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As for this comic…
Observant readers will note that this marks the start of a new chapter/story arc. So hold on, because this one's going to be crazy. (It's also going to be pretty short, so if it's not to your liking, it won't last long.)
For the record, I never totally went into a full-on comatose state when watching my kids, but I did periodically have those momentary lapses in consciousness. (And by momentary, I mean no more than half an hour in duration.) As Louis C.K. says, you can judge all you want, but unless you've been there, unless you've had kids, you don't know, man. You just don't know.
Well, it’s a hard line to walk with baby talk: phonetically forming sounds that aren’t too stereotypically baby, like ‘goo goo’, but avoiding the actual sounds that babies make, which generally cannot be written using the Roman (or any other) alphabet very successfully – sounds like “arphthphimmiphthphthmmmm”.
In some comics the sounds or intention of the baby could be represented by a picture in a word balloon (say a rattle) or perhaps just some punctuation (“!!”). However, that’s not the style of your comic.
I have the Pogo in Pandaemonium book somewhere, so I should look up what the random wandering babies “say” in that sequence. I don’t have any of the original Popeye comics, but I am curious as to what, if anything, Swee’pea ever said.
In this case I think the Miranda rights go something like this.
“She has the right to NOT remain silent”
“Anything she says can and will waken the entire household”
“she has the right to be fed, burped and wearing a clean diaper at all times”
“If you choose to ignore these rights, Anything she says can and will waken the the entire house”
The rights unfortunately need to be read to the family, not not Miranda!
A little more. I think her role will be limited to saying things like ‘uhba’ for the foreseeable future, but she’s out of the ‘sack of potatoes’ stage of development in human existence.
This reminds me of a time when I was seven years old and instructed to watch my brother, a baby at the time.
I did watch him. I watched him crawl right off the edge of a table and fall to the floor.
When confronted about this fact by my parents, I responded with “You told me to watch him, you didn’t tell me to catch him.”
That’s how my parents tell the story, anyway, and it sounds exactly right.
When I moved to a part of California where I first experienced lack of culture shock… I was in the parking lot of an apartment complex I had just taken on being the resident Assistant / night manager. There were two VERY small children just running about, with no supervising adults anywhere to be seen. I found out from the bigger of the two which unit they belonged, and took them there. I told the woman who had answered the door that her two children were just running about the parking area unsupervised.
Her response to me was as follows: “They aren’t unsupervised, the three year old is watching the two year old.”
I was literally dumbfounded and had no idea what to say to this.
Sadly I have plenty more true stories like this one…
I got the expression “sleep for dinner” from another incident.
I’d been escorting the exterminator to different units one afternoon. In one, two kids ran up to their mother and told her “We’re hungry!”
The mother responded with “Okay then, go to sleep!”
All things considered, by contrast having a 7 year old watch a much smaller child is significantly less bad than the alternatives.
Agreed, though, it’s probably not wise.
If you replace Puck and Daphne with the two halves of my own sleep-deprived mind, this is the exact same conversation that goes on in my brain every single day.
Mine too. Which is how we got here. Mind you, my kids are older now, so the ability to indulge the terrible father urges are far easier to give into. “Oh, I’ll just take a nap. It’ll be fine. If anything bad happens, the screams will wake me up.”
I’ve only had to babysit a few times. Twice of those were on 0 sleep.
I can actually understand the fact that Puck falls asleep.
Once of the times when I babysat, I have a 20ish minute memory gap during which (I’d assume) I fell asleep.
Luckily, the kid was also sleeping at that time, but still.
So yeah. I don’t blame Puck.
I am curious, though: is this arc going to be related to Phoebe’s new hairstyle, or is that happening on a later date?
I regularly have memory lapses of 20ish minutes, especially when the kids are watching TV. The My Little Pony episode is just starting and then things go a little fuzzy, and suddenly the end credit music is playing about five seconds later. Must be those pesky time holes.
Phoebe’s hair style is NOT the story arc. It’s … something different.
I wish I could do that. I can’t nap, so I just lose focus for an hour or so in the middle of the day. I still remember everything that happens, but I can’t think or do anything about it until after I get my focus back. It’s almost like a waking form of sleep paralysis.
If I nap for around twenty minutes, I wake up refreshed. Oddly, if I nap for an hour or more, I wake up disoriented, in a foul mood and feeling positively ill.
You fell asleep for 20 minutes while the kid was asleep – and the kid was asleep when you woke up.
What you don’t know is that the kid woke up and went on a field trip of the nearby construction yard while the family dog freaked out and tried to save the baby while getting pummeled, himself – only to return the child just before you woke up and he fell asleep.
Once when I was in animation college (where the students were regularly sleep-deprived), one of my fellow students went to sleep for an hour-long nap and woke up when his alarm went off … the next day. He slept for 25 hours straight.
He then went to his scheduled class, only to find the wrong class in the room, because it was the wrong day.
I discovered him wandering the animation wing, looking disoriented. All he had to say about the whole thing? “Well, I feel rested.”
I had to babysit my bf’s son when he was 13, I think. I watched him play “Minecraft” for three hours solid. I only wish I had fallen asleep. I’d take Miranda any day.
That’s like my son. He plays Minecraft, mods Minecraft, watches Vines and Youtube gamers and … that’s about it. It’s not really demanding as a supervisory role.
Sometimes they remain in real life after the baby stage. It’s unpredictable. And biological. And has nothing to do with retaining readership. Nothing at all. 😉
We had a case a couple of years ago when an overweight woman with big boobs was napping with her baby on the couch, rolled over in her sleep, and smothered her baby. Just sayin’
you know, i was jsut hit by a vision of how a teenaged miranda will be – between pucks not so awesome parenting, daph sarcasm and the daughter of satan she´s bound to end up a very temperamental, extremely sarcastic person in skimpy clothes…..with a possible videogame addiction and perchance for hustling. world, beware!!
I think Greg White will be SOMEWHAT right. About this. Probably nothing else though.
I also think Greg White thinks and wonders about alot of odd stuff. Although, I AM a hobo, so what do I know? I know how to row. I know how to tie a bow. I know how to throw. Try as I might I still don’t know how to glow. Now I’m gonna eat some crow just below the hedgerow where the wind don’t blow.
Uhm, some … time? Honestly, time is nebulous here. For instance, I’m pretty sure Phoebe’s hair (which she’s growing out) will occupy an entirely different time continuum and be considerably longer within a comic or two.
I think all we can determine is that Miranda is (probably) not yet one, because she’s not even starting to walk or talk yet. Though her hair, also, seems to be occupying its own separate time continuum because it’s really full and long for a baby.
Well, honestly, the flip phone I showed Phoebe use in that earlier stretch was horribly outdated even then. You could just chalk it up to me knowing nothing about cell phones.
But on that topic, yes, any long-running comic or cartoon inevitably runs into this snag. The most mind-boggling one, to my thinking, is the Simpsons, where Bart and Lisa have been in elementary school since the Reagan administration. Even established details about their back stories are now a little odd, like how Homer and Marge went to high school in the 70’s. I love encountering that with comics like Zits, a comic about a teen, written and drawn by two dudes in their 60’s. The parents in the comic are always shown belonging to the creators’ generation, meaning their depiction of the parents’ teen years is always firmly placed around 1970 or so. Aaaaannnnnddddd … no. Parents of teens today came of age in the mid 80’s. Hell, I’m just a few years away from being a parent of a teen myself, and I came of age in the 90’s.
The Simpson’s did try to correct this by having an episode about Marge going to college after high school, rather than getting pregnant at 18 like everyone assumed she had. Of course, now even that episode is rather old and they’ve just resorted to having Bart go through experiences a teenager normally would despite the fact he hasn’t aged.
On a Simpsons related side note, after Trump wins this year’s election and bankrupts the US, Lisa will become president. In 4 years we’ll have energy shields, holographic mail, hovercars (although non-hover cars will still be around too), a jaundiced female president, and “goodbye” will be replaced by “smell ya later”.
Well, when they increased the size of the banner, it was time. Though for some reason, I can’t get the dang thing to show up at the right resolution. The text is slightly fuzzy because it’s being resized inside the browser window, even though I uploaded it at the correct res. Oh well. It’s better than the old one, at least.
Haha. I remember trying to catch little snooze intervals back in the day like this with my kid but it rarely ever worked.
The fear of what might could happen was too great I guess.
AUGUST VOTING INCENTIVE: SEXY NUDES!!!
There's the August voting incentive up on TWC! Yes, SEXY NUDES! Yes, starring PUCK and PHOEBE! What the people ask for!
CLICK HERE TO GO NUDE!
ALSO…
Just a friendly reminder that if you want the PUCK+ experience, including access to all the past voting incentives, some sneak peaks, and other extra junk, you can become a patron of Puck for only a dollar a month!
CLICK HERE TO BECOME A PATRON OF PUCK! A PUCKTRON? That sounds rad, like gestalt transformer or something!
As for this comic…
Observant readers will note that this marks the start of a new chapter/story arc. So hold on, because this one's going to be crazy. (It's also going to be pretty short, so if it's not to your liking, it won't last long.)
For the record, I never totally went into a full-on comatose state when watching my kids, but I did periodically have those momentary lapses in consciousness. (And by momentary, I mean no more than half an hour in duration.) As Louis C.K. says, you can judge all you want, but unless you've been there, unless you've had kids, you don't know, man. You just don't know.
I think “uhba” is one of the words that the various bugs or random baby characters in Pogo say from time to time.
Well, it’s a hard line to walk with baby talk: phonetically forming sounds that aren’t too stereotypically baby, like ‘goo goo’, but avoiding the actual sounds that babies make, which generally cannot be written using the Roman (or any other) alphabet very successfully – sounds like “arphthphimmiphthphthmmmm”.
In some comics the sounds or intention of the baby could be represented by a picture in a word balloon (say a rattle) or perhaps just some punctuation (“!!”). However, that’s not the style of your comic.
I have the Pogo in Pandaemonium book somewhere, so I should look up what the random wandering babies “say” in that sequence. I don’t have any of the original Popeye comics, but I am curious as to what, if anything, Swee’pea ever said.
I’m curious too.
Congrats on #350, Geck! I’ll come up with a snappy/witty comment later, right now I need sleeeeeeeeep!
Yay! It’s my semiseptcentennial strip! Bully for me!
And now marks the start of Miranda take a more active role in the strip, I see… 🙂
Has anyone read her her Miranda rights?
In this case I think the Miranda rights go something like this.
“She has the right to NOT remain silent”
“Anything she says can and will waken the entire household”
“she has the right to be fed, burped and wearing a clean diaper at all times”
“If you choose to ignore these rights, Anything she says can and will waken the the entire house”
The rights unfortunately need to be read to the family, not not Miranda!
That’s … pretty good, man.
A little more. I think her role will be limited to saying things like ‘uhba’ for the foreseeable future, but she’s out of the ‘sack of potatoes’ stage of development in human existence.
A couple of months from now she’ll be handling the family finances because she’s the only responsible one.
Hey, better a baby than a hired financial adviser.
Human? Surely you mean ‘Half-Fey’? 😉
Okay, okay. Fine.
This reminds me of a time when I was seven years old and instructed to watch my brother, a baby at the time.
I did watch him. I watched him crawl right off the edge of a table and fall to the floor.
When confronted about this fact by my parents, I responded with “You told me to watch him, you didn’t tell me to catch him.”
That’s how my parents tell the story, anyway, and it sounds exactly right.
Never, ever get a seven year-old kid to watch a baby. Ever. Ever. Speaking as someone who has a seven year-old.
When I moved to a part of California where I first experienced lack of culture shock… I was in the parking lot of an apartment complex I had just taken on being the resident Assistant / night manager. There were two VERY small children just running about, with no supervising adults anywhere to be seen. I found out from the bigger of the two which unit they belonged, and took them there. I told the woman who had answered the door that her two children were just running about the parking area unsupervised.
Her response to me was as follows: “They aren’t unsupervised, the three year old is watching the two year old.”
I was literally dumbfounded and had no idea what to say to this.
Sadly I have plenty more true stories like this one…
I got the expression “sleep for dinner” from another incident.
I’d been escorting the exterminator to different units one afternoon. In one, two kids ran up to their mother and told her “We’re hungry!”
The mother responded with “Okay then, go to sleep!”
Lack of culture shock…
Uuuuuuuuughhhhh. Sigh.
It’s a culture. It’s not one I like or endorse, but it’s a culture. That’s why it’s so hard to work against it to establish any real change.
All things considered, by contrast having a 7 year old watch a much smaller child is significantly less bad than the alternatives.
Agreed, though, it’s probably not wise.
Pure.Cringe.
If you replace Puck and Daphne with the two halves of my own sleep-deprived mind, this is the exact same conversation that goes on in my brain every single day.
Mine too. Which is how we got here. Mind you, my kids are older now, so the ability to indulge the terrible father urges are far easier to give into. “Oh, I’ll just take a nap. It’ll be fine. If anything bad happens, the screams will wake me up.”
She’s chewing on a block – how much trouble could she get into?
-falls down laughing- says every uninformed naive person without a kid or siblings EVER
As beautifully shown by the game ‘Who’s Your Daddy?’, babies are incredibly adept at finding danger in record time.
As beautifully shown by any Toddler EVER lol it doesn’t even matter the species 😛 toddlers are evil
As SotiCoto the Wise once observed: “Babies attempt suicide a dozen times a day – and yet somehow we are required to stop them”
SalemCat the Observant once observed something wise that SotiCoto the Wise once observed.
That was one of the dearly departed’s best lines.
I’ve only had to babysit a few times. Twice of those were on 0 sleep.
I can actually understand the fact that Puck falls asleep.
Once of the times when I babysat, I have a 20ish minute memory gap during which (I’d assume) I fell asleep.
Luckily, the kid was also sleeping at that time, but still.
So yeah. I don’t blame Puck.
I am curious, though: is this arc going to be related to Phoebe’s new hairstyle, or is that happening on a later date?
I regularly have memory lapses of 20ish minutes, especially when the kids are watching TV. The My Little Pony episode is just starting and then things go a little fuzzy, and suddenly the end credit music is playing about five seconds later. Must be those pesky time holes.
Phoebe’s hair style is NOT the story arc. It’s … something different.
I wish I could do that. I can’t nap, so I just lose focus for an hour or so in the middle of the day. I still remember everything that happens, but I can’t think or do anything about it until after I get my focus back. It’s almost like a waking form of sleep paralysis.
If I nap for around twenty minutes, I wake up refreshed. Oddly, if I nap for an hour or more, I wake up disoriented, in a foul mood and feeling positively ill.
Now I see what I’ve been doing wrong.
Sleepy-Time !
I always have to remind myself it’s still the same day I went to sleep and I haven’t massively overslept…
You fell asleep for 20 minutes while the kid was asleep – and the kid was asleep when you woke up.
What you don’t know is that the kid woke up and went on a field trip of the nearby construction yard while the family dog freaked out and tried to save the baby while getting pummeled, himself – only to return the child just before you woke up and he fell asleep.
And poor Buttons rarely gets any appreciation…
Once when I was in animation college (where the students were regularly sleep-deprived), one of my fellow students went to sleep for an hour-long nap and woke up when his alarm went off … the next day. He slept for 25 hours straight.
He then went to his scheduled class, only to find the wrong class in the room, because it was the wrong day.
I discovered him wandering the animation wing, looking disoriented. All he had to say about the whole thing? “Well, I feel rested.”
Classic Alien Abduction
(my greatest fear)
No, No, Not the Probe !!
Constant supervision? Everybody in the strip requires constant supervision…
True enough. Too bad there are no grown-ups to provide the necessary supervision.
Well, you’re supervising them…otherwise they might burst out of the strip and make a big nuisance of themselves in our so-called “real” world…
The only place they might get that would be in jail… ^^;
Some of ’em were just there a few strips ago…
Nah, that was Funderland’s holding cell. Real jail would be much stricter. ^_^
I had to babysit my bf’s son when he was 13, I think. I watched him play “Minecraft” for three hours solid. I only wish I had fallen asleep. I’d take Miranda any day.
That’s like my son. He plays Minecraft, mods Minecraft, watches Vines and Youtube gamers and … that’s about it. It’s not really demanding as a supervisory role.
Funnily enough, Puck’s boobs appear to have stayed large despite her pregnancy coming to an end. I wonder why….
Popular Demand
Sometimes they remain in real life after the baby stage. It’s unpredictable. And biological. And has nothing to do with retaining readership. Nothing at all. 😉
I call ARUGULA !
(No, I don’t eat ANY green weeds – YUK.
It’s just that my human mom, Janet, insists my YOWL sounds like Arugula.)
Uh-huh.
Yeah, look how well it’s worked for Blondie! She’s been around like ninety years, right? And still a double-D
It’s that fresh Mountain Air !
We had a case a couple of years ago when an overweight woman with big boobs was napping with her baby on the couch, rolled over in her sleep, and smothered her baby. Just sayin’
Are you suggesting a story arc ?
Susan, Susan, Susan…..
Or, we could introduce a Cat. Everyone knows cats steal Baby’s Breath.
http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/catsuck.asp
“Angel bright. Life in death. Get off the road. Don’t suck my breath.”
Those Hot Steams will get you every time.
A little Harper Lee is good summer reading.
Though honestly, I bought that book because there was an ACTUAL Mockingbird that was swooping my head every time I went out.
The Nerve.
And I found NO PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS inside that book for killing that feathered freak.
Almost asked for my money back.
The trick is to use the book itself as a swatter.
Of course, it helps to have thumbs.
“Of course, it helps to have thumbs.”
Oh, I had that, too.
After a series of painful shots I was ok.
you know, i was jsut hit by a vision of how a teenaged miranda will be – between pucks not so awesome parenting, daph sarcasm and the daughter of satan she´s bound to end up a very temperamental, extremely sarcastic person in skimpy clothes…..with a possible videogame addiction and perchance for hustling. world, beware!!
Sounds like … a successful formula for a webcomic protagonist!
Strange . . . yet . . . touching. Daphne really IS a big sis to Miranda!
She is, kinda! Kinda?
I think Colin will find Puck asleep and put her in bed.
And risk “Wake-Up Rage” ?
(shudder)
I think Greg White will be SOMEWHAT right. About this. Probably nothing else though.
I also think Greg White thinks and wonders about alot of odd stuff. Although, I AM a hobo, so what do I know? I know how to row. I know how to tie a bow. I know how to throw. Try as I might I still don’t know how to glow. Now I’m gonna eat some crow just below the hedgerow where the wind don’t blow.
Greg has had a long history of wondering strange, unusual things. He does it so well.
If anyone’s an authority figure on parenting, it’s Louis C.K. What a guy.
Honestly, his depiction is the closest to reality I’ve ever heard.
How much time has passed since the Funderland misadventure?
Uhm, some … time? Honestly, time is nebulous here. For instance, I’m pretty sure Phoebe’s hair (which she’s growing out) will occupy an entirely different time continuum and be considerably longer within a comic or two.
I think all we can determine is that Miranda is (probably) not yet one, because she’s not even starting to walk or talk yet. Though her hair, also, seems to be occupying its own separate time continuum because it’s really full and long for a baby.
Chalk it up to genetics. Major Fey always seem to have great hair. ^_^
I wonder if Puck and company are going to watch the new Star Trek
TV show that’s coming out next year.
I wonder if Puck and company will be eating Hot Dogs while watching Star Trek.
Good going, Greg White. Together we are going to drive Buggle insane !
How about having Puck and company watch all the Star Trek TV shows and movies.
While eating Hot Dogs.
Kinda fun comparing the technology of Puck 89+95 with Daphne’s minitablet/smartphone.
Moore’s Law: bane of comics the worry about consistency but not really a barrier to comedy.
Well, honestly, the flip phone I showed Phoebe use in that earlier stretch was horribly outdated even then. You could just chalk it up to me knowing nothing about cell phones.
But on that topic, yes, any long-running comic or cartoon inevitably runs into this snag. The most mind-boggling one, to my thinking, is the Simpsons, where Bart and Lisa have been in elementary school since the Reagan administration. Even established details about their back stories are now a little odd, like how Homer and Marge went to high school in the 70’s. I love encountering that with comics like Zits, a comic about a teen, written and drawn by two dudes in their 60’s. The parents in the comic are always shown belonging to the creators’ generation, meaning their depiction of the parents’ teen years is always firmly placed around 1970 or so. Aaaaannnnnddddd … no. Parents of teens today came of age in the mid 80’s. Hell, I’m just a few years away from being a parent of a teen myself, and I came of age in the 90’s.
The Simpson’s did try to correct this by having an episode about Marge going to college after high school, rather than getting pregnant at 18 like everyone assumed she had. Of course, now even that episode is rather old and they’ve just resorted to having Bart go through experiences a teenager normally would despite the fact he hasn’t aged.
On a Simpsons related side note, after Trump wins this year’s election and bankrupts the US, Lisa will become president. In 4 years we’ll have energy shields, holographic mail, hovercars (although non-hover cars will still be around too), a jaundiced female president, and “goodbye” will be replaced by “smell ya later”.
Smell Ya later!
The new Banner Title on Top Web Comics is much improved !!
Well, when they increased the size of the banner, it was time. Though for some reason, I can’t get the dang thing to show up at the right resolution. The text is slightly fuzzy because it’s being resized inside the browser window, even though I uploaded it at the correct res. Oh well. It’s better than the old one, at least.
Hey, Gecko. My human mom and dad don’t use fancy words, so I’ll ask you.
I was going to call your banner title a Kyron, or Kiron, or Ciron. I think there is such a word.
Do you know ?
I do not.
Thanks anyhow.
They probably just don’t have them in Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chyron
It is a word – whoopee !
I’m not sure it really applies to your Banner, though.
No. No it does not.
Though I’ll bet if it were possible to transform your Banner into a Chryon it would sure be an attention getter !
Maybe an animated Puck beating Colin ? Poor Guy.
She used to be nice to him….
https://puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-53
Rest assured that Puck is still nice to Colin on a regular basis. We just don’t see it as much within the context of the comic.
Whew !
There’s still hope Miranda will have a playmate.
How about the CLOUDS ? They still seeing each other ?
https://puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-56
They’re clouds, dude. They’ve gone through the water cycle many times by now.
But they’re still in love….
It’s Monday and I remembered to be here!
When is the new comic being post?!
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on!
I have a thing to show you!
[I’mma go watch another episode of ‘Quantum Leap’ and check back]
Haha. I remember trying to catch little snooze intervals back in the day like this with my kid but it rarely ever worked.
The fear of what might could happen was too great I guess.
Even if it’s only ten seconds of sleep behind half-closed eyes, it’s worth it!