you did with your other assistants. gently caress you! Look, if we hired actual scientists, they might find out about the magic DNA research that we are being paid to do but are refusing to publish or implement and are actively suppressing through sorcery, and we'd probably have to get rid of them by permanently turning them into animals or living decorations or some other kind of useful abomination.
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Mar 23, 2022 15:28
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Haifisch posted:
I guess Doc? If Lee had turned on the gas, Joe would have smelled it. Also, as a comic chain-smoker, she might have set the gas on fire? If Doc actually has a cold, he might not have. So I suspect he administered some sort of sedative while treating the victim, and turned on the gas, and is using his fake cold to claim that he wouldn't have smelled the gas a previous visitor supposedly activated, but I can't work out why. Possibly "A doctor would never visit a patient while he himself is sick?"
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Mar 24, 2022 18:39
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Powered Descent posted:I'll go the other way and say it's Joe. He would have known that the victim couldn't smell gas with a freshly-broken nose, so he took the opportunity to turn it on before he left. And by chance, the Doc who came by a little later had a cold and couldn't smell the gas building up either. I'd wonder: Why didn't Poole object to Joe coming into his house, after punching him in the nose, and fiddling in his kitchen? If he hung around long enough, he'd know that Poole was calling in a doctor, and would expect the Doc to be able to smell the fumes, wouldn't he? Though, thinking about your solution leads me to another potential option that Enyclopedia's "J'accuse!" doesn't seem to be pointed at. Poole turned on the gas himself, possibly to cook something, and was unable to smell the pre-existing gas leak because of the nasal injury. Possibly before the Doctor with a cold arrived. Doc left before enough gas filled the house that he'd feel symptoms. Poole succumbed during the night. maltesh fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Mar 24, 2022 |
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Doesn't it take several Oz books before Toto reveals that he can talk in Oz, with a "Well, everything was all right up until now" type of comment?
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Mar 25, 2022 05:15
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