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Title: Non-bostoned?
Post by: mbarker on August 26, 2010, 04:42:21 AM: Today's strip says "The maps we got from Kerchak are recent and non-bostoned, right down to allocation of forces." What's "non-bostoned"? I don't recognize that term, I think? I know Boston, MA...
Title: Re: Non-bostoned?
Post by: Peter Ahlstrom on August 26, 2010, 06:10:37 AM: Yeah I didn't get it either.
Title: Re: Non-bostoned?
Post by: Shivertongue on August 26, 2010, 07:19:40 AM: Was there supposed to be a footnote or something beneath it? I'm seeing a broken image link under the strip...
Title: Re: Non-bostoned?
Post by: mbarker on August 26, 2010, 10:37:22 AM: Quote from: Shivertongue on August 26, 2010, 07:19:40 AM
Was there supposed to be a footnote or something beneath it? I'm seeing a broken image link under the strip...

Good catch. In the source, it looks as if there's
<img src="/comics/schlock20100826b.txt">
which doesn't seem to work?
Title: Re: Non-bostoned?
Post by: Peter Ahlstrom on August 27, 2010, 04:48:57 AM: I told Howard on Twitter, and it's fixed now.
Title: Re: Non-bostoned?
Post by: happyman on August 27, 2010, 02:40:18 PM: As a newcomer to Boston (1 year now), I fully endorse both uses of the term as defined in the footnote. GPS is God's way of telling Boston that you should never let cows design roads.
Title: Re: Non-bostoned?
Post by: Juan Dolor on February 26, 2011, 10:39:15 PM: Cows didn't design Boston roads. Drunken Puritans designed Boston roads. Cows would have done a much better job.