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WCDT Strips 3971-3975 (April 1st-5th)
shanejayell:
Poor Crushbot.
Random thought: can robots cheat on tests via wifi internet access? Do QC testing areas have wireless scramblers to prevent that?
hedgie:
Depending on how much local storage he has, wifi might not even matter.
OldGoat:
"Tarring & Feathering" was (and is) somewhat of an ad-hoc effort. It's kind of lynching lite and isn't supposed to result in any fatalities or permanent injuries. I recall one tale of a fellow in the US Midwest in the 1920s or '30s who the narrator claimed to have seen receive the treatment. Seems he arrived in town saying he represented a prospecting firm and they were sure their was oil in the area, and they only needed the villagers' help raising capital for the well that would most certainly make them all rich. Poor fellow didn't know his older cousin had come through a couple years earlier running the same scam. Aside from the very abbreviate form of due process applied, I find it difficult to generate much sympathy for the recipients of the treatment in those few accounts I've read or heard stories of.
If there's a tar & feathers manual, I've never located a copy. I imagine they used whatever they had at hand that was sufficiently sticky. (I may or may not have first hand knowledge of a bottle or so of Br'er Rabbit molasses being pressed into service.) I understand that sawdust and planer shavings or even dust bunnies from under the dorm common room sofa can make a decent substitute for feathers.
Tova:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 02 Apr 2019, 22:24 ---If there's a tar & feathers manual, I've never located a copy.
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Let me help you out there.
BenRG:
Poor Crushbot! However, as good as it is to have a dream, you've got to make sure that you're going about it the right way or you're just setting yourself up for failure and embarrassment, the way Crushbot did here!
I do love the way Jeph occasionally does a strip to remind us of how weird 'reality' is in his fictional Northampton. A girl dressed as a fairy having a one-woman parade in the streets and a demolition robot who wants to be a librarian are just parts of that psychedelic landscape!
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