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And what will Jeph do this week?

Clinton drinks Brain Bleach
Emily and Brun meet - Chaos ensues
We meet Bruns boss - Hannermom
We meet Bruns boss - Brian!
Emily runs into Clinton while he's waiting for his Cab
Sunday Dinner at Clairemoms - Awkwardness ensues
Jeph trolls us with a week of Steve eating Cereal with Tortura
Back to Faye and Bubbles
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Author Topic: WCDT Strips 3226 to 3230 (25 - 27 May 2016)  (Read 53901 times)

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Re: WCDT Strips 3226 to 3230 (25 - 27 May 2016)
« Reply #200 on: 27 May 2016, 14:32 »

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Re: WCDT Strips 3226 to 3230 (25 - 27 May 2016)
« Reply #201 on: 27 May 2016, 15:43 »

For those wondering why Claire was not mentioned on the floofiness scale above Brun, it's for the same reason you don't measure sunshine in lumens.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3226 to 3230 (25 - 27 May 2016)
« Reply #202 on: 27 May 2016, 16:24 »

Huge unanswered question:  what's in her left pocket?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3226 to 3230 (25 - 27 May 2016)
« Reply #203 on: 27 May 2016, 17:50 »

You get three guesses.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3226 to 3230 (25 - 27 May 2016)
« Reply #204 on: 27 May 2016, 18:00 »

First guess:   The One Ring
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Re: WCDT Strips 3226 to 3230 (25 - 27 May 2016)
« Reply #205 on: 27 May 2016, 18:16 »

So who is Brun most likely to stay with, of the current cast? I can see Clinton asking around before eventually realizing that the only one left is Hannelore, and not only having to face his worst social situation, but having to give Hanners the hardest suggestion of her life.

That could be interesting.  I think Brun would get along best with Bubbles, but if Hannelore wants to take the next step in overcoming her social anxieties a roommate would be good, but it remains to be seen if Brun has any incompatible habits. 
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Re: WCDT Strips 3226 to 3230 (25 - 27 May 2016)
« Reply #206 on: 27 May 2016, 19:33 »

I think Brun would most likely stay with Sara. She is never around anymore. So she would be rather unintrusive.... (bad joke is bad)
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Re: WCDT Strips 3226 to 3230 (25 - 27 May 2016)
« Reply #207 on: 27 May 2016, 23:28 »

This was a good strip. I was wondering about tum and the question was answered in a timely manner. The comic can end now.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3226 to 3230 (25 - 27 May 2016)
« Reply #208 on: 27 May 2016, 23:49 »

For those wondering why Claire was not mentioned on the floofiness scale above Brun, it's for the same reason you don't measure sunshine in lumens.

Quite. That's why we use logarithmic scales for many things: earthquakes, sound/signal intensity, celestial body brightness, Claire level floofiness...

But Pintsize floofiness would then be minus infinity and ruin the joke.

Can there exist something exceeding Claireheaded floof? The cardigans Hanners, and more recently Emily, have brought up?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3226 to 3230 (25 - 27 May 2016)
« Reply #209 on: 28 May 2016, 03:07 »

The logarithmic floof scale (dBf):

-infinity dBf: Pintsize
0 dBf: Steve
3 dBf: Marten
4 dBf: Faye
8 dBf: Brun
9 dBf: Hanners
10.4 dBf: Shebly
100 dBf:  :claireface:
1000 dBf: Emily's cardigan (once it has you, you're trapped forever)
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Re: WCDT Strips 3226 to 3230 (25 - 27 May 2016)
« Reply #210 on: 28 May 2016, 05:01 »

For those wondering why Claire was not mentioned on the floofiness scale above Brun, it's for the same reason you don't measure sunshine in lumens.
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But Pintsize floofiness would then be minus infinity and ruin the joke.
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Perversity coefficient regularizes divergences in complex floofiness manifold ...

... put another way: Nature abhors infinite Pintsize.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3226 to 3230 (25 - 27 May 2016)
« Reply #211 on: 28 May 2016, 06:51 »

For those wondering why Claire was not mentioned on the floofiness scale above Brun, it's for the same reason you don't measure sunshine in lumens.
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But Pintsize floofiness would then be minus infinity and ruin the joke.
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Perversity coefficient regularizes divergences in complex floofiness manifold ...

... put another way: Nature abhors infinite Pintsize.

Actually, thinking about it some more, Pintsize wouldn't be -infinity dBf. He would be very close to zero, but there would be some microscopic sources of floof on Pintsize. For example, vacuum fluctuations on the surface of Pintsize's body would introduce an extremely small amount of floof. Plus you'd have to consider all the Johnson noise on his electronics. I'd therefore estimate Pintsize's floof level to be at least at the Planck level, i.e. > -330 dBf.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3226 to 3230 (25 - 27 May 2016)
« Reply #212 on: 28 May 2016, 08:20 »

So who is Brun most likely to stay with, of the current cast? I can see Clinton asking around before eventually realizing that the only one left is Hannelore, and not only having to face his worst social situation, but having to give Hanners the hardest suggestion of her life.

That could be interesting.  I think Brun would get along best with Bubbles, but if Hannelore wants to take the next step in overcoming her social anxieties a roommate would be good, but it remains to be seen if Brun has any incompatible habits.
Bubbles and Brun might both be taciturn but that's about where it ends...putting someone with low social skills, whose default is to view strangers as potential threats that need to be managed - possibly with harpoons - will not mesh well with someone who's certain that everyone views her as a threat and will run away or attack her.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3226 to 3230 (25 - 27 May 2016)
« Reply #213 on: 28 May 2016, 08:23 »

Like others, I want to know how to enunciate an ellipsis!

Not so hard if you can deal with umlauts.  Protip: It's all in the eyebrows.

Given that you get umlauted versions of vowels by moving your tongue forward I posit that you get the ellipsis by sticking your tongue out.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3226 to 3230 (25 - 27 May 2016)
« Reply #214 on: 28 May 2016, 09:27 »

One last comment on German from Mark Twain, describing a character who tended to speak in very long sentences:

Quote from: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
She had exactly the German way; whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

Actually, with the really long sentences, there'll be more like five or ten verbs in his mouth, but Twain was a master of understated exaggeration.  8-)
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Re: WCDT Strips 3226 to 3230 (25 - 27 May 2016)
« Reply #215 on: 28 May 2016, 10:42 »

One last comment on German from Mark Twain, describing a character who tended to speak in very long sentences:

Quote from: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
She had exactly the German way; whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

Actually, with the really long sentences, there'll be more like five or ten verbs in his mouth, but Twain was a master of understated exaggeration.  8-)

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Re: WCDT Strips 3226 to 3230 (25 - 27 May 2016)
« Reply #216 on: 28 May 2016, 13:42 »

Like others, I want to know how to enunciate an ellipsis!

Not so hard if you can deal with umlauts.  Protip: It's all in the eyebrows.

Given that you get umlauted versions of vowels by moving your tongue forward I posit that you get the ellipsis by sticking your tongue out.

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Re: WCDT Strips 3226 to 3230 (25 - 27 May 2016)
« Reply #217 on: 01 Jun 2016, 21:57 »

I am new here, but I've read CQ for a long long time now. Hi everyone!!

This arc with Clinton and Brun made me check the forums and want to chime in. My niece is on the Asperger spectrum. She totally reminds me of Brun (minus those wicked eyebrows!!). Her temperament, reactions, sarcasm, lack of communication when over stimulated by events and her surroundings are pretty much 100% spot on. In fact about the 4th comic she was in I started seeing it. There are other little things like her lack of making eye contact. Focusing on one thing (like the clock) to help distract from whats going on. Not understanding something like insurance because she's never had anyone mention it before.

There are other things that might give it away like not liking the texture of something when touching it, or not liking personal contact (hugging and closeness), saying some phrase over and over when agitated to the extreme, then finally melt downs when plans change.

If she does have Aspergers I have to hand it to Jeph. I've always liked his characters because they seem like real people. And this arc is making me extremely over protective of Brun because I can see my niece so clearly in her character (minus the wicked eyebrows!!)

Did I mention the eyebrows?

P.S. WHAT HAPPENED TO BARRY?!?!?!
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« Reply #218 on: 01 Jun 2016, 23:42 »

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