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WCDT: 2211-2215 (18-22 June 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
DSL:
Hell, like Heaven, is all around us, everywhere and nowhere.
The town of Hell, Mich., for example, is north of where I am, so by map convention, Hell is up. Occasionally, during winter, it freezes over. Probably the case for Hell, Norway, too.
Ain't that a hell of a note?
Sidhekin:
--- Quote from: DSL on 20 Jun 2012, 13:40 ---Occasionally, during winter, it freezes over. Probably the case for Hell, Norway, too.
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Sure, but it's a mere three meters above sea level, so still not too high.
(Yes, I've been through Hell and back. By train. More times than I care to remember. But I think this is the first time in a decade I've had cause to mention it.)
Overkillengine:
"Banana smoothie" made perfect sense to me. It's not every day that you see a barista smash fruit with a hammer just to make you happy.
billydaking:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 20 Jun 2012, 08:41 ---
--- Quote from: LTK on 20 Jun 2012, 08:29 ---Hm. You know the Uncanny Valley, right? I wonder if there's something similar for quirkiness: when you know a person to have some quirks but who's still on the same wavelength as you, you like them. When someone is completely out of touch with reality, you probably regard them with a bit of pitiful amusement. But Emily's "Banana smoothie." today pushed her from 'lovably quirky' to 'er, what?' I think I'm more uncomfortable with someone who shows occasional lapses in coherency than with someone who you can depend on to be completely insane. Pintsize, for example.
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I interpreted it as her saying why she thought he did a good job, i.e. she enjoyed her banana smoothie. It did not strike me as a lapse in coherency at all. On the contrary, I found it perfectly coherent.
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Emily's "Banana smoothie" was the punctuation to the three interns thanking Marten together. Claire starts (we want to thank you), Gabby does actual context (this is why we want to thank you) and Emily finishes off with the punchline exclamation point (And smoothie! Whoohoo!). As a group, they were thanking him, so it makes perfect sense when read from one to the other. If anybody reads Emily's statement separately, without the others, of course it's not going to make sense. But nobody should, because it wasn't written (or spoken) that way.
DSL:
Marten has a good career ahead of him as an Older Brother.
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