Rolando

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

"I'll have to ask my niece what exactly are those medieval chants we're listening to."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago

"Over the Top" is free on youtube, btw:

[–] [email protected] 0 points 19 hours ago

Let's see if Jon can get through this visit without sexually assaulting the vet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

In comments someone said E-Tru had old-fashioned clothing, and the people he outburst against usually had newfangled (for that time) clothing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

Unironically I would like to be buried unembalmed in a forest. Or maybe at the bottom of a lake. Hey, I bet if I insulted some old-school gangsters, they could make it happen.

 

Printed 104 years ago today in The West Virginian. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick one yourself and post it!

 

Printed 107 years ago today in the Grand Forks Herald. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found the the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick a comic from there and post it yourself!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Suggest a first date that involves a mosh pit.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING FOR GRANTED

  • vote early if you can
  • tell your friends to vote early
  • contact your local campaign and see if you can help -- it's not too late!
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One side of my family was all farmers. I don't know much about that life, but I believe the youngest girl would be raising those two babies (while cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, etc), and those two boys would be working the field with the mother.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Unfortunately the other kids will call her a "door-k" for the rest of the school year.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

their insides look like a mix of their outsides and their personality.

Good lord... imagine getting a little cut on your finger, and you look at the cut, and you see a face staring out from inside saying "HI THERE I SECRETLY HATE YOUUUUU" while a set of toes and genitals try to seep out of the cut before you bandage it up forever. That's some cthulhu-level stuff, man.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pedants: He asked if she minded. She responded saying, “Sure thing,” which is an affirmative response, meaning that she did mind.

So... when you analyze language, you can think of an utterance's semantics (what it means "at the dictionary level") and pragmatics (what it means in context.) For example, if you're having dinner, and someone asks "can you pass the salt?" in terms of semantics it's a question, but in terms of pragmatics it's generally a command or request for an action.

Similarly, I'd say Batman's first utterance in terms of pragmatics is a request for permission, which is granted by Catwoman's first utterance.

 

See here for more info: https://www.vote.org/early-voting-calendar/

btw this is an edit of a cartoon that came out in October 1913, e.g. see this example in The Day Book of Chicago. I love the fact that he's saying "Punk!" in the original. See [email protected] for more about this character.

 

Several of E.T.'s comics are about the importance of voting. Early voting wasn't a thing back then, but it is now, and it has started in most states. See here: https://www.vote.org/early-voting-calendar/

btw this is an edit of a cartoon that came out in October 1913, e.g. see this example in The Day Book of Chicago. I love the fact that he's saying "Punk!" in the original.

 

Printed 112 years ago today in The Seattle Star. Image cleaned up, especially on the letters, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick something from there and post it yourself!

 

Printed 109 years ago today in The Tacoma Times. Image cleaned up, see the original. (Lamentably, that page also has a racist caricature on it.)

Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick a cartoon and post it yourself!

 

Printed 109 years ago today in The Seattle Star. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

 

Printed 109 years ago today in The Detroit Times. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site; feel free to look there for something to post yourself!

 

Printed 104 years ago today in The West Virginian. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site. Feel free to pick a cartoon from there and post!

 

People sometimes ask why these old comics are still relatable, and part of the answer is: selection bias! Namely, those of us who post them tend to select those that we find relatable. To highlight that, here are all the Everett True comics on the Library of Congress site that came out on October 26 (of various years). These are not cleaned up or even cropped from their newspaper:

SO TO SUMMARIZE, out of 20 candidates, only 4 of these are candidates for selection. I'd probably pick the one related to the dangers of speeding, because it might appeal to the [email protected] crowd (of which I am one!) Or maybe the one about tipping, since the image is a lot cleaner. But many of the other ones are dated, some don't make sense, and some even present Everett in a very unflattering light.

Another thing to think about is that this may not be a complete selection of the comics that could be available. Some might only be in newspapers that are not in the Library of Congress' archives. Some might not have been selected for publication by the editors of the papers that are (because I think a batch of comics would be sent to the newspapers periodically, and the editors would then fit one in whenever they had room). And some, like that one example from 1917, might be in such poor condition that it couldn't be cleaned up enough. I think this is a type of survivorship bias, but I'm not sure. ~~Anyway, I hope that was interesting! And if it wasn't, then... OUTBURST.jpg.~~

EDIT: I should have ended this by saying: as you can see, there are plenty of comics that aren't chosen, but maybe you see some that you think are worthwhile! If so please feel free to post it! Just take a screencap and crop, look for more comics here:

 

Printed 103 years ago today in the East Oregonian. Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

 

Printed 105 years ago today in The Daily Graphic (Pine Bluff, Arkansas.) Image cleaned up, see the original.

Found on the Library of Congress site.

The League of Nations (LN or LoN; French: Société des Nations [sɔsjete de nɑsjɔ̃], SdN) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.[1] It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. The main organisation ceased operations on 18 April 1946 when many of its components were relocated into the new United Nations. As the template for modern global governance, the League profoundly shaped the modern world.

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