THE BONUS STORY ARC COMIC CONTINUES! PAGE 9 IS LIVE!
After two years of what the movie folks call ‘development hell’, the Car Wash bonus comic is ready for release! I initially planned this thing to be a print-only comic that would conclude Puck Volume 2, but then Puck Volume Two never really happened due to low (to no) demand, so now I’m putting it as a voting incentive! Yay! Every week will bring a new page, and new pages will be dropping all summer, so please…
VOTE TO WASH THAT CAR REAL GOOD!
Canoodling is a weird word… I wonder where it comes from?
In any case, difficult choice for the teens, on one hand, Tyler’s mother will probably skin Daphne if she goes to Tyler’s house, but on the other hand, if they’re at Daphne’s place, they have to put up with shipper on deck Puck.
Hard choice.
He’s using it because its got most of “CANADA” in it.
@Pat
Hit the nail on the head !
Canoodling is the best word. And part of being a teenager is a crushing lack of privacy and/or appropriate places to hang. It’s what makes it special. And “shipper on deck Puck” is perhaps the best description ever. She has been weirdly invested in these two hooking up since … ever.
@EG
My human pet, Baldie, tells me his purchase of a Chevy Van was the best decision he ever made.
That is one approach. But then you’re a van guy.
@EG
Baldie sure is a Van Guy.
Even tho he’s owned but one, four decades past.
His former cat sat on his lap as he drove the Hinterlands. Content.
Not me, tho.
I don’t stand for such nonsense.
@ThisGuy
Apparently, CANOODLE dates from 1859 (somewhat recent).
Another made-up foolish word, like “Bumbershoot”. Which no one, ever, really seriously called the Umbrella.
PUCK – The Web Comic for Language Scholars
Made up or not, it’s a good word.
I remember when I was little. Once a year we’d go out to the fields to harvest the new words when they were ripe. Those were natural, wholesome words. Nothing made up, they came straight from the earth.
All words are made up. Just a question of when.
I worked whit this really pretentious ass that used Bumbershoot because he thought that’s what they called them in England. Boy did he lose it when I told him it was really a slang term from The Pacific North-West.
@Zorn
TRUTH
Bumbershoot – A Fake Word
West coast loggers (call ’em lumberjacks at your peril) were a motley crew, many from the white pine forests of the Great Lakes. Red River Lumber, originally from Akeley Minnesota, relocated to Northeastern California after they depleted the forests around their original site and founded the city of Westwood, on the way between the Feather River Headwaters and Susanville to the east. Their ad man, Wm. Laughead, created the contemporary image we have of Paul Bunyan, in which he depicted Paul with bumbershoots on his feet to keep the inverted rain from running up his trouser legs.
Read all about it in Robert Hanft’s _Red River_.
@ ThisGuy
Is skinning and mounting Jackals legal in Northland ?
Sadly, intimacy between HUMANS (Tyler) and pseudo-animals (Daffy) is legal, tho.
You could have oodles of canoodles…
@Robert Nowall
CANOODLE = CANNED NOODLES
yuck
Hardly “Al Dente” ( a good friend of Baldie ).
I like Al, tho I enjoy biting him when he visits.
… the whole kit and caboodle! ^_^
Put their noodles together and canoodle. Toodles.
@Robert Nowall
I adore any word that uses OO within it.
They are all silly.
😛
PUCK – The Foremost Web Comic for BOOB lovers.
The WORD, you filthy dogs. Not the images.
@Hironon
Baldies took me to BJ’S WHOLESALE today.
(no animals are allowed, so he puts me in a disguise. I am a really ugly baby. People make the oddest faces when they realize the horror. We both giggle.)
We spied a full case of canned Chef Boy-Are-Dee ravioli, at an excellent price !
He sez it is way too hawt to cook on the range, but as soon as it cools down, we’re buying it.
I cannot waite.
😛
if i was there, I’d use a stage hook on Puck so the teens can have some alone time.
All homes need a stage hook that can drag parents off at all those awkward moments.
Puck should know. She was there for the Montague and Capults. A.k.a Romeo & Juliette.
She is the expert.
Did I spell it right?
No. 🙂
Capulets.
@Opus the Poet
Pat prolly thinks the term is CATAPULTS !!
( oh wait, it was I who always thot that. I also thot the name was SEARS & ROBOT )
RE: Voting Incentive
“What are you really going to do with the cash ?”
“Not sharing any with you, dork.”
Well, of course not.
She may buy something for him. Two options: clothes SHE will wear but HE will appreciate … or clothes HE will wear and SHE will appreciate.
Unlikely. And this predates them dating, so … less likely.
@HKMaly
Obviously Daffy is spending every sou on Sexy Lingerie.
For TYLER of course !
(snicker-snacker)
@HKMaly
LOL !
(beat me too it)
Puck, ancient fairy of mood wrecking.
@Freezer
LOL !!!
🙂
That’s the politer term.
Well, things hadn’t escalated to where the “other term” fits.
Well in folk lore Puck is known as prankster, so yea that’s kind of her thing.
Puc (or Poc) ar buile == mad goat as Gaeilge”
At yew tewb see “watch?v=2zCRh78StwY”for Seamus Ennis and friends singing
“Ailliliú, puilliliú, ailliliú tá an puc ar buile!
Ailliliú, puilliliú,
Ailliliú
Tá an puc ar buile!
“
Freckles approve.
Proper teenagers shouldn’t let their mood be wrecked so easily.
Well, these are amateur teens at best.
Looks like they have the traditional problem of where to put the noses.
Made a little more awkward by the fact that Daphne’s is wet and cold.
@EG
Something wet and “COLD” ?
With these awful temperatures and humidity, I’m IN !
If I could not strut about naked year round, I’d be miserable. I’ve told my human pets, Baldie and Janet, simply to “Do as I Do”, and they’d be far more comfortable, yet they resist.
HUMANS !
Indeed, we human pets can be pretty stupid sometimes.
@Goody
It’s not as if very many actually look good nekkid.
I approve of Puck’s strategy… this is the surest way known to mankind for making sure this budding romance never gets past first base!
Well, if it survives this sort of thing, you know the love is true, at least.
I would see it more as test of how serious they are as well … because I don’t believe it would really stop them.
Granted, it may still be surest way, if you don’t count options “shoot him” and “shoot her”.
you make a valid point. HKMaly… The surest way that doesn’t involve murder, mayhem, or grievous bodily harm.
When I was a teen, my GF’s dad was kind of a fan of the “Grievous bodily harm” method…
I think the GBH method of dealing with your daughter’s boyfriends has lessened in an era where uttering death threats is often prime material for a lawsuit. So I think if this is the approach you choose, be sure there are no witnesses. And finish the job.
Thank you. This got an honest laugh/chuckle out of me.
Thumbs up for honest chuckles!
Daphne’s family sure is weirdly invested in her love life…
Puck, specifically, has been weirdly invested in shipping these two. Since they were, like, seven years old.
Wow, that is one frightening Puck face.
Well done.
She has a number of frightening faces to choose from.
YEEEESSSS!!!!! This is a momentous occasion! I don’t think I have been more happy for two fictional characters. The expressions (on everyone) are priceless.
Ooh, a momentous occassion? Didn’t expect that but I’ll TAKE IT!!!
You can not escape the eyes of Puck
She is nowhere … and everywhere at the same time.
Canned ravioli is alright, but nowhere near as good as the gourmet fresh stuff you can get these days.
I personally prefer frozen ravioli. The ‘fresh’ stuff, while good, by necessity must sit around on a shelf for a while before it goes in your pot. The frozen ravioli is frozen minutes after being made. You cook it up and it’s perfect. In my neck of the woods there’s a company called (fittingly) the “Ontario Ravioli Company Ltd.” and they make the best stuff. They’re based out of my city, actually, and their stuff is all lovingly flash frozen. Next best thing to homemade.
@EG
Ravioli in CANADA ?
(shocked face)
Next you will be claiming to know CANOLI.
1,000,000,000% agree. Luckily, we can get it in Ottawa.
Puck is like a ginger parental ninja these days.
“Ginger Parental Ninja” sounds like a terrible 90’s kids’ movie. It’d still watch it.
Puck may need a spatula from Spatula City to pry them apart…… but all in good time.
Does she really WANT to?
I don’t think she does.
As a nominally responsible adult-ish creature, I suppose Puck has to at least appear to be making an attempt at discouraging delinquent behaviors.
I’m just thrilled to see a Weird Al easter egg. =D
I put them in for my peeples.
Owwwww…..
Is there some sort of special pop-up trap door behind that couch? First there was Phoebe The Fashion Fairy Godmother, now Puck The Canoodle Commentator? (…I was going to say “Canoodle Cop” but she’s clearly not disapproving…)
All stages have at least one trap door. I think you’ve figured out where this one is located.
“noodling” is a term for catching catfish with your bare hands, so obviously “canoodling” is catching catfish with your bare hands from a canoe.
Wouldn’t be Canadian without a canoe, eh?
Been looking for a canoe joke. 🙂 *tips toque**
BTW. SalemCat will be getting all territorial on yer fuzzy butt in 3 . . 2 . . 1 . . 🙂
@Typeminer
One of my best friends looks a lot like George W. Harris, an odd name for such a handsome cat.
But I should talk.
If you’re catching a bottom feeder with your bare hands from a canoe, you’re not canoeing in very deep water. 😉
Oh, god–Puck don’t get involved.
But it’s a lot of fun. 🙂
She can’t help herself.
@Frank Harr
Is being a voyeur that much fun ?
Well, there is a Billion Dollar Industry based on that.
You’re a regular reader of a comic strip. You tell me.
And I meant it’s a lot of fun watching Puck.
Now, if Robin caught those two in fullin flagrante delicto, would she really be pleased ?
Many of us have come very close. Baldie more times than he can remember.
Now, if Robin caught those two in flagrante delicto, would she really be pleased ?
Many of us have come very close. Baldie more times than he can remember.
And not just alone.
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ARULUGA !
I think EG’s bot just banned my brilliant commentary on Chef-Boy-Are Dee !
It’s back.
EG, when you were working on this strip, did you doodle oodles of canoodles?
Oodles of canoodle doodles. And in some of them I gave Daphne curly hair so that they were oodles of poodle canoodle doodles.
HA! 🙂
This is reminiscent of the climactic scene of “Fox In Sox” (…the tweedle beetle noodle poodle bottle paddle battle….) which I must now go re-read…..toodles!
When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle’s on a poodle and the poodle’s eating noodles, they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.
I know that book pretty much by heart. And I can recite the whole thing without getting caught on any of the tongue twisters.
By the way, that’s a great stack of Canadian twenties.
Yep. If you added it all up, it might actually be worth an American twenty!
Usually, that would just be unnecessary. But I’m becoming afraid of a deflationary spiral, so . . . don’t have one of those. They’re not good.
Is Puck in cahoots Tyler’s mom to stop this relationship?
Different approach same results.
Forbidden teen love will survive all.
?!
!!
From the German “knuddeln” To cuddle. (?!)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/De-knuddeln.ogg For pronunciation.
I bailed on Patreon and you might want to think about it, too.
If you haven’t heard, Patreon is going to be crashing and burning, soon. They’ve already lost one court case after they were discovered tampering with Terms of Service after the fact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzsNQVk5YaQ
https://www.geeksandgamers.com/topic/patreon-suffers-massive-lawsuit-loss/
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1288868346859905024
I’ll sign up for SubscribeStar if you go that route.
Well, thanks for letting me know. I’ll have to see where the chips fall. But as of right now, it’s the de facto system and moving over to another platform would likely lose me most supporters. This is all news to me.
Puck has a very healthy attitude to S-E-X for a parent. Good on her! 🙂
Well, she’s always occupied more of a big sister role with Daphne. So that affects things. I suspect things might be decidedly different with Miranda.
I hear Panel 3 like the vocal air-horn effect Latin American soccer announcers use when announcing a goal:
CanOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOdling!
This is accurate.
Aha! I return! 😀
I have an unfortunate tendency to delete the wrong bookmarks by way of inaccurate mousing and too-quick clicking (on my many dozens of webcomic link lists long). I don’t realize I’ve done it until I open the dropdown list and the bookmark I THOUGHT I erased is still there… and I have zero idea what USED to be right next to it.
Throw in that I tend to not buy new laptops until the previous one is totally unusable, (meaning my webcomic list has to be rebuilt from memory… and my memory is not so great) …and I lost track of “Puck” for quite a while there. 🙁
Happy to have stumbled onto it on another webcomic’s banner ads once again!
Here seems to be the last comic I remember reading. I backed up a few story arcs to catch up, and will now continue on to the newest updates.
Thus the sudden surge of new comments all from one person. 😛
Well, enough babble! Onward I read! 😀
Glad to have you back, good sir. This comic doesn’t have many readers who comment, so the loss of a reader like yourself is felt like the loss of a regular at the local pub. Good to have you back.
If your comments system allowed some modest image embedding… pretend I replied with a moving gif of two beer mugs being tapped together in cheers! ^_^
(Hmm… actually, if I were reading on my iPhone –as I was last time– it’s clear I can include simple emoticons… now how do I achieve that with my Windows-based laptop? Hmm…)
I don’t know. I kinda wish WordPress had a better comments function.
💡
I believe those smiley face emoticons are just compatible ones within WP’s comment system.
As in, I select a 🙂 on my iphone, it sends it as plain text : ) , and WP converts that into it’s own :).
😎 So really, the best we can do is learn which emoticons/emoji WP has in it’s list, and stick to those, maybe even typing their text codes in directly to be sure, rather than risk your smartphone’s much larger emoji list having some not compatible with WP’s shorter list.
(I still wanted two clinking beer mugs as a “cheers”, but you can’t always get what you want in life…) 🙄
I believe this is that list: https://wordpress.com/support/emoji/#list-of-emoticons-that-convert-to-emoji
I can feel my own excitement growing.
Oh wait. No I can’t.
Aha, but see, there’s one where I put the period of the sentence too close to the :). And it failed to make a 🙂
Take note, fellow commenters.