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dsneybuf (Not-So-Newbie)
#1: Aug 27th 2014 at 11:02:02 AM

Would anyone mind if I blanked out the text? It distracted me from the "raining cats and dogs" joke in the thought balloon.

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#2: Aug 27th 2014 at 12:19:51 PM

Honestly, I wouldn't mind to get an entirely new pic. At any rate, I disagree with the initial request as Amelia's dialogue ties into her thinking it's literally raining cats and dogs.

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#3: Aug 27th 2014 at 12:21:04 PM

Keep.

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#4: Aug 27th 2014 at 2:12:42 PM

A new image wouldn't be bad, (Amelia Bedelia has so many good possibilites!) but blanking the text? No.

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#5: Aug 27th 2014 at 2:46:11 PM

I think it works well as it is.

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#6: Aug 27th 2014 at 3:37:24 PM

[tdown] to OP suggestion.

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#8: Aug 27th 2014 at 4:04:37 PM

I don't think that's quite the trope.

..............But it is an absolutely golden photo, which I will be saving.

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Rethkir A Trusted Friend in Science and Ponies from the gap between dimensions Since: Mar, 2013
#10: Aug 27th 2014 at 9:09:52 PM

The one on Visual Pun is a good image of this trope, though moving it here wouldn't be worth leaving that page blank.

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#11: Aug 27th 2014 at 9:35:13 PM

We could theoretically move that pic to Literal-Minded, and replace it with 7 on Visual Pun. That way we get to use 7.

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#12: Aug 27th 2014 at 10:32:50 PM

That's actually not a bad idea. idea Way to make some lemonade. [tup]

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#13: Aug 27th 2014 at 10:35:40 PM

That does sound like a good idea.

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Rethkir A Trusted Friend in Science and Ponies from the gap between dimensions Since: Mar, 2013
#14: Aug 27th 2014 at 10:45:33 PM

Alternatively, this can go on When Life Gives You Lemons..., but that's a tough call.

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No, wait, that's not right.

edited 27th Aug '14 10:48:30 PM by Rethkir

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#15: Aug 28th 2014 at 12:00:44 AM

I dunno about moving images; each image seems to fit both tropes equally.

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#16: Aug 28th 2014 at 12:31:03 AM

I think the desert-combing pic illustrates Literal-Minded about as well as the current one, and it illustrates Visual Pun about as well as the lemon bag.

Just a matter of taste, really.

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#17: Aug 28th 2014 at 4:11:33 AM

[tdown] to any image shuffling; let's not make this more complicated than it has to be.

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#19: Sep 1st 2014 at 4:59:27 AM

I say just leave it. Shuffling stuff around just makes things waaaay more complicated than they need to be. Plus, the current picture illustrates the trope pretty well, I think. ^.^

EDIT: Do we wanna, like... put a crowner on this thing or something? Or just close the discussion since no one has posted in it since forever?

edited 11th Sep '14 2:55:23 AM by ReikoKazama

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#20: Sep 16th 2014 at 2:46:45 PM

I'd say to close it.

I think the current image works fine. Any dissent?

dsneybuf (Not-So-Newbie)
#21: Sep 16th 2014 at 4:21:44 PM

I don't mind if this becomes closed.

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#22: Sep 16th 2014 at 5:21:10 PM

I'm fine with going ahead and closing this.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#23: Sep 18th 2014 at 12:19:04 AM

I give my nod of agreement towards closing this.

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#24: Sep 18th 2014 at 1:24:54 AM

Locking up; I'll tag the page shortly.

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