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WCDT 4121-4125 (October 28th - Nov 1st 2019)
Killspree:
Guess we can add Trespassing and maybe Unlawful Entry to the list of job skills.
Pretty sure if I did that as an intern I'd be bounced to the curb.
But I'm sure it'll be okay because "she's a kid and we need our share of her 'spray' fees"
DSL:
I was interning at a small town paper back in the day -- ("the day" being 35 years ago, now) and we had to do our production work (photo processing, layout, that sort of thing) at the office of another paper in the chain 15 miles away. It was production day and they locked up for the night without realizing I was in the darkroom. These were old-fashioned locks, in that you couldn't open the door from the inside and leave the door locked behind you. I couldn't get anyone to answer their phones at home (nobody had cell phones then except for two or three obnoxiously rich folks, and no one I knew had their numbers). I found a door at the end of a hall that, though sticky, would open. I left a note, and then left.
The next day, back in our own office, my boss said they were sorry they locked me in, etc. etc., and sorry nobody picked up the phone, etc. etc. "But you busted the door. It was an old door and they decided to replace it."
Recently ran into someone who worked at the same paper at the same time. Thirty five years ago.
"Oh yeah! You're the kid who busted the door!"
Wingy:
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--- Quote from: Wingy on 29 Oct 2019, 06:14 ---Probably beats the woman with 3 boobs.
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Ahh, youth. 'twas an M. Python reference.
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Nah, my parents house wasn't at all welcoming of British humor until long after I left; Benny Hill was actively discouraged, etc. I have yet to see an episode of M.P. Flying Circus, though I have seen all the movies and own many on DVD.
jwhouk:
Looks like the boss didn't upload the strip for today?
Wingy:
--- Quote from: Thrudd on 29 Oct 2019, 07:55 ---I wonder if they will remember that there is an art gallery that has an interest in Faye's creations.
With the amount of spare parts of questionable usability that can found in pretty much any service shop, I don't see why she can't just weld some bits together into something surprising and saleable.
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There is a *leetle* bit more to good art than that. :laugh: I make the odd prop for theatricals every once in a while - I've gotten the reputation for doing the weirdo props no one else can figure out how to make. Nazi-saluting pigeons (Producers), self-rising cakes with lit candles (Mary Poppins), one-handed controllable cobra in a basket (Drowsy Chaperone), things like that. They all take a little more than just welding a pile of scrap together. And I make practical pieces, not fine art.
Fine art requires more vision in a way, and as a shop owner concerned with the practical aspects of eating each month, I can understand why Faye hasn't made any fine art. Plus there's the whole problem Jeph faces of moving the story along without getting bogged down in whether some piece Faye has made is actually art or just "some schmuck turned loose in the junkyard with astigmatism and a welder" - as Robert Heinlein put it.
(To be 100% honest, I don't understand "fine art". There's a whole language there I don't speak and haven't the faintest clue how to even learn. I was looking at a bronze a ways back and pondering why the tiny fish had such a big body under it, only to read the sculpters note and discover it was supposed to be something else entirely. I was enjoying the piece until that point, as the sculpters note was more than a little racist. I took my leave of that area of the gallery. :x )
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