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WCDT Strips 3266 to 3270 (18th to 22nd July 2016)
Akima:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 18 Jul 2016, 01:29 ---FWIW, this is more-or-less how I have always imagined what Bubbles POV looks like! Meanwhile, I think that Faye should get on the 'phone to the Chinese ambassador to apologise for the volleyball that's about to burst out of the ground somewhere in his country!
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I don't know where this weird idea came from that if you dug down in the USA you'd come up in China. The antipodes of most of country are at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. If the girls are on holiday on Hawaii, it will be the ambassador for Botswana to whom Faye would have to apologise.
oddtail:
--- Quote from: Akima on 18 Jul 2016, 06:46 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 18 Jul 2016, 01:29 ---FWIW, this is more-or-less how I have always imagined what Bubbles POV looks like! Meanwhile, I think that Faye should get on the 'phone to the Chinese ambassador to apologise for the volleyball that's about to burst out of the ground somewhere in his country!
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I don't know where this weird idea came from that if you dug down in the USA you'd come up in China. The antipodes of most of country are at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. If the girls are on holiday on Hawaii, it will be the ambassador for Botswana to whom Faye would have to apologise.
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I think it's just an established trope in fiction that is meant to be silly - China being a very large and very faraway country, which leads to it ending up being used as a shortcut for "you end up in a completely different place".
"It will go through and end up in the middle of an ocean" doesn't have the same ring to it.
I've seen the same trope in European stories/media, too. So it's not really about geometric accuracy, I guess. Maybe the tunnel is at an angle ;)
It's not like the idea of something going through the entire planet and emerging unscathed on another side of it is realistic in itself. What with the hot, semi-liquid mantle and even hotter planet core...
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: Nepiophage on 18 Jul 2016, 05:14 ---Just saying that the Patreon post on Saturday is not today's strip -- It's the start of a new arc so I hope it gets posted after the guest week!
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Jeph commented that it will be. We're a week ahead! (maniacal laugh)
Also, discussing the guest comic without violating the shipping rule seems...difficult.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 18 Jul 2016, 07:03 ---Also, discussing the guest comic without violating the shipping rule seems...difficult.
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FWIW, I think that the stress Dora is under is making her regress to her high school years, at which time 'girfriend' and 'boyfriend' were slurs to use to describe those who help the unpopular or unathletic to win anyway.
Mordhaus:
That ball made it nowhere near to China. That ball is dead.
Also, we needed a Top Gun high five low five.
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