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| | I'm pretty sure the five listeners represent the five generations between the {{w|Lost Generation}} (when {{w|Boater}} hats like the speaker is wearing were popular) and the Gen Z that he is talking about. The middle character with the flower in her hair is definitely a {{w|hippie}}, for the {{w|Baby boomers}}. I mentally associate the white {{w|Flat cap}} with post-WW2, which would be the {{w|Silent generation}}, although I'm not sure why I have that association. Extending this, the {{w|Millennial}} is the one saying "Gosh", the one in the black hat would be a {{w|Gen X|Gen Xer}} (no idea why), and the last one with the hairbun would be from the {{w|Greatest generation}}. I don't think I can describe those associations well enough to actually write it up, though. Does this view make sense to anyone else? -- [[User:Bobson|Bobson]] ([[User talk:Bobson|talk]]) 21:13, 18 August 2022 (UTC) | | I'm pretty sure the five listeners represent the five generations between the {{w|Lost Generation}} (when {{w|Boater}} hats like the speaker is wearing were popular) and the Gen Z that he is talking about. The middle character with the flower in her hair is definitely a {{w|hippie}}, for the {{w|Baby boomers}}. I mentally associate the white {{w|Flat cap}} with post-WW2, which would be the {{w|Silent generation}}, although I'm not sure why I have that association. Extending this, the {{w|Millennial}} is the one saying "Gosh", the one in the black hat would be a {{w|Gen X|Gen Xer}} (no idea why), and the last one with the hairbun would be from the {{w|Greatest generation}}. I don't think I can describe those associations well enough to actually write it up, though. Does this view make sense to anyone else? -- [[User:Bobson|Bobson]] ([[User talk:Bobson|talk]]) 21:13, 18 August 2022 (UTC) |
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| − | :I think that's an interesting interpretation, but I would invoke Occam's razor to suggest that the fashions depicted could all be from the early 1900s, and that the gathered crowd is composed of "small town salespeople in 1905" as the caption describes. I think if Randall wanted to make it clear they were from different generations, he would include more obvious cultural touchstones in their clothing or speech, and he wouldn't have them conversing with each other unless there were a reason to introduce time travel
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| − | I agree with the Elk Falls Journal correspondent. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 21:15, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
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| − | Is anyone else unable to load the page for comic 1962 when logged in? I can load it when logged out, but when I'm logged in I get an error. I pasted the error message to [[Talk:1962: Generations]]. --[[User:Orion205|Orion205]] ([[User talk:Orion205|talk]]) 23:24, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
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| − | I don't think French ever wrote "yaghurt". But it writes "yaourt". --[[Special:Contributions/172.71.130.127|172.71.130.127]] 07:12, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
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| − | The hats are: straw boater/skimmer, definitely of the 1905 period; perhaps homburg or fedora, mostly kind of the period; Greek fisherman’s cap, I say anachronistic. My impression is that such caps were popular in the 60s, 70s with men of the Greatest Generation. (Such as my father!) Randall has used that kind of hat to indicate elderly men in other comics, so maybe a joke? {{unsigned|BuckyE|15:35, 19 August 2022}}
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| − | : It's a cloth-type cap, but I think it far predates the '60s, etc. And while greek-sailors contemporary of '60s/'70s films do ring a bell, I had other classes and eras of person in mind.
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| − | : Anyway, if you look in [https://vintagedancer.com/1900s/1900s-mens-hat-styles-edwardian-era/ here in the Golf Caps section], and even a few of the images slightly above there, there seem to be styles which could have directly inspired what turned up to adorn the stick-figure heads in characature line-drawn form. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.61|162.158.34.61]] 20:25, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
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| − | I think all the characters are 1905 versions of the stock-characters in xkcd, I'd say from left to right they are White Hat, Megan, Black Hat, Science Girl, Cueball, and one more that I cannot figure out.[[Special:Contributions/172.69.69.208|172.69.69.208]] 18:50, 22 August 2022 (UTC)Bumpf
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| − | : OH DUH, THE LAST ONE IS HAIRBUN [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.193|162.158.62.193]] 22:25, 28 August 2022 (UTC)Bumpf
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| − | It is possible that the alt text is an actual quotation from a 1905 cookbook, based on a reference from a cooking blog [https://sharonkreider.com/2021/11/09/the-joy-of-cooking/], however, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine shows no record of this page from its 2021 archives, so it may be an elaborate retcon, including a dated comment from 2021. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.114.215|172.70.114.215]] 18:28, 1 September 2022 (UTC)Bill
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