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Right now there’s a nice little Christmas pic for your vote!
As for this comic…
A word on blondes and my constant use of blonde-based humor:
I don’t really feel bad making grossly exaggerated statements about blondes because there’s something important that I’ve learned over my many decades: they don’t exist.
Okay, let me clarify that statement. Many little white kids are born blonde and sport those golden, radiant locks that shine like riches in the sun … up until they reach a certain age. But honestly, by age 25, almost all kids who were blonde in high school have their hair darken to an attractive (but not nearly as radiant) sand color. And it tends to darken even further from there.
I speak from second-hand experience. My wife was once blonde. Now her hair has darkened considerably. My daughter (age seven) still has the golden blonde sheen. My son (now age ten) was once the blondest tot of them all, but now his hair’s quite a bit darker. Some people keep their blonde hair throughout life, but those people are usually extremely Nordic in their appearance and have hair that is more the color of pale straw.
In summary, if you see a woman over the age of twenty-five and she has that golden movie star Marilyn Monroe hair color, it is almost certainly a conscious choice on her part. It came from a bottle. And only a certain kind of woman makes that conscious choice. Thus, blonde hair is not the equivalent of eye color or skin color, but more akin to a barbed wire tattoo around your bicep: you chose to adopt this feature, and it says something about you.
It might not necessarily say something negative about you. But it probably does.
Of course blondes would never be able to rule the world in Germany, 1938, history proves it! But Hollywood? Now THAT’s fearsome power!
Hollywood always likes to think it’s not blonde. But it’s lying to itself.
Not much of an exaggeration. California has the highest % of (bottled) blondes on the continent.
Exactly.
Of course, Hitler himself had black hair, not blond.
Usually oiled so that it remained straight. Couldn’t have it looking all dark and curly like jew-hair. No no…
The man did have an odd concept of the ‘perfect human form’ given his own appearance, that’s for sure.
The only “Aryan” looking guy in the Third Reich was Heydrich. Known as “the Blond Beast” ( http://spartacus-educational.com/00himmlerH10.jpg ) Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, Bormann … Not so much. In fact I think Goebbels looks Jewish!
Always thought he was kinda hypocritical…
Most bigots are.
Huh !
I just learned something:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
But then again, PUCK is the Web Comic that 9 out of 10 Educators recommend.
I am a font of educational knowledge.
And we make use of it every time you share something new, sensei!
Is there a Nom-de-Plume for Tracee’s wonderful Chapeau ?
I … don’t think so?
Uh… Not unless her hat is an author who writes under an assumed name.
(Perhaps you should LOOK UP French words first before you use them publically? Your attempt to appear sophisticated seems to have backfired horribly! ^_^;)
oh… I don’t think there’s a feather for her cap either…
Give him a break!
He’s doing his cheval.
Ooh-La-La Mon Cherie !
I knew my attempt to channel Pepe Le Pew made little sense – but the allure of using TWO obscure French words in a single sentence overwhelmed me.
As for Tracee’s lovely headgear, it seems every woman in Mad Men has one, but I still can’t identify the style by name !
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6d/e1/2b/6de12b94e28b807c3a8c9b5bafad67fd.jpg
I don’t know what it’s called. The ‘Kung Lao’, perhaps?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c2/Kung_Lao_MKX_Render.png
BUZZKILL
Probably a CARTWHEEL.
she isn´t quite hollywood-ready yet – she still needs a fake tan and at least one nose-job 😉
as for blondes….its true, very few have that golden blond everybody seems to crave, most natural blondes have the white-ish swedish blonde – but those can easily get the golden look by using chamomile shampoo. bottle-blond usually looks fake as sh$% (especially with dark roots showing) or like pale, dried out straw….unless you REALLY pay big bucks for a specialist.
btw, that particular faux blonde hairtone has a ‘nice’ nickname in my native tongue, it translates roughly to ‘dirty alley mutt’.
You native tongue is wonderfully poetic. I approve.
Better a tongue be “Poetic” than “Geographic”.
Warning: Not to be Googled at Meal-Time.
I’ve seen geographic tongue. What’s the big whoop? It’s better than “smoker’s tongue”
Susan, I’m pretty sure you’ve not seen “Geographic” in person.
Nose job?? Unless she gets those ears bobbed the most she can hope for is a part as a Romulan on a Star Trek move.
Or a new Vulcan main character!
Puck? as a logical, non-emotional Vulcan? Yeeeeaaahh, that’ll happen!
@DLKmusic
Good Point !
It’s called irony, darling. She’d do so terribly at it she wouldn’t even make it past the audition.
I don’t know why, but for some reason this scenario is vaguely reminiscent of that scene in The Last Starfighter when Robert Preston comes to earth to tell Alex that he is destined to save the universe due to his top-notch video game skills. But only vaguely.
Maybe my brain is channeling that 80’s magic. Who knows? If Tracee forces Puck to play a video game simulation of being a famous blonde, then we’ll know!
Are you sure you weren’t just looking at a Polybius arcade machine?
But, but, but, but, but, she’s Canadian.
Why not just go to Toronto?
Toronto (though it sometimes styles itself as ‘Hollywood North’) is no Hollywood, and every Canadian knows it. Toronto (and Vancouver) serve as cheap northern colonies of Hollywood where lower budget fare (think cable sci-fi shows and lesser known police procedurals) can be churned out at a discounted rate, but the money, and those who control the money, do not reside there. Heck, most of the productions never cast anything except extras from the Canadian populace. They CAST in Hollywood, then ship up their people to make the shows in Canada.
“Makin’ shows for discount price,
Livin’ in a Canadian paradise.
Castin’ extras from the populace,
Livin’ in a Canadian paradise.”
Channeling my inner Weird Al.
Don’t. You might get sued by Coolio.
The movie industry – who says it has to make sense!
A friend once called Los Angeles “the 4th-largest Canadian city, FWIW.”
True. Most Canadian entertainers know where they need to go.
Hamilton ?
I thought that was a Broadway musical full of rude New Yorkers.
“I thought that was a Broadway musical full of rude New Yorkers.”
That too !
“Rude” and “New Yorkers” is kinda redundant, ain’t it?
@Mahnarch Good point!
Huh, technically, The 600 and something Puck would have lived through that period.
And yes, Tracee is living the Blond dream, starting from humble beginnings as a waitress, rising through the rank, switching carries, and is now a mistress to the Mayor of a small Canadian City (who is also the Lord of the Underworld).
Also, I may have trouble depicting between different shades of colour, but Pucks hair colour is clearly different from Tracee. Puck is more… light, while Tracee is more bronze.
Also, I can attest to hair colour changes, I always had very pale blond hair when I was a kid, now it’s more of a dirty/dark blond. I also have blue/aqua eyes, and, strangely enough, a red beard.
Puck’s hair is its own special shade, which is different from Tracee’s and is also slightly different from Colin’s sister. I wanted her hair to look REALLY blonde, to the point where it stretched credibility. As for Tracee, I just sort of wanted to give her a Donald Trumpian orange unnatural hue.
And ginger chin strap? That’s the sure sign of buried Viking blood!
More likely Scottish blood considering my ancestors, But I will happily claim both.
Scots are basically Vikings. Just ask Dreamworks Animation.
Well, Scots, more often than not, do have Viking ancestry, what with all the *cough cough* raiding they did…
“This is supposed to be a happy occasion. Let’s not bicker and argue about who killed who.”
http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/b0/b0ccf5dcf41e3a3f4b63e290bdb0dc465715aa6bbc8154f4a399d3079654f08f.jpg
It’s blonde career trajectory!
I’d love to see a voting incentive where Satan and Tracee are dressed up as the characters from that ancient Disney short, “The Goddess of Spring.” Although the outfit might be a touch too modest for Tracee (you might want to crop the skirt of the dress up a notch or ten) I have a feeling that Satan would get a kick out of the red tights.
https://youtu.be/JuVRi9XzNpk
Thanks, Salem!
I had multiple remarks about what I wanted to say about the comic, then I read the ‘about the comic’ part where you basically explain your reason for blonde jokes and nothing else, so now I want to comment on that instead.
…I’ll just go with both of them are quite accurate on what their target is about (which was going to be my initial comment. So yeah, there’s that).
I’m glad you agree. I post things like this and expect an army of angry blondes showing up at my door to tell me how wrong I am, so it’s good to find everyone’s like, “Nope. That’s pretty accurate.”
So is world domination how blondes have more fun?
I’m guessing you’ve never been dominated by a blonde
My brother is blonde although it was lighter when he was younger now its a brownish-blonde. He always seems to have ideas about what I and my parents should be doing. yep being dominated by my younger brother across the pond who is in England with his greek wife son and daughter while I’m in California. Most of the time he is nice but sometimes he can get downright bossy. she’s a nice woman.
Well, that happens. Blondes are used to giving orders.
It’s “blond” when it’s a guy, “blonde” when it’s a girl. Whether “blonds” have any more fun than the rest of us, I can’t say, but probably they don’t have as much fun as “blondes.”
My bf was for like ten years. And she is a realtor to boot. Thank goodness he came to his senses!
It’s always been a component of the fun.
I wonder if Puck has been subjected to blonde jokes yet.
I dunno, Greg. I personally think that Ginger jokes and brunette jokes are both a lot meaner than blonde jokes, even if they aren’t as numerous.
I’m assuming that Ginger and Brunette jokes were made up by blondes
M’yeah, but be careful there Puck– look at fellow blonde Dani Mathers* and be warned! *Playboy playmate who mocked a 70-year-old woman’s body and has been finding out that golly gee, there are, like, some troubles good looks can’t, like, get a blonde, like, out of!
There are NO troubles that being blonde can’t get you out of. None! Except maybe death. Maybe.
Unless they drink the blood of the living…
A blonde guy was candidate for Buffy’s replacement watcher after her original Los Angeles watcher Merrick died.
Waitaminute. Giles was Buffy’s Watcher, then Wesley Wyndam-Pryce , and they are both brunette.
The poor and the minorities and the disabled are persecuted and exploited. Huge productions are put into place designed to strip us all of our money and everything is run by these huge groups with one little man pulling all the strings.
And the other one was in Germany.
Yeah, thank goodness and the twenty-second amendment that he can’t run again.
Who are we talking about here?
Satan, of course. Duh.
//www.puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-17
On the one hand, the US Constitution bars people who are not native born on US soil from being president (I don’t know what the view is on people who are not actually people.)
On the other hand, that doesn’t apply to people born before the founding of the US.
So, technically speaking, it also means one Robin Goodfellow could also be the US president as well.
Well, when you bring Aryans into it, the whole blonde thing just sounds awful.
So Puck’s going to try her hand at being an actress now? That might not be so bad – I don’t despise the acting industry as much as modeling…
Comparing the two side-by-side, I think Tracee must have had dark hair before she bleached it – and it must be naturally straight, because even bleached, it’s darker and thicker than Puck’s. I’d like to see her with dark hair…
And lol, the fact that Puck was able to come up with that reply shows that even as a blonde, she’s still kind of a nerd.
Tracee’s shoes better match her ascot, ’cause otherwise standing all alone and red like that, it’s gonna look weird.
I bet ten bucks the next strip is Phoebe, Daphne, or Colin coming downstairs, seeing Puck chatting amicably with Tracee, and their reactions. Any takers?
What is it wit you guys and Areins ?
They make a fine SnowBlower !
http://www.snowblowersatjacks.com/Images/Articles/Ariens-Snow-Blower-Feature-Guide.jpg
They make a fine SnowBlower !
Not Areins, Aryans. It’s like saying that short-tailed cats are unfit to breed…
We DO enjoy trying…..
Even for here, this was…. dark.
You’re welcome!
Did not see that punchline coming and it was amazingly brutal. Bravo. *slow clap*
I try to shake things up every now and then.
Waitaminit! “Silly Susie”? Grrrr
It was ‘Silly Sally’ in a first draft, but I changed it.
One might think you almost did it on purpose…
One might.
Uh Oh…
Time for a new Gravatar, Susie ?
Nope, my bf did this one, and it is the only portrait of me that he has done that I like :p
Your Gravatar is actually really beautiful !
Pastels ?
Often wondered about it, but I try not to be too nosy.
(curiously DID kill me once or twice)
Nope, colored pencils. It’s a crop of me in my Halloween costume of two years ago as Jane Yellowrock, complete with Benelli M3 shotgun, in a vampire crypt. I had it framed and it is hanging on the bedroom wall.
Wow !
Susan – Robin is not the only one here who SHOCKS !!
https://pgsramblings.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/skinwalker.jpg
I take all my Silly Susie jabs back – BACK !!
I was just kidding ! (don’t hurt me)
Now I’m curious to see what the rest of this drawing looks like.
so … many … shotgun … shells ….
After Hamilton Buggle and I are running low – share few, mebe ?
Gotta admit, it is a kickin drawing, Susan. Your bf did a good job.
The whole drawing: [URL=http://s1306.photobucket.com/user/Lilyblack1/media/Vamp%20LARP_zpscxqezmsq.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1306.photobucket.com/albums/s565/Lilyblack1/Vamp%20LARP_zpscxqezmsq.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
Link: http://s1306.photobucket.com/user/Lilyblack1/media/Vamp%20LARP_zpscxqezmsq.jpg.html
Very nice!
And, funny. This whole time Salem has been talking about shotguns and you’ve secretly had one the whole time! XD
This may help:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/467459636295348075/
JUST KIDDING !!!
Just saw the new vote incentive, Geck!!!! It ROCKS!!!
(which is kinda ironic if you think about it for a minute)
Glad you like!
I like it, too. One of Phleebles more conservative outfits
Speaking of which, I loved the pants for some reason. Just the oddly satisfying way their cut fit around her ankles. I hardly paid attention to her top, which is unusual for me – how did you make the pants so bewitching, Gecko?
Well, the fact that Phoebe always wears pants (and never a skirt) is a bit of a style limitation. If I get the chance to actually show the pants, I try to spice them up however I can.
Why *does* she always wear pants? One might think that Phoebe, of all people, would see the value of a miniskirt or pencil skirt…
Shrug. Fashion idiom. She won’t wear skirts. She will (when needed) wear dresses. But mainly it’s to clearly separate her from Puck, who NEVER wears pants. Ever. Except the metaphorical ones. Which she always wears.
I dunno, I mean, I could see her wearing sweats…
Puck… in Argyle sweats….
I’m tempted to ask for that as a voting incentive!
Kinda curious how the back of that shirt looks.
Does the spaghetti strap keep going all the way around to the underside of the arm/boobage area?
How would that survive the washing machine?
It’s clearly hand-wash, in that case…
Most of Phoebe’s clothing wouldn’t survive movement, let alone a washing machine.
EZ on the eyes, however.
Does she make all her own clothes???
@Buggle
//www.puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-152
Quite a few Candy Companies have jumped on the Bandwagon to make Tasty Treats that look like COAL on the outside, but contain Marshmallow, Cocoanut, or other treats inside.
http://www.junkfoodguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/holcandy05.png
Mmmmmmm yes I’ve had those before. Nummy!
Ha! “Double Crisp”
As if ‘coal’ wasn’t hard enough.
Candy Canes ? Yuk…
https://youtu.be/VPN9gBHOiZI
They are better than the ribbon candy that was always at my gramma’s house. Or the fruitcake she used to send us every year. Honestly, the woman had no active taste buds in her final years!
Old people had terrible taste in taste.
I love a good Fruit Cake.
http://i67.tinypic.com/zjjbwm.jpg
Not too sweet & sticky; heavy on the nuts.
Afterwards I like chewing on the Hat Band.
When Alta Dena still had drive-through dairies here in California, they made a fruitcake that made me decide I liked Fruitcake.
This particular concoction of assorted dried fruits, nuts and Molasses (with just a pinch of breadfruit) was also soaked till dripping in a combination of Whiskey and Rum. After two slices, you were risking a DUI if you had do drive anywhere.
Can’t find anything that comes close to that anymore, but I don’t understand how anyone can eat a slice of that and still say they don’t like fruitcake!
That would require me actually tasting it, and me wasting precious daily calories on fruitcake is a nonstarter
would it help if I told you that if you break a slice in half all the calories fall out?
My mind might believe that but my butt wouldn’t :p
And they say watching Sausage being made is a horror:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/C9jAd6NRMW0/hqdefault.jpg
https://youtu.be/C9jAd6NRMW0
That’s actually really rad. Now I want some of that candy. Which I’ve never seen on shelves in Canada.
Have you ever seen candy canes made by hand? Had a piece of still-warm candy cane in your mouth? Then you have not had the full experience of Christmas spirit.
What’s your beef with candy canes?
They taste hurribill, krak my fangs, and neva taste like tuna.
Other than that, they are somewat prittie to look at.
So …. yuk.
You’re not supposed to chew on them, silly cat! And if the taste isn’t your thing, that’s fine – they just happen to be my personal favorite part of the season, is all. 🙂
Now that you mention it, all the Candy Canes I’ve been sampling are about a meter tall, plug into the mains, and GLOW.
There are other kinds ?
I wonder how your brain is still intact after all the frying its clearly been through…
The red hair and freckles are back on WTC incentive artwork today.
Is this an omen???
I hope so.
Well, maybe it means something…
Nooo !
I prefer NEW ROBIN !!
(she’s just like Tracee)
I bet she wouldn’t call anybody “silly Susie.” *pouts*
Saw the voting incentive – yowza! Now all I can think of is Miranda playing with Phoebe’s tail and licking candy canes on Christmas morning.
Why did Collin get coal? He’s been nothing but good compared to Puck and Daphne!
Yeah, Phoebe needs to be careful that her tail doesn’t get chewed on by Miranda. Those bottom teeth are sharp!
And maybe Colin isn’t bad in a traditional sense, but rather bad from failed potential.
Awwww… 🙁
Although, Phoebe would be much more patient with Miranda than a cat would – I played with cat’s tails when I was little and got scratched for it. Truly traumatizing – I stayed away from animals for years after that.
As I have no tail no Buggle has ever been harmed by playing with it.
We Manx ARE an advanced specie.
And yet, you sometime express a yearning for a tail….
@Buggle
Every feline is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.
I dunno, my cats always seem to make their intentions pretty well known…
The look on his face is priceless though!
I’m going with:
Puck opened her stocking and saw it was coal, so she secretly switched with Colin in the hopes of getting something better.
But she still got coal…
Or .. delicious Dark-Chocolate-Covered Marshmallows.
http://www.candywarehouse.com/products/dark-chocolate-covered-jumbo-marshmallows-5lb-box/?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=CandyWarehouse_Product_Listings&utm_term=
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Some people would RATHER receive coal:
http://www.cedmagic.com/featured/christmas-carol/1962-magoo-bob-cratchit.jpg
Cuz Santa knew Puck would switch, so he put coal in both to pre-empt her.
As for this comic… really spoke to me. (Heavy Sigh) I used to be a blonde, now I’m a brunette.
It happens. It really does.
If you are lucky :p
OMG OMG OMG
six minutes to MORE Tracee
(hyperventilating)
I’ve got a strong feeling that my guy Satan is due for an appearance soon? Hmmm?
😀
Not sure if he will. Wish I could say he was, but we might not see Satan for a while.
Hmmm.
If blondness fades like that over time, it would explain the attraction.
It definitely darkens over time in most individuals. Like I said. If you’re over thirty and you’ve got that golden blonde hair, it’s almost certainly with the aid of a bottle,
In this case, I’m thinking more of why a culture would find it so attractive. It’s loss would be a sign of a loss of nubileness.