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Title: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Kugai on 02 Oct 2016, 11:11
CHRISTMAS IS COMING

:-D
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: pwhodges on 02 Oct 2016, 11:26
THE GOOSE IS GETTING FAT
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Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: BenRG on 02 Oct 2016, 13:39
Whatever! I don't celebrate Christmas! [/Scrooge]

FWIW, I think that we're going to have at least a few strips of Brun being Brun and making Eliot feel like he's on a whole different planet!
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Storel on 02 Oct 2016, 15:39
The pattern lately seems to be that the first three or four strips in a week deal with the same folks as the last strip of the previous week. Then for the last day or two of a week, we switch to someone else, who then become the main attraction next week.

So I'm guessing we'll have Brun, Renee, and Elliott for most of this week, and then someone else at the end -- might be about time for Emily and Clinton again, but who knows?
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: TheEvilDog on 02 Oct 2016, 18:25
Whatever! I don't celebrate Christmas! [/Scrooge]
Then you shall be visited by the spirits of three banned forum members upon the night of Christmas Eve!
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Tova on 02 Oct 2016, 18:58
I don't really celebrate Christmas either! Yet it is strangely exciting! I can't figure out why!  :evil:
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Method of Madness on 02 Oct 2016, 19:45
Interesting! Tomorrow's comic is up, and today's comic isn't.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: TheEvilDog on 02 Oct 2016, 19:47
Okay, so for the sake of everyone, we shall forget that tomorrow's comic has popped up a day early!
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Thrudd on 02 Oct 2016, 19:52
But if tomorrows is today's then today's is next weeks, but only if your week starts on the Monday else you will be recompensed next Wednesday for a hamburger today  :psyduck:
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 02 Oct 2016, 20:09
Now we know why Dora kept her roasting process secret.

Has Hannelore wrecked the Coffee of Doom brand now?
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: scandina on 02 Oct 2016, 20:13
Does the text font look somewhat wrong to anyone else? Like it's fuzzed a bit or something?
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: St.Clair on 02 Oct 2016, 21:06
Statistic is false; Floofy Hanners, made entirely of floof and adorbs, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Gyrre on 02 Oct 2016, 21:09
Hey, now! That's extra protein. I'm sure spiders fed on various insects fed on assorted baked goods and coffee beans make the coffee taste extra good.  :evil:


Though, fried tarantula does taste quite a bit like smokey shrimp ("prawn"). Just don't eat the abdomen (it's gritty and bitter).


Edited due to a mix up of spelling systems thanks to tiredness.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Penquin47 on 02 Oct 2016, 21:43
So much floof!
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: soren121 on 02 Oct 2016, 22:53
Does the text font look somewhat wrong to anyone else? Like it's fuzzed a bit or something?

Jeph is using a new font, as of the previous comic.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: hakko504 on 02 Oct 2016, 23:14
Whatever! I don't celebrate Christmas! [/Scrooge]
(https://boardgamegeek.com/camo/f50ccf203f88c9dd484e6ffd441470f8b2e31387/687474703a2f2f696d61676573362e66616e706f702e636f6d2f696d6167652f70686f746f732f33363330303030302f537461722d576172732d696d6167652d737461722d776172732d33363332323133362d3433342d3438302e6a7067)
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: BenRG on 02 Oct 2016, 23:32
Well, here we have it, folks: Hannelore has slipped into Faye's role at Coffee of Doom - She's the one who leads the establishment's attitude towards its customers. Additionally, she's the one who is Dora's in-house critic for the weird (and, frankly, FDA-defying) way she behaves sometimes.

That said... I genuinely wonder if no toasted spider in the beans will subtly affect the flavour of the coffee. She should ask Elliot to get the connoisseurs at TSB to fill out a form on the experience!
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Neko_Ali on 02 Oct 2016, 23:33
aaaaand I've lost my taste for coffee now...
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: USS Martenclaire on 02 Oct 2016, 23:53
Spidercoffee - 8 times the bite of the next leading brand. Why not visit our website?
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: JimC on 03 Oct 2016, 00:45
I genuinely wonder if no toasted spider in the beans will subtly affect the flavour of the coffee.
I find it hard to believe there could be a sufficient number of spiders roosting in the roaster to make any difference, making the assumption its used on a daily basis.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Skewbrow on 03 Oct 2016, 01:58
But new spiders hatch at a remarkable rate!

.... and this observation was definitely not prompted by the fact that last night I watchd Bilbo and a party of Dwarves fight the Mirkwood Spiders (aided by a couple of elves) on TV.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: gopher on 03 Oct 2016, 02:01
Spidercoffee is superior to civet shite coffee at least.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: heyjames4 on 03 Oct 2016, 03:07
Is this what Hannelore asserting herself in a relatively healthy manner looks like? It's heartening to see.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: osaka on 03 Oct 2016, 03:19
I've spent several years living in a place where the distinct flavor of stew was given by a rotting horse in the water source, so I could believe that 1: the flavor is indeed changed and 2: not necessarily for the better.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Tova on 03 Oct 2016, 03:33
Spidercoffee, Spidercoffee,
I'm awake now, you can't stop me.
Make a brew, any size,
Activate, energise.
Look out, she's had three spidercoffees.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Akima on 03 Oct 2016, 05:12
I hope Hanners captured the spiders, and released them outside.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: brasca on 03 Oct 2016, 05:40
aaaaand I've lost my taste for coffee now...

I would too if the spiders were in the filter or some other part of the process, but these were the ones nesting in the burner which means they've been burned to a crisp along with whatever germs they were carrying. 

I would definitely drink a cup of Charlotte's Brood before I'd sample that coffee made with beans that cats pooped out. 
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: cesium133 on 03 Oct 2016, 05:43
I hope Hanners captured the spiders, and released them outside.
She did, just in time for the orbital strike. Dora wouldn't let her hit CoD from space.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Nepiophage on 03 Oct 2016, 07:33
Quote from  US FDA Defect Levels Handbook (allowable limits for food contamination)

"Coffee Beans, Green
Insect filth and insects
( MPM-V1)
Average 10% or more by count are insect-infested or insect-damaged"

http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/SanitationTransportation/ucm056174.htm#CHPT3
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: theMarc on 03 Oct 2016, 07:40
I've spent several years living in a place where the distinct flavor of stew was given by a rotting horse in the water source, so I could believe that 1: the flavor is indeed changed and 2: not necessarily for the better.
*endless internal screaming*
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Zebediah on 03 Oct 2016, 08:13
Long-time residents of Pittsburgh complained that Iron City beer lost much of its flavor after the city cleaned up the rivers.

On the other hand the rivers are no longer health and fire hazards, so it may be a fair trade-off.

Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Neko_Ali on 03 Oct 2016, 08:14
Is it possible to live on just air alone? Oh wait. The air is polluted too. *holds breath forever*
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: cesium133 on 03 Oct 2016, 08:25
Fun fact: during the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak in London (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outbreak), several people who lived far from the poisoned well died from cholera and it turned out it was because they preferred the taste of the water from the cholera-tainted well. The source of the outbreak turned out to be from dirty diapers used by a baby that suffered from cholera. 

So, uh, I guess the moral of the story is that if the most you have to worry about is spiders in your coffee, things aren't that bad?  :psyduck:
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Shmee on 03 Oct 2016, 08:52
Is it just me, or does Hannelore's body language seem sort of... crushy towards Elliot?  It seems more big-eyed/"aw shucks" than usual.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: BenRG on 03 Oct 2016, 08:53
Elliott does fit into the body type that Hannelore finds attractive (large, muscular and heroic-seeming).
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 03 Oct 2016, 09:46
I hope Hanners captured the spiders, and released them outside.

Maybe the side of Hannelore that sponsored a home for orphaned drumsticks will win out over the one that looked at her orbital bombardment app when she first found out about the spiders.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Neko_Ali on 03 Oct 2016, 10:04
Elliott does fit into the body type that Hannelore finds attractive (large, muscular and heroic-seeming).

Now we just need to contrive a way to have Elliot in a sexy fireman costume for Halloween when he comes to pick up the beans to be sure.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Gyrre on 03 Oct 2016, 11:36
Fun fact: during the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak in London (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outbreak), several people who lived far from the poisoned well died from cholera and it turned out it was because they preferred the taste of the water from the cholera-tainted well. The source of the outbreak turned out to be from dirty diapers used by a baby that suffered from cholera. 

So, uh, I guess the moral of the story is that if the most you have to worry about is spiders in your coffee, things aren't that bad?  :psyduck:

Extra Credits did a 5 part installment on the Broad Street Pump (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLpzHHbFrHY) for their 'Extra History' series. They followed it up with a two-parter on Mary Seacole.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Kugai on 03 Oct 2016, 14:19
At least the Spiders aren't Radioactive  :-D

Elliotts face in the last panel is priceless.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Gyrre on 03 Oct 2016, 15:11
Long-time residents of Pittsburgh complained that Iron City beer lost much of its flavor after the city cleaned up the rivers.

On the other hand the rivers are no longer health and fire hazards, so it may be a fair trade-off.
Yeesh. Pretty sure I wouldn't want to drink anything made with water one could easily set on fire.

I've spent several years living in a place where the distinct flavor of stew was given by a rotting horse in the water source, so I could believe that 1: the flavor is indeed changed and 2: not necessarily for the better.
*endless internal screaming*

Then I recommend not looking up the story behind why one wine company now seals a whole pig in their wine casks.

EDIT: nvm. Turns out it's a retelling of an old urban legend. http://www.snopes.com/horrors/cannibal/tapping.asp
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Method of Madness on 03 Oct 2016, 15:27
I can't find anything about it (most results are for Whistlepig whiskey). Care to PM me the vineyard?
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: osaka on 03 Oct 2016, 15:39
I've spent several years living in a place where the distinct flavor of stew was given by a rotting horse in the water source, so I could believe that 1: the flavor is indeed changed and 2: not necessarily for the better.
*endless internal screaming*

But it was tasty. And once you get it into a stew it's already boiled so not hazardous.

But yeah you had to remember to buy bottled water.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: JimC on 03 Oct 2016, 16:26
But it was tasty. And once you get it into a stew it's already boiled so not hazardous.
Not quite as simple as that. Whilst boiling will kill off bacteria, it may not have any effect at all on toxic chemicals the bacteria have already produced.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Tova on 03 Oct 2016, 16:50
But it was tasty. And once you get it into a stew it's already boiled so not hazardous.
Not quite as simple as that. Whilst boiling will kill off bacteria, it may not have any effect at all on toxic chemicals the bacteria have already produced.

The delicious chemicals, you mean.  :mrgreen:

I'm always amazed and impressed (sorry if I've posted this before) when I think about the first people who looked at mushrooms, or blue vein cheese, and thought to themselves "mannn, I bet that is delicious."
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Shmee on 03 Oct 2016, 16:51
I can't find anything about it (most results are for Whistlepig whiskey). Care to PM me the vineyard?

I too must learn more about this porcine wine.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: celticgeek on 03 Oct 2016, 17:00
The delicious chemicals, you mean.  :mrgreen:

I'm always amazed and impressed (sorry if I've posted this before) when I think about the first people who looked at mushrooms, or blue vein cheese, and thought to themselves "mannn, I bet that is delicious."

I remember someone saying that the person who ate the first oyster must have been SOME Hungry.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: St.Clair on 03 Oct 2016, 17:01
The delicious chemicals, you mean.  :mrgreen:

I'm always amazed and impressed (sorry if I've posted this before) when I think about the first people who looked at mushrooms, or blue vein cheese, and thought to themselves "mannn, I bet that is delicious."

I remember someone saying that the person who ate the first oyster must have been SOME Hungry.

Agreed; much more likely, IMO, is that the first tasters of many of these things were in the situation of "well... I can try eating this, and maybe die, or I and/or my family will literally starve."

Most of us - most - are fortunate to have never been in that position.  But a lot of humans through history, up to the present day, have not been so lucky.

(there's probably a few drunken dares involved, too.)
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Akima on 03 Oct 2016, 18:23
Extra Credits did a 5 part installment on the Broad Street Pump (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLpzHHbFrHY) for their 'Extra History' series.
I studied Messrs. Snow and Whitehead in Maths!

Then I recommend not looking up the story behind why one wine company now seals a whole pig in their wine casks.
In China there is 蛇酒 (shéjiǔ or "snake wine") which is a big bottle of baijiu (https://chinaculturecorner.com/2015/01/12/drink-baijiu-and-do-business-in-china/) with a dead snake in it. If your wallet (and stomach) can stand it, there is also snake-blood cocktail, where the bartender kills a live snake in front of you :-(, and mixes its blood with your drink. Nope, nope, nope...
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: macloud on 03 Oct 2016, 19:37
CHRISTMAS IS COMING

:-D

EVERYONE - ACT BUSY!!
[shuffles random papers]
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: TheEvilDog on 03 Oct 2016, 20:17
Guys, my deja vú has just kicked in.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Method of Madness on 03 Oct 2016, 20:47
It's déjà vu all over again!
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: cesium133 on 03 Oct 2016, 20:50
It's arthropods all the way down!
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Neko_Ali on 03 Oct 2016, 21:13
Baby steps, Hanners. Baby steps.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Perfectly Reasonable on 03 Oct 2016, 22:12
In China there is 蛇酒 (shéjiǔ or "snake wine") which is a big bottle of baijiu (https://chinaculturecorner.com/2015/01/12/drink-baijiu-and-do-business-in-china/) with a dead snake in it.
Tequila with a worm in it?
OK, you win...


(um, let's not tell Sam about this, kay?)
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Nycticoraci on 03 Oct 2016, 22:23
All this talk of spidercoffee reminds me of the fact that anything less than 60 fragments of insect per 100 grams of chocolate meets health and safety requirements.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: BenRG on 03 Oct 2016, 22:59
I think that I'd be battling a panic attack if I had to work in CoD's basement! You see, I'm generally not very good with creepy-crawlies of all types.

Poor Hanners, though! I think that this is the first full-on panic attack we've seen from her in a long while. What makes it more frustrating is the realisation that a hug would only make her worse! :-( Still, this strip does give us a bit of insight into how Hanners has taught herself to confront the world - forcing herself to look only at the upside and try to censor out of her mind the downsides.

Now, is it me or is Jeph increasingly using the art styles of Alice Grove in QC?
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Akima on 04 Oct 2016, 01:02
"Big fleas have smaller fleas,
 Upon their backs to bite 'em.
 And little fleas have lesser fleas,
 and so, ad infinitum."


I'm sorry Hanners, it's detritus and organic matter all the way down.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Perfectly Reasonable on 04 Oct 2016, 01:27
Centipedes!
They eat all kinds of ugly bugs.

And I saw one in my apt just the other day...
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: BenRG on 04 Oct 2016, 01:29
Did it have venomous pincers like so many do?
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: hedgie on 04 Oct 2016, 04:17
I'm sorry Hanners, it's detritus and organic matter all the way down.

And here I thought that it was turtles all the way down.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Gyrre on 04 Oct 2016, 06:19
I'm sorry Hanners, it's detritus and organic matter all the way down.

And here I thought that it was turtles all the way down.
Turtles are organic matter, and they're bound to shed dead skin cells. So you're both right?
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Nepiophage on 04 Oct 2016, 06:56
The delicious chemicals, you mean.  :mrgreen:

I'm always amazed and impressed (sorry if I've posted this before) when I think about the first people who looked at mushrooms, or blue vein cheese, and thought to themselves "mannn, I bet that is delicious."

I remember someone saying that the person who ate the first oyster must have been SOME Hungry.

Jonathan Swift (http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8907-he-was-a-bold-man-that-first-ate-an-oyster)
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: sitnspin on 04 Oct 2016, 07:49

I'm always amazed and impressed (sorry if I've posted this before) when I think about the first people who looked at mushrooms, or blue vein cheese, and thought to themselves "mannn, I bet that is delicious."

That is how I feel about all animal products. Mushrooms look mighty tasty to me, but eating a corpse? How does that ever seem like a good idea?
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: TheEvilDog on 04 Oct 2016, 08:47

I'm always amazed and impressed (sorry if I've posted this before) when I think about the first people who looked at mushrooms, or blue vein cheese, and thought to themselves "mannn, I bet that is delicious."

That is how I feel about all animal products. Mushrooms look mighty tasty to me, but eating a corpse? How does that ever seem like a good idea?

Survival? If you're an omnivore or in competition with predators, you need to be able to eat what you can, if that means having to eat tubers, fine? Meat? Also fine.

Fruits might be tasty, but they aren't calorie dense. Tubers like yams or beets might pack more of nutritional wallop but have you tried eating one raw? Its not particularly tasty and its difficult to chew. But meat is rich in calories, which considering that early hominids were wanderers, meant that they could travel further, as well as increased nutritional values. Which given that this was around the time the brains of those hominids began to increase in size, indicates that meat was beneficial in more ways than one.

It takes a lot of time and force to chew plant matter, which is why you often see most herbivores take most of the day grazing or looking for food, while predators can, depending on the prey, make a kill last several days. There was a study done by two researchers, Zink and Liebermann (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v531/n7595/full/nature16990.html), that looked into the technique of chewing throughout human history. In that study, they found that even if a third of the meal was meat, that actually freed up more time that could be spent just chewing.

We evolved from endurance hunters; binocular vision, standing straight with bipedal locomotion, most of our muscle mass lies in our lower back and thighs, relatively hairless because we sweat, all of that meant we could literally walk down prey and hit it with a rock. But we were also able to adapt to function in any food environment based on what was available - coastal people could eat more fish than people on the plains who themselves could forage for plants, while people living in forests could eat mushrooms and it goes on.

We're lucky to live in an age where many of us in the developed world can have the luxury of having meat on a daily basis or to decide to live on a vegan diet. Because we have that choice. But there are some who don't have that option, likewise our ancestors didn't have that luxury. It was a case of eat to survive or die.

But this is starting to severely veer off topic, so I'll leave it there.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Timemaster on 04 Oct 2016, 09:35
Hannelore Ellicot-Chatham

Obsessive-compulsive, neurotic, anxiety-ridden, surprisingly adorable.
Everythings here today. But there´s one thing more that should be added to the cast description:

Floofy

TM
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: sitnspin on 04 Oct 2016, 11:43
It was a case of eat to survive or die.

Fair enough, but that exact same argument applies to nearly every thing humans eat, so I guess we have our answer to every iteration of "why did people first eat...?" It applies equally to corpses and mushrooms.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: TheEvilDog on 04 Oct 2016, 12:37
It was a case of eat to survive or die.

Fair enough, but that exact same argument applies to nearly every thing humans eat, so I guess we have our answer to every iteration of "why did people first eat...?" It applies equally to corpses and mushrooms.

Plus it's not like we just started eating corpses and mushrooms as modern humans; our pre-human ancestors ate them too. There wasn't exactly a moment of "Hey, Caveman Bob found a dead thing, let's see if it's tasty!"

Although I do imagine there was some sort of natural selection in the process. Or the Jackass Effect came into play...

"Hey Urg, me dare you eat mushroom."

"Urg not know..."
"Look at Urg, big terrorbird afraid of mushroom! Buck, buck, bacaw!"
"Fine, Urg eat mushroom!"
*Five minutes later*
"How mushroom Urg?"
"Urg not feeling too good. Urg has vomiting, cramps, delirium, convulsions and diarrhea. Urg feeling this might be the effects of Amatoxin, which results in the complete and irreversible destruction of liver and kidneys."

And that, good people, is how people learned to stay away from the Destroying Angel mushroom.

Just one last little point, corpse usually refers to the remains of a human being, while the equivalent term for animals is carcass, especially one that has been killed for meat. While there is a certain degree of interchangeability between the two, its generally considered you use carcass for animals, usually because it sounds a little more gruesome than corpse. Probably because corpsing is when an actor has an unexpected bit of laughing on stage, like when an actor is supposed to be dead and they giggle.

Corpse doesn't really do much, while carcass invokes something of a more visceral imagining.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: sitnspin on 04 Oct 2016, 13:28
I don't see a difference between a dead human body and a dead body of any other animal. Dead is dead, a corpse is a corpse, meat is meat.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: brasca on 04 Oct 2016, 14:54
Hannelore Ellicot-Chatham

Obsessive-compulsive, neurotic, anxiety-ridden, surprisingly adorable.
Everythings here today. But there´s one thing more that should be added to the cast description:

Floofy

TM

Hannelore has come along way since she was first introduced.  She used to cut her hair short for hygienic purposes, but that must not be a problem anymore considering how much it's grown out or maybe this is another one of those things she has blissfully ignored and could be a problem again if she thinks about it. 
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Kugai on 04 Oct 2016, 15:05
At least Dora didn't have to use Hanners Reset Button 
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Neko_Ali on 04 Oct 2016, 18:06
And Faye wasn't there to calm her down with the hypnoboobs.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Mr. Skawronska on 04 Oct 2016, 19:14
Long-time residents of Pittsburgh complained that Iron City beer lost much of its flavor after the city cleaned up the rivers.

On the other hand the rivers are no longer health and fire hazards, so it may be a fair trade-off.

It says something when a RIVER full of WATER is a FIRE HAZARD.

No!  Not want-um THAT kind Firewater!  Ugh!


I'm always amazed and impressed (sorry if I've posted this before) when I think about the first people who looked at mushrooms, or blue vein cheese, and thought to themselves "mannn, I bet that is delicious."

That is how I feel about all animal products. Mushrooms look mighty tasty to me, but eating a corpse? How does that ever seem like a good idea?

But eatin' people alive?  Where's THAT get fun?
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: celticgeek on 04 Oct 2016, 21:22
My wife told me to take a spider out instead of killing it. 

We went and had drinks.  Pretty cool guy, wants to be a web designer.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Penquin47 on 04 Oct 2016, 22:31
My wife told me to take a spider out instead of killing it. 

We went and had drinks.  Pretty cool guy, wants to be a web designer.

Well-spun tale, there.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Sullivan on 04 Oct 2016, 22:56
Ok... who else thought at first that Elliot's "disturbing news" would be ...

... that the spiders were now gone from the coffee?
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: BenRG on 04 Oct 2016, 23:24
I've got the feeling that Renee has never warned Elliot just how direct Brun is and the fact that she has this skill of looking at you as if nothing you've said entirely makes sense to her, no matter what you say. Right now, however, I suspect that she's deciding whether or not flustered!Elliot is cute and whether she wishes to make this continue to happen.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Gyrre on 05 Oct 2016, 01:44
It was a case of eat to survive or die.

Fair enough, but that exact same argument applies to nearly every thing humans eat, so I guess we have our answer to every iteration of "why did people first eat...?" It applies equally to corpses and mushrooms.

Plus it's not like we just started eating corpses and mushrooms as modern humans; our pre-human ancestors ate them too. There wasn't exactly a moment of "Hey, Caveman Bob found a dead thing, let's see if it's tasty!"

Although I do imagine there was some sort of natural selection in the process. Or the Jackass Effect came into play...

Not to mention that humans are fairly smart and can learn what generally is and isn't safe to eat by observing not only other humans, but other animals. 


Somehow no-one has mentioned this, but there's a few essential proteins that aren't produced by plants, but can be synthesized by our bodies provided we eat the right combination of legumes/beans and other vegetables in the correct balance, as those combinations hold proteins that can be broken down and reassembled. And being that humans tend to put forward as little effort as possible, plus some of us having a strong aversion to bitter flavors [waves hand], thus meat.


Also, imagine how the first humans discovered cooking the meat. Maybe some mastodon getting struck by lightning.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: JimC on 05 Oct 2016, 02:04
...but eating a corpse? How does that ever seem like a good idea?
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Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: pwhodges on 05 Oct 2016, 02:43
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Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Case on 05 Oct 2016, 04:05
I don't see a difference between a dead human body and a dead body of any other animal. Dead is dead, a corpse is a corpse, meat is meat.

I have this theory that most of us are descended from people who either did see the difference, or were smart enough to fake it  ...  :evil:
(prior to the age of ubiquitous anonymous telecommunication)
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: QuestionableIntentions on 05 Oct 2016, 04:10
I still can't get over Elliot's sudden sexiness...
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: BenRG on 05 Oct 2016, 04:24
Once again, we see Jeph's tendency to 'sex up' characters who are suddenly romantic protagonists; this is not a criticism as I am sticking with my 'through the character's eyes' theory.

Am I the only one who thinks that it might be very, very interesting if Elliot asks Brun on a date? Would she necessarily understand how to handle that or how to act? Or would she be blunt and dryly suggest that they simply skip the lengthy and expensive social song-and-dance and get down to what they both actually want to do with each other?
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: gopher on 05 Oct 2016, 04:40
I think there is a tendency in the art to increase all the characters conventional attractiveness over time. Marigold magically acquiring larger boobs, Claire's face becoming much more feminine, the Elliot stuff at the moment.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: brasca on 05 Oct 2016, 06:10
So being a bouncer isn't like it was in Roadhouse?  I won't be having a very Patrick Swayze Christmas knowing that now.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Clubman8 on 05 Oct 2016, 08:14
Elliot is the walking tough guy, big softie trope. But that's totally okay.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: JimC on 05 Oct 2016, 09:11
More to the point, plate glass windows are extremely expensive. Throw a customer through one and generate that big a bill and you're probably looking for a new job.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Storel on 05 Oct 2016, 11:17
Dead is dead, a corpse is a corpse, meat is meat.

A corpse is a corpse, of corpse, of corpse! (https://youtu.be/y_PZPpWTRTU?t=15s)
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Case on 05 Oct 2016, 13:06
More to the point, plate glass windows are extremely expensive. Throw a customer through one and generate that big a bill and you're probably looking for a new job.

I'm a bit sceptic as to whether it is even possible to throw somebody through a modern glass window - the 2nd answer in this quora-thread (https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-right-way-to-jump-through-a-glass-window) gives some professional background on modern glass windows. And apparently there's precedent for people hurling themselves into a glass window (https://www.quora.com/Can-you-really-jump-out-of-a-glass-window-in-real-life-just-like-in-the-movies). Garry Hoy of Toronto eventually succeeded (http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/window.asp) in his (involuntary) attempts at autodefenestration, but only because he knocked the complete pane out of the frame.

Throwing a male human body (avg. canadian adult male weighs 80.3 kg), at a speed at least as fast as they could run (upwards of 20-25 kph), is another thing entirely.



Dead is dead, a corpse is a corpse, meat is meat.
A corpse is a corpse, of corpse, of corpse!

And no one can talk to a corpse, of corpse ...

(http://heroichollywood.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/walkingdead.jpg)
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: sitnspin on 05 Oct 2016, 13:17

I've punched through a window before, albeit a pretty thin pane.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: celticgeek on 05 Oct 2016, 14:57
There is a story about the "all glass" siding in a new skyscraper, when the women (in particular) were afraid of tripping on the carpeting, and falling out of the windows.  The management brought in the designer of the windows to talk to the people in the offices about this. 

When everybody was assembled, the designer took off his hard hat, ran the entire length of the floor, and jumped feet first into the window, and fell flat on his back.  He then walked back to his hard hat, picked it up, put it on, and left the building.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Kugai on 05 Oct 2016, 15:19
Nothing like a practical demonstration to show things off.

I would have thought that this was something Brun would have been well aware of working in the kind of Bar she was working in before it burnt down.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Tova on 05 Oct 2016, 15:21
That is an impressive example of dogfooding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food).

I would have thought that this was something Brun would have been well aware of working in the kind of Bar she was working in before it burnt down.

You're talking about a bartender whose first resort was the harpoon.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: hedgie on 05 Oct 2016, 15:54

And no one can talk to a corpse, of corpse ...


Unless that corpse is of corpse the famous Mr. Dead.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Gyrre on 05 Oct 2016, 16:29
I don't see a difference between a dead human body and a dead body of any other animal. Dead is dead, a corpse is a corpse, meat is meat.

I'm fairly certain that a quite a few bio-chemists and cooks will disagree with you on that. Especially when it comes to arthropods.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Perfectly Reasonable on 05 Oct 2016, 18:32
But lobsters!
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: MrNumbers on 05 Oct 2016, 19:54
So. If I'm shipping (I always am) Brun and Elliot now, who do I pair Clin-ton off with?

I need a drawing board, some coloured string, a box of thumbtacks, a highlights reel of QC comics, and my thinking spectacles!
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: cesium133 on 05 Oct 2016, 20:14
Clearly he would be paired with an AI.

No, not May.
Or Momo.
Or Bubbles.
Pintsize would be interested, but Clinton wouldn't be into it...

I'm talking, of course, about Robot Hand.  :roll:
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: sitnspin on 05 Oct 2016, 20:44
I don't see a difference between a dead human body and a dead body of any other animal. Dead is dead, a corpse is a corpse, meat is meat.

I'm fairly certain that a quite a few bio-chemists and cooks will disagree with you on that. Especially when it comes to arthropods.
I meant philosophically, not physically.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: jwhouk on 05 Oct 2016, 21:03
So being a bouncer isn't like it was in Roadhouse?  I won't be having a very Patrick Swayze Christmas knowing that now.

"You have to be nice, until it's time to be not nice, and then you have to be nice again."
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Tova on 05 Oct 2016, 21:05
I don't see a difference between a dead human body and a dead body of any other animal. Dead is dead, a corpse is a corpse, meat is meat.

I'm fairly certain that a quite a few bio-chemists and cooks will disagree with you on that. Especially when it comes to arthropods.
I meant philosophically, not physically.

I think you got that the wrong way around. You are correct physically, sitnspin was (I daresay) speaking philosophically.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: JimC on 05 Oct 2016, 21:37
"You have to be nice, until it's time to be not nice, and then you have to be nice again."
Film company stuff again. The most important time to be nice is when, for example, you are physically assisting someone to leave the building. Because if you are nice, however socially compromised the ejectee may be, at least some of his/her companions may support or at least not oppose you.  If you are nasty then the situation may deteriorate further. This is an ideal of course, but the nearer its approached the better for everyone.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: BenRG on 05 Oct 2016, 23:17
Quote
"Making friends is confusing."
-- Harp00nGrrrl
Preach it, sistah! Preach it!

Social anxieties aside, I'm strongly expecting, at some point, Brun to openly and explicitly compare Elliott to large plush toy.

I'm pretty sure that Jeph is working us towards an Elliot/Brun date simply because that would be funny and cute in lots of ways. The guy who doesn't feel confident enough to date and the woman who literally doesn't understand the whole social dance involved. It would probably work as a great platform to satirise the entire process!
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: jwhouk on 05 Oct 2016, 23:26
"You have to be nice, until it's time to be not nice, and then you have to be nice again."
Film company stuff again. The most important time to be nice is when, for example, you are physically assisting someone to leave the building. Because if you are nice, however socially compromised the ejectee may be, at least some of his/her companions may support or at least not oppose you.  If you are nasty then the situation may deteriorate further. This is an ideal of course, but the nearer its approached the better for everyone.

Note the words used were "not nice". Not "nasty."

That mantra, as trite as it may be (after being a quote by Patrick Swayze), is actually the truth behind how CO's deal with incidents in jails and other correctional settings.

Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 06 Oct 2016, 00:11
Well trained ones in well run institutions, do you mean?

http://www.laweekly.com/arts/when-a-cartoonist-landed-in-la-county-jail-she-drew-what-she-saw-using-only-a-golf-pencil-5315346

https://books.google.com/books?id=SYhEGAz-SZwC&pg=PT44&lpg=PT44&dq=%22grown+and+wipes+away+all+your+self-esteem%22&source=bl&ots=zkf479QhRl&sig=1lY58SXOirnz-8pn_O86-wZ_-3c&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiOrMvpz8XPAhWM7oMKHb9nDvUQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22grown%20and%20wipes%20away%20all%20your%20self-esteem%22&f=false
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Gyrre on 06 Oct 2016, 00:53
Damn. He must be really shy.

Either that or it's his shyness + Brun's stare (ᓀ_ᓂ), and he's trying not to hut her feelings.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: dna_level_c on 06 Oct 2016, 03:56
I'm talking, of course, about Robot Hand.  :roll:

This would be a good time to use the dermal covering.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: brasca on 06 Oct 2016, 05:15
Damn. He must be really shy.

Either that or it's his shyness + Brun's stare (ᓀ_ᓂ), and he's trying not to hut her feelings.

I think it's the stare.  He had a crush on Padma too, but didn't get this flustered about it. 
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Case on 06 Oct 2016, 07:01
I don't see a difference between a dead human body and a dead body of any other animal. Dead is dead, a corpse is a corpse, meat is meat.

I'm fairly certain that a quite a few bio-chemists and cooks will disagree with you on that. Especially when it comes to arthropods.
I meant philosophically, not physically.

In some respects I'd agree with you - in sofar as I would not attribute any innate properties to human flesh that makes it "holier" than that of animals. But when you take into account that we are a highly social, cooperative species with a "theory of mind" (the ability to mentally "take the other's place" and use that in order to have a limited ability of predicting others future reactions to our actions), there are other aspects:

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Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: sitnspin on 06 Oct 2016, 08:21
I have been to enough funerals in my time to not see the body as anything special. Once brain activity ceases, the person I love no longer exists. When I look at a corpse at a viewing, I don't get the emotive response that I am looking at the person, I just see an inanimate object.


You might be misunderstanding my position. My position isn't that human meat is okay to eat because other species meat is. My position is that it is all gross.  Not immoral, in my opinion, just gross.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: USS Martenclaire on 06 Oct 2016, 11:15

I've punched through a window before, albeit a pretty thin pane.

I put my hand through a window once. I was in pane afterwards.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: TheEvilDog on 06 Oct 2016, 11:30

I've punched through a window before, albeit a pretty thin pane.

I put my hand through a window once. I was in pane afterwards.

I was pushed through an old window when I was 19. 37 stitches across my arm, shoulder and back and two days in hospital, though I do know how lucky I could have been considering it was a leadlight. There's no joke there...
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: sitnspin on 06 Oct 2016, 12:33

I've punched through a window before, albeit a pretty thin pane.

I put my hand through a window once. I was in pane afterwards.

I was pushed through an old window when I was 19. 37 stitches across my arm, shoulder and back and two days in hospital, though I do know how lucky I could have been considering it was a leadlight. There's no joke there...

My hand wasn't in the best shape, either. Glass isn't something to toy with. Wasn't the first or last time I had stitches.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: jwhouk on 06 Oct 2016, 15:02
It is never a good thing to go through glass.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: TheEvilDog on 06 Oct 2016, 20:25
Never mind Emily! Someone better tell Snake that the Patriots are back and in Northampton!
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Perfectly Reasonable on 06 Oct 2016, 21:21
She's singing a Sami folk song. In my head canon, anyway. The Sami people are the indigenous inhabitants of Lappland and cool with reindeer.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: celticgeek on 06 Oct 2016, 21:30
I think that she is Santa Claus's daughter.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: SubaruStephen on 06 Oct 2016, 22:05
She's singing a Sami folk song....

Nah, she's a fan of Metal Gear Solid 2

Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Penquin47 on 06 Oct 2016, 22:15
I want to boop a reindeer's nose...
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: brasca on 06 Oct 2016, 22:33
Would Jangles' first name be Bo? 
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Kugai on 06 Oct 2016, 22:50
My question is is where the FRAK did she get a REINDEER in NORTHAMPTON???!!!!!

And yes Hanners, Emily will be jealous.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: BenRG on 06 Oct 2016, 23:27
Not for the first time, I find myself wondering just who Fairy Girl might actually be! Maybe she's an actress advertising the local Dysknee Store (not to be confused with the Disney Store for copyright reasons)? Maybe she's an advanced synthetic who has been tasked with bring cheer into people's lives?

Meanwhile, Hannelore just keeps getting cuter in every strip. It's actually getting to be a problem for me. What do I do if I'm struck by a sudden need to hug my screen? :-P
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: TinPenguin on 07 Oct 2016, 00:03
I imagined 2003 Jeph trying to draw a reindeer and it made me giggle.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: brasca on 07 Oct 2016, 00:04
Not for the first time, I find myself wondering just who Fairy Girl might actually be! Maybe she's an actress advertising the local Dysknee Store (not to be confused with the Disney Store for copyright reasons)? Maybe she's an advanced synthetic who has been tasked with bring cheer into people's lives?

Meanwhile, Hannelore just keeps getting cuter in every strip. It's actually getting to be a problem for me. What do I do if I'm struck by a sudden need to hug my screen? :-P

Maybe she was Pizza Girl and once Faye was terminated from Coffee of Doom she changed forms and is now Emily's obsessive illusion. 
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: TinPenguin on 07 Oct 2016, 00:08
She's singing a Sami folk song. In my head canon, anyway. The Sami people are the indigenous inhabitants of Lappland and cool with reindeer.

Well, I don't know if it was meant to be, but it pretty much is yoiking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSWIBRpN8T8).
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: St.Clair on 07 Oct 2016, 02:52
I have been to enough funerals in my time to not see the body as anything special. Once brain activity ceases, the person I love no longer exists. When I look at a corpse at a viewing, I don't get the emotive response that I am looking at the person, I just see an inanimate object.


You might be misunderstanding my position. My position isn't that human meat is okay to eat because other species meat is. My position is that it is all gross.  Not immoral, in my opinion, just gross.

There are entirely practical and unsentimental reasons to avoid consuming human meat.  The big one is that you have a very good chance of catching anything the deceased had.  Whatever was living in them doesn't even have to jump a species barrier; it's going straight from one human into another.

Proper preparation of the meat - hygenic handling and thorough cooking - can mitigate much of this risk, but most scenarios assume field survival conditions, where the proper tools are as unavailable as any alternate food options; not a modern, fully-stocked kitchen (such as Hannibal Lecter's).
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: oddtail on 07 Oct 2016, 02:58
On top of that, cultural taboos about eating human meat arguably have roots in times before reliable preparation of meat to remove all parasites, pathogens etc. was possible.

Same reason meat that spoils easily or hosts difficult-to-remove parasites tends to be "unclean" in some major religions.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: St.Clair on 07 Oct 2016, 03:06
Yup.  Kosher dietary laws, the Shinto prohibitions against handling blood or feces, etc etc - all examples of simple, sensible rules for "the faithful" to follow, to reduce their chances of getting horribly sick in a society that hasn't come up with germ theory or food preservation yet.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: BenRG on 07 Oct 2016, 05:37
Someone over on the Subreddit mentioned how long it has been since last winter in-comic. It's been around 1950 strips, all told!

It's fascinating to consider all the things that have happened since then. The Dorapocalypse, the Fayepocalypse, Claire, Dora and Tai pretty much ending up as a permanent pairing, the very nature of CoD changing and the entirety of the Angus character arc...! A year is a long time, even in the fictional world. I wonder where everyone will be in Strip 5000? :wink:
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: War Sparrow on 07 Oct 2016, 09:26
My question is is where the FRAK did she get a REINDEER in NORTHAMPTON???!!!!!

And yes Hanners, Emily will be jealous.

A nearby elk farm, or perhaps, a petting zoo.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: TheEvilDog on 07 Oct 2016, 09:32
My question is is where the FRAK did she get a REINDEER in NORTHAMPTON???!!!!!

And yes Hanners, Emily will be jealous.

Who knows, maybe she's going to make some poronkäristys - a little lingonberry, some mashed potatoes. Tasty!
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Method of Madness on 07 Oct 2016, 10:01
Dysknee
(https://frinkiac.com/img/S06E21/134500.jpg)
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Case on 07 Oct 2016, 10:27
She's singing a Sami folk song....

Nah, she's a fan of Metal Gear Solid 2



Lalelu - German lullaby interpreted by Nena (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nena) ...
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Roborat on 07 Oct 2016, 11:42
So, is this the dramatic reveal where Hanners discovers she has a twin sister?
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Neko_Ali on 07 Oct 2016, 11:44
We've already seen Hanner's twin... She's unlikely to be hanging around with reindeer. Unless she was leaving the head of one in someone's bed.....
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Skewbrow on 07 Oct 2016, 11:53
Who knows, maybe she's going to make some poronkäristys - a little lingonberry, some mashed potatoes. Tasty!
It is, too! When stewing you also need generous amounts of pepper. Old recipes also call for beer to be used in place of water. My experience is that the hops/malt create a bit too bitter a taste to it and, uncharacteristically nowadays opt to not use beer.

Taking this moment to cherish that Finland's (Sami's actually) contribution to world cuisine is a way to cook Dasher, Dancer and the gang (not forgetting Rudolph)

Lalelu - German lullaby interpreted by Nena (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nena) ...

Sorry. Nena = 99 Luftballons for me.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: hedgie on 07 Oct 2016, 12:12
For years, "Rette Mich" and "Ich bleib' im bett" seem to have been my life anthems.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: TheEvilDog on 07 Oct 2016, 12:39
Who knows, maybe she's going to make some poronkäristys - a little lingonberry, some mashed potatoes. Tasty!
It is, too! When stewing you also need generous amounts of pepper. Old recipes also call for beer to be used in place of water. My experience is that the hops/malt create a bit too bitter a taste to it and, uncharacteristically nowadays opt to not use beer.

Taking this moment to cherish that Finland's (Sami's actually) contribution to world cuisine is a way to cook Dasher, Dancer and the gang (not forgetting Rudolph)
I've only had it a couple of times, but the way it was prepared used a very dry white wine in place of water. Worked quite well!
In fact, having some Mämmi after that over an Easter weekend made for quite a tasty experience.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Kugai on 07 Oct 2016, 14:12
Maybe she's the Northampton equivalent of a White Raven
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Skewbrow on 07 Oct 2016, 23:47
In fact, having some Mämmi after that over an Easter weekend made for quite a tasty experience.
Since you asked so nicely...

What's a-sweetening here!?

(http://users.utu.fi/lahtonen/mammiporisee.jpg)

It's MÄMMI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A4mmi)

I am kinda hardcore fan of mämmi, so I used to cook some myself annually around Easter. But, it is a lot of work and nowadays I usually just buy it: 1) stores have added mämmi made of entirely organically grown ingredients to their selection, 2) we had the stove replaced with an induction stove since that picture was taken, and it is difficult to arrange several hours of simmering with that.

Serve with sugar + a mixture of milk/cream to your taste.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Method of Madness on 08 Oct 2016, 08:27
I'd try that. Actually there's a non-zero chance I'll be in Finland this March. Not quite Easter, but close enough, yeah?
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: TheEvilDog on 08 Oct 2016, 08:53
I am kinda hardcore fan of mämmi, so I used to cook some myself annually around Easter. But, it is a lot of work and nowadays I usually just buy it:

Yeah, from what I remember being told, its incredibly time consuming to make, so much so now that its pretty much mass produced now. Its a granular texture that throws non-Finnish people off, and it kinda tastes like dark bread mixed with treacle. It can be quite difficult to eat for the first time, especially if you don't know what its like. So several years ago, I was dating this Finnish girl and meeting her family around Easter. Her family used to like a little trick on non-Finnish people, nothing malicious, but they'd serve a bowl of mämmi and watch the reaction. They were doing this since the mother dated a German back in the 70s.

Anyway, I got a bowl of mämmi; the girlfriend had a face that screamed "Oh no, what are they doing?!" while the rest of her family were snickering. I finished the bowl and said it was quite nice and thanks for letting me try it. The look on their faces was worth the airfare alone.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: osaka on 08 Oct 2016, 09:08
"Yo they don't do this where I'm from can I have more? And the recipe?"
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: SubaruStephen on 08 Oct 2016, 12:46
My mom made some mämmi as an experiment once.

It was like getting hit in the tastebuds by a baseball bat made of orange zest.

I loved it.

She's singing a Sami folk song. In my head canon, anyway. The Sami people are the indigenous inhabitants of Lappland and cool with reindeer.

Well, I don't know if it was meant to be, but it pretty much is yoiking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSWIBRpN8T8).

Spelled "joik", but pronounced "yoik".  (Don't ask how "Y" is pronounced)

some Heavy joiking (https://youtu.be/gOWTJgRMTDo)
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Kugai on 08 Oct 2016, 12:57
And here's me chowing down on plain ol' Spaghetti on Toast.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Method of Madness on 08 Oct 2016, 13:52
...why would you put spaghetti on toast?
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Stoutfellow on 08 Oct 2016, 14:20
And here's me chowing down on plain ol' Spaghetti on Toast.

I hope you mean spaghetti sauce on toast.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: TheEvilDog on 08 Oct 2016, 14:50
...why would you put spaghetti on toast?

Because why not?

Some of my happiest memories as a kid are coming home from a football match on a Saturday and boom, spaghetti on toast.

Its cheap, quick and easy to make. Its classic comfort food.

Seriously, look up spaghetti on toast.

There's a whole world of comfort food out there, things people enjoy. You might not get it, but thats not the point, its tasty to someone else.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: cesium133 on 08 Oct 2016, 14:54
It was one of the few school cafeteria foods that I remember that was actually delicious.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Tova on 08 Oct 2016, 17:08
When I grew up, there were two types of kids. Those who ate spaghetti on toast, and those who ate baked beans on toast.

I used to fall into the former camp. But these days, my preferred lazy comfort food is the latter.

I know that the idea of taking a carb and serving it with another sounds weird, but it's one of those things you grow up with and never question until you're much older.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Method of Madness on 08 Oct 2016, 19:16
I think I was surprised because he said plain ol' spaghetti on toast, so spaghetti and toast with no sauce or meat seems...unpleasant. Spaghetti and meat sauce poured onto toast you're eating with it? Sure, I get that.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: TinPenguin on 09 Oct 2016, 01:31
She's singing a Sami folk song. In my head canon, anyway. The Sami people are the indigenous inhabitants of Lappland and cool with reindeer.

Well, I don't know if it was meant to be, but it pretty much is yoiking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSWIBRpN8T8).

Spelled "joik", but pronounced "yoik".  (Don't ask how "Y" is pronounced)

some Heavy joiking (https://youtu.be/gOWTJgRMTDo)

I've seen it spelt both ways. Yoik is just a transliteration. It would definitely sound weird with the Finnish "Y", though. Like gargling mämmi. :-D

I know that the idea of taking a carb and serving it with another sounds weird, but it's one of those things you grow up with and never question until you're much older.

I would never question a chip butty.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Method of Madness on 09 Oct 2016, 05:15
I've put fries/chips on hamburgers/sandwiches, but a sandwich only made of fries/chips?
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: TinPenguin on 09 Oct 2016, 06:58
And brown sauce.

It's the most delicious way to choke.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Method of Madness on 09 Oct 2016, 07:00
Brown sauce is gravy, right? If you add mozzarella to that, it's a disco fries sandwich!
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: cesium133 on 09 Oct 2016, 07:47
Bah, mozzarella. The only correct way to go with that is cheese curds.  :roll:
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: sitnspin on 09 Oct 2016, 07:50
I'll be over here in the corner quietly munching on cream cheese and cucumber sandwiches.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: TheEvilDog on 09 Oct 2016, 07:59
Brown sauce is gravy, right?

Nope; brown sauce as I presume TinPenguin is talking about, is made from tomatoes, molasses, dates, apples, tamarind, vinegar and spices. Occasionally raisins or anchovies are added to the blend. Its got kind of a peppery taste. Sometimes marketed in the States as steak sauce.

I'll be over here in the corner quietly munching on cream cheese and cucumber sandwiches.

Also quite nice, especially on a warm Summer afternoon and a cool drink.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: sitnspin on 09 Oct 2016, 08:03
On warm summer afternoons, I prefer a nice green smoothie.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: JimC on 09 Oct 2016, 11:18
I've put fries/chips on hamburgers/sandwiches, but a sandwich only made of fries/chips?
For sure. crusty roll with butter, salt and vinegar on the chips.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Tova on 09 Oct 2016, 14:00
As a kid, I used to enjoy Vegemite and potato chips* sandwiches. Because too much salt was never enough, I guess. My brother preferred tomato sauce** on his chip sandwiches.

* That's "crisps" to some of you.
** "Ketchup" to some of you.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: hedgie on 09 Oct 2016, 14:12
I'm so tempted to start a Marmite v. Vegemite holy war right now.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Tova on 09 Oct 2016, 14:31
Ha! Maybe you should? I'm actually a huge fan of both, though.  :-D

Marmite probably wins on points, though Vegemite has the advantage of childhood nostalgia.

Note that I am not referring here to the pale imitation (http://www.sanitarium.com.au/products/spreads/marmite) produced in Australia by Sanitarium. I am of course referring to British Marmite which, unfortunately, must be sold in Australia as Our Mate (http://www.britishsweets.com.au/Marmite-Our-Mate-Yeast-Extract-125g).
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Kugai on 09 Oct 2016, 15:48
Chip (or Fries to you 'murricans) Butties!!  :-D


And my fave brand of Spaghetti

(http://www.sanza.co.uk/pics/watties_spaghetti.jpg)
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: TheEvilDog on 09 Oct 2016, 16:01
Saturday morning, go to a local bakery, get a freshly baked demi-baguette. Then its down to a nearby butcher for get some bacon or on-site made sausages.

Go home, cook up the sausage or bacon and have it in the demi-baguette, now that's comfort food.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Kugai on 09 Oct 2016, 16:07
I get all my Meat from the two local Independent Butchers that we are lucky to have here in our small Shopping Precinct.  Haven't brought Meat from the big Chain Store Supermarkets in nearly a decade.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Gyrre on 10 Oct 2016, 06:44
We've already seen Hanner's twin... She's unlikely to be hanging around with reindeer. Unless she was leaving the head of one in someone's bed.....
???
Which strip?
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: BenRG on 10 Oct 2016, 06:53
I forget the strip number but Hannelore has had an anxiety nightmare where she dreamt she had been kidnapped by her evil identical twin, who was a contract assassin and that she was about to be murdered so her twin could take over her life and escape the authorities. That strip was genuinely disturbing on several levels, especially Hannelore's genuine terror at the scenario.

Another strip had Hannelore hallucinating she had taken over her mother's company and was about to execute a James Bond villain-style global genocide for some reason. This hallucination was so real and compelling that Faye and Dora had to snap her out of a panic attack.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Gyrre on 10 Oct 2016, 06:54
Spelled "joik", but pronounced "yoik".  (Don't ask how "Y" is pronounced)

some Heavy joiking (https://youtu.be/gOWTJgRMTDo)

If memory serves, the j being said like a y comes from Old Latin.

There's some debate on what Latin originally sounded like, but the Germanic languages actually help with that (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_enn7NIo-S0).
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Method of Madness on 10 Oct 2016, 06:57
From what I remember learning, there was no J in Latin (for example, Julius Caesar would've been Iulius Caesar and have been pronounced Yulius Kye-zar). It's also why Jesus's cross had INRI. The Is stood for Jesus and Jews.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: oddtail on 10 Oct 2016, 07:16
I'm not sure what the origin of the letter "j" is, but pronouncing "j" is sort of an aberration in English. Most European languages pronounce it either as the sound that English spells as "y", or as the sound "s" in "measure":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J#/media/File:Pronunciation_of_J_in_Europa.png

Also, as the map in the link gives no pronunciation for "j" in Italy, I'm assuming modern Italian doesn't have the letter, continuing the tradition of the Latin language?
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: JimC on 10 Oct 2016, 07:34
I'm assuming modern Italian doesn't have the letter, continuing the tradition of the Latin language?
AIUI theoretically modern Italian lacks J, K, W, X and Y. In practice I think there are plenty of loan words with them in, and I believe computer keyboards in Italy include them.
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: TheEvilDog on 10 Oct 2016, 08:38
It's also why Jesus's cross had INRI. The Is stood for Jesus and Jews.

Nah, it means "I'm Nailed Right In".

Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Kugai on 10 Oct 2016, 14:15
Title: Re: WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
Post by: Nepiophage on 12 Oct 2016, 06:03
Saturday morning, go to a local bakery, get a freshly baked demi-baguette. Then its down to a nearby butcher for get some bacon or on-site made sausages.

Go home, cook up the sausage or bacon and have it in the demi-baguette, now that's comfort food.

Otherwise known as the Jumbo Breakfast Roll
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Eat one a day and soon you won't fit through the front door.