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| Comic for 21 May 2012; Australia, land of leprechaun hats | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 21 2012, 07:34 PM (457 Views) | |
| Minivet | May 21 2012, 07:34 PM Post #1 |
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Is Hope vetoing the trip, or just Pat's display? |
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| dstorrs | May 21 2012, 08:40 PM Post #2 |
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What are "squiders"? As in "They have squiders the size of your face!"
Edited by dstorrs, May 21 2012, 08:41 PM.
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| Wildman7316 | May 21 2012, 08:57 PM Post #3 |
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Believe that should be SPIDERS the size of your Face... |
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| yfnsa | May 22 2012, 02:46 AM Post #4 |
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I agree, but squiders sounds funnier. So what would squiders be if we needed to invent it?
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YFNSA - Your Friendly Neighborhood System Administrator My Lone Ranger Speedy icon is courtesy of Otter. | |
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| djheydt | May 22 2012, 03:45 AM Post #5 |
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Particularly since they have those in Australia. http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/03/marys_monday_metazoan_an_austr.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=channellink :) |
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| Chrysophase2003 | May 22 2012, 06:48 AM Post #6 |
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Wait. So Pat decides they're going to ponce off to Australia and doesn't consult his freaking WIFE first? Dude may mean well, but damned if he isn't clueless at times. Feel kinda bad for him. Like the optimism of Harry Potter meeting the realism of what we'd really do with magic. Conjure Pills would be the most common spell on Earth! That and Voldemort would invest in a Colt 1911 to cap Harry the instant he learned that magic wouldn't work. Is it evil of me to have rooted for the bad guys throughout that entire series? |
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If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead yet? I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too. If God wants all the credit, he's getting all the blame. | |
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| Otter | May 22 2012, 12:15 PM Post #7 |
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Ugh, no. I had to keep reminding myself those were children's books. The glimpses into the adult wizards' lives showed an astonishing world of blahblahmassiveapocalypticsparklepower, and here comes a bunch of schoolkids defeating evil with Dick and Jane spells. It's be like a room full of astrophysicists trying to set up a colony on Mars and a 12-year-old who snuck in solves their problems using long division. And welcome Wildman7316! edited for formatting. Edited by Otter, May 22 2012, 12:16 PM.
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- Never send a ferret to do a weasel's work. | |
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| Chrysophase2003 | May 22 2012, 05:59 PM Post #8 |
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Finally! Someone who doesn't think I'm blaspheming! I'm just too cynical for alot of young adult fiction, truth be told, but there were just so many inconsistencies in that universe that I couldn't maintain the suspension of disbelief at all. The muggle world is still riddled with disease, hunger, and all manner of horrors while the magical world can fix it with a wave of a wand. Since no one in the magic world seemed the least bit inclined to lend a hand when it would be no great difficulty, even the most benevolent of wizards and witches came off as selfish and narrow-minded. I think that, since the crux of any young-adult fiction story is the concept that children can make a difference and have the power to determine their own future (so kids are excited and want to keep reading), a story has to be contrived to some degree so the kids have to step up to the plate during the story's climax. But, if the world of the story is revealed too soon and we know just how outclassed the kids are, it's nigh impossible to take seriously. |
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If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead yet? I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too. If God wants all the credit, he's getting all the blame. | |
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| My word | May 22 2012, 06:39 PM Post #9 |
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Methinks it might be couch time soon, Patrick... |
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| Minivet | May 23 2012, 08:05 PM Post #10 |
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That's a great video. |
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| demonhunter | May 24 2012, 11:00 AM Post #11 |
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... We are NOT the land of leprechaun hats. We are the land of akubras, kangaroos and blue-ringed octopi. |
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Have you ever... Ever felt like this? How strange things happen, are you going Round the Twist Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? (Note: I have no involvement with the series, I just think it looks awesome) | |
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| djheydt | May 25 2012, 02:15 AM Post #12 |
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And sea wasps. Don't forget the sea wasps. So deadly, so pretty. |
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| djheydt | May 25 2012, 02:16 AM Post #13 |
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She has now fixed it. |
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| demonhunter | May 25 2012, 11:58 AM Post #14 |
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Irukandji. Stay the HELL away unless you want to learn a whole new definition of the word PAIN. |
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Have you ever... Ever felt like this? How strange things happen, are you going Round the Twist Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? (Note: I have no involvement with the series, I just think it looks awesome) | |
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| Chrysophase2003 | May 25 2012, 07:19 PM Post #15 |
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Is there anything living in Australia which doesn't want to inflict horrible pain and death upon people? |
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If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead yet? I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too. If God wants all the credit, he's getting all the blame. | |
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| Minivet | May 25 2012, 08:13 PM Post #16 |
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Yes, there are some that only do so accidentally. |
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| demonhunter | May 26 2012, 01:39 AM Post #17 |
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Yeah. Me. |
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Have you ever... Ever felt like this? How strange things happen, are you going Round the Twist Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? (Note: I have no involvement with the series, I just think it looks awesome) | |
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