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Weekly comic thread, 5/10 - 5/14
Border Reiver:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 14 May 2010, 18:13 ---[So, no commitment. But she and Angus are both willing to feel their way through the minefield that any relation with Faye would be. And if they come out whole on the other side, great.
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I'll make sure that Angus still has his cleaning rod and foot powder.
raoullefere:
--- Quote from: westrim on 15 May 2010, 00:00 ---And I guess a nonsentient being was a bad example. How about a guy who's a shoplifter, lifting candy and such just because it it's so easy for him, it tastes good and it's over quick- then one day a clerk takes a shine to him and gives him a gobstopper every day for, I dunno, walking her dog. A couple months later the guy filches a Butterfinger from the shop and eats it, but feels bad for eating it for the first time. He fesses up to the clerk, who gets really sad and bars him from that checkout aisle, and starts changing his thieving ways. But every time from then on, all the clerks give him a hard time and check his pockets, even though he has a whole cart of groceries and books on the Crusades to buy, damnit! On his way to checkout the Reese's display fell right in front of him, but he walked around it!
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To make this work for Sven, you have to include that one of the clerks already knew he was a thief, but kept having to pay for the loss caused by his stealing because no one paid any attention to her—she was a psycho, right? So it's not just the one incident—that's merely the icing on the cake.
The dude is going to have to go around more than one collapsed Reese's display to re-establish trust, because he's vindicated the view that one clerk, the person who used to receive the grief he didn't for his actions, held all along, and everyone believes her now. To me, that's kharma (or reaping what you sow, or whatever you want to call it).
--- Quote from: westrim on 15 May 2010, 00:00 ---...That's a bit long. Oh well, I had an analogy to make.
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Nothing wrong with long, despite what the proponents of instant-gratification-isn't-fast-enough and TL;DR may spew. Means you're expressing your thoughts fully. Besides, it's the end of the week, no one cares—have you not seen the ridiculous stuff posted at the end of previous WTC's?
Which reminds me:
--- Quote from: Heliphyneau on 14 May 2010, 22:31 ---What? All the Carls meet on a biweekly basis to discuss Carl-related things. I only know because I married one. But don't worry, I don't know the secret handshake!
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Heliphyneau, I think the secret handshake is right-handed with two clockwise turns of the wrist, followed by putting your left hand on your right wrist and subtly beating out the rhythm from the 'galloping' part of William Tell Overture with ascending (towards the thumb) motions of your first three fingers—no pinky. But the battery of the transmitter I implanted in the Carl I used to know died a couple years back, or else he took to wearing foil on his noggin. It's not terribly likely, but they may have altered it a little.
BobtheDancingFlea:
Until yesterday's comic, I seriously thought that Angus was Sven. This week's comics make significantly more sense now.
Why do the two dudes after Faye have to look so similar!!
Tuitsuro:
I've had that problem between Angus and Wil, too. Doesn't help that they dress almost exactly the same, either.
Is it cold in here?:
Let's have all future polls include "porridge".
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