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WCDT Strips 3526 to 3530 (17th to 21st July 2017)
Neko_Ali:
--- Quote from: shanejayell on 16 Jul 2017, 19:42 ---New strip is up!
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I'm now wondering if Snarky Wendy's social media person exists in the QC universe.
:-D :laugh: :lol:
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She's actually an AI, a slightly less vulgar version of May.
BenRG:
It took me a few minutes to realise that Bubbles' dialogue in panels 3 and 4 aren't a lack of a 'TM' character in Jeph's text insertion program; Bubbles is literally saying "Wendys, tradmark" with 'trademark' in a quieter voice. Now I find myself wondering if it is a legal requirement about how you have to talk about the promotional derma or if Wendys actually won a court case that obliges everyone to add 'trademark' whenever they mention the corporate name in writing or in speech.
You can see it, actually: The petition was poorly drafted and it wasn't until it was granted that everyone realised that it applied to speech as well as all forms of written communications. Now, everyone under the jurisdiction of the US Federal Court system have to write the company's name as "WendysTM" and pronounce it as "Wendy's, trademark". Thus the corporate perversion of the English language continues! Anyway, a few years later and very few people do it, except AIs whose vocal chips are programmed to automatically do so.
Moving on to the rest of the strip, I'm expecting Clinton to select purple just because it will stand out. If nothing else, I think that it will be an interesting talking point with Emily and Brun!
Mad Cat:
I'm wondering about that whole trademark thing. I hope we receive some form of explanation.
shanejayell:
Might even be a built in thing with AIs saying 'company' trademark...
osaka:
What if it has to do with some type of sponsorship agreement?
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