pasko
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Post by pasko on Aug 1, 2013 15:27:57 GMT
Cannon or canon? One letter makes all the difference. :-) Somewhere on the internet there is floating around, a comparison of two letters. One letter is a declaration of love and devotion and the other is a declaration of indifference and rejection. The only things different in the two letters are the punctuation and formatting. Otherwise, the two letters have exactly the same words, in exactly the same order. To quote an old sunblock advert, "yes, there is indeed a difference". ;-) now I really wanna find that. My Dear Pat, The dinner we shared the other night–it was absolutely lovely! Not in my wildest dreams could I ever imagine anyone as perfect as you are. Could you–if only for a moment–think of our being together forever? What a cruel joke to have you come into my life only to leave again; it would be heaven denied. The possibility of seeing you again makes me giddy with joy. I face the time we are apart with great sadness. John P.S.: I would like to tell you that I love you. I can’t stop thinking that you are one of the prettiest women on earth. ------------------------- My Dear, Pat the dinner we shared the other night. It was absolutely lovely–not! In my wildest dreams, could I ever imagine anyone? As perfect as you are, could you–if only for a moment–think? Of our being together forever: what a cruel joke! To have you come into my life only to leave again: it would be heaven! Denied the possibility of seeing you again makes me giddy. With joy I face the time we are apart. With great “sadness,” John P.S.: I would like to tell you that I love you. I can’t. Stop thinking that you are one of the prettiest women on earth. |
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Post by The Anarch on Aug 1, 2013 16:42:32 GMT
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Post by GK Sierra on Aug 1, 2013 17:27:58 GMT
You have a brain like Einstein. You have a brain, like Einstein. By Jove, it does work! |
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Post by stef1987 on Aug 1, 2013 20:32:23 GMT
does everyone here reads the same stuff I do? cause it seems that way. anyway, Bet you a shiny nickle that this is cannon in Tom's head. The only comic I know of where cannon in things' heads is normal, is Girl Genius. I have absolutely no idea what you mean by that sentence; "cannon in things' heads", what? Also, now we're on the subject, I can't believe I'm still reading girl genius, it suddenly went downhill when they entered castle heterodyne, and it's been rubbish ever since, I guess I just hope it becomes good again :s |
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Post by warrl on Aug 1, 2013 20:45:44 GMT
Cannon or canon? One letter makes all the difference. :-) Somewhere on the internet there is floating around, a comparison of two letters. One letter is a declaration of love and devotion and the other is a declaration of indifference and rejection. The only things different in the two letters are the punctuation and formatting. Otherwise, the two letters have exactly the same words, in exactly the same order. To quote an old sunblock advert, "yes, there is indeed a difference". ;-) Let's eat Grandma! Let's eat, Grandma! Commas save lives. |
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Post by warrl on Aug 1, 2013 20:48:56 GMT
does everyone here reads the same stuff I do? cause it seems that way. anyway, The only comic I know of where cannon in things' heads is normal, is Girl Genius. I have absolutely no idea what you mean by that sentence; "cannon in things' heads", what? Follow the link. There's a construct with cannon in its head. This isn't the first time in the comic that there have been things with cannon in their heads. I disagree, but there's no point in arguing personal taste. |
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Post by Mezzaphor on Aug 1, 2013 21:31:50 GMT
now I really wanna find that. My Dear Pat, The dinner we shared the other night–it was absolutely lovely! Not in my wildest dreams could I ever imagine anyone as perfect as you are. Could you–if only for a moment–think of our being together forever? What a cruel joke to have you come into my life only to leave again; it would be heaven denied. The possibility of seeing you again makes me giddy with joy. I face the time we are apart with great sadness. John P.S.: I would like to tell you that I love you. I can’t stop thinking that you are one of the prettiest women on earth. ------------------------- My Dear, Pat the dinner we shared the other night. It was absolutely lovely–not! In my wildest dreams, could I ever imagine anyone? As perfect as you are, could you–if only for a moment–think? Of our being together forever: what a cruel joke! To have you come into my life only to leave again: it would be heaven! Denied the possibility of seeing you again makes me giddy. With joy I face the time we are apart. With great “sadness,” John P.S.: I would like to tell you that I love you. I can’t. Stop thinking that you are one of the prettiest women on earth. There's also the apocryphal story of the woman who found a really nice but expensive necklace, and sent a telegram to her husband to ask if it was okay to buy it. His intended reply was "NO. PRICE TOO HIGH", but the telegraph company sent it as "NO PRICE TOO HIGH". The husband sued the telegram company and won. |
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Post by GK Sierra on Aug 2, 2013 1:11:25 GMT
You have a heart like a lion!
You have a heart. Like a lion.
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Post by legion on Aug 2, 2013 7:43:33 GMT
I found one where changing the punctation doesn't do a thing:
You paint like Hitler.
You paint, like Hitler.
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Post by Ophel on Aug 2, 2013 8:29:29 GMT
I found one where changing the punctation doesn't do a thing: You paint like Hitler. You paint, like Hitler. Ahax! Because he was painter once! Also Godwin's Law, though this is an inappropriate use the law. (I just wanted to point out that, inevitably, Hitler/Nazi. Did not mean to offend.) |
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Post by csj on Aug 2, 2013 8:33:55 GMT
Anyone else waiting for Gay Pride Reynard?
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Post by GK Sierra on Aug 2, 2013 11:18:09 GMT
I found one where changing the punctation doesn't do a thing: You paint like Hitler. You paint, like Hitler. History would have been so much smoother if that snooty art academy had just admitted him. So he couldn't draw faces and figures, so what? His landscapes were very developed. |
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Post by legion on Aug 2, 2013 11:32:49 GMT
Well, the problem with the whole "time travel to kill Hitler/make him a succesful painter" thing is that Hitler didn't create the Nazi party; that party existed and Hitler joined it at some point; had he not done so, the party would still have existed with mostly the same ideas and agenda, in the same historical context. The process and outcome of world war II may then have been sensibly different, but it's unlikely that it would have not happened, and not necessarily in a better way (imagine a world where the German-Poland negotiations succeeded, and World War II started not with Germany and the USSR conjointly invading Poland, but with Poland and Germany conjointly invading the USSR; western Europe and the US manage not to get involved at first, leaving Japan, Germany, Poland, Finland and Turkey to divide up most of Asia between themselves, and instead of communism, we face eurasian fascism during the cold war…)
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Post by The Anarch on Aug 2, 2013 15:16:48 GMT
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Post by Per on Aug 2, 2013 16:05:41 GMT
Guys. You're not seeing the opportunity.
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Post by The Anarch on Aug 2, 2013 16:44:34 GMT
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Post by thedoomblahsong on Aug 2, 2013 17:31:48 GMT
 Let's never visit this alternate universe again. But we just got here! >:D   |
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Post by GK Sierra on Aug 2, 2013 18:03:53 GMT
James: unsettled by Antimony's confidence. the one that really made me bust up was Robot smiling, oh god that is too much... |
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Post by thedoomblahsong on Aug 4, 2013 2:47:50 GMT
nother one for y'all  |
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Post by dante on Aug 5, 2013 1:57:18 GMT
Haha, Jones remains dour even in the chippergunnerverse.
That last panel of Antimony + Eglamore is just incredible btw.
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Post by thedoomblahsong on Aug 6, 2013 22:59:37 GMT
That last panel of Antimony + Eglamore is just incredible btw. I think it's really cool how all I had to do was paste on smiles and the scene still works perfectly. |
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Post by Señor Goose on Aug 7, 2013 7:45:10 GMT
Yeah, SMBC! I read it every day. |
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melkior
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Post by melkior on Aug 7, 2013 16:44:24 GMT
There's a difference?  |
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Post by Per on Aug 9, 2013 12:20:56 GMT
 Here I particularly appreciate Tom's ability to unequivocally convey so much with no words. Eglamore's internal struggle whether to strangle Reynardine here and now or wait until they're in the basement is plain as day on his face and could be nothing else. |
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Post by GK Sierra on Aug 9, 2013 18:09:36 GMT
 And so they drank |
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Post by thedoomblahsong on Aug 16, 2013 1:39:08 GMT
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Post by dante on Aug 17, 2013 5:46:48 GMT
My own clone!
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Rafael
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Post by Rafael on Aug 17, 2013 14:27:32 GMT
But which one is the original, and which one the robot? How will we know?
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How will they?
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Post by tarodar on Aug 17, 2013 15:05:09 GMT
The real question is why is there not more of this yet!!!
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Post by Per on Aug 17, 2013 17:34:16 GMT
Paz is totally fine with this situation.  (Fun fact: I was going to do this before I did the multi-Paz one, but it seemed like much more work.)
(Fun fact 2: Try thinking that the line in Paz's face isn't her mouth but the shadow under her nose and she's looking kind of bored. I think it's easier with the other versions though.) |
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