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  • Freefall: A Rubber Duck

    From John Savard@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 10 21:39:50 2024
    The current strip, whose permanent link I believe to be

    http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff4100/fc04060.htm

    has Florence speaking of a "rubber duck", the sort of yellow plastic
    floating toy common in the bath in North America, as something one
    talks to, when an answer is not expected.

    This reminded me of the song from which I learned that in France, it's
    usually a red plastic fish that plays this role (un poisson rouge)...

    Ed Sullivan thought that Elvis Presley's hips were too sexy for
    television. This young lady has them beat...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX5pLwHbllg

    John Savard

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat May 11 09:13:29 2024
    On Fri, 10 May 2024 21:39:50 -0600, John Savard
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    The current strip, whose permanent link I believe to be

    http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff4100/fc04060.htm

    404 Not Found

    Lynn's link works.

    Both on Saturday 5/11/24.

    has Florence speaking of a "rubber duck", the sort of yellow plastic
    floating toy common in the bath in North America, as something one
    talks to, when an answer is not expected.

    This reminded me of the song from which I learned that in France, it's >usually a red plastic fish that plays this role (un poisson rouge)...

    Ed Sullivan thought that Elvis Presley's hips were too sexy for
    television. This young lady has them beat...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX5pLwHbllg

    John Savard
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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  • From John Savard@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat May 11 12:40:47 2024
    On Fri, 10 May 2024 23:55:19 -0500, Lynn McGuire
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Until Monday, the webcomic URL is:
    http://freefall.purrsia.com/

    And that explains why that page didn't contain a link to the permalink
    - unlike some webcomic sites, the page isn't at the permalink even
    when it's today's page and visible from the today's page page. I
    should have checked.

    John Savard

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  • From Mad Hamish@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun May 12 22:17:59 2024
    On Fri, 10 May 2024 21:39:50 -0600, John Savard
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    The current strip, whose permanent link I believe to be

    http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff4100/fc04060.htm

    has Florence speaking of a "rubber duck", the sort of yellow plastic
    floating toy common in the bath in North America, as something one
    talks to, when an answer is not expected.

    This reminded me of the song from which I learned that in France, it's >usually a red plastic fish that plays this role (un poisson rouge)...

    Ed Sullivan thought that Elvis Presley's hips were too sexy for
    television. This young lady has them beat...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX5pLwHbllg


    Rubber ducking is based on the common experience that talking to
    somebody about your code helps you to see why it's not working
    Various people find that talking to a rubber duck works as well as
    talking to a person about it

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