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New to forum
« on: 29 Mar 2013, 10:50 »

Hi everyone.

I've been a fan of QC for a couple years and have lurked the forums for a while, particularly when there's lovely drama in the comic.

I'm sure I'll be slipping in on updates which prompt discussion. Particularly when Mar-bear and Hanners are involved. I love them both oh so much.

Let's see... I'm 29. Run a movie theatre in Michigan. Write for a small little webcomic of my own and own over 30 Nic Cage movies with the goal of someday owning all of them.

Obligatory webcomic plug:


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Right now Claire is my favorite character, beating our MarMar. Jeph is handling her so damn well and tastefully. I really hope everyone else is enjoying her story as much as I am :)
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Re: New to forum
« Reply #1 on: 29 Mar 2013, 10:55 »

Hello wheelofdawn!

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Re: New to forum
« Reply #2 on: 29 Mar 2013, 11:02 »

Welcome!!
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Re: New to forum
« Reply #3 on: 29 Mar 2013, 12:32 »

Welcome from another Michigander/Michiganian/whatever.!There are some others here; I'm a few miles north of the OH-IN border. You'll find a webcomic thread somewhere among Other Fun Things, if you haven't already.
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Re: New to forum
« Reply #4 on: 29 Mar 2013, 12:41 »

Is a Michigander a kind of male bird?  :-D

Welcome! Pretty art you have there.
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Re: New to forum
« Reply #5 on: 29 Mar 2013, 12:57 »

Yeah, and a Michigoose is what happens sometimes to girls in Ann Arbor, especially out at the Arb.
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Re: New to forum
« Reply #6 on: 29 Mar 2013, 14:13 »

Mae'r holl weithredwyr ffilm theatr yn cael eu croesawu yma. 

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Re: New to forum
« Reply #7 on: 29 Mar 2013, 21:17 »

Michigander seems a better name for the ducks that are driven out of town by the Canadian Geese.

I'm originally from Britland, though. Apparently no matter what I live I'll be English. The silly voice won't let me settle anywhere.
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« Reply #8 on: 29 Mar 2013, 23:40 »

I've thought Americans, midwesterners at least, were drawn to Brit accents ever since I heard the voices of British women announcing on some NPR and other radio stations.
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Re: New to forum
« Reply #9 on: 30 Mar 2013, 10:14 »

Well we do possess that sweet and sophisticated dialect which is honey to the ears ~<3
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Re: New to forum
« Reply #10 on: 30 Mar 2013, 11:03 »

I dunno, the adjectives don't quite fit. That makes me think of a southern accent being described by its speaker.
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Re: New to forum
« Reply #11 on: 30 Mar 2013, 11:57 »

Well, whatever adjectives you use, I've had Americans (specifically) come over to me in an aeroplane just to listen to me talking.
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Re: New to forum
« Reply #12 on: 30 Mar 2013, 13:29 »

Meet our resident Michigander: :psyduck:


And welcome, former lurker, not semi-non-lurker!
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Re: New to forum
« Reply #13 on: 30 Mar 2013, 17:12 »

OK, time for the obligatory joke from my Yiddisha Grampa; 

Q: What's a meshuggana? 

A: a person from Michigan...


It's really more of an auditory pun...
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« Reply #14 on: 30 Mar 2013, 19:08 »

OK, time for the obligatory joke from my Yiddisha Grampa; 

Q: What's a meshuggana? 

A: a person from Michigan...


It's really more of an auditory pun...

As opposed to a Reading pun. I have one of those in my front yard. It's a bunch of directional signs on a 4x4 post. My mom gave us half the cost of the then-cottage at a time when she lived outside Redding CA. So the signs first pointed to Redding, 1879 miles, Reading PA, 480 miles and Reading MI, 3 1/2 miles. The joke was local. Where I live, it's pronounced REED-ing.
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Re: New to forum
« Reply #15 on: 30 Mar 2013, 19:16 »

Well, whatever adjectives you use, I've had Americans (specifically) come over to me in an aeroplane just to listen to me talking.
I'm not sure what adjectives I'd use. But they'd be positive ones. The accent was a measurable part of the pleasure of driving 800 miles or so with a bright young British woman of the forum's acquaintance last summer.
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Re: New to forum
« Reply #16 on: 30 Mar 2013, 22:12 »

Hello there :)
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« Reply #17 on: 31 Mar 2013, 06:43 »

Southern accents, Canadian accents, British accents. Pretty much in that order.
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« Reply #18 on: 31 Mar 2013, 09:53 »

So why is it we enjoy hearing our language spoken in a different way? When I think about it, I enjoy most. A quick Google doesn't tell me if there's research about it.
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« Reply #19 on: 31 Mar 2013, 18:10 »

I enjoy the sound of someone educated, regardless of dialect.  A refined southern accent is one thing; Honey Boo-boo's family is quite another.  The same holds for any other accent. 


Yes, I'm elitist.  When someone opens their mouth and you can immediately tell that they're undereducated, or perhaps just don't care, it's an intellectual turn off. 


This should probably go in "confessions"...
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« Reply #20 on: 31 Mar 2013, 18:47 »

So why is it we enjoy hearing our language spoken in a different way? When I think about it, I enjoy most. A quick Google doesn't tell me if there's research about it.

You know... I never thought about it. I wonder if there is a psychological reason that people in America love British accents.
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« Reply #21 on: 31 Mar 2013, 19:36 »

Historical.
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