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As for this comic…
Not much to say, really. Mr. T did, by the way, did tangle with cancer in real life. He was diagnosed with rare type of T-cell lymphoma in 1995. (The fact that it was T-cell lymphoma wasn't lost as a point of humor with the man.) He went through the ringer: chemo, then interferon therapy, then more chemo, then radiation, then more chemo. And from what I've read, he reported that he fully understood why some cancer patients just want to give up. If you ever see pictures of the man during that time, they're frightening. He became totally unrecognizable.
But he came out the other side. Just like Colin will.
Mr. T, you are an inspiration to all. And I say that sincerely.
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NEW VOTING INCENTIVE!!! CHRISTMAS FEAR!!!
Okay, this is admittedly a partial voting incentive. It's not done yet. But I've taken the Puck and Miranda element of the full image and created something goofy! Check it out! (And remember: fans who donate $5 or more a month get a say in what voting incentives run! If you want to join their controlling ranks, HEAD ON OVER TO PATREON and join the select club!)
VOTE FOR PUCK BECAUSE I’M DESPERATE!!!
As for this comic…
Not much to say, really. Mr. T did, by the way, did tangle with cancer in real life. He was diagnosed with rare type of T-cell lymphoma in 1995. (The fact that it was T-cell lymphoma wasn't lost as a point of humor with the man.) He went through the ringer: chemo, then interferon therapy, then more chemo, then radiation, then more chemo. And from what I've read, he reported that he fully understood why some cancer patients just want to give up. If you ever see pictures of the man during that time, they're frightening. He became totally unrecognizable.
But he came out the other side. Just like Colin will.
Mr. T, you are an inspiration to all. And I say that sincerely.
“Metaphorical balls” is a great phrase. Mr. T so big fools don’t see he’s also smart.
When you wear 25 pounds of gold chains, sometimes people make assumptions.
“Metaphorical balls” also sounds like a good name for a band. 🙂
Agreed.
Balls in the chest. That would be breast cancer here.
Though with this case, it would (creepy as it sounds) actually be bits of balls in the chest – often in the lungs, actually. And it happens. And it’s bad.
It would indeed. And I have seen breast cancer in a male, helped with the radical mastectomy.
Single breasted for 12 years and counting now.
Whoa. Just … just whoa.
Mr. T. Hero to my generation! Just remember, sucka, be somebody or be somebody’s fool!
Exactly. He’s the MAN.
I’ve never seen the joy of saying “metastasitzed” when “spread” will do.
That word sounds fancy.
I have!
Because “spread” can mean “what you do with butter” or “a ranch,” among other things. “Metastasized” means just that.
Thank you, medical professional, for backing me up on that.
Then again, why say “fog” when you can say “Miasma”!
why say “agile” when you can say “Dexterous”!
why say “good” when you can say “Exceptional”!
why say “reword” when you can say “paraphrase”!
why say….
You say “tomato,” I say “Lycopersicon.” 🙂
Exactly!
Because a miasma is different from an ordinary fog. Legend ascribes it malaria and all sorts of nasties. I could go on,,,but the point is those words have shades of meaning and euphony that the everyday words do not. “Spread to your chest” might mean, “Covering my chest with my grandma;s (bed) spread)”
Trust me, if a patient (or, worse, families) can misunderstand something, they will
That’s veridical.
Pst! You wrote “Mt” instead of “Mr” in the final panel.
Now Mr. T is a big guy, no doubt, but he’s not as big as a mountain. 😉
Mt. T. There should be one of those named in his honor.
Thanks, man. Honestly, you have no idea how many times I can read these comics and think, “Yep. No errors here!” I’m blind, obviously.
OH PULEEZE !
These itty-bitty word typo’s are so “small time” in comparison to PUCK 226.
The “ARTIST” EG employed at the time misunderstood his instructions, and gave TRACEEE black bikini briefs, which were readily misunderstood as TRACEEE wearing nothing at all !
EG immediately showed that artist “the door”, and changed the black undies to white.
Forever disappointing some fans. 😛
You can still see the original here!
https://puckcomics.com/?attachment_id=1154
Just click on the pic for the full size image. Calm down, man.
@EG
I can’t look again.
As it is, the first time quite nearly killed me.
Seeing that, I at first thought that tracee was wearing nothing at all, except the robe; then, thinking it over, I felt that the robots would have taken exception .
The robots can’t decipher images very well. Just text. BUT no, that wasn’t the intent at all.
Hm. The carpet didn’t match the drapes. Unless there’s a dye job involved?
(It is a lady’s sovereign right to have hair of any colour she pleases.)
There is almost definitely a dye job involved, but those were undies.
I’m impressed Colin knows the word metastasize and what it means.
Well, Colin’s not as dumb as he looks.
Even if he were, if he is at all like any other patient with a malignancy, he has been Googling like crazy.
@Susan
OH NO !
If googling is a euphemism for what I think you mean, that is very painful (as well as messy).
🙁
I don’t think googling is the euphemism for anything. And, at any rate, if patients with new diagnoses of malignancy do a lot of anything but looking it up on the Net, it is trembling and pleading, etc. See Kubler-Ross. Not that I blame them, poor sods. 🙁
Mr. T had to struggle with that? TIL.
And checking up pics of him back then… Yikes. I’ve only seen him occassionally on TV or in newspaper. Would really not have believed it to be him when comparing.
Exactly. It was a scary time.
Mr. T had T-Cell Lymphoma CD3. But he beat it, praise the Lord
I pity the fool who’s never had a good fruitcake! My dad made fruitcake every Christmas and it was delicious. I was surprised when I learned that fruitcake has a bad rep.
(If you don’t know why I’m talking about fruitcake, vote!)
My wife makes fruitcake when she has the time. It’s heavenly. Sadly, she did not have the time this year. I’m sad.
“Good fruitcake” is an oxymoron. “Contradiction in terms,” to Colin
Heresy! Fruitcake is wonderful!
Maybe you just haven’t had the right kind. My dad got the recipe from a jar of Borden None Such mincemeat. This site claims to have the same recipe, and the picture looks about right, although he bakes it in a rectangular loaf pan, like banana bread: https://www.grit.com/departments/holiday-fruitcake-recipe-zmrz12jazmoo
You’ll note from the picture that there’s more cake than fruit, which may be what makes the difference between a good fruitcake and a bad one. Also, he served it with hot lemon sauce for added flavor and moisture.
@Wvern
One Word: NUTS
(mostly on top, and plenty of them)
@Wyvern
Your link looks awfully good !
One awesome thing about Fruitcake – NO CHOCOLATE and NO FROSTING.
Must have marzipan top, though.
“You haven’t had the right kind,” he says. “Spend some money and send off for something you are pretty sure you are going to hate, and that your bf will never, ever, let you live down.
@Susan
You point being ?
@Salem: My point being that I regard fruitcake as being in the same category as fish and chicken innards, er, giblets. People keep getting me to try them, saying things like, “Ah, but you have never had a chicken innard like they make at the Mugwump Cafe,” or”Fish is good if it is prepared fresh, like they do here at the Stranded Flounder. Try some of mine.” And it’s always the same. It tastes like fish, chicken innards, or fruitcake. So, I am having none of it.
The important thing about fruitcake is don’t get it stale and don’t make it too hard. Although both can be cured by dunking in tea or rum.
Too many fruitcakes spend too much time drying out and so it’s natural for ppl to think bad fruitcake is normal, IMO.
Alta Dena makes a good fruitcake, and they’re in our area, Susan!
Next thin you know, she will be Denigrating Egg-Nog too!
(why say “put-down” when you can say “Denigrate”!)
@DLK
Egg Nog – EGG NOG !!
BLARG – ACKKKK – GACK
I like egg nog when it’s mixed about 50-50 with milk.
I *don’t* like chocolate milk. Not because I have anything against chocolate, but because the chocolate taste is very artificial.
@Wyvern
Milk – MILK !!!
Gaggity Gag Gag….
Try half egg nog half chocolate milk. That’s the REAL deal.
@EG
I can only imagine the COLOUR that atrocious combination would result in.
Egg nog is the best beverage on the planet.
when Starbucks decided to stop serving Eggnogg Latte’s during the holidays, I wanted to cry…
It was a sad day
@DLK
Might as well offer CHOCOLATE MILK !!
BLARG – ACKKKK – GACK
(it’s 2017, and still no emoticon for a cat ralphing. this world sux)
Every year Janet (my other human pet) promises Baldie an enormous tray overflowing with BEFANA ITALIAN WITCH Christmas Cookies.
Yet they never seem to appear under the Balsam Furrrrrr.
(HOW SAD) 🙁 🙁 🙁
You would think fruitcake would taste great, since it has in it rum and molasses (which I like) and cherries (ditto) and pecans (double ditto). I even really don’t mind that it is bitter, since I like Campari, black olives, and mushrooms. I ascribe its awfulness to those horrid green things that they put in it. I suspect that those green things would spoil prime rib or chocolate cake. BLEAH!!!
Green things?
I know of no fruitcake that has anything green anywhere near it. The Alta Dena fruitcake is Honey, Molasses, Rum, Whiskey, Bourbon, Vodka with 6 kinds of nuts and 8 kinds of fruit in it, baked into a horrid circular mold! You have to be able to prove you are over 21 years of age just to look at it! And please don’t drive after eating a slice!
THAT’S a fruitcake!
Green cherries, maybe?
@EG
Yes, it’s the horrible GREEN CHERRIES.
Which I STRONGLY suspect taste exactly like the horrible RED CHERRIES.
(and the yellow ones, too)
Don’t get me wrong, the only thing I don’t LUV about FRESH CHERRIES is their Price Tag.
🙁 🙁 🙁
@DLKmusic
Sadly, the baking drives all the volatiles (alcohol) away.
A good fruitcake is repeatedly bathed in alcohol on a weekly basis after baking. For at least a month or two. Meaning the cake ends up having quite the kick when it’s finally ready.
@EG
I’ve nevah had one like that.
Or if I did, I cannot remember.
😛 😛 😛
I read my mother’s “Martha Stewart’s Living” recipe for fruitcake recipe long ago, and IIRC, she recommended a year’s worth of monthly bastings. I mean, really, year-old cake. Talk about improved means for deteriorated ends.
@Susan
That sounds SO good.
I really like Martha Stewart.
So Good ol’ Ms. Steward bastes hers in for a year?
to quote her, “it’s a GOOD thing!”
Susan, my dad’s fruitcake doesn’t have *any* of the ingredients that you listed except for maraschino cherries (though it does have walnuts). And I definitely would never describe it as bitter. Which confirms that our experiences of fruitcake are entirely different. (FWIW, I also like all of the foods you named except Campari, which I’d never heard of before.)
Incidentally, while searching for a good picture of the Borden’s-style fruitcake, I came across a recipe that includes black olives, of all things. Also pistachios — could those be the green things you detest so much?
Btw, it also seems like we have different ideas of what “bitter” means. Olives are salty and mushrooms (which I looooove) are savory (umami). Foods that I’d describe as bitter include grapefruit, brussels sprouts and soda water (all of which I dislike).
If you haven’t tasted Campari, you haven’t tasted bitter. And I LOVE Brussels sprouts, braised in garlic butter like my bf does them. My favorite apertif and the chief ingredient in the Negroni. And if y’all are *STILL* wondering about the green things, take another look at the incentive. They are right there, ye blind guides? 😛
I’m not positive, but I think that’s Kiwi, Susan.
Never had Kiwi in a fruitcake before, but I do like it, and it’s most definitely not bitter or out of place there.
Green stuff in the pic looks to me like dyed candied pineapple.
According to my office mate, it is pineapple dunked in some horrid marinade, probably known as “Fruitcake-Be-Bad” The girl up the hall says citrons, but that rates the same comment.
@Susan
BRUSSEL SPROUTS are delightful – except when they come on those weird STALKS !!
To clarify, Campari is the chief ingredient in the Negroni AND the Americano. But I like them, right before dinner, mixed half and half with club soda and with a twist of lemon. Hold the fruitcake, I’ll eat the olives out of my bf’s martini. Hee hee
@Susan
How about those Wrinkled Black Olives packed in oil ?
Yummy !
@Salem: I like ALL olives and have done so since I was a wee small girl and my parents often took me to a restaurant where they served them, along with carrots and celery in an appetizer dish while the food was being prepared. Being bored with my parent’s conversation, I would greedily eat the appetizers. I have liked all those things since and I would rather have a carrot than a candy bar, let alone olives.
Just now noticed a typo in the comic commentary. Which I wouldn’t usually bother to point out, but this particular example bugs me because I see it all the time and the correct version makes *so* much more sense. FYI it’s not “through the ringer”, it’s “through the wringer”. (And now you know!)
@Wyvern
ABSOLUTELY !!
It’s a WRINGER.
Otherwise known as a MANGLE
CANADIAN UPDATE: It is 33 F. in Hamilton, today. Do you know whee your chilblains are? 😛
First off, we don’t use that goofy Fahrenheit system up here. It’s zero degrees to the rest of the world. And it’s kind of awful, really, but not because it’s cold. It’s because it’s not cold enough. (Moisture carries a lot of the bite in both hot and cold weather, which is why a dry heat is always better than a sticky heat. And see, when the temp gets below freezing, the air gets bone dry, and that actually makes you feel a little warmer. Right now it’s JUST around freezing and it’s damp. And it feels like you ache with a cold that cuts to your very bones.)
@EG
I’m not going to get into all that, but if you run a HUMIDIFIER indoors during COLD WINTERS, you’l discover you can drop the Thermostat five to ten degrees, and still be comfortable.
And your skin won’t crack.
If you run a humidifier too much during cold winters, you’ll also cause structural damage to your home. Gotta be careful with that. Humidifiers are a good thing, but they’re kind of dangerous.
Humidifiers are okay if they’re in the rooms of your home you’re in the most. And even then, if they’re run only when you’re awake, they won’t do any damage.
Yeah, I had to research this when I realized that my issues with my sinuses in the winter in my house were caused by just how dry the air in my current house is. Had to make sure that I wouldn’t cause problems while trying to stay healthy.
Good man. Like you, we run a humidifier in my daughter’s room sometimes. The problem stems more from cranking the humidity on your central heating unit rather than the room-based units.
I will take that reply to my question about chilblains as “in my toes and ears”. 😛 Hey, we in the USA don’t like them there metric numbers. Too left wing, a fruit of the French Revolution or some other commie outfit. You’ll take our Fahrenheit away when you get us to start weighing things in kilograms and speed in kilometers per hour!
Fruitcake alert: https://www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/onebighappy/
Ellen warns the kids about the horrors that could befall them!
Wow. Only Colin could kill a really serious moment being Colin.
He’s good at that one thing. It’s his only form of genius.