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WCDT strips 4086-4090 (9th-13th September 2019)

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JimC:

--- Quote from: Thrudd on 12 Sep 2019, 09:34 ---Not that long ago it was common sense that cigarettes were good for you.
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I wonder... A few years ago I was looking at an Australian kids book from the turn of the 19th/20thC. Amongst other things it railed against all the evil effects of cigarette smoking, many of which lined up with current proven health effects. I'm already learning that when people a third of my age talk about what people my age believed when we were their age they are frequently wrong! (that sentence badly needs untangling, but its late at night here and bedtime for old men...)

OldGoat:
I foresee Sam making friends with the emu and persuading it to go home to the lab.  Sam may get a part time gig there, maybe along with Winslow, as emu wranglers.  With Winslow's demonstrated counseling skills, he may be able to negotiate peace between Chimevera & Jones and the emu.  I agree, Chimevera & Jones deserve to be part of the background cast at the very least.  I don't recall Sam and Winslow meeting, at least not since he's acquired his android chassis. 

And that's definitely a corded glue gun.  The serious cordless ones use the same battery packs as cordless drills and such.  There are flashlight-batteries-in-the-handle models, but the grip on that one is 'way too slender.

Penquin47:
...Where did they find a butt implant for Sam to play with?  And if it's not a butt implant, what *is* it?

Poor Jones!

Gyrre:

--- Quote from: JimC on 12 Sep 2019, 15:29 ---
--- Quote from: Thrudd on 12 Sep 2019, 09:34 ---Not that long ago it was common sense that cigarettes were good for you.
--- End quote ---
I wonder... A few years ago I was looking at an Australian kids book from the turn of the 19th/20thC. Amongst other things it railed against all the evil effects of cigarette smoking, many of which lined up with current proven health effects. I'm already learning that when people a third of my age talk about what people my age believed when we were their age they are frequently wrong! (that sentence badly needs untangling, but its late at night here and bedtime for old men...)

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Ibsuspect regional variation is accountable for some it. Pop culture and other sources of second-hand information is likely the source of the rest. Especially if/when someone is deliberately rewriting the history books. Though, that can go either way depending on intent.

BenRG:
Panel 1 today aligns with a headcanon that I've had for a while - That a lot of the better chassis have the ability to data-transfer by physical contact. That's why I suspect that the AI-to-AI equivalent of a kiss (and remember that robot sex is basically swapping data packets) is an intimate gesture like putting their forheads together and 'pinging' each other. That might explain why, when they're hugging, Bubbles touches her forehead to Faye's - She's kissing her girlfriend in her own way!

I'm afraid that Jeph is right, by the way: There's just something about wibby-wobbly things that make odd noises. I think that Sam will find it incredibly hard to put down that old demonstration sample and do anything more productive today!

Finally, if Jones can't find his own way home without Chimevera, her being absent-minded and forgetting him is the least of the problems. It might also explain why the emu's cloak was installed and active: Chimevera forgot that they'd agreed it was a bad idea. Who knows what else she may have forgotten to scrub from the plan or, even worse, how many safety precautions she forgot to implement?

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