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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on April 05, 2021, 02:26:27 pm ---Does anyone do the crosswords that have started appearing on the back page? I fill them out about halfway by the time my next issue comes.
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No, but I can see why they wanted to switch it up. Those cartoon captions were getting pretty lame.
I've probably said this, but one reason hard they're hard to produce good captions for is that the pictures are of absurd situations. Whereas most professional cartoons in the magazine show people walking down the street or sitting in their living room talking. I can see why these would be hard for amateurs to caption, but often they have to resort to kind of silly stretches.
Jeff Wrangler:
I recommend the knitting story in the March 29 issue. It includes the origin story of the pussyhats. :D
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on April 05, 2021, 02:30:36 pm ---No, but I can see why they wanted to switch it up. Those cartoon captions were getting pretty lame.
I've probably said this, but one reason hard they're hard to produce good captions for is that the pictures are of absurd situations. Whereas most professional cartoons in the magazine show people walking down the street or sitting in their living room talking. I can see why these would be hard for amateurs to caption, but often they have to resort to kind of silly stretches.
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They still have the cartoon captions on the next-to-last page with the crossword on the last page.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on April 06, 2021, 06:33:15 pm ---They still have the cartoon captions on the next-to-last page with the crossword on the last page.
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Oh, I know, I saw those. But they're not in as prominent a place, and if they do feel like phasing them out that would be a subtler way to do it.
Front-Ranger:
I'm watching Ken Burns' latest oeuvre, a documentary about Hemingway, inspired by its review in this week's issue.
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