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WCDT Strips 3546 to 3550 (14th to 18th August 2017)
Cornelius:
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--- Quote from: Cornelius on 17 Aug 2017, 04:58 ---Equally seriously, I'm wondering what Pintsize's reaction will be. Something like this? /image removed for brevity/
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"So, why do you stop?"
"I think I lost an iron, boss"
?
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--- Quote from: Stoutfellow on 17 Aug 2017, 06:05 ---I think he's talking about the heel of his left shoe, which has come loose. Perhaps "fer" refers to the nail?
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Bit of context, this is from a Lucky Luke comic, in which the guy in the green coat is a professional gambler, trying to stop the inventors of the gambling machine. Along the way, they've lost their horses, and so he's using his henchman as a horse. Losing his heel, he comments he's losing a horse shoe (hoefijzer, fer de cheval).
The text is not exactly relevant, but it was the first decent picture of this I could find. My point was more of Pintsize, (like the guy in green) trying to take Winslow for a ride. (Incidentally, but that probably belongs in a different forum, the image is based on Louis de Funès being carried around by Bourvil in the movie "La grande vadrouille", aka "Don't look now... We're being shot at.")
Edit: edited to add relevant quotes.
swapna:
I find it fascinating how much people are angry at May - yes, she's mean, but let's be honest here. She doesn't know Winslow well. If an acquaintance came and showed off at my place of work, I'd also tell them to do that somewhere else; I'm not as abrasive as May, but I think not faking happiness and telling him to leave the shop if he doesn't want to buy anything is perfectly fine. To repeat: they're not friends. They're friends of friends.
She doesn't have any obligation to congratulate him, or hide her own bitterness and disappointment. He came to her place of work, not the other way around.
TheEvilDog:
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BenRG:
--- Quote from: swapna on 17 Aug 2017, 06:36 ---I find it fascinating how much people are angry at May - yes, she's mean, but let's be honest here. She doesn't know Winslow well. If an acquaintance came and showed off at my place of work, I'd also tell them to do that somewhere else; I'm not as abrasive as May, but I think not faking happiness and telling him to leave the shop if he doesn't want to buy anything is perfectly fine. To repeat: they're not friends. They're friends of friends.
She doesn't have any obligation to congratulate him, or hide her own bitterness and disappointment. He came to her place of work, not the other way around.
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But that isn't what happened, is it? She didn't ask him to leave because she is at work, politely or otherwise. She erupted at him, accused him of rubbing his good fortune in her face and is now visiting her friends and slandering him behind his back.
Cornelius:
In all fairness, I think part of why people are angry with May, is because it's been somewhat disappointing for Winslow, so far. He's all excited, and the ones that should be able to really know what it means for him, have not responded in kind. It might be that his timing is off, I agree. But imagine, if you were to have been confined to one place, and then could suddenly go anywhere you want, what would you do?
Also, I'm not ruling out he'd just been passing by May's place of employment on the way from the library back home.
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