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WCDT Strips 3696 - 3700 (12-16 March 2018)
Zebediah:
--- Quote from: ckridge on 17 Mar 2018, 03:52 ---Clinton's mother is sexy, charming, and serene. Clinton and Claire are skinny, anxious, helpy, and, though reasonably good-looking, unfashionably so. It follows that their father was even more skinny, anxious, helpy, and unfashionable than they are. Clinton's father made two babies with a sexy, charming, serene woman. Clinton will be fine.
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Clinton’s mom is at least a couple of decades older than her children, and so has had time to find herself. I imagine that she was quite a bit like Claire when she was younger.
Morituri:
--- Quote from: ckridge on 17 Mar 2018, 03:52 ---Clinton's mother is sexy, charming, and serene. Clinton and Claire are skinny, anxious, helpy, and, though reasonably good-looking, unfashionably so. It follows that their father was even more skinny, anxious, helpy, and unfashionable than they are.
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It does not follow at all. Seriously. Kids are frequently unlike their parents. Sometimes profoundly so.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 17 Mar 2018, 09:48 ---
--- Quote from: ckridge on 17 Mar 2018, 03:52 ---Clinton's mother is sexy, charming, and serene. Clinton and Claire are skinny, anxious, helpy, and, though reasonably good-looking, unfashionably so. It follows that their father was even more skinny, anxious, helpy, and unfashionable than they are.
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It does not follow at all. Seriously. Kids are frequently unlike their parents. Sometimes profoundly so.
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More often than not they are, at least in some respects. Genealogists always say, "Mother's baby. Fathers? Maybe." That would explain a lot.
Zebediah:
Who's your favorite robot/artificial intelligence?
Bubbles - 26 (32.1%)
May - 12 (14.8%)
Momo - 12 (14.8%)
Spookybot - 6 (7.4%)
Roko - 5 (6.2%)
Gordon - 3 (3.7%)
Jeremy - 3 (3.7%)
Melon - 3 (3.7%)
Station - 3 (3.7%)
Pintsize - 2 (2.5%)
Punchbot - 2 (2.5%)
Winslow - 2 (2.5%)
Punkbot - 1 (1.2%)
Spaceship - 1 (1.2%)
Arthur - 0 (0%)
Corpse Witch - 0 (0%)
Droid 06 - 0 (0%)
O'Malley - 0 (0%)
PT410x - 0 (0%)
Seven - 0 (0%)
Not really surprised by the top three. Moderately surprised by Spookybot's good performance. And there's some love for a lot of the other AIs also.
ckridge:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 17 Mar 2018, 09:48 ---
--- Quote from: ckridge on 17 Mar 2018, 03:52 ---Clinton's mother is sexy, charming, and serene. Clinton and Claire are skinny, anxious, helpy, and, though reasonably good-looking, unfashionably so. It follows that their father was even more skinny, anxious, helpy, and unfashionable than they are.
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It does not follow at all. Seriously. Kids are frequently unlike their parents. Sometimes profoundly so.
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Offspring are invariably different from their parents in some respects, but very seldom in most respects. Providing all the genetic material, early socialization, and elementary education has substantial effect. Apparent large differences between parents and offspring are most often the effect of age. The appropriate times to make the comparison are after offspring have reached the age their parents were when raising them, and after offspring have their own children.
It is possible Ms. Augustus was like Claire and Clinton when young and that raising children made her less anxious and helpy, but I have not found this to be the usual course of events.
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