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WCDT 6-10 June 2011 (1941-1945) [World War II Edition]
Carl-E:
I gotta say, I don't like Renee's hair. I watched Jeph do it on the ustream, I thik he was rushing to finish.
But yeah, townies... I've been in enough college towns to know better than argue with Renee. Marten's a townie, he was dating a townie, all his friends are townies, and this is the drama that the college students miss out on because they're so busy drinking and trying to pass enough courses to come back next year... which is their own drama, not to mention the flighty college relationships.
You know it's spring when every building on campus is decorated with couples making out by an entrance or in a hall because they have to part ways for a class or two. It's cute, in a pathetic, needy/horny sort of way.
God, I need to destress.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Tova on 07 Jun 2011, 01:18 ---A definition of "townie" that makes the last panel make sense would be good.
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But the next to last panel is a definition of townie!
Seriously, a townie is anyone in a college town that's not a college student.
Definition (College town); a small town or city whose population and economy is dominated by the students from one or more colleges or universities. So a small place like North Hampton, with several local colleges qualifies. Larger cities that have many colleges and even big universities don't qualify, because they have other reasons for their existance. College towns exist to serve the students, and many businesses are predicated on that assumption!
Watch "Breaking Away".
TheoGB:
Here in the UK a 'townie' would be a derogatory term for an urban working class person, specifically one who is likely to be fairly closed-minded and somewhat hostile to outsiders. These days it's fallen away in favour of the even grimmer term, 'chav', but townie never really had the nastiness that term has. Certainly you wouldn't ever describe someone like Marten as a 'townie' over here.
pwhodges:
Agreed; the OED and its North American counterpart have distinctly different definitions, and the OED ones are marked "usually derogatory". The first citation has the phrase "townie thugs".
Tova:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 07 Jun 2011, 01:26 ---
Seriously, a townie is anyone in a college town that's not a college student.
Definition (College town); a small town or city whose population and economy is dominated by the students from one or more colleges or universities. So a small place like North Hampton, with several local colleges qualifies. Larger cities that have many colleges and even big universities don't qualify, because they have other reasons for their existance. College towns exist to serve the students, and many businesses are predicated on that assumption!
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I figured out that much via googling and the comic itself, but beyond that there are so many descriptions of a "townie" that I can only assume that is has simply become a generic insult doled out by people who live in college towns for any reason whatsoever. Including not going back to the cafe owned by your ex-girlfriend.
And I still don't get what makes Marten's drama "townie drama", except that he's not a student, but that seems neither here nor there to me. Obviously there's a lot of "college town" subtext I'm just missing.
It doesn't make sense to me on several levels, but I guess I'm as close as I will get to understanding it.
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