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So, Now What? (Two Choices)

Just why did Bubbles have bed-head in Strip 3444?
Brun attempts to 'help' Renee in her relationship with Elliott (and with people in general)
Clinton learns that he is a straight man in this particular romantic comedy
Bubbles angst over whether she's "hiding" behind her armour
Marten tries to get Claire to relax by taking her out on a dinner date; it couldn't be more stressful!
Pintsize pours out his troubled heart at the next support group meeting (much to everyone else's distress)
Sam is still sick so Marigold has to take over her YouTube channel for a few nights
May's next probation hearing is due and she calls Momo as a character witness (!)
Hannelore and Emily's Ordinary Day At Work (as if such a thing ever happens)
Dora and Sven have to stage an intervention when their parents are arrested for DUI
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As is my new policy in this sort of poll, I'm giving two choices as Jeph sometimes switches gear mid-week.

What do I think? I think that Jeph may have us follow up Brün's sweet but generally-useless attempt to help Renee with her ability to interact with other people. Something tells me that having a tag-along who constantly tells people stuff like "What she means is..." and "I apologise for my friend; she cannot interact with her own species" won't make Renee's day any easier.

I'm also wondering if we might get a bit of Bubbles introspection about whether she needs to open up more to the world (both literally and figuratively). However, that would be a full week arc at least. I really hope that, if Jeph does follow this direction, we get to see the space-age cardigan in all its glory!
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #1 on: 26 Mar 2017, 14:33 »

I suspect we'll see more of the Renee/Elliott Show intersperses with quick trips to Bubble,Faye and Pintsize.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #2 on: 26 Mar 2017, 20:16 »

Renelliot? I'm not shipping them, it just flows nicely. Also Brun learned how to make a joke! I think. Probably. Yeah, that guy's dead.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #3 on: 26 Mar 2017, 20:33 »

Yeah, that guy's dead.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #4 on: 26 Mar 2017, 22:17 »

Just FYI, there is no umlaut in Brun's name.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #5 on: 26 Mar 2017, 22:25 »

This is Brun's second humorous grotesque in which the comic ends with a female character shouting for it to stop. heh heh heh
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #6 on: 26 Mar 2017, 22:56 »

BRUN!!!

Mind you, she naver said she was responsible for his death.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #7 on: 26 Mar 2017, 23:29 »

Something tells me that Brun really needs to learn to express herself with more detail when it comes to certain matters. I'm pretty sure that she didn't mean that to sound like it meant what it sounds like it meant. I think. Come to think of it, she might enjoy being ambiguous when it comes to these things!

Brun, I'm wondering if you're only good at spotting creeps, not people who are genuinely interested in you. The former is a barkeep's survival skill, after all.

Yes, this one could get very, very complicated in the sense of 'romantic triangle with two competing Cyrano de Bergeracs' complicated!
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #8 on: 26 Mar 2017, 23:40 »

.....

Well, that's a thing.

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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #9 on: 27 Mar 2017, 00:27 »

Two possibilities:

1. Brun is an as-yet uncaught serial murderer (heh heh heh) which explains the instant harpoon threat, as well as this supposedly dead dude who came on to her at the bar. Her blank affect masks a violent history.

2. Brun has a desert-dry humorous sensibility, and likes play-acting implied violent scenarios for fun (again, the harpoon; the leg cutoff business; today's tale of a dead creep at the bar).

Personally I'm leaning to 2.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #10 on: 27 Mar 2017, 05:05 »

Nah, I don't think it's possibility 1. This comic already has a cereal killer.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #11 on: 27 Mar 2017, 05:34 »

BRUN!!!

Mind you, she naver said she was responsible for his death.

I'm more curious as to whether it was the dude who claimed to have jacked off a dophin. 
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #12 on: 27 Mar 2017, 05:55 »

Nah, Dolphin Jack's still alive, last we checked.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #13 on: 27 Mar 2017, 14:06 »

Yes, but that was weeks ago, he might have recently died.  Perhaps while trying to fulfill his dream. 
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #14 on: 27 Mar 2017, 14:49 »

Yes, but that was weeks ago, he might have recently died.  Perhaps while trying to fulfill his dream.

One can always hope.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #15 on: 27 Mar 2017, 15:10 »

I think if I knew Brun in real life, I would fall crazy in love with the poor girl. She's swell, and hilarious, and strong.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #16 on: 27 Mar 2017, 17:39 »

Just FYI, there is no umlaut in Brun's name.

'Brün' is short for 'Brünhilde', you know.
(It's not my fault Jeph is too mingy to buy umlauts.)
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #17 on: 27 Mar 2017, 20:29 »

Bubbles, I believe you mean 'false dichotomy'.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #18 on: 27 Mar 2017, 20:34 »

So the Peaches 'n Bubbles Robot Chop Shop will at last become a thing. Booyah!

Never heard of sploshing till this strip. While on the one hand I could happily have gone the rest of my days without discovering it, it seems harmless albeit wasteful.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #19 on: 27 Mar 2017, 20:51 »

I guess, for Jeremy and Seven at least, some hands = handsome. 



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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #20 on: 27 Mar 2017, 20:54 »

I do like Brun as well, and I do want to find out what her deal is... there is definitely a whole lot more going on there than we can see.

However, am I the only one who wants to see more Marten and Claire? I am just waiting for something to go horribly wrong between them, because it has been a while since I've cried over something that happens in a webcomic.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #21 on: 27 Mar 2017, 20:58 »

Just FYI, there is no umlaut in Brun's name.

'Brün' is short for 'Brünhilde', you know.
(It's not my fault Jeph is too mingy to buy umlauts.)

I'm aware what it's short for. But when the person in question (Brun herself) does not spell or pronounce her name with an umlaut, I believe it behooves the rest of us to respect her wishes.
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« Reply #22 on: 27 Mar 2017, 21:06 »

Never heard of sploshing till this strip. While on the one hand I could happily have gone the rest of my days without discovering it, it seems harmless albeit wasteful.

You've never heard of Hoboken squat cobbler? Full moon moon pie? Boston cream splat?
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« Reply #23 on: 27 Mar 2017, 21:28 »

Hmmm.  It looks like my Social Interaction Challenge for today is to work Hoboken Squat Cobbler into a conversation.  :?
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #25 on: 27 Mar 2017, 23:13 »

Comic's up

And I think Bubbles would prefer the former

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« Reply #26 on: 27 Mar 2017, 23:26 »

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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #27 on: 27 Mar 2017, 23:36 »

Jeremy and Seven are so cute and sweet together that they're turning into a real hazard for causing cavities!

Now, we have an interesting little detail here. Notice that Seven's face plate has gone pink. I wonder if that's her equivalent of blushing? I don't think we've ever had it established if this emulation of human subconscious emotional indications is conscious, programmed or, much like lots of behavioural emotional indicators in humans, learned from interaction. I think that the fact that Bubbles experiences them suggests that it certainly isn't conscious; can you imagine her consciously choosing to blush or look awkward and embarrassed?

I think I'm with Bubbles on this. She and Faye do not have only this or entering the sex industry as incoming-earning options. That said, you do have to wonder if this is something Faye has considered before in previous low ebbs in her life. I also wonder if Faye realises just how difficult it will be to start a business - The licenses, the qualification and the insurance. They're going to need an investor to help them set up!
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #28 on: 27 Mar 2017, 23:56 »

'Brün' is short for 'Brünhilde', you know.

Spellings vary, you know.  Older sources (in German, that is) tend to have the name without the umlaut, and before the "u" it had a "y" (from Norse sources); it also comes with one or two "n"s, and other variants.  Given that people often use names in variant or archaic forms, there is no justification to trying to insist on an umlaut in this case.

Another name that may have an umlaut or not is Gunt(h)er.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #29 on: 28 Mar 2017, 04:55 »

Just an observation: If today's strip (tuesday) could be subtitled "Leg Meat".
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« Reply #30 on: 28 Mar 2017, 05:05 »

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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #31 on: 28 Mar 2017, 05:21 »

So the Peaches 'n Bubbles Robot Chop Shop will at last become a thing. Booyah!

Never heard of sploshing till this strip. While on the one hand I could happily have gone the rest of my days without discovering it, it seems harmless albeit wasteful.

I'm more curious about whether Faye learned about this on her own or if she found Pintsize's browsing history. 
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« Reply #32 on: 28 Mar 2017, 08:39 »

GFDI I think we know exactly what pics are gonna spawn on paheal after this one. The only question is whether this was a devious plot by Jeph to get art of Bubbles and Faye sitting on cakes.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #33 on: 28 Mar 2017, 10:54 »

Here's an amusing, possible scenario.  I suppose I could write it as a fanfic, but for now it's just an amusement.

Her parents, Onald and Martha, happened to deliver Brunhilde at a hospital in America where, like most Americans, the person running the records system had no notion of how to enter a ü at the computer keyboard, and wouldn't have considered the lack of an umlaut to be a misspelling anyway.  So, her birth certificate name is actually Brunhilde.  Her parents, again like most Americans, didn't really notice or take seriously that kind of spelling variation, calling her Brünhilde until, aged seven, she came home from school one day after a class in phonics, and announced to her father that they had been mispronouncing her name for her entire life. 

Onald, considering this, sees that his daughter is not particularly upset about it, and knows from earlier investigations that attempting to change it will involve, at the very least, some administrative fees, logistical difficulties in their schedules, and probably some tedious standing on queue in some dusty government building somewhere, an activity which he passionately hates.  So, forthwith he apologizes to Brunhilde for mispronouncing her name for her first seven years and considers the matter settled.

Martha, when she gets home that evening, is less sanguine about the whole matter, and begins to raise a protest.  Then Onald fixes her gaze with a stern eye and explains why he knows what the name change entails.  On his own, handwritten, birth certificate, there is an odd squiggle in front of his name.  His father had always maintained that it was intended to be a 'D', and his mother had claimed she wanted it to be an 'R', and finally, when recording the birth on their tax forms that year, they had dropped it altogether leaving him with the part of the name that both could agree on.  Later in life, at various moments when officials had looked at his actual birth certificate for various reasons, no-one had been confident enough of their reading of the squiggle to put an extra letter in front of his name if he wouldn't tell them what it was, so Onald he had remained.... 



It is telling that my own computer's spelling dictionary, set to American standard spellings, has placed a red squiggle under 'Brünhilde' above but accepts 'Brunhilde' as perfectly correct.

Short version though; her parents were American, and Americans, having invented typewriters with limited keyboards and later developed them into computers with limited character sets, have been dropping diacritics and accents without a second thought for generations now.  Even though modern computers make them available, Americans are simply accustomed to their absence.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #34 on: 28 Mar 2017, 12:50 »

On investigation, it appears to actually be standard in much of the US that diacriticals of any kind are off-limits for birth certificates.

There's no federal law on the matter, but various states have various laws and in some cases just acknowledged limitations of their data systems that they've decided don't need fixing.

https://www.thebump.com/a/baby-name-rules

I particularly like Vermont:  “You may use trademarked names (IBM), diseases (Anthrax), and obscenities, but we highly recommend against it.”

There are kids whose names are emoji now.

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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #35 on: 28 Mar 2017, 12:53 »

Well, IBM would be a pretty fitting name for an infant.  :clairedoge:
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #36 on: 28 Mar 2017, 14:01 »

GFDI I think we know exactly what pics are gonna spawn on paheal after this one. The only question is whether this was a devious plot by Jeph to get art of Bubbles and Faye sitting on cakes.

There was already a pic of Faye sitting on a cake, years and years ago. It was also used as her Twitter profile pic.

https://twitter.com/fayewhitaker

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« Reply #37 on: 28 Mar 2017, 14:25 »

On investigation, it appears to actually be standard in much of the US that diacriticals of any kind are off-limits for birth certificates.

There's no federal law on the matter, but various states have various laws and in some cases just acknowledged limitations of their data systems that they've decided don't need fixing.

https://www.thebump.com/a/baby-name-rules

I particularly like Vermont:  “You may use trademarked names (IBM), diseases (Anthrax), and obscenities, but we highly recommend against it.”

There are kids whose names are emoji now.

A friend of mine is a social worker in North Carolina. She once told me the story of a young teenage mother she was counseling, and of her efforts to talk her client out of naming her son "Shi'thead". Pronounced "shi-THEED", according to the mother. The girl was totally unable to see what her son's name looked like without the apostrophe and would not listen to reason.

I wonder whatever became of young Shi'thead. He'd be about sixteen now.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #38 on: 28 Mar 2017, 14:38 »

If I learned anything from when I was twelve it's that after sitting on the cake you're supposed to fart on it.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #39 on: 28 Mar 2017, 15:40 »

Hmmm.  It looks like my Social Interaction Challenge for today is to work Hoboken Squat Cobbler into a conversation.  :?

The comic made me feel the same way about "dubious binary."
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« Reply #40 on: 28 Mar 2017, 16:46 »

On investigation, it appears to actually be standard in much of the US that diacriticals of any kind are off-limits for birth certificates.

There's no federal law on the matter, but various states have various laws and in some cases just acknowledged limitations of their data systems that they've decided don't need fixing.

https://www.thebump.com/a/baby-name-rules

I particularly like Vermont:  “You may use trademarked names (IBM), diseases (Anthrax), and obscenities, but we highly recommend against it.”

There are kids whose names are emoji now.

A friend of mine is a social worker in North Carolina. She once told me the story of a young teenage mother she was counseling, and of her efforts to talk her client out of naming her son "Shi'thead". Pronounced "shi-THEED", according to the mother. The girl was totally unable to see what her son's name looked like without the apostrophe and would not listen to reason.

I wonder whatever became of young Shi'thead. He'd be about sixteen now.

Don't know, but I think Sue can relate
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #41 on: 28 Mar 2017, 17:41 »

Veronica Reed and Jim both have business expertise and money to invest, and Faye could go to them with less baggage than she'd have consulting Dora.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #42 on: 28 Mar 2017, 17:50 »

Veronica Reed and Jim both have business expertise and money to invest, and Faye could go to them with less baggage than she'd have consulting Dora.
Also one could showcase his baking and the other her filmography  :roll:
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #43 on: 28 Mar 2017, 18:57 »

Veronica Reed and Jim both have business expertise and money to invest, and Faye could go to them with less baggage than she'd have consulting Dora.
I can imagine it now: "Are you sure you don't want to start a cake-sitting website? You'd be so good at it!"
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #44 on: 28 Mar 2017, 19:00 »

I did NOT need to have my horizons broadened like this.  :lol: :-o

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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #45 on: 28 Mar 2017, 20:10 »


A friend of mine is a social worker in North Carolina. She once told me the story of a young teenage mother she was counseling, and of her efforts to talk her client out of naming her son "Shi'thead". Pronounced "shi-THEED", according to the mother. The girl was totally unable to see what her son's name looked like without the apostrophe and would not listen to reason.

I wonder whatever became of young Shi'thead. He'd be about sixteen now.

It's true though, that in large chunks of the mideast, Shithead (with the pronunciation as you've given it) is in fact still an unremarkable name.  It was originally Indian, but has steadily declined in popularity since the Raj - in proportion to the length of time they've been in close contact with English speaking people.

We shouldn't laugh too hard.  Remember when Bob Dole was running for president?  In Saudi Arabia, 'Dole' - the only way to write it that evokes that particular pronunciation anyway - is the word for 'penis.'  The people who had to, on one hand, do translations of the news and on the other, pass censorship restrictions, were tied up in knots about it.

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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #46 on: 28 Mar 2017, 20:44 »

Clinton's attempt to say her name is 'Brooon'. Which tells me that here is indeed an umlaut involved. Like a French 'u'.
So Brün is Brün. And Renée is Renée.
And anyone who feels otherwise can go sit on a cake.

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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #47 on: 28 Mar 2017, 20:54 »

Like Jeph, you mean.
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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #48 on: 28 Mar 2017, 21:08 »

I believe that a proper respect for diacritics is part of what makes America great.
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I wish to apologize to any cake-sitters I may have offended. That was crude of me. The mention in the current comic is not an excuse.

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Re: WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
« Reply #49 on: 28 Mar 2017, 22:58 »

I do believe that that is quite the smirk that Bubbles has there.


And getting business advice from Dora - she's gonna enjoy that.
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