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WCDT strips 3781 - 3785 (9-13 July 2018)
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: helo on 10 Jul 2018, 20:32 ---I've been reading for three years and this was kind of a screeching halt for me. What bizarre turn of events can make you too poor for raisins? That was definitely something I could get with school lunch too. Is there some kind of grape famine that needs to be explained at a later date?
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Welcome, sort of new person!
The thing to understand here is the need of many people to have a reason for being. According to the French, this creates a raisin debt.
BenRG:
This is probably just me or maybe I was fortunate but I do get the impression that Jeph used the 'too poor for raisins' basically as an exaggeration for effect because my experience is that they're ultra-cheap; they're just not a staple food and thus rarely on the shopping list. That said, this son of an unemployed single mother (who wasn't able to get work until I was around 5 years and then at a very low salary) does know that such 'treats' as I had were either gifts from my better-off relatives or something that my mother had to budget carefully to afford, as in 'what necessity can we do without this week'.
I do like panel 6. Yes, Brun is getting to know Clinton's behaviour patterns. She's good enough at it that she's pretty sure that he doesn't like being embarrassed by his lack of certain social experiences that lead to him being able to predict her experiences. She'll bear that in mind in the future.
Over on Patreon, some posters have speculated that Brun's parents may have been undocumented migrants. Does anyone else think that's possible?
Tova:
We didn't have raisins. We had sultanas.
SordidEuphemism:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 10 Jul 2018, 22:37 ---many people to have a reason for being. According to the French, this creates a raisin debt.
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I don't know whether to boo you or cheer you. That was horrible / glorious.
freeman:
I think raisins are one of those food items some people intensely dislike, so maybe that's why.
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