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WCDT 3611 to 3615 (13th to 17th November 2017)
OldGoat:
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--- Quote from: imaginary Hannelore ---Do you think you can be PA to an Ellicott-Chatham without paying your dues first?
Prove yourself. Spend two years and show me you can bring order to the life of someone living in chaos.
Your assignment is named "Pintsize".
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He'd be making videos of her doing unspeakable things with integrated circuit modules within two weeks.
citizenfive:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 17 Nov 2017, 08:34 ---
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--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 16 Nov 2017, 20:11 ---I'm beginning to think Beatrice didn't send Tilly here because Hannelore needs a personal assistant, but rather because she just needed some way to get rid of her....
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What? The cannon isn't working?
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She already tried the cannon. And the sharks. Both with and without lasers. But Tilly keeps coming back....
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She's like Randy in that she cannot die!
brasca:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 16 Nov 2017, 23:26 ---I think that things are going in the direction that I first speculated towards the start of the arc. Tilly is going to be so annoying and intrusive that Hannelore won't be able to tolerate her for a whole morning, let alone 48 hours. She'll be fired and on her way back to Beatrice with a blistering performance review of the sort that can be summed up as "goodbye career".
IMO it is only then, with her career in ruins and the very real possibility that she's about to have a protracted period of unemployment, will we meet the real Tilly and find out what Jeph wants to do with her. I can see three possibilities:
* She's actually quite nasty and, when fired, proceeds to be very verbally abusive to Hannelore: "This is what your mom really thinks of you, you defective failure!"
* Hannelore had been 'last chance saloon' and, facing the total ruin of her dreams, Tilly breaks down and ends up under Winslow's guard to ensure that she doesn't do anything stupid;
* Tilly doesn't have much pride; we have a wholly skin-crawlingly embarrassing moment when she begs for her job and even offers 'personal services' in exchange for mercy. As well as tugging Hannelore's heart-strings, it makes one wonder just how bad things at ECI might be.Yeah, there's the possibility that she may just shrug and walk away if fired but, somehow, that would be an anticlimax. I can't see Jeph going that way.
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Interesting scenarios, but I think if Tilly really wanted revenge she could just call up Hannelore after getting a safe distance and say "Hi Ms. Ellicott-Chatman I just remembered leaving a booger somewhere in your apartment. Have fun finding it."
--- Quote from: BenRG on 16 Nov 2017, 23:26 ---P.S.:
I agree with the opinion I saw on the Subreddit that Tilly isn't actually a very good PA. Why isn't she out buying Hannelore's new 'phone? Why isn't she exploring the town and spending time learning new ways to do her "boss's" bidding by identifying locations and persons of interest? Hanging around Hannelore like a love-struck puppy is not good PA behaviour! I'm wondering if she is actually a hopeless loser who no-one wants hanging around ECI's HQ and Beatrice is using Hannelore as garbage disposal. Alternately, maybe she's the daughter of a senior board member who wants her to have a 'responsible' job but lacks the actual ability to do so; Beatrice used the Dilbert Principle - 'Promote' her to a job where she can do no damage other than to herself.
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I seriously doubt someone like Beatrice would keep a failure around instead of firing her or worse and I doubt being the daughter of a board member would make any difference. I think this is all on purpose. It can't be a coincidence that just when Winslow gets a new body and starts exploring his options that Hannelore gets a new assistant. Beatrice has likely monitored her and decided this was the time to present her with an assistant, but one that would nudge her in the direction she wants.
However, since so many people on this board have been jumping to conclusions I think I'll try a few fun ones. Perhaps Tilly isn't actually the assistant that Beatrice chose. I can see it now. Hannelore dismisses Tilly after 48 hours and soon after gets a knock on her door from a Tilly Birch apologizing for being so late. The Tilly we know gets into a car driven by Spookybot. As the car drives away Tilly morphs into another Spookybot and says "she's going to be a tougher nut to crack than we thought."
Another possibility is Tilly is unrelated to any of the characters, but a mystical guide similar to The Venture Brothers' Dr. Killinger.
JimC:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 17 Nov 2017, 15:25 ---The mods are perfectly capable of applying common sense (in situations like the current one)
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And of course in this case getting the name wrong is 'canon' as I believe the saying goes, so I submit that for the moment, no matter how iffy the spelling, and how large the tally of mis-spellings is, Tilly/Taffy for comic effect is reasonably fair game.
Case:
--- Quote from: KnightRider007 on 18 Aug 2017, 03:52 ---... You can't apply population averages to individuals.
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--- Quote from: KnightRider007 on 17 Nov 2017, 18:09 ---If Tilly had been male, they would have been arrested three strips ago...
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I thought the first post was rather insightful - don't know whether we'd agree on much in our politics, but its always refreshing to see someone using their headmeats for its intended purpose. Certainly can't be said for all people in discussions around gender/social justice issues.
Second post seems like your forgetting your own (sensible) stance, though. I guess it's pretty rare for someone - regardless of their gender - to be arrested for stalking without someone else pressing charges against them first. The impact of stalking is in the mind of the victim, and most definitions require a pattern of behaviour rather than a single action - without additional information, it's not easy to for a cop passing by to determine at a glance whether someone is being stalked (unlike, e.g. witnessing a burglary, theft or assault).
So no, I don't think a male Tilly would have been arrested by now, all other things being equal.
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