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WCDT strips 4476-4480 (8th to 12th March 2021)
Christophelous:
I feel like we're finally seeing where some of the awkwardness of Clinton comes from. He and his mom both have a tendency to make assumptions that can lead to awkward encounters. This isn't the FIASCO that was their bar "date" but it's got a similar feel to me.
BenRG:
How Elliot went on a date and became a take-out delivery guy. "It just seemed too awkward to say 'no'!" You all know that it's exactly the sort of trap into which Elliot could fall. He'd so almost anything to avoid being in a socially awkward situation!
If he wanted to do so, this is the starting point for Jeph to effortlessly craft a Shakespeare-style romantic comedy arc where Mrs A falls ever more for the 'delivery guy' and, by luck, she, Clinton and Elliot are never in the same room at the same time. It finally climaxes with Elliot standing there as Clinton and his mother both enter the room and say, simultaneously: "Meet my boyfriend! Wait, your boyfriend? He's my boyfriend!" Cue laugh track and the 'We''ll be right back after this break!' caption card.
ihaveavoice:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 08 Mar 2021, 18:48 ---Singular "they" goes back to Chaucer.
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And beyond! It's been with us for at least three centuries longer than the singular "you" has. And note how that great history link points out that grammarians didn't decide to start acting like the singular "they" was an error until the 18th century, FOUR centuries after the first recorded instance of its use, and at most ONE century out from the tipping point of "thou" being deemed too rude for even casual conversations. These people were using the still rather new singular "you" while getting weird about the much older singular "they." It's best not to mimic the ideological inconsistency of random Georgian Era scholars.
I'd also bet good money that every single person who feels weird about using "they" to signify one person in a gender-related context has had several conversations like these in their lifetime:
"Well, I talked to the auditor."
"What'd they say?"
Farideh:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 08 Mar 2021, 20:26 ---I wonder if Mrs. Augustus vaguely recognizes him from the baker from walking by and just hasn't placed where she's seen his fac
e before?
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I will accept this as canon ;D
Tyr:
--- Quote from: zioninavision on 08 Mar 2021, 18:47 ---Yes; i do think that, if there are any must-resolve story elements, what exactly Yay is and where they come from is in there somewhere! hopefully along with where the Espressosaurus went!
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Stay with me here... What if Yay... is Esspressosaurus, and when it vanished from our timeline, it was flung into an environment in which it gained sentience and sapience, going from 'it' to 'them' in the process, then was installed to the Yaycloud and its1 broad sensorium. That would explain why they are so keen on being chummy with the Social Group and were slightly dejected with having alienated themselves from their Creatrix when they next interacted from Yay/Espressosaurus' point of view.
1: the "its" here refers to the bodies as a singular collective entity, rather than the mind(s) controlling them.
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