Doing The Twist 2015-12-07
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Re: Doing The Twist 2015-12-07
Would that be a clueless epiphany?
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Re: Doing The Twist 2015-12-07
At least we haven't gone the Shakira "Hips Don't Lie" route - yet.
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Re: Doing The Twist 2015-12-07
"She's got le-e-egs... don't know how to use them..."
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Re: Doing The Twist 2015-12-07
Atsali is trying, sometimes very trying.
I ride my bike to ride my bike, and sometimes it takes me where I need to go.
Re: Doing The Twist 2015-12-07
Shouldn't that be brains?Lee M wrote:"She's got le-e-egs... don't know how to use them..."
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Yeah... it's a bullet. Sorry.
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Re: Doing The Twist 2015-12-07
That too.DilyV wrote:Shouldn't that be brains?Lee M wrote:"She's got le-e-egs... don't know how to use them..."
The paper maker is the basest of all creatures. He deprives the beggar of his rags to make white sheets for editors to lie on.
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Re: Doing The Twist 2015-12-07
Time to take a cue from Mathnet, and play "What Do We Know?"
We know Leggy is not a literalized Nether Region, and neither is she the fear of not reading faces. She is very intelligent, and actually quite expressive. Atsali's getting quite good at communication with her, no?
We know that last time we saw one of Dev's Shadow Games, when it's multiple people, each person will perceive it differently within the same environment.
We know from Cricket's reaction, and sage advice, she has some experience with it. Stemming from her own Glamour abuse, maybe?
We know Atsali is a good-hearted person, so she should be fairly safe. She just needs to apologize for snowballing Devyn's little get-together.
We know Leggy is not a literalized Nether Region, and neither is she the fear of not reading faces. She is very intelligent, and actually quite expressive. Atsali's getting quite good at communication with her, no?
We know that last time we saw one of Dev's Shadow Games, when it's multiple people, each person will perceive it differently within the same environment.
We know from Cricket's reaction, and sage advice, she has some experience with it. Stemming from her own Glamour abuse, maybe?
We know Atsali is a good-hearted person, so she should be fairly safe. She just needs to apologize for snowballing Devyn's little get-together.
Re: Doing The Twist 2015-12-07
I've been trying to figure out a way of describing Atsali's conversational style at times like this. The best I've come up with is a pinball machine. The topic bounces back and forth between points of brilliance, total irrelevance, complete silliness, Zen wisdom, and ponies. The machine is located on a boat on a storm-tossed ocean, the gravity is variable, the ball is a Superball with jumping-bean ancestry, and the player has had a truly excessive number of iced double mochas.lake_wrangler wrote:Would that be a clueless epiphany?
Everybody in her life is in for a very interesting time!
Re: Doing The Twist 2015-12-07
I'd say it's more like Irish Coffees . . . or maybe Creme de Meth(amphetamine) . . .Dave wrote:I've been trying to figure out a way of describing Atsali's conversational style at times like this. The best I've come up with is a pinball machine. The topic bounces back and forth between points of brilliance, total irrelevance, complete silliness, Zen wisdom, and ponies. The machine is located on a boat on a storm-tossed ocean, the gravity is variable, the ball is a Superball with jumping-bean ancestry, and the player has had a truly excessive number of iced double mochas.lake_wrangler wrote:Would that be a clueless epiphany?
Isn't that normal?Dave wrote:Everybody in her life is in for a very interesting time!
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Re: Doing The Twist 2015-12-07
Am I the odd one for noticing Atsali just engaged in a full-on grab-ass? That can't be...
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He's mister exploiter, he's mister ones and zeros
They call me GlytchMeister, whatever I touch
Starts to glitch in my clutch!
I'm too much!
Re: Doing The Twist 2015-12-07
Maybe Atsali will learn to read non-facial clues.
Re: Doing The Twist 2015-12-07
I got yer metaphor right here, kid!
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Re: Doing The Twist 2015-12-07
One apparently needs arms to wield a clue-by-4.
I see legs and a certain little dog commiserating.
I see legs and a certain little dog commiserating.
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Re: Doing The Twist 2015-12-07
Really? Pray tell, what ELSE is there to grab? Seriously...GlytchMeister wrote:Am I the odd one for noticing Atsali just engaged in a full-on grab-ass? That can't be...
I've met people like her... she's so intelligent she is STUPID!!! Somehow her common sense got side-railed by her attention deficit disorder... "LOOK OUT PEOPLE, HERE COMES THE HIGH-IQ EXPRESS- DON'T KNOW WHERE WE'RE GOING, BUT NO SENSE IN BEING LATE!!!"
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Re: Doing The Twist 2015-12-07
So its not just facial expressions she cant read, its body language as well.
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Re: Doing The Twist 2015-12-07
Gotta cut her some slack... 'Sali doesn't have the full Berlitz body-speak course in front of her, just the traveler's "handy phrase" pamphlet.oldmanmickey wrote:So its not just facial expressions she cant read, its body language as well.
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Re: Doing The Twist 2015-12-07
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Re: Doing The Twist 2015-12-07
Wow... He managed to get through the whole thing in a weekend????Gyrrakavian wrote:"This comic is very very strange. No wonder you like it."
I recently introduced a friend to wapsi square. Guess who caught up over the weekend?
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"You should never run from the voices in your head. That's how you give them power." - Jin
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Re: Doing The Twist 2015-12-07
I'm feeling increasingly sorry for 'Legs'. She / they / it is trying to deal with someone who is very intelligent and very thick at the same time, and the problems of communicating non-verbally made even worse because Atsali keeps going off on her own tangents.