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WCDT (HA!) 12-16 July 2010 (1706-1710)
Heliphyneau:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 16 Jul 2010, 00:13 ---I remember Big Country - that would probably make you 5 - 10 years younger than me, assuming you were late teens/early 20's going to the concert.
Ears rang for a few days afterward, did they? Everything was a little muffled?
Hope you didn't pay extra for those seats near the speakers...
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First semester freshman year at college, they played at our small auditorium -- it was general admission and cheap, and my friends and I were toward the front but in the middle. Could barely hear when we got out due to the roaring in our ears, and yeah, my ears were still ringing the next morning, though OK a day after that. I guess that's the inevitable result of those bagpipe-sounding guitar riffs, blargh. At least when my husband suffered a similar level of hearing loss (he took the test too) it was for a cooler band: DEVO.
--- Quote from: raoullefere on 16 Jul 2010, 00:47 ---
--- Quote from: Heliphyneau on 15 Jul 2010, 22:16 ---I tried that hearing test thing -- depressing. I could hear 12 KHz, but not 14 KHz. I can even pinpoint when I lost most of that hearing -- it was at a concert headlined by the band (I shit you not) Big Country. If you have clue one who they are, then you know how old I am.
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Hot....Shot! (i.e. I know who these four-wheeler riding freaks are, or were, and it is a shame about the lead singer. Never understood what screaming Hot....Shot out had to do with the song "In a Big Country," but there's something to be said for a band that is so one-shot that it's one big hit has it's name in the title—i.e maybe it's better not to do that, ever. )
I suppose I'm the only one who simply detests the smile on Hanners' face in panel #3. I don't know why, but I cringe just looking at it. I repeat, nothing good can come of this.
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The "Hot shot!" thing is kinda random -- of course, through today's prism of cynicism (by which I mainly mean my own), the utterance seems pervy. I do agree that having the band name in your song can spell doom for a band, unless you're a rap MC or something. :wink: I remember Creem magazine (woo, flashback!) having a blurb on them with a picture, the caption of which read "Their nickname is obscene!" So silly. I didn't know the lead singer had died, but having looked it up, I see that it happened a few months after 9/11, so maybe the story got buried.
I think the reason Hanners' face is so disquieting in that panel is because it's more cartoony and makes her look like she has no lips. Well, that's my impression, anyway.
As to today's strip, it seems that Cosette's luck is infectious, though most of her personal bad luck seems to stem from clutziness. I don't blame Dora for feeling wary. Of course, there's "bad luck" (falling down the stairs while looking at a pic of a dude with a bear), and then there's "hopelessly naive" (hiding a briefcase with unknown contents under your bed for a boss who tells you not to open it). So I guess Cosette's problem isn't luck so much as making terrible errors in judgment.
Border Reiver:
--- Quote from: Mojo on 16 Jul 2010, 05:46 ---I laughed at this, because that's what my resume looks like too. Most of the places I've worked are closed now (usually due to the incompetence of the owners - nothing I did...).
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My resume has exactly three entries - two of which are for jobs that I presently am employed at. 24 years at one and 14 for the other.
CEOIII:
--- Quote from: Mad Cat on 16 Jul 2010, 08:33 ---I would think that with Hanners' penchant for cleaning and sterilizing, she would be more than capable of having a magnificent collection of well used bedroom toys, all kept hospital-grade clean.
As for Cosette, done some rubber gloves, hack the combo, open it up and any cash/bearer bonds/gold bullion in there, take a share and hide it, then quickly seal it back up. Rub down the outside for extraneous finger prints and then bare hand carry it to the police and when they ask if you'd opened it, honestly say that you have no idea what the combo is (because you didn't see it), and lie through your teeth to tell them that you haven't opened it and have no idea what's in it.
If it's all pot, screw it. She's accident prone enough. No need to add THC intoxication on top of that. But a few stacks of $100 bills, that's tuition. Cha-CHING.
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Then they arrest her boss, tell him "we know about your briefcase with X dollars/bonds/bullion in it" and he says, "WHAT? There was X+(whatever Cosette stole) dollars/bonds/bullion in that case!" and Cosette goes to prison as an accessory. And with Cosette's luck, she'll be either raped or dead by lights out of her first day of her sentence.
Or worse, she tries to open it, and her boss put a little "theft deterrent" in the case. And by "theft deterrent" I mean "the explosion shatters every window for 2 blocks".
Call the cops, tell them about the case, but KEEP YOUR GRUBBY MITTS OUT OF IT.
Prince of Space:
Hooray for perspective change! Some pretty awesome angle you got there, Jeph. Here's to more of that. *cheers*
Mr_Rose:
Faye's dialogue in the last panel is perplexing; the structure of the sentence indicates that she wants "multiplying two negative numbers" to be a counter-example to the ladder/cat combo cancelling out.
But if one assumes that she wishes to use negative numbers for negative consequences, multiplying them would create a positive number, implying a positive consequence!
This is nearly identical to the "cancel out" situation and therefore not likely to be the intended counter-point.
So, is Faye simply not all that good at negative mathematics (no reason she should be, really) or did I mistake our Fearless Leader's intent with that sentence?
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