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AnotherFairportfan wrote:

Thor wrote:

AnotherFairportfan wrote: You're assuming that Wapsi Time is one-to-one with real (hah) time.

I am doing no such thing. When Nadette and Atsali stopped in the coffee shop where Goat-Boy works, it was explicitly mentioned in dialogue that it was Winter Break. Atsali and Nadette's Anti-Matter Bomb Adventure happened right after they left the coffee shop. In today's strip, it is explicitly mentioned in dialogue that it is Spring Break. This is ALL Wapsi Time.

So unless Winter Break and Spring Break are a week apart in the Wapsiverse, it has been 3-4 months since Atsali intimidated Goat-Boy into meeting with her and Nadette get her heart broken. Given the canonical temporal reference points mentioned, there is no other way to interpret it.

You've missed the point i was making - Paul may be keeping the backgrounds (and dates mentioned in the story) consistent with the Real World while telling a story that is not in synch with the real world.

That is, while it's been a week or less in Wapsi Story Time , in the Real World the events are happening and the background setting has matched that.

As i said, i remember a Marvel story (Spider-Man, i think) whose internal action took less than a week - maybe only one or two days - that featured issues that mentioned/involved thr Fourth of July, Halloween, Christmas and New Year's Eve.

Paul is certainly doing some of that - how many winters has the cast been through vs. the number of years they have actually experienced?

Dave wrote: Also, the minicabbage is more commonly spelled "Brussels sprouts" rather than "Brussel sprouts". I don't think I've ever heard it used as a curse before, although many children do curse it.

Thor wrote:

AnotherFairportfan wrote: The number of winters would be hard to say without doing a careful archive scouring and count--which is not something I have time for at the moment.

And I'm not thoroughly convinced that Paul uses Marvel Time as a model. Can you point to any other solid reference, (outside of holiday one-panel fillers, obviously) that shows his elapsed time and calendar events not synching up? If there is anything, it should be around those holidays that the Wapsi characters were shown to observe in-continuity, like Saint Patrick's Day.

It would be interesting to know how many years the run of WS is supposed to cover. We know that Monica is (or recently was) 31 years old. Do we have any idea of her age at the time of the strip's beginning?

AnotherFairportfan wrote:...Monica was about sixteen when the comic began fifteen years ago.

GlytchMeister wrote:

AnotherFairportfan wrote:...Monica was about sixteen when the comic began fifteen years ago.

Woah. Duuude. Just had my mind blown with timey-wimey.

I guess I'm used to eternal comic characters. (like Dagwood, and Garfield, and that Foxtrot family)

Of course, Monica is eternal now, what with being the Jaguar Girl and a Sub-Titan and whatnot. The whole Pheonix blood resurrection dealie.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

GlytchMeister wrote:

AnotherFairportfan wrote:...Monica was about sixteen when the comic began fifteen years ago.

Woah. Duuude. Just had my mind blown with timey-wimey.

I guess I'm used to eternal comic characters. (like Dagwood, and Garfield, and that Foxtrot family)

Of course, Monica is eternal now, what with being the Jaguar Girl and a Sub-Titan and whatnot. The whole Pheonix blood resurrection dealie.

But she wasn't sixteen, is my point. She was already a curator at the museum, which means mid-twenties, minimum. (I can't recall if she has a PhD.)

So the fifteen years it's been for us are probably more like five or six for the characters.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

GlytchMeister wrote:

AnotherFairportfan wrote:...Monica was about sixteen when the comic began fifteen years ago.

Woah. Duuude. Just had my mind blown with timey-wimey.

I guess I'm used to eternal comic characters. (like Dagwood, and Garfield, and that Foxtrot family)

Of course, Monica is eternal now, what with being the Jaguar Girl and a Sub-Titan and whatnot. The whole Pheonix blood resurrection dealie.

But she wasn't sixteen, is my point. She was already a curator at the museum, which means mid-twenties, minimum. (I can't recall if she has a PhD.)

So the fifteen years it's been for us are probably more like five or six for the characters.

TazManiac wrote:I'm one heartbeat away from quoting Andre the Giant...

MerchManDan wrote:

TazManiac wrote:I'm one heartbeat away from quoting Andre the Giant...

"Anybody want a peanut?"

GlytchMeister wrote: (yes, I know, you can technically go to a bar under 21 and not drink booze, but c'mon, unless you're there as a designated driver or there to watch all the funny drunk idiots, you're there for the booze)

TazManiac wrote:

MerchManDan wrote:

TazManiac wrote:I'm one heartbeat away from quoting Andre the Giant...

"Anybody want a peanut?"

Uh oh, not Andre; Mandy Patinkin (Inigo Montoya is what I meant..)

This is all related to what -ever- they are selling as 'sushi'...

TazManiac wrote:

MerchManDan wrote:

TazManiac wrote:I'm one heartbeat away from quoting Andre the Giant...

"Anybody want a peanut?"

Uh oh, not Andre; Mandy Patinkin (Inigo Montoya is what I meant..)

This is all related to what -ever- they are selling as 'sushi'...

illiad wrote:

TazManiac wrote:

MerchManDan wrote: "Anybody want a peanut?"

Uh oh, not Andre; Mandy Patinkin (Inigo Montoya is what I meant..)

This is all related to what -ever- they are selling as 'sushi'...

that link is bad... got a good one?? or at least a ref. for search????

illiad wrote:

TazManiac wrote:
Uh oh, not Andre; Mandy Patinkin (Inigo Montoya is what I meant..)

This is all related to what -ever- they are selling as 'sushi'...

that link is bad... got a good one?? or at least a ref. for search????

TazManiac wrote:http://www.memes.com/inigo-montoya/

This is in ref to 'cooked sushi', and while there are some items that are cooked (like eel), mostly Sushi is known for not being so.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

TazManiac wrote:http://www.memes.com/inigo-montoya/

This is in ref to 'cooked sushi', and while there are some items that are cooked (like eel), mostly Sushi is known for not being so.

"mis-known"