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As for this comic…
This is sort of autobiographical. My ultrasound tech did not say 'Eep,' but she did let out a weighty exhalation, then said "Take care of yourself," portentously, as I walked out. I didn't feel very good after that.
For all those who are not North American, the whole 'Peeps' thing will be a mystery. They are marshmallows, shaped like chicks, rolled in colored sugar. They are only available at Easter. A good subsection of the population thinks they're gross, while another subsection of the population thinks they are a critical component of the Easter holiday tradition and cannot. It's just another division thing that's tearing this continent apart at the seams.
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NEW WEEKLY VOTING INCENTIVE!!! PUCKWATCH!!!
All throughout June, we’ll be paying tribute to Baywatch, that awful show from the 90’s! Because hey, if Hollywood is doing it… Get your beach on and vote for Puck on TWC! And remember, this idea came from THE PATRONS! Patrons on Patreon who pledge $5 or more a month get a personal say in what incentives are coming your way! If YOU want to put your two cents in, then my HEAD ON OVER TO PATREON and join the select club!
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As for this comic…
This is sort of autobiographical. My ultrasound tech did not say 'Eep,' but she did let out a weighty exhalation, then said "Take care of yourself," portentously, as I walked out. I didn't feel very good after that.
For all those who are not North American, the whole 'Peeps' thing will be a mystery. They are marshmallows, shaped like chicks, rolled in colored sugar. They are only available at Easter. A good subsection of the population thinks they're gross, while another subsection of the population thinks they are a critical component of the Easter holiday tradition and cannot. It's just another division thing that's tearing this continent apart at the seams.
Oh dear. That’s not a good sign.
Also, who doesn’t love Peeps?
A bunch of people. Like, everyone I give Peeps to. I love them, and around Easter time, I always like to grab a box (or twelve boxes), and I’ll offer them to other people. And way more often than not, they (a) say “What’s a Peep?” which is weird, because they’re EVERYWHERE at that time of year, and (b) tell me they’re disgusting after they try one. People don’t know delicious if it bites them in the rump, I say.
Ever see peeps joust? poke 2 of them with toothpicks, and put them in the microwave!
I’ve heard that peep-microwave shenanigans of all types are a sort of unique subculture. My kids would surely find such experiments interesting.
If you want something funny do the Peep Joust in a Bell Jar or similar vacuum chamber. As long as you can see the victims you will laugh.
Do people just have vacuum chambers sitting around for this sort of thing? Man, I need to get me one of those!
I have known people that did industrial engineering and had keys to the shop. Also, I may have known a science teacher or two.
An affordable hack is a food vacuum extractor that has the fitting for jars.
There are food vacuum extractors? The world is a magical place outside my doors…
@EG & MN
I just had a very disturbing thought (which is nothing new).
I have seen advertised certain, ummm, “devices”, which are meant to be applied to a Wizard’s “WAND”, and by means of a vacuum somehow encourage IT to “ENLARGE”.
Quite possibly Colin has one of those squirrelled away under the Kitchen Sink, and in those dark and dimly lit recesses, simply applied the Vacuum to an adjacent, but improper, component.
Apparently it WORKED !
I don’t want to go into the medical reasons why that wouldn’t work, but … trust me, it wouldn’t work.
@EG
Hmmf !
I say Hmmff !!
Until a MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL chimes in (Susan), I will remain skeptical.
( and if a physical vacuum won’t work, certainly a combination of un-named, dangerous, overpriced “Herbal Supplements” will have the desired effect.
(what was that “desired effect”, anyhoo ?)
@EG
Say, mebe one of those gadgets would stretch out MY TAIL !
(I’ll just borrow Baldie’s while he’s off to work)
By all that is holy –
BALDIE’S VACUUM “WAND EXTENDER” WORKED !!!!
Check out MY TAIL !!!!
Whoopee !!
I’ll be honest, I’m one of those people who doesn’t like Peeps.
I’m #2 of those people who don’t like Peeps. To be honest, I have never even tasted one. But they look like marshmallows and I don’t like marshmallows. Or any other sweets. My mother used to put Slim Jims and jerky in my Easter basket. And ONE chocolate bunny. I kept it and traded it to other kids the next day at lunch.
You are excused from the Peep club. We won’t hold it against you.
My buddy ate a chocolate caramel peep and said, “This tastes like diabetes.” I tend to agree.
Well, makes sense. It would be close to pure sugar throughout.
To entertain my nieces and nephews at Easter, I usually make some Peeps explode in the microwave for their delight.
I’m the favorite uncle.
You, sir, are showing them how to live life to the fullest.
It’s a bad sign when one of the twins looks like a peep.
Which conjures a disturbing visual.
I think he’s going to go under the knife and have that operation to get them removed.
No Greg, No he’s not… I do not want that for my worst enemy… He will live happily ever after…. THE END….
(Ok, maybe my WORST enemy…)
Well, operations are not the worst thing ever. Not operating is sometimes the worst thing ever.
Word
If we’re talking about one of The Twins, it should be straightforward to get a prosthesis embedded.
Why? Like, WHY? I really kind of don’t understand that. I mean, very few people ever really see the area in question. And it’s not like that area is widely recognized by society as, er, aesthetically pleasing, so who cares?
A matter of self-esteem, perhaps.
@EG
Silly.
It’s because the only people who REALLY DO MATTER see them.
Duh….
Exactly.
This year, for the first time ever, I actually had a fresh Peep… It turns out all this time every peep I’ve ever had has been dried out and stale and the ones that aren’t dried out are actually tolerable.
Huh. I will admit that sometimes they’re less than fresh. I’ve had worse luck with the bunny variety. They tend to be a little … hard.
I’ve literally never had that problem in my entire life. I guess US peeps don’t dry out.
I think it depends on whether the seal of the package is tight or not. Because they get pretty crispy on the outside pretty fast if left on a counter. And I doubt the US version is different, because they’re ONLY available in the US and Canada. I think it’s just one factory for all of them.
“One
ringfactory to rule them all, oneringfactory to find them, Oneringfactory to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”Never had a bad seal on mine. And even if I spend a couple weeks eating them one at a time the other peeps don’t get crispy after I open it. I’d say it’s maybe a difference in climate, but I was born in Nevada and didn’t even have this problem while living in a desert.
Maybe you’re magic.
But I’ve had the same experience… My peeps are never stale, they’re always soft and squishy and delicious. Usually because I eat them all in one sitting and they don’t have the chance to get stale.
I am, but all of my magic is strictly bacon related.
Centipede Condo – EEP
Peeps haven’t been an Easter-only thing for a long time, much to my dismay. There is something truly disturbing about finding chocolate ghost Peeps in a clearance rack the week before (USA) Thanksgiving.
There were other Peeps? I just looked it up, and yeah! Apparently they’re now trying to market them as “Peeps – Always in Season” though to my mind, offering them all year defeats the purpose of a peep. It’s like egg nog. I love me some egg nog, but if some company suddenly said, “Hey! We’re offering egg nog ALL YEAR ROUND!” I wouldn’t be very excited. The whole appeal is its seasonal offering!
*Liked
I am glad you concur.
Funny you mention egg nog. This past Easter, there was Marshmallow Peeps Egg Nog, which, yes, I had to try. … Surprisingly good, actually.
I think that nightmare Frankenstein creation is best left in the test kitchen, but hey. I’m sure many people disagree with me.
Hmmmmmmmm
I mean, clearly she has a supply of Peeps stashed in her cabinet next to the rubbing alcohol and the medium-sized gloved. You can keep those things fresh for a while.
You wouldn’t, because they’re nasty. But you could.
some people prefer them stale they get … crispy and you cana;ways microwave them gooey or for 2 seconds good as new and i have had the ive never seen one as big as this before ill leave the disscussions to form narurally
I think a Peep left to go stale would actually preserve itself perfectly, much like a donut. Donuts left on a counter for YEARS look really tasty after all that time, even though they’re rock-hard. I think the same would apply with a Peep.
I knew someone that waited several years to eat their peeps to test if they could go bad. Peeps can officially join Twinkies as the only foods capable of surviving the apocalypse.
That’s the part of this comic that I find the funniest: the very concept of peeps being offered by a woman wearing latex gloves in a medical lab. And a whole drawer full of Peeps somewhere in the room.
I’ve had a lab tech exclaim, “I’ve never seen anything like this before!” which, of course, did not make me feel like a unique and healthy creature. Naturally they couldn’t say anything about this ’cause that’s the doctor’s job.
They can’t. If they do, they can be sued for lots of stuff.
In my case, I believe they had no idea what was going on, hence the “I’ve never seen anything like this before.”
It’s likely they could not have explained it even if they had wanted.
Well, even if it’s true, it’s still kind of traumatizing to hear.
Some lab techs are very good with their poker faces. Some are not. I guess it’s just human nature, but it’s stressful.
Very unprofessional. But, then, we spend most of our professional lives out of patients’ hearing. For a sono tech to say ‘Eep’ in a patient’s hearing (any patient. All patients are eavesdroppers and assume any comment is about them) would get them reported in my old hospital. If I said that in front of a patient, I would be in for a bad 15 minutes in my boss’ office. Of the two, I would recommend skinning
Yeah, this comic is generally a long document that details the various ways one can be unprofessional or just plain wrong.
Any medical worker who says “eep” out loud REALLY need to learn how to quiet down.
You don’t say that out loud.
You say “Well that guy’s dead” once they’re out of hearing.
Or at least that’s what I like to think happens what they do.
As for the Peeps, they don’t have it here but honestly, I do quite like marshmallows so what’s there not to love?
The colored sugar coating is, I think, the real acquired taste to these things. Because colored sugar contains A LOT of food coloring, and food coloring is quite bitter. So this sugary coating is kind of bitter, really, and I get why some people don’t like it. Note: there is a variety of Peep called ‘birthday cake’ Peeps, and they are way less bitter. I prefer those.
HAHA!
You could say she tried to SUGARCOAT it!
Sorry, low-hanging fruit. Couldn’t resist.
Dammit gecko. That stupid ad-hijack cap is popping up again. I’ve no idea who the hell ujruv.net is but it can’t be any good for the common webcomic ready or the gullible fools who want an iPhone 7 for free.
It’s TWC. Just don’t use TWC to link to the comic. They’ve obviously gone to the dark side.
I happened to me when I went to vote for Puck on TWC.
Now for the comic.
Tech – Well, I meant ‘eep’ in that it looks like a season 7 Dr. Who villain.
Collin – Ah, cool. Do you have any General Tso’s peeps?
Tech – . . . . they don’t match my dishwashing colored gloves.
The glove’s yellow was paler on my screen. (Sadly, the color values of the comic are TOTALLY different in the program I use to create it, and I’ve never, ever been able to get the damn thing to export the files with colors to match. So everything is always brighter and more saturated than I intend.)
@EG
In my life, Nitrile Gloves are blue – BLUE !!!!
In my life, too. I have never seen another color. LATEX gloves, now…
And that’s the only downside to my situation. The boys may not be loading the gun, but they’re still there, and can still have problems.
They can still cause problems too, but let’s not think about impact trauma right now. Oof.
Let’s not. Really, let’s not.
Doctor’s offering peeps outside of Easter is the best argument I’ve ever heard for moving to Canada.
Never mind the “eep!”, the expression on her face is terrifying enough. That is not the expression you want to see on someone who is looking at your x-ray or ultra-sound.
Some people just have terrible poker faces. Those people should not be ultrasound or x-ray techs.
This Comic is just terrible.
I was in the Laundry Room last night, and for the FIRST TIME in my Nine Lives there was a scurrying CENTIPEDE !
YUCKK !!
I was in my Litter Box (ahhhhh…), and an enormous BLACK CARPENTER ANT walked by !!! SMASH !
Then I was sleeping, and I dreamt something was on my face. I woke up. It was a freakin’ SPIDER !!!
I blame EG. Totally.
Sorry. Can’t help that I have magic bug-summoning powers.
I can’t make this stuff up.
Well, I could, but I’m NOT !!!
(on a totally unrelated note, New Hampshire just LEGALIZED Firecrackers ! They scare the wee out of me, but “Baldie” promised he’d buy me a few THOUSAND. He’s a bastard.)
(they’re not technically legal in my area. anyone want to help me make bail ?)
They are legal in my area, confound it. Redneck bait. They sell them in the period leading up to Independence Day and New Year’s. New Year’s I don’t mind so much as I am usually too sozzled to care.
So why not drink on Independence Day too?
This is the perfect time for some imbecile to ask Do they have a 4th of July in Canada ?
I never drink alcohol before 8PM. It makes the list of things I wish I had not done much shorter.
She got them in a post-Easter candy sale, of course!
@Buggle
I LIVE for 1/2 Price CANDY.
The SCHEDULE is Halloween – Thanksgiving – Christmas – St Valentines Day – Easter – and THEN … “NOTHING”.
No discounts again for FIVE MONTHS.
Oh the Humanity.
🙁
Boy, that stuff goes for CHEAP. (Or is it cheep?)
chEEP
Cheep Cheep Cheep!
They are starting to make them for Halloween and Christmas, too. But not in yellow.
(My mother is fond of Russell Stover milk chocolate Easter bunnies—but they don’t seem to stock a non-holiday milk chocolate equivalent anywhere I can find.)
@RN
Russell Stover is pretty much the last of the “Wallet Friendly” chocolates.
“Fanny Farmer” was the absolute BEST, but they went the way of RADIO SHACK.
(whimper)
There’s still Whitmans, Almond Rocha, and See’s (if you buy the assorted). Have Hope, SalemCat, Have Hope!
Oh, and online, check out Jelly Belly Jelly beans. they have 3 different chocolate flavored jellybeans!!!!
I’m gonna get you to break your diet yet, Susan!!!! BWUHAHAHAHAHA
@DLKM
Whitman ?
Bachman ?
Palmer ?
R U Insane ?
BTW, Susan is NEVAH breaking a diet.
Because she’s not ON one !
She’s one of the few who can truly resist Crap-Food.
She is amazing – and we are JEALOUS.
Jelly-Belly Dark chocolate Jellybeans are NOT crap-food!!! You take that back, Cat!!!
@DLKM
Oh, I suppose Whitman is passable.
The weird thing is, they all make a fairly good WHITE CHOCOLATE (yummm).
If only they would add NUTS to it !
White chocolate is crap food. They make it with motor oil and chalk.
I am on a diet. “In nutrition, diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism.” -Wiki. Weight loss diet, not so much. In summer I tend to lose weight and get in trouble with my boss when I slip below 104#. She weighs me every Monday morning from June to October.
Is your boss a Mom Friend? Also, if she’s worried about you being underweight, should you even be dieting?
As I said, “diet” is just everybody’s nutritional intake. I haven’t been on a weight loss diet since I was 13. My summer nutritional intake is high in protein and complex carbs, about 2400 Kcal/day. And fluids, lots of fluids. I am still doing 35-50 miles per week and in August you dehydrate fast, even if you start before sunrise.
@Buggle You could say my boss is a “mom friend,” very loosely speaking. They do meet on occasion. My mother is awe-stricken by my boss, mainly, I think, because she is the only person she knows who can make me do something that I don’t want to do. My boss, OTOH, when asked about my mother, gets a strange expression on her face and says either “she’s a flower” or “You’ve got her number, don’t you?” I don’t bring her up very often.
I see…. Forgive me, but you’ve woken my inner drama llama. If this is too personal, please feel free to tell me to buzz off – is it because a) your mom isn’t single b) your mom is straight or c) it would be weird if your boss started trying to woo your mom?
@Buggle
You know, lots of perfectly nice people are straight.
not that’s there’s anything wrong with that
😛
@Buggle: My Mom is divorced and straight My Boss is married and straight. At the idea of wooing my (or anyone else’s mom), my Boss would sneer and say, “As if I needed ANOTHER woman in my life,” if I know her. And I do, I do.
@Buggle: In Texas, a woman calling another woman “a flower” is dismissive and a borderline sneer. It’s almost as bad as “bless her heart,” which translates as “may she burn in heck”
@DLKmusic
Oooooo …. the dreaded exclamation points.
I crumble before them.
And rewind for the sake of Jelly-Bellies everywhere.
They be Fine Food for Man or Beast.
LOL, Better!
@DLK
(whew)
Mmm. Russel Stover. The Target of chocolate.
‘cept all they got in the off season is the sampler.
@RN
Is the SAMPLER the one where the chocolates are IDENTIFED ?
‘Cause when it comes to chocolates I HATE surprises.
When you want just *one* kind of chocolate…
To answer Colin’s question in panel 4, the discount shelf at any Shopper’s Drug Mart in Kamloops.
I think that corporate makes them destroy any remaining stock around here. At least that’s my theory. Because after Easter, they suddenly disappear and are usually NOT put at a discount. Maybe they just haul them off and save them for next year. Who knows?
I thought something in Panel 4 was haunting me. I finally figured it out. Ms. Incompetent-Sono-Tech has the exact same expression on her face as Phleebles did when she offered Daffy the socks she knitted for her.
I have limited facial expressions in my roster. You might have noticed.
“AAAAAARRGHSPUTRAAAH”
“I beg your pardon?!”
“…I said, do you want a paaaaaarrghsputraaah?”
“Sure do! Those are delicious!!”
@GY
Well, that is a unique take !
I wonder if we’ll see the ultrasound lady again.
LOL awesome recovery there. The damage is done though…Colin caught it.
I personally like to think that this woman says ‘Eep’ A LOT, and thus keeps a whole drawer of Peeps at the ready, in case she needs a recovery.
from the garbage!
(Wow she timed this excuse well)
“Well, sir, against all odds, you are pregnant.”
NO MORE PREGNANCIES.
But peeps are year round. They have peeps for every single holiday, and they sell them when there are no holidays. Is Canada regulating the selling of peeps or something?
Peeps have recently – apparently – tried to become year-round candy. But historically they were not, and Canada is an old-fashioned place. In America, there are no rules. Up here, we know how things should be, and we know that Peeps are only for Easter. So you’re never finding them at any other time of the year up here.
Canada is wrong then. I’ve had access to peeps year long for as long as I can remember. That’s the way it should be. America.
To be honest, it’s hard to even find Peeps during the Easter season in Canada. They’re a thing you really need to hunt for. But Canada is a land of scarcity, of expensive living and few choices. It’s a little like communist Russia up here. There’s about fifty different types of cereal, for instance, that they don’t sell in Canada because they taste too good. (I don’t know if that’s really the reason, but that seems to be the logic behind their decisions from what I can see.)
And once again I am reminded of how wacky Canada seems to be.
Here’s the code.
Hmm – Tech has found nothing wrong. No peeps for you
erp – Tech finds something miniscule that the Dr. can easily fix. No peeps for you.
Ulp – Tech has found something needing possible surgical intervention. Make a Dr.’s appointment. You can have one peep.
Eep – Tech has found something needing surgical intervention. Tag test results urgent. Give patient one peep.
EEP – Tech has accidentally transferred anxiety and the unfortunate spectre of life into the room. Tag test result urgent. Contact Dr’s office to make aware that test has been carried out and to expect the radiologist’s report soon. Give patient while box of peeps, and a coupon for another box of peeps, a coupon for four dollars off premium DQ Desserts and mental hugs.
an ultra level urgent response. Patient may not live past tomorrow.
This sounds frighteningly accurate.
Oh, Walmart has some of their Easter crap out on shelves as soon as they took the Christmas leftovers out.
You know, people usually complain about Christmas pushing other holidays out of the stores before we’re ready (I certainly took issue with all the Halloween decorations being already put away when I went shopping for some on October 29th) but it’s something that happens at other times of the year. I’m starting to realize part of the motivation is they don’t want you to walk in and see large expanses of empty shelves; looks like the store’s going bankrupt.
The stores always want a ‘seasonal’ display. Even when there really is no season going on.