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WCDT strips 4076-4080 (26th to 30th August 2019)

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Perfectly Reasonable:
'Better be fast with those drinks...'
Good thing Coffee of Doom is just down the street.

Kinda surprised by Faye's language here.
"Get the lady a tea. And some coffee for whiskers."

Maybe we'll learn a little more about the Emu Incident. Not counting on it though. And never intrude on a nesting goose.

JimC:

--- Quote from: Thrudd on 28 Aug 2019, 07:33 ---All too true but there is also another reason for that.
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As i may have said before, it doesn't matter how sophisticated your company is, someone still has to clean the toilet, and if there's an outbreak of infectious disease they may become the most important person in the company.

The lot of a saturday kid/holiday temp in any small business is to do what they are legally allowed to, competent at and where errors won't impact customers. There's often not too many choices, and sometimes the most difficult part is keeping them busy without impacting the productivity of the skilled folk.

BenRG:
Ouch! Oh poor Chimevera! Looking at the angle in her leg, that emu must have a hell of a kick to do that to what is probably aviation-quality duralanium! I also love her blush in panel 2. It reminds us of just how human the anthropomimietic synthetics generally are in terms of their reaction to social taboos like nudity. It's a nice little touch.

Yes, Sam is an intern and, as predicted, that means she's automatically the one selected to run errands or fetch snacks. Additionally, I suspect that Faye wants her out of the way so she doesn't interfere with the process or embarrass Chimevera by treating her like a curiosity.

That said, sending Sam to Coffee of Doom at  this moment does open some interesting possibilities for the next phase of  this arc. Several of those possibilities are:

* Hannelore serves Sam at CoD and she gets to learn a bit about Hanners' pharmacological tea-making; Sam realises that there is more to robot repair than cool tools;
* Maybe Sam decides to become a robot MD?
* Or decides that Hannelore's potion-making looks more interesting than playing with machine tools?
* Sam runs into May and inadvertently gets her to actually bite the bullet and talk to Winslow;
* Sam runs into the emu and puts her 'dealing with wild critters' knowledge to work to contain it and lead it tamely back to the scientists;
* Sam runs into Roko and somehow gets roped into the whole issue with May's chassis.I'm sure that there are lots of more interesting options that others can come up with. The point is that I suspect that we're going to be following Sam's journey next, not the repairs to Chimevera's leg. She's not going to see any of that work because of the adventure that she's just leaving to start!

Gyrre:
Every time I see 'Chimevera' my brain goes "key-maw-ver-uh" even though I'm fairly certain that the 'chime' part is meant to be said like the word  "chime".

St.Clair:

--- Quote from: Gyrre on 30 Aug 2019, 00:49 ---Every time I see 'Chimevera' my brain goes "key-maw-ver-uh" even though I'm fairly certain that the 'chime' part is meant to be said like the word  "chime".

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I believe "chimera" (and thus, this derivative of it) is usually pronounced with a hard "K" or "Kh" (think "Christ") rather than the "ch-" you'd expect from "church", "chimpanzee", et al.
So I would go with "ky-muh-ver-uh", or possibly "-veer-uh" if the second part is intended to be based on the common first name "Vera".

EDIT: ... actually, now I think the whole name was meant to be a rhyming pun on "primavera", which means that you were actually entirely right the first time! 
(as the first syllable there is "preem", not "prime")

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