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WCDT: 2382-2386 (11-15 February, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread

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jwhouk:

--- Quote from: Halloween Jack on 11 Feb 2013, 18:28 ---I would dearly love to see a cameo from Henry Rollins, either present day or flashback.

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Ditto on this, though I doubt Jeph would do it.

Redball:

--- Quote from: calmcalamity on 11 Feb 2013, 18:32 ---I'll never use the phrase "going/headin' back East." I was born in Hawaii, raised and still live in Oregon. Why would anyone born and raised west of the Mississippi say they were "going back?"

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Maybe because in the not-so-distant past, most people in the west came from somewhere in the east? Migration east to west in the 20th century was intense, and it's possible a habit of speech endured.

Carl-E:
This is the first place I've ever been where people talk about going "in town".  Not down town, not in to town, just "intown", like it's oneword.  There's even a mural on one of the larger buildings with "InTown" across the bottom. 

I've haerd "going down shore" all my life, though I don't use it myself.  But at least it sort of makes sense - unless you're in Death Valley, the shore is lower than where you are. 

Method of Madness:
I wasn't objecting about down, I was objecting to the lack of the word "to". They say "I'm going down the shore", rather than "down to the shore" and it just sounds wrong.

Kugai:
Not to mention the SWAT Team that turned up after the Speeches.

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