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Post by TBeholder on Feb 26, 2015 22:35:34 GMT
I was going to assume it's a Brit in-joke, but search gives "Cardiff University Cobras", for what it's worth. Hmm unlikely unless Tom is a Cardiff Alumni. University sports isn't really a big thing in the UK, and we only have 2 native species of snake and I think 1-2 lizards anyway. The area that's usually referred to jokingly as the stereotypical inbred 'weird looking people' area is Norfolk anyway, not Wales. I mean, there may have been a reason for naming it.
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Post by ctso74 on Feb 27, 2015 0:47:15 GMT
I was going to assume it's a Brit in-joke, but search gives "Cardiff University Cobras", for what it's worth. Some would say, that their rivalry with the "Grangetown Joes" is cartoonish.
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Post by brokshi on Feb 27, 2015 0:49:03 GMT
Why does this have to be a joke though? Could it not just be some generic U.K. town and they were affected by the ether involved in the rituals + transfers afterwards?
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Post by sapientcoffee on Feb 27, 2015 3:59:50 GMT
Because it's Wales. (Doesn't mean it has to be a joke, does mean some percentage of commenters are gonna run with it)
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Post by philman on Feb 27, 2015 13:31:19 GMT
I think the joke is more just that Annie assumed he/she was a former forest denzien due to the strange appearence, but it was just a normal human who looked a bit weird. I think Cardiff was just a city that Tom named, the joke would be the same whatever city he named.
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Post by sidhekin on Feb 27, 2015 14:10:13 GMT
… and whatever city he named, forumites would look for its significance.
(Yeah, even London.)
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Post by TBeholder on Feb 27, 2015 15:07:40 GMT
Why does this have to be a joke though? Could it not just be some generic U.K. town and they were affected by the ether involved in the rituals + transfers afterwards? Could be, but Gunnerkrigg Court got " Like Reality Unless Noted" trait. And it was delivered as "explaining" what's going on. Since it's not obvious, the reasonable assumption is that it's obvious for those who have the right context. Beside the joke in itself, of course. But so far there were no abstract jokes that look like something else (as opposed to Coyote's "answers", which are enigmatic blatantly), and the character was quite straightforward, too. So there got to be something under this. And since Tom doesn't have a habit of peppering everything with Pokemon, Pony or Doctor references, it's back to Real World and existing mythology.
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Post by Per on Mar 3, 2015 15:08:17 GMT
Bonus comic: "Meanwhile, in Cardiff." Everyone walks around looking just like that.
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Post by mordekai on Mar 3, 2015 19:12:07 GMT
She's obviusly either a dragon or a half-dragon. They are all around Wales.
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Post by OGRuddawg on Mar 3, 2015 22:49:18 GMT
I wonder if anyone got the idea that she wasn't a former forest resident. I didn't hear anyone call it, after all....
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Post by Jelly Jellybean on Mar 3, 2015 23:30:54 GMT
I wonder if anyone got the idea that she wasn't a former forest resident. I didn't hear anyone call it, after all.... sidhekin was the first to suggest, three pages ago, that Snake (or whatever he/she/it turns out to be) was not from the Forest.
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Post by freeman on Mar 4, 2015 14:32:03 GMT
Well, I found this: Aliens in Cardiff. So, maybe this is a weak Dr Who reference proxied through TvTropes, though I have a feeling that Tom has stated he doesn't like either. And that's a level of subtlety as yet unheard of from Annie. She really is trying. She's getting better, considering how lowingly aware yet completely indifferent she was about poor Andrew's blue balls a few strips back.
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