Where Did You Go 2018-04-20
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Where Did You Go 2018-04-20
http://wapsisquare.com/comic/where-did-you-go-2/
Ouch, so Timmy was the twin who didn't make it in the other universe.
Ouch, so Timmy was the twin who didn't make it in the other universe.
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daylla apologizing for her ballistic re-entry.
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I think I saw this on .......... The TWILIGHT ZONE ! and Out of the Shadows steps Rod Serling and Digit says "Sir, You cannot SMOKE on School Property."
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Not necessarily. Just because he wasn't at the school doesn't mean he didn't exist.Cheesy1 wrote:http://wapsisquare.com/comic/where-did-you-go-2/
Ouch, so Timmy was the twin who didn't make it in the other universe.
The big question is why the height difference between Dustin and Timmy?
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Fraternal twins can have major differences well beyond height.Thor wrote:Not necessarily. Just because he wasn't at the school doesn't mean he didn't exist.Cheesy1 wrote:http://wapsisquare.com/comic/where-did-you-go-2/
Ouch, so Timmy was the twin who didn't make it in the other universe.
The big question is why the height difference between Dustin and Timmy?
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True. On the other hand, Daylla-1 did refer to Timmy by description ("I mean, you resemble and kinda sound like a friend of mine, but he's super-short and, well, alive!") and Dustin didn't respond in a way which suggested that he recognized the description at all (e.g. "Sure, you know my brother Timmy... of course you do!").Thor wrote:Not necessarily. Just because he wasn't at the school doesn't mean he didn't exist.Cheesy1 wrote:http://wapsisquare.com/comic/where-did-you-go-2/
Ouch, so Timmy was the twin who didn't make it in the other universe.
Also, there was no direct or indirect evidence that Timmy was at the ghost-recording session that Dustin attended... we didn't see him there and nobody referred to him.
Not definitive either way, it's true. We have no evidence at all that Timmy exists in Dustin's universe, but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Several possibilities:The big question is why the height difference between Dustin and Timmy?
- They could be fraternal twins - genetically just brothers - and as different as any to brothers might be. Fairly common.
- They might be fraternal half-brother twins... same mother, different fathers. This is not unknown in humans and is relatively common in some animals, where the woman/female mates with two or more partners and becomes pregnant simultaneously by more than one. We don't know enough about the sociology and biology of Timmy's and Dustin's species to estimate the likeliness of this.
- Timmy's mother might have been ill during pregnancy... something which resulted in the miscarriage or stillbirth of one twin, and affected the health or vigor the other. Timmy might literally be the runt of the litter.
- Combination of the second and third. One pregnancy, two fathers with different blood types, something like an Rh incompatibility reaction by the mother's immune system which kills one fetus and stunts the growth of the other.
- Authorial necessity... Paul needed a way of visually indicating that the two are related but distinct.
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"...and Danny DeVito as Timothy."Thor wrote:The big question is why the height difference between Dustin and Timmy?
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Not sure that works... Timothy isn't a spheniscimorph.AnotherFairportfan wrote:"...and Danny DeVito as Timothy."Thor wrote:The big question is why the height difference between Dustin and Timmy?
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They also could be semi-identical twins.Dave wrote: . . .Several possibilities:The big question is why the height difference between Dustin and Timmy?
- They could be fraternal twins - genetically just brothers - and as different as any to brothers might be. Fairly common.
- They might be fraternal half-brother twins... same mother, different fathers. This is not unknown in humans and is relatively common in some animals, where the woman/female mates with two or more partners and becomes pregnant simultaneously by more than one. We don't know enough about the sociology and biology of Timmy's and Dustin's species to estimate the likeliness of this.
- Timmy's mother might have been ill during pregnancy... something which resulted in the miscarriage or stillbirth of one twin, and affected the health or vigor the other. Timmy might literally be the runt of the litter.
- Combination of the second and third. One pregnancy, two fathers with different blood types, something like an Rh incompatibility reaction by the mother's immune system which kills one fetus and stunts the growth of the other.
- Authorial necessity... Paul needed a way of visually indicating that the two are related but distinct.
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Very interesting - thanks! That's an aspect of twinning that I don't think I'd ever heard of, or considered.FreeFlier wrote:They also could be semi-identical twins.