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WCDT Strips 3246-3250 (20-24th June 2016)
Tova:
--- Quote from: Akima on 22 Jun 2016, 16:17 ---You know, looking at that chair with Bubbles sitting in it, it has to be a custom job, made to fit her. Bubbles sitting is only slightly lower than Hanners, a tall woman, standing (though leaning forward slightly). Imagine how high the back of that chair must be.
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Possibly constructed in situ to save having to try to get it through the front door.
Morituri:
--- Quote from: Akima on 22 Jun 2016, 16:17 ---You know, looking at that chair with Bubbles sitting in it, it has to be a custom job, made to fit her. Bubbles sitting is only slightly lower than Hanners, a tall woman, standing (though leaning forward slightly). Imagine how high the back of that chair must be.
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I'm a bit uncertain as to Bubbles' scale; she's well-proportioned but her size as drawn is indeterminate to me; she seems to vary between 2 1/4 and 2 1/2 meters tall.
The chair, though, is probably the same size as the one I'm sitting in right now. I'm just over 2 meters tall, and at my heaviest (When I was weightlifting and also fat) I massed about 200 kilograms. (These days I mass just over half that.) But anyway, at my heaviest, I got kinda sick of small and/or fragile furniture and started keeping an eye out. You can find this kind of chair new, but they command high four and low five digit prices in USD. I wasn't ready to spend that. But a year later I also found three at an estate sale, and over the course of five years, another couple in thrift stores, where they had high two or low three-digit prices in USD. Those I bought.
The arms on the sides (on all examples I've seen anyway) are detachable by pulling two levers inside; without the arms they fit through any ADA-compliant (36 inch / 92 cm) doorways. They'd have no trouble getting it into any building that could be licensed for a coffee shop.
jwhouk:
Thing is, COD is likely built in a very OLD building. Even here in Wisconsin, places like the coffee shop are buildings constructed over a century ago - though likely remodeled heavily since then.
In Massachusetts, a building like the one that houses COD may have been built in the early-to-mid-19th Century.
Zebediah:
That being said, the front door of CoD looks like it's a modern width.
jheartney:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 22 Jun 2016, 11:58 ---It's interesting (to me anyway) that wall-eyes have become artist shorthand for "crazy". Whenever you see a wall-eyed person in a comic, he (or she) is crazy. It's a trope.
That particular affliction has affected NONE of the many crazy people I've known. Uh, long story. Won't go into it here. But I've known a LOT of crazy people.
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Knew a guy in high school who had that. Eventually he had surgery to fix it. He WAS crazy, but then so were all the rest of us.
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