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Weekly comic thread, 5/10 - 5/14
snubnose:
Was there ever a "center of attention of the week" ? :?
--- Quote from: J on 11 May 2010, 00:00 ---it has been a long damn time since i laughed this hard at a comic.
fuck, it has been a long damn time since i laughed this hard at anything.
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For the record, I daily laugh extremely hard at the fact that some extreme moron named Westerwelle is my states foreign minister.
You could replace him with a seven year old boy and aside from looks, nothing would have changed.
thret:
The Hanners clone doesn't have an Australian accent. It sounds Irish, maybe Scottish, but definately not Aussie.
We don't say dearie, yer, ain't, 'till, 'fore or yank.
I would be kind of nice to hear Jeph do an Aussie accent irl, it would most likely be quite amusingly bad :)
raoullefere:
"You're never alone when you have a clone."* I suppose this is what happens when (one of) you wishes to be so.
--- Quote from: Heliphyneau on 10 May 2010, 22:26 ---If she did have a clone, though, I'd expect CloneHanners to have more problems rather than fewer. Note that the AltHanners she's stressing about doesn't have problems . . . Always fun to invent new things to worry about for yourself.
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Who says scarface there is the clone? That might be the wishful thinking.
Actually, I could see Hannermom having a vast storehouse of Hannelores, the same as Dr. "Rusty" Venture does of Hank and Dean.
*Douglas Adams, can't recall from what
evilbobthebob:
--- Quote from: sudamerican on 10 May 2010, 21:29 ---
--- Quote from: Shok Xone Studios on 10 May 2010, 21:27 ---So Hanners' clone is Cammy from Street Fighter? The pigtails are missing, but the scar's in the right place.
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or she's a female soap mctavish? what with the aussie accent and all
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Well "Soap" McTavish is meant to be Scottish. Clue is in the name, really.
Akima:
--- Quote from: thret on 11 May 2010, 00:51 ---The Hanners clone doesn't have an Australian accent. It sounds Irish, maybe Scottish, but definately not Aussie.
We don't say dearie, yer, ain't, 'till, 'fore or yank.
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Americans do have the oddest ideas of what Australians sound like as a result of being force-fed Crocodile Dundee, Steve Irwin etc. I've read lots of comments to the effect that Jessie Spencer "doesn't have an Australian accent" or "is trying to put on a British accent" in his role as Dr. Chase in House M.D., when he has a perfectly normal "educated" Melbourne accent.
Having said that "dearie" isn't common here in ladies under the age of eighty; "yer" is OK for "you're", but should have been "ya" for "your"; "ain't" is used in Australia, but most commonly by older males. Aussies don't drop the first syllable from "before", but rather drop the "r" sound at the end (our accents are "non-rhotic" generally*). I'd give "yank" for "pull", and "'till" for "until" a pass though; I hear them fairly often, especially the latter. Given Hanner-scar's "rough as guts" attitude however, I'd recommend "reef out" instead of yank for the authentic psycho-Aussie flavour: "Don't worry, I'll wait till yer dead before I reef out ya teeth!"
Excellent comic, by the way, very funny. The can of petrol is a lovely touch. By the way, what is Hanner-scar's cap-badge? Does Hanner-mum have a whole secret army like a Bond villain, complete with black helicopters and a secret base under a volcano?
* Yes, my Mum made me take elocution lessons to improve my English pronunciation.
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