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WCDT: 2475-2479 (24-28 June, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Mlle Germain:
--- Quote from: crazdgamer on 26 Jun 2013, 05:34 --- Characters are still wearing short sleeves. I'd put money down that it's still the same summer, so Raven should be around somewhere.
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I admit I have no idea when college starts again in the US after the summer break. When university in Germany starts again, it's sometimes still warm enough to wear short sleeves (beginning of October), though not for very long.
If not to college, then maybe Raven went on a trip again. Canada? I suppose Jeph himself does not always invent excuses for characters in his head. It's probably mostly not a conscious decision when a character goes off-screen for a while. Must be hard to get everyone in with so large a cast. But I bet Sven, Wil and Raven will reappear sooner or later.
FunkyTuba:
--- Quote from: Loki on 26 Jun 2013, 00:52 ---Freude, schöner Götterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium
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My friends and I, proficient in neither German nor choir, but expert at Def Leppard and Volkwagen commercials, always sung the first two lines:
Gunter glieben glauchen globen
Fahrvergnügen Guuuuten tag
Carl-E:
Most colleges and schools in the US start late August / early September (some wait until after the Labor Day holiday, which is the first Monday in September). They run 14/15/maybe 16 week semesters (with some time off in November for our Thanksgiving, and maybe some in October for a mid-semester break) ending in December for the Christmas/New Year's holiday. Then it's back sometime in January for another semester, running until early / mid May.
Then there are the summer sessions, "May-mesters" (seriously, a whole course in under 5 weeks?) and other oddball sessions. Also, some schools run on a "tri-mester" or quarter system, each session running 10 or 11 weeks with a two or three week break between each one. The summer quarter is usually optional, and the winter one has a break in the middle for the holidays during which everything is forgotten.
So yeah, short sleeves in late hot-as-hell August when everyone's back-to-school would not be unusual.
FunkyTuba:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 26 Jun 2013, 04:22 ---Dora's missing a business opportunity here: Coffee of Doom Delivery. Dale delivers to your office coffee, pastries, and a cassette tape of Faye sassing you. Don't have a working cassette player? That's your problem.
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I had a post composed suggesting something along these lines, but then I got nervous that that might be hitting too close. Dora's got the best coffee we know about in *hampton, so growing her wholesale business would be fun to watch.
cesium133:
Thinking of Raven, I seem to recall that she went to study physics as a grad student and not an undergrad. Generally physics departments pay stipends to their grad students so they don't have to find work during the summer and can stay and do research (or teach so that the professors can take a break during the summer).
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