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As for this comic…
This kind of thing has happened to me in downtown Hamilton a fair bit. Not the ‘vision of beauty’ part, but the ‘no pants’ part. It’s that kind of town. I have been mugged in broad daylight in downtown Hamilton. I also was once accosted in downtown Hamilton by a man wearing a rubber lion mask who, accompanied by a rather normal-looking woman, offered the opportunity for me to punch him in the face for five bucks. Or they’d pay me five bucks for the experience; honestly, I forget the exact dynamics of the transaction. I did not take them up on the offer, whatever it was.
I’ve been to Manhattan a few times. Weird things have happened to me in Manhattan, but the weirdest stuff that’s ever happened to me has happened to me in downtown Hamilton. I’m somehow proud of that.
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As for this comic…
This kind of thing has happened to me in downtown Hamilton a fair bit. Not the ‘vision of beauty’ part, but the ‘no pants’ part. It’s that kind of town. I have been mugged in broad daylight in downtown Hamilton. I also was once accosted in downtown Hamilton by a man wearing a rubber lion mask who, accompanied by a rather normal-looking woman, offered the opportunity for me to punch him in the face for five bucks. Or they’d pay me five bucks for the experience; honestly, I forget the exact dynamics of the transaction. I did not take them up on the offer, whatever it was.
I’ve been to Manhattan a few times. Weird things have happened to me in Manhattan, but the weirdest stuff that’s ever happened to me has happened to me in downtown Hamilton. I’m somehow proud of that.
Do pants really need to be worn for validation? I suppose that it would lend credibility to the statement, wouldn’t it?
It would.
What about the crazy hobo in the backyard from the book, “The Help”? He definitely wasn’t wearing pants.
Colin IS strange to Ph. D. levels…..
Please tell me that the Russians where playing at Copps on those days of the incidents as I would hate to suggest that you could have dropped off that library book at a local branch (Westdale) on those days of the incidents…. (What else where you doing downtown ?!?!?)
Oh Hot Dog guy !!!! How can Colin afford those things for Puck at the rate he charges her for those things?
Canadian Healthcare System.
Yeah, as Pat said, we established a while (A WHIIIIILE) back that Puck’s been deemed mentally unstable so her therapy sessions are covered by OHIP.
And I used to go downtown a lot in my younger years. It was a cool scene of urban blight with some good record stores. I also used to work in the downtown core too. Nowadays, not so much. But when I’ve gone in recent years, I’ve found it’s still the same scary place I know and love. Every time I’ve gone with my son for any reason, we’ve witnessed either someone being arrested, or someone in a stand-off with police. He now thinks of the downtown core as a Gotham-like den of crime and insanity that is only missing a superhero figure to right it. And he really wouldn’t be far off.
Well, if your son starts talking in a husky voice and doing karate in the backyard you may know the secret identity of a certain vigilante in the near future.
Unlikely. He’s even less athletic than his dad, BUT… Maybe it’s all a cover.
Or he’s stuffing his shirts to hide his secret muscles.
Miss Mayhem?
Downtown Hamilton: “You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy” You must be careful…
Have you ever seen that Dayjob Orchestra redub of Star Wars? That line is directly stated.
I found the link! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQIZyZ02ypk
They’re from the Toronto area. And their perspectives represent the views of all Torontonians.
That IS pretty funny…
Arrrrugula !
I pity anyone whose first exposure to Star Wars New Hope was this awful, mutilated version.
VHS Forever !
Han shot first! (I have a tank has that printed on the front, hee hee)
“Han shot first! ”
Arugula ! (again)
Like, totally.
I was thinkin’ Lucas did not mess up my other faves, until I watched ROTJ on TV last week.
Vader shouts “NO” before he tosses Sidious down the well, completely tipping off the wrinkled-one (and the audience) prior to the act.
Then, at the very end, Kenobi, Yoda, and YOUNG ANAKIN appear !! Instead of old Anakin, who was the actual person who was redeemed.
BTW, why does Kylo Ren worship the dude who threw a SITH MASTER to his doom ? Is Kylo lame and stupid ?(wait, I just answered my own question).
So I headed to eBay and bought an awesome ROTG in VHS, which I need to watch ASAP to cleanse my tiny brain of horrible visions Lucas served to us in his dotage.
Too much pot Georgie ?
I own the orig trig on VHS. It’s the only version my son has ever seen.
https://youtu.be/r2kPFGChlkA
ME !!!
(in my dreams)
There is a old saying here in Vegas,”If you think you’ve seen everything, wait 15 minutes”……..
Oh, I’ve heard the BEST stories about weirdness in Vegas. I definitely know that place would top my town on the weirdness scale. I’ve never been, though.
Stay away!!
I once went there to meet a friend and left with a wife.
Worst parting gift, ever.
Were you married by Elvis?
Doesn’t Elvis have the best weddings?
Sadly no. At least I would have gotten some enjoyment out of the whole marriage thing.
Puck is looking hot. I love the brown and the flat hair. To bad about the crazy. But crazy can be hot too.
I think “crazy can be hot” sums up much of Puck’s appeal. But glad you like. My wife hates this new look, mainly because, to put in her words, “It looks like Puck is trying to be like everyone else. Like she’s trying to be normal.”
And normal is NOT COOL.
Hey, it’s Hot Dog Guy, my favorite non-main character! (I don’t refer to him as one due to lack of appearances.)
To be honest, he’s got a point – pants or no pants, a compliment is a compliment.
I remember once being told I’d be paid $5 if I punched a guy in the face (who literally walked around and said ‘please punch me in the face and get $5 for it’. I don’t know why). I’m pretty sure he was a junkie so I ignored him and hurried past. Not sure if anyone else took him up on the offer, come to think of it…
I’m so glad to hear someone else had a similar ‘punch me in the face’ experience. Though the lack of lion mask and well dressed minder does add a level of normalcy to the equation.
And Hotdog Guy is definitely a non-main (minor) character. Heck, I went over a year without featuring him one time, and then when Puck DID visit him, many readers were confused about who this mysterious hotdog-selling psychotherapist was.
That is weird.
It’s probably a good thing I rarely ever go into the city. If anyone tried something weird they’d find themselves looking down the barrel of a Glock.
However, I’ve been told I give off a “cop vibe” (and “military vibe”) by several different people so I tend to be left alone.
Ooh! I’ve never actually known someone who owns a Glock!
The Glock 19! The Honda Civic of the gunworld!
Very reliable.
… Puck looks like her own little sister. ^_^;
Ehhhhhhh… I guess – maybe more like her snotty, slutty twin.
Heh.
Western Civilization was founded by men who didn’t wear pants. Socrates the Corrupter of the Youth, Alex the Above Average, Homer who liked long poems, Caesar with his Salads, and Ovid the Odd, yes, the very basis of our literature, science, and justice system all comes from toga’d, pants-free men.
True. But they were covered, and so I will qualify that as a pants substitute.
TOH-Ga! TOH-Ga! TOH-Ga!
You won’t believe it’s not pants!
So when the Tralfalmadorians write their History of Earth, perhaps it’ll read:
FIRST MILLION YEARS
Western Civilization. At one point it had a Pants-Substitute.
(A Kilgore Trout reference there … so it goes.)
You forgot Noah’s wife, Joan.
Best compliment(s) I ever got:
Friend of my BF’s, at a party, “Your girlfriend sure is pretty.”
My BF: “Thanks, I think so myself.”
No “vision of beauty”, there, but on the upside, they WERE both wearing pants.
The pants do validate the compliment. IMHO, no pants, no compliment. (Compliments without pants are just creepy creeper noise.)
Makes me wonder why Puck tolerated it, rather than give him the dreaded left hook…
Probably because of that “my fists are considered lethal weapons” thing…
But really, would that have stopped her? Clearly, that can’t be Puck if so!
I don’t see what’s so bad about freckles. I think they’re hot (or can be, at least). Just the other day, I saw a young woman whose face was nearly all freckles. Let’s just say I had to take a long, cold shower afterwards. (Glasses have that effect on me, too, maybe I’m just weird.)
It’s a nerd thing, actually. Boys who grew up getting picked on for getting good grades, reading, playing video games or tabletop games tend to really only communicate with girls who share similar interests. And those girls tend to have glasses, freckles, braces…basically anything that makes them look unattractive by boys in high school. So, the socially awkward boys tend to learn to find those things attractive, since these are the only girls to talk to them when they were young.
I, however, lucked out by making friends with a hot girl back then who just so happened to be into the same things I’m into, so my tastes weren’t colored by what was available in my high school dating pool. More so when I consider that, years later, she pretty much told me that, had I had the courage to actually ask her out, she would have say yes. 🙂
Nicely said. I think, beyond that, evolutionarily speaking, there’s always two forces of attraction running in a species when one’s looking for a mate: sameness and differentiation. It helps to look for sameness, for a partner that exemplifies the norm of the species, because you know what you’re getting. That said, sometimes there’s an inherent attraction to the different, to the unusual, because taking a gamble on the weirdos is how evolution works.
I think, individually, some people are most attracted to the sameness factor: to those that most clearly represent the ideal concept of an attractive person in society. Other people, though, are more attracted to the differentiating factors – to things that make people stand out, like freckles, or glasses, or weird patches of white hair. Or tails. And (I’m generalizing here, of course) I’d say the ‘weirdos’, the people society generally rejects as being too different, are the ones that often find the differentiating factors the most appealing. So that means, as Hitokiri noted, it’s kind of a nerd thing.
I tried wearing glasses (just the rims, I have 20/20 vision) when I went to bars to keep from getting hit on by creeps. No luck. I stopped wearing them
Pulling a Clark Kent doesn’t work with creepy guys. They can see through that in a heartbeat!
They’re not staring at your EYES – that’s why.
So Hotdog Guy approves the change, huh? I guess whatever makes your client feel fulfilled and happy…
Exactly.
Puck is even dressing BETTER – and technically she has no pants on.
Doubters click here: https://puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-150
Lack of pants makes it easier to tell whether he means it or not -snicker-
Touché.
You men and your d!#$ jokes – what if he was gay, and still meant it as a sincere compliment?
I feel like I’m being type-casted as male here just because of a d#$% joke… hardly seems fair, women make d#$% jokes
Well, I don’t care who makes the jokes. As long as they’re funny.
I’m a little distracted by trying to figure out what he’s watching while she talks!
He’s playing Minecraft PE. Which, coincidentally, is a bit of a hint as to what next month’s voting incentive pics are.
Are those Puck’s freckles on Dr. Colinstrange’s forearms?
Nah, those are actual comic-accurate Dr. Strange gloves. At least going by the 70’s era design. (I know. They look weird.)
Of course, some morning soon Puck will wake up to find her freckles have grown back.
She will be so distraught, she will be bedridden for months.
The only MAIN character with actual Nursing Experience will have to tend to her, daily, for a very long time.
https://puckcomics.com/?comic=puck-173
Sadly, the Air Conditioning in the Hospital will fail, and the Nursing Staff will need to wear very abbreviated uniforms.
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/281558629748-0-1/s-l1000.jpg
Hubba Hubba – Heal me Tracee !
Purrrrrrrrrrr
Possibly.
How about a series of vote comics in which Puck and company are wearing Crystal Prep uniforms.
Would Puck feel more validated if she were the one not wearing pants?
If she is wearing a dress, she is not wearing pants. Slacks, anyway
I did consider the general problems of the word ‘pants’ in the English-speaking world before making this comic, but I decided to go with it anyway. In America or Canada, pants always mean slacks, or trousers. Always. In Canada, we do sometimes use ‘slacks’ and ‘trousers’ (what with our British background being as strong as it is), but honestly those words sound really dated and conjure images of pleated old man pants. Pants is the word everyone uses here, so I went with it.
Puck, by the way, almost never wears pants (North American meaning) within the comic. Though she does always wear pants (British meaning) beneath the skirt. Because she’s a fine, discriminating lady.
Is she wearing pants (British meaning) with that short, short, short skirt in this comic?
Yes. Yes indeed.
I thought the Brits use “knickers”. For the record, in Texas it’s jeans or slacks (or shorts). Underneath it’s “panties” unless you are a frat rat trying to get into someone’s.
You’d think one would be able to see them, if Puck were, in fact, wearing pants (British meaning) under that very, very tight mini mini mini mini mini skirt.
You’d think, wouldn’t you? But no.
We girls receive training at a very early age on how to avoid boys getting glimpses of our undies :p
But Puck is a *fairy* girl – not like us. Surely *fairies* think that undies are a weird human tradition. Right…?
Are Pant-Tees something like Tee-Shirts ?
Humans are so weird.
I feel like I’m slightly cursed, because every time I’ve come to read Puck recently there’s been 69 comments on the newest comic.
Well, hey. Lots of people choose that as their favorite number (including, among others, Bill S. Preston Esq. and Ted Theodore Logan) so maybe it’s a blessing?
Set your Alarm Clock back an Hour ?
See, I am nothing if not helpful.
I feel pretty,
Oh, so pretty,
I feel pretty, no pity, a sight!
And this ditty
Shows they’ll treat me differently and right.
Without freckles,
So long freckles,
I’ve got compliments, confident, changed!
Not bespeckled,
How my life has been rearranged!
See that total stranger in downtown there:
Can he say something that enchants?
He said I was fine.
He’s got funny smell,
He agreed with me,
He’s not wearing pants!
I feel altered
And unfaltered,
I’m a vision of beauty, an elf,
For I’m loved
By a pretty girl—myself!
Bonus marks for the Tony-winning musical number.
I was brought to tears…. sniffle
“Twentieth Century Fox”
Well, she’s fashionably lean
And she’s fashionably late
She’ll never rank a scene
She’ll never break a date
But she’s no drag
Just watch the way she walks
She’s a twentieth century fox
She’s a twentieth century fox
No tears, no fears
No ruined years, no clocks
She’s a twentieth century fox, oh yeah
She’s the queen of cool
And she’s the lady who waits
Since her mind left school
It never hesitates
She won’t waste time
On elementary talk
‘Cause she’s a twentieth century fox
She’s a twentieth century fox
Got the world locked up
Inside a plastic box
She’s a twentieth century fox, oh yeah
Twentieth century fox, oh yeah
Twentieth century fox
She’s a twentieth century fox
Curse you, Jim Morrison, for dying
https://youtu.be/sFJuBqkQ5Co
*puts Salemcat into a cold shower*
No! Cats don’t like that!
Can I help it if the Lizard draws HOT women ?
“But really, are pants necessary to validate the compliment ? I think not.”
Puck’s ensemble is kinda popping…showing a bit more thigh, etc. I don’t see how she feels freckles take away from the aesthetic really. She looks hot.
I don’t know. But I’ve been reassured by many women that freckles take away from many aesthetics. I’m as confused as you.
Freckles are bad, but overpriced “Tramp Stamps” inked by talentless, drug-addled buffoons are sexy ?
Oh you humans !!