Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT strips 3781 - 3785 (9-13 July 2018)
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 12 Jul 2018, 13:27 ---So I told a friend about the raisin discussion here.
She grew up in a part of the US far from raisin producing areas and with poor transportation links. There and then, raisins were really expensive. I think she did have them but a lot of people there were poorer than her.
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That's got to be Alaska. EVERYTHING's expensive up there.
Having rabbits as a kid put me off raisins.
Inconsequential:
Personally, I detest raisins. Just don't like 'em. Never did, never will.
I like grapes. I like other types of dried fruit. But dried grapes, bleagh. I don't know why, exactly.
I hate raisins to the point that I'll go to no small amount of trouble to pick them out of things like trail mix where the evil little wrinkly bastards have no business lurking. I mostly just skip foods contaminated by raisins.
Anyhoo, that's all beside the point...
OK, let's say you're 6 year old Brun's Mom in a grocery store. You see a sale on raisins.
"Brun, do you like raisins?"
"I don't know. They look gross."
"OK, then. We don't want to waste food, so I'm not buying them."
And thus raisins do not enter the house, and Brun ends up somewhere in her mid-20s without encountering them again.
Even in a household that isn't poor, it's quite plausible that raisins wouldn't re-appear once rejected by a kid who was probably always pretty picky about what she eats anyway.
Also, although time is hazy in the QC universe (as well as its other relations to our universe), the California Raisins craze was huge in the late '80s and was pretty much over by the time Brun was born.
In any case, it's nice to learn a little more about Brun and Clinton.
Inconsequential:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 10 Jul 2018, 13:02 ---It means only that Brun told someone how to made it look like an accident, not that she actually did the Queequeg on anyone. It's still aiding and abetting if said harpoon hurling was unlawful, but verbal instruction only would be much harder to trace back to her.
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"...did the Queequeg..." LOL. :lol:
Milayna:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 11 Jul 2018, 23:26 ---So, here's a prediction for the rest of this arc: Clinton decides that Brun needs a hug. She asks him (in her usual way) if this is a socially-appropriate gesture of support or a prelude to a sexual advance. Clinton confirms that it's a gesture of support and so she feels safe to reciprocate, remarking that she isn't entirely opposed to the latter from him. Elliot comes over and it kind of breaks his heart because, as always, he's making assumptions without context. He wanders home in a huff and is taking off his shirt as he walks down the hall, giving Roko a good first view of Human Abs.
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1 out of 3 so far, tune in next week to see if Roko makes it a 2! (half point if he accidentally flashes Melon hanging out in his place)
BenRG:
An interesting call-back to the first appearance of The Secret Bakery in today's strip. Anyone else remember Renee idly mentioning to Padma that the 'blender thing in the back' was on fire? I wonder if the same unidentified bit of bakery technology gave up the ghost for Elliot?
Meanwhile, if Elliot were to learn anything from today's strip, I hope it is this: Not every sad or awkward social interaction in his circle is his fault!
You know, panel 3 makes me think that Brun really wanted to like Raisins and that the biggest disappointment in this interaction for her was finding out this isn't the case. I guess that, ever since childhood, she had this fantasy of what these 'luxury foods' would be like only to finally try one and not like them. Emotionally, it's kind of like chasing the rainbow to its end and finding that the 'pot of gold' only contained lumps of rock that someone painted yellow!
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