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WCDT Strips 3516 to 3520 (3rd to 7th July 2017)
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: bhtooefr on 08 Jul 2017, 10:37 ---Worth noting that in 2013 when that comic was published, that Mazda was available new.
It was, however, very cheap for a new car, partially because it got mediocre fuel consumption for its class.
My headcanon is that there's quite a bit of money to go around despite the divorce, though - Clinton's hands, Claire's car, Claire's transition, and a nice house in Massachusetts.
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You probably know the Mazda line better than I. I was seeing it as two or three years old with 20,000 miles or so when she bought it - just the kind of vehicle a frugality freak like I envision Claire to be would look for.
bhtooefr:
It could've been that old, yes - it came out for model year 2011 in the US market.
However, that would've meant that she would've just gotten it in when that comic was published. (Cars in the QCverse don't appear to follow the timeline at all - estimates are that that strip was set in summer 2006 IIRC, and that car didn't exist then. Phones don't follow it either, FWIW.)
Note that Claire is 24 as of that point, and she's a grad student.
My guess is that she got the car new, as a graduation gift. If she were buying the car with her own money, it would've been a descent into the land of $1000 Craigslist beaters, if she got anything.
flondrix:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 07 Jul 2017, 15:19 ---Two girls thinking they were cute and having a little chuckle is not the reason.
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Consider how offended the typical woman (typical, not sex-positive kinky dreamgirls you see in the media and online but not in real life) gets if she finds out that a guy was "shipping" her and her cute friend. Is it any wonder that guys don't like it?
flondrix:
--- Quote from: Drunken Hamster on 08 Jul 2017, 04:54 ---Not to mention strong enough to withstand a simple friggen handshake????
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A handshake, yes. Two guys trying for the "crush", not so much. (I think it has been made pretty clear that Clinton tried to go for the crush and Elliot responded in kind.)
Machinery is notoriously vulnerable to stupid unnecessary abuse, and can often be outdone by flesh and blood in ways you wouldn' expect. One reason that it is hard to fine genuine bagels instead of torroidal shaped bread is that no commercial dough-kneeding machine can handle stiff bagel dough as well as a Jewish grandmother can.
flondrix:
Are we overdue for a new WCDT? It is July 8th.
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