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2024-02-26, 02:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
Cheer up Dora, being An Old isn't that bad.
On trying to explain things to one's children however (as per the sub-comic text), it's not always like that (although I did have a nice discussion with my eldest the other day about what it was like to be an Internet user in the 90s). My kids frequently surprise me with the things they're plugged into from my generation or before. A snippet from a random conversation with my youngest (16yo) a month or two ago:
"How do you even know the Pina Colada song?"
"It was in a meme."
OTOH the kids got me a generational trivia contest game for Christmas, wherein the old people had to answer questions about current stuff and the young people had to answer questions about old stuff. They complained - quite rightly - that the technology questions were inherently unfair, in that they never used the old tech but we do use the new tech. It was still amusing to see them struggle to come up with ideas for what the heck the telephone answering machine could be though :)
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2024-02-26, 11:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
What is „Clue“ in this context anyway?
* my emphasis
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2024-02-26, 11:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-02-26, 11:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
I think it's a little strange that she doesn't recognize the name of the 5th most popular board game in the world. It's like not knowing monopoly or scrabble.
Let me try a rewrite:
"I'm gonna go home and sleep with my wife"
"Uhh...good for you?"
"It's a reference to Clue."
"Wait, the board game?"
"No the movie, have you not seen it? Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd, Marten Mull? It's a classic!"
"I don't know who any of those people are, I don't watch old movies"
*Dora takes out phone* "It's not that old the movie only came out in..."
Panel of Dora rapidly aging as she stares wide-eyed at her phone.
Then we can have a funny little arc of Dora not realizing how old she since she dyes her hair and is probably grey now instead of blond. it would be fun.
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2024-02-26, 12:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
It could be a sign of Liz not having had a very well-rounded childhood.
"No, dear. Playing board games with your classmates / the neighbour's kids won't look good on your resumé."
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2024-02-26, 12:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
Obviously, Dora isn't talking about the board game, because the only board game quotes would be things like "Major Hoople in the drawing room with a euphonium". But there was a video game version. Who knows what they added in?
And this was Ayo being Clueless, not Liz.
(I've played Monopoly and Scrabble, but never Clue.)Last edited by DavidSh; 2024-02-26 at 01:02 PM.
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2024-02-26, 01:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
I don't know. We haven't seen enough of Ayo's parents to know really anything about them. Not playing videogames doesn't mean there weren't family board game nights.
It's not really about playing it but seeming to have never heard of it. It just seems odd to me that her brain wouldn't at least go to the game first for confusion.
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2024-02-26, 04:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
Here (if it's the game I think it is) it's called Cluedo, we speak Englisin, what they call it in France of Germany is unknown to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CluedoLast edited by halfeye; 2024-02-26 at 04:43 PM.
The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2024-02-26, 04:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-02-26, 05:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-02-26, 07:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
Probably, but that name for a Pachisi version is just Latin for "(I) play". Similarity to Japanese martial arts like Judo or Sensha-Do is probably purely coincidental.
In the US, we have Parcheesi instead, and abandoned Latin instruction earlier, so we wouldn't get either reference.Last edited by DavidSh; 2024-02-26 at 07:22 PM.
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2024-02-26, 10:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
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2024-02-27, 09:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
It's barely a pun, and really just a portmanteaux - "Clue" as in what you would expect to find in a murder mystery game. "Ludo" from the latin for "I play". Such is the nature of the British sense of humour; it's a British-designed game, later exported to English (Simplified)-land.
Since we have once again apparently reached that point in QC where a new character is systematically paraded around and introduced directly to every other character in crushing details, any bets on who we meet next? Is it too much to ask that Hannelore just walks home and says 'hi' to Winslow, or does *spins bottle* Veronica... and.... let's say, Lemon? Sure why not - They have to have their say about it as well before we can continue?Last edited by Wraith; 2024-02-27 at 09:42 AM.
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2024-02-27, 04:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-02-27, 06:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
What is the France of Germany, anyway? I've heard that Bavaria is the Texas of Germany...
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2024-02-27, 08:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-02-28, 01:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
Not liking her reaction to winslow. It has a sort of "not a real person" reaction to his existence vibe. The reference to him in the third person even as you are staring him in the face.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2024-02-28, 10:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
@Traab: I agree.
Regarding this evening's strip: Lazy stereotypes at the heart of a sitcom? Who ever would have thought of such a betrayal of the genre? Also, were we previously supposed to have understood Liz to be Dutch?
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2024-02-28, 11:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-02-29, 04:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
Could say Saarland, they had the choice between France and Germany.
Or you can go with the spirit, and then it's either Köln or Hamburg that are less strict and feel more "latin" than the other parts.
Or you can go with History and say it's every part of town where it's dirty and full of whores, because German used "little France" as nickname for lower places bordering rivers where there actually were tanners - hence stank and a neighborhood nobody wanted, hence the prostitutes. French do the same calling it "little Italy/Venice". I guess that in northern Italy they call it Napoli...
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2024-02-29, 06:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
Liz, whose name is an Anglicized form of a Dutch word, and phones her father in English.
Also, she's called LIZ. Not even Lies.Spoiler: This signature is a historical relic from a long-ago time of regular forum activity.Aww man! Even all the witty self referencing sigs are gone now!
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2024-02-29, 06:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
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2024-02-29, 05:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
Liz is probably Dutch in the same way that ~31% of Americans are Irish - which is to say, they aren't and their family hasn't been for 4 or 5 generations despite what they say.
Still, she has a Dutch name, is vaguely Asian-coded (I think?) and has an American passport to work in Canada so to be fair, that is realistically convoluted... But why does it need to be convoluted at all? What does any of this add to the story, or why does it make Liz any more interesting to pile random facts onto her that don't have an impact?
Also, why does Liz use Hanz Van Klompen-Klacke as an example of sitcom storytelling even though the one thing she is using as an example doesn't happen to the character that she uses as the example? No wonder she sucks as a researcher, if she has no concept of correlation.Last edited by Wraith; 2024-02-29 at 05:12 PM.
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2024-02-29, 05:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
That was my initial thought but her apparantly growing up only having watched dutch television (produced by the french?) is a monkey wrench in that theory. Which calls back to my "Jeph is making up backstory for Liz as he goes and didn't think about any of this before introducing Liz"
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2024-02-29, 06:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-02-29, 09:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-03-01, 10:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
We've currently established that she is, in fact, Dutch.
Now we need to establish why she has an American passport and why she spoke to her dad in English.
Google says there's no dual citizenship between US and Netherlands, so her dad is probably American and her mom is Dutch, she was born in the US but they moved to the Netherlands for a while, then she moved back to the states for college.
By my count, we should be back to Jokes on Thursday or so.
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2024-03-01, 08:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-03-04, 08:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
When I think of the term "pigeon fancier," I generally think of someone who raises and breeds pigeons, not merely a pigeon-specific birdwatcher, and such individuals pick up and (gently) squeeze their charges as a matter of course, rather than secretly pining for such an opportunity.
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2024-03-04, 10:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Questionable Content XIX: Give Jeph Just A *Little* Credit, Here
Credit where it's due, I liked that joke.