The nudity saga ends with a whimper. And a whole bunch of bums.
At the time this strip ran, a female friend of mine used to always laugh with disgust whenever Colin appeared in any state of undress. “Look at him!” she scoffed. “He’s such a skinny, little twerp.” And I suppose that’s the point. He ain’t impressing the ladies with his physique.
Next strip, the clothing returns. I promise.
Ah yes… the west side of the Atlantic… where women prefer guys to be built like trucks, and there exist such bizarre things as “grape juice”.
Seriously… all the grape-flavour stuff weirded me the hell out when I first went to Nova Scotia. There was something so entirely novel about “grape flavour” (or “flavor”, as seems favoured that side of the pond) being a normal thing there.
Then I realised that grape was filling the niche that blackcurrant stuff fills here… and then became horrified by the lack of blackcurrant stuff…
Seriously though… Canadian and american supermarkets are just so kooky.
Oh yeah… then there was the first time I saw a bottle of “GRAPE JUICE” from a slight angle… and Celyn came in to find out why I was laughing, and I told her about the “RAPE JUICE”.
Frightening. We definitely don’t sell that here.
But we do sell “rapeseed oil,” gross. Grape juice doesn’t taste anything like the grapes I eat. Wine, on the other hand…
Blackcurrants do not have much market value here, that’s for sure. And grape juice is … kind of gross, I’ll admit. Grape soda pop (bright purple!) is even creepier. It in no way tastes like grape! And yet I sort of love it. I’m so North American.
Hi, I just found your comic series yesterday and love it. But it’s funny Colin is the only one allowed to show his chest. My girlfriend is Canadian and she’s always saying she can go topless in Canada but not here in California. I guess that wasn’t true in 1999?
It’s legal, I think. And it was legal in 1999, I think. But it certainly wasn’t cool in print, or on TV, and still isn’t, generally speaking. It’s not really practiced. At all.
The comic keeps stuff PG-13, for the most part.
In the U.S. you can go naked if you’re making a statement, but not for tittilation. It’s a first amendment thing.
Sometimes, the statement is, “Free the breast!”
Another time, it was, “Getting strip searched at the airport sucks!”
For the first time ever, you’ve made it sound vaguely appealing for me to move to the U.S. of A.
I believe they repealed part of an old law that categorized a topless female as “indecent exposure”, but it’s nonetheless not very common. The cultural attitude remains.
I suppose if your girlfriend wants to go topless up here, she can, but she should expect some odd looks and social judgement. She can probably expect not to be arrested, however.
Everyone is free to break the social code legally. But not socially.
Close to my house there is an artificial storage lake for a nuclear power plant 15km away. Complete with sailing boat clubhouse, beach, some even built Holiday houses beneath. The beach is used topless by many. Usually those Areas are marked especially for totally nakedness use. It is considered as bad manners to not go naked there.
one hour away there is a small City of 160000 and one man there moves around in public totally naked. After complains he managed to officially declare his naked Body as Piece of art…
I will avoid. Too much of the human body is often a bad thing.
In re your description, Colin doesn’t have to impress ALL the ladies, just the one he’s with and I didn’t “hear” her complaining.
“Not impressing the ladies with his physique” was always a problem for The Colonel.
As it is for most of us.
We ladies are impressed by physique, but intelligence, a sense of humor and a good job are sexier. Preferably all four
Yes, I see what should be a prominent caudal vertebra, shall we call it Ca-1? It appears to emanate directly from her sacrum and her pelvic paraspinous musculature doubtless elongate and lay along the lateral spines, as in a cat. Or in MY cat that I dissected. I don’t want to generalize.
@Susan
Mommeeeeee……
I’ll take your word for it.