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palio
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 5:41 pm    Post subject: Life After College Reply with quote
This is so funny!
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 12:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'll never move back home!

by the way, Dale and David,

are either of you considering graduate school?
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 11:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I love how the last panel has no punctuation. Gold!
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
What i coincidence. Totally about to say that and compare it to God and the Devil in Dinosaur Comics Smile
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dale
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 4:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Romantic wrote:
I'll never move back home!

by the way, Dale and David,

are either of you considering graduate school?


I am considering graduate school in my darkest hours,

But I promised myself one novel first, at least, before I laze in the glades of academe
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Was the period in the last panel just added? I think it worked better without it.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yes, I added the period after several people praised its absence.

Someone explain to me why it's funnier the other way. It looks careless to me. If the text were hand-written and thereby showed more variation, it would be easier for me to imagine.
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Romantic
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 1:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
A sentence without a period sounds less legit,

to me, the effect was that the parents were yelling after him

and he was not listening, or gone.

The period you added makes the parents' voice louder,

so the boy had to go back and retrieve his sandwich.

It changes the whole ending.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 4:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
david wrote:
Yes, I added the period after several people praised its absence.

Someone explain to me why it's funnier the other way. It looks careless to me. If the text were hand-written and thereby showed more variation, it would be easier for me to imagine.

I liked that it detached the last panel. This might not have been the effect that you shot for, but the lack of a period makes people read it in a different tone. It's similar to the effect in Alicia, where the last panel is detatched by a "So, anyway".

Really, the period doesn't feel right for me since it had no period before. That, and I initially read this episode as more "wacky" since I thought of it as a commercial for a Grad school that gets jolted back into reality when it would normally cut to a montage of the school.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 6:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ryan wrote:
I love how the last panel has no punctuation. Gold!


The mighty Ryan North, reduced to naught but mere plastic grass!
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 4:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I am unilaterally against absense of punctuation in type. Careless, wicked things.
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