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WCDT 8-13 December 2014 (Strips 2850-2854)
Half Empty Coffee Cup:
Along a similar vein: Doesn't Clinton go to UMass?
Maybe Emily transferred after that incident.
osaka:
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--- Quote from: osaka on 11 Dec 2014, 07:11 ---For some reason I now want to stay away from you Zeb. I mean, you seen your avatar?
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What, you think I might be a demon bandicoot from beyond time and space?
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Those 'palate cleanser' comics were fascinating in their own way. I think that was Jeph trying to develop another, completely separate continuity but still published under the 'Questionable Content' name so he could take a breather from the main characters and plot. Tim Buckley on Ctrl+Alt+Del has tried the same thing with varying levels of success.
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I think he might. Hasn't he had other sweet tits Harriett breaks for christmas times?
Case:
--- Quote from: allanjm on 11 Dec 2014, 08:09 ---If this strip isn't a reference to Charles Stross' Laundry file series it really should be.
For anyone who doesn't know it the Laundry Files is basically a cross between Len Deighton an HP Lovecraft. It is set in a universe where magic and math are the same thing and the wrong fractal screen saver can blow Wolverhampton off the map, zombies make great night watchmen, and the old one are awakening.
The hero, Bob Howard, is a systems administrator / supernatural spy working in a British bureaucratic spy agencies.
“Saving the world is Bob Howard’s job. There are a surprising number of meetings involved.”
"The name is Howard. Bob Howard. Please don't hurt me..."
edit: I see zmeiat_joro got it too.
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The "computational Demonology"-concept is definately a reference to the Laundry series (mathematics is actually magic, and doing the right wrong type of computations, you can open gates to parallel dimensions and summon the denizens of those planes to do your bidding. Or, more likely, eat parts of your brain. If you're lucky, that is ...).
Makes me wonder though: In the Laundry-Universe, people who accidentally stumble upon "Turing's last theorem", or other "weaponizable math" will immediately be spotted and drafted by the local variant of the MiB.
In Great Britain, this is the last surviving branch of the Special Operations Department of WW-II fame, who are all kinds of bad news. Drafting you for life and slapping a geas onto you that will squeeze your brain out of your ears as soon as you even think about telling somebody about the existence of your security clearance is just the start of it.
Given that most of their older staff hold ranks like DSS ("Deeply Scary Sorcerer" in Laundry-speak) while most of the younger hold degrees in computer science, maths or theoretical physics and were drafted while unwittingly attempting to release the taumaturgical equivalent of a mid-sized nuke onto Manchester, that does make some sense.
Service in the Laundry does not end with death, though - most of the on-site security staff are actually zombified former employees ...
In the US, the MiB's are called the Black Chamber, and they do the kind of stuff the Laundry considers highly unethical.
Poor Emily ...
cesium133:
--- Quote from: TransAmber on 11 Dec 2014, 08:21 ---Wasn't SMIF a women's only college? Why are there males in the classroom?
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Is Clinton a graduate student? I don't know specifically about Smif, but I know some women's colleges do accept male graduate students.
Half Empty Coffee Cup:
Clinton's 21. A little on the young side for graduate study. Not unheard of, though.
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