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WCDT Strips 3771 - 3775 (25-29 June 2018)

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oeoek:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 25 Jun 2018, 17:30 ---Sorry: Decent Human Being.

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Ok, now I am pretty sure THIS would never come from Urban Dictionary.
(As an old fart from the Netherlands, I lean heavily on UB to get this comic and many other online jokes)

And boys being boys, I can see how a boy with a robot hand would not get too worked up about human-robot relationships...

cybersmurf:

--- Quote from: OldGoat on 25 Jun 2018, 11:46 ---1 For non-USAian readers, some Southerners have a remarkable linguistic ability to pronounce "damned yankee" as one syllable.  There is no really accurate way to render it typorgaphically, it must be heard to be appreciated.

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One does not realise how much slang you use until you meet a foreigner who has no idea what you're talking about.
People around here know there's enough non-US readers to give insight to the... more extreme non-standard linguistics, like Southern expressions. And that warms my heart.

I somewhat know what Southern US English sounds like, but I guess I never went far enough south to imagine how you can single syllable damn yankee.

Doghouse:
Two observations on today's strip (26 June).


Bottom right corner:

"She's been hoist". Not "hoisted", which is American. It's a quote from Shakespeare, who wasn't.
("For tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard" - Hamlet, Act III, Scene 4).


"Petar(d)":

A rather basic form of early bomb used in the breaking of sieges (especially for blasting through fortification gates). Shaped a bit like a bell with a rim at the mouth end, a bit like a large top hat. You'd run up to the door, nail it mouth-first to the woodwork by the rim (and/or prop it up with a framework a bit like an easel), light the (short) fuse, and run for cover like your life depended on it - because it did. "Hoist with his own petard" is the fanciful image of some poor beggar blown high into the air ("hoist") by the explosion of the bomb he didn't get clear of in time.

Probably related to the French verb "péter", meaning "to fart".

JoeCovenant:
Seems to be an awful lot of foreshadowing going on right now.

Wondering how long til Clinton lets slip to Marten that Claire has an engagement party plan.
Which leads to Marten talking to Faye about it.
Which leads to some hilarious hi-jinks (remember when we used to have those!? :)  )  but eventually does actually end with the engagement.

(And as soon as ONE set of friends gets engaged... it's like a cascade effect!)

BenRG:
I'm pretty sure that Jeph has decided that he is moving onto the 'where next for Marten and Claire?' arc.

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