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WCDT: 2236-40 (23-27 July 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread

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Tova:
I've been given the odd horrified expression when saying "bugger", which is a pretty mild curse in Australia.

I assume that the secret is slightly more interesting and subtle than Dora's apparent change in hairstyle...

DSL:

--- Quote from: pwhodges on 23 Jul 2012, 03:35 ---It's a huge generalisation, of course, and any number of counter examples can be found.  But none the less, overall it is widely recorded to be so.  As another example, I offer: "shoot" for "shit".

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Oh, I wasn't trying to rebut. It's just interesting that what's supremely offensive in the US is seen as a less-offensive alternative in the UK, and vice versa. "Bollocks" gets you a bemused stare on my side of the Atlantic, for example.

Your point about bowdlerization is taken, though, and sometimes the results are unintentionally hilarious, such as the network TV bowdlerization of the one funny line in "Good Morning Vietnam," in which the officious lietuenant is told he needs a "real" job.

Welu:

--- Quote from: Tova on 23 Jul 2012, 03:48 ---I've been given the odd horrified expression when saying "bugger", which is a pretty mild curse in Australia.

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I'm in Northern Ireland and "bugger" is my go to word for if I display clumsiness. Only one person has called me out on it, while I was in work, because her child might have heard me. The child was at the opposite end of the shop and appeared to be at least tween age.

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I wonder if the secret is anything to do with the trans* question on Twitter a while back. Or maybe asexuality because Jeph retweeted something about it right before the Secret tweet. #ConspiracyTheories #HashtagsInPlacesThatAreNotTwitter

jwhouk:

--- Quote from: WAYF on 23 Jul 2012, 03:12 ---!!!

--- Quote from: Jeph on Twitter ---There is a secret in the comic right now which only two people, to my knowledge, have guessed. He he he

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Let the Wild Mass Guessing begin!
(No, Hanners is not a dude. He already ruled that one out.)

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Well, let's see - Faye's scar was there in all four panels.

That IS a new poster on the wall across from the counter.

Dora, obviously, has decided to wear a headband today - which means her hair's growing out.

Which means... wait, I thought it turned blonde when she grew it out????

EDIT: Oh, wait, I think he meant FRIDAY'S comic.

In which case - so Dora has an iPad. Who cares?

SomeCanadianWeirdo:
I like Dora's hairband, or whatever you call it, and hairdo here. 

The discussion here makes me wonder what kind of women Dora is into.  We know she found Marten's mom appealing, and there's the obvious interest in Tai.  Otherwise she's never really said or shown much.

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