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WCDT strips 3726-3730 (April 23th-27th 2018)
SotFX:
Only major gripe is that more raptors aren't that dumb...a lot of them are rather infamous for being problems due to their tendency to mess with locks and handles. And then you have the corvids who are a whole lot worse due to being escape artists who sometimes open other doors as well.
DaiJB:
--- Quote from: awgiedawgie on 23 Apr 2018, 01:49 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 22 Apr 2018, 23:23 ---To me, the strip title today has a dual meaning for Emily. Just because she wanders through UMass with no real destination in mind on some days doesn't mean that she's necessarily 'lost'.
However, on a deeper level, she's also not 'lost' in her journey through life. She's quite happy and fulfilled in how her life is going and following a seemingly-random meandering path through the world. As she ranted to Clinton once, she's quite happy being the way she is; she isn't lost or too weird to know what's wrong with her lifestyle. 'Weird all the way down' is how she puts it but I think of it as 'following her own drummer'.
That said, I suspect that, if pressed, she could give a long list of strange things she's done that she appends with 'I won't do that again.'
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The line "Not all those who wander are lost" has been around for decades, but the ideology within it has been around for centuries. Emily personifies it extremely well. If the whole purpose of your journey is to wander, then you cannot possibly get lost. One of the easiest ways to discover new things is to stumble upon them.
As for her probable list of things she wouldn't do again, well, there's a saying for that too: "Life is trial and error. Mostly error. Lots of error."
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That's like Ms Frizzle's (The Magic School Bus) catch-phrase:
"Take chances, make mistakes and get messy!"
Really, that is the essence of scientific inquiry; there haven't been any real
breakthroughs where the researchers weren't willing to make fools of themselves :-D
If anyone in the QC cast is a scientist, it's Emily - she lives that philosophy!
awgiedawgie:
I shudder to think what havoc Pintsize could wreak if he had a humanoid body.
Neko_Ali:
Actually as he pointed out, the reason he gets away with so much is in his appearance. It's inherent bias in humanity, the younger someone looks the more likely they can get away with bad behavior. Add to the fact that in many ways Pintsize and others with similar chassis look somewhat like toys means people are going to overlook them, for good and bad.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: SotFX on 23 Apr 2018, 19:13 ---Only major gripe is that more raptors aren't that dumb...a lot of them are rather infamous for being problems due to their tendency to mess with locks and handles. And then you have the corvids who are a whole lot worse due to being escape artists who sometimes open other doors as well.
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I thought owls were the only birds of prey that were particularly dim.
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