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Author Topic: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)  (Read 32261 times)

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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #150 on: 26 Feb 2016, 04:34 »

*tries to imagine Bubbles singing "Somewhere Out There"*
My first thought was "Up There".

Edit: Shit, did the link in a hurry before work. Fixed now.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #151 on: 26 Feb 2016, 04:38 »

Bubbles: "I did not go to space today.



But someday..."
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #152 on: 26 Feb 2016, 05:16 »

So many answers and questions in today's comic.... Is Momo adopting a new human? Marigold doesn't need her so much anymore, and she really does seem to be fitting in better with Sam. Still, they all three have excuses to hang out together with Sam's Let's Play. Marten and Claire are not living together, but so in love it's sappy and cute. Possibly just a matter of time and expenses at this point? It looks like Faye is still living at the apartment, and looks pretty comfortable and happy with herself these days. She's alone and looks comfortable with herself, enjoying her Sex Man smut and cookies. A far cry from drinking herself to oblivion to avoid her problems from months ago. And Bubbles looks like she's wondering if  the world out there isn't as bad a she feared all this time. That she can be accepted out there. And maybe it's time to begin healing?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #153 on: 26 Feb 2016, 07:13 »

Dude, Marten really needs to get fl.ux or Lux something for his phone, all that bright light is going to wreck his circadian rhythm. It's too hard to tell people not to phone in bed, but you can at least make the light a warmer, dimmer hue to lessen the impact on your sleep patterns.

S-sorry, I guess this reads more like a PSA than a post. It's all true though!
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #154 on: 26 Feb 2016, 08:21 »

I don't log in to comment often, but I think it deserved mention that if Jeph made poster size versions of this comic, I would buy one up.

I think I'd go for one of panel 4 only.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #155 on: 26 Feb 2016, 08:46 »

Oh good lord. 

Momo in today's strip reminds me so much of one of the creepiest things any of my friends has ever done.  Well okay maybe not the creepiest, but at least in the top ten.

I had a flatmate in college who was a bit.  um.  Well we used to say he was "wound too tight" because he was always over-stressing over whatever came up.  Anything that happened was a major crisis. 

And then at the end of the semester there were final exams.  We got one week between end of classes and start of exams, just for review and study, and he DID NOT SLEEP for the entire week.  More caffeine.  More books.  More practice problems.  Writing in the dead of night.  etc. Sometimes he was waking me up in the night to talk about the material from the classes we had together, until I told him rather firmly not to.

So he took his exams (I never found out whether he did well or badly on them) and came back to the house, and still couldn't sleep.  Of course this was another major crisis.  One that kept him awake nights. 

Until a few days later he wasn't there in the morning, and then I got a call from the police. 

He had gotten arrested because he had been breaking into the  homes of total strangers to watch THEM sleep. :-o

He wasn't still in school the following semester.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #156 on: 26 Feb 2016, 09:07 »

I do hope he got help.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #157 on: 26 Feb 2016, 09:27 »

Next time I saw him he had a prescription or two and was talking to a therapist sometimes.  It felt weird talking to him, like he was sort of someone else.  Someone not quite as razor-sharp smart or creative, but a whole heck of a lot calmer and happier. 

I felt for him, in a there-but-for-the-grace way.  I'd had some mental trouble myself dealing with some crap about ten years earlier, and the stuff they gave me then had made me feel like my head was full of felt.  Much better drugs were available by the time he was going through it, but they were still clearly "taking the edge off" in more ways than one.  I hope he managed to straighten it out enough to get off the scripts.

I hear they have even better drugs now.  But I have no experience of them, thank goodness. It could still happen again though.  It nearly did when my dad passed. 
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #158 on: 26 Feb 2016, 09:34 »

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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #159 on: 26 Feb 2016, 12:08 »

Dude, Marten really needs to get fl.ux or Lux something for his phone, all that bright light is going to wreck his circadian rhythm. It's too hard to tell people not to phone in bed, but you can at least make the light a warmer, dimmer hue to lessen the impact on your sleep patterns.

S-sorry, I guess this reads more like a PSA than a post. It's all true though!

Is there an iPhone option without jailbreaking? http://9to5mac.com/2015/11/12/flux-iphone-sideloading-shut-down/
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #160 on: 26 Feb 2016, 12:10 »

I'm more inclined to think Bubbles is thinking of her recent conversation with Corpsewitch and maybe considering of her growing friendship with Faye
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #161 on: 26 Feb 2016, 13:28 »

Dude, Marten really needs to get fl.ux or Lux something for his phone, all that bright light is going to wreck his circadian rhythm. It's too hard to tell people not to phone in bed, but you can at least make the light a warmer, dimmer hue to lessen the impact on your sleep patterns.

S-sorry, I guess this reads more like a PSA than a post. It's all true though!

Is there an iPhone option without jailbreaking? http://9to5mac.com/2015/11/12/flux-iphone-sideloading-shut-down/
There will be in iOS 9.3! I've had the beta (and therefore this feature) for so long that I didn't realize it wasn't available in an already released OS.

Kugai, thanks for the heads up re: my earlier link.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #162 on: 26 Feb 2016, 14:30 »

Well, I remember a night with some people from my dorm, after a party we came to the dorm chatting in the room of girl sitting on her bed. We also were wondering where our other dorm mate went off to if he made it to bed as he was very drunk. So when it was getting late we were leaving her room, leaving the girl alone. As I left the door I noticed him lying under her bed. So I suppose there is some truth in checking under the bed for monsters.

As for Sam, doesn't lying with your hand on your head gives you headaches when you wake up? Also Faye eating cookies in bed, I thought you shouldn't eat anything sweet after brushing your teeth for the night, she does still brush them right?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #163 on: 26 Feb 2016, 14:38 »

Confession: I usually just brush mine in the morning. I'd never admit this to my dentist, but yeah.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #164 on: 26 Feb 2016, 15:54 »

Confession: I usually just brush mine in the morning. I'd never admit this to my dentist, but yeah.

Actually, I only brush them at night. I know I should do it in the morning too, but then breakfast would taste weird.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #165 on: 26 Feb 2016, 16:12 »

Confession: I usually just brush mine in the morning. I'd never admit this to my dentist, but yeah.
Actually, I only brush them at night. I know I should do it in the morning too, but then breakfast would taste weird.
What? You don't like minty fresh oatmeal?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #166 on: 26 Feb 2016, 16:29 »

I brush after breakfast. That way I don't go to work with breakfast breath.

(And I brush in the evenings too. And floss. And rinse. I'm trying to make up for all the neglect I did to my teeth in my teens and early 20s.)
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #167 on: 26 Feb 2016, 16:39 »

I brush at night. I get up just early enough to get dressed, make coffee, read the news, and leave. I need to fix that.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #168 on: 26 Feb 2016, 17:38 »

Confession: I usually just brush mine in the morning. I'd never admit this to my dentist, but yeah.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #169 on: 26 Feb 2016, 17:52 »

I'm pretty sure Bubbles is just admiring the moon's aesthetics.  The amount of light coming through the window does suggest a full moon.

She's probably not looking at Space Station because NEO objects are only visible at dawn and dusk.  I'm assuming Station is in near Earth orbit based on pizza delivery time.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #171 on: 26 Feb 2016, 18:32 »

This is how you mark the end of one book and the start of another.
 (... Wait... Wrong comic? )
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #172 on: 26 Feb 2016, 23:59 »

I just want to point out the awesome screen name/subtitle combo above me.

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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #173 on: 27 Feb 2016, 01:48 »

Bubbles says a lot without saying anything.

I've been there.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #174 on: 27 Feb 2016, 02:26 »

As I left the door I noticed him lying under her bed. So I suppose there is some truth in checking under the bed for monsters.

Holy shit, that's terrifying. I assume he was kicked out of the room, or at least loudly called out on what he was doing?

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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #175 on: 27 Feb 2016, 06:34 »

Yeah, I told her we forgot someone. He got called out I remember, though he was somewhat asleep already.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #176 on: 27 Feb 2016, 08:11 »

And now I'm thinking of getting the T-shirt, of course.  It would say: 

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If anybody asked, I could tell them that one line was a band name and the other an album title. 

I already have one that says
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... in flourescent purple, flashing LEDs, so I figure it would sort of be in-theme.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #177 on: 27 Feb 2016, 08:45 »

If anybody asked, I could tell them that one line was a band name and the other an album title.
Would that be true?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #178 on: 27 Feb 2016, 13:46 »

If anybody asked, I could tell them that one line was a band name and the other an album title.
Would that be true?
I expect that depends on which line you claim is which….
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #179 on: 27 Feb 2016, 15:24 »

Actually, the claim that one line was a band name and the other an album title would still be true (or false) regardless of which line you then went on to claim was the band name and which the album title.  8-)
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #180 on: 27 Feb 2016, 18:44 »

It would sure be just as credible a claim either way.  Whether it was actually true or not would depend on whether I could convince anybody it would be fun to do on a lark. 

I mean, I've already got a 'Roadie' T-shirt for the almost-fictional band 'Incoherent Sushi' - which, AFAIK, played one gig.  Ever. 
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Re: WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
« Reply #181 on: 28 Feb 2016, 13:01 »

Bubbles' panel makes me wistful.
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