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Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

So which politician does Seminole Sam represent?

# ¿ Jan 4, 2023 00:36

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 07:09

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

I quite like how relentless Scarlet O'Neil is with its story, like how old popeye seamlessly runs from one thing to another

# ¿ Jan 10, 2023 20:27

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

That turkey had a family

# ¿ Jan 12, 2023 05:40

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Samovar posted:

What the heck is the goat the boy in the background is referring to? Satan?

there's an element of masonic ritual that they refer to as "the goat" when around outsiders as to not let people in on what it actually is. presumably in 1923 when a lot more people were freemasons this would have been common knowledge

# ¿ Jan 27, 2023 08:16

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

"men should communicate feelings"

# ¿ Feb 1, 2023 09:07

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

EasyEW posted:

What on earth is going on here

# ¿ Feb 2, 2023 19:44

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Murder them for us Winnie

# ¿ Feb 4, 2023 00:10

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

probably that's the usual product that endorses it around that season, right? in the US the association is batteries

# ¿ Feb 15, 2023 02:46

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

what was osama bin laden's fursona

tell us, holbrook

# ¿ Feb 17, 2023 07:05

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

what is williams' preoccupation with the sister who gets married and moves down the street, anyway

# ¿ Feb 21, 2023 21:41

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

well in comparison i figured lots of people were cowboys or worked in a factory

# ¿ Feb 21, 2023 21:46

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

How many different sports is Scarlet going to sabotage before her run is over

# ¿ Feb 23, 2023 03:11

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

what power does the security state hold over the new lifeform who would probably just press a button to turn the entire US government into mice if they crossed her

# ¿ Feb 27, 2023 08:05

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

president nobruob geltoob

# ¿ Feb 27, 2023 21:47

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

i'm sorry what's the deal with the trans turtles again? i feel like i missed something

# ¿ Mar 1, 2023 06:10

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

weirdly, it not being a strained metaphor does make it much less uncomfortable. if anything holbrook could use more of these logical extrapolations from hellworld rather than trying to make hellworld things parallels of actual things, beastars was a fun comic

# ¿ Mar 1, 2023 07:54

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

he's frustratedly putting up rental signage on the car because EVERYONE wants to use it

# ¿ Mar 2, 2023 01:40

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

modern logic would say he traded it in to be able to afford the new one, but i don't know how car financing worked in 1946

# ¿ Mar 2, 2023 01:55

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

"nope, definitely going out to be tortured with thoughts of this. sorry"

# ¿ Mar 4, 2023 02:23

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Some Guy TT posted:

You know, I've been thinking this for awhile, so I was kind of surprised to see the comic actually call attention to the fact that Popeye's Mom and Dad have almost identical origin stories. Except this doesn't really address why Popeye's Mom is treated like a saint while Popeye's Dad is the devil incarnate. It also kind of goes out of its way to ignore that contradiction, since once again the punchline is just Popeye's Dad is evil, as we all know.

popeye's dad threw a woman in a river for eating onions, but that's only implicitly taken into account

# ¿ Mar 7, 2023 03:21

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

really starting to understand the finnish national stereotype of not liking small talk. the risks must be enormous

# ¿ Mar 10, 2023 23:34

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

the old ball and chain

e: this is the comic strips thread, the most boomer place on earth. surely there's no shortage of marital laments

# ¿ Mar 12, 2023 07:56

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

korea is about to be propelled several hundred years ahead in the baseball meta

# ¿ Mar 13, 2023 05:09

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Selachian posted:

# ¿ Mar 19, 2023 23:42

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goatface posted:

Vehicles are always gendered. It's some sort of law.

boomer law bumping up against zoomer conceptions of things not realizing that zoomers don't know the "vehicles are gendered" cultural meme

same with naming the cat clapton, it's dissonant

# ¿ Mar 28, 2023 20:21

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

frankly, more comics should be as insane as demons of baseball. normally you have to get a senile author like with mandrake or apartment 3G to go this hard, but a lot of these annoying storylines would be much improved by the sudden twist that one of the characters was hallucinating another as someone else all along

# ¿ Mar 29, 2023 04:27

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Neophyte posted:

Ok so if like me you were wondering what a "jerky track" was a brief google leads me to think it probably was a track which had water pans, or troughs, in it so that early steam engines that needed to rewater could do so without stopping.

Supposedly this lead to the term "jerkwater town", a town so dinky you didn't bother stopping the train there. Maybe. The more common explanation you'll see for the term is that engineers would literally "jerk" water in buckets up from a railside creek to refill their tank, or that the "jerk" was from having to pull down the spout of a railside water tower, and places where you had to do this were places without a real train station - hence "jerkwater town". I don't know, pick whichever one appeals to you.

Welp, that's my jerk story!

fascinating, but what's the joke in the comic

# ¿ Mar 31, 2023 19:49

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

i think the one thing that gets me when i catch a glimpse of luann is that i have never seen a human being under 50 call someone "shoog" let alone a college freshman

# ¿ Apr 4, 2023 04:11

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

oh no archie finally printed a racist one

just popeye holding out on the old-timey comics front

# ¿ Apr 7, 2023 03:28

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

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# ¿ Apr 7, 2023 16:38

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

the expression is "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down" but holbrook remembered it as a screw, and also misremembered it as the positive version, when hammering down is a bad thing. the positive version is "the squeaky wheel gets the grease"

# ¿ Apr 14, 2023 05:57

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Stultus Maximus posted:

Also anti-German which commits the unforgivable sin of rhyming "swagger" with "lager."

it was the done thing even somewhere into the 20th century to heavily anglicize loanwords when speaking "properly." the thing always cited to me is saying don quixote like donald quicksit

# ¿ Apr 18, 2023 02:50

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

what's the deal with the newspaper guy's face anyway. why does he have several times bigger eyes than everyone else. it's always disconcerting

# ¿ Apr 29, 2023 13:51

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Cowslips Warren posted:

Some things are constant no matter what. Val bonding with someone he was at odds with, over violence with a third party, is one such staple.

modern-day valiant is the example of how to pick up a zombie strip and run with it. just as good as the old ones

# ¿ Apr 30, 2023 18:56

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Julet Esqu posted:

Gotta show somehow that her lovely teen talks like a dumb kid, even though they would be pronounced the same so you wouldn't really be able to tell...

But why don't people get mad when Out Our Way does it? Though I suppose I've also been interpreting this same thing in OOW as all the people that don't use "hafta" enunciating very properly and sounding all mid-atlantic because it's old timey.

then again FOOB itself is old enough to HAVE cultural memories of that sort of thing right

# ¿ May 17, 2023 18:04

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

Doomykins posted:

Author intent. When JR writes dialogue it's how the character talks. When Foob writes dialogue it's to let you know that these drat kids are idiots.

see this is what i was thinking, but then I started doubting and thinking "well what if Sister does just talk like Brother but he uses the eye dialect with Brother to emphasize how he's a messy kid"

# ¿ May 17, 2023 18:26

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

every day i wake up and look forward to the new elaborate way scarlet gets knocked out

# ¿ Jun 24, 2023 16:32

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lmao

# ¿ Jul 4, 2023 17:33

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but why are they off limits? if you can just grab someone in the street and chow down, what's stopping the kids? is this another arcane detail of holbrook lore that i will regret asking about?

# ¿ Jul 15, 2023 00:32

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 07:09

Mister Olympus: Oct 31, 2011; Buzzard, Who Steals From Dead Bodies

While �japan attacked the US and germany didn�t� and �Williams met a lot of Germans in the machine shop but few Japanese, and even if he did he would likely still interpret them like how he interpreted Ick� are both factors but idk if it�s productive to say which is MORE a factor

# ¿ Jul 20, 2023 17:25

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