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Comic Discussion => QUESTIONABLE CONTENT => Topic started by: jwhouk on 18 Nov 2018, 09:49
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Turkey Week! You know what that means: the OMG Turkeys!
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I'm hoping against hope that we'll catch up with Hannelore for a strip or two. However, I'm increasingly concerned that it will be Marten being called to hospital by Tai because Claire overdid it.
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I'm hoping against hope that we'll catch up with Hannelore for a strip or two. However, I'm increasingly concerned that it will be Marten being called to hospital by Tai because Claire overdid it.
It's almost unheard of to be hospitalized for a cannabis overdose. Unless it's due to the secondary effect of doing something dangerous while high and getting injured.
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I am concerned for Claire's exams, though. The lingering effects of marijuana use can be unpredictable, lasting up to a month... and she's a lightweight anyway!
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Most dramatic results would be her failing her exams and blaming the weed regardless of whether it had an effect, and blaming herself for that decision. Could be quite devastating to her confidence.
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It wouldn't be good for anyone else involved, either. They would feel pretty bad about it.
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Perhaps some mistakes are made.
Or maybe everyone ends up throwing up because Momgustus made waaaaaaaaay too many cookies.
Maybe they wake up to discover themselves in Aubagne, having signed up to join the French Foreign Legion.
Or maybe nothing happens.
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It's almost unheard of to be hospitalized for a cannabis overdose. Unless it's due to the secondary effect of doing something dangerous while high and getting injured.
At worst, I could imagine an unexpected interaction with some medication Claire was already taking, or possibly a contaminant in the batch they were vaping. Though that seems unlikely, unless Jeph is planning on a story centered around Bubbles visiting justice on an unscrupulous supplier*.
*I'm not really clear on if one would describe them as suppliers or dealers, in the context of their legality.
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That's really a stupid move, Mrs Augustus...
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Comic's up. Aaaaaand this is where the good times go into freefall.
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That's a bit Beeblebrox, Agusta-mom.
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Here's where Tai gets to pay off her weed chauffeur position, hopefully
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A night like this -- complicated by pot which turned out to be laced with acid -- is what had me simultaneously comforting and keeping calm my two ladyfriends, who were both having simultaneous bad trips. (One was coherent enough long enough to call me to beg me to come over.) Marion was weirded out by the blue and yellow mice running around the walls -- the stripes on the wallpaper were undulating like ocean waves, apparently -- and Laurey was certain that the giant spider in the corner was advancing on her, and would eat her.
Forty years ago, but damn. I won't forget it.
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Apparently that stuff is powerful enough to change Claire's eye colour; blue in the first two panels and brown in the last.
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-- complicated by pot which turned out to be laced with acid --
Wait, what? I didn't know you COULD smoke LSD.
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You can smoke literally anything if you put in the effort
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I am surprised to find myself relating to Claire in this comic, despite not partaking. A lot of the time, this is how I dream. I'm half lucid, aware that absolutely nothing is right, nothing makes sense, but also convinced that it's because my mind is broken, and not because I'm dreaming.
(also everybody hates me in my dreams, but that's unrelated)
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Comic's up. Aaaaaand this is where the good times go into freefall.
I think that the only thing that stops Castlerook's prediction from coming true is the fact that it isn't in Jeph's nature to give his characters a really negative experience because it tends to impact on him personally on an emotional level. He has said (on Twitter, I believe) that Faye's brush with death was emotionally exhausting for him. So, yeah, I don't think Claire having a really bad outcome from this experiment is likely.
In truth, this whole filler arc is starting to get boring for me. It's repetitive, uninteresting and generally unfunny.
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I can certainly see Claire 'greening out', but definitely not hospitalised. You generally can't overdose on cannabis via normal methods of consumption like you can with alcohol or other substances.
The worst that can happen is she passes out and wakes up the next day incredibly lethargic. Still better than an alcohol hang over though.
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I was hoping we'd move past this little episode this week...
Sadly not, it seems...
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I don't hate it, and I've had a couple of chuckles over it, but I agree it's dragging.
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I was hoping we'd move past this little episode this week...
Sadly not, it seems...
I found it fun last week, but I'm not sure I'm liking the turn it took today...
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I can certainly see Claire 'greening out', but definitely not hospitalised. You generally can't overdose on cannabis via normal methods of consumption like you can with alcohol or other substances.
The worst that can happen is she passes out and wakes up the next day incredibly lethargic. Still better than an alcohol hang over though.
That rather depends; I've known people who said a bottle of whisky is giving them less of a hangover. Personally I wouldn't know - I get a headache just being around people who've smoked it recently.
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I found it fun last week, but I'm not sure I'm liking the turn it took today...
I suspect the intent is for this to be a bit of a dark turn, although I do not know where to. It is definitely less whimsical than last week.
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Time to dust an old comment off and drag it back out into the light:
This... will not end well.
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There;s something really scary about a situation where TAI is the reasonable one. :-o
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Hmm. Is this supposed to be funny? I don‘t think it‘s funny.
This rather looks like a „keep your hands off drugs, kids“-scenario.
TM
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Hmm. Is this supposed to be funny? I don‘t think it‘s funny.
This rather looks like a „keep your hands off drugs, kids“-scenario.
I'm not reading a "hey kids, smoke weed, it's great!" message in this.
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I'm not reading any message into this. It's just story. I don't think this is Jeph voicing an opinion on it.
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Watching people get high or drunk is a little dull. I guess we'll see where this goes.
Although perhaps the sleeper will awaken again...
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2385
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2400
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Watching people get high or drunk is a little dull.
True. Even the best stoner movies, like Cheech & Chong's Next Movie and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle are about the daffy adventures the protagonists have when they get high; it's not just the characters getting high.
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Ha ha, here we go
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Comic’s up.
Many dogs would be good.
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It's a good thing Magustus got those cookies out earlier.
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Is it true that weed warps your perception of time, giving you the illusion that it is passing very, very slowly?
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Is it true that weed warps your perception of time, giving you the illusion that it is passing very, very slowly?
I suppose it could, it’s definitely altered my perception of space before.
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So, is this the point of the whole arc? The point where, subtly, Claire starts letting out desires and regrets that she'd never normally admit to anyone? Fair enough if that's where this is going but it's an awfully slow and round-about way to do it.
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I wouldn't say I have experienced it as a direct symptom like that any more than just being in good company.
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Is it true that weed warps your perception of time, giving you the illusion that it is passing very, very slowly?
It happened to me a few times, but only during the first few tries.
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This arc reminds me why I stopped smoking weed once I hit my 20s. Stoned people are boring as hell.
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This arc reminds me why I stopped smoking weed once I hit my 20s. Stoned people are boring as hell.
I personally think it somewhat depends on who gets stoned? People I smoked weed around didn't act like the comic depicts Claire and her mom. At least, not most of the time. They weren't *that* dissimilar from how they were sober. Just more relaxed, slightly more open, maybe a *tad* silly, but with no drastic shifts in personality. And I'm told the stuff we smoked was pretty good and strong, by people who I assume have more experience with weed (and drugs in general, I suppose) than I do.
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Is it true that weed warps your perception of time, giving you the illusion that it is passing very, very slowly?
It's happened to me a couple times. Sort of. It was less "time passing slowly", and more time not feeling contiguous. It slowed down, sped up, I even had what I think were mini-blackouts. But in general, my perception gets slightly shifted sometimes when I smoke. I don't see anything that isn't there, I just focus on completely different things and notice stuff that I think I normally just ignore (mostly tactile sensations). This includes a somewhat warped sense of how much time passes.
For the record: I seem to be a real lightweight with respect to mind-altering substances (not that I tried that many outside of alcohol), so my experience may very well be exaggerated compared to what normally happens.
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This arc reminds me why I stopped smoking weed once I hit my 20s. Stoned people are boring as hell.
Only if you are not stoned yourself...
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Is it true that weed warps your perception of time, giving you the illusion that it is passing very, very slowly?
It's happened to me a couple times. Sort of. It was less "time passing slowly", and more time not feeling contiguous. It slowed down, sped up,
Yeah, that. IANAD, but if I had to venture a guess, I'd guess it's connected to THC messing with memory-formation (afaik, that effect is well-documented, and the reason why young people and students shouldn't do it: It makes it hard for your brain to learn stuff. Or rather: to remember stuff it has learned).
Maybe the altered time-perception is the result of that - after all, you can only perceive the passing of time by comparing your experience of the present moment to your memories.
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Now, did Tai go for help, or just say 'Screw it, I'm gone.'? If it's the first one, good, if it's the second, my respect for her will have declined...
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My guess is she is immediately off camera.
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Personally, I think that Tai is off-camera and calling for Marten and Dora's support. Partly to cart Claire home and partly because she's genuinely worried that the Augustus ladies may have overdone it a bit.
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Or, perhaps, JJ was being truthful when he said Tai went out for more snacks?
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Yes, but the question is did she go "out" out or to the next room "out".
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Oddly relevant to this arc: The first legal marijuana shop in Northampton just opened.
Their first customer? Northampton mayor David Narkewicz. (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/massachusetts-mayor-first-buy-legal-weed-758774/)
And all the jokes about his name have already been made.
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Comic!
Suddenly, a Russian Wolfhound appears!
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Didn't she already have a good boy in Clinton?
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Yay, Tai returns with snacks!
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So, either A) Tai left the door open, or B) Tai brought the dog.
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Hmm. Is this supposed to be funny? I don‘t think it‘s funny.
This rather looks like a „keep your hands off drugs, kids“-scenario.
I'm not reading a "hey kids, smoke weed, it's great!" message in this.
Well yeah.
If one of the QC readers still lives at home and happens to have Peter and Polly Pearlclutcher for parents, they'd freak out.
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I'd been unaware that weed causes dogs to appear. That's a beneficial effect.
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Oh, a dog. Nice. :clairedoge:
I like dogs. But this arc is starting to seriously annoy me. It‘s about 20 years since I last tried weed. I don‘t remember it beeing this narcotic. My daughter is 19 years old now and I’m thinking sometimes, „hey, maybe I should try it again“.
But after reading this, well, aahm...
No, thanks. I‘m served.
TM
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Oh, a dog. Nice. :clairedoge:
I like dogs. But this arc is starting to seriously annoy me. It‘s about 20 years since I last tried weed. I don‘t remember it beeing this narcotic. My daughter is 19 years old now and I’m thinking sometimes, „hey, maybe I should try it again“.
But after reading this, well, aahm...
No, thanks. I‘m served.
TM
This storyline is more https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MarijuanaIsLSD for humorous effect rather than truthful.
The nice thing is nowadays, if you live in an area where it is legalized you can go to your dispensary, describe the effect you are looking for and have someone help you find that.
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When I first saw this strip, I thought that the dog was Shelby and the QC verse was where all good dogs go. However, yeah, that's a Borzoi, one of the great aristocrats of the dog world who, because of their long snout, have one of the disproportionately large and most good-natured smiles in the animal kingdom!
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Enters Brun with a whole bunch of new dog puns. For no reason.
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There certainly IS a reason.
Brun Goes Where She Is Needed.
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Really, really looking forward to the turkeys. No more baked dullness please.
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So is Henlo the successor to Shebly?
(I take it the Henlo of the comic title is the dog's name)
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All three see the same dog, and Tai exhibits at least some awareness that a dog is not an expected sight to see in the present circumstances.
This argues against the dog being a hallucination.
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So is Henlo the successor to Shebly?
(I take it the Henlo of the comic title is the dog's name)
Someone on the Subreddit said that 'Henlo' is a way a dog greets a human in a meme image. Take that as you wish; I cannot tell you how reliable that may be.
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I thot Emily was the one with dog-summoning power.
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Good long boy.
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When I first saw this strip, I thought that the dog was Shelby and the QC verse was where all good dogs go. However, yeah, that's a Borzoi, one of the great aristocrats of the dog world who, because of their long snout, have one of the disproportionately large and most good-natured smiles in the animal kingdom!
Borzois: because even dogs deserve fairy godmothers.
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Good long boy.
Yes, they got a long little doggie! :claireface:
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Now I have the ditty from Saki's story "Cousin Teresa" going through my mind: "Cousin Teresa / Takes out Caesar / Fido, Jock and the big borzoi!" (There's a drum beat on the last two words.)
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HENLO
(https://i.redd.it/2m4ggs6wgnz11.jpg)
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No turkeys this year? Well, at least we got a good boy. :wow:
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I thot Emily was the one with dog-summoning power.
No, that's (Elder) god-summoning.
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No, she does dog summoning too. (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2993)
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I'm thinking that Tai got it right and Cosmo decided to follow her into the house because of the smell of fresh munchies. Naturally, the door is still open; I doubt Tai would have noticed something like that. Overall, I'm sort of glad that Dora and probably Marten are coming over because I don't trust Claire and Mrs A to be able to look after themselves right now.
As for Cosmo? I'm pretty sure that he's just a one-off guest star. However, I'm sure that he has decided that the Augustus ladies are nice but generally weird. Much like all humans in that regard.
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PLOT TWIST!
Cosmo is actually Hannelore’s new pet that wandered off while she was moving back in, and is also actually a robot.
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...actually, I don't know why, but I have a weird feeling this is just the sort of dog Tilly would own.
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See the picture by Tai's head? I'm thinking that's Claire with some kind of school trophy. Now I find myself wondering: What got her an extra award at school? Do you think she has a hidden prowess that she's never revealed 'on camera' yet?
Boring answer is that she got a special award for academic performance or something similar. Exciting possibility: She's an ace hockey player or something.
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She single handedly re-catalogued the school's library?
She could be holding a fish, though.
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PLOT TWIST: Cosmo is actually a well-disguised turkey.
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To answer the obvious question:
No, random canines spawning in your immediate vicinity is not a common (*) side-effect of THC consumption ...
(*) Forgetfulness, on the other hand, as in: "Forgot to close the front door, which a stray took as invitation", absolutely is.
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I've had cats I didn't know saunter through my open front door, but the only times dogs have come in is when we already had a friendship.
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She single handedly re-catalogued the school's library?
She could be holding a fish, though.
Totally looks like a fish to me.
("What is it with the fish pics?")
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...also, glad to have another strip's worth of story progression, rather than another turkey strip.
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Well, I mean, if a robot relies on combustion for its energy source, then it needs an exhaust port of some sort...
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I honestly think Jeph forgot Turkey Day was on Thursday not Friday. Side effect from moving to Canada, me thinks.
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Well, I mean, if a robot relies on combustion for its energy source, then it needs an exhaust port of some sort...
We've seen them charging from wall sockets, and Bubbles said her only waste product was heat.
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I'm thinking that Jeph has been spending too long in various comments sections. Yes, there are some people who are totally obsessed with neuromimetic robots' 'equipment'. That said, he would be probably not doing his job properly if he hadn't already considered these questions just in case it came up in-story.
Well, I mean, if a robot relies on combustion for its energy source, then it needs an exhaust port of some sort...
We've seen them charging from wall sockets, and Bubbles said her only waste product was heat.
I think Cs133 was kidding.
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Well, I mean, if a robot relies on combustion for its energy source, then it needs an exhaust port of some sort...
Robot farts.
Probably smell like dandelions or something...
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You thought it!
You can't UN-think it!
:psyduck: :psyduck: :psyduck:
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I'm thinking that Jeph has been spending too long in various comments sections. Yes, there are some people who are totally obsessed with neuromimetic robots' 'equipment'. That said, he would be probably not doing his job properly if he hadn't already considered these questions just in case it came up in-story.
I beg to differ.
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...also, glad to have another strip's worth of story progression, rather than another turkey strip.
*sigh*
...posted too soon...
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...also, glad to have another strip's worth of story progression, rather than another turkey strip.
*sigh*
...posted too soon...
I actually meant to reply to you point out that Jeph had announced the turkeys would show up today. Sorry, could have saved you the disappointment.
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Does anyone know whether Jeph is a vegetarian?
I mean ... every TurkeyDay again, I can't help noticing what a singularly hideous bird that is. Who'd want to eat something like that after having been treated to a collage of full-facial closeups?
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To be fair to the turkeys, the closeup is of a turkey vulture, not an actual turkey.
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Who'd want to eat something like that after having been treated to a collage of full-facial closeups?
*raises hand while munching on a turkey sandwich.*
To abuse the sayings of Colonel Potter, "You ever seen a turkey? They're ugly! You're doing them a favor by eating them!"
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ROBOT CLOACAS
that is all
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Does anyone know whether Jeph is a vegetarian?
I mean ... every TurkeyDay again, I can't help noticing what a singularly hideous bird that is. Who'd want to eat something like that after having been treated to a collage of full-facial closeups?
Remember: once, long ago, someone was the first person to look at a lobster and say “you know what? I’m gonna eat that.”
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Does anyone know whether Jeph is a vegetarian?
I mean ... every TurkeyDay again, I can't help noticing what a singularly hideous bird that is. Who'd want to eat something like that after having been treated to a collage of full-facial closeups?
Remember: once, long ago, someone was the first person to look at a lobster and say “you know what? I’m gonna eat that.”
And that person probably couldn't afford anything else. It wasn't that long ago, as this interesting little bit of history (https://psmag.com/economics/how-lobster-got-fancy-59440) points out, that lobster was a "trash fish" fo' po' folks. The rebranding wasn't as drastic as that given the Patagonian toothfish (sorry: Chilean Sea Bass) or what is being attempted in the U.S. Great Lakes region with the "Asian carp" (sorry: Silverfin).
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Cosmo or Henlo or whatever his name is, he is an example of canis ex machina.
As for formerly humble food :
Barbeque ribs, they sure are po' folks food turned into a delicacy.
Brisket - same thing.
Cassoulet - same thing.
Oysters - same thing.
Clams - same thing.
The effect isn't confined to lobster.
Does anyone know whether Jeph is a vegetarian?
I mean ... every TurkeyDay again, I can't help noticing what a singularly hideous bird that is. Who'd want to eat something like that after having been treated to a collage of full-facial closeups?
Remember: once, long ago, someone was the first person to look at a lobster and say “you know what? I’m gonna eat that.”
And that person probably couldn't afford anything else. It wasn't that long ago, as this interesting little bit of history (https://psmag.com/economics/how-lobster-got-fancy-59440) points out, that lobster was a "trash fish" fo' po' folks. The rebranding wasn't as drastic as that given the Patagonian toothfish (sorry: Chilean Sea Bass) or what is being attempted in the U.S. Great Lakes region with the "Asian carp" (sorry: Silverfin).
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Wasn't attempting to imply that the effect is "confined to lobster."
I merely wished to avoid being prolix.
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So is Henlo the successor to Shebly?
(I take it the Henlo of the comic title is the dog's name)
Someone on the Subreddit said that 'Henlo' is a way a dog greets a human in a meme image. Take that as you wish; I cannot tell you how reliable that may be.
knowyourmeme (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/henlo) says it's a joke about cyberbullying.
(https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/208/080/c56.jpg)
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...that's the first time I've seen it used in that context tbh.
Usually I do see it as far more of an animal speech thing.
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Off topic but I can't find the proper place to ask this: Can a mod change my title back to "Obscure Cultural Reference" please? I liked that one muchly; "furry furrier" somewhat less so.
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Off topic but I can't find the proper place to ask this: Can a mod change my title back to "Obscure Cultural Reference" please? I liked that one muchly; "furry furrier" somewhat less so.
They're automatically updated after you make so many posts, the more posts you have, the more bizarre the title the site automatically applies. FWIW, I think Jeph Jacques likely created those titles and it would be a bit churlish to muck around with the coding of the site he's paying for.
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Yep, they're automatic and were Jeph's choice, though it was a long time ago. "Furry furrier" will go away on its own after enough posts.
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Off topic but I can't find the proper place to ask this: Can a mod change my title back to "Obscure Cultural Reference" please? I liked that one muchly; "furry furrier" somewhat less so.
They're automatically updated after you make so many posts, the more posts you have, the more bizarre the title the site automatically applies. FWIW, I think Jeph Jacques likely created those titles and it would be a bit churlish to muck around with the coding of the site he's paying for.
Ah. I've been on another forum wherein there were assigned titles, but custom titles were available on request (I got to be "Muffin Top"). I just thought "obscure cultural reference" was really awesome, the kind of title I might choose for myself. If that's not an option, well, okay then.
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You always have the text below your dp to use as a title. And your signature. So many options :psyduck: