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WCDT: 2613-2617 (Jan 6 - 10 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Zwammy:
I agree with the thinking that Marten doesn't need a relationship right now. That being said, life happens when you least expect it. Maybe with more focus on the band, he'll meet someone involved with the music biz and hit it off? It could happen.
There have been new characters introduced before, and it seems there will have to be more coming online at some point. Otherwise it will turn into a daytime soap where everyone dates everyone else in endless couple permutations. Bleah.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: Border Reiver on 06 Jan 2014, 07:00 ---all the best to Jeph and Christie.
--- Quote from: Kugai on 05 Jan 2014, 15:32 ---Once more unto the breach dear friends, ONCE MORE!!!!
--- End quote ---
Or close the wall [of text] up with our fanboy dead.
In fandom there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of geekdom blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the troll;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the comments a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the keyboard
Like the spirit of Yelling Bird; let common decency u'derwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a fanboy
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful feeling of security.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest Knights of the Brooms made entirely of dicks.
Whose blood is fet from parents war-proof!
Parents that, like so many Pintsizess,
Have in these parts from morn till even violoated forum rules
And sheathed their keyboards for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your moderators; now attest
That those whom you call'd administrators did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to flamewar. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in cyberspace, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your posting; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harriet, Randy, and Yelling Bird!'
--- End quote ---
I do not want this post to go unnoticed, because it is already Post of the Year material. :)
Method of Madness:
I haven't read it yet, because I want to know if I'm supposed to sing it to the tune of something.
Storel:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 06 Jan 2014, 16:59 ---I haven't read it yet, because I want to know if I'm supposed to sing it to the tune of something.
--- End quote ---
I don't think so. "Once more unto the breach" is a Shakespeare quote, and the response to it appears to be a QC-ized parody of the rest of that particular speech. One giveaway is that it's written in iambic pentameter, Shakespeare's signature meter.
(There may very well be a well-known tune to which you can sing things written in iambic pentameter, but if so I don't know what it is. "Greensleeves" is iambic quadrameter, so that won't work...)
Bonus points to anyone who knows which Shakespeare play that speech is from. (I'm not sure myself, to be honest, although I have a suspicion.)
jwhouk:
Henry the VI, if memory would serve.
EDIT: off by one Henry. Henry the V, Act 3, Scene 1.
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