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Mercury Hat
May 28, 2006

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riderchop posted:

remember when Wilbur almost died

then partied on an island resort for a long weekend while his friends and loved ones mourned

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Antivehicular posted:

IIRC, the problem is that the kinds of bats you're likely to have a contact encounter with (acting erratically, out during the day) are also the ones most likely to be ill? And rabies isn't really a "wait and see" disease, it's a "get your rear end to the hospital and pray you're within the prophylactic window" disease. I agree that bats need better press, but treating bat injuries as potential rabies exposures is a good idea!

Yeah, the average person isn't likely to encounter a bat unless A: it's out in daylight like this which would mean it's ill or B: there's an established colony in your house and one gets through to your living space. The latter is a big risk because bat bites are so small, you can't always tell if one's bitten you or another person while asleep. It's not always a "get rabies vaccines immediately" problem, but you should consult with a doctor if you come in contact with one (or any unexpected wildlife encounter, really).

Bats do have a higher risk of carrying rabies than some other animals in the United States, even if the inverse (most bats aren't rabid) is also true. https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/animals/bats/index.html

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EasyEW posted:

Toonerville Folks (April 24-26, 1922)


IN THE VACANT LOT BASE BALL LEAGUE: The game between the "Little-Potatoes-Hard-to-Peel" ball team and the Junior Giants was enlivened by a scrap between two spectators just like a regular big league game.

I would die for team "Little-Potatoes-Hard-To-Peel".

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May 28, 2006

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EasyEW posted:

Thimble Theater (August 18, 1940)


I love that panel of the cartoonist.

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May 28, 2006

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Selachian posted:

Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 12/6/42

Spoilered because the Lee Sung story continues.




Racism aside, I have no idea if it was common medical practice in the 40s for the doctor to just mail you a letter telling you you're hopelessly hosed or if this is just another Stamm invention.

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Saoshyant posted:

You really have nothing else to do right now, uh, Scarlet?

It's hilarious that she's been getting paid for this snooping and meddling by working as that guy's model the whole time.

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EndOfTheWorld posted:

Oh cool, a prequel to Umineko

this has been the running joke between me and my friend whenever the sea hag's shown up this storyline

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EasyEW posted:

Thimble Theater (August 23, 1940)


incredible, thimble theater always delivers

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May 28, 2006

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SCARLET YOU CAN'T DO THAT

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Forum accident posted:

Frank and Ernest


(11/1/1993)


(11/2/1993)



i can never read the frank and ernest dynamic as anything but a cohabiting relationship*

*frank and ernest could not legally marry in 1993 but by all rights, they're husbands

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Selachian posted:

Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 12/28-30/42






This is incredible because near as I can figure, Marlys doesn't know the gun is "supposed" to be filled with blanks. She's just going straight to murder.

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Selachian posted:



YES YES HIPPY'S BACK YOU'RE FORGIVEN STAMM


For anyone who wants to relive Hippy's first appearance, here's a link.



She's incredible, thank you Stamm.

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May 28, 2006

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love the implication coach thorp's coffee mug just has GIL written on it in huge letters

or DILF, maybe

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genuinely obsessed with the art in this one

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May 28, 2006

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10/10, no notes.

Selachian posted:


They had recess in high school in the 1940s?

They had school dentists who would pull a kid's tooth in the 1940s?

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EasyEW posted:

Peanuts (February 6, 1977)


Featuring Charlie Brown's previously undocumented superpower of mental telepathy.

that panel's really loving me up somehow

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Selachian posted:

Invisible Scarlet O'Neil 1/25-26/43





Hey look, it's Gru's grandfather!

Also, how is Hippy planning to blackmail him? Will his fellow crooks care whether the Snail is genuinely legless or just faking it?

Every time I read Scarlet O'Neil I feel like i'm having a fever dream and I love it.

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Tiggum posted:

I know this is a comic about a woman who can turn invisible by pressing a nerve in her wrist, but this seems implausible. How would such a device work?

Also: why even bother blatantly cheating like this if you're running a casino? Everything is already rigged in your favour!

i'm just obsessed with the moral code of these other gangsters and purveyors of vice who won't beat a man just because he's got no legs

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Scarlet working on sending a lot of these guys home to their wives with broken legs and arms.

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Shaman Tank Spec posted:

OK, check this out for a question:

Was Alley Oop named after the basketball move, was the basketball move named after the comic character, or are the two things entirely unrelated?



And here is the historical invention of the Alley Oop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4zjIzj0nHM

Wiktionary has the origin being an anglicized version of the French "allez-hop", "the cry of a circus acrobat about to leap. From allez (“go! let's go!”), 2nd-person plural or formal indicative form of aller, and hop, onomatopoeic" with a cited quotation of said usage from 1917 :eng101:.

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Hostile V posted:


Y'know in retrospect there are gay couples in this comic, there's Rhino and Horse who love each other very much as lesbians, but I don't think we've ever seen two he/him identifiers get together at all.


That one rabbit has two dads, but they hardly show up and were already established canon, I guess.

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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

and worst of all, her muffins are under-baked

give her a break, she's baking like 4 dozen of the drat things

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readingatwork posted:

Hold the pickles and mayo but add a fried egg and we're in business.

E: Wait, I thought that was a burger. Is there just no meat on that thing?

no, the tinkersons has been quietly holding steady to the family being vegetarian for awhile now iirc, or at least the parents are

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Dana Simpson posted this article on bluesky that with recent cuts by syndicate Gannett, nearly everything in the line up are penned by men and though FBoFW survived the chop, it's a zombie rerun strip (along with a good number of other strips in the group).

Dismal state for published strips these days.

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Murdstone posted:

Mary Worth

Yeah, I think this is literally the happy ending for this story arc.

incredible when you consider he pissed his pants after learning kitty kept knowledge of her pregnancy and daughter from him

and was presented as noble for running off some other man who was lying to them for his own gain

these poor women

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Mister Olympus posted:

they don't make comics like doctor hormone or scarlet o'neil anymore and it's a crying shame

these guys should've been born in time to make a baffling webcomic series, their talents are wasted in the past

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For someone who didn't even do anything beyond have half a conversation with the man, Mary sure is taking one hell of a victory lap here.

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Raskolnikov38 posted:

they’re still there lol, it’s the best way to get to terminal D unless you really feel like walking the entire C/D terminal from the air train

they stick us on these every time after we land on an international flight to take us from the terminal to customs

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EasyEW posted:

And Al Frueh riffs on a modern marvel that was just coming into its own.


For some reason out of everything, I can't fathom a time when the zipper was some hot new gadget.

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attacked by a crazed fan who thinks the boot is part of an elaborate kayfabe

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Translation question just because I'm curious. Was this originally the English "Mister" or the Italian equivalent.

Also thanks for the work you put into these, women's pro soccer is a fun change of pace from the usual comic strip subjects.

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i could be a pretty accomplished hypnotist too if i had a gun

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Shaman Tank Spec posted:

FINGERPORI



The original joke was completely untranslatable (the woman says she was an "ex-Pertti, these days Anneli", Pertti being a man's name and Anneli a woman's) and not that great to begin with so I went with my own original joke do not steal.

"But you said you built this thing!"
"Yeah. I poured the concrete."

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Apparently so! Neat. Here's just the first article I found about it from 1972.

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Murdstone posted:



Wow that's a pretty dark story. One man dies in guilty despair, the other goes mad.

I only have one strip left so I guess they'll wrap this up fast.

wow okay you got me stamm, not how i thought that would go

Transcript of the letter: "Mournful Bagley was not insane when he entered the state asylum... although he probably is by now... I stole his half of the business and had him put in the institution... This has haunted me for years... I cannot stand it any longer... for that reason I am taking my life."

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EasyEW posted:

Thimble Theater (November 17, 1940)

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Doomykins posted:

THE APE WITH SEX APPEAL

i don't know which is worse: that this tag line is a product solely of stamm's mind or if this was a real selling point for a real ape at some point in history

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amigolupus posted:

Uh, Moy? The drive of the car probably got whiplash or hurt their neck in their effort not to run over a poor old man. They're the real hero here, not that piece of poo poo, Wilbur.

The caption pretty clearly implies the car was heading for the sidewalk already when Wilbur pushed him out of the way. The driver didn't steer out of the way at the last second to avoid the man in the street.

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oh man i was just asking a coworker the other day if he'd ever done pencil fights at school and he had no idea what i was talking about, lol

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