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As for this comic…
Parenthood does change things. Some things become … less frequent. But I can tell you one thing that totally gets more frequent when you become a parent: ICE CREAM!!!!
BYOOO!!! BYU-BYU-BYU BYOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
(That’s the best text-based air horn I can manage. Sorry.)
So,, does this mean that this isn’t the first time that ice cream has led to or prevented sex? He should’ve gotten the peanut butter blast off blizzard
I know being a “Stay-At-Home Mom” can be a Full-Time Job, but am I only one who suspects Robin would be a “Stay-At-Home NON-MOM” if Miranda weren’t around ?
She just doesn’t seem to be a person who defines themselves by their Work Ethic.
There are two possible explanations. One is that there is a reason, perhaps revealed next comic, as to why they’ve rearranged where they sit in the bed. The other is that I’m terrible at continuity and just plain forgot what side they sleep on.
Baldie sleeps on the Left, with Janet to his Right, as in Puck #43 and #275.
He explains it as a holdover from their Courting Days, when he would do the Driving.
Of course in North America the Steering Wheel is to the Left.
So when they went “Parking” (snicker), they were both accustomed to their places.
Makes you kind of wonder if Man-to-the-Left is the more common in North America, and if, conversely, if the opposite may be true in Japan or the UK where the Steering Wheel is on the Right.
The locations are different? Huh. I never knew that individual craftsmanship went into the cakes. I always thought they were, like, printed in a factory or something.
Depends if it is a franchise or corporate Dairy Queen. Corporate stores are all the same and have the exact same offerings. Franchises have A LITTLE wiggle room to personalize to their area.
There is supposed to be a Dairy Queen in Wisconsin that can thumb it’s proverbial nose at corporate in relation to what it can choose to use on its own menu. As well as expecting support from corporate as well.
I laughed a bit too hard at Colin’s comment in panel 4.
A friend told me his girlfriend recently got pregnant and they’ve not had sex since they found out.
Which was five or so weeks ago.
He’s slowly going insane.
I then linked him to this comic.
“YOU’RE TELLING ME NO SEX BEFORE BIRTH?”
Uh… Maybe?
Well, this comic presents a more dire situation than reality. But yes, his life is never going to be the same again. Or maybe it will be the same. Only way less frequently.
I mean, you never know – I could get run over by a bus, or something could happen to you that stops you from drawing the comic, or I could lose interest, or the Internet could get shut down and used for propaganda. Anything could happen.
Wellll…generally true, unless they are running an EEG to see if there is brain activity before they turn the ventilator off and HARVEST YOUR ORGANS! :p
As an English teacher, surely Colin knows that “it shall returneth” is not the correct future tense form of the verb “return” in any form of English, let alone pseudo-Elizabethan. The ending -eth is simply the third person present singular ending, just the same as the ending -s that we find in “returns.”
In fact, a quick search of the King James Bible finds that, as expected, the future tense form of return is indeed “will return” or “shall return.” Here are a couple of examples:
Genesis 18:10
And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
Leviticus 25:13
In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
As for Colin’s verse, “And lo, the sex that hath been …,” I am not entirely sure what it is supposed to mean. I do know that the word “sex” (or “sexe” in Middle English) meant, more or less, “gender” until around 1900. H. G. Wells was one of the first to use that word to mean “coitus” and the like.
If Colin wants to replicate the feeling of the Bible, he may want to think in terms of fertility. Here are a couple of verses in the KJV that come to mind:
Deuteronomy 7
13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
On a different topic: I like the ice cream cup. Ice cream makes all comics better.
Ice cream does not make sex better. If my bf came home with ice cream, it would be a cold day at the Dairy Queen till he got lucky again. “On your lips for a second, on your hips for life.”
“If my bf came home with ice cream, it would be a cold day at the Dairy Queen till he got lucky again.”
Wouldn’t a place that serves ice cream and carries ice cream cakes be cold in at least a fairly decent sized portion of the square footage it occupies? Therefore, isn’t it always a “cold day at the Dairy Queen,” at least in part?
Besides, ice cream is not necessarily consumed in the process of making sex better. (I’ll leave it at that…)
Have you never been at a Dairy Queen? Here in Texas, hose places are Sweat City, mainly because so many oldies hang around all day and drink free coffee and play a card game I never have bothered to learn the name of but looks boring as heck. It’s not really ice cream anyway, it is sofrt-serve which isn’t all that cold. Nobody ever got an “ice cream headache” fom soft serve. As for your last two sentences (including parenthesis), all I can say is EW! EW! EW!
Up in Canada, most Dairy Queens are actually only open for the warm months of the year. A few lonely larger DQ places are open through the winter, but I take it business is slow. No old people, though. Lots of bikers at the one nearest me, though. Big, scary bikers. And ice cream.
Not for life. Ice cream stays on my gut until I feel bad about it about six months later, stop eating the damn stuff, and eventually get thin again. Then celebrate by eating ice cream. Yay?
The voting incentive is nice, but it frightened me at first. I thought it was Tracee in that outfit and I was afraid Salem would achieve orbital velocity. Luckily, then I noticed the ears and freckles (and the fact that she is not burnt umber)
As a married man who has found myself in this very position before (well, sans the ice cream, which in retrospect would have been awesome to have at that moment!) I offer this small piece of advice to Colin:
When your significant other offers up sex after a long dry spell, less talking and analyzing and more loving foreplay is the prudent way to go.
I love Puck’s face in the third panel – this strip reminds me that for all the pitfalls they face, she and Colin do have a loving relationship. And that is one of my favorite things about this comic.
It’s funny you mention BYU and ice cream in the same paragraph. There is a college called BYU. Ice cream is very easily obtained there. But they have rules preventing sex. So there, ice cream always leads to no nookie. Colin would be in torture there.
” Ice cream is very easily obtained there. But they have rules preventing sex.” They also have rules preventing beer (other than the awful 3.2). But I wouldn’t go bail on every closet in their dorms.
Regarding that fake Bible verses only really work when written in fake King James English versions…
Well the language that is most common to your readers would definitely work in comparison to fake Bible Verses written in the fake Latin of the of the fake Gutenberg versions. Although you misspelled “shall” and “sex” by not using the Long S letter (The letter that looks like a short f without the crossbar) that was supposed to go at the beginning and middle of words at the time.
I hate that dumb ‘s’. Reading documents from the 1600’s takes SO LONG because of it. Which is a pain that only English and some history majors can feel.
Okay, I voted, but the silly image I had to pick from didn’t have a name on it. I don’t remember who and was too annoyed to make notes, but it was two dweeby dudes that made Colin look like George Clooney and Brad Pitt. Lucky I picked right, or I would have been majorly annoyed
No, Puck no! Don’t get sunburned there. It hurts. A lot! (Not from personal experience – I’m olive-skinned and don’t wear anything lower cut that a tank top unless I am swimming – but from listening to a fair-skinned friend whine)
NEW VOTING INCENTIVE!!! FIGHTING GAME COSPLAY!!!
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As for this comic…
Parenthood does change things. Some things become … less frequent. But I can tell you one thing that totally gets more frequent when you become a parent: ICE CREAM!!!!
BYOOO!!! BYU-BYU-BYU BYOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
(That’s the best text-based air horn I can manage. Sorry.)
So,, does this mean that this isn’t the first time that ice cream has led to or prevented sex? He should’ve gotten the peanut butter blast off blizzard
Ice cream can be a mood setter. But that Blizzard sounds disgusting.
Here’s a “Mood Breaker”
Colin: “You know, Robin, your Bewbs are nearly as large as Phoebe’s”
Colin: “I meant that as a compliment !“
…he said through the ice cream dripping down his face.:P
@Susan
Yep.
It’s not like Colin’s INNER IDIOT has not won the argument before !
😛
ice cream AND sex? must be collins lucky day!
note to colling: organise babysitter and/or day care, so that your woman is ‘rested’ more often *wink*
They lack the money for that, unfortunately. Of course they do have 2 Freeloaders. Why not hand it off to them?
They’d want compensation as well…. ^^;
The compensation is not kicking them out of the house.
@Dark
Darn right !
Puck might SAY that, but never really mean it for keeps.
Especially since Phleebles pays the rent. And gets the best bed.
@Susan
I really hope Phoebe has a Signed Contract protecting her $150K.
LINK
I know being a “Stay-At-Home Mom” can be a Full-Time Job, but am I only one who suspects Robin would be a “Stay-At-Home NON-MOM” if Miranda weren’t around ?
She just doesn’t seem to be a person who defines themselves by their Work Ethic.
(poor Colin)
Wait, what rent? Her rent? Puck owns the house…
Well, strictly speaking, Phoebe owns the house. Though she’s letting Puck pretend to own it.
But whose name is on the deed?
That is WISE advice. Though expensive advice.
So when is Colin going to start wondering if *he’s* dreaming?
Everything’s COMING UP COLIN!
You’ve forgotten the time she seduced him after the tale of two blondes – again!
Well, the belly time wasn’t the last time, really, but it’s the more memorable time. That’ll be acknowledged next week.
If we get cute Pucolin fluff next week, Gecko, I’ll consider your debt resolved!
@Buggle
Well, Colin is happy two weeks in a row.
Happy Now ?
(grumble grumble)
YES!
So…..
Puck can revert to “normal” next week ?
YAY !
(Colin, you’d better make room under the sink again.)
She’s always normal – this is just her softer side.
@Buggle
I’d totally forgotten about THAT TIME !
BIZARRE !
Robin and Colin have SWITCHED SIDES !
It is my humble opinion that a couple chooses which side of the bed is whose very early on, and maintains that order forever.
It’s certainly been that way with my Human Pets, Baldie and Janet.
But in Puck #385 Robin is on the Right, whereas in Puck #275 Robin is on the Left !
In Puck #43 Robin is on the Left – AGAIN !
What is EG trying to tell us ?
You noticed.
There are two possible explanations. One is that there is a reason, perhaps revealed next comic, as to why they’ve rearranged where they sit in the bed. The other is that I’m terrible at continuity and just plain forgot what side they sleep on.
Pick your poison.
Baldie sleeps on the Left, with Janet to his Right, as in Puck #43 and #275.
He explains it as a holdover from their Courting Days, when he would do the Driving.
Of course in North America the Steering Wheel is to the Left.
So when they went “Parking” (snicker), they were both accustomed to their places.
Makes you kind of wonder if Man-to-the-Left is the more common in North America, and if, conversely, if the opposite may be true in Japan or the UK where the Steering Wheel is on the Right.
I do the driving when my wife and I are in the car together. Though I sleep on the right. Not sure why.
Pretty sure I usually draw Puck on the right side merely because that’s the side I’m used to experiencing.
@EG
I’ll bet you have one of those nice, toasty, electric Reptile Rocks. Mebe it recharges you ?
But Colin ? At this point, Colin is lucky he sleeps in any bed at all !
I’ll bet he’s spent an evening or two cowering under the sink with a frayed blankie.
I work at Dairy Queen as a part time job after school and just seeing that fake cup gives me anxiety.
Why? Because it’s a fake cup, or because it reminds you of the dark times?
I like their soft-serve ice cream. Also one down here made great ice cream cakes, but that one closed, and the others just can’t match them.
The locations are different? Huh. I never knew that individual craftsmanship went into the cakes. I always thought they were, like, printed in a factory or something.
I think the other ones are.
Depends if it is a franchise or corporate Dairy Queen. Corporate stores are all the same and have the exact same offerings. Franchises have A LITTLE wiggle room to personalize to their area.
Cool. I’m still angry they took away the butterscotch dip cones.
There is supposed to be a Dairy Queen in Wisconsin that can thumb it’s proverbial nose at corporate in relation to what it can choose to use on its own menu. As well as expecting support from corporate as well.
And tourism in Wisconsin increases…
@Harles
You think working for a “Queen” is bad ?
Try a WITCH !
I laughed a bit too hard at Colin’s comment in panel 4.
A friend told me his girlfriend recently got pregnant and they’ve not had sex since they found out.
Which was five or so weeks ago.
He’s slowly going insane.
I then linked him to this comic.
“YOU’RE TELLING ME NO SEX BEFORE BIRTH?”
Uh… Maybe?
Well, this comic presents a more dire situation than reality. But yes, his life is never going to be the same again. Or maybe it will be the same. Only way less frequently.
Just for the hell of it, I’m going to repeat the “sex after death” joke.
“Of course there’s sex after death. You get laid in a coffin.”
If my bf ever got me pregnant, it would be “No sex ever again.” He already has a son, why want more?
So long as you both are taking the proper precautions, I don’t see it being an issue. (Note that I said BOTH of you…)
Ha! I know a couple that got preggers on BCP AND a vasectomy. We call him “super-sperm”
What if it will be a girl? 🙂 Or what if he WANTS a girl.
No no. Not the Second Comming of Christ.
More like the second comming of Colin 😉
I knew someone would say that! Which is why I didn’t.
“Rimshot”
One would hope it will be more than just the second…they have been married for some time now and seeing each other for long before that.
DOUBLE WEDDING ARC! WEDDINGS ALL AROUND – WITH SHENANIGANS!
TraceexSatan
ColinxPuck
You know it’s coming. Eventually. (And by eventually, I mean probably somewhere around strip #600. Which is … a while away.)
I look forward to it! (If I’m still here)
IF? Sheesh.
I mean, you never know – I could get run over by a bus, or something could happen to you that stops you from drawing the comic, or I could lose interest, or the Internet could get shut down and used for propaganda. Anything could happen.
So negative! Let’s think on the POSITIVE side. Positive!
@EG
Ummm….
Except when a Doctor runs Tests.
Then, NEGATIVE RESULTS are a really GOOD THING !
(come on Susan, back me up here)
Wellll…generally true, unless they are running an EEG to see if there is brain activity before they turn the ventilator off and HARVEST YOUR ORGANS! :p
@Susan
My favorite Organs are already long gone.
(Boo Hoo Hoo Hoo)
See how well you do without your heart, kidneys and liver :p
😛
@Susan
Heart, Kidneys, Liver ?
I’m lucky I still have my Hippopotamus !
As an English teacher, surely Colin knows that “it shall returneth” is not the correct future tense form of the verb “return” in any form of English, let alone pseudo-Elizabethan. The ending -eth is simply the third person present singular ending, just the same as the ending -s that we find in “returns.”
In fact, a quick search of the King James Bible finds that, as expected, the future tense form of return is indeed “will return” or “shall return.” Here are a couple of examples:
Genesis 18:10
And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
Leviticus 25:13
In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
As for Colin’s verse, “And lo, the sex that hath been …,” I am not entirely sure what it is supposed to mean. I do know that the word “sex” (or “sexe” in Middle English) meant, more or less, “gender” until around 1900. H. G. Wells was one of the first to use that word to mean “coitus” and the like.
If Colin wants to replicate the feeling of the Bible, he may want to think in terms of fertility. Here are a couple of verses in the KJV that come to mind:
Deuteronomy 7
13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
On a different topic: I like the ice cream cup. Ice cream makes all comics better.
I said ‘pseudo’. And you GREATLY overestimate the knowledge of high school English teachers.
Ice cream does not make sex better. If my bf came home with ice cream, it would be a cold day at the Dairy Queen till he got lucky again. “On your lips for a second, on your hips for life.”
“If my bf came home with ice cream, it would be a cold day at the Dairy Queen till he got lucky again.”
Wouldn’t a place that serves ice cream and carries ice cream cakes be cold in at least a fairly decent sized portion of the square footage it occupies? Therefore, isn’t it always a “cold day at the Dairy Queen,” at least in part?
Besides, ice cream is not necessarily consumed in the process of making sex better. (I’ll leave it at that…)
Have you never been at a Dairy Queen? Here in Texas, hose places are Sweat City, mainly because so many oldies hang around all day and drink free coffee and play a card game I never have bothered to learn the name of but looks boring as heck. It’s not really ice cream anyway, it is sofrt-serve which isn’t all that cold. Nobody ever got an “ice cream headache” fom soft serve. As for your last two sentences (including parenthesis), all I can say is EW! EW! EW!
Up in Canada, most Dairy Queens are actually only open for the warm months of the year. A few lonely larger DQ places are open through the winter, but I take it business is slow. No old people, though. Lots of bikers at the one nearest me, though. Big, scary bikers. And ice cream.
Ssso it has to be chocolate….?
Not for life. Ice cream stays on my gut until I feel bad about it about six months later, stop eating the damn stuff, and eventually get thin again. Then celebrate by eating ice cream. Yay?
Be quiet, Puck. Colin’s in the middle of a profound religious experience.
We all have our spiritual side.
Amazing VOTING INCENTIVE.
A Blonde Robin WITH FRECKLES ?
Oh Yeah !!
The voting incentive is nice, but it frightened me at first. I thought it was Tracee in that outfit and I was afraid Salem would achieve orbital velocity. Luckily, then I noticed the ears and freckles (and the fact that she is not burnt umber)
@Susan
Yeah, You are on to something.
Robin is …. fine.
Stratospheric – Granted.
But for me, Earth Orbit ? Nah.
Puck looks younger than usual in that incentive. ^_^
Well, the freckles are here to stay.
Less sass, more action, Colin. :p Don’t ruin your chances, now!
LOL Must have beaten me to the punch by seconds.
Great minds and all that, eh Rock? 😉
😛
@Rock
p = no
P = yes
Have you learned nothing from Susan ?
(her tutorial from last week : + P = :P)
😛
( her tutorial from last week : + P = 😛 )
Well, when sass oppotunities present themselves, you need to take them.
It’s not a matter of seizing opportunity, it’s a matter of being a slow typist. lol
I bet his sass is part of what makes Colin sexy to Puck.
As a married man who has found myself in this very position before (well, sans the ice cream, which in retrospect would have been awesome to have at that moment!) I offer this small piece of advice to Colin:
When your significant other offers up sex after a long dry spell, less talking and analyzing and more loving foreplay is the prudent way to go.
I love Puck’s face in the third panel – this strip reminds me that for all the pitfalls they face, she and Colin do have a loving relationship. And that is one of my favorite things about this comic.
They do, of a sort. Even if many readers don’t see it, and think it’s a spiral of doom. I’m glad you see it.
🙂 tank yu
It’s funny you mention BYU and ice cream in the same paragraph. There is a college called BYU. Ice cream is very easily obtained there. But they have rules preventing sex. So there, ice cream always leads to no nookie. Colin would be in torture there.
” Ice cream is very easily obtained there. But they have rules preventing sex.” They also have rules preventing beer (other than the awful 3.2). But I wouldn’t go bail on every closet in their dorms.
And that’s how the SECOND child was created.
No more babies!
Alien Mascot ?
Ghost ?
Pet Rock ?
(Tracee has a TWIN SISTER ! yes yes yes)
Um, Phoebe falls in love with a Vampire Boyfriend ?
Puck is bring sexy back.
Them other puckers don’t know how to act.
And this is why parents put childproof locks on their bedroom door …
More on that in the next strip…
Regarding that fake Bible verses only really work when written in fake King James English versions…
Well the language that is most common to your readers would definitely work in comparison to fake Bible Verses written in the fake Latin of the of the fake Gutenberg versions. Although you misspelled “shall” and “sex” by not using the Long S letter (The letter that looks like a short f without the crossbar) that was supposed to go at the beginning and middle of words at the time.
I hate that dumb ‘s’. Reading documents from the 1600’s takes SO LONG because of it. Which is a pain that only English and some history majors can feel.
They stil use it in German Fraktur. Remind me again why I took German in college instead of Spanish which I can actually speak
Okay, I voted, but the silly image I had to pick from didn’t have a name on it. I don’t remember who and was too annoyed to make notes, but it was two dweeby dudes that made Colin look like George Clooney and Brad Pitt. Lucky I picked right, or I would have been majorly annoyed
Yeah, that happens sometimes. Really annoying.
Oh, I wanna say that I love the expression on Puck’s face in Panel three. Really sly. And the ears, of course
She can manage sly when needed. I think.
What the heck is Robin READING ?
Fifty Shades of Grey, natch. I wish people would quit trying to give me that trashy book
@Susan
Touche !
It is a gray book.
Chains – Whips – Handcuffs – POOR COLIN !!!
Nope.
It’s NOT Fifty Shades of Grey.
POOR COLIN !!!
It’s interesting….. Looking at panel 2, I can vividly imagine Puck with just a touch of an Irish accent when using the title of the Messiah. ^_^
Please, Geck don’t just stop at the shoulders with her freckles…some on the chest are welcoming too…
@Mike Williams
Yes, yes….
Pretty please ?
There could be some leftover Easter Peeps in it for you, Gecko…
Well, I can’t go TOO crazy now. And freckles only happen there if you wear low-cut tops in the sun. A lot. Over many years.
LET’S GO !!
No, Puck no! Don’t get sunburned there. It hurts. A lot! (Not from personal experience – I’m olive-skinned and don’t wear anything lower cut that a tank top unless I am swimming – but from listening to a fair-skinned friend whine)
@Susan
PUCK is a Democracy, and Mike Williams and SalemCat have simply outvoted you.
And don’t ask for Voter ID. Trust us. We’re not like the others.
Since when was this a democracy?
HALP – I’M BEING REPRESSED !!
Someone give this cat a bath, stat.
And a very thick peanut butter shake with more peanut butter than dairy.
Yo, I found the Dairy Queen info. http://moorheaddairyqueen.com/
I wonder if their ‘Peanut butter crunch’ Blizzard is actually a Canadian Crispy Crunch Blizzard in disguise. That’s my favorite.
Mail me one, would ya?
p=<] Byooooo! Byoo-byoo-byoooooooo!
Nah, that doesn't work neither.