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Okay, so this comic's original joke was slightly better, but then it sadly got ruined thanks to the magic of region-specific colloquialisms. Daphne's line in panel four was initially "If it's charity he wants, he can make out with the Sally Ann down the street." 'Sally Ann', see, is slang for the Salvation Army - but ONLY in Britain and Canada. I didn't know that the term wasn't a stateside thing, but then I discovered it thanks to my friend Google, and the joke was ruined. Okay, it wasn't exactly ruined, but it's not as elegant as it was. See, Sally Ann is a girl's name! And it's also a charity! See? It was perfect! Now it's not.
I blame America. It's all their fault for not getting my weird Canadian slang which (now that I think about it) makes absolutely no sense.
Yep, Sally Ann isn’t even slang for the Salvation Army in Australia, where they are called (with the subtle and incisive wit characteristic of our Wide Brown Land) the Salvos.
I thought I heard that song before on one of my bf’s oldies collections. I called him and he said, no, that was “Hey Carrie Anne” by the Hollies. Phooey, robbed of a scoop. Can’t stand Olivia N-J, anyway.
‘Nother Aussie here, and I confirm this. I had no idea that Canadians called the Salvos Sally Ann.
And yes, ‘the Salvos’ does sound pretty good, and ties in well with the army thing.
“Sir! We have another group of homeless coming in from the west”
“Fire another salvo of soup and blankets”
“Yes Sir!”
It is quintessentially Aussie. All your colloquialisms are a little twee, but also very kind of ‘in your face’ and often sound like a noise that Batman makes when he punches people. Like ‘Macca’s’ for McDonald’s.
I got to be honest with you EG, I live about an hour away from you, and I’ve never heard “Sally Ann” as a slang term for Salvation Army before.
…Mind you, I’ve not myself really used any of their services before, though I have driven other people (friends who did not have cars… or jobs) to their food banks. Still, this name never came up.
Apparently a small number of Americans picked it up (mainly during WWII when a bunch of American soldiers spent a lot of time with Brits), but it never gained a big foothold. There are just a few Sally Ann holdouts like your dad and his buddies.
Oddly, where I live there is a cosmetics supply store called Sally Ann. First time I saw it it confused me, as I had walked past the Sally Ann five minutes before and couldn’t figure out why the Salvation Army would open another one so close to the first.
In Texas, we girls just call it “the Sally,” or even just “Sally,” as in, “I am just going into Sally for a mo.” Great place. Guys hate it. Well, the kind of guys I hang with, anyway. 😛
I hate playing against people who are good at Luigi. I don’t know why, but I find his moves annoying. Maybe it’s just the fact that it’s Luigi. He’s such a loser. It makes my losses sting more. It’s like losing to Dan in SF.
It’s mainly because Luigi’s move set is very risk v. reward as opposed to a lot of other fighters. You can go for a crit-hit-up-b like I mentioned earlier, but if you miss, or don’t connect the right frame, you’re left vulnerable for a long time. Same with trying to get a mis-fire, or returning to ground with a tornado down-b. Luigi isn’t a bad character, but he is largely motivated by taking risk in his attacks/
(A) I don’t have TV.
(B) HBO isn’t really available in Canada. Not readily, anyway.
(C) ‘Basic Instinct’ is not the kind of movie I’d really ever feel the need to watch decades after its release. It’s not exactly a classic, or a cornerstone point in cinema – beyond the interrogation scene, which I have seen, and seen parodied millions of times. There are some movies, honestly, that if you don’t see them upon their initial release, you’re probably never going to see. That movie is one of them.
Heh, I was seven when “Basic Instinct” came out. But I was watching TV late one night, about four years ago, and my bf was reading, and so I asked him, mainly to bother him and make him pay attention to me,what “Basic Instinct” was all about. He said, “Sex and dominance. If you get turned on by it, let me know.” I wasn’t so I didn’t. 😛
When I was a freshman at college, there was a long-going game of Monopoly going on in the rec room of my dorm. Those people cheated so bad, going to garage sales and buying old Monopoly games and taking the fake cash out. It only lasted first semester, though. They all flunked out.
That kind of reminds me of dolls of new Albion. There is this gambler and monk who have a never-ending card game. Meanwhile, a city builds around them. Then the gambler has a heart attack.
I hope you got paid for that energy drink ad, just went out and bought a bunch of Red Bull today. I would’ve done it anyways, but if it gets you those extra ad dollars I’m willing to blame you for my shopping habits.
Puck, ancient faerie of lore, needs to chill. Not every boy-girl relationship is about romance.
Besides, even if there is romance, parents butting in unasked is not going to lead to anything good.
Anything that annoys Daffy is jake with me, but I gotta say, I personally wouldn’t spend enough time with Taylor to even let him sit snuggled close to me. let alone get to first base. I am picky, especially with men my own age.
It’s a Smash Bros. thing. ‘To main’ is to specialize in (or at least attain a decent level of proficiency with) a certain fighter. And Luigi is (as Jericho Wilhelm commented somewhere on this page) a finicky and difficult character to master. If you’re really, really good at Luigi and know what you’re doing, you can wreck shop. Note: I am NOT really good at Luigi.
Eh, Smash Bros is pretty old when you think about it. I remember playing the first one on the Nintendo 64. Luigi was in that one too. I found it fun, as its more of a item heavy platformer slugfest as opposed to a 1-on-1 Streetfighter clone.
Detractors say that it’s a casual gamer button-masher that no serious fighting game player would ever pick up. Others say that it’s the most balanced fighting game in the world, where less skilled casual players AND serious players can find the game entertaining. I tend toward the second opinion, especially when compared to most other fighting games that have fallen deep down the hole of catering exclusively to the e-sports hardcore gamer crowd. Smash is still fun to play. It’s always fun, even when playing against someone who’s way more skilled than you.
I’d say I feel bad for Tyler, except I don’t – he seems to either be happy just hanging with Daphne, or he simply does not care enough about the fact she probably considers him more than an accomplice for possible future crimes (I may or may not be referring to a previous arc with that comment. I totally am, however).
Therein lies the whole thing with this dynamic. Tyler would be an insufferable ‘Nice Guy Syndrome’ character if he were actually pining after Daphne. But he’s not. Other characters have verbalized ‘Tyler likes Daphne,’ but Tyler hasn’t. They’re friends; they like each other. They both seem kind of not ready for anything more than that. At least so far.
I bought a nice little bookcase for my room at the Salvation Army when I was a teen. It’s still there, at my Mom’s house but it has framed snapshots in it and a vase with a fake flower on top.
Hmmmmm . . . and yet methinks Daphne will go fluorescent (anybody can go incandescent, so clearly not what she’d do) if and when another girl goes for Tyler, or he gets a girlfriend. Making Daph only a girl friend. Huh. What a difference that one small space between words makes!
It is a bit odd (or just pitiful) Tyler’s made no moves yet.
I’ll be nice and go with pitiful.
When my human pet “Baldie” has been drinking too much, he dries his crying eyes with my tail and recalls the many times he was too young and chicken to make the moves he should have.
Tyler: “Hey Daphe? Tell your sorta-Mom that I’m actually gayer than Elton John, and that I’m shamelessly using you as both my public beard, and because you have better consoles than I do at home.”
Daphne: “…………damn. NOW I kinda want him.”
Puck: “If it turns out this was his wicked plan all along… well, good for him, I say. Seriously, you can’t fault his patience or commitment to the scheme.”
Colin: “…Either way, the little dude has more game than I do.”
We Canadians dutifully celebrate the Fourth of July every year. We gather together in auditoriums public squares to watch amusing pantomimes that relive that time we stormed down to the American Presidential Palace and set it on fire. Good times.
@EG I think you’re confusing the war of 1812 with the time the Mapleleafs’ fans rioted and burned down the Boston Garden. Understandable confusion there. ;p
In WWII, the poor Canuck soldiers should have set fire to Dieppe instead of trying to invade it. “Eh, all we want to do is create a diversion so that SOE can steal that Enigma machine in the building at the top of the cliff. We’re sorry that you got upset,” 😛
Actually, I’m kind of jealous of Canadian Culture, sometimes. The Devil that’s mayor of Puck’s hometown is way more cultured and civilized than the one we elected to be POTUS. Can we trade?
Satan is neither Democrat nor Republican. Satan is a politician, and like many of the evil politicos circling many a capital city, evil is never really married to one particular ideology.
Well, remember that Canadians elected Rob Ford – crack-smoking buffoon – as mayor of Toronto. AND Canadians are well under way to vote his brother Doug Ford, documented drug dealer and noted thug, as premier of Ontario. So we can’t get on our high horses. The horses ain’t that high.
For the sake of comedians everywhere… well… You know… except Canada, ELECT DOUG FORD! His brother is a goldmine, but after a while, because he has an illness, you feel bad for picking on him. Doug is just an a$$hole. No drugs needed!
Glad to see they have a fire extinguisher in the kitchen BTW. I keep my by the door. In case of fire (1) go to fire extinguisher (2) proceed out the door to safety!
The worn corner on the sofa in panel 3 is a nice detail. The relationship has been going on a loooong time and they’ve settled in comfortably with what works for them. Until it doesn’t work anymore. Hard to predict how long that sofa will last. Is there room from someone new?
Reminds me of when my friends and I were working in our church’s food ministry, cooking. The smoke alarm went off and one of the guys sang out, “Dinner’s ready!” The rest of us broke up, except his wife, who just growled, “That’s all right, y’all don’t have to live with him.” 🙂
Oh my gods! I’ve figured it out! Tyler caters to Dap’s every need, provides companionship, clearly wants a physical relationship, doesn’t ever get that, both have affection for the other, yet its mainly Tyler who caters to her needs and rarely the other way around… they got married during the time that Puck has a blank in her memory, didn’t they?
I wish I had the money to move there. Certain groups are protecting child marriage, as in kids marrying *adults*, even, on “religious freedom” grounds. If your religion says you can marry a 12 year old, I want nothing to do with it.
Then I don’t think that you perceive of any of the historical necessity of such a thing. Not that I would condone or condemn it. If today’s society speed cold and went back to the middle ages then their shouldn’t be much of a problem.
But it just seems to be implied that there seems to be a bit of mistrust against Jewish, Islamic and possibly a few other faiths on your part.
You know what, Pat, this is supposed to be a place for me to escape depressing realities. Just look up states and politicians supporting child marriage. I had this long response, but I’ve had my fill of politics, here. It’s mainly “Christian” Evangelicals. People like Michael and Debi Pearl and others.
Hear hear. You can find weirdo super-patriarchal, repressive corners of pretty much every world religion. I’d blame religion in general, but there’s enough weirdo super-patriarchal, repressive corners of the secular world too.
I had a few. (Not at the same time, mind you. But there was always one girl that I was pining over at any one given point in time.) For me, though, I was a social dork and didn’t know how to properly talk to girls, so I mostly pined from a distance. Some other guys I knew, though (like my brother, who was always much better socially), were locked into the weird friendship dynamic with a girl like we see here with Tyler and Daphne. It’s not exactly the ‘friend zone’, but more of an awkward ‘mutual friend zone’ where both feel a sort of ownership over each other, but they’re not exactly dating. ‘Great memories, terrible feelings’ is probably the best way to describe most of high school.
Awww, Poor Canadian slang. That would have been good.
I had a Canadian friend once and one of his uncles was talked about in a book on Canadian coal miners. He expressed the opinion that the Salvation Army was the only religion that actually helped people and so that was his. They don’t have the BEST reputation here right now, though.
NEW VOTING INCENTIVE! MORE VOLUME TWO!
Volume Two cover pics keep on coming, so...
VOTE FOR PUCK AND KEEP THE STUPIDITY ROLLING!!!
ALSO...
I recently put a bunch of work into updating the PDF collection of voting incentive images, and the results are finally assembled! This new PDF volume contains all the voting incentives from 2011 all the way to 2017 (including some that never even ran) in a print-ready high resolution! That's almost 200 pages of stuff! So if you'd like to buy a copy, please do!
As for this comic…
Okay, so this comic's original joke was slightly better, but then it sadly got ruined thanks to the magic of region-specific colloquialisms. Daphne's line in panel four was initially "If it's charity he wants, he can make out with the Sally Ann down the street." 'Sally Ann', see, is slang for the Salvation Army - but ONLY in Britain and Canada. I didn't know that the term wasn't a stateside thing, but then I discovered it thanks to my friend Google, and the joke was ruined. Okay, it wasn't exactly ruined, but it's not as elegant as it was. See, Sally Ann is a girl's name! And it's also a charity! See? It was perfect! Now it's not.
I blame America. It's all their fault for not getting my weird Canadian slang which (now that I think about it) makes absolutely no sense.
Yep, Sally Ann isn’t even slang for the Salvation Army in Australia, where they are called (with the subtle and incisive wit characteristic of our Wide Brown Land) the Salvos.
‘The Salvos’? that sounds rad.
On the other hand, I’ve realised that ‘Sally Ann’ sounded vaguely familiar, probably because of its use in a song lyric released when I was a kid, i.e. https://genius.com/Olivia-newton-john-long-live-love-lyrics
I thought I heard that song before on one of my bf’s oldies collections. I called him and he said, no, that was “Hey Carrie Anne” by the Hollies. Phooey, robbed of a scoop. Can’t stand Olivia N-J, anyway.
‘Nother Aussie here, and I confirm this. I had no idea that Canadians called the Salvos Sally Ann.
And yes, ‘the Salvos’ does sound pretty good, and ties in well with the army thing.
“Sir! We have another group of homeless coming in from the west”
“Fire another salvo of soup and blankets”
“Yes Sir!”
It is quintessentially Aussie. All your colloquialisms are a little twee, but also very kind of ‘in your face’ and often sound like a noise that Batman makes when he punches people. Like ‘Macca’s’ for McDonald’s.
Standard Aussie speak, take a word and add a vowel sound to the end.
Or take the first syllable of a word, and add a vowel sound to the end.
Come to think of it, isn’t Macca also a term for Sir Paul McCartney?
I got to be honest with you EG, I live about an hour away from you, and I’ve never heard “Sally Ann” as a slang term for Salvation Army before.
…Mind you, I’ve not myself really used any of their services before, though I have driven other people (friends who did not have cars… or jobs) to their food banks. Still, this name never came up.
Well, it’s also a vintage term from the early 20th century, so maybe that’s the issue.
Hey. Someone who calls it Sally Ann! My dad and his buddies called it that when I was little. We live in America so ha ;-9
Apparently a small number of Americans picked it up (mainly during WWII when a bunch of American soldiers spent a lot of time with Brits), but it never gained a big foothold. There are just a few Sally Ann holdouts like your dad and his buddies.
Well, I suppose it’s a good thing that Daphne didn’t mention that he could Sally Forth with Sally Ann…
It was a missed opportunity.
And in true nerd fashion, she would have to say it like “Bad Ash” in “Army of Darkness”…
BTW – there are certain…denizens…on Barton St with whom to make out would be…inadvisable…
Lots of Barton Street denizens. It’s not a make out-safe zone.
Oddly, where I live there is a cosmetics supply store called Sally Ann. First time I saw it it confused me, as I had walked past the Sally Ann five minutes before and couldn’t figure out why the Salvation Army would open another one so close to the first.
Bizarre. That’s what call brand confusion!
In Texas, we girls just call it “the Sally,” or even just “Sally,” as in, “I am just going into Sally for a mo.” Great place. Guys hate it. Well, the kind of guys I hang with, anyway. 😛
Good luck maining Luigi, If you can’t even get the crit-hit up B, then don’t even bother.
I hate playing against people who are good at Luigi. I don’t know why, but I find his moves annoying. Maybe it’s just the fact that it’s Luigi. He’s such a loser. It makes my losses sting more. It’s like losing to Dan in SF.
It’s mainly because Luigi’s move set is very risk v. reward as opposed to a lot of other fighters. You can go for a crit-hit-up-b like I mentioned earlier, but if you miss, or don’t connect the right frame, you’re left vulnerable for a long time. Same with trying to get a mis-fire, or returning to ground with a tornado down-b. Luigi isn’t a bad character, but he is largely motivated by taking risk in his attacks/
This explains why I suck at playing as Luigi then.
I’m beginning to really like Robin again.
She understands a man’s needs, and even keeps a functional FIRE EXTINGUISHER on the wall.
THAT’S HOT !
And you’d think as a Half-Jackal, Daphne would have some animal Instincts.
Daphne – WAKE UP !!
She does, especially, the Killer Instinct. What she lacks is the Basic Instinct. Jackals are like that.
@Susan
BASIC INSTINCT !!
Let’s hope Colin isn’t watching THAT with Miranda.
(and that Daphne isn’t striking the pose for Tyler)
I suspect Robin would draw the line at that.
I tend to confuse Basic Instinct with Killer Onstinct. One had more Sharon Stone in it, if
I remember.
@EG
I don’t think you’ve watched BASIC INSTINCT.
It’s difficult to forget.
I haven’t. I was a bit young for that sort of thing at the time.
They don’t have HBO in Hamilton? It’s on all the time, late at night
(A) I don’t have TV.
(B) HBO isn’t really available in Canada. Not readily, anyway.
(C) ‘Basic Instinct’ is not the kind of movie I’d really ever feel the need to watch decades after its release. It’s not exactly a classic, or a cornerstone point in cinema – beyond the interrogation scene, which I have seen, and seen parodied millions of times. There are some movies, honestly, that if you don’t see them upon their initial release, you’re probably never going to see. That movie is one of them.
Heh, I was seven when “Basic Instinct” came out. But I was watching TV late one night, about four years ago, and my bf was reading, and so I asked him, mainly to bother him and make him pay attention to me,what “Basic Instinct” was all about. He said, “Sex and dominance. If you get turned on by it, let me know.” I wasn’t so I didn’t. 😛
At last! The junior prom arc since about you mentioned it roughly around June 22, 2015. I can’t believe it’s been 3 years. Where did the time go?
Well, I play the long game. And by ‘long game’, I mean ‘This game is so long, it really ceases to be a game and has become an unending torment.’
So… Monopoly?
Risk with no set rounds that the last country has over 300 units in it?
When I was a freshman at college, there was a long-going game of Monopoly going on in the rec room of my dorm. Those people cheated so bad, going to garage sales and buying old Monopoly games and taking the fake cash out. It only lasted first semester, though. They all flunked out.
That kind of reminds me of dolls of new Albion. There is this gambler and monk who have a never-ending card game. Meanwhile, a city builds around them. Then the gambler has a heart attack.
Please tell me that you’re not going to drink all of those energy drinks.
Tyler’s here. I’m teaching him how to cater to my every whim when I take make rightful place as Queen of the World!
…. (just to string that goofball of a hairball along.)
Well, someone’s gotta do it.
I hope you got paid for that energy drink ad, just went out and bought a bunch of Red Bull today. I would’ve done it anyways, but if it gets you those extra ad dollars I’m willing to blame you for my shopping habits.
redbull plain is gross yech
Puck, ancient faerie of lore, needs to chill. Not every boy-girl relationship is about romance.
Besides, even if there is romance, parents butting in unasked is not going to lead to anything good.
Agreed. She’s mostly just saying this as a running gag to annoy Daphne. It’s not sincere.
Anything that annoys Daffy is jake with me, but I gotta say, I personally wouldn’t spend enough time with Taylor to even let him sit snuggled close to me. let alone get to first base. I am picky, especially with men my own age.
Oh good, I thought she was serious.
Nah, it’s been a source of much ribbing for Daphne for a long, long time.
I fear my geek-fu does not extend to console games. What on earth does it mean to “main as Luigi”?
It’s a Smash Bros. thing. ‘To main’ is to specialize in (or at least attain a decent level of proficiency with) a certain fighter. And Luigi is (as Jericho Wilhelm commented somewhere on this page) a finicky and difficult character to master. If you’re really, really good at Luigi and know what you’re doing, you can wreck shop. Note: I am NOT really good at Luigi.
Smash Brothers? I thought it was Super Mario Brothers. I never played Luigi or Mario, I played that Princess/Elf lady
Nintendo’s newest nerd fight fest. If you liked street brawler or other arcade fight games, then smash Bros is the hot ticket.
Eh, Smash Bros is pretty old when you think about it. I remember playing the first one on the Nintendo 64. Luigi was in that one too. I found it fun, as its more of a item heavy platformer slugfest as opposed to a 1-on-1 Streetfighter clone.
Detractors say that it’s a casual gamer button-masher that no serious fighting game player would ever pick up. Others say that it’s the most balanced fighting game in the world, where less skilled casual players AND serious players can find the game entertaining. I tend toward the second opinion, especially when compared to most other fighting games that have fallen deep down the hole of catering exclusively to the e-sports hardcore gamer crowd. Smash is still fun to play. It’s always fun, even when playing against someone who’s way more skilled than you.
I’d say I feel bad for Tyler, except I don’t – he seems to either be happy just hanging with Daphne, or he simply does not care enough about the fact she probably considers him more than an accomplice for possible future crimes (I may or may not be referring to a previous arc with that comment. I totally am, however).
Therein lies the whole thing with this dynamic. Tyler would be an insufferable ‘Nice Guy Syndrome’ character if he were actually pining after Daphne. But he’s not. Other characters have verbalized ‘Tyler likes Daphne,’ but Tyler hasn’t. They’re friends; they like each other. They both seem kind of not ready for anything more than that. At least so far.
Hope Daphne doesn’t react *too* badly when she finds Tyler *is* making out with the Goodwill down the street…
Hey, at least the Goodwill is a cheap date.
In my area the Salvation Army is, by far, the worst Thrift Shop.
Never, ever, anything cool at a good price.
A lot of the time Baldie can buy similar clothes NEW for less !
I bought a nice little bookcase for my room at the Salvation Army when I was a teen. It’s still there, at my Mom’s house but it has framed snapshots in it and a vase with a fake flower on top.
@Susan
I’ll have more respect for the Salvation Army when I see a Benelli in the case.
They don’t sell weaps, silly. You have to go to a gunsmith and answer all their silly questions.
@Susan
That’s not what the MEDIA tells me !
Somebody is lying.
And it couldn’t be Joy Behar.
Everything Joy Behar says is a lie, including ‘a’, ‘an’, and ‘the’. Boy, that show misses Baba Wawa
@Susan
No Benellis at Sally Moe’s ?
Shhhhh…..
Baldie fears the day when Janet discovers he didn’t really buy his Mossberg there for $20.
Anyways, he has it so well DISGUISED she’ll never find it.
@Susan
That’s wat I’m saying !
One bookcase two years ago IS Slim Pickens.
Can someone please explain to me the thing with maining as Luigi?
Actually, Tyler looks as much like he’s pining away as a Norwegian Blue parrot does.
It’s easy to miss those fjords.
Perhaps he’d voom with four thousand volts…
Hmmmmm . . . and yet methinks Daphne will go fluorescent (anybody can go incandescent, so clearly not what she’d do) if and when another girl goes for Tyler, or he gets a girlfriend. Making Daph only a girl friend. Huh. What a difference that one small space between words makes!
More on that shortly.
Ooh, foreshadowing
We’re very creative in Wales and call them places Charity Shops.
*Yep, I was elected to speak on the behalf of all of Wales.*
P.S I’d like to think I would’ve understood the joke, or Googled it, or asked you. I’ll stop talking now… 🙂
But Googling jokes just ruins them. It turns the experience from comedy to an academic “Hmmph.”
Is a “CHARITY SHOP” in Wales something like PIC in America ??
Cute kitty ^-^
OMG Daphne thinks Tay is gay (“Will” being the boy down the street!)!!!
Well, nothing wrong with that. Hijinks ensue!
@rewinn
It is a bit odd (or just pitiful) Tyler’s made no moves yet.
I’ll be nice and go with pitiful.
When my human pet “Baldie” has been drinking too much, he dries his crying eyes with my tail and recalls the many times he was too young and chicken to make the moves he should have.
Nah. Three’s Company mined that comedy vein until it ran out. I’m not going there.
@EG
But But – everyone is into REBOOTS these daze !
im preety sure she knows hes hot for her due to a comment awhile back about him stareing at her a$$ i think it was
Well, yes. Tyler’s been known to stare at many a behind.
Tyler: “Hey Daphe? Tell your sorta-Mom that I’m actually gayer than Elton John, and that I’m shamelessly using you as both my public beard, and because you have better consoles than I do at home.”
Daphne: “…………damn. NOW I kinda want him.”
Puck: “If it turns out this was his wicked plan all along… well, good for him, I say. Seriously, you can’t fault his patience or commitment to the scheme.”
Colin: “…Either way, the little dude has more game than I do.”
To be fair, Gecko, we’ve got some pretty strange colloquialisms too.
Yes, but because American culture is so dominant, everyone’s at least vaguely familiar with them. So it’s different.
@EG
American Culture ROCKS !!!
(I’d tie a flag to my tail if I had one)
Hey, do you guys have a Fourth Of July up north ?
Or does the Calendar just skip from the 3rd to the 5th ?
Today a coworker asked when Cinco de Mayo was. XD
@Lokitsu
Classic !
LOL
We Canadians dutifully celebrate the Fourth of July every year. We gather together in auditoriums public squares to watch amusing pantomimes that relive that time we stormed down to the American Presidential Palace and set it on fire. Good times.
I thought the Canadians weren’t British. Anyway that was August 24th. 😛
Same difference.
@EG I think you’re confusing the war of 1812 with the time the Mapleleafs’ fans rioted and burned down the Boston Garden. Understandable confusion there. ;p
Well, one can see a pattern forming. We Canadians are nice but there seems to be a dark, arson-y streak lurking deep below the surface…
In WWII, the poor Canuck soldiers should have set fire to Dieppe instead of trying to invade it. “Eh, all we want to do is create a diversion so that SOE can steal that Enigma machine in the building at the top of the cliff. We’re sorry that you got upset,” 😛
Actually, I’m kind of jealous of Canadian Culture, sometimes. The Devil that’s mayor of Puck’s hometown is way more cultured and civilized than the one we elected to be POTUS. Can we trade?
Nah. Satan’s a Democrat. 😛
Good point. Man of wealth and taste. Can’t be Hair Fuhrer. That man wouldn’t know taste if it smacked itself out of his mouth.
Satan is neither Democrat nor Republican. Satan is a politician, and like many of the evil politicos circling many a capital city, evil is never really married to one particular ideology.
Well, remember that Canadians elected Rob Ford – crack-smoking buffoon – as mayor of Toronto. AND Canadians are well under way to vote his brother Doug Ford, documented drug dealer and noted thug, as premier of Ontario. So we can’t get on our high horses. The horses ain’t that high.
@EG
Sheesh !
Next thing you know, Canada will be electing CARTOONISTS !
For the sake of comedians everywhere… well… You know… except Canada, ELECT DOUG FORD! His brother is a goldmine, but after a while, because he has an illness, you feel bad for picking on him. Doug is just an a$$hole. No drugs needed!
Glad to see they have a fire extinguisher in the kitchen BTW. I keep my by the door. In case of fire (1) go to fire extinguisher (2) proceed out the door to safety!
The worn corner on the sofa in panel 3 is a nice detail. The relationship has been going on a loooong time and they’ve settled in comfortably with what works for them. Until it doesn’t work anymore. Hard to predict how long that sofa will last. Is there room from someone new?
There is a worn corner on the one corner of the sofa and a duct tape patch on the other. It’s a classy joint.
Reminds me of when my friends and I were working in our church’s food ministry, cooking. The smoke alarm went off and one of the guys sang out, “Dinner’s ready!” The rest of us broke up, except his wife, who just growled, “That’s all right, y’all don’t have to live with him.” 🙂
Oh my gods! I’ve figured it out! Tyler caters to Dap’s every need, provides companionship, clearly wants a physical relationship, doesn’t ever get that, both have affection for the other, yet its mainly Tyler who caters to her needs and rarely the other way around… they got married during the time that Puck has a blank in her memory, didn’t they?
No, I doubt it. Child marriage is illegal, even in Canada.
I wish I had the money to move there. Certain groups are protecting child marriage, as in kids marrying *adults*, even, on “religious freedom” grounds. If your religion says you can marry a 12 year old, I want nothing to do with it.
Then I don’t think that you perceive of any of the historical necessity of such a thing. Not that I would condone or condemn it. If today’s society speed cold and went back to the middle ages then their shouldn’t be much of a problem.
But it just seems to be implied that there seems to be a bit of mistrust against Jewish, Islamic and possibly a few other faiths on your part.
You know what, Pat, this is supposed to be a place for me to escape depressing realities. Just look up states and politicians supporting child marriage. I had this long response, but I’ve had my fill of politics, here. It’s mainly “Christian” Evangelicals. People like Michael and Debi Pearl and others.
Hear hear. You can find weirdo super-patriarchal, repressive corners of pretty much every world religion. I’d blame religion in general, but there’s enough weirdo super-patriarchal, repressive corners of the secular world too.
I guess I can just blame humanity.
Reflecting back, one girl had me all pathetically pining for her kinda like that as teens. Great memories, terrible feeling though.
I had a few. (Not at the same time, mind you. But there was always one girl that I was pining over at any one given point in time.) For me, though, I was a social dork and didn’t know how to properly talk to girls, so I mostly pined from a distance. Some other guys I knew, though (like my brother, who was always much better socially), were locked into the weird friendship dynamic with a girl like we see here with Tyler and Daphne. It’s not exactly the ‘friend zone’, but more of an awkward ‘mutual friend zone’ where both feel a sort of ownership over each other, but they’re not exactly dating. ‘Great memories, terrible feelings’ is probably the best way to describe most of high school.
Awww, Poor Canadian slang. That would have been good.
I had a Canadian friend once and one of his uncles was talked about in a book on Canadian coal miners. He expressed the opinion that the Salvation Army was the only religion that actually helped people and so that was his. They don’t have the BEST reputation here right now, though.
I’ve heard rumblings of various Salvation Army scandals and problems. I’ve never listened to them. I’m personally a fan of their militant branch.
Fair enough. As with other things, I’m willing to be the U.S. organization has its own unique issues.