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June 27th - Platform Nine and Three Quarters
« on: June 27, 2005, 06:54:58 am »
More Philippesploitation. The alt-text leads me to believe the soda bottles were full? No wonder Teodor looks so startled in the last panel.
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« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2005, 07:06:27 am »
Téodor notes that he can't get past the hallway with the soda bottles in the way. A part of me wonders if they're too heavy for him to lift and move aside.
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« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2005, 07:33:42 am »
It is now the hobby of the household to trick Phillipe into slamming headlong into the wall. I am not surprised that Lyle has followed Lie Bot down this particular path... but I am a bit surprised he knows enough about Harry Potter to pull this one off.

(also my choice for thread title would have been "Shaddup, you!")
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« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2005, 08:00:24 am »
Quote from: "toddster"
(also my choice for thread title would have been "Shaddup, you!")


It really wasn't a very quotable comic, for sure.

Teodor seems like the type who would simply complain out loud about minor obstacles impeding his progress instead of actually taking some initiative and doing anything about it.
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« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2005, 09:11:48 am »
Lyle is one of those guys that secretly quite likes Harry Potter but would never admit it.
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June 27th - Platform Nine and Three Quarters
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2005, 10:07:25 am »
I didn't get the Harry Potter reference in this strip.  I don't know anything about Harry Potter.
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« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2005, 11:44:19 am »
Yeah, can someone help me out so I don't have to Google for Harry Potter things and fulfill the prophechy of that other thread?
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« Reply #7 on: June 27, 2005, 11:48:04 am »
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Yeah, can someone help me out so I don't have to Google for Harry Potter things and fulfill the prophechy of that other thread?

Platform 9 3/4 is a train platform at Kings Cross station in London that only the magic people can see.  It's where you board the train that takes you to Hogwarts, where Harry Potter goes to school.

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« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2005, 01:00:32 pm »
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Platform 9 3/4 is a train platform at Kings Cross station in London that only the magic people can see.  It's where you board the train that takes you to Hogwarts, where Harry Potter goes to school.


To be more accurate, no one can see it, not even the magic people.  It looks like a blank wall, and you have to run headlong at the right spot and you'll pass through the wall and come out on the platform.

(Hi, I'm a Harry Potter geek.)

The alt-text TOTALLY made this strip for me, by the way.
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« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2005, 01:01:12 pm »
What's more, to get on it you have to walk through a wall, or at least what looks like a wall to non-magic types.

Must be Abuse Philippe Week.
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« Reply #10 on: June 27, 2005, 01:13:49 pm »
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Lyle is one of those guys that secretly quite likes Harry Potter but would never admit it.


I can just see him at the bookstore at midnight next month, dressed like a wizard but looking over his shoulder ever 5 seconds.
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« Reply #11 on: June 27, 2005, 03:02:00 pm »
This strip is actually quite funny, but it made absolutely no sense to me until I came here to read the explanation. Is that a Good Thing or a Bad Thing?
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« Reply #12 on: June 27, 2005, 03:35:44 pm »
I'm a Penny-Arcade fan.  I'm used to being unable to understand a joke until I read a bit of backstory or fire up a Googleotron.  It's kind of silly to have to do research before you laugh at a joke, but then Beetle Bailey is accessible by all and requires no cultural knowledge whatsoever.  Hey look, the Sarge is beating him up again!

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« Reply #13 on: June 27, 2005, 03:51:41 pm »
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It's kind of silly to have to do research before you laugh at a joke, but then Beetle Bailey is accessible by all and requires no cultural knowledge whatsoever.  Hey look, the Sarge is beating him up again!


I've said it before, and I'll say it again - Beetle Bailey is underrated.
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« Reply #14 on: June 27, 2005, 05:18:12 pm »
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again - Beetle Bailey is underrated.

They lost me when Halftrack got brought up on harrasement charges.

"Underrated."  Ok, it's not quite as lame as Cathy.  There are you happy?

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