The only thing worse than your own crying baby is someone else’s crying baby.
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Thanks, Daphne, now I have “Informer” stuck in my head!
Daphne says “You’re welcome.”
…I don’t recall seeing Phoebe snapping before. Correct me if I’m wrong!
…Now I’m curious what’d happen if Satan finds out…
$5 says he’ll realize that’s the most devious plan known to man (gather a bunch of babies and keep them up at night).
YOU’RE WELCOME IF YOU’RE USING THAT IDEA, GECKO!
Phoebe also snapped in strip #107, but it happens rarely. This is a special scenario that tests even the gentlest of souls. And that plan sounds just TOO evil for Satan.
Oh, wow. A Snow reference. What scares me is that I got it immediately.
Snow reference? I do not see it. None of the ladies talked about the weather we been getting around here. Mind you, it is not so much the snow as the brutal wind-chill values.
Not THAT snow. The other Snow. If you don’t get the ref, you’re probably better off.
A rapper from the 90s. Daddy Snow, performed the song “Informer”. Was actually kind of famous for you not being able to understand him. Chorus to the song went something like (In a Jamaican accent) “Informer, you no say Daddy snow me gonna’ blame! Licky Boom Boom Down! Detective man come say someone got stabbed down the lane! Licky Boom Boom Down!”
So, yeah. Daphne’s shirt is a reference to Snow.
I have to add three key pieces of information to this:
1) Snow was not from Jamaica
2) Snow was a white guy from Toronto
3) ‘Licky Boom Boom Down’ is meaningless nonsense.
I knew he was white, but I thought he was from Florida. Huh. Learn something new everyday.
You’re thinking of Vanilla Ice. He hailed from Miami. They’re easy to confuse.
Is that what he said?
When I was a kid I was sure it was about… well… I couldn’t make out most of it, but I was quite sure that the guy making the strange noises really wanted to “lick your bum bums now”.
That was, indeed, a popular interpretation at the time.
Number 2 explains why he was call Snow and 3 is an apt descriptions of all rap, IMHO. (Do ya get the feeling I don’t like rap? Sorry if you like it, though.)
@MviluUatusun: I love some rap. Not all. Cheesy 90’s rap is a guilty pleasure of mine.
I’m proud of you. I really am.
The ‘beauty sleep’ comment had me laughing so hard, my sides hurt. Thank you.
Glad I could be of sidesplitting assistance.
phoebe’s horns look like they hurt coming out of her head
I think they’re out 24/7. I doubt they’re retractable, and I don’t think they’re a seasonal thing where they drop off every year. Thought I’m not totally sure myself.
Those look like horns, like on goats, which grow slowly for the life of the animal, not antlers, like on deer, which grow for one season, drop off and regrow next year. Because both horns and antlers are used for sexual display and combat by males to impress the females, very few female animals has horns or antlers. The only exception I can think of is caribou or reindeer (the domesticated version of caribou), where the females also grow antlers, perhaps as a defence against predators.
I think Satan and his brood have horns mainly as an aesthetic thing. They just look cool.
A common image for Satan is actually coming from the Greek god Pan, whose appearance is a combination of human and bipedal goat. Sort of like a really large and divinely powerful satyr.
As the Roman Catholic church rose in prominence, they wanted an image for the devil, but there is no description in the bible that would portray the idea they wanted, so they grabbed Pan, with all his wild ways, to say that that was the devil. Thus a common image of the devil almost always has features that resemble the goat-human appearance of Pan.
Poor Pan. Getting a bad rap, and all because he just has a thing for hot nymphs.
actually the technical term for the discription of the god of the wild (I.E. pan) is in the greek a satry or in the roman a faun. either is a bipedal being with the lower half being the legs of either a goat or ram as they sometimes differed and the torso of a man with small horns barely discernable above their thick curly hair and many times the depictions included a goatee and pan flutes hung around the neck. also the depictions always specified cloven hoves incase anyone was wondering. so both the devil and santa were from pagan societty.
I can assure you that doe (female) goats have horns. I think cows do, too.
Well, I think it depends on the breed.
Washing her hair is probably an adventure.
I *love* Daphne’s shirts. You should start selling them.
Yeah. My own kid woke up about once an hour to demand being changed, fed, and burped. When he slept at all. I remember one time he cried for, like, three hours straight, and there was *no* getting him to stop. Finally, I just held him, and waited out the storm. On the one hand, thank the gods that’s over, on the other, I kind of miss those days. Nothing logical to it, so don’t ask me to explain. You’re a dad, too, so you know what I’m talking about.
I know exactly what you’re talking about. I’m actually long past this stage myself. My kids are seven and four, and the sleepless nights are a thing of the distant past. And yet doing this comic, forcing me to relive these experiences, has been a strangely pleasurable experience.
My youngest daughter just had her baby on the 19th, she got lucky and got a quiet one. But it kind of freaks her out that her baby is so quiet, and the babies very still when she sleeps. My daughter is getting less sleep than would be normal because she gets up constantly just to make sure her daughter is alive. She says she always thought that newborns were supposed to move and cry constantly and it freaks her out that hers doesn’t.
Well, sometimes you get a reprieve of two or three weeks, THEN the misery kicks in. They’re all different, aren’t they?
Foam rubber earplugs, right away…
Nothing can stop the piercing nightmare of BABY WAIL. Not walls, not ear plugs.
It’s actually scientifically proven that humans are designed to hear the exact frequencies of baby yells better than other sounds, a fact felines exploit mercilessly.
Given a choice between a crying cat and a crying baby, I’d actually take the baby.
Still has boobs. Is fine as is.
Glad you have standards.
Heh. I’ve heard of women who try to get up before their guy and put on make up, then slip back into bed.
Yes, I have few standards when it comes to judging a book by its (sleep deprived) cover. Consider me wretched!
And I bet little Miri will sleep all day, and only Puck will get any rest.
When newborn babies sleep, they tend to sleep in one or two hour bursts, but then they wake up. And that’s the issue: that’s just fine for a baby, but sleeping in hour-long stints is clinically proven to lead to full-on mental breakdowns in adults.
It doesn’t last forever though. I think only a few weeks?
If you’re lucky. A few weeks to a few months. Kind of depends on the baby.
Aww the sleepless nights and the struggle to remain sane and not coated in ear drum residue. I was literally the only person left in my house once when my youngest had an ear infection. The screech that came from her mouth hit that Mariah octave and broke some glasses! I was right there on ground zero too! I cheated tho and put Vaseline coated earplugs in! The Vaseline makes a tight seal and creates a near impenetrable wall against baby wails. I only did it when I decided that putting her down was summoning Asteroth, so she just lived on my chest 24/7. I miss those times greatly now….I may be a masochist!
You’re a mom. Mom’s are wired differently.
I’ve spent long, long hours with a baby sleeping in my arms, petrified at the idea of moving even slightly. But wow, those ear plugs sound like a ninja mom trick. I’m impressed.
Sleep deprivation. I guess it’s always hardest on she-demons and whatever Daphne is…
It’s hardest on the non-parents if they’re forced to suffer through it. I think something chemical alters your brain when it’s your own kid. It gives you the power to muscle through. If it’s not your kid, though, it’s even harder to bear.
Daphne & Phoebe may have been drawn with “tired face” but their cleavage remains magically ample. Love D in that tight tee! 😀
That’s more an indicator of my shaky drawing skills with the human form. I have (what I deem to be) a vaguely appealing armature and stick to it. It’s a failing of mine.
C’mon, man; don’t say that. Nothing could be further from the truth. This looks great.
Always an added bonus to see Daphne in her tight shirts with the slogan for the day. 😉
Why not have Puck and company host somebody from another country.
Because your ideas go completely against the tone of the comic.
I’d go with this as long as the person from another country was Balki from Perfect Strangers. Only then…
I want to apologize for any sparring I have with this dude. But I only do this because only the creator knows the characters of their creation, and only suggestions that make sense for the characters should be considered. But this guy comes so far out of left field that they may be outside the park.
He may be trying to wind you up Hitokiri. Yes, I don’t want to see Puck crossed over with any other strips either. It’s valuable for a comic to retain its own voice. And I suspect that Greg feels the same way but is just having fun at this rate.
You’re probably right, Nick. And since he’s probably trolling me, I must say something that the late Justin Carmical would say; Looks like someone needs a hug!
Don’t worry about it, man. I don’t take the guy seriously. And if I really take offense at something, I just delete it. So no worries.
Speaking of Justin Carmical, don’t you think he might have had a will that stipulated just what you said?
Why don’t they start driving monster trucks? 😉
Now I can get into that. Hmm, maybe as a vote incentive. 😀 Of course with that much power between Puck’s legs, how can Colin compete?
I’ll see what I can do.
I kind of like her a bit better like this. She looks more like a real person.
I kind of agree there.
Wow, Phoebe just pulled an excellent Puck impression…. Though her proper Puck mannerism needs drastic work!
Phoebe could never successfully threaten anyone. It’s just not in her nature.
And yet, her virtues are infuriating. 🙂
A week from now is Charles Dickens birthday.
In the 5 issue mini-series Electric Undertow which takes place in 2083 an alien race called the VXX-199 induce spontaneous combustion worldwide in order to feed off the pyschic energy that’s released.
*musical note * Always look for / The silver lining / When your day is turning grey… *musical note*
H.A. seems to dump on every comment I make.
Looks like somebody needs a hug!
I wonder what Miranda will do for employment when she grows up.
Work for a Narcolepsy clinic.
I hate it when I’m too tired to think of a quip or rejoinder.
Happens to me all the time. Mind you, in my case I usually just chalk it up to a lack intelligence rather than a lack of sleep.
YEAH !
As for YOU, Pal, you can just …. um .. well …. I forgot what I was going to say.
But it was KILLER ! Would have put YOU in your Place, I’ll bet.
I think Phoebe’s problem here is not the lack of sleep but the lack of familiarity with the very language of insults.
… Even sleep-deprived, she’s still kinda pretty…
I don’t think she ever couldn’t be, in any state. Any time Phoebe is not pretty, it’s more due to my inability to draw her properly.