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   Linguist said, 4 months ago

   Ya gotta be in it for the Big Picture !
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   Clark Kent said, 4 months ago

   Can you say delusional? I knew you could.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago

   Funny such ideas just aren’t on demand. You have to come up with them. Something has to get your mind going. Furrows in a field lead to the scanning CRT for television.
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   annieb1012 said, 4 months ago

   Kids???! How, exactly, and with whom?
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   DylanThomas3.14159 said, 4 months ago

   Is this Sunday strip a flashback? It can’t be a rerun, since it’s copyrighted ©2013, which would be January of this year at the oldest.
   

   
   So if it’s a flashback, then how come this younger, earlier, college-age Jeff is so idealistic?
   

   
   And Zip is even more idealistic than Jeff! He wants to “be changing the way people LIVE!” I can’t believe this! Even though Clark Kent is absolutely right: he’s “delusional”!
   

   
   And not only can I not believe this, I’m confused. Terribly so.
   

   
   Help!
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   DylanThomas3.14159 said, 4 months ago

   @Night-Gaunt49

   “Funny such ideas just aren’t on demand.”
   

   
   Funny you should say that, Night-Gaunt. In fact, Einstein came up with his idea for general relativity by daydreaming about riding or flying alongside a light-beam (or a photon) at the speed of light. He wasn’t thought of as much in university. Even with his newly minted PhD he couldn’t find a job in Europe as a university prof! And he had to come up with his “fool idea” (first special, then general relativity) AS A LOWLY PATENT CLERK IN SWITZERLAND and in his spare time! Go figure! And figure! And then figure some more!
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   frumdebang said, 4 months ago

   @DylanThomas3.14159

   I’m pretty sure that’s not Jeff, just a generic red-haired student.
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   gmartin997 said, 4 months ago

   I’ve heard of thinking outside the box, but this guy is completely out of his mind. It’s all baloney,of course.
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   DylanThomas3.14159 said, 4 months ago

   @frumdebang

   Don’t you mean a “genetic” red-haired student? Which would then still be Jeff?
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    Borntalkingback said, 4 months ago

    @DylanThomas3.14159

    I don’t think it’s Jeff. Just some student.
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    DylanThomas3.14159 said, 4 months ago

    @Borntalkingback

    Has this student been introduced? How is he then suddenly a confident of Zipper Harris? And who is this so-called “just some student” in the world of the 30-year-old Jeff of the here and now? If you’re really right, then something is seriously amiss with this comic strip.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago

    Those look like two people one more idealistic than the other who is on the wrong track about creativity and “changing the way people live.”
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    wildchildhernandez said, 4 months ago

    Nose is all wrong for it to be Jeff.
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    DylanThomas3.14159 said, 4 months ago

    @wildchildhernandez

    Nose variable.
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    Mike31g said, 4 months ago

    @DylanThomas3.14159

    Definately not Jeff, Z is talking to a different student.
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