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WCDT Strips 3246-3250 (20-24th June 2016)
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: Tova on 21 Jun 2016, 21:15 ---Bubbles' perplexity at being treated so nicely is something to behold.
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When I saw that particular panel, I was reminded of an incident some 10 years ago, at Chonburi, Thailand.
I was being treated much like Bubbles. "Here's your tea, Miss TimTam".
(Long story involving industrial quantities of TimTams I'd brought for the nurses at the clinic).
My reaction was similar.
Hanners is a nice person.
brasca:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 21 Jun 2016, 23:34 ---Y'know, I'm genuinely surprised at the fact that anyone was even slightly worried about Barry's safety. I mean, since when does Jeph spend effort on creating a bizarre character only to stop using them after one scene?
Faye... how best to put this...? This is healthy for Dora. The old Co Datmosphere was a product of her sense of alienation and persecution. She is moving away from those neuroses and so is the shop. She just doesn't have that anger anymore and you have to admit that she's more healthy for that! Positivity helps more than negativity, as you've learned through your time with Bubbles!
Actually, you can't help but wonder if Faye's own anger reinforced Dora's as well as encouraged her negative perception of the world. Faye's absence may have contributed to Dora's progress. I hope that Faye considers this and asks hherself if changes on her own part are necessary, for her own sake.
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That would explain how COD lasted under the previous management for as long as it did. It's amazing it didn't go out of business and if the place is more profitable than ever that would reinforce the direction. While I can understand hostility to some customers who deserved it there were also a lot of people who didn't and probably never returned. Faye is better in her new line of work than she ever was behind the counter.
As for Barry he might be a little too much too handle, but considering how accommodating they are to people with various neuroses they should still give him a chance... but nothing too caffeinated.
blue5:
Barry is...interesting. Weird until he can recite every Hemingway book by memory. Hemingway rocks
The snarkiness is what gave CoD its charm. Otherwise is just a coffeehouse. Although Dora seems alot calmer. Here is to hope that Dora and Martin restart on a positive slate. They compliment each other. Martin is finally growing a spine. Sort of.
Faye looks, i am not sure...off. I can't place it. I think its the weird hairdo. The drawing style for her changed quite a bit since the firing arc.
Scarblac:
--- Quote from: KOK on 20 Jun 2016, 10:38 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 19 Jun 2016, 22:28 ---On a side note, I always find the expression "You wanna come with?" to be strangely amusing yet just slightly appealing. Is that unique to the USA? That's the only place I recall coming across it.
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It is funny that while the Danish word "med" means the exact same thing as the English word "with", just about none of the idioms using it translate word by word. E.g. "vil du med?" "want you with?" or in better English "do you want with?". Similar "shall I take something with for you?" or "do you want something with?", "I'm just with", "with home" or "take with" ( = to go).
I just realised that I do not know how to say "I'm just with" in English. That is, I am not here to buy something, I am accompanying one who is.
Anyway "You wanna come with?" is mostly used in areas with Scandinavian influence. Or German, I guess.
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Or Dutch.
Anything that Scandinavians, Germans and Dutch share is obviously old Germanic and probably once existed in English as well, but at some point they surrendered to those French guys and imported most of Latin into their language. That gave them "accompany"... Where the word "with" comes from is unclear to me, it doesn't sound like it's related to either 'med/mit/mee' or 'avec', not even to 'cum'.
snubnose:
I'm surprised about everyone who did not vote "Space Station" in THIS poll.
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