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I named this dude Alex because after I finished all the shading and stuff, I thought he looked like Alex Trebek circa 1993. That’s all I can think to say.
![Really, it the 'happy to' adverbial phrase ever used sincerely? It's never used when talking about stuff we'd actually be happy to do. We never say, "I'd be happy to eat some ice cream."](https://puckcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/puck-336.jpg "Really, it the 'happy to' adverbial phrase ever used sincerely? It's never used when talking about stuff we'd actually be happy to do. We never say, "I'd be happy to eat some ice cream."")
Puck 336
Chapter: The Happiest Place in OntarioCharacters: Colin Daphne Puck Tyler (aka Taylor)Tags: bail Canada's Funderland jail
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I named this dude Alex because after I finished all the shading and stuff, I thought he looked like Alex Trebek circa 1993. That’s all I can think to say.
Have them hire her to repay the debt.
I don’t think the park would ever do that to itself.
Where will Puck come up with the other $10 Thousand? Is she going to have to let Daphne play online poker? I mean, she can’t go back to the coffee slinging jobs. Come to think of it, she hasn’t had any coffee lately, has she?
She’ll find a way. And by way, I mean ‘rich friend’.
Tracee ?
pleeze
NO!
Yep, that’s it.
Puck and her family would never be in this predicament if Tracee had not bestowed that generous $10K Gift to Puck at Miranda’s Baby Shower.
It’s Tracee’s fault. Totally.
We need a 20 or 30 episode min-arc where Puck explains it all to Tracee, preferably poolside.
https://puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-264
When I hear The Gecko say NO, why do I hear YES ?
Oh, Ear Wax.
Never Mind…..
20-30 strips of Tracee poolside? Sounds like canon to me. Now make it happen lizard.
Puck could pay that off in a month working at Howlers.
Phoebe could get that in a week. But don’t forget, Puck would be there primarily to fill their disability quota.
Something tells me that Puck would not be raking in a grand a night. Inebriated guys don’t tip heavily when their wings are served with a hefty side of scorn and derision.
Maybe if they’re masochists?
Or, more likely, Phoebe could pay that off in a month working at Howlers, and lend the money to Puck, who would never repay it.
“Even if I do sometmes rake in a grand per night in tips”
https://puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-116
OR toss Daphne in the CAN !
Oh Oh – Taylor is an accomplice. Poor guy. And he didn’t even get a smooch from Daphne for his troubles.
So many options.
Puck will get the money somehow.
I’m totally going to make a name tag for myself that says “BIG WIG”
How will people know you’re important without it?
The size of the hat that covers said wig. Especially if it says, “Schmart Guy”.
Do Canadians get a year of paid maternal leave or something?
Because if not, is Puck going to have to leave Miranda in the loving care of Daphne and go to work at something suitable to her major?
(What *was* her major? Liberal arts/sandwich artist?)
This is worrisome!!!
Canadian mothers do get a year of maternity leave paid (which honestly I can’t believe any civilized society would not provide, given all the intense needs of small babies), but the catch is that you need to be gainfully employed BEFORE going off on mat leave. If not, then … not.
I would suggest, if they are working. And if they are on a job for the job, not just to have something just to kill time until they do have something useful for their time. My cousin did this until she had her first daughter.
And wouldn’t this free year also be based on the premise that the mother of the newborn fully intends to return to work on the first anniversary of Thang maternity leave?
You don’t need to return to work after, but you need to have worked prior to going off on mat leave. It’s tied to the federal unemployment insurance system in Canada. It’s not paid by the employer, and so there’s no set expectation that you must return to work.
What’s the timeline for something like that in socialist Canada?
Can a woman be 8 and 54/55ths months pregnant, work one day, and get a year paid by the government?
-Also, Lefty fist bump, by the way.
There’s rules. They’re complicated. You need to be working for so many months prior, and then you get some percentage of your salary back over the following year. I’m sure there’s a guide online somewhere, but I don’t want to look it up.
Dang, if they don’t return to work afterwards no way. As a business owner where is the incentive to take care of a worker if they aren’t going to return? Wouldn’t it be easier to purchase maternity insurance at ten dollars a day?
It’s subsidized sex. Although that may be a bit of a reach. What does Denmark do?
Well, in Canada, the business owner isn’t footing the bill for the maternity leave. The business is only expected to hold the job until the maternity leave is up.
Part of the Universal Health Care? Not me, that could imply governmental ownership of the off spring. I’ll go into debt, buy the LNG Nickolai truck and haul no touch freight first.
Oh, you wacky libertarians. Never stop being you.
WTF. So b!&¢# gets a full years wages to NOT DO HER JOB!!! Then I’m guessing she can just skip her non-workin a$$ back to her old job? All like “Tra-lala!” I just got paid for a year to do NOTHING RELATED TO WHAT I WAS HIRED FOR! WTF? What happens when she gets pregnant AGAIN before going back to work? She (GASP) actually has to DO HER JOB. For maybe six months. Until she squeezes out the next little puke/crap monster. Then another year of free money? I’m all for a REASONABLE amount of maternity leave. But getting paid? That’s what vacation time, and sick pay are for.
END RANT.
I probably should have read all the comments before going off the deep end like that. Nonetheless, I stand behind the spirit of my premature rant.
As for “hold the job until the maternity leave is up.” No way. Dude, seriously there’s work to be done. And if she (or HE for that matter) can’t or won’t do it I’m REAL sure that I could find someone that can, and will. All in all the whole thing sounds like a great reason NOT to hire any women at all. Ever. Unless she has been surgically sterilized. Or too old to conceive.
Thankfully there are laws up here to prevent people like you from operating the way you’d like to. But for the record, it’s not just women. A man can go on paternity leave, for the whole year, if he chooses. It’s just an either-or scenario; both parents cannot be on leave simultaneously. Some families split the leave 50-50 so Mom is off for the first six months, then Dad is off for the next six.
It comes down to this: do you want your population growth stats to be forever in the negatives? Because if you do, keep doing exactly what you’re doing and make it insanely hard to reproduce in the first world. Reasonable maternity leave is just one tool in the box to encourage population maintenance.
This is not a dig at Canad’a compassionate policies, in any way.
But seriously, overpopulation benefits no one. Not humans, not animals, not the environment.
The good news is that the native-born in advanced Western Countries have proved they prefer to replace themselves, and themselves only. There is very little population growth there.
The bad news is the second and third world is overpopulating at record rates.
It’s a shame that when people are responsible, and wish to keep their countries viable, their governments over-rule them.
First world country native-born pops are largely not even near replacement levels. The snag, though, is that the first world setup means that people higher up on the socio-economic ladder have more of a disincentive to have babies than the people lower down. Which means now the bulk of your young population is born into poverty. Which tends to result in a broken country.
@EG
In the USA, and other 1st World Countries, there are already huge surpluses of the “UNEMPLOYABLE”.
People who either lack the skills, or the temperament to maintain any useful employment.
As AI becomes more effective, more and more will share their dilemma.
Add to the mix a likely breakthrough in longevity, and boy-o-boy.
Yes, the Future challenges !
Daphne is going to be working here for the rest of her life 😐
Or Daphne will work very hard for an afternoon in order to figure out a criminal method to get the money.
Actually . . . have Daphne work there for a day and at the end ask her “Right, now how can we get even more money out of the marks?” If she hasn’t got at least three quasi-legal methods by then, then it’s “Who are you and where is the real Daphne?”
Quasi-legal methods of obtaining money are to Daphne like garlic to a vampire.
And now, the mystery how EG looks has been solved. Awesome.
As for the comic, I am somewhat obliged to agree – the only time I say ‘happily to’, I’m usually sarcastic as sin. Other than when someone asks me if I want to read Puck. If so, it’s ‘HELL YES’. I know it’s not a ‘happily to’, but eh. Point still stands.
It costs $19,000 to fix the damages they caused? …Daphne and Tyler, you have just found work (more or less) for life, I think. That or Satan is coming to bail them out (which would both be amusing and strange – Phoebe isn’t the reason this has happened, so it’s not like she has much reason to ask Satan, other than to be nice to Puck:co).
Speaking of which, I’ve been curious for a while, does Phoebe see Puck as her friend/best friend, an acquaintance, or just some chick she went to College with that now owes her/her dad a bunch of money?
I would say that from Phoebe’s perspective, Puck is her best friend in the whole wide world. From Puck’s perspective, Phoebe is a necessary annoyance. That said, I think, were Phoebe to ever move out, Puck would have a long cry in the bathroom. Not that she’d ever let anyone see that, of course. Really, I think the bond’s gone beyond to friendship to pseudo-sisters. They’re family, really, and stick by each other no matter how annoying one gets for the other.
It’ll turn out that Satan already owns the park and he’ll waive off the damages – especially after he sees Puck and remembers her chasing him down when she was pregnant.
After all, the park is insured, right?
I don’t think you can legally run an amusement park without being insured to the nines.
screw the money, i FINALLY want to know why daph wanted to steal a smorf!!
black market smorf worth the big bucks
Exactly!
All in good time. All in good time.
i like his title:Bigwig
He’s the real deal, man.
Your incentive page is quite interesting… has anyone ever told you that you look a little like a young RDJ?
Amazing job of Phoebe cheesecaking!
Well, some students have said that I look like RDJ. But some other students have said that I look like an ostrich (both comments taken from anonymous reviews on a teacher-rating website), so I’ve never really put much stock in the comparison. I think it’s all in the facial hair.
If there’s one thing I know how to do, it’s Phoebe cheesecaking.
…
Well. So much for the windfall.
>_>
You knew that wasn’t going to last, right?
I suspected as much. ^^; Puck should have invested in a relocation for the family…
I got an idea how to solve that and turn that into good publicity worth arond 19k:
Make an Advertisement out of how Daphne tried to steal a Snorf. “So cool, even grown ups can’t help but grab them.”
I feel that this would prompt a terrible rash of copycat thefts.
Even better;
Publicity shots of Phoebe on rides (that aren’t moving so there’s no…uhm.. you know. [they can use fans to simulate hair flying back])
YES!!!!
I feel like I should research the grammar of “happy to.” Is it a frozen phrase or some sort of pseudo-auxiliary construction requiring a complementary infinite?
Last weekend I was in a bit of a drawing funk, so I attempted to translate one of my recent comics into Esperanto and Klingon, with rather mixed results since I’m rusty in both of them. (I also attempted Latin, but I’m far beyond rusty for that). So grammatical constructions are on my mind.
(Happily) I would cover the costs …
(Being happy), I would cover the costs …
(Because I am happy), I would cover the costs …
(I am happy) to (cover the costs …)
I probably shouldn’t think of this, first thing in the morning.
It is an odd construction, surely. Somewhat archaic, and yet still used. Stop thinking so hard.
Overthinking is what I do. Well, that and draw cartoon princesses.
For Esperanto, I think that an adverb would be most idiomatic:
Feliche mi pagos al vi.
Happily I shall pay you.
With Klingon an idiomatic way to express may be:
batlh SoHvaD jIDIl.
With honour I shall pay you.
But to preserve the sense of the original, perhaps something like this would be better:
jIQuchchu’mo’ SoHvaD jIDIlta’DI’.
I shall be completely happy after I’ve paid you.
He said “daughter.” Miranda did nineteen thousand in damages?
Well, Daphne is, for all intents and purposes, Puck’s daughter. It may even be legal; we’ve never found that out. We know that Daphne’s taken Puck’s last name; she’s Daphne Goodfellow.
At least she didn’t take Colin’s last name…did Puck?
Not yet, no. I doubt ever.
Colin would probably have to take Puck’s name.
He probably wouldn’t mind, given the nature of his family.
I wonder if Common law applies to adoption as well as marriage. Would that make Daphne Puck’s Common Law daughter? If you find a stray kid and keep it for 10 years does that mean it’s now legally your kid? What if I sneak into Canada and manage to live there for 10 years? (Ignoring the fact that I can’t think of a reason why anyone would want to do so) Could I claim citizenship based on Common Law precedent? Meh….. I’m gonna have to go with no on both counts, and assume that the former would result in ALOT of prison time, and the latter in deportation.
Nineteen thousand?!?!? Come on, that’s ridiculous! Two or three thousand would be more fitting, let’s not forget Tyler rushed in to stop the fire. Besides, both he and Daphne are under 18, and can’t really be charged with anything. This is just Funderland being jackasses. Have Daphne work on port-a-potties and Tyler do security, he’s already demonstrated a real commitment to public safety!
Well, considering the fact that any damage would likely be covered by insurance anyway, this would definitely qualify as extortion. It’s just like the ‘You break it, you buy it’ policy some stores have which, coincidentally, is not law. Accidental losses in retail are covered by insurance, again.
Well that may be true, at least part of Daphne’s “Incident” was no “Accident”.
And any private company can institute a “NO TRESPASSING” policy on anyone, for pretty much any reason. Let alone a GOOD REASON.
But right now I’m kinda’ feelin’ bad for a fan we have not heard from for a couple of months. SotiCoto would really enjoy Daphne’s misery. It’s almost as if this entire story arc was made for him.
Ever get the feeling Tyler’s parents will be climbing the walls with joy if and when Tyler ever brings home a buff biker chick with facial tattoos and piercings and says “Mom, Dad, meet my wife”? “Not Daphne?” “Not Daphne.” “DAUGHTER! WELCOME TO THE FAMILY!”
Yes. Yes, I think that would definitely happen.
Hot Buff Biker Chick ?
ENGAGE
The very thought of Daphne squaring off against a tatooed biker chick over Tyler (who’s not her boyfriend) would make an absolutely awesome story arc!
Daphne’s going to square off against someone over Tyler, eventually, but I doubt it’s going to play out like anyone is expecting. And it won’t be any character yet introduced, so it’s not going to be any weird thing with Tracee or something creepy like that.
Tracee ? Creepy ?
Harumph I say, Harumph !
See how I cut you off at the pass there?
“See how I cut you off at the pass there?”
We wants the Tracee, we needs the Tracee. Must have the precious. Sneaky little Gecko-is. Wicked, tricksy, false…
(methinks a certain lizard did not get his usual heaping bowl of crickets this morning)
@SalemCat
What you said!
Good news Daphi you get to move to the land of sun and sand and live in a palace.
In Saudi Arabia with you new family.
No, if Puck shipped her off, she wouldn’t be able to ensure that Daphne suffers. You can make someone suffer under your own roof WAY easier.
Rats. I was kinda hoping for selling Daff off. If not Saudi Arabia, then maybe Russia?
*rereads* Daffy is gonna suffer. Forget it, I’m in
After hearing how much monetary damage Daphne has incurred, I expect Puck to be pulling out the spork again.
There’s lots of extra sporks at the poutine shack.
Hey, I looked at the incentive and archive and it is true. You did a cameo as the security guard. Cool
It really wasn’t my intention – more of an accidental cameo. It was Jocelyn (a former student) who noted the resemblance, and I definitely saw what she was talking about.
WTH??? ONLY 19 grand? And it looks like he said that so nonchalantly.
Looks like my boy Satan may have to come to the rescue for Phoebe’s sake? I don’t think he’d solely do it for Puck after their last altercation.
Nineteen grand is an interesting number: the sort of sum that beggar some and be pocket change for others. I think with Satan’s case, it’s the latter. And I think Phoebe just needs to mention she’s low on cash and he’d throw buckets at her. I doubt Satan would ever actually want to make time for his daughter, but money? Money’s cheap.
I have to completely disagree with the alt-text. I’ve even heard the exact phrase “I’d be happy to eat some ice cream,” specifically in the context of someone coming across a family member attempting to organize the freezer after buying groceries, and is having trouble getting everything to fit.
“I’d be happy to” is definitely used in a positive (for the speaker) tone. It’s just usually used when the speaker wants something for his/herself, but wants to imply that they are somehow doing a favor for the one they are speaking to. As in my example above, it implies a willingness to help clean the freezer, but really they just wanted the ice cream.
Ok, I just realized I misread the alt-text; somehow I got that it was saying the phrase was never said “positively”, not “sincerely”, an yes my example above lacks sincerity.
Still, there are times when I have heard it used, and used it myself, as part of a sincere offer of help.
You’re probably a more sincere and kind person than me. That must be factored into this equation.
I would be happy to tell you that I would sincerely like you to get bent. : )
@CH
Jeez, CH.
Did you miss your morning Crickets, too ?
So grumpy. That’s not like you at all.
So sling that Bindle over your shoulder, and catch the next Freight.
Things will get better soon, promise !
@CH
So, did you take my advice, and put on some miles ?
Every good bindlestiff gets a bit cranky when they’ve remained in the same town for too long.
A soft pile of hay, a soft breeze sifting thru the slatted walls, the melody of the rails as the day passes by, these are the things that soothe the traveling man.
Not to mention a jug of fresh shine to settle the nerves.
Ahhhhh……
🙂